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THE JOHNSTONIAN
VOLUME 15.
THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
Old Folks Day At
Massey Sctiool, 29th
All-day Program To Be Carried
Out and Some Good speaking is
Anticipated—Dinner WiU Be One
or Beauiiig reatmes or tne Day.
nemindlui ot tne •Oiaen Day/s.
The Johnstonia»-Sun is due an
, apology to Mr. Beiman Oliver loi
Hot giving- an account ot tne Olu
Tolas Day at Massey Sclrool in our
last weeK s is.-ue. Mr. Oliver gave
us a lull account ot the program,
but in some way the copy got mis
placed and we have not been abie
to locate it.
We are contributing a good-siz
ed space to .the advertising of the
occasion eisewnere , in this paper,
aiiu regret tnat we were unaole to
carry tne account as lurmshed us
tor last week.
the day will be brimming full of
amusement and tun. There will be
many .-tunts performed to remind
one of the “good old days” when
the older people were much young
er and when things were done much
different from what they are now.
everybody please carry lunch for
the dinner hour- which will be one
0! the outstanding events of tne
day. Theie will be speaking by
some of the “old timers” like Jas.
1), Parker, Jas. A. Wellons and T.
It. Hood of Smithfield. Don’t miss
it if you are appreciative of the
“good old days” gone by.
Friday, July 29th, 1932, is the
date, and the hour is from soon
untT late—all day, if you please.
Asks Uncle Of
Smith Reynolds
To Be Executor
Good Rain Brings
Much Needed Relief
It Had Been Humored That New
York Legal Firm Had Been Ap
pointed; This Denied By Alfred
Holman and Discounted by W. N.
Keynolds; Court Fight Possible.
County Commissioners
To Study Tax Rate
It has been reported that the
ceunty commissioners will meet on
Monday, August 1st, and among
other business matters, will prob
ably set the tax rate to be levied
on the property of Johnston county
1. r 1932. Whether the rate will be I
finally set at this meeting is yet to !
' be determined.
New Federal Finance
Act Big Help To State
North Carolina’s allotment of the
Federal funds provided for in the
Federal Finance act recently pass
ed by Congress, will be $2,888,251,
which is to be used in the construc
tion of new roads. The state must
furnish a similar sum before it is
allowed to use the federal allow
ance. Thus it will be seen that the
state will have over five millions
of dollars for road construction if
it puts up the otheji half. It has
been said that with this amount of'
money expended on road work that
5,000 men can be put to work with
in the next 11 months time.
Why No Poem This Week.
The Editor of the Johnstonian-
Sur has been spending a few days
in the “Land of the Sky”, hence no
poem this week. He will be on the
, job again next week. Mr. Stancil’s
health has not been good for some
' time and his physician advised a
few days’ rest in the higher clime.
His friends will be glad to know
that the fgw , days spent in the
mountains did him lots of good.
H. H. L.
Winston-Salem, July 22.—Libby
Holman Heynoids, has asked his
uncle, W. N. Reynolds, to be execut
or of his estate.
Alfred Holman, - Cincinnati attor
ney and father of the musical revue
star who left Broadway to become
the bride of the Reynolds heir,
transmitted the request in a letter
to Reynolds who di^closed it here
today.
Keynolds disclosure was prompt^
by reports current here that a New
York legal firm had been appointed
executor of the estate.
He said that so far as he knew
there was no truth in the report.
Informed of the report in Cin
cinnati, Holman said:
“1 am my daughter's only attor
ney.”
The elder Reynolds was co-guad-
ian of his' 20-year-old nephew with
R. E. Lasater, of Winston-Salem.
Fortune Deferred.
Toung Smith Reynolds, shot to
death on a sleeping porch of his
home here two weeks ago, was a
minor when he died. Eight years
hence he would have received a
share of his late father’s estate esti
mated at around $15,000,000.
The young aviator’s per.-onal for
tune was relatively small.
A court fight may be necessary to
determine if the former Libby Hoi-
man has claim to dower rights in
the $15,000,000 or in her husband’s
personal fortune. »
Child C’ould Share
Attorneys here have said that if
Mrs.-Holman has a child, which her
friends sa\^ she is expecting, it copid
share in the inheritance along with
Rey'nold s- child by a former marri
age.
Meantime, no legal steps have
been taken here looking towards a
disposition of the estate.
