VOLUME 15.
THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1932.
Hoover Cart Parade
!
Attracts Big Crowd
Large Crowd Present to Witness
Hoover Cart Rodeo—Teachers In
Town—Court In Session and the
Funeral of Capt. Skinner Bring
Many Who W:ould Not Otherwise
Have Come—Joe Daniels Speaks.
Smithfield, Oct. 5.—Ye.sterday aft
ernoon the Johnston County Demo
crat- .staged what they were pleased
to call a “Hoover Cart Rodeo” on
t.“e .streets of Smithfield.
the meeting had been extensively
a.', ertised and a few cash prizes
’■’a-; been offered to induce the own
er- of those depres.sion vehicles, er-
r - leously called Hoover carts, to
bring them in and join in the pa
rade.
Josephus Daniels, of Rpleigh, wdio
had been billed to speak in the
courthouse at one o’clock, was met
'le mile from town by a bunch of
J' :n.ston County Democrats, and
■was there mounted on a vehicle
made up from parts of discarded
automobiles, and drawn by a pair
oT mules. This was a twm-seated
anair and Mr. Daniels got into the
■' "er’s seat, took the reins and
ve into' town.
■'here were some 30 or 40 carts
in the parade which extended about
the length of a city block. The pa-
race was staged soon after the
speaking was over.
There were several hundred peo-
P'C in tow’n, a large percent of
them being women and children who
jn--t wanted to see the show. The
crowd probably w’ould have been
' h smaller but for the fact that
a .shower of rain the night before
hs ^ wet the cotton in the fields, and
th-'.se who had nothing else to do.
eroded to come to town. And too.
t ’•e was a county-wide teachers’
meeting held in Smithfield which
hi-'.ught hundreds of school teachers
here from different .schools; also
t’-ere was in session the second
week of a civil term of Superior
C'ort; and again, the town had
s. ffered the loss of one of the
c uTity’s best known and much be
lie, ed citizens, Capt. H. L. Skinner,
w’--'.se funeral and burial was held
in the afternoon of the same day
of the parade. All these things did
much to ad volurne to the crowil
of people in town on this occasion.
Ciome of those who read the. in-
.sc .'ption on the vehicles and ban
ners passed them up as jokes;
whde others took the matter more
.senous, and denounced this and
other such affairs as disgraceful re
flections upon the President of the
United States.
Several citizens of the county
have been heard to express surprise
that Josephus Daniels should have
taken part in such a performance in
view of the fact that he had been
in the cabinet of former President
Wdson when it was said that no-
bo,ay would have been allowed to
.speak one word against the Pre-i-
dent under penalty of arrest and
imprisonment.
Several Republicans have been
heard to express the belief that the
political effect of the meeting was
in favor of the Republicans rather
than the Democrats, because of the
fact that many of our best citizens
Fine Old Mansion
Is Burned Down
Memories of Ante-Bellum Days Re
called By Fire Near Smithfield.
EVANGKLIST GEO. W. T.4YLOR
Since the evangeli. t. Rev. Geo.^W.
Taylor, has a few days vacation
between the close of our meeting
and his next appointment he will
very probably spend next Sunday,
October 9th, in Selma. If so, he will
bring us twm more fine Gospel mes-
-ages. His subject for the inornin.g
service will be: “Liberty and Truth”,
and for the evening: “Will the Old
Book Stand?” The baptismal ser
vice will take place at 7:30 Sunday
evening'. The pastor i out of town
a part of this week doing some
special associational work.
Capt. H. L, Skinner
Dies In Smithfield
.Smithfield’s Veteran Tobacconist
Succumbs To Heart .\ttack; The
Funeral Will Be This Afternoon.
Smithfield, Oct. 4.—H. L. Skinner,
SmithfiehTs veteran tobacconist,
died at his home here this morning
at two o’clock. About two week
ago he was taken with a heart at
tack from which he never recov-
sLifficiently to g-ive hope of recov
ery and for the pa-t few day.s his
death was expected momentarily.
The funeral will be held this af
ternoon at four o’clock at St. Paul’s
Episcopal church of which the de
ceased was a member with Rev T.
S. Clarkson, the rector, in char,ge
of the service.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, who was Miss Sallie Lawrence
before her marriage, and one son,
Frank Lawrence Skinner
Mr. Skinner was 63 years of age.
