V r THE JOHNSTONIAN \ THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED VOLUME 13, SELMA, N. C„ THURSDA L, MAY 1, 1930, NUMBER 18* Selma Man Is | Prominent Banker Spending Over j Addresses Kiwanians $50,000 in Benson I Miley C. Glover, Trust Officer of With an expenditure "of approxi- Banking & Trust Co. of Two Big Projects 'Expected to Be Started Here Soon i Sister of Governor Bickett Sends Warning To North Carolinians , ,, / It is expected that much work' rnaiialy 5*50,000 the Wood Grocery ^..'’^^y^^'^teresang talk ^ Company of Selma, are rushing to; local Kiwams club at their completion a modern cotton seed oil weekly luncheon last Thurs- mill in Benson and as soon a.s this project is completed will begin the erection of a modern cold storage plant. “ -• CTLast year the Wood Grocery Com pany purchased the cotton', ginnery of Johnson & Neighbors and in ad dition erected a modem plant, thus operating two ginneries in Benson. This company operates a number of ginneries in Johnston county and it is the purpose of Mr. Sam Wood, owner, to use the Benson Oil Mill; to manufacture the cotton se^d' tak- '6n from his ginneri^ He "has Thbusands of R5TI5 ftf 'Seed on hand now and ready to begin work on as soon as his plant is completed. This company also owns and oper ates the Benson Ice and Coal Com pany and it is in addition to this that the new cold storage plant will be erected. The cold storage plant will serve customers from McColl •and Florence, South Carolina, throughout the intervening territory to Weldon on the North. The enterprise of the 'Wood Gro cery Co’rapany in Benson will em ploy around fifty men. It is understood that other con cerns have their eyes on Benson as a prospective placje to locate. Those interested in sites and other concessions are requested to get in touch with the local Chamber of Commerce which now has on a drivfs Tor manufacturing plants of various 'kinds. These manufacturing- enterprises are a distinct step forward for the “town of Benson and will no doubt serve as the initial step in a pro gram of development which will make of Benson a manufacturing town wdthin a few years. Mr. -Wood has taken kindly to Benson upon the urgent assistance of his manager, Mr. Ralph Burgess and no doubt will go a long way towards helping to build the town if giPen the cooperation he deserves from the town.—Benson Review. ■day evening. Mr. Glover compli- imented the club for their good work jin what they had don'a* towards, 'helping the farmers of this sectio: jand also commented lengthy o: Governor Gardner’s effort to get th4 Jfarers of this state to raise whai they consume at home. Mr. ‘Gloveij complimented the club for their goodj 'Work in what they had done towards} helping the farmers of this section, and also commented lengthy on Gov emor Gardner’s effort to get the farmers of this state to raise what; they consume at home. Mr. Glover} said that Eastern North Carolina was one of the finest farming sec-; tions in tb.e world and there was noj reason why we shouldn’t raise thet feedstuff 5 we, consume and even raise enough to sAip to other sections of country. For the months of March the gplma club came third in attendance for the two Carolinas with a per centage of S8 per cent,. Belmont, N. C. and Hickory, N. C. being the only clubs which m.ade a better percent age. SELMA BAPTIST CHURCH —ANNOUNCEMENTS A TOWN’S WORST FOI jsuramer months. Work on the quart- '^r million dollar Carolina Power & Light Co.-project is expected to start at an early date. This work will em ploy about sixty men through t'ne; summer months. This company ha- recently purchased 13 acres of lartd here and will build one of the mol’t important substations of the organi zation. A Chicago concern has recently ac cepted a contract to furnish com mercial gas here and at Smithfielfd and it is expected that work will begin on this in a short time. Two modem homes, one belongin.r, to H. B. Dewar and one to J. , Thorne are being constructed 6ti: North Pollock St. The.se houses will .s’nortly be ready for occupancy. J® REVIVAL TO BE HELD AT SELMA BAPTIST CHURCH The Baptist?,, of Selma are making extensive plans for their -revival which will begin on fiftB Sunday in .June. Committees have been ap pointed to take care of the various phases of the work previous to and j Amendment,’ holding a mass meet- diiring the revival . The local church i ing in New York City, advocating will off'er ■ the town of Selma and throwing into the discard our pro- Mrs. Annie Bickett Ashcraft, sister of our Beloved war governor, W. Thomas Bickett, is spending the