Mrs. Reynolds has 30 days from
the date of her husband’s death to
apply for a letter of con-ent to act
as executor. After 30 days, other
members of the Reynolds family
can apply.
The matter must remain open for
20 days after application is made.
Claimed National Attention
The Reynolds shooting claimed na
tional attention for more than a
week after the wealthy yoiing play
boy was found dying from a bul
let wound at his home.
After -officially recording the
death as suicide. Coroner W. N. Dat-
ton sumoned a jury and ordered an
inquest. The jury held that Rey
nolds came to his death at the hands
of a person or persons unknown.
Mrs. Reynolds, bride of only a
few months, figured prominently in
the testimony and several times was
subjected to gruelling examination.
Since the inquest she has been in
seclu-ion at a sister’s home near
Cincinnati.
After Being Parched by the Una
bated Heat For More Than Three
Weeks, Johnston County Soil Was
Drenched by Cooluig Rain La.st
Night—Crops Have Suffered.
Fuquay People Have
Been Praying For Rain
The prolonged spell of hot dry
weather was broken in Selma last
night shortly before 8 o’clock when
cooling- breezes and copious rains
began to make their appearance,
and for an hour or more the rain
came down a> thoug’h there was no
scarcity of water in the heavens
and then gradually tapered off with
a slow, soothing patter as the sub
siding thunders played a last fare
well as they z'olled across the rear
shoulders of the passed storm and
finally died away in the far ea^t
as the the lightning’s flashes grew
more faint and left a small rural
city drenched and cooled, while its
inhabitants posed restfully on their
beds enjoying- the first night of real
comfort and rest in more than
three "weeks.
From the general appearance of
the storm we believe that the rain
last night was general throughout
this immediate section, and perhaps
Qver eastern North Carolina. It was
badly needed, and had it came two
weeks sooner it would have meant
thousands of barrels of corn to the
farmers of Johnston county more
than they can now hope to realize.
Corn has suffered immensely during
the past two weeks, and old corn
has been cut by the^drouth at least
50 per cent if not more. Tobacco
ha> also suffered severely, while
cotton has been greatly benefited.
The boll weevil has been g-reatly
checked anil this fact alone means
that cotton has been helped, for it
would have no doubt been one of
the greatest years for the boll wee-
\i\ yet had the wet weather contin
ued on through July like it start
ed in June.
Baptist, Christian and Methodist
Churches All Join In Program of
Prayer That the Dry Parched
Earth May Be Wet Again In
Order to Insure Bread.
J. Hawley Poole
Operator of Big
Peach Orchards
Treasury Notes Are
Over-Subscribed
The church people of the various
denominations, the farmers, business
and professional men of Fuquay
Springs and vicinity have, been
engaged in a united prayer service
recently at wliich they united their
voices in prayer for rain, because
of the e-xcessive heat and extreme
ly dry soil which has almost ruined
the growing crops throughout that
section of the state as well as in
many other sections.
Whether or not the pessimi^ti-
cally minded people were in accord
with the prog-ram of prayer as car-
r-ied out by these Fuquay citizens,
their pessimism certainly got a
cooling last night when the Lord
caused a mist to g-o up from the
ground and watered the whole earth
here-abouts.
Son-In-Law of Mrs. E. N. Booker,
of Selma, Has Many Acres of
Land Under Cultivation—Special
izes In Elbertas With 30,000 Trees
Banks Bulging With Largest Sur
pluses In History Pour Money
Into Uncle Sam’s Lap by the
Millions and Have Plenty More
To Spare. ' ;
J. Hawley Poole of West End is ' 27.-An un-
one of the large operators of or- T""® oversuljpcnption to the offer
chards in the sandhill section. , treasury securities to raise funds
Mr. Poole was born in Montgom- expanded operation.,,
ery county. He is a graduate of Reconstruction Finance cor-
QfoFrv t. TT 1 • J • , poration was announced tonight bv
f 017 T Raleigh in the class secretary Mills,
of 1917. where he specialized in ag- t-l * t. -j *7
riculture. He was married to Miss secretary said the four year..
Lena Booker of Johnston county and SruTTHterr^t h hT"®" T
they have one child. ■ over-sub-
In addition to his business acti- r" i, T'"
vitipq and Ia l ' , ,1. • • treasury wished to raise $325,000,-
vities and those looking to the civic ooo, the public offered to buy $3!-
Demonstration Clubs
Helping Relief Work
Andrew Mellon Is
Home On Vacation
Andrew W. Mellon, Ambassador
to Great Britain, returned to Wash
ington Wednesday on a vacation
from his foreign post and immedi
ately began conferences with his
former cabinet associates, and with
President Hoover.
