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THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN, SELMA, N. C.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1930
THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN
M. L. STANCIL, Editor and Mgr.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
—By—
The Sun Publishing Co., Inc.
Selma, N. C.
SUBSCRIPTION
1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75c
Entered as second-class matter
July 4, 1929, at the post office at
Selma, N. C. under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Another thing against wild
oats is that you never see them
quoted on the business market.
Man wants but little her be
low—and if he lives in Russia
that’s about all he gets.
When a woman really loves
her husband he can make her
do anything she wants to.
Always remember that a rab
bit’s foot is a poor substitute
for horse-sense.
A SPRINKLING OF A FEW DRY THOUGHTS
(By M. L. STANCIL)
It is hard to tell just what will happen next.
But there are many things becoming rather -complex.
The flood in Arizona along the Mexican border.
Shows that even the weather is all out of order.
There is a vast stretch in the great Central plain.
Where conditions have reached a crisis for lack of rain.
The roaring Mississippi which has been so hard to handle.
Is now narrowed down to a comparatively small channel.
Were it not for the Rockies with their melting snow.
This great father of waters would be distressingly low.
In many states farmers’ crops are becoming to be parched.
Because they’ve had but'little rain since away last March.
The Governor of Virginia was asked the other day.
To send out a proclamation for everybody to pray.
But when the governor failed to comply with this request.
They ordered some rain-making material from out west.
They say a certain mountain is now sending up smoke.
In the mountains of Virginia not far from Roanoke,
It was printed in the papers and is said to be so.
And many people fear that it is a real volcano.
The good old days in Selma
were those when meals were
opened with blessings instead of
can-openers.
Our advice to the citizen who
wants to put an end to gossip
in Selma is not to be guilty of
starting it.
Our advice to the girl who is
about to fall in in love is to
“first make sure that she will
alight on her feet.
Hard times are those when
we save our money because we
are jobless and are jobless be
cause we don’t save our moijey.
The weather everywhere has been excessively warm.
That a small shower of rain made a real electric storm.
And while the drouth is helping the farmers to curtail.
The clouds bring great storms of wind, rain and hail.
While thousands are trying to destroy the boll weevil.
Other thousands regard him as a very necessary evil.
Yet with all the destructive forces that it now entailS,
We are scheduled to make over fourteen million bales.
"I WAS in a very
weak condition
from a serious
sickness,” writes
Mrs. I. Leonard,
571 Joseph St.,
New Orleans. La-
"I was so weak.
I wanted to sleep
all the time. I
did not have
strength to do
anything. M y
back ached nearly all the
time. 1 was just m misery.
"My mother told me 1 must
arouse myself from the sleep
iness, and take something to
help get my strength back.
She had taken Cardui and
had been helped, so I decided
to take Cardui, too. After
my first bottle, I could see
that it was helping me. I
took four bottles at this time.
My strength came /back and
I gained weight. Pretty soon,
I was my old self again.
"My back quit hurting, and
I haven’t had any more trou
ble since I took Cardui.”
According to the way tobacco is selling away down south.
We need a few more people squirting ambeer at the mouth.
But let us not attempt to raise the price this way,—
Raise the things we need at home and buy less com and hay.
Farmers, How Is Ij”
Your Hay Crop?;!
KENLY
I Billy, of Texas are visiting rela
0 I tives in and near Kenly.
1 I The sacred program given by the
® ] Middlesex Singing class at the Ken-
8 ! ly F. W. B. church Tuesday night
It’s easy enough to love your
neighbors as you love yourself,
providing they mind their own
business.
Life for many parents is
just what they make it, until
ithe children get old enough to
make it worse.
When a chair becomes old
and worn out it is an antique
and brings a good price. But
it’s different with an automo
bile.
Farmers in Johnston County should So
take warning from the drouth strick
en areas of this and other .states
and do their best' to save all the
hay possible this fall. This especial
ly applies to those farmers who al
ways have to buy more or less hay
will probably be extremely high dur
ing the coming season.
Those farmers who have a surplus
of hay should maksi every effort to
save this hay in good , shape and
they will be able to market it to
I a good advantage during the com-
' ing season.
