North Carolina Newspapers

?)r 8imit|)firl& 3rteralJt price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL. 22. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1903. NO. 8 STATE NEWS. I Waynesville has voted|$50,000 of bonds for street improve ments. J There are 15 or more cases of : smallpox at High Pointand com- j pulsory vaccination has been or dered. The safe of House Brothers, bankers at Lad range. N. C., was robbed by burglars Tuesday night and about $3,500 taken. Dan Teachy, who killed Robt. Rivenbark in Duplin county some weeks ago, escaped from Duplin jail at Kenansville Friday night. A commercial and savings bank, with a capital of $5,000 is to be established at Cornelius, the mill village near Davidson. J. B. Cor nelius and others are the incor ators. The Afro-American Advocate, a negro paper, has made its ap pearance in Wilmington. It will eschew politics and be devoted solely to the interest and the up building of its race it says. Bitter politics are stirring up Asheville, over the liquor ques tion. The saloons are charged with having a corruption fund of $8,000. Preacher Vines has re ceived a threatening letter say ing tbat he would be thrashed. The barn of J. O. Wilson,about seven miles from Louisburg, was burned Friday morning. Two | young mules, a good horse and a ( lot of food and two tons of gua- ( no were also burned. The loss is about $1,000 with no insurance. Mr. Wm. A. Gattis, a Confeder ate veteran and a well known cit- 1 izen, died at his home in Raleigh Sunday. He was 60 years old, was a native of Orange county and a brother of Rev. T. J. Gat tis, of the North Carolina Confer ence. Prof. C. C. Crittenden, of the chair of pedagogy and assistant professor of English at Wake Forest college, died Thursday night of heart trouble. He was 31 years old and a son of Dr. Crittenden, of Crewe, Va., where his remains were taken for burial. The deceased once taught in Con cord. Governor Aycock has sent out 1,000 personal letters to promi nent persons in all parts of the State, urging them to subscribe money toward a North Carolina exhibit at the St. Louis exposi tion, it being necessary that $10, 000 in private subscriptions be secured before the $10,000 State appropriation is available under the act of the Legislature. Miss May Guess, 18 years old and living near Sauford, Moore county, tried to commit suicide by taking laudanum, Thursday night, but her life was saved. It seems that Miss Guess was in love with one Dock Murdock, but her parents objected to the al i? 1 \t I ~1 ^ ? nance aim iuuruui-K puuwcu ai disposition to drop out of the; game. This brought matters to a climax and when the tragedy was enacted Murdock was sum moned by the erstwhile objecting parents, by which token it is as sumed that the young woman gained her point. A mass meeting of the anti- j saloouites was held in Durham Tuesday night and candidates named for the municipal ele ction. Rev. B. 0. Reauian opened the meeting with prayer and Mr. James H.l Southgate presided. The resolu tions declared that the open bar room was a menace to morality and good government and that elections should be held in the fall to banish the saloon from Dur- J ham, that they would not ask the aldermen not to grant the license to the saloon, but the people should vote out the sa loon. Quick Arrest. J. A. Gulledgeof Verbena, Ala., was twice in the hospital from a severe case of piles causing 24 tumors. After doctors and all remedies failed, Hucklen's Arnica Salve quickly arrested further in flammation and cured it. Itcon quers aches and kills pain. 25c. at liood Bros., Druggists. AN UNFAVORABLE WEEK. .and too Wet for Plowing and Farm ers Fell Behind with their Work. The weekly crop bulletin of the <orth Carolina section of the Climate and Crop Service, issued iy the Weather Bureau for the veek endiug Monday, was as fol ows: "During the past week weather ionditions have continued very infavorable for both farming operations and growth of most ;rops. ltain fell nearly every day, die total precipitation for the veek ranging from 0.40 inch at ^sheville and 1.60 at Wilming ton to 3.16 at Kaleigb. Land vas too wet for any plowing to oe done except on hill tops, and armers are much behind with their crop. A little frost, causing ittle damage, occurred in the i astern counties on the morning ifthe22ud. On the morning of the 24th a heavy frost occurred in the central and western por tions of the State, and killing :rost in some elevated localities, the thermometer falling to 30 degrees at Asheville; wheat and truck in the west portion were somewhat damaged, and fruit jntirely killed in some places. Hail storms occurred locally during the first part of the week and caused slight damage m scattered localities. iin . i. 11 _ i i. I oome coiion uas oeeu piauceu but the soil is too cold and wet For it to germinate. In the east ern and central portions the corn crop is partly planted, but young plants show a poor stand and some fields will need replanting. Tobacco transplanting has been completed