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THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930.
NUMBER 28.
Waiter Godwin Has
Automobile Stolen
Arthur Howell and Jolvn L. Radford,
I'wo Selma Boys, Under Arrest,
Charged with the Crime
Last , Saturday night sometime
■about 10:00 o’clock, Mr. Walter God
win discovered that his new Pon
tiac automobile had been stolen. , He
had parked Ms car on the street
near the Branch Banking & Trust
Company. As soon as the theft was
•discovered, the police department
was notified and Chief Howell be
gan working on the mattter for a
clue as to the guilty party or part
ies, and within a few hours he had
his clue The car was found a few
miles from Selma on the Archer
Lodge Road in a badly wrecked con
dition. Arthur Howell and John L.
Radford, two Selma boys, were un
der suspicion and Chief Howell tele
phoned to Deputy Sheriff E. A. John
son at Smithfield and informed him
■of the theft, w'hereupon Deputy
Johnson brought with him Deputy
L. D. Parker and these two Smith-
hed Deputies accompanied Chief
Howell and Policeman J. L. Gurley
on a search for these two boys
Arthur Howell is a son of Mrs.
Caroline Howell who lives in the
Selma Mill section, and going to her
home they found Arthur in bed. They
arrested him and then went 'to the
home of Matthe,w Radford, father of
■John L. Radford, and found John al-
:so in bed. The clothes which both
of these young men had worn were
■wet and muddy which strengthened
the suspicion of the officers. This
■was about 3:30 Sunday morning.
'Both of the boys were lodged in
jail.
The preliminary hearing was held
before Mayor Hare on last Mon
day afternoon and Radford plead
tomey for Howell, waived (examina-
not guilty, and W. P. Aycock, at-
tion and the two defendants were
bound over to court under a $300
bond each.
It developed that the reason the
boys’ clothes were wet, they thought
perhaps blood hounds might be put
•on their trails and they waded
Neuse river for some distance to
avoid being run down by the dogs.
Radford has just completed a sen
tence on the chain gang in Cleveland
County for stealing.
Another case coming before Mayor
Hare Monday afternoon was that of
Wm. Scott, charged -with reckless
drj-ving on the streets of Selma. He
was fined $5.00 and the cost.
Some Important
Changes in The
Town Officialdom
T. M. Benoy Resigns as City Clerk
—Succeeded by M. R. Wall—C. A.
Jacobs Succeeds N. G. Blackman
As Member of Board.
Beginning with the first of July
the town of Selma is expsrienci^
some important changes in the - offi
cial family of the town.
Some time ago, Mr. T. M. Benoy,
■who has served the town as to’wn
clerk for the past four years, and
Mrs. W. L. Etheredge, his 'assistant
for the same period of time, both
gave notice of their resignation to
become_ effective July 1, 1930.
Mr. Benoy and Mrs. Etheredge
have both been very efficient and
courteous employes of the town and
their resignation is to be regretted
by many of the town’s leading citi
zens whom they have served over
th's long period of time.
Mr. M. R, Wall has accepted the
appointment as town clerk to suc
ceed Mr. Benoy. Mr. Wall is emi
nently qualified to fill the office in
the same efficient manner as his
predecessor Mr. Benoy, he having
been book-keeper for the Eastern
Manufacturing Co., of Selma, for
some time prior to coming to the
town Clerk’s office.
Mr. N. G. Blackman has tendered
his resignation as a member of
the town Board of Aldermen and has
been .succeeded by Mr. C. A. Jacobs.
Owing to a cut in the salary of the
office, Mr. Wall has not made ar
rangements for an assistant as yet
and it is his purpose to work in
harmony with the town’s economy
program and try to run the office
on the reduced salary without cleri
cal assistance.
John E. Fowler Dies
After Long Illness
Was Former Congressman and One
Of the Leading Lawyers of Samp
son County.
Clinton, July 4.—John E. Fowler,
64, former congressman from tMs
district, one of the leading lawyers
of Sampson county during his active
days, and generally recognized as a
political power in his home county,
died at Ms home here ths mormng.
The deceased had been suffering
for some time with heart trouble
and the infirm.ities of age. He re
tired from active business life three
or four years ago, completely sur
rendering his extensive law prac
tice in order that he mig^ht carry
out the in.strucions of his physician.
Mr. Fowler was elected congress
man from this district in 1896, on a
populist ticket. Prior to that time.
