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SELMA, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 14, 19.33
NUMBER 37
Kenly and Selma
Play Tie In Opener
Selma and Kenly battled to a 4-
•all tie here Wednesday afternoon in
a ten-inning game, opener of a
series to determine the second half
winner of the John.-ton County
League.
Umpire Lou Kearney called the
■contest because of darkness. Wor
rell, Selma hurler, allowed 12 hits.
The locals got 11 off Pittman.
Hinton, Hooks, Ballance and Pitt
man, each with two hits, led Kenly.
Parrish, with three hits, and Creech,
Worrell and Kemp each, with two,
'were best for Selma, Kemp caught
for the locals and Evans for the
visitors. The clubs will meet at
Kenly Thur.-day (Today) at 4
o’clock.
.SELMA TAKES TWO FROM
PINE LEVEL
Selma defeated Pine Level twice
Monday ,to go into a tie for second
half honors with Kenly. The local-
won the first game at Pine Level
Monday morning by the score of 7
to 5. Fuqua started the mound duty
for Selma but was relieved in the
eighth by Brown after giving up 10
hits and 5 runs. Brown pitched one
hit ball the rest of the way. Selma
collected 16 hits off Price and
Strickland with Lassiter and L. Wor
rell leading the way with 3 each.
White was good for a like number
to lead Pine Level. Paul Harris hit
s^^iome run in the second inning
Kemp caught for the winners and
White for Pine Level.
In the second game Selma outhit
Pine Level 10 hits to 9 and scored
7 runs to 1 for Pine Level. Brown
pitched for the winners and Ed
wards and Strickland for Pine Level.
La'ssiter and Uzzle led the Selma
hitting with 3 each while White,
Parker and Edwards were good for
2 each to lead the visitors. Kemp
caught for Selma and Gardner and
White for Pine Level.
Selma NRA Campaign
Meeting With SueceSvS
SELMA LOSES TO CLAYTON
Selma lost to Clayton last Friday
at Clayton, 6 to 3, as Barnes and
Blinson hit homers. Clayton collected
12 hits off Worrell and Selma got
S off Moore and Wilder. Gattis led
Clayton’s hitting with 3 with Poole
close behind with 2. L. Worrell wa.-
good for 3 hits and Creech got 2
to lead the Selma hitting. Kemp
caught for Selma and Barnes for
the winners.
Shakespeare Club Progressing
The first joint meeting of the
Junior and Intermediate Shakes
peare clubs was held in the Metho
dist church Friday, Sept. 8, at 4
o’clock. The following program was
presented:
Life of Shakespeake, Ruth Ward.
A Midsummer Nights Dream,
Lynette Ward.
As You Like It, Helen Black.
The Tempest, W. E. Branch.
The Winters Tale, Gloris Hayes.
Each member of the club gave
one quotation from Shakespeare,
Prizes were awarded to the follow
ing: Nancy Hayes, Jean Branch,
Helen Black, Dorthy Reed O’Neal,
Fred Archer Woodard, Walter Price,
Willard Johnson, Jr., Gloris Hayes,
John T. Hughes, Jr., and Maydeline
.Sewell for the best story-telling dur
ing the past week. John T. Hughes
and Lynette Ward for the most
quotations memorized; Bennett
Creech for the most attractive note
book. These weekly prizes are pic
tures from Shakespeare’s plays. The
public is cordially invited to a
second joint meeting on Friday,
September 15, at 4 o’clock.
BENNETT CREECH, Reporter
The NRA Campaign for the pur
pose of making house-to-house can
vass under the direction of Mrs. R.
D. Blackburn is meeting with
splendid success. Mrs. R. A. Ash
worth, County Chairman, made an
earnest plea prior to the opening
of can^-ass,' asking that every
woman in Selma sign the pledge
cards and do their bit to help put
unemployed men and women back
to work.
This phase of work deals entire
ly with the consumers, and by con
sumers we mean the women becau e
as statistics show, make 85 percent
of all the retail purchases, conse
quently it depends upon you whether
or not the NRA is a success. “In
union there is strength.” This is as
true today as it was during colonial
days. Over fifty years ago our coun
try waged a bitter war for States’
rights. Today with bowed heads and
penitent hearts we are waging a
war for human rights. If we are to
win all selfishness mu^t be put
aside. In thi war no lives will be
lost but many saved because a de
pression undermines people morally,
physically and mentally.