win- iter in New York, and writes to her North Carolina friends, warning them of the 'danger ahead. Mrs. Ashcraft says she attended a mass meeting of the wets in Car negie Hall recently, and what she saw and heard appalled her. She says she was an uninvited guest knd went out of curiosity, to see now any body of American citizens^ could call themselves “Crusader; ^nd on a Sunday night sing the Staij Spangled Banner, in defiance of alt that banner stands for. “Crusaders’" for liquor and it’s unrestricted salej in the United States! “It’s no won-i der they did not dare ask God’s! blessing on such a meeting!” com ments Mrs. Charlotte Story Perkin- son, of Raleigh, Assistant State Man ager for Senator Simmons. Mrs. Ashcraft’s warning follows: “TO YOUR TENTS, OH NORTH CAROLINIANS! “Last night in Carnegie Hall we had the spectacle of the Dferaocratic party, sponsored by the Natio,nal or- .ganization of ‘The 'Women’s Commit tee. for the Repeal of the 18th Dr. Richard J. Noble Dies At His Home Here Funeral Conducted from Selma ■ Surgeons since their organiza- Methodist Church Monday | He was a member of the lo- Aftemoon, And Interment state medical societies and Was in Oakwood Cemetery in Selma Kiwanis club. He was Raleigh. the chairman of the graded school board of the Selma Graded School In the passing of Dr, R. J. NoblJ^f nhe most modern school building m. ohnston County. It was his pride. Be became a member of the Meth- dist church at Selma in 1894 and ' fas at all times a faithful and con- istent member, serving for many ^ears as Stewart. He was active in 1 'll good work and movements in hi.s. at his home here early Sunday morn ing, Selma has lost one of its pioneer citizens. Dr. Noble w-as brought to his home here from the Johnston County Hospital where he was car ried for treatment following an ac cident with his automobile between Smithfield and Clayton on April 19, . , when his car ran off the shoulder interested of the wet pavement and skidded education, giving his time causing him to receive injuries which later set up pneumonia and finally terminated in his death aHiis home here at 1:50 o’clock last Sunday morning. He was 77 years old. ;o promoting the public need. He Iwas widely known and had many friends in all parts of the state. Sunday-school at 9:45, G. M. Wil- lets, Supt. Preaching service at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Subject for the morning service, “The Second Coming of Christ.” Subject for the evening, “Father’s Care for His Boy:” Note the change in the hour for the evening service. TRYING TO IMPROVE ON MOTHER NATURE Like every town in America, Selma has som.e things it wishes it didn’t have; some things we could get along far better witho-ut. At the 'nead of the list of unnecessary' eidls with which we have to contend is the chronic gossiper. 'We feel sure we have as few of these as any other community, yet so long as there is even one gossiper in our midst it is one too many. Everyone appreciates the value of constructive criticism. But there is a vast difference between construc tive and destructive criticism, as much difference as there is between the citizen who goes out of his way to say something ‘ favorable about the town or its people and the one who with tongue of poiso.n goes about whispering suspicious and ugly ru mor. Nothing can bring more un happiness to a community than the long-tongued man or woman who scattered a lot of “they say” whisp- ‘ers about their own townspeople. Nothing can assasinate the character of an innocent person more quickly or more cruelly than gossip. And the worst part of it is that the gossiper is always among the first to raise his or her hand in surprise when the poisoned words have gotten in their deadly work. surrounding communities the oppor tunity of hearing for t-wo weeks one of the leading evalgelists of the Bap tist Denomination. John W. Ham, of Atlanta, Ga., is widely known both a.s a successful pastor and evangelisti He holds revivals in some of the largest cities as well'as small towns. He has just recently closed a great meeting in Dayton, Ohio, and is now m meetings in Thomaswllle, Ga, .^fter his Thomas\-ille meeting Mr. Ham will go to New York City for his second meeting there of this season, then he will come to Selma hibition laws. The auditorium was artistically decorated with the Star Spangled Banner. The organist, Pietro Yon, of Saint Patrick’s Cathe dral, the finest Catholic Church in America, dispensed beautiful music. A large motto ‘Crusaders’ was con spicuously displayed. The great building was practically filled, ex cept the last galleries. Madame Lu- crezia Bori sang ‘My Country 'Tis of Thee’ and ‘The Battle Hymn of Republic,’ the audience joining in the chorus. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, former Congress-woman, now Nation. for his first service on June 30th. Chairman for the Woman’s Com- Prof. A. E.' Ljmeh, of Buie’s Creek, j For the Repeal of the 18th who has had wide experience in i Amendment, introduced Mrs. John teaching mu.sie and evangelist -singt’ Godfrey Saxe, Chairman of the Dem mg will direct the music during this revival. It is the hope that this may prove to be one of the great est spiritual revivals that the com munity has had for many years, that all the local churches may receive great spiritual blessing. M’EINER ROAST Z"' Kent, 0., April 21.—Changing the color of the leaves on trees on one’s private estate to please milady’s fancy, or to match her favorite' gowns, may become a fed of the future. This seemingly fantastic idea is ■w.ell within the realm of possibility, ,:according to scientists of the Davey Tree Surgery research laboratories. Some day", they say, it may even be possible to have pink leaves on maple trees, yellow leaves on elms, and^~ Alice blue leaves on sedate oaks. Already they have changed the color of the leaves on many trees from green to crimson red and violet. 'This was done during the course of experiments made to find a way to immunize trees against insects and disease by injecting chemicals into ■the trunks. Some of the chemicals made startling changes in the color of the leaves. Inasmuch as the research workers Tvere not trying to outdo Mother Nature in providing a color scheme for the greater outdoors, they did not proceed farther along this line. But they have persisted in their efforts to control pest's by the chem ical injection method and. hope even tually to succeed. Until such time they say, insect pests will be con trolled by the spraying methods per fected in' their laboratories ,and known to be effective. Mrs. Mabel Humphrey enter tained the members of her Sunday School class and a few invited guests at a verj' enjoyable wein^er roast last Wednesday afternoon at five o’clock in “The Pines” north of Sel ma. Games were played and Mrs. Humphrey told the little folks stories. Then came the most interesting fea ture, roasting the weiners, and toast- “S_the_marshmallows. ^ • CGuestT'i^erTiorothjrTDiehl, Helen Dixon Massey, Dora Jane Lumpkin, [George Suber, “Mutt” Suber, Willard Johnson and Fred,A. Woodard. MAKING HOME SAFER In cooking bread pudding, com -ustard, and other dishes contain ing a large proportion of egg and milk, set the dish in a pan of sur rounding hot water and bake in a very moderate oven until a knife 'blade will come out uncoated when :used to test with. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank the kind people for their kindness shown during the recent illness and death of my hus band. May God’s blessings rest on every one. Mrs. FANNIE WILLIAMS. WHAT EVERY BANKER CAN DO TO HELP The bankers and the landlords are the key to cotton acreage reduction. Two things the farmer needs most to make money out of the 1930 cot ton crop are: (1) A profitable price and (2) minimum financial obliga tions to be paid from his cotton. Now that traffic is growing heav ier than at any other time of year we naturally look for a mounting toll of accidents and deaths. But we are wrong in believing that mis haps are limited to riding in autos. Dangers in the home are- almost as great as on the road. We learn from figures compiled for the year 1929 by the National Safety Coun cil that 40 percent of all accidents last year came from falls, burns, cuts, explosions, asphyxiations and the like. Anything that offers protection ifrom injury interests eveiybody. So an the hope that it may serve to prevent numerous mishaps in homes around Selma we reprint here the ;rules offered^ by the Safety Council jin its campaign to make the home la safer place to live in: Do not start a fire with gasoline or coal oil. , Do not attempt acrobatic stunts in the home—such as standing on ladders, chairs or window-sills—un less you have a firm foundation or are otherwise protected from fall ing. Keep medicine chests where chil dren cannot get in them and never taSce any medicine yourself from a bottle in the dark. Do not start an auto in a close garage in cold weather. Do not point a gun at anyone, even though you are sure it isn’t loaded. Use reasonable care and precau tion in performing your daily chores about the house. TAKE CRIPPLE CHILD TO S. C. HOSPITAL Never before has the banker