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VOLUMN LX. LOUISBURQ, N. 0., FRIDAY, AUG. 30TH, 1929 (8 Pager) ' NUMBER 28
PRESIDENT C. L.
McGHEE'S ADDRESS
Eefore State Association of
County Commissioners
Held In Ashevllle Recently?His Dis
cissions and' Suggestions Wor-En
thusiastically Received ? Addre s
j^lilondM Document.
The following la a copy of the ad
dress of Col. C. L. McGhee, Chairman
of the Board of County Commission
ers of Franklin County, wtyo as Pres
iuent of the 8tate' Association of
County Commissioners, presided at
the meeting held in Asherille recent
ly. It will be seen that It was full of
splendid suggestions, and it was well
and favorably received by the meet
ing", which was largely attended:
It must be humbly recognized that
the county in North Carolina is the
creature of the Legislature; it has the
powers described by the statue and
no others. In the exercise of govern
mental functions, It is the agency of
" 11 e slate fur the convenience of local
administration and subject to legis
lative control. Just a few short years
ago when North Carolina occupied
the cellar position in every percent
age column known, the functions del
egated to the county by the state were
quite simple. The asessmeht and col
lection of small amount of taxes, the
briiidtr.g of a -few- bridges, a term or
two c f the Superior Court, composed
the sum L la.' of county activities.
There was very little to do and veiy
lilt,! organise:toa. But, with '.lie ad
vent of an educational program^ there
came, In the past two decades, a swift
increase in public expenditures.
North Carolina began to take on the
rppearance of the modern state; to
direct the administrative units, to
collect greatly Increased revenue, and
to do many and varied things about
the schools, the roads, to provide for
dependents and defective, play with
primaries, conserve the public health,
expedite Justice, establish county ag
ricultural agents, home demonstration
- agents, and at last,-to safeguard the
secrecy of the ballot, .a la Australia.
It would appear that In the carry
ing out of these functions the General
Assembly, would have.considered.the
constitution and Invested its agent,
the Board of County Commissioners,
with entire control and supervision.
But, upon the contrary, efficient and
economic administration has been
hampered with boards?Boards of
Education, Board of Election, Board
of Highways, Board of Health, Board
of Welfare. Board of Agriculture, and
Home Demonstration Clubs, until the
Board of Connty Commissioners is
little more than a cash register with
the "paid out key " woiklng overtime.
I With no centralized system of ac
counting, Is there any wonder that
chaos and deficits came about In the
finances of nearly every county In the
state. To the everlasting credit of
this Association, in the annual meet
ing of 1925, they passed a resolution
requesting the General Assembly to
create the County Government Ad
visory Commission and to enact the
Connty Fiscal Control Act This fi
nance act is probably the most con
structive piece of legislation ever en
acted in North Carolina. Under the
wise and tactful administration of Mr.
Chas. M. Johnson, the Executive Sec
retary of the Commission, it has
brought relief to every county in the
state which has whole heartedly fol
lowed Its provisions. It has the ef
ficacy of the typhoid anti-toxin. If
you will get a few vaccinations from
Dr. Johnson, you are Immune fromi
farther financial troubles.
These laws have attracted consid
erable attention all over the United
States and are known aa being the
best in the country. Numerous other
states are making a study of the law
with the Idea of adopting the plan.
I trust that this meeting will go
on record in appreciation of the fine
work accomplished by Mr. Johnson
and In requesting an Increased ap-{
proprletlon In order that the activity
of the Commission may be Increased.
The address of the President of any
organization might well be a report
of the work for the past year. Re
cently, It has been my pleasure to
read the address of your past Presi
dent. Hon. E. M. Lyda, delivered at
WrighUvllle last August The wis
dom of his suggestions has been Im
pressed upon -me, even more strongly,
by the tribulations and trials of
another year of connty government
It was wfth great pleasure that I
saw e portion of his suggestions and
the resolutions of the last annual
meeting, Incorporated In th? legisla
tion of the last General Aseembly.