We will no longer have to plead
for the abolition of child labor, for
the NRA has in blazoned letters
prohibit, however much despised that
word is today and when this pro
gram reaches the maximum of suc
cess, “Six days shalt thou labor,”
will add luster to NRA. A chance
for every man and woman to work
and to play, this is the National Re
covery Act.
Cotton Farmers To
Meet In Smithfield
Snrithfield, Sept. 13.—Johnston
County cotton growers will meet in
the court house here Tuesday morn
ing, September 19, for a discussion
of the cotton situation with M. G.
Mann, of Raleigh, secretary-treasur
er of the North Carolina Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association, as
the principal speaker.
Price outlook, the Agidcultural Ad
justment Act and its effect on the
cotton farmers, condition of the
crop, the situation in Washington—
these and other timely topics will be
discussed by Mr. Mann.
“The increase in the price of
things that the farmer has to buy
means that present day prices of
cotton will not leave him as much
money as he had last year on six-
cent cotton,” said Mr. Mann in a
letter which has'been mailed to all
seed loan and crop loan borrowers in
Johnston County.
“Cotton,” he said, “is selling far
too cheap and there is every pros
pect for an advance in the market,
and not a single bale should be sold
at these prices.”
At the meeting here, one of a
series of 38 bing held in the State’s
main cotton growing counties, Mr.
Mann will explain how the cotton
cooperative “can assist all cotton
growers in the holding of their cot
ton, thereby enabling them to bene
fit by any advance in price.”
In his letter Mr. Mann recalled
that those who took the advice of
cooperative leaders and collateraliz
ed their loans last year on the
9 1-2 cent basis made from $15 to
$20 per bale by so doing.
'The meeting here is open to the
public in general and all are invited
to attend.
H. D. Hood
Dies In Dunn
Manager of the Selma Laundry
Passes Away At His Home
In Dunn Thursday Night—
ferother Mrs. J. T. Hughes,
Of Selma—Was Well Known
In This City.
Court^j^f Washington Star
Selma’s Street
Lighting System Club Speaker
H. V. Rose
(BY C. P. HARPER)
Light and Water Commissi-oner
Work On Atkinson Mill
Dam Going Forward
I want to say in the beginning
the street lights will not add one
dollar to the burden of the tax
payers. On the beginning of our
fiscal year we filed with the local
Government Commission at Ra
leigh our budget, which includes all
the cost of operating our town for
the one year. The budget for light
and water department has been filed,
which is $300 less than last year.
The lights are to be paid for within
one year. Funds for this purpose
will be taken from the budget,
which simply means that less money
will be spent for other purposes.
However, it will come under the
head of permanent improvements.
It is the opinion of the mayor and
three members of the board that
this was the wise thing to do. I have
been asked if it will not cost more
to operate. ’The answer is that the
cost will be increased some as we
have more light. We propose to take
care of this by removing some
lights which are unnecessary, and if
necessary, turning off street lights
at 12 o’clock and burning a few
smaller lights. The cost of the
system is $1,775 and in our opinion
it is worth far more to the town
than anyway in which this money
could have been spent. If there is
further information which any
citizen would like please call at the
town office and it will be cheer
fully given you.
In conclusion I say that this town
must go forward. We cannot afford
to go backward. I believe in con
servative growth and progress. This
town, like nearly all other towns, is
in debt, but we are gradually liqui
dating our bonds and our auditors
assure us that our condition shows
great improvement. We want the
cooperation and support of all
citizens and with, your help we will
build a greater Selma.
White Way
Is Turned On
SINGING CONVENTION
' Mr. Arthur Byrd, who has the
contract for the cement construc
tion of the new dam at Dr. Wade
H. Atkinson’s Mill, ' was in Selma
today and said that splendid head
way is being made on building this
dam and that with favorable work
ing conditions he hopes to about
finish pouring cement by the end of
this week.
Each cotton grower in Hoke coun
ty signing a cotton reduction .^on-
tract has complied with the terms
of his contract and checks are be
ing received.