Ma.ny farmers have considerable
trouble in curing soybean and Su
dan grass hay when there has been
They say cannibals won’t eat
a man who chews tobacco but
we never knew a Selma man
with nerve enough to tell his
wife that was his reason for
chewing.
(By MELBA WATSON)
A most enjoyable moonlight pic-
was .well attended and very much en
joyed.
Mrs. Zeb Hocutt, of Gamer, visited
her mother, Mrs. Stephen Alford,
-But First He Saved!
HAT a lucky guy HE is sit
ting in the President’s
me was given at the home of Miss .Z , „ . > m
, ^ i n i j Sheriff and Mrs. A. J. Fitzgerald
Armeto Watson’s Saturday night. • , n/r / iw..
, 1 j ' of Smithfield, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Many lively games were played bte- . ,, , ’ ,
„ , 1 ] Jessie Yelverton Thursday night,
fore the lunches were spread and i . / ®
' Mr. Tom Watson, Mrs. W. H.
lemonade served. An unusually large.
, , , , Casper, and Misses Elda Watson
crowd of young people were present
at this occasion.
Friends of Mr. Marvin Bridgers
surprised him with a birthday party
at his home Saturday night. His
mother, Mrs. Charlie Bridgers, was
and Vira Stancil made a business
tript to Princeton Saturday.
COTTON OPENING
The Grand Jury
Makes Its Report
Mr. J. W. Brown, who farm on
as much surprised at the birthday ■ ^ j
dinner that was given in her home Monday and had an open boll
the following day, Sunday. Thes cotto.n with four full grown locks,
a rank growth. This trouble can' ^cts show the good feeling and j^g first
be somewhat eliminated by using friendly spirit of the people of this ^ blossom on June 27th and
curing racks. Such a rack can be community towards this family. I g^i Aug. 9th.
easily made by taking three pine j Myrtle Howell entertained | - ■
I poles, two to thr^e inches in diamieter ' senior Sunday School class of JJQW THE TWO
land about ten feet long; set up the Presbyterian church, of which^ BOOKS DIFFER
j poles in wigwam shape and fasten ^ member at a watermelon
them at the top with a wire or rope. ■ fig^ gn last Wednes-
Nail strips of narrow boards to the Everyone .enjoyed this
poles starting about eighteen inches o-athering.
from the ground and then about ® Overman and
viv» fn ^VlP _ . i j_ . r* l.;n
chair I No luck at all. Just sound, com
mon sense. He invested his money safely
in a Savings Account until he had enough
to start his own business. Ben Franklin
once said “Save and Have!” And he
was right.
Branch Banking &
Trust Co.
“THE SAFE EXECUTOR”
H. D. BATEMAN, Pres. A. J. HOLLIDAY, Cashier.
We have the cheapest Farm Implements
Also Hay, Oats, and Feed Stuffs
Don’t forget our Burton Cream Flour (th .iT)
See US before Buying
I every three feet up the poles to the, figggfifgr, Doris, went to Snowhill
TO HIS HONOR W. A; DEVIN
JUDGE PRESIDING AUGUST
CRIMINAL TERM OF JOHN
STON COUNTY SUPERIOR
COURT, 1930.
We, tbs Grand Jurors beg leave
to submit the following report:
We have considered all matters
coming before us and true returns
made to the Court according to the
evidence in the cases.
We made inquiry as to the funds
belonging to various minors of the
County and report the accounts in
good shape or funds in hands of the
Clerk of the Superior Court.
We visited the various offices of
the County Court House and report
them in excellent condition, the rec
ords neatly kept, and the work effi
ciently done.
We visited the home for the aged
and infirm and while we report the
quarters clean and sanitary, find
them fed and clothed sufficiently well,
hut we would recommend that steps
be taken at once by the manage
ment provide sufficient milk daily
to the inmates.
We would further recommend that
the present system of farming out
the County’s ward to some person to
be changed so that the Superintend
ent will be paid a salary and the
large farm be u.sefl exclusively for
the support, comfort and welfare of
those unfortunates.