at a very few points, the work being hindered by rain and lack of prepared land. Win ter grain is doing well in some sections, but numerous com plaints of rust, and a few of the liessian fly and chinch bugs, are received. Grass and clover, wher ever reported, are doing well. In the eastern counties Irish pota toes present an excellent appear ance, the fruit prospect is promis sing, and shipments of truck and strawberries continue." Crop Report of National Bureau. Washington, April 28.?The Weather Bureau's weekly crop report says: The drought in Florida and in the central and West Gulf States, especially in the last mentioned section, has grown more serious, and over large areas the ground is too dry lor germination of seed. As in the previous week corn planting nas made slow progress, more particularly over the cen tral and eastern portions of the corn belt and in the middle At lantic States, but better progress has been made in Kausas and Nebraska, and preparations for planting have been vigorously carried on in Iowa and portions of Illinois. In the Southern States corn has suffered from low tem peratures, and in the Central and West Gulf districts from drought, also east of the Mis sissippi River early cotton has been injured by cold and much replanting will be necessary. Planting in this part of the cot ton belt has progressed rapidly, except in Mississippi, where, as in the districts West of the Mis sissippi, planting, although well advanced, hasjbeen largely suspended during the past week on account oi drought. Warmth is generally needed throughout the cotton belt, and theLentraland Western districts are in urgent need ol rain. Tobacco plants continue plenti ful and healthy, though back ward in Kentucky. No trans planting has yet been done, ex cept in the Carolinas, but plants are ready for setting in Tennessee In North Carolina the plants an not starting well, and in South Carolina stands are being im paired by worms and injury has been caused by hail starms. Senator Simmons will delivei an address before the ISorth Car olina Society in New York May 120. His subject will be "Thi I Race Question." General News Items. Gov. De Forest Richards, of jN Wyoming, died at Cheyenne, Tuesday. The Southern Baptist Conven tion will meet in Savannah, Ga., ? May 9th. i Alexander Ramsey, first terri- ' torial governor of Minnesota, j f died at St. Paul last week. East of the Mississippi earlv F cotton has been injured by cold 1 and much replanting will be nec essary. | Three persons committed sui- ^ cide in Washington city Tuesday. f All used carbolic acid as a means f of ending life. William R. Hearst editor of The f New York Journal was married , in New Y'ork Tuesday to Miss I Millicent Wilson. j Venezuela and the allies have 1 agreed upon submitting the ques- 1 tion of preferential treatment to ( The Hague tribunal. i Irving M. Scott, the Marylander who was general manager of the ; Union Iron Works, San Fran- j i cisco, and one of the most noted ' stiipbuilders in the world, is dead. 1 Fire at Columbus, Ohio, early ' Sunday morniDg destroyed prop- 1 erty of the value of .|(500,000. ' Daniel Lewis, captain of an engine company, was killed by a ' falling wall. Andrew Carnegie, has given $1,500,000 to build a Temple of I Peace at The Hague, in Holland, j | wherein will be held the perma- > nent courts of arbitration differ ences between nations. Thomas F. G. Seixas, Joseph 1 Travis and B. Frank Brown, school directors, convicted of j trying to extort money from teachers, and David G. Johnson, who acted as go-between, have been sentenced in Philadelphia, | to 18 months' imprisonment. G. Hallman Sims pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of $04,000 of the funds of the Capitol City National Bank at Atlanta Ga., and was sentenced to six years in the Federal prison. Sims was collection clerk of the bank, and , was for sometime a prominent figure in the social world of At lanta. Last week W. A. Morgan, who lived near Pensacola, Fla., re- ? ceived a package of prepaied food through the mails, ate some of it and died almost instantly. An analysis of the food showed it to be largely com posed of strychnine. The motive for the crime or the criminal have not been revealed. Twenty-five Jews were killed1 and 275 were wounded, many of I them fatally, during antisemitic riots at Kishineff, capital of i j Bessaraina, Russia, April 20, when a number of workmen organized an attack on the Jew ish inhabitants. The minister of the interior has ordered the ad nnt.inn nf moflsiippa tn ntwfnro order in the town and district. Eight masked men broke into a house at Blomington, 111., Sun day and whitecapped Misses Rebecca and Ida Stephens, white, aged 18 and 16 years, aud also whipped Joe Shiveley, a negro. She negro was whipped with barbed wire and was hit in the i eye with brass knuckles. The older girl was whipped with wire i and the younger with apple i switches, but neither is danger ? ously injured. Many of the [ whitecapps were recognized and warrants will be sworn