Lizzie Mill and Ethel
Mill Boys Play Ball
These Two Selma Teams Trying For
Best Four Out of Seven Games In
Order To Win Fish Fry From the
Losing Team.
CAN BOTH SEE AND HEAR.
Free Will Holiness
People to Start Revival
An Evangelistic Meeting will be
held at the Free Wilt Holiness
church at Pine Level, N. C., begin
ning Sunday morning-, July 31st, at
11 o’clock.
Evangelist 'Wm. Griffith, of Mitch
ell, South Dakota, will be the Evan
gelist, and Rev. Lockmey pastor in
charge.
These meetings will be free for
all the white people and all are
ihwted to attend and take part in
these services, regardless to 'creed
or church.
Remember the date, the last Sun
day of this month, lasting every
night and over the second Sunday
cf next month.
Tell your friends and neighbors
about the- meetings and help adver
tise them.
Union County farmers will save
a' greatly increased supply of vetch'
geed this summer from the hay
mixtures planted in the county last
fall. The seed is being separated
■ and recleaned.
Paris has now the distinction of
being the only city in the world
where one can talk on the telephone
and at the same time see the face
of the person one is talking to.
In adaption of of Baird televis
ion apparatus has enabled this
dream to be realized.
For the present the new service
is only offered ‘in a limited area,
but later on it is hoped to equip
call boxes all over the city with the
apparatus ,and thus lovers who
wish to ring- each other up will be
able to gaze into each other’s eyes
as though they -were in the same
room.
It is expected that when the
system is working fully it will super
sede entirely the "ordinary telephone
system for communication between
lovers and friends -who will be un
able to resist the invitation to “see
me on the phone.”
HARNETT COUNTYS CUCUMBER
CROP.
The cucumber market has closed
at Dunn, Harnett county, and during
the season a total of 20,000 crates
have been handled which brought
the growers $10,000.
Tomatoes and- peppers are now
coming in and it is expected that
these two will bring a handsome
sum to the growers in the Dunn
section.
Beginning Saturday, July 23, a
series of baseball games were start
ed between the Ethel Cotto,n Mill
Team and the Lizzie Cotton Mill
Team. The game last Saturday was
won by the Ethel Mill Team' by a
score of 5 to 0, w-hich was the first
of a series of seven games to . be
played between these two teams,
and the team winning the first four
games is to be given a fish fry by
the losing team.
The game last Saturday -was an
excellent one, and was hard fought
by both sides. The game was feat
ured by the batting of Walter Wor-
rels and William 'Norket .for the
Lizzie team, and James Eason and
Garland Worrels for , the Ethel-
team. A very interesting feature of
the game was a long drive line by
Harvey Hall of the Lizzie Mill
team. This was easily a home run
hit, but 'the shortness of the run
ner s breath was not- in keeping
with the length of the drive, and
he was held at thirdr'
'- The next game will be played at
the Lizzie Mill Ball Park, Saturday,
July 30th, at 2 o’clock P. M. The
Lizzie Mill boys are hard at work
preparing to make a winning come
back Saturday and this promises to
be even a more interesting battle
than the fi^st one. The Ethel Mill
boys are not having much to say
but they feel that they will be able
to speak in actions rather than in
words when they cross bats again.
There will be no admission charge
and the public is cordially invited to
see the fun.
Will your club fall in line with
the other clubs in the country in as
sisting in canning a thousand tin
cans for the relief work next win
ter We are asking each woman’s
club to can 100 cans probably of
tomatoes with anythin,g else added
which might be used for soup mix
ture. If it is canned entirely with
tomatoes it will take about five
bushels.' After the tomato market
clo-es in Smithfield, do you not
think that you could secure that
much from the farmers of your com
munity? By having- an all days
canning meeting or even a half a
day this could easily be put up in
tin cans. The county commissioners
have offered to buy the cans for us
if we will get and can the products.
