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VOL. 2">. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. MAY 11. 101)0. NO. 10.
State News
Some Events of the Week
in Tarheeldom.
Short Items of Interest Clipped
and Culled From Our
State Papers.
Granville county had a terrific
hail storm Sunday night.
Asheville is to have a new hotel
with 200 rooms and to cost j
$150,000.
The Secretary State reports}
that 607 new corporations were
chartered during the past year.
The annual session of the
< J rand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
North Carolina washeldinGolds
boro this week.
Dr. W. L. Poteat, President of
Wake Forest College, will deliver
the literary address at Buies
Creek commencement May 17th.
The Democratic executive com
mittee of this district has called
the I udicial convention to meet
in Lillington Tuesday, June 12th,
to nominate a candidate for
solicitor.
Last Saturday 226 cars of
strawberries were shipped from
the berry section of Eastern
North Carolina. The total num
ber of cars for the week was 1,168.
A charter has been granted
the Moore county Agricultural
and Development Company, of
Aberdeen, capital stock $50,000;
Henry A. Page and others stock
holders.
The degree of M. D. will be con
ferred on eleven young men at
Chapel Hill tonight. They are j
graduates of the University of I
North Caroiina Medical Depart
ment at Raleigh.
Mr. H. L. Godwin, of Dunn,
Senator from this district in the
Legislature of 1903, has an
nounced that he is a candidate
for Congress in the sixth district.
He was a Presidential elector in
1904.
J. H. Wright, an old Confeder-'
ate soldier of Cleveland county,
who is 03 years of age and has
never drawn a pension, says that
during the past year he has trap
ped 922 muskrats, 98 minks, 75
'possums and 4 otters.
Early Saturday moring Hiram
Higgins, aged 73, shot and kill
ed his son Silas, aged 50, at
Wilkesboro. The tragedy was
brought on by some family dif
ferences, as both had been bound
over to the next term of court,
charged with an affray.
In a dispute over a barrel of
blockade liquor in Orange coun
ty, Friday afternoon, Andrew
Pool, aged 42, shot and killed
John Laws, aged 35, and Laws
after receiving the mortal wound
shot Pool through the bead,
killing him almost instantly, j
The two men were neighbors and j
had been friends in the past.
w. A. uautier, who had just <
completed a three years term in
the Atlanta penitentiary, was 1
tried in the Superior court at
Clinton last week for the murder
ot B. G. E. Daughterv, an officer, j1
while assisting a U. S. Marshal
in an arrest for the first offense, [
found guilty and sentenced to
15 years in the pen.
It is definitely announced that |
W. C. Newland, of Lenoir, will be .
in the race for the Democratic I j
nomination for Congress in the (
Eighth district. Hisavowedcom
petitors include R. N. Hackett, i
Charles H Armfield, and T. C. |
Bowie, who are well known Demo- j
crats. It is conceded that Spen
cer Blackburn will be the Repub- j
lican nominee.
Deaths Prom Appendicitis
decrease in the same ratio that 1
the use of Dr. King's New Life j <
Pills increases. They save you 1
from danger and bring quick and I
painless release from constipa- i (
tion and the ills growing out ol i
it. Strength anil vigor always f
follow their use. Guaranteed by 3
Hood Bros., druggists. 25c. {t
Try them. i J
FAILED TO MAKE OUT CASE.
Trial Before Squire Sasser and no
Evidence of Consequence
Brought Out.
For many years Nathan E.
Lee of Ingrams township, has
been the leading blockader of
Johnston county. He has run
distilleries and blind tigers in
different places, but his head
quarters has been on Hannah's
Creek. The place called "Pole
Shanty" has been a great distri
buting point. His course has
emboldened many others at dif
ferent times to blockade in In.
grams, Meadow, Bentousville
and perhaps other townships.
For some time there has heen
more blockading between Benson
and Neuse river, going by way
of the town of Bentonsville, than
in all the rest of the county.
Men have been going along in
defiance of the law and in many
cases without being very careful
to keep their tracks covered.
Perhaps Mr. Lee has been res
ponsible more than any other
man for this state of affairs.
Solomon's saying, "One sinner
destroyeth much good," has
been abundantly fulfilled in his
case.