Evangelist Ham Has
A Few More Great
Messages For Us
Don’t Fail to Hear His Message to
“Men Only” at 3:00 O’clock
Sunday Afternoon
Seldom have the people of Selma
and community been privileged to
hear such strong gospel messages as
those being delivered at the Selma
Baptist Church by Evangelist John
W. Ham. The meeting began on
Sunday, June 29th, and with each
service this visiting preacher brings
an able message, each one of ■ wMch
is full of Gospel truths and rich in
Spiritual thought.
Some of the subjects yet to be
used are as follows:
Thursday night at 8:00 o’clock:
“Set Thine House Ini Order.”* Fri
day Night: “Short- Beds and Nar-
Roscoe Butler Dies Of
Appendicitis Attack
Prominent Young Attorney,
Clinton W:is Buried
Monday
of
in 1895, he represented Sampson morning at
county in the general assembly. Po-|“,'?,“ = Jesus the Wonder
litically he has never, since the vop-llt. .k p “f e
ulist days, been what might be con-
GETS CALL TO GO
TO ST. LOUIS CHURCH
f
Evangelist John W. Ham, who Ls
now conducting a series of Re^vival
services at the Selma Baptist
Church, showed us a letter he had
recently received from the Executive
Committee of the Third Baptist
Church of St. Louis in which they
■solicited his services during the
month of August this year.
This church is said to have' the
largest membership and gives more
money to various religious causes
'than any other church between these
two points.
Mr. Ham ca.me to Selma from
the First Baptkst Church of New
York City where he spent about a
month in the evangelistic work. He
has a definite program already
mapped out for many weeks ahead.
From here he will go to York, Ala.,
where he begins a two-weeks meet
ing on Monday, July 14th, and if he
can make some adjustments in other
pending dates, he ■will probably go
to St. Louis from York, Ala.
BLIND 30 YEARS, SIGHT
SUDDENLY RETURNS
LIGHTNING STRIKES MULES
Two fine mules belonging -to Mr.
Charley Adams were struck by
lightning during the storm Tuesday
afternoon and instantly killed. At
the time they were .struck the mules
were in the bam, where they sought
shelter from the storm. No one
was near at the time and no other
damage was done by the bolt. The
mules were exceptionally fine ani
mals a.nd the loss to their owner
is considerable.—Clayton News.
NOTICE!
If there is anytMng that ■this tax
payers do not understand regarding
their taxes, paving assessments etc.,
we would be glad, you would call at
the mayor’s office Monday night and
get what information the to^wn has
that we may all understand just
what it is our duty to do. We will
meet indefinitely every Monday night
until such tMngs are adjusted.
W. W. HARE, Mayor.
A news story coming out of CM-
cago' tells of a man whose sight
suddenly returned last week after
thirty years of blindness. About 30
years ago he was married and soon
;hereafter lost his vision. His wife
continued true to Mm while he spent
thousands of dollars trying to bring
back h’s lost sight. One day last
veek while she was sitting and read
ing to Mm he began to raise Ms
eyes and move his head about and
.called to his wife to tell her that
he believed he could see just a little
bit. She immediately arose and as
h.e began to point to objects on the
wall she fainted with astonishment
and joy. It is said that he did not
■ecozmze Ms wife who had watched
pver him through all these years of
iarkness, and that when he looked
in the mirror he did not recognize
His own face. Imagine a man whose
vision went away 30 years ago being
made to see again! The last time
he saw woman she was wearing
bustles and wasp waists; men were
wearing mustaches and side wMskers
and other long heard; the horse
dra^wn vehicle was the popular mode
of travel—the automobile was un
known; and there w;ere many other
roads, etc. Except from the fact
things in the way of old-time dirt
roads, etc. Except from the fact
that he had heard of these many
modem inventions and improvements,
it i.s almost like one coming back
from the grave.
sidered orthodox His sympathies
were always with the masses, the
“one gallus” fellows.
At the fall of. thd populist party
he allied in Sampson county, and his
ability as a politician and leader of
the mas.ses has contributed much
toward keeping what was once North
Carolina’s strongest Democratic coun
ty in the Republican column.
Be was a picturesque character,
possessed of a brilliant mind, and in,-
■lependent in thought and action.
As a barrister, he enjoyed a large
dientele, and in the prime of his
life there were few lawj'ers in this
part of the state who could hold
their own against him before a jury.