Particularly, do I have reference to
the legfelation relative to discounts
for prompt payment of taxes, a larg
er equalisation fund for the schools,
the connty eld road fund, and a larg
er appropriation, altho still inade
quate, for the County Government
Advisory Commission. Undoubtedly
more would have been accomplished
lied this Association been more ef
ficiently organised and financed. A
pert time secretary could have se
cured cooperation from our members.
A larger legislative committee, with
a well thoagbt out, definite program
could tnrve.hr my opinion.
COL. C. L. McGHEE
President State Association County
Commissioners.
W. C. GIPTON KILLED
AT BED BCD 1
W. C. Oupton, age 61, was Instantly
killed, and five other persons badly
Injured, several of whom were taken
to the hospital at Rocky Mount, as
the result of an automobile accident
?which occured at Red Bud Ghureh,
on Thursday evening, August 22,
about -five o'clock -when Miss Nellie
Lancaster lost control of her car.
Miss Lancaster, her mother and
father, Mr. and Mrs. OUie Lancaster.
Mr. James J. Lancaster, of Loulsburg,
and Mr. Thomas Shearin had just
gotten into a Chevrolet Coupe wjth
rumble seat, and Miss Lancaster had
Just started the car preparatory to
leaving the church grounds after the
service, when the car evidently get
ting out from under her control, dart
ed through the crowd with fatal re
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Those injured were Mrs. G. B.
Smith, Mrs. W. T. Williams, Mrs. W.
C. Oupton, wife of the fatally. Injured
man, all of whom were, badly bruised,
and - Mr.. and Mrs. Ed PeaTCB. who
were badly, but not seriously hurt.
It is understood that it is the opin
ion of the people in the community
[that the accident was unavoidable,
Mr. Gupton, who leaves his wife
and live children, was a very popular
and successful farmer, and a most
valuable citizen In the Red Bud com
munity always lending his efforts to
the upbuilding and promotion of
same. He was a member of Red Bud
Baptist Church.
The funeral services were held at
the old Gupton Burying Ground; near
. Red Bud on Friday afternoon at 4
o'clock, and were conducted by Rev.
C. B. Howard and Rev. J. S. Hopkins.
Clinic Doing Good Work
The Tonsil-Adenoid Clinic, spon
I sored by the Loulsburg Kiwanls Club,
assisted by the Parent Teacher As
sociation and Bupt. E. C. Perry, Wel
fare officer, opened In Mills High
School Tuesday morning, August 27,
at 8:30 o'clock, twenty-eight children
being operated on the first day. Tbe
Clinic will continue through Friday.
The nhrses assisting in the clinic
are Miss Sarah Rhymer, Mrs. N. B.
Tucker, Miss Holmes, Mrs. Cecil
! Sykes, Mrs. H. H. Johnson, Mrs.
I Teacherage, and Mrs. H. G. Perry,
i who is the anaesthestlc.
I- Besides the local doctors, H. G. Per
ry, H. H. Johnson, S. P. Burt, R. F.
Yarborough, A. B. Bowyer and J. O.
Newell, who are helping with tbe
clinic, the following specialists are
each giving one day, Dr. Charles WU
klns, of Raleigh, Dr. Z. V. Fitzgerald,
of Smlthfleld, Dr. M. R. Gibson, of
j Raleigh, and Dr. W. B. Fasett of Dur
ham.
This clinic Is the follower-np of the
clinics held during the middle of July,
In which children who expected to
enter school this fall were examined.
It ts expected that over a hundred
children will be operated on Itf this
clinic.
MR. TAYLOB ELECTED DIRECTOR
Mr. H. C. Taylor who returned the
past week from Richmond where he
attended a meeting of the Southern
Retail Merchants Conference, was
elected a Director of this Conference
for the coming year. This rccognh
tlon of Mr. Taylor Is quite an honor
that Is highly appreciated by Mr.
Taylor and bis many friends here.