had Glfr. and Mrs. W. H. Call left Mon- a better opportunity to exercise sound and beneficial influence a over his customers. The only certain means of raising less cotton is through acreage re duction. The Federal Farm Board asks that no lands' be planted to cotton which has not made a profit in the last five years. It has been esti mated at least 6,000,000 acres of such land /hould be planted to feed and food crops in 1930. day afternoon to take little Pauline Lamb to the Shriner’s hospital in Greenville, S. Car. The little girl has been a cripple the entire eleven years of her life. This hospital gives free treatment to worthy pa tients. Mr. Call has had applica tion in for some time .and the mes sage came for her to be in the Clinic on Tuesday morning, April 29. Mr. Call verj' kindly offered to take her. Mr. ,and Mrs. Call will visit relatives in Mocksville before 'returning. ocratic State Committee on Elections, who spoke. Miss Florence Kahn, Congresswoman from California, al so spoke. Congressman Beck, from Pennsylvania said among other things: “For ten years those opposed to prohibition have not revolted, but that they had refused to obey, now- that end of this tyrannical policy is in sight, we should not allotv moral fanatics to tamper with our laws.” “He called upon the clergy of the Catholic Church who were present, who said that the eighteenth amend ment was deadliest insult the church had ever had, because they had had to throw out the sacrimental wine, at which Statesman-like utterance the priests sho^Jc their heads, smil ing approval. “There were two things most im pressive to this ‘stranger within the gates,’ because of their absence, al though at the close of a Lenten Sab bath Day service, and the clergy were there, they had no invocation for Divine guidance or blessing, no reading from the Book, which is ‘a lamp unto our feet.’ “To Your Tents, Oh North Caro linians! and meditate upon ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ “ANNIE BICKETT ASHCRAFT.” The funeral'serv'ices were coUduci ed from the Edgerton Memorial Methodist Church here at 2:30 o’clock on Monday afternoon of this week by his former pastor. Rev. C. K. Proctor, assisted by Rev. D. M. Sharpe, tile present pastor of the church. The church was crowded to overflowdng with sorrow-ing relative and friends from far and near, rep resentative of men, women and chil dren in all walks of life. Mr. Proc tor paid a beautiful tribute to the life of Dr. Noble as he told some thing of his character and useful ness to his home, town, county and state. The services were concluded at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh un der the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Masons who conducted the burial rites, the deceased having been a member of the Masonic Order for more than fifty years. Members of BLACKMAN’S CROSS ROADS It seems the Democratic paper has news from this section, and as most of our people are Republicans, let us have news too. We notice in their reports they tell of the “taters” and hogs, etc.; about the Poland China and Duroc Jersey hogs, but there is another kind that gets in our community sometimes, they failed to mention. These are not ground hogs but Road hogs; they are the fastest and most dangerous hogs we have—in fact they will rim over you and kill you if you don’t get out of the road. They need education too.. We are sorry to re port the illness of Messrs. Julius A. Lee and J. M. Blackmon. Mr. N. E. Lee, one of the oldest citizens of this section, passed over the River last Saturday and was Fellowship Masonic Lodge No. 84, of i Sunday. Mr. Lee was 8 years which he was a member, officiated Sood neighbor and will at the services held here prior to ^ missed by his many friends, leading for Oakwood Cemetery . in j Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wiggs visited jtL,.- Raleigh. The floral offerings were hnr section last S'cmday. numberous and exceedingly ful. beauti- Dr. Noble was born in Louisburg, Dr. Parker and family visited in our section Sunday afternoo-n. Elder Xure Lee, of Ready Prong October 16, 1853, the son of the late preached at the home of Capt. A. M. and Mary Primrose'Sunday. Mr. Al- Noble. In 1867 he moved with his len has been confined to his room pare.nt.s to Selma where he and his I for several months. brother, Dr. M. C. .S. Noble of the State university grew to manhood.. He read medicine under the .late Dr. Joshua W. 