We visited the convict camp
near Smithfield and report the same
in good condition, convicts well fed
and clothed.
We visited the camp .near Clayton
and report good and sufficient quart
ers, and convicts well provided for.
We visited the camp near Kenly
and report the camp in fine shape,
the place being ideal for that pur
pose and the convicts well cared for.
We find that the County Superin-
tened.nt of 'Camps requires all con
victs to be treated in a humane
manner.
We visited the common jail of the
County and report th,e same in a
clean and sanitary condition, ample
clothing and bedding, provided.
Respectfully submitted,
J. W. STEPHENSON,
Foreman.
top.
The following editorial paragraph
was taken from Tuesday’s Greens
boro Daily News:
Several persons narrowly escaped
death ' or serious injury when a
Thursday afternoon learning of thejriuck and a passenger car collided
A few hours after cutting, the hay. jj^s. Overman’s nephew, ■ Selma yesterday. A hymn book
can be thrown onto these racks and Thorn. His body was brought
allowed to stay until it is dry enough i^gnly for
to hale or haul into the bam. The Fi-fijay,
green hay should not be thrown onto j gg.^eral Kenly people attended the
these racks too thick but some space' service of Mrs. Ruffin Cocker-
should be left so the air can ^ former citizen of Kenly, Fri-
through freely. This circulation of
air will help in curing the hay just Hinnant made a busi-
as much as sunshine. ' Washington, N. C., Mon-
A group of twenty one Johnston
County farmers accompanied by the
County Agent attended the field day
and picnic at the Oxford tobacco ex
periment station on Thursday of_ last
week. This was a very interesting
and beneficial trip.
In addition to hearing some very
interesting talks on the proper way
to grow tobacco, a trip was made to
the experiment plots on this farm.
day.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Westbrook
and children of Raleigh were the
week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Jessie Yelverton.
Mrs. W. J. Burgeron, of New
London, Conn., is visiting her moth
er, Mrs. W. L. Lassiter.
Mr. H. R. Renfrew made a busi-
I ness trip to Wilson Monday.
I Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hales, of
One test visited was a variety g^^
where dozens of varieties of tobacco j ^ Watson
hurled from the car was found near
the .wreckage opened at the song:
“Niearer My God to Thee.” Now
if it had been a law book it would
probably have opened at “Sentence
suspended on payment of costs.”
Mrs. Joe Tippett
Ends Her Own Life
With A Razor
are being tested under identical eon
ditions. Another test plot showed to-
Miss Leona Overman, of hear
Kenly, spent the week-end with Mr.
bacco being grown with almost every Overman.
conceivable mixture of fertilizer,
probably tke most interesting was
the rotation plots. ' Here could be
seen plots where different legumes
Mr. Willie Dixon, of Gamer, vis
ited relatives in Kenly Thursday.
. Misses Grace Watson and Nellie
Alford and Messrs. Clifton and El-
had been plowed into the soil every ^g^g g combined busi-
other year for the past fifteen. ^g^^^ pleasure trip to Greens-
years. The tobacco on these plots Tuesday.
was almost twice as large as that I
where no legume had been planted.
What is more interesting, it .was
found out that by using the proper
fertilizer the tobacco could be made
of as good quality as that where no
clover, vetch or soy beans had been
planted.
Another interesting point was the
method of cultivation. Only the
ridge method is used. Seeing the
method of cultivation alone was
worth the trip.
' The farmers making this trip ex
pressed themselves as being well
paid for their trip.
SELMA BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday school at 9:45.
Subject for 11 o’clock service
‘Following a Vision.”
ed church service at the Pleasant
Hjll F. W. B. church Sunday.
Mr. Fred Bass and friends of
Fremont visited in Kenly Sunday
afternoon.