When the North Carolina Crop
Improvement Association was or
ganized in 1929, some 250 farmers
joined the organization. At present
therd are 506 members who pro
duced 102,000 bushels of certified
seed last season.
Com planted after Crimson clov
er by G. G. Mathews, of Scotland
county will produce about 80 bushels
of com an acre, estimates the own-
>er.
Having a good crop blow to the
ground, "two Carteret farmers_ re
cently purchased a truck load of
feeder pigs from neighbors in Pam
lico county.
The annual singing convention will
be held at Hickory Grove church,
better known as Spiloma, which is
about 5 miles north-west of Four
Oaks, N. C.
The convention is to meet on the
first Sunday in October at 10 a.
m. This convention was organized
more than 30 years ago.
We hope to have several classes
to be with us on that day.
W. Y. MOORE, Moderator.
The work of erecting posts along
Selma’s business streets has been in
progress, and many visitors as well
as some of our own residents have
been moved to inquire what it all
meant, but there can no longer be
any doubt in the minds of those who
happen to visit Selma’s busy shop
ping center during the evening hours
from now on, for on last Friday
evening the Town Fathers ordered
the current turned on, and this
honor was accorded H. H. Lowry, a
local citizen, acting under direction
of R. L. Tiner, Supt. of the water
and light department. When the
juice entered these 250 candle power
lamps scattered along Selma’s busi
ness section, a soft glow of light
seemed to flood our main thorough
fares and send its rays heavenward
and paint a white fringe against a
great rift of threatening storm
clouds overhanging our little city.
Many Selma people witnessed the
new era in Selma’s forward march
of progression and hailed it as one
of the town’s long felt needs as
well a.s an enjoyable addition to the
town’s many advantages already en
joyed by our citizens.
The town authorities are to be
commended on this forward step at
a time when the installation of thi-^
splendid lighting system could be
had at a minimum cost.
Not Quite Ready To
Open Tobacco Marts
The Editor Improved
Mr. M. L. Stancil, editor of the
Johnstonian-Sun, who has been con
fined to home limits for the past
three weeks by illness, was able to
be at his post yesterday and today.
His many friends will be glad to
learn that he is much improved in
health.
A delegation of tobacco ware
housemen from eastern Carolina
called on Governor Ehringhaus Wed
nesday and tried to prevail on him
to have the markets reopened early
next week. It is said that the Gov
ernor listened to his friends’ argu
ment, but that his thoughts were on
the returns being reported from
State college on which the North
Carolina case is being built. There
was no decision as to opening the
hou-ses. He will await further re
ports from this state and South
Carolina.
Reports coming in to Raleigh
show that about 90 per cent of the
fanners in eastern Carolina have
s gned reduction agreements, while
in some of the Piedmont sections
the campaign is just getting under
way.
We understand that about 95 per
cent of the farmers in Johnston
county have already signed up.
Person county tobacco growers re
port heavy damage from the wind
and rain storm recently. Some grow
ers estimate their damage at 50 per
cent of the crop.
Mr. H. V. Rose, clerk of the Su
perior court of Johnston county, was
the principal speaker at the weekly
meeting of the Selma Kiwanis club
on Thursday evening. The speaker
said in part: “The public welfare
program ■ in Johnston county is by
nature a work which should claim
the support of the Kiwanis club and
other public spirited citizens. It is
the agency of the law to bind up
shadowed homes and to care for
children where homes have been de
stroyed by the loss of parents,
either by death or the action of the
courts. He cited several instances in
which the welfare department of the
county had rescued children after
the homes had been destroyed and
the children had become charges up
on .'ociety. The child caring agencies
mentioned by Mr. Rose in his talk
are foster homes, the orphanages,
reformatories and training schools.
“A few years ago, said the speaker,
“one orphanage in the state was
caring for sixteen Johnston county
children at one time. Such institu
tions are today crowded with de
pendent and neglected children and
the demands made upon the depart
ment of public welfare is on the
constant increase.
Another topic discussed by the
clerk in his talk was the condition
confronting public education in the
state. He cited that certain condi
tions bom of the depresson are now
menacing the school progress of the
state, principally among these is the
age-old theory that education is for
the classes and not for the masses.