'Vick of Selma while at- Mrs. F. P. Wood visited relatives in Smithfield last week. Some of our fishermen have laid up their lines on account of the- tending the local school and later! restrictions, but say they graduated from the Kentucky School received refunds on their of Medicine of Louisvillie, Ky., in 1875. After graduation he returned to Selma and began the • practice of medicine which he continued to fol low until a short while before his death, having practiced nearly 55 years. He was greatly beloved by his many patients who lived in John ston county. He illustrated the best traditions of the country doctor of the old school. Dr. Noble was married on the 16th of December 1880 to Bettie Devara Moore who died March 25, 1925. To this union were born five children, four of whom are now liv ing: Dr. Robert P. Noble of Ra- AT THE SELMA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH L. Moody says that Samson D. thought God was with him when He was absent, and Mary thought He was absent when He was present. This being true there perhaps may be many Marys today, but no doubt many Samsons. The best place to keep in close touch with Him is in His church, where He is with His people. Just one preaching service each Sunday, let us make it the very best possible by attending and taking some part after we get there. The songs need to be sung WELL, every prayer should be the expres sion of every sincere heart. Services next Sunday night at 8 P. M. No tice the change to . 8 o’clock. D. F. WADDELL, Pastor. MRS. C. B. WADDELL IS IMPROVING Her many friends in Selma will be glad to learn that the condition of Mrs. C. B. Waddell, who has been so gravely ill, following an opera tion at the Johnston County hospital, has taken a turn for the better. Her daughter, Mrs. Ben Horner, of Indi anapolis, Ind., has arrived in Selma and with other relatives is anxiously watching at her bedside. licenses. ALVORD SEES 15 PER CENT REDUCTION IN SOUTHWEST Charles H. Alvord, special repre sentative of the Federal Farm Board, after a survey of the Southeastern States, declares that those in posi tion to forecast .estimate cotton acre age reduction from 12 to 15 per cent. All States are expecting Texas and Oklahoma to take the lead in this movement. Production credit will be- much restricted. Bankers and mer chants are advising farmers to quit leigh; A. M. Noble of Smithfield; growing cotton at a loss. Anne S. Noble of Selma, and Walter Moore Noble of Brawley, Calif., a son, Richard. Jordan, Jr., having died ATTENDS AUNT’S FUNERAL in infancy. Dr. Noble was a 32nd degree Ma son, having taken all of the degrees of the Scottish Rite and of the York Rite, and was a member of the Shrine. Dr.. Noble was made a mas ter Mason in 1876 in Selma lodge ' Mr. Eugene Parker left Wednes-~ day morning for Clinton, where he went to attend the funeral of his aunt, Lizzie D. Parker, of Parkers burg, N. C., the funeral being held at 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, j No. 320, of which he was elected ™ hospital at F^ette- Senior Warden in 1877 and M.asterl'’iU® Tuesday about 2:00 P. M./ SEi' of that lodge in 1878 and 1879. bj one“ bfottrer 1879 he was Grand Sword Bearer of Clinton, the Grand Lodge of North Carolina 'J. F. DATED SCHOOLS IN STATE and his upward course in that lodge OF CONSOLI- was marked with the greatest in terest in all its proceedings. He rose through the different offices of the lodge and in 1899 attained the high position of Grand Master of the 'Grand Lodge. He was a member of the building committee that erect ed the Masonic Temple in RaleighI and was a warm supporter of the] enlargement of Oxford Orphan asy lum. Dr. Noble became a Royal Arc' Mason in 1892 in Goldsboro, chap: ter No. 29 and was elected a Knighi Templar in 1898 in Mt. Lebanoi Commandary No. ,7 of Wilson. He became a Shriner' in JUay, 1898, and was elected Illustrious Potentate of Oasis Temple of Charlotte, in 1919. Dr. Noble had been a m.ember Raleigh, April 30.—There are now 986 consolidated schools in North Carolina, 833 for white children and 153 for colored children, according to the current issue of State School Facts, publication of the Department of Public Instruction. A “consolidat ed school” is defined as a rural school which has been enlarged or formed by the addition of all or ; parts of one or more adjoining schools. ... ft Within seven years. School Facts points out, there has been an in'f- crease of 631 consolidated school in the State. Of the total 986 schools operating at present 170 have’ four of the Association of Southern RaU- teachers 195 have five or six teach.- way and Atlantic Coast Line Rail- have seven or more teachers. 'I /■Im

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