He enjoyed a fight, and just a few
months ago, although physically un
able to assume active lea-dersMp, he
was the main instigator ^f the
movement in Sampson county for
reforms in taxation, a movement
which was later allied with the ef
forts of the North Carolina tax re
lief association.
In 1928, although- his sympathies
had been largely with the Republi-
:an party, he demonstrated his ihde-
psndence by turning to Alfred E.
Smith, the Democratic nominee, be
cause, he .said, “AI Smith was the
only one in the race whose sym-
paty is with the people.”
Mr. Fowler was never married.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs.
R. E. Herring, of Clinton, and Mrs.
R. E. West, of Salemburg, one half-
brother, M. B. Fowler, of Clinton,
and several nieces and nephews, al
so one sister-in-law, Mrs^ ■George
Fowler and Ms step-mother, Mrs.
Minnie Fowler, both of Clinton. Fun
eral services will be held here Sun
day afternoon. Complete arrange
ments have not been announced.
JULIUS AND TALMAGE
CORBETT PURCHASE
/HODGES SERVICE STA.
/ A
Messrs. Julius and Talmage
Corbett, popular young men of Sel
ma, have purchased the Hodges
Service Station located at the forks
of Route -22 and 23, one mile north
of tMs city, and took charge of
same Monday morning. For the past
year Mr. Julius Corbett has been
sMpping clerk for the Eastern Manu
facturing Company, wMle his broth
er, Talmage, held a position -with
the E. V. Woodard Drug store, both
resigning their positions last week
to take charge of the service sta
tion. 'The Corbett boys are well
kno^wn is Johnston County and their
many friends wish them success in
their new venture. Read their ad
vertisement in tMs issue of the
J ohnstonian-Sun.
AT THE FAIRVIEW
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
PreacMng rjext Sunday Evening at
the usual hour 8:00 P. M. Every
body is welcome.
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE
MEN GETTING BUSY
Smithfield, July 8 —Mr. J. D.
Perkins, of Roxboro, who is one of
■he proprietors of the New Peoples
Tobacco warehouse here, arrived in
the city this morning and for sev
eral days he will ride over the coun
ty looking at the crops and-assist-
ing Messrs. ’N. L. Perkins and L.
G. Patterson the other members of
the firm in covering Johnston and
adjoining counties with -their adver
tising campaign. Johnston County
is considered fortunate in having
tMs experienced and popular ware
houseman cast his lot with us.
Mr. Perkins has operated a ware
house in Roxboro for about tMrty
years, and for a number of years
has also operated one in Lumberton.
He is not only a warehouseman, but
is also a large and successful to
bacco farmer.
He has lately sold his warehouse
business in Roxboro, but ■will con
tinue to operate Ms warehouse in
Lumberton; and after the opening
of the Smithfield market will di
vide his time between Smithfield and
Lumberton until the close of the
Lumberton market, after which time
he will give Ms undivided attention
to the New Peoples warehouse in
Smithfield.
With three big warehouses here
going in full blast, it seems that
there should be no good reason for
Johnston County people selling any
tobacco outside of their home county.
For “|VIen Only” ’
Sunday afternoon at three o’hock,
the Evangeli.st has a message for
“Men Only,” the age limit to in
clude all those males between 12
and 112 years. He will show from
the standpoint of prophecy that Sa
tan is a Mathematician and works
his program with fidelity and ac
curacy, and he will also show that
there is coming a revival of the
■Roman Empire. He will deal with
Mussolini as the outstanding char
acter of Europe today, who claims
that he is a man of destiny, and
that he will bring about the forma
tion of the United States of South
ern Europe. He will show where the
next war will be staged. Hje believes
that the nations are now preparing
for that war.
HLs subject for tMs hour -will be
“The Devil’s Arithmetic.”
It is very important that the MEN
attend this service.
The seriddes have been well at
tended at the e-vening hour from the
beginmng of the meeting, and the
morning services have increased in
attendance and interest with each
service, so much so that on Tues
day morning of this week each busi
ness house in Sielma volun-tarily
agreed to close for one hour from
9:30 to 10:30 in order to give the
people an opportunity to hear the
morning messages. TMs shows
splendid spirit on thfe part of the
business men of the to-wn, and we
feel that no better donation to the
Lord s cause could be made by our
people at this time than to stop
the wheels of industry for one busy
hour in order to help somebody in
a spiritual way.
With so many people complain
ing about the shortage of money
and depressed business conditions,
there could be no time more be
fitting in wMch to look to the Lord
for the proper restoration of those
good old days wMch always ac
company a “God fearing and God
serving people.”