The sponsors of this theory have
been emboldened by the recent hard
times and their challenge to popu
lar education is becoming outspoken.
They contend that public education
goes far enough when it has given
the child a common school educa
tion and the colleges and universi
ties are for the education of a select
class of our citizenship. He showed
that this idea had steadily lurked
within the "minds of certain classes
of our citizenshp from England’s
feudal system until the present
time. Mr. Rose stated that this
challenge to public education has
become serious enough to arouse the
attention of several commentators
and he cited the New.s & Observer
as being one of the papers which
has already accepted the challenge
which has been made against our
public education.
His remarks on the school system^
were concluded by the hopeful pre
diction that the state would continue
to regard childhood as its most
valid asset and if the cause of
education should be further endang
ered that a new set of champions
comparable to Wiley, Aycock and
Mclver would enter the lists and
into which it has already been pre
cipitated.”
Jack Worley, who has been at
tending the Eastern Carolina Train
ing School at Rocky Moimt for the
Dunn, Sept. 8.—Henry Daniel
Hood, one of the best known and
liked men in this town, died while
asleep this morning about 7 o’clock
at his home here. It is thought that
he had been dead only a few min
utes when members of the family
found him.
Mr. Hood was prominently con
nected through the State with dif
ferent social organizations, especial
ly the Junior Order of American
Mechanics. He was a member of the
local Rotary Club, on the board of
directors of the Boy Scout camp, and
attended the First Baptist church.
Very few people during their life
time attain the popularity Mr. Hood
enjoyed. His interest in public-
spritied undertakings was one of
the strongest indications of his char
acter and his ready support of any
movement designed to aid unfortu
nate people or to better the advan
tages of the town made him a citi
zen of unusual dependability and
worth.
He had been a resident of Dunn
for over 11 years and at the time of
his death was operating the Dunn
Family Laundry here.
He is survived by his wife and
two children, Clarence and Henry
D., Jr., and by four sisters, Mrs. G.
T. Noel, of Dunn, Mr.s. W. L. Skin
ner and Miss Margaret Hood, of
Lumberton, Mrs. J. T. Hughes, of
Selma, and a sister-in-law, Mrs.
Alice Hood, of Selma, and by one
brother, Howard Hood, of Dunn.
Lfmeral and burial services will be
held Saturday afternoon at 4:30
o’clock. Burial will be in Greenwood
cemetery here.
Tax Rate of $1.63
Fixed In Johnston
Smithfield, Sept. 8.—The county
commissioners at a recent meeting
fixed the tax rate for 1933 at $1.63
on the .$100 worth of property. The
rate last year was $1.20, and the
new rate represents an increase of
43 cents, or a 36 percent increase,
due to a cut in the valuation of
property authorized by the 1933
legislature and to increase in the
debt service, both for county bonds
and for school bonds.
The total valuation of property in
Johnston county in 1932 was $36,-
300,000, while the valuation this
year is only $28,500,000. The 20 per
cent cut authorized by the General
Assembly, plus 2 per cent on ac
count of releases on property which
totaled $700,000, accounts for most
of the increase in the rate.
The increase in the debt service is
brought about by the fact that con
siderably more of the principal of
the county’s debts comes due during
this fiscal year than in former years.
TWO UNUSUAL MARRIAGES
A few days ago a couple from
Goldsboro were married by Squire
James H. Kirkman at the county
court house. The bride weighed feo
pound.s and the groom 150. Since
performing this marriage the magis
trate married another couple whose
ages were 18 and 15 respectively. Of
course at this age the consent of
the parents of the contracting
parties had to be secured, but in the
former case the biggest job was the
two coming to an agreement, but of
course in a case like this, when the
bride to be speaks the groom to be
heeds what’s said.
past three years, was a guest of
the club and made a splendid talk,
telling some of his experiences dur
ing his stay there.
C. W. Scales, who has just re
turned from the World’s Fair in
Chicago, gave an interesting account,
of his trip.
The program was. in charge of
Rev. D. F. Waddell,pastor of the
First Presbyterian church.
■ Rev. L. T. Singleton was present
with the attendance prize, donated
by Kiwanian J. Q. A. Jeffries.
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