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?jr Smittjfirlii Hrralil price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.' single copies five cents VOL. 22. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1903. NO. 27. A Golden Opportunity for O'Neals Township. A progressive movement in any direction is somewhat like in vention, when called upon bv necessity, that the thougnt run ning through a few minds is also running in many, and now the signs plainly tell us that the citizens of O'Neals township have a good opportunity offered to them for a general forward movement for the new railroad from lialeign to Pamlico Sound, which, by necessity, must pass through the township, if built. For many years progressive citizens in all sections of the south, have been devising ways and means for the permanent improvement and the well-being of all its citizens. To effect this, there should be a general system of co-operation between the! states, counties and townships, and all the citizens in general. A united effort assures success. The people in the section to be traversed, by this railroad and especially this tow nship, should be enthusiastic and rise up as one man, with a full determina tion that it shah be built and vote unanimously for bond subscription. Comparatively, the amount is small, is a good in vestment and will be a financial success in the near future. The citizens are already aware of the disadvantages of their isolated condition from the out side world. Lookattheenormous cost to the farmers in hauling their fertilizers, groceries and family necessities and the delivery of their crops at places from ten to twenty miles distant. The time required, wear and tear of their teams, and the exposure to inclement weather, when estima ted, the amount is startling. If the road is built, which seems to be an assured fact, provided the good people of the sections through which the road will pass come forward and do their full duty, by voting the necessary bonds, money is not asked nor required of them, but bonds on on long time, which thedivideudw of the road, after a few years of operation, will amply pay off, without cost to them directly; and the township will reap a golden harvest from the road. In the first place, stations will have to be built' and this town ship is just the the right distance from Raleigh, Wilson, and other places, for a station, a town in your township, with all that means. .Now what would a town mean or do for that section of the country, which now is looked upon as an outcast, as for as the outer world is concerned? Noth ing would do more to increase the value of farms, creating a market at home for any and all things that can be produced on a farm, which increased price or value over that now obtained in distant markets with all the inconvenience, trouble, time, wear and tear in delivering the same. The value of your farms will more than double in a few years, wages will increase, there by bettering the condition of the laboring man. The social, finan cial and educational advance ment benefited at a very small cost, and that indirectly. Now is the time, the 22nd, day of September, for the farmers and all citizens of the township, to vote for the bond issue for the new road, so that peace aud prosperity will reign supreme in your midst. Now don't be like Smithfield, (in by-gone days), to sit and grieve over a golden opportunity that was once offered to her and rejected by the county represen tatives in the Legislature. When the charterforthe North Carolina Railroad wasupforconsideration and likely to pass, the represen tatives of Johnston county were told that if they would vote for it, the road should pass through Smithfield, but if they did not, the road would not touch it, but pass some miles off. You all now see the result. Suppose that road had gone through Smith field then, what would heve been the result? Why. instead of the town laboring under many dis advantages for years, until the I Atlantic Coast Line was built, with only a handful of discour aged and disheartened inhabit ants lamenting and grieving over the folly and sad results of a once 1 great opportunity, it would have been one of our most flourishing inland towns, with mauv thous ands of prosperous and happy citizens. The clink of the ham- ; mer and the hum of the spindles resounding all up and down the noble old Neuse, a perfect hive of industry, with a halo overshad owing the entire county. , Now which picture of the above will the voters of O'Neals town ship take? It seems to us that all sane people could and would decide the question iustantly and that voters of said township will march in one solid phalanx to the poles and vote subscription, thereby covering themselves and township with glory, leaving a railroad as a monument to their ] efforts in elevating and bettering the condition of their felloweiti zens and as an incentive and convenience to future genera- i tions. i Now dont lose any time but register and be ready to vote, and on the 22nd go to the polls, take your neighbor and see that he votes the right way. ; Citizkn. !, Dan Tcachcy Sentenced to Die. Goldsboro, N. C., Sept. 7.?The 1 Duplin county jury who tried Dan Teaehey for the