He came to Smithfield in 1898 when
a tobacco market was opened here,
and since that time he has been one
of the town’s most useful citizens.
Besides his unceasing efforts to
build a tobacco market, ’ he has tak
en an activepart in the civic life of
the city. Pie has been raoyar, and
at the time of his death he was a
member, of the town board of com-
misioners, having held that position
for a number of years.
Selma Kiwanians Held
Interesting Meeting
The Kiwanis club held its regular
weekly luncheon last Thursday ev
ening at the Community Building
Matt Wall had charg-e of the pro
gram.
After President Richardson read
had become disgusted with the pro- ^^istrict Secretary
ceedings, both in Benson last Satur- 1 attention to the Carolinas
day and in Smithfield Tuesday, as I Columbia,
well as those held in Goldsboro and i . , “ November he appointed
elsewhere. , Holliday, Star Harper and
Several people have been heard to
say that they believed the effect of
the .so-called Hoover Cart parades
would be similar to that of the red
shirt parade staged in Smithfield
and Benson by the Democrats in
1900,' which caused hundreds of the
most honest and conscientious Dem
ocrats to become disgusted with
their leadership and join the Repub
lican party.
A CORRECTION.
The editor of the Johnstonian-Sun
made an error in last week’s issue
of the paper in our article referring
to the placing of L. D. Mitchell on
the Republican ticket for Register of
Deeds by the Republican Executive
•Committee to fill a vacancy caused
by the resignation of Miss Clara Mc-
Teocl whose health will not permit
"her to make the race. In this article
■we give Mr. Mitchell’s initials as
■“D. W.” whereas his correct initials
are “L. D.”, as will be seen from
.a list of the various Republican
nominees appearing elsewhere in
this paper.
Charles Scales to attend this con
vention as representative of the local
club.
Dr. Blackman extended an invita
tion to all Kiwanis members and
their wives and to the school facul
ty to attend a barbecue dinner which
■will be given at the school building
Thursday evening October 13th at
s7 o’clock. An arrangement and pro
gram committee was appointed for
this meeting which is composed of
John Wiggs, Star Harper, Charles
Jacobs, Miss Margaret Creech and
Mrs. Mabel Nordan Humphrey. An
effort will be made to have Carl
Goerch ater.d this banquet.
Charlie Jacobs presented the stu
dent Loan Fund plan to the club
after which the club subscribed fif
ty dollars. This plan was inaugurat
ed by Miss Rached Everett, John
ston County Home Demonstration
Agent and bids fair to being a per
manent thing in the county. It is
hoped to rai.se five hundred dollars
for this fund to' be loaned to worthy
students which will be paid back
after the students gets her or his
diploma and starts 'to work-.
Smithfield, Oct. 2.—Fire, of un
determined origin, completely de
stroyed the old Hastings mansion,
located about a mile from Smithfield
early Sunday morning. The house
has recently been at the mercy of
vandals, seeking to find supposedly
.hidden treasure within its walls, por
tions of the weatherboarding’ had
been torn off and every chimney
had been pulled down, in the hope
of finding’ g’old.
The dilapidated condition of this
old house, ocupied only by care
takers at the time it was burned,
did not dim the recollection of the
older citizens of this communitv, who
remember it in the days of it:
splendor.
The Hastings home was one of the
few remaining relics of the Civil
War, and no place has had a more
mteresting and colorful history than
this old mansion.
It was built by Agrippa Jlitchener
and used by him and his family
years prior to the war. He was a
large property owner, and upon the
death of Sirs. Mitchener, it became
necessary that a suitable teacher be
had for his children. A young lady,
MisS Frances E, Sector, a graduate
if Claverick Institute, New York,
was secured to teach the children
■ n the Mitchener and Rand famlie.-.
Miss Sector was later married to
Agrippa Mitchener, the occasion be
ing one of the brilliant social events
in this section. A band of musicians
was engaged from Richmond; the
delicacies were .served by a caterer
I lorn that city, and a ball was given
which e.xtended over three'days and
lights and here were entertained
many of the State’s social favorites.