Mr. Taylor was accompanied on|
this trip by his wife.
I look forward to the day when the
definite conclusions of this associa
tion relative to County Government
will be accepted as authority at Ral
eigh. Irrespective of the political par
ty which may be In power.
May f, therefore, make a few sug
aestlons which I think tend to better
oounty government with the hope
that they will receive your considera
tion. 1 trust that If they meet with
your approval, you will pass resolu
tions endorsing these suggestions In
order that the legislative committee
Mrs. A. H. Fleming Dead
The funeral services of Mrs. Helen
Leigh Fleming, wife of Dr. Arthur H.
Fleming, were held Tuesday afternoon
at half after six o'clock at Oak Lawn
Cemetery. The passing away of this
Leloved and honored woman had sad
dened the whole community, and there
was a great gathering present to pay
the last tribute of affection and
spect to her memory. Friends
relatives from many places in
out of the state came to join the
pie of Louisburg In their express^
of love and sorrow, and the proce
Ion which followed her body to
final resting place was one of
longest ever' known In Louisburg-j
On Its way from her home on Ml
Street to the cemetery, the procees
lon was halted for a brief space in
front of the Baptist Church, of which
Mrs. Fleming had been a devoted and
faithful member from childhood, and
for many years the organist. Inside
the church Mrs. O. Y. Yarboro rend
ered upon the organ three original
compositions of Mrs. Fleming a ? an
anthem, "The Lord is My Shepherd.'
"Honey Child", dedicated to her son
Arthur Fleming Jr., and "Irish Love",
dedicated to her daughter, Helen
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JU the gravs-tha services wer?a?
Impressively conducted by the Rev
end S. L. Blanton, pastor of the B
tlfct Church, assisted by the Reverend
Daniel Lane, of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Blanton closed a beautiful tri
bute with the words of Tennyson's
"Crossing the Bar."
There were no songs during the
burial, but it seemed to those stand
ing in the deepening dusk of a "per
fect day" as if, above the soft fall of
the earth upon the coffin, they could
faintly hear the sweet remembered |
tones of her own once glorious voice
in tender farewell to those she loved.
Gently her body was laid to rest in
' earth's arms", and the sod upturned
to make her grave was hidden again
'beneath beautiful wreaths and stars
and crosses so abundant that the
grave itself seemed but a lovely
mound te a garden of radiant flowecs.
Mrs. Fleming was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Williams, of
Warrenton, who had moved to Louis
burg when she was but a child. Hver
beautiful in both person and charact
er, she won ever as a girl in her teens
the admiration and affection which
followed her through life. She war a
highly gifted musician, and possessed
a voice of marvelous sweetness. For
many years no celebration in church
01 social life In Louisburg was com
plete unless featured by her singing.
As wife and mother she exemplified
the highest ideals of noble woman
hood. In her death all Louisburg Is
sensible of the passing of a sweet in
fluence which breathed Into the life
of the community a fragrant and in
spiring breath of love and Joy and
" tenderness.
The pallbearers were Messrs. L. L.
Joyner. M. S. Clifton. F. J. Beasley,
and William Morris, of Louisburg.
and Albert Fleming and Edwin Flem
ing. of Middleburg.
Among those from out of oown at
tending the funeral were Dr. and Mrs.
G. V. Tilley, Newton; Mrs Minnie
Williams, and Misses Nell and Sue!
Williams, Baltimore, Md.; Mr. P. B.
Fleming, Monroe,; Mr. W. J. Williams.!
Wilson; Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Copeland
and Miss Madeline Copeland. Mrs.
Anna Markham, and Mrs. A. P. Tilley,
Durham; Mrs. J. A. Fleming and Mrs.
Vance Fleming, Middleburg; Mrs. C.