Roscoie Butler, a prominent Clin
ton lawyer, died at Highsmith hos
pital in Fayetteville Friday morning
at 1 o’clock. He had an acute at
tack of appendicitis and was rushed
to the hospital on Tuesday. The
appendix was ruptured and his case
was soon pronounced hopeless. He
was 35 years old, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Butler, of Honey
cutt’s townsMp, Sampson county. He
was educated at Dell High School,
Buie’s Creek and Wake Forest Col
lege. After taking his A. B. degree
at Wake Forest, he returned and
took the course law. For ten years
we has practiced his profession in
Sampson and surrounding counties.
In politics, he was Republican and
took an active interest in the af
fairs of his party. Pour years ago,
he was the nominee of Ms party
for Congress from this district. He
was also an active Mason, a mem
ber of the local lodge. He was one
of the leading members of Clinton
Baptist church, taking an acti-ve in
terest -in all of its work. He was a
World War veteran, having entered
the service when this country first
entered the World War. He was
for a year after the war was over.
He was one of the leading lawyers
of tMs county and was county at
torney at the time of his death. He
was unmarried. Surviving are his
father and mother, three brothers,
Luther Arthur and Aman, and two
sisters, Mrs. Duffy Honeycutt and
Miss Lavenia Butler.
The funeral will be conducted from
Corinth Baptist church Sunday by
Ms pastor, Rev. T. H. King and the
interment will be in the home ceme-
tei-y.—Dunn Dispatch.
Prof. Bueck Accepts
The Principalship Of
Guliowhee School
Has Been Teacher of History in; Sel
ma High School for Seven Years
—Also Coached Competitive Ath
letics.
Severe Hail Storm
Hits Wayne County
DR. C. P. HARPER GOES
ON A VACATION
Mrs. P. H. Sellers has returned
from a trip • ■to several western
states. She joined Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Medlin and Mr. and Mrs.
Dick Turner of Raleigh and the
party made the trip by auto through
Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and
to Springfield, 111.
Dr. C. P. Harper, manager of the
Selma Drug Company,^ is spending
ten days in New York City and oth
er points in the north on his an
nual vacation. In New York he ■will
•spend a few days with Dr. Mayer-
berg and family, residents of Sielma.
Dr. Mayerberg is taking special work
in one of the leading hospitals in
that city and his family is spending
the summer with him. From New
York Dr. Harper will go to Penn
sylvania ■to spend a few days with
friends. Cards from Mm to friends
here state that he is having a great
time in the north.
ONE PROBABLE REASON
FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
George Hobson of Dunn Route 2,
announced to a group of friends
Sunday that he was going to be
gin work on the railroad Monday
morning. He said that he had
■never had any trouble finding work,
adding, “of course it’s hard work,
but that’s the kind I’ve always been
u.sed to.” In the last statemsmt lies
the ci-ux of much of the so-called
“unemployment situation.” Many of
the unemployed are not willing to
take any kind of work they can
get. They are looking for kid glove
jobs. These are scarce as the sup
ply has always exceeded the de
mand. There is no doubt that if
there were more men with- the
spirit exhibited by Mr. Hobson there
would be fewer unemployed.—Dunn
Dispatch.
Crops Are Ruined, Barn.s Blown
Do^wn, Ice Straies Collect
In Ditches
Goldsboro, July 9.—A terriffic hail
and wind storm passed in a narrow
strip 'through Wayne county about
4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon from
towards the Seven Springs section
■with the worst part of it at County
Welfare Officer R. H. Edward’s farm,
four miles southeast of Goldsboro
and spending itself by the time it
reached the city.
Tobacco and cotton were stripped
and ruined, bames were blo^wn down
on farms of Messrs. Edwards and
Hobbs. At Mrs. Carrie Harrell’s
farm, hundreds of watermelons were
chopped into bits. Hailstones as
large as the end of a man’s thumb
were piled up in ditches and corn
ers for several hours afterwards.
Home window panes were broken
out, tremendous shade trees badly
broken, cherry and apple trees brok
en off near the ground, dozens of
cMckens killed' under a collapsed
bam, a large scuppemong grape
vine laid on the ground, ■tomatoes
chopped into chow and the cabbage
shredded into slaw in the fields. The
butter bean vines had no beans or
leaves lefton them. Almost the en
tire crop of peaches and apples is
lying on the ground; what fruit is
left on the trees is so badly bruised
that it is considered ruined.