■ t is sail tliat so great w’as the num
ber of guests enteitained at this
■veddingj the guests slept in relaw,
•ind the many .slave attendants join
ed in the festiviti.es and danced, as
was the custom in those days.
Ml, Mitchener died during the
war and his widow continued to live
in the mansion. Food was scarce
and Mrs. Mitchener had a hole cut
m the top of each of the two large
lolumns supporting the front porch,
and in these columns were stored
the corn and wheat that kept^ majny
of the people from starving.
As the IJnion Army came through,
under the leadership of General
Schofield, many of the homes in
this'section were burned, but he was
so^ impressed with the beauty of
this mansion he asked and was
.granted permission to set up his
headquarters and he saved this home
from the torch.
One morning a seiw-ant excitedly
told her mistress there wms a Yankee
solther at the door and he wanted
to see her, calling Mrs. Mitchener
by her name. Lpoii answei'ing the
call, Mrs. Mitchener saw one of her
old school mates. later a distinguish
ed member of the bench of New
York, Judge Henry A. Giklersleevo.
Mrs. Mitchener was married to
Maj. William Ha.stings. He had a
mansion at Queensborough, but his
wife had become so much atached
to this old home and her friends,
they hesitated to leave, and in I8
60 Major Hastings purchased the
interest of the Mitchener heirs in
this property.
This house was one of exceptional
beauty. The handsome doors, the
panelled walls and the exqui.site
caiwings reflected its grandeur of
the olden days. Here was the gath-
ering place for the elite social set;
here were entertained the great and
the near great, and while fire has
razed this home and nothing is left
but the recollection of its former
splendor, this was truly one of the
plantation mansions typical of the
Old South.
County Schools Opened
On Wednesday, Oct.
5
Proceedings Johnston
County Civil Court
John Goff vs. Gabriel Holt. An
action involving sale of 17,000 feet
of timber. Upon hearing the plead
ings read and the contentions of
the parties, it was ruled by the
court that the action is barred as
against both plaintiff and defend
ant. Judgment charging plaintiff
with cosK
Court adjourned at 1:00 p. m., for
County-Wide Meeting of Teachers
Held In Smithfield—Meeting of
Local Board and Opening of the
Selma Schools On Wednesday.
A county-wide meeting of the va
rious Johnston county teacher.s was
held in the Smithfield school build
ing Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock
to perfect the county organization
and discuss plans for the school
jeai. Pra(5fTtaIly all of the teachers
in the county were present.
The chief speaker on this occas-
HON. CLIFFORD FRAZIER
Biographical Sketch
LAf J ’ • IO'! September 16th. R. U.
VJI L^llttord B razier I Barber, of Elevation township, was
. “ duly noiiiinated.
lifford Frazier, senior member of September 29th.
the law firm of Frazier & Frazier, Etheridge Gin and Supply Co. vs
of Greensboro, North Carolina, is re-1E.^ M. Pope. Action brought to set
W ^ Ja’e B. Warren of
Democrats of the county Raleigh, who is Secretary of ’the
^ nominee on the Demo- North Carolina Educational As-ocia
cratic ticket to succeed Sheriff R. H. tion.
Richardson who was claimed by Talks were also made by Supt.
H. B. Marrow and Miss Mary E.
Wells who also spoke on the gen
eral plan of county organization.
Complete Local Organization.
A meeting of the local school
Board with the Selma school faculty
was held at the Selma school build
ing at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon where
gnized as one of the State’s ablest aside and vacate a deed, amount of
awyers. He has refrained from poli- controversy being $2500.00. There
itv, his ambitions finding complete were issues submitted to the jury plans for perfectim^
of pioneers who settled in North withdrew the jury and a mistrial local Board.
Carolina befoie 1752, Clifford Fraz- was ordered and case continued
ler, hke his ancestors, is quiet and W. H. T. Boykin vs. Marv Nichols
una.ssuming. He is self-reliant, sober, administratrix of P. L. Nichols, de-
hone-t and independent, boasting no ceased. Order directing resale of
prestige other than his own merit. property on Monday, November 7
Born in Archdale, Randoplh coun- 19.32. Sale to be made by Weisner
ty. North Carolina, on December Fanner and Norman C. Sheoard
16, 1884, Mr. F^razier is the son of commissioners.
' yrus Pickett and Lucetta (Church- September 30th.