out for i their arrest. ' Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. ' Rutheford, both of New York, were married in St. Mark's ? church, London, at 9 o'clock ? Saturday morning. Mr. Vander ? bilt is the oldest son of the late ? Wm. H. Vanderbilt and is 54 ' years old. He was divorced ? from his wife several years ago 5 and the woman married soon 1 thereafter. It was necessary to ? get a decree of the court before ' Vanderbilt could marry, as the original decree of divorce pro hibited his marrying during the r life of his former wife. The new ? Mrs. Vanderbilt has been twice r married but both her husbands 5 are dead. She was never di- j vorced. | LANDS LEASED FOR MININ6. lew York Concern to Dig for Coal. Iron and Copper on Large Scale. A New York syndicate, the Seaboard Steel and Iron Com pa- i ly, has secured a lease and op- j ion upon something like 2,500 teres of land in this county and n Johnston and Pender, for the mrpose of prospecting and miu ng for coal, iron and copper. The lease is for twenty years,! tnd according to the terms of he deeds the company agrees! ;o pay to the owners of the prop erty one-quarter of the net pioht j irising from all iron ore, and ten i aer cent, of the net profit from i ill other minerals of greater ralue. The first deed was made out to G. W. Lyon, of Guilford county. I He transferred it to T. Marring-1 ;on Seinple, of New york, who eonveyed it to the company lamed above. The owners of the land are I. II. Rowland, S. W. Johnson, J. L. Johnson, K. B. Johnson. VV. L. Atkinson, A. B. Oliver, E. B. Hunter, I). H. Smith, H. H. En uis, Alex VVomack, T. W. Franks, and S. II. Lee, of Wake county; I. 1). Dupree, P. W. Stephenson, G. B. Ogburn, W. G. Smith, loseph Dupree, and J. J. Fish, of lohnston; and W. W. Miller, of Pender. i tit? tititf properly cuiupnsw 1,879 acres, the Johnston propety 637 and in Pender 151 acres.?News and Observer. BENSON. Mrs. F. K. Hall, of Goldsboro, is visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Spence, of Buie's Creek, were here Sunday. The fire here Friday night has put a boom on real estate and it is already out of sight. Clyde Lucas, who was killed by a train at Enfield Saturday night, was buried here Tuesday. Mrs. J. L. Ay res, whose life was despaired of on account of the shock from fire, is much im proved. Ayden creech is relieving R. S. Dickson, while Mr. and Mrs. Dickson are visiting in Robeson county. G. M. Benson and E. J. D. Boy kin are attending Federal Court at Greenville. S. C., to identify the bank robbers who also took in post offices when convenient. McKOY NOTES. Dr. S. P. J. Lee who has been studying medicine in the Medical College at Baltimore has returned home. Miss Alease Wagstaff returned home last Sunday after spending several days visiting friends in uunn. Messrs J. A. Johnson and H. M. Barefoot, of this section, made a trip to Sampson county Sunday. Miss Minnie Smith, of Benson, spent Saturday night and Sun day with relatives and friends in this section. There is being a telephone line constructed from J. V. Johnson's across a large plantation to his father's home. Mr. C. B. Johnson, one of our well known farmers, don't seem to be furious over the crows pulling up his corn. After spending a few days with relatives in this section Mr. Geo. Jones and family returned to their home in the Seven Mile section Sunday. I. V. The shipment of strawberies yesterday that passed through this city over the Atlantic Coast Line was the largest this year and amounted to 101 cars by freight and 3,057 crates by ex press, making a total of 33.357 crates, or 1,066,424 quarts. The prices ranged from 9 to 16 cents per quart on the Northern mar kets and by striking a geueral average of 11% cents the ship ments yesterday in money would amount to $123.253.76.?Golds boro Argus, 20th. CLAYTON. Mr. H. W. Mitchell is at home. Mr. I. S Bagwell went to Ral-^ eigh Sunday. j h Mr. H. L. Barnes went to Ral eigh Tuesday. | w Messrs. Maja Jones and Hymen Dodd went to Raleigh Tuesday, a The Clayton school faculty are preparing a big commencement, c Mrs. Riley Gulley went to Cary ? Wednesday to visit her grand parents. I c Mrs.L.D. Debnam returned to Sel- s ma after several days' stay with her mother who has been sick. j p Mr. W. A. Barnes is moving his c stock of goods to Mr. H. L. j Barnes' new brick store on Main t street. v Mr. C. T. Young passed through here Saturday on his way to Ral- s eigh where he spent Sunday and s 1 Monday. i Messrs. Ashley and Charles W. i Home spent several days in Ral- s eigh this week. They report big ? preparations for the Carnival r next week. Mr. Will H. McCullers tells us of a freak. Some days ago, one of his cows gave birth to a calf hav ing eight legs, four eyes, two tails and only one head. The K. of P's. had a strawber- } ry festival Monday night. They had plenty of strawberries, ice cream from Duglii's and cake in ^ plenty. They report a grand time, On last Friday night the town convention was held here with very little excitement. The fol-! lowing