murder-of Bob , Itivenbark in Kenansville last ] week, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree on ] Saturday evening at 6 o'clock and the presiding judge sentenced 1 Teaehey to be hanged on the 2nd day of October. Counsel for j Teaehey gave notice of appeal to | the Supreme Court. The case , occupied four days of the court last week, Teaehey was brought - to this city again yesterday and ( placed in jail. While awaiting his trial he had broke jail in Kenansville and the sheriff did not care to give Teaehey another 1 ooportunity to cain his freedom. The strange part of the story is that he should have come in and j, given himself up to the sheriff as; he did do. "e expected to prove i an alibi, but the evidence was too strong against him. He followed Itivenbark upalongthe road and shot him at ihe home of a negro woman with whom they were both intimate. The prosecution had the dying man's declaration that it was Teaehey who shot him and tnree eve-witnesses to the tragedy. MASSbY CMAPbL NUIbS. Mr. Jno. R. Woodard visited I in Emit section last week. Elder S. H. Brady and wife ' snent Sunday in Smithfield. Mr. A. T. Wiggs made a busi-i ness trip toGold?boroS iturday. Mr. Andrew Brewer of Wayne was with us Saturday night and j Sunday. We learn that Mr. J. Bowen, of our section, will leave soon for , Greensboro. Mrs. llausom Holland, of Ken-' j ley, spent last week with her par- j Sents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Wood-! ard. Mr. A. G. Woodard spent Sun-' day near Neuse Chapel. He will leave today (Wednesday) for Chapel Hill to take a course in j medicine. Albert Woodard and Robert j Brady killed a large snake Mon jday. They say that they are] confident that he was three inches or more in diameter. Rev. M. A. Adams, Principal of1 Mt. Moriah Academy, will begin a series of meetings at the Wood ard school house Sunday even ing, Sept. 20. All are invited to attend. G. ! Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Has world-wide fame for mar ! vellous cures. It surpasses any other salve, lotion, ointment or balm for Cuts, Corns, Burns. ] Boils, Sores, Felons, Fleers. Tet ter, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Chapped Hands, Skin Eruptions; infallible for Piles. Cure guaran teed. Only 25c at Hood Bros., Druggists. SANDERS CHAPEL. Miss Dora Woodall is counting stars in the Four Oaks shade. Mrs. Rosa Pritchard has re turned to her school inGastonia. Mr. John Sanders roamed in the Wilson's Mills woods last Sunday. Whoora for the Kansas school mams. Court it you want to, or be courted. The dry weather and travel to court has transmogitied ourgood roads to a free public dust bath. The haying and fodder pulling season has been perfect, and a little rain to Jfill the tater cracks and hoodie the turnips and inguns is now in order. Scuppernongs are ripening and attracting both man and possum by the delicious fragrance wafted on this mild September breeze They are neither delusive or mithy. Rev. Mr. Hall is holding a series of meetings at Sardis Baptist church this week. The man in the moon is mightlv in his favor, but it is well to keep your lamp trimmed and burning. Messrs. Chas. Powell and Willie Smith played now you sees me and now you don't sees me last Sunday. W<j don't know what thep- business down to Walter was. They came back hungry but smiling. Mr. Charles Powell sold his jrop of tobacco on the 9th. He left the bank still doing; business. He was chief mourner in the homeward procession, with J. Whit Stevens playing anti me too fidale. The young ladies of this ranch had an ice cream rally at the beautiful oak grove in front of the Methodist church last Friday night for church improvements. Twenty-two dollars was realized from the large and liberal audi ence. We noted the presence of Mr. Will Tomlinson and four young ladies from the Polenta region, I)r. Holland and Miss Eva Hood, of Smithfleld. Misses Fitzgerald and Stancil, of Selma. Our whole woods, neck and all were out lapping cream and nib bling cake. Mr. and Mrs. 0. S. Powell at tended the annual reunion of Co. E. 20th Regiment, near Mount Olive last week. Mrs. Powell had a brother, brother-in-law, a cousin and thirteen sweethearts in that company in 1861. She had a sort of a hog-killing love feast of a time, and got around like "one of the boys." An hu morous, pleasant and attractive address by Rev. Dr. J. D. Huf ham, of Warsaw, was concluded by all the old vets falling into line, marking time aud giving three "old Rebel yells" charged the biggest, longest, widest and most elaborate and bountifully supplied table, with the sweetest, juciest, and brownest barbecued grauda porkers, flanked and en filaded and supported in front and rear, underneath and over head by chicken and goat, and mutton and old hen, cow and old ham and young bread, washed down and slashed around by lemonade and ice tea and Java coffee, sweetened and served by the blessed ladies from Mount Olive and Calypso, and Wolf Scrape and Tear Shirt, and Lick Lizzard and Swinge Rig and Bear Mash and the country round about and between Rattlesnake creek and Goshen swamp. In the ang'e (not the bloody one) of the table stood the barbecue wagon, in the rear end of which was loca ted an old-fashioned