' i think this would be the' best 'con
tribution home demonstration clubs
could make to the relief work. This
work which will coH us practically
nothing will amount to one hundred
dollars next winter. Will you also
let me know whether you have a
woman in the community who has a
sealer and knows how to' can and
will assist you. I am getting vol
unteers to help in this as much as
possible. However, I am giving- three
or four days of my own vacation to
the woz-k. I will have a large can-
ner but the wash boiler could be
used,. ju>t as well as you know it
only takes about one-half hour to
can tomatoes. This may be done all
at one time or you may have your
August meeting or your regular
day of meeting and can them then,
or part could be done in August and
part in September. If you could be
ready for it, the 27th, 28th, 29th, or
30thj I could give you any of those
mornings to get you started. Let
me know if your club will help in
this and I will offer any assistance
that I can.
Rachel Everett,
Home Dem. Agent
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-interests of his section, Mr. Poole 803 000 OoL f th 7 tu
served his countrv in t.kn Wa^m The $325,
served his country in the World
War, along \fith two of his broth
er.-:. He was in the 81st division and
had the' commission of first lieut
enant.
The Home orchard is located at
000,000 offering of two-year 2 1-2
per cent notes brought total sub
scriptions of more than $1,703,000,-
000.
The issues, the first securities sold
by the treasury in the. 1933 fiscal
117 J. T-1 J 7 , treasurv in tne 1983 fisrai
West End and has 10,000 trees, are vear n,;n -
CA 1 rr>7 i , except minor turn-over paper,
employed 50 people. The orchai-d (-i-uq hrono-uz ,-n » z i- i ^ ^
e-row.q. Halpq brought m a total of more
grows, Hales, Hiley’s, Georgia
Belles and Elbertas. Mr. Poole said
that he will ship from his various
orchards between 300 and 500 car
load- of peaches in addition to the
large truck busine.Zs -which he will
do. His brand is “Diamond P.”
than $5,500,000,000, whereas the
treasury wished to raise only $650,-
000,000, of which $238,000,000 is to
be used to - retire maturing certifi
cates of indebtedness. The issues
will be dated August i.
The immense over-subscriptio.n,
Among his orchards is the Biddle I ^^ich is irWer
orchard of 4,000 trees, located three ! " was attrih
miles from Pinehurst on Highway I 1 T- cf ?
rjQ ^ j experts chiefly to the subscriptions
. .1 . .. _ from bnnks which" hav’p tiTie
4-v, 13 J 1 J banks which- have the largest
Another is the Peachland orchard ' • 4.1. • u- l ^ x.
v-vv, Fu T • J 7 ' casfi reserves in their historv. It
on the Linden road one mile west i.x. u t'
, -- — pointed out that the banks are
of Pinhurst where 22,000 trees are
in cultivation and 150 people are
employed .The company grows here
Hileys, Hales, Georgia Belies and
Elbertas.
A specialty of Elbertas is made
at the Moore county farm at Pine
Bluff, one mile north of Highway
50, Here there are 30,000 Elbertas
trees. This beautiful place has only
136 rows, ranging from three-
fourths to one and three-fourths
anxious to find safe investments for
their money, and it was believed
probable that many of them had
subscribed for several times the
amount they really hoped to obtain,
thus boosting the total subscrip
tion.
The Little River
Baptist Union
zuiles in length, and employs 250 | Held With Bethany Baptist Church
Reviv al In Progress
At Bethesda Church
people. A packin.g house is main-
tainetl at Aberdeen. The company
does a great deal of trucking.
Saunders orchard, another operat
ed by Mr. Poole, is at Ashley
Heights. It consists of 148 acres
and employes 50 people. The peaches
grown are Hileys, Georgia Bellas
and Elbertas. A -packing house is
maintained at the station at Ash
ley Heights.
The Pa.ge orchard is located one-
half a mile from Abei-deen on
Highway No. 70. It has 8,000 trees
and grows Hileys, Hales and Elbert
as. There are 40 people employed.
The acreage at Pagoma Big and
Little orchard at Cheraw, S. C., is.
170 and 60 people are employed.
Carmen, Georgia Belle and Elberta
peaches are grown.
The Poole orchard ,one mile east
of Hoffman on Highway No. 50, is
also operated by Mr. Poole. This has
200 acres and eznploys- 150 people in
the growing of Hileys, Geogria Belle
Hale and Elberta peaches.—Charlotte
Observer.
Sunday, July 31, 1932.
PROGRAM
10:00 A. M.—Union Sunday School
11:00 A. M.—Sermon by—Rev. Ral
eigh Sherron.
12:00—Announcements by—Rev. C.
S. Creech.
1:00 P. M.—Devotional by—Argo
Brown.