Ill) Frazier. On his mother’s side, Graham C. Smith vs. C. R. Cable,
le IS a grandson of Samuel Church- Order, It is found that papers are
1 1, of Greene County, North Caro- lost. Plaintiff given 30 days to file
Una’ a,.Confederate soldier who gave complaint and defendant given 30
m.s life jor the lost cause. He is days to file answer,
a de.scendant of James Frazier, ear- C. T. Jbhnsdri 'vs. A. G. Parker
ly North Carolina settler, Tristram and Mrs. A. G. Parker. Action on
1 nu , proprietor, account $200. Issue submitted to ju-
and Charle.s Churchill, a captain in ry and verdict: In what amount, if
the Revolutionary Army. His ances-1 any, are the defendants indebted to
the plaintiff
Fifteen Million Dollar Deficit
Forecast For North Carolina
Fayetteville, Sept. 2$.—The next
North Carolina leg-islature will prob
ably find a-deficit of $15,000,000.00,
said Willard L. Dowell, secretary of
the State Merchants association,
speaking t;o the Fayetteville Rotary
club on taxation problems. “Don’t
let anybody imagine there is going
to be any tax relief in 1933,” he
cautioned ‘/There may be a shifting
of the burden, but the total tax is
going to be greater.” He opposed a
sales tax as taking no account of
ability to- pay.
try ks predominantly Scotch.
Gyrus P. Frazier was for man\
years prominently identified with
the educational development of North
Carolina, was one of the darly
teachers of Trinity College (now
Duke University), and was superin
tendent of the fir.'t graded school
in the State. He was nominated
for the position of Superintendent
of Public Instruction of the State
and was also a candidate for Con
gress on the prohibition ticket in
IS88.
Clifford Frazier spent his child
hood in Greensboro where, as a
newsboy for the Grensboro Daily
Record, he first became known to
the public. Later, he often spent
his .summers working in the cotton
mills of Greensboro and as a civil
engineer. He atended the public
schools in Greensboro, graduated
from • Guilford College in 1907 and
from the University of North Caro
lina in 1909, \^^here he completed
three years of work in two, receiv
ing at the same time the degrees
of A. B. and L. L. B. In college, he
was distinguished not only as a stu
dent but also as a speaker, and to
some extent as an athlete. He began
the practice of law in Greensboro
in 1909, first opening an office alone
and later as ajartner of the late
John N. Wilson. He now practices
with his brother, Robert H. Frazier.
He served as Referee in Bankruptcy
under Judges James E. Boyd, E.
Yates Webb and Johnson J. Hayes.
With posibly one exception he has
tried more cases than any other pre
sent member of the Greensboro Bar.
His cases have ranked from the
smallest, which involved the rights
of the poor, to the largest tried in
the courts of this section. His ser
vice to his community has been
I marked by loyalty. He is known as
one with a knowledge of public af
fairs and has shown himself capable
and successful in handling his own
bu^iiness as well as that of his
clients.
In 1917, Mr. Frazier mai^ried Mar
garet R. Armstrong, and they have
three children: Lucette Churchill,
Mary Power and Clifford, Jr.
Mr. Frazier is a member of the
American and State Bar Associa
tions, President of the Greensboro
Bar Association, a member of the
Greensboro OVferchants and Manu
facturers’ Club, Jr. O. U.' A, M..
Moose, Odd Fellows, Elks, 'and’ oth
er organizations. He is a birthright
member of the Society of Friends
in fact, he is a seventh generation
Quaker.
Answer: $200, with
interest from October 1, 1931.
Farmers Bank (Loris, S-. C.) vs.
J. C. Hodges and A. W. Hodges.
Action on account. Issue to jury and
answer: In what amount, if any,
are defendants indebted to plaintiff'
Answer: $646.00 with interest from
December 30, 1930.
W. E. Nichols vs. B. F. Wood, et
al. Action on account. Is.sue and
answer: In what amount, if any,
are defendants indebted to plaintiff?
Answer: $500.00 with interest from
December 23, 1931.