‘And,” said the wielfare officer, “I
was sitting in my office in Golds
boro congratulataing myself that it
had rained and turned a little cool
er.”
S. B. Newell, farmer, li-ving one
mile beyond Mr. Edward.s, reported
hail up to the top of his Mgh quart
er shoes in. his front yard. A num
ber of people from Goldsboro visited
the stricken area brought back buck
ets of hailstones to the city.
A. K. Robinson, Wayne farm
agent, estimated that the storm cov
ered a strip about two miles wide
and four miles long and only in
the Daniel’s Chapel com.munity. In
the Grantham community a good rain
was reported which was accompanied
by a little hail but no damage was
done. At Seven Springs and the
Bragden school community a good
rain was reported and no hail.
Prof. Hieronjonous Bueck, teacher
of History in the Selma High School,
was recently honored with an ap
pointment to Principalship of Cullo-
whee Graded ' School, Cullowhee, N.
C. This school is u.sed as a prac
tice school for students of western
Carolina Teacher’s College at Cullo
whee. Mr. Bueck has been here
seven years, and aside from his
class-room work has coached compe
titive athletics for several years,
stressing clean sportsmanship. Last
year, he introduced an Extra-Cur
ricula program approved by H. F.
Miller, President of the North Caro
lina Athletic Association. This pro
gram provided one hour each day for
intra-mural athletics, club work,
music and chapel programs, 1-4
credit being allowed for this work.'
The resignation of Mr. Bueck
means a double loss to the Selma
school and commu-mty, as Mrs. Bueck
automatically resigns. She came
here eight years ago as head of the
Domestic Science Department and'
under her capable supervision, one
of the best equipped lunch rooms in.
this section is in operation during
the entire school, year. She has
qualities of leadership possessed by
few, a rare combination of charm
ing personality and brilliant intel
lect is found in Mrs. Bueck whose
high ideals and 8 years of service
are woven in the annuals of Selma
High School and the community at
large. Her work in, Dramatics in the-
school and town has met with the,
warm approval and di.stinetive prai.se-
which was so richly merited. In
cmc, social and educational circles
this couple will be sorely missed and
while score.s of friends and interested
patrons are relunctant to give them,
up, they rejoice with them in this
splendid promotion.
They whl move to Cullowhee about
Augu-st first.
Duncan Does Not See
Democratic Harmony
Republican Chairman ,Says Tliere
Wan “No Real Harmony” At
the Raleigh Convention.
Dr. Edwin Booker spent Sunday
afternoon with Ms mother, Mrs. E.
N. Booker, in Cleveland townsMp.
Mr. Billie Blackman has accepted
a position in the B. Y. Woodard
drug store.
Continued reports to the effect
that the Democratic state convention
in Raleigh last Thursday wm quite
harmonious brought yesterday from
Senator James S. Duncan, chairman
of the Republican state executivcf
committee, a statement in wMch he,
declared that “there was no neal ■
harmony, in that gathering.” Con
tinuing, Chairman Duncan said:
‘It was a Smith-Raskob-Bailey
convention, and of course was har
monious in the sense that practical
ly all those who differed with 'them
had been slaughtered in the prima
ry. The convention afforded impre.s-
sive evidence that those who placed
principle above party are -no longer
to have a vOiice in the affairs of
the Democratic party.
The Democratic platform must
be a disappointment to those who
were expecting to find it a docu
ment of forward looking character
and who had hoped that it would be
in lini.s with the views of the peo
ple. The platform viewed ■with pride,
the record of the Democratic party
in the state, but failed to mention
national affairs except to abuse the
national Republican admimstration
They were strangely silent as to Al
Smith,. Democratic presidential can
didate, whom they sent through
North Carolina in 1928, but whom
they werte un^willing to risk in
speech-making. The inability of the-
rank and file of Democrats in North
Carolina to harmomze their views
with those of the Smlth-Raskob el
ement is increasingly apparent.
“On the othier hand, the Republi
can state platform is a great con,-
sti-Tictive document and what we say
in the platform is so unequivocal
that out candidates do not have to
get one of their own.
“Tlie Republicans in North Caro
lina were never in finer spirit than
nov/, and I am confident that ■we
■iviU win great victories all along the
line next November.”—Greensboro
Daily News, July 8th.
■Mr. Irvin Johnson, of Rocky
Mount, has returned home after
•spending a few days in the city
with relatives.