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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"