1:15 P. M.—Temperance by—Henry
0. Pou.
1:45 P. M.—Definition of a Baptist
Church—by Rev. H. N. Massey.
2:30 P. M.—Home and Foreign
Missions—by Rev. W. . J. Crain.
3:00 P. M.—Report of Committee.
3:10 P. M.—Miscellaneous.
3:20 P. M.—Round Table Discus
sion.
G. W. ANDERSON, Moderator.
A. J. PRICE, Clerk.
TARIFF NOT RESPONSIBLE
A revival meeting is in progress
at Bethesda Baptist Chui-ch this
week, on highway No. 10, 6 miles
northwest of Smithfield. Rev. W. J.
Crain, pastor of Selma Baptist
church'is doing the preaching in the
absence of Rev. Ai-thur Creech, the
pastor, who is ill. Mr. I. W. Medlin,
of Smithfield, is in charge of the
music. Services at 11. o’clock a. m.
and 8 o’clock p. m.
The public most cordially' invited
Three Barns Burned
In Eleetrical Storm
Lexington, July 25.—Three, barns
and contents were ' but ashes this
morning, at least one farm house
was damanged and other disorder
i-esulted from one oF the severest
thunderstorms in years that swung
across Davidson
Hail Storm Hits the
City of Goldsboro
Bass Brothers 6T Edgecombe
county have secured a pure bred
Shorthorn bull from the United
States Department of Agriculture
farm at Beltsville, Maryland, to be
used in starting a herd of beef
cattle.
Goldsboro, July 25.—The first real
rain of the past six weeks fell in
and close around Goldsboro Sunday
night with a hail storm accompa -
nying.
Although the hail came steadily
from 8 to 8:30 o’clock in stones
lai’ger than marbles, there was little
or no damage done to crops as it
did not extend outside the city lim
its except very moderately in the
State hospital area west of Golds
boro.
Bertie county tomato growers will
ship 100 cars of the fruit grown
under contract this season and none
are violating the terms of their con
tract despite attractive offers from
other dealers.
county for two
hours last' .night to break one of
the severest heat wav-es on recoril ixuuuuaiis
here. Crop damage during the past I evidence that without'thr prototton
week, clue to heat and lack of of high duties domestic business, and
Supporters of the Hawley-Smoot
bill will be on entirely safe ground
when they challenge the critics of
that law to produce any statistical
evidence whatever that the present
tariff policy has hui’t business. Iri-
ternational trade among all nation.s
has fallen off, to be sure, but so
has domestic trade in all nations,
and the decrease both as to for
eign and doizzestic commerce is
due plainly to loss of purchasing
power among all the people and the
dislocation of business generally.
The fact that our imports of duty
fl'ee goods have, fallen off ’more
than our imports of dutij^ble goods
is proof enough that the tai’iff is
not responsible for any decline. On
the othe'r hand, there, is abundant
moisture, -'-is estimated at many
thousands of dollars, especially" to
the earlier corn, believed to be be
yond much help from the night’s
fine i-ains.
Two horses, two cows and much
valuable farm machinery and tools
were lost when a bolt hit the mod
ern barn of George Wilson, near
Tyro, near midnight. A new barn
and a lot of hay burned on the
Duff Farabee farm near Reeds
shortly after 10 o’clock, but live
stock were saved. H. M, Bowers, of
Conrad Hill township, on the oppo
site side of Lexington, also lost his
barn and contents, but no livestock
from lightning. In Reedy Creek
township lightning hit the home of
Jim Mize and some of the ceiling
which was ripped off dropped across I
a bed wher^ children were sleep- j
prices would have declined even
more than they have during the
past year. The Halwey-Smoot tariff
has not made business good, but it
has kegt it far better than it would
have been without it.
S-h-h-h! Don’t Drive ’Em To
Scantier^.
Honestly don’t you feel just a lit
tle ashamed of the race, when you
see big girls parading around in
loud pajamas. They do look just a
little slouchy and in bad taste for
street wear.
Good women must hate to see
their sisters swa.ggering around in
such garb. Wouldn’t it be fine if
we would all get together for de
cency.—Williamston '^ Enterprise.
. , Five Halifax cpun?y growers re-
ing, but without injury. The heav- | cently sold 25,000 pounds of home-
-enly bombardment was almost un- j grown^ crimson clover seed at a god
ceasing for two hours or more. | price.' - -