gumwood bread tray three feet long, which was presided over by the veteran colored barbecue butler of Mount Olive, with a cleaver in hand chopping chips worth picking up. Right by this wagon Mrs. I'owe.l took her stand, and she has not stopped talking about that meat and things yet. After dinner anti-trust cigars were handed around and jabbed into your pockets, and the camp tires were soon burning and the smoke a swelling, and old stories a telling and some a vellii. .c. One feller said he never \ j - -ted to attend another reunion dinner. He expanded like a ball 'in and collapsed the secont d and it took him three day* to rake in enough pea* and things to get in a normal condition, besides feel ing bad from the first. Dr. Huf-j ham, himself an old vet, iu hie! speech threw the girls a bunch of taffy at the expense of a young j old vet. He said, in Virginia j endurin of th" war. a young sol-j dier fell in love with a Virginia] damsel and was too bashful to tell her about it, so he sent her J the following ietter accompanied by a bunch of blossoms and grass and sich." Accept til is bokay from ft feller Who oft him heard the eftiiiioiiH heller; Has listened to tile fifes a too tin And helped to do ft hcnp of shootin; Has seen the war clouds darkly rise hike fifty buzzards when they flies; Who now is bigger than his dad And wants to marry mighty bad. X. SEL.MA NEWS. , Mr. C. P. Harper went to Ral eigh Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. It. B. Whitley went to Raleigh Wednesday. Mr. Everett Holder, of Wilders, I is visiting friends here this week. Miss Mattie Ellington, of Man chester. Va., is visiting Mrs. VV. j H. Call. Miss Julia Richardson, of Wen dell, is visiting her uncle, R. 15. Whitley. . | Mr. \V. W. Wynne, of Raleigh, I is visiting his daughter, Mrs. N. E. Edgerton. Miss Julia Fuller Etheredge has returned from a visit to the I Misses Ballard of Franklinton. Miss Ola Barker who has been in Spencer N. (J. visiting for several weeks has returned home. Miss Lula Owens, of Durham, who has been visiting Miss Effie ; Blackman returned home Mon day. Mrs. Kebecca Honeycutt, of Clayton, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. B. Driver, has returned home. Mr. C. R. Ashley, of Roxboro X. C., who was one of the pro prietors of the Star Warehouse last season, is in town. H. W. Hood has taken the | contract to build the approaches to the iron bridge and hopes to j get them finished this weex. Mr. W. 15. Driver is having his residence on Anderson and Pol lock streets repaired and added to and will soon move into it. Mr. 15. L. Strickland has severed his connection with the Selma Oil Mills and goes to Battleboro X. C., as Supt. of the cotton oil mills. Mr. M. A. Hooks, of Matthews, who bought cotton here for Sprunt & Sons, of Wilmington, has arrived and will buy cotton j again. Mr. Battle A. Ilocutt, of Earps boro, passed through our town j a few days ago on his way to Chapel Hill where he is taking the medical course. The Selma -lunior Base Ball club went to Wendell last Satur day to cross bats with the Wen dell's second nine. The score was 20 to 0 in favor of Selma Juniors. Mrs. E. H. Lee, of Raleigh, is visiting her brother, L. D. Deb nam. Mrs. Debnam is in Clayton at the bedside of her mother, i Mrs. Dr. Griffin, who we regret I to learn is very sick. Our people generally and es pecially Mr. N. E. Edgerton are much pleased with I udge Peebles. He seems to run the court and does not ltt the lawyers run it. j A few such .fudges as Judge Pee bles and crime would decrease. Mis- Margaret Etheridgeenter-' tained a number of her friends Wednesday evening in honor of her charming guest Miss Fannie McKay, of Manchester, N. C. Among those present were Misses Mamie Tuck, Mary Hatcher, Margaret Smith, Pettie l.ee Sanders, Rosa, Mamie and Nan nie Richardson. Lois Pass, Mat tie Ellington,.Mrs. It. H.Carring ton, Mrs. M. C. Wijwton, Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pally Prof. Craven, Robert Gibson, G. I). Viek. Robert Mil lard Novell, Geo. I). Vlck, Sam I Wood, Stanley Robertson, and M. C. Tuck. Miss Mamie Tuck i won the prize. COURT PROCEEDINGS. The September Term of John ston county Superior convened here Monday afternoon with Judge R. 15. Peebles, of .North ampton county on the bench. Solicitor Armistead Jones, of Raleigh, represents the State. The following grand jury was chosen: Edward H. Woodall, Foreman, R. J. 1*. Raker, EliS.Turlington, Alonzo Johnson, Joseph Lee, A. 1>. Tart, J. XV. Jones, R. A. Rlack inau, N. G. Rand, A. J. Masse.y, Ransom Reasle.v, I) J. Wellons, A R. Lee, J. 1). Eason, R (J. | Coter, E. P. Gower, W. E. God win and J. C. Tart. Everitt W. Holder was appointed officer of the grand-jury. Judge Peebles' charge to the grand jury was short and to the I point. In this charge he empha sized the importance of magis trates' taking down the evidence of witnesses in their courts, read the evidence over to the witness j and require him to sign same. This he said, would greatly aid the Solicitor in having only ma terial witnesses summoned and thus save much expense. He also called attention to the | vagrant laws and said in sub-! stance that it was the duty of i Justices of the Peace and Mayors to enforce