candidates were nomina ted: For Mayor, E. L. Hinton, by acclamation. For Alderman, Lower Clayton, C. W. Home; Mid dle Clayton, Dr. J. A. Giiffin; Up-! per Clayton, C. M. Thomas. All were unanimously nominated. "Yelir." ARCHER DOTS. , 1 Several of our tobacco planters!' have finished setting out their, plants. Our farmers are getting badly I behind with their work on ac count of the wet weather. Rev. A. A. Pippin filled his! regular appointment at White Oak Saturday and Sunday. Miss Lcssie Barnes who is at tending school at Clayton spent Saturday and Sunday at herj home. Miss Joyce Barnes one of Clayton's most beautiful and ac complished young ladies spent Saturday and Sunday in this community. # Me hope that every township1 in the county will in the near future be in territory in which the roads are worked as Smith field j and Clayton townships roads are worked?by taxation. Indeed we must have something better than what we now have. With a few weeks of fair weather t we will catch up and be ready to | welcome the arrival of summer { with a Masonic picnic. We have t heard it rumored that Ex-Senator i j Mat W. Hansom will be thej speaker of the occasion. The g boys have cleaned off their base ] ball ground and will, we under- ] stand, organize and begin to ] | play at an early date. B. X. A Sure Thing. It is said that nothing is sure j ] except death and taxes, but that is not altogether true. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption i is a sure cure for all lung and I throat troubles. Thousands can testify to that. Mrs. C. B. Van Metre, of Shenherdtown, W. Va., says: "I had a severe case of Bronchitis and for a year tried ! everything I heard of, but got no relief. One bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery then cured me ab solutely." It's infallible for Croup, Whooping Cough, Grip,, Pneumonia snd Consumption. Fry it. It's guaranteed by Hood . Bros., Druggists. Trial bottles free. Regular sizes 50c. $1.00. The American Can Compauy, at its annual meeting in Jersey 'City, reported $880,711 profit. | EMIT NOTES. Mr. Z. R. Hocutt is very sick. Mr. J. W. Narron lost his fine orse last week. Mr Y. E. Parker is very sick dth the toothache. Rev. Henry Rentfrow will preach ,t Friendship next Sunday. Some of our people attended hurch at Stancil's Chapel last unda.v. Now for Binding, fortheAntiocb hoir has received a quantity of ong books. Most of the farmers are done ilanting corn and now for their otton and tobacco. Miss Rosa Parker, of Turling on Institute, spent last Sunday pith her sister, Mrs. Anna Raper. Mr. R. P. Parker killed three nakes in his shuck pen one day ast week. The largest one meas ireil five feet and five inches. Mr. John Johnson and family pent last Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. Johnson's pa ents, Mr.and Mrs. W.G. Narron. J. P. MICRO DOTS. Mr. and Mrs. VV. Batten spent >art of last week with relatives n Lucama. Mr. and Mrs. James Boyette ipeut last Sunday with Mr. and Jrs. W. E. Smith. We are very sorry to note that ;he little babe of Mr. Charley fatten is quite sick. Mr. W. N. Barden and Mr. L. t. Batten went to Smithfield donday on business. Owing to the rain the Sunday ichool was not organized here ast Sunday. But guess they vill organize the first Sunday. Mr.Charlie Blackman and Miss darv F. Blackman were happily narTied Sunday p. m. at u o'clock, dr. Julius Broadwell officiating. We wish tht young couple a long md happy life together. Bob. PINE LEVEL DOTS. Bine Level Oil Mill has closed 'or this season. Mrs. W. H. Gurley spent Sun iay with her mother. The Pine Level Brick Co. is laving a brick miil erected near :his place. Pine Level votes on dispensary lext Monday. Town election vill be held Tuesday following. Mrs. B. L. Strickland, of Selma, s spending a few days with her pa rents,Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Aldndge. Henry Westbrook and Chas. rhompson have been quite sick. We are glad to see them out igain. Y. Y. Married. On the 22d inst., at 4 p. m., at ;he home of the bride's father, dr. John Lassiter, William Keen md Miss Bettie Lassiter were inited in the holy bonds of wed ock, Alfred Keen, J. P. officiating. The attendants were David ?landers with Miss Sallie Keen, Etufus Johnson with Miss Bertie Lassiter, Junius Hobbe with Miss Vfinnie Keen, Daniel Keeu with Miss Linnie Hobbs. After the ceremony the bridal party returned to the groom's :ather's where a sumptuous sup per awaited them. They will make their home in Four Oaks where they are cordi ally welcomed by their many friends. Reporter. The Blue Birds Victors. The Smithfield Blue Birds de feated the Selma team at Selma Wednesday afternoon to the tune of 15 to 5. Ellington and Dickens battery for the Blue Birds. The Selma boys did not score until the Oth inning. Then they scored on errors. Howell played a pretty first, so did the second baseman. Cobb made pretty base hits. Barues, Guill and Stevens did good work. Ellington did the twirling act O. K. ami Dickens did extra work behind the bat. 8. B. B.