R. H. Pittman vs. Mamie Pittman,
•ketion for absolute divorce brought
upon a charge of adultery on the
part of the defendant. Issues to jury
and verdicts: Were defendant and
plaintiff married as alleged in com
plaint? Answer: Yes. Did defendant
commit fornication and adultery
with one Roland Pearce as alleged
in complaint? Answer: Yes. Is the
plaintiff the party wronged? Answer
yes. Has the plaintiff been a citizen
and resident of the state for two
year next preceding the bringing of
this action and the filing of com
plaint? Answer: Yes. Judgment fori
plaintiff. Cost paid $17.45.
Monday, October 3rd.
Jurors excused for cause: W. H.
Hayes, Alton Creech, M. F. Langdon,
D. 0. Neighbors. Tails Jurors for
the week: J. H. Griffin, T. V. Wil
kins, P. L. Massey.
Lloyd Batten vs. Reba Batten.
Action for absolute divorce. Com
plaint charging adultery on part of
female defendant. Issues to jury
and verdict: Were the plaintiff and
defendant married as alleged in
complaint? Answer: Yes. Has plain
tiffs been a resident of the state
for more than two years next pre
ceding filing of complaint? Answer:
Yes. Did defendant commit adultery
as alleged in complaint. Answer:
Yes.
Leonard Creech vs. Mollie Raper;
Fir.-;t Carolinas Joint Stock and
Land Bank and Leonard Creech vs.
Mollie Raper. The two cases were
consolidated by order on September
26th, 1932, and were set for trial so
that they may come on for trial at
this term of court and on this date.
Issues to jury and answers:
Selma Schools Open.
Selma schools opened for business
Wednesday morning with devotional®
led by Rev. L. T. Singleton, who
made a strong appeal for full co
operation on the part of parents,
teachers and students. '
Then came the assignment of
clas^e.s, etc.
After the opening of the city
schools, the local School Board went
to Corbett-Hatcher where they at
tended the opening session of that
school,
total attendance at the open-
ing’ was 885—703 in the elementary
^Jfrades and 182 in the high school
for the whites, and 352 pre.sent in
the colored school—290 in the ele
mentary grades and 62 in the high
school.
Corbett-Hatcher had 125 present
in the elementary grades.
COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO
SEPTTEMBER 16TH IN N. C.
The Department of Commercej
through the Bureau of the Census,
announces the preliminary report of
cotton ginned to September 16, 1932,
by counties, in North Carolina, for
the crops of 1932 and 1931. The
total for the state was made public
Friday, September 23rd.
County 1932
Anson .4,423
Cleveland , 6,621
Cumberland 3,194
Duplin 1,141
Fldgecombe 2,318
Naraett s’fiss
Hoke 2,772
Johnston 5 097
Lincoln i^ig
Nash 2,422
Richmond 1,508
Robeson 7,451
Sampson 5,658
Scotland 4 039
Union 1^569
Wayne 3,.331
Wilson 2,146
All other 8,103
1931
3,600
2,369
2,468
401
906
4,355
2,097
2,753
677
506
1,095
5,397
3,655
3,693
431
1,809
490
3,421
For the State .... 68,442 40,323
DIME CIGARETTES MAY LEAD
TO NEW TRADE PR.4CTICES
Danville, Va., Oct. 2.—The tobacco
trade here has learned unofficially
that the makers of the standard
brands of cigarettes are moving to
meet competition from the dime cig
arette and that they will soon issue
the cigarette packages with coupons
redeemable through the purchase of
other cigarettes.
the plaintiffs the owner and enti
tled to possession of lands' described
in complaint? Answer: Yes. If so, is
the defendant in the wrongful and
unlawful possession of the lands?
Answer: Yes. What is a , fair rental
value of the lands in question An
swer: $75.00.
Luejita Tart Lee vs. Lester C. Lee.
-Action for absolute divorce. Cost
paid in full.
October 4th.
O. D. Hinnant vs. American Fire
& Marine Insurance Co. Action to
recover msurance for loss of Nash
Automobile, amount $1500. When
plaintiff rested the defendant made
a motion for non-suit. Motion al-
Are lo.wed and action will go off docket
by judgment of non-suit.
R. A. Wall vs. United Bank and
Trust Co. Action to set aside and
declare void a note of $2750.00, the,
plaintiff alleging ineompetency at
time of execution of the note. By
order the United Bank and Trust
Co., is made a party and is allow
ed to plead as such.
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