An unusual suicide took place
near Zebulon on last Saturday morn
ing when Mrs. Joe Tippett took her
own life by cutting her throat with
her husband’s razor. It is said that
Mrs. Tippett’s health had been very
bad for some time and that she
became 'somewhat despondent over
the matter of her ill health, so
much so that she was heard to re
mark that she feared jihat she was
losing her mind and would have to
go to Dix Hill, and that if she knew
that she would ever have to go there
she would kill herself. This caused
her people to become suspicious of
her and a careful watcK was kept
over her for some time for fear
that she would attempt to end her
life by her^own hahd. Her afflictions
seemed to bear down on her last
Friday night and Saturday morning
found her very much depressed. Her
hu.sband noticed this fact and deter-
ifiined to keep watch over her, but
after giving her some medicine to
‘ Missjes Marie and Clara Hinnant make her rest she soon dozed off
and Mr. Charles Hinnant attended sleep and he took advantage of
a chicken fry at Miss Lavina Roe’s
of the Rines Cross Roads section
last Friday night.
Miss Effie Blackman, of jMicro,
was the week-end guest of Miss
Mamie Moore.
Mrs. Jack Parkerson, of Richmond,
Va., is visiting her mother.
Mr. W. L. Lassiter who has been
working in South Carolina returned
to his home in Kenly Tuesday for
a few weeks visit with his family.
Mr. Bill Guest of Raleigh spent
the past week-end in Kenly.
At the evening hour “Being A
Good Soldier,” will be the subject. | • Mr. and Mrs., D. T. Crawford, and
Mr. Crain will be out of town i Mesdames Hubert Overman, W. L.
for 2 weeks beginning Monday, Aug.
18, in revival meetings at Gatesvilte,
with Rev.' K. C. Horner.
/
Laurence and Charlie Watson shop
ped in Wilson Tuesday.
Mrs. Milford Mitchell and son.
this opportunity to go out to his
tobacco curing barn for a few min
utes, telling his daughter to call him
when she awoke. Within a few
minutes he' observed Mrs. Tippett at
the well and he. then returned to
the- house. Reaching the house he'
found Mrs. Tippett standing in
front of the fireplace vomiting,
and fearing that she had taken some
poison, he questioned her about it
but she denied taking janything. He
went to the back porch to wash his
hands and heard her struggling and
ran to her to find that she had
lashgd her throat with a rozor. He-
lashea hef throat with a razor. He
could get her to the bed she was
dead.'
ATKINSON SUPPLY COMPANY
AL
Default having- been made in payment of the installments
of the assessments made against the abutting property on Rai-
foid stieet fiom Southern Railroad to Waddell street and An
derson street fronn Webb to Pollock street for street and side
walk improvement during the year of 1922', the town of Selma
will offer for sale to highest bidder for cash the lots on said
streets belonging to the following persons to satisfy the balance
due on said improvements, on August 30th, 1930, at ten o’clock
A. M.:
J. P. Temple six lots, $2049.07.
J. C. Pass and brother, two lots, $291.22.
M. G. Futrell and Mrs. W. A. Herring two lots, $164.99.
George M. Noi-wood one lot, $330.64.
W. B. Godwin two lots, $311.04.
A. V. Driver Co., one lot, $141.95.
Abdolla-Vinson Store Co., one lot $273.07.
Mrs. R. L. Ray one lot $824.40.
Miss Florence Stancill one lot $267.77.
Louis Abdolla two lots $1025.15.
M. R. WALL
This July 30, 1930.
TOWN CLERK.
when in need
of any kind of
PRINTING
Nine-Tenths Preventable
Nine-tenths of all the diseases of the
American people ca,n be traced, directly
to constipation, doctors say. Constipa
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wlpch taint and 'weaken every organ
of the body and make them easy
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them. Prevent constipation and you
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with, their consequent pain and fi
nancial losses. Herbine, the good old
vegetable cathartic, will prevent con
stipation in a natural, easy and
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E. V. WOODARD
Luke Reilly Says, “The Rat Died Be
fore Reaching the River.”
“Since moving near the river 2
always used RAT-
■ Watch a vicious water rat,
Mbbhng at RAT-SNAP outside the
ouse. About 15 minutes later he
darted off for the water to cdol his
burning stomach, but he died he-
fore reaching it.” Three sizes, 35c,
5c, $12o. Sold and guaranteed by
V Woodard, Druggist, Selma, N.
L ; Godwin Drug Co., Pine Level,
V /-'"'i ^ Sons, Princeton,'
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