H. Williams and Miss Eloise Williams,
Klttrell; Mr. Robert Williams, Ral
eigh; Mr. John Harris, Raleigh; Miss
Maude Fleming. Norfolk, Va., Mr. and
Mrs. C. P. Harris, Maplevllle; Mr. and
Mrs H. L. Candler, Henderson, Dr.
and Mrs. Smithson, Rocky Mount:
Dr. J. N. Johnson, Goldsboro; Dr. and|
Mrs. Mustian, Norlina; Dr. Eugene
B. Howie, Raleigh; Dr. R. M. Squires,
Wake Forest; Mr. T. M. Arrington,
Wake Forest; Mr. Robert M Kirk
land. Littleton: Mr. and Mrs. Simon
Williams, Frankllnton; Mr. and Mrs.
B. H. Saunders, of Nash County; Mr.
Reid. Wake Forest; Dr. 8. P. Norrlf,
Raleigh; A. O. Slier, Raleigh; Mrs^ J.
J. Pitts, Springhope, Miss Annie Bell
Vester, Spring Hope.
D. 11, C.
The J. J. Davis Chapter. O. D. C.
will meet with Mrs. R. H. Davis next
Tuesday September Srd, at the Episco
pal Rectory at 4 o'clock. Lets have
a full meeting with which to begin
the fall work. Please notify the host
ess all those who can attend.
! Mrs. J. 0. Newell, Pres.
Mrs. C. K. Cooke, See'y.
EPSOM HIGH SCHOOL OPENS
Epsom High School, about eight
miles north of Louisburg. will open
Monday morning, September 2.
- The management Is hoping to have
the beist opening that they have had,
since most of the tobacco Is out of the
fields.
It Is very fortunate tor the children
that after the first day hot lunch wlH
be served In the building. This has
been a great help In the past and It
la hoped to continue this service
throughout the fear.
Every one la very enthusiastic over
the opening for lo la hoped to do more
and bigger things thle year than ew
MR. JOSEPH JOHN ALLEN
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Who died in Park View Hospital
Rocky Mount, on Tuesday afternoon,
scnted him with their photos and
ton and Lee IHrivereHy in- lftTO at
which time he was Invited to dine
with General and Mrs. Lee, who pre- [
hented him with their photos and
signatures.. Mr. Allen is said to have'
keen the last living pupil of the Gen. [
Lee. At the time of Mr. Allen's
graduation Gen. Lee wrote a compli
mentary letter to Joseph F. Allen,
Jather of Joseph John, commenting
on his son's extraordinary and un
usual scholastic ability.
Mr Allen could call the entire roll
r.f the school taught by the late M. S. ]
Davis in he Loulsburg Academy in <
1S56. His son, Mr. T. K. Allen of
Loulsburg, has his father's first re
port in which he made the highest
marks in all of his studies. Mr. Al
len could repeat from memory the
roll of the Company in the Civil War,
rool of the Company in the Civil War,
and rule for Cube Root. He could i
spell and define any word In Web-!
star's Blue Back Speller, giving the
page, column, and number ot tne
word from top of column. Ha was
Champion Speller, having won all
Spelling Contests hfi . ever eptered,
and having never been presented
with a word he could not spell. Mr.
Allen could recite from memory many
chapters In Latin and Greek. He
d'mld repeat rte Lord's prayer In
Greek" forward or backward, and
could give the derivation In Latin or
Greek of any word he could spell?
Mr. Allen had one brother, Wm. S.
Allen? ~who taught during" his entire
life In Pacific. Missouri. He had
three half brothers, Lewis H. Smith,
of Greenwood Fla.; O. G. R. Smith,
who retired and died at the old Smith
Home, Manson, N. C.; and Orren Ran
dolph Smith, who served in three
wars, the Mexican, Indian, and Civil
Wars, and who, as designer raised
the first confederate Flag, the Stars
and Bars, in Louisburg, In commem
oration of which fact a monument to
its memory now stands on the Court
House Square.