these laws and take up ! JUDGE It. D. PEEBLES. all vagrants and put them to work. If these laws were en forced there would not be so many worthless negroes loafing around all over small towns, re fusing to work when a job was offered them. Our people are well pleased with the business-like manner in which Judge Peebles is conduct ing the court. He does not allow any quibbling over tritling mat ters that hinder the progress of his court. The following are the piincipal criminal cases disposed of to date: Jdun Williams was charged with larceny and breaking in house. Could not be found and j no: pros tntert d. Will Lockhart plead guilty to resisting an officer and also to an assault aud battery. He was sentenced to two years on Clay ton roads. Anderson Holdeu was fined guilty of breakiug into a store. Sentence not yet pronounced. C. H. Wood and Leonard Grimes were tried and found guilty of a nuisance. Prayer for judgment continued. Owen Morgan was before the court on a charge of larceny and receiving. He was released upon payment of costs. Wesley Watsou and John Game were found guilty of an affray and fined five dollars each and costs. Robert Starling was before the court upon a charge of an assault with a deadly weapon. Judg ment suspended upon payment; of costs. \Vm. Uraffenreid was found $25 and costs for an assault with a deadly weapon. Arthur Whitley was lined $20 and costs for carrying a con cealed weapon. J. F. White was up for assault with deadly weapon, found guil ty aud fined $20 and costs. T. O. Snead, Jr., was fin?d $20 aud costs for assault with deadly weapon. The principal case before the court at this term is the case against L. B. Durham charged with rape upon barilla Sanders. The defendant was brought into court Monday afternoou and ar raigned. The case was set for Wednesday morning aud a special venire of 75 men were summoned from which to get a jury. Wednesday morning the case came up and the morning hour was spent in getting a jury. Wednesday afternoon and Thurs day morning was spent in the examinat ion of witnesses. Messrs. Pou & Brooks and l'hillip Busbee are attorneys for the defendant Durham. The State is represent ed by Solicitor Jones and Mr. E. S. A bell. The jury was given the case at 7 o'clock last night and at 10 tiled in court and rendered a ver dict of not nuilty. And Durham was allowed to go home after having spent six mouths in jail. I here are several other crimi nal cases yet upon the docket and it is hardly probable that court will adjourn before Satur day afternoon. CLAYTON CHIPS. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Gulley went toSmithfleld Monday. Mr. Wm. Wall has accepted a po.-ition with Mr. It. II. Fusell. Mr. W. E. Stallings returned from Baltimore last Thursday. Mr. D. T. Barnes and Miss Itosa Parker, of Garner, spent Sunday here. Little Dorsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis I). Creech is quite sick. Mrs. Jesse Wood and sister spent Monday with Mrs. Victor Barnes. Miss Blanche Barnes left Thurs day to enter the Durham Con servatory. I> -? l J i > uwiutroM Li tin upuueu up iiveiy iu Clayton. New cotton coming in every day. Mr. A. J. Harbour left Tuesday for Northern Markets to buy the fall stock for his firm. A number of our young people attended the vocal union at White Oak last Sunday. Itev. C. W. Blancbard filled his regular appointment at the Baptist church Sunday. Air. C. B. Turley has accepted a position with Air. I. M. Itodd as manager of his livery business. Miss Rosa Lee Harris a beauti ful young lady of Scotland Neck is visiting her brother Mr. M. Harris. Mr. W. H. Cole has a first-class Saw Mill, boiler and engine for sale on easy terms. See his "ad" elsewhere. The first new cotton of this section was sold by W. B. Penny last Saturday. One bale brought 11.85 one 11.82. A number of our citizens are attending court at Smithfield this week in the capacity of jurors and witnesses. Mr. .1. R. Barnes of Archer showed us some fine tobacco this week. It seems to have been well grown and well cured. Miss Theresa Hinton of Dur ham. N. C., and Mrs. Will Hin ton of Savanah Ga., are visiting their sister Mrs. J. H. Johnson near here. Mrs. Sylvester Reddingfield died at her home on Mr. E. It. Gulley's plantation Tuesday night about 10:30 o'clock. She had been sick for several weeks. Mrs. Ashley Horne returned Tuesday from Sparks, Ga., where she has been to attend the funer al of her sister, Mrs. Rogers. Mr. Geo. L. Walker, her brother-in law, accompanied her. The annual session of the Mem bership of the Clayton Baptist Church will be held at the church the first Sunday in October. An interesting and helpful program has been arranged. Dinner will be served on the ground. Kvery membei of thechurchisesjiecially ! requested to be present. The public is cordially invited to at tend. The Clayton High School con tinues to grow. Fourteen new pupils weie enrolled Monday making the total enrollment to that date 101 The new l>oard ing pupils are Miss Verna Penny, Miss Nannie Penny, and Miss Norma Sorrell of Penny, N. C. Misses llattie Wall and Hmma Castleberry of Archer. Miss Naomi Vinson of Clayton, und , Walter Creech of Krnit, N. C. "YKLIH"
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