Franklin County Schools
Will Open September 2nd
Supt E. L. Best says thao the
schools of Franklin County will
open Monday morning. Sept. 2. The
principals will call a meeting of the
parents to be held in the various
schools Friday, August 30. At these
meetings policies for the school year
will be discussed and the children will
be given a list of books that they will
need on the opening date. Parents
are therefore urged to hare their chil
dren attend these tunings in order
that they might hare sufficient time
to secure books and material by Mon
day. Sept. 2 J
A splendid corps of teachers hare
been selected for the scho^f and a
successful school year is Vsured if
the parents will cooperate with the
teachers this year as they hare done
in the past
The following supervising princi
pals have been employed:
Bunn District?S. L. Bowen
Oold Sand District?Owen W. Reed
C. R. C. C. District?T. H. Sledge
Youngsvllle District? E. T. Parham
Epsom District?J. A. Woodward
The number of teachers a school
may have Is determined by the aver
age daily attendance. It is therefore
highly Important in order to retain
the same number of teachers we
have to make the very best attendance
possible. Tour supervising principal
can tell you what attendance you
must make in your district In order
to retain your same number of teach
ers or to be able to increase the num
ber. The big objective, however, for
real school attendance Is not merely
to t stain and Increase ohe numbr of
teachers, but that all the children as
nearly as possible may secure the ad
vantages of the schools. This Is the
real motive and purpose of running
the school*. We may have the finest
equipment and the best trained teach
ers, but if the children are not kept
in school, the work Is a failure. In
the beginning, therefore, I am em
phasising the fact and am asking the
parents to put forth every effort and
if necessary make real sacrifices that
their children may receive these ad
vantages and that the schools may
function As they should. Every dayli
will count so If possible, enter yonrfl
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RECORDERS COl'BT
Monday's Session of Franklin Re
corder's Court was largely attended,
and while there were a number of
cases disposed of there were none of
public Importance. Judge Palmer's
disposition of the docket was as fol
lows:
State rs Bryant Martin, carrying,
concealed weapons, pleads guilty,
fined $100 and costs.
State rs Henry Hayes, assault, con
tinued.
State rs Wade Barnette. operating
automoble Intoxicated, guilty, prayer
for judgment continued.
State ts Iola Perry, unlawful pos
sesion of whiskey, prayer for judg
ment continued under former order.
State rs H. R. Ward, bad check,
not guilty.
State ts W. J. Martin, assault,
pleads guilty, judgment suspended
upon payment of costs.
State ts Peter SUls distilling,
pleads guilty aiding and abetting. 6
months on roads, to be suspended
upon payment' of $25 and costs.
State ts Dorsey Graham, Mtlford
Graham. Booker T. Watklns, Ometus
"Boogie" Dunston, Willie Rogers,
Otha Hall, Burt Watklns, assault with
deadly weapon, guilty simple assault.
Judgment suspended upon payment
pf costs.
State ts Garfield Smith, assault,
guilty simple assault, judgment sus
pended upon payment of costs.
State ts Harry Smith, carrying con
cealed weapons, not guilty.
State ts .Murman McKnlght, as
sault, guilty, prayer for Judgment
contnued upon payment qf costs.
State ts Hoot Egerton. assault with
deadly weapon, guilty, lined $25 and
coats.
State ts Rossie Brans, transport
ing, pleads guilty, fined $10 and coots.
State ts R. R. Radford, bad check.
Sued $50 and costs.
State ts Willie Ingram. Joe Bar
holomew, unlawful possession of
irhtakay. pleads guilty, fined $10 each
tud costs.
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Mrs. William Jackson. Mrs. A. B.
fnsooe, Janet and Nancy Hayes are
ipendlng this week In Ocean View I
*ith Mrs. Hodge Newell, of Hender
lon. While there they will rlett
forktown, Jamestown and Williams
PREPARING FOR
INCREASED SALES
Louisburg's Tobacco Men Ex
pect Better Prices
ill Three Warehouses Expected To
Be Operated This Year?Planters
?bj Meadows k Harris, Union hy
lash, Cash k Perry, Southslde, Pro
prietors to he Announced.
Preparations for one of the largest
tobacco seasons in recent years are
being made by those Interested in
Loulsburg tobacco market, which will
open on September 24th with all threo
warehouses in operation. The ware
housemen and buyers are enthusiastic
In the opinion that prices on all
grades will Improve to the point that
much satisfaction will prevail and.
that the outcome _jjf the present crop
will be satisfactory. Reports coming
to Loulsburg indicate that there is
right much good tobacco throughout
this section that will mean a much
better price than last year.
Each of the warehouses will be op
erated this year by experienced and
well trained tobacconists, who are
now making all necessary prepantr
tions for a record season.
The Planters Warehouse, on Nash
Street, will be operated this season
by Messrs. Sr? S. Meadows and Grov
er C. Harris, who have been identified
with the- Loulsburg market- for ap
proximately thirty years and are well
known as experts in their line. They
will be assisted by Mr. Claude Cheat
ham, of Youngsville.
The Union' warehouse will be op
erated by Messrs. R. Elbert Cash, 3.
Henry Cash and G. Marvin Perry,
each of whom knows tobacco from
the plantbed to the buyer, and have
demonstrated this ability as ware
Thpy?gill be assisted by
Mr. H. E. Hlght, bookkeeper, also
section. Read their announcement
in another column.
Both of these warehouses will he
served by Mr. J. A. Waltx, of Bul
lock's, one of the beat auctioneers In
this section of the State.
The Southslde warehouse will prob
ably be operated by experienced ware
housemen, from Goldsboro, \t ilson and
Elizabeth City. The final arrange
ments had not been completed at this
writing.
Louisburg's warehouses are excel
led by none in the State on markets
of Its size with the construction of
the New Southslde last season with
ro.000 feet of floor space the enlarge
ment of the Union and Planters laat
season, bringing each up to the moat
modern and convenient requirements,
rtsuring those who sell In them ev
ery opportunity.
With these preparations and indi
cations pointing to Loulsburg, It la
expected that the local market will
sell above six millions this season.
MBS. PERRY ELECTED
YICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Hugh W. Perry was elected
second Vice-President of the North
Carolina Department of the American
Legion Auxiliary at Its fnnual Statu
meeting in Raleigh Tuesday. Her
many friends in Franklin County re
joice with her in this honor
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
SERVED DINNER
The J. J. Davis Chapter of the U.
D C. gave the old Confederate veter
ans a dinner last Thursday. August
22. at the County Home. More of the
veterans were able to attend than
were expected. The number of veter
ens are thinning rapidly; one of the
local onee was burled Wednesday.
August 21. Out of the seventeen
white and three colored veterans In
the County fourteen white and one
colored were present. It was a greet
pleasure to the Chapter to entertain
and honor these men with a delight
ful dinner. . _ M
" One ef the veterans Mr. J. w ? Mus
tlan, called from memory the roll aa
It was called sixty-fire years ago. A
group picture was taken.
Those present were as follows:
D. C. Tharrlngtou. of Loulsburg;
Norfleet Winston. Frankllnton; J. K.
Gilliam. Alert; R. F. Collie. 8prln?
Hope; B. E. Tomliuson. FTankllnton;
J. W. Mugtlan. Maneon; O. H. Wall.
Wake Forest; R Y. Dlckersoa,
Youngsville; J. H. Sledge. Loulsburg;
J. L. Bowdeo. Spring Hope; Perry F.
Dickens, Frankllnton; J. H. Bobbltt.
Loulsburg: S. H Horton. Loulsburg:
and Col. John Thomas (colored).
SEVENTH ANNUAL
FARMERS FIELD DAT
The Seventh Annual Farmers FteM
Day will be held at Urn Upper Coaat
xl Plain Test Farm near Bocky Mount
m Thursday. September Mb. 1??- *
ipleUdld program has been arranged
Deluding an add reus by Hon.
thus Daniels.
In the afternoon a program
teen armnged for the
he men wUI tour the
All are Invited and
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