Some time age L. R. Raynor
was before the mayor of Benson
for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct. When asked where he
got me nquor ne earn ne Dougnt
it of Nathan E. Lee. He men
tioned two purchases of a half
gallon each that he had made
and said he paid seventy-five
cents each time. He made affi
davit to these facts. Besides
him there were others who said
they had bought from him and
still others were reported to have
bought from him.
\\ ith the affidavit from Mr.
Raynor and the names of several
men as witnesses a case was pre
pared. It was presented to Mr.
J M. Beaty and he was asked in
behalf of the temperance people
of the county to swear out a
warrant for Mr. Lee, which he
did. Mr. Z. L. LeMay issued the
warrant.
Saturday, May 5th, was the
day set for the trial. Messrs.
Ed. S. Abell and James A. YVel
lons represented Mr. Lee and
Messrs. F. H. Brooks and W. W.
Cole the prosecution. It seems
that some of the witnesses had
been warned and threatened. It
seamed also that some persons
connected with the trial had
been corn juiced. A demand was
made that the case be moved to
some other magistrate and Mr.
LeMay, disregarding the wishes
of the temperance people who
wanted Mr. E. J. Holt to try the
case if there was a removal to
another magistrate, sent for Mr.
Alf B. Basser and turned the case
over to him. When this was
done the temperance people knew
what to expect, as they remem
bered Mr. Basser's action as reg
istrar last year when he arranged
[or ana allowed Jim Smith, a [
negro to vote, contrary to the
laws of North Carolina which he I
had Bworn to support both as a
citizen and as magistrate. The
trial was more of a wrangle be
tween lawyers than anything
else. Messrs. A bell and YVellons
told Mr. Sasser not to let thet
affidavit of Mr. Kaynor on which
the case was started be admit
ted as evidence and he ruled it
out. They objected to almost
every question asked Mr. Kay-,
nor and finally Mr. Sasser re
fused to let Messrs. Brooks and ,
Cole finish the examination.
When Mr. Kaynor was sworn'
he told Squire Sasser quite a dif
ferent tale from what he swore
in the affidavit before Mayor J.
M. Britt. When the attorneys
!or the prosecution introduced
the affidavit and Mr Kaynor ac
knowledged the siguature to it
is being his, Messrs. Abell and
Wellons objected to the intro
iuction of the affidavit, saying
that Kaynor was drunk and
threatened with being jailed if he
lid not make the affidavit and
t was therefore incompetent. So
Squire Sasser would not permit
llr. Kaynor to be examined j
touching the affidavit. The]
jrosecution then introduced I
I I
j Mayor J. M. Britt for the pur
j pose of showing that Mr. Kay-j
nor was not drunk nor threaten-,
ed, but Squire Sasser, upon mo
tion of counsel for the defendant,
would not permit him to be ex
amined. The rulings of the
court practically put the prose
j cution out of business.
Mr. Cole showed his disgust at
the way the trial was being con
ducted by leaving thecourt room
after delivering a few cutting and
appropriate remarks.
Messrs. Abell and Wellons told
Mr. Sasser to tax Mr. J. M. j
Beaty with the cost of the trial
; and he agreed to do it. Mr.
Brooks said he would appeal to
| the court on account of the cost,
and then they told Mr. Sasser
they did not care about the cost
and so he relieved Mr. Beaty of (
it rather than have the whole j
case go to court as neither he
nor Messrs. Abell and Wellons
seemed to want the case to go
to court. Nathan E. Lee was
turned loose so far as this case
was concerned.
Next Mr. Z. L. LeMay took his
place again and asked Mr. Sasser
to serve with him in the exami
nation of certain witneses who
were supposed to know some
thing about other cases of viola
tions ol the law by Mr. Lee. The i
temperance people expected to
give these witnesses a thorough
and searching examination but
Mr. LeMay would not allow it.
He ruled that no person be al- i
lowed to ask them any questions
except himself and his examina
tion was very short and very
disappointing to the temperance
nonnlo i
The temperance people must
enforce the law even if they fail
now and then as was the case
here last Saturday.
FROM OVER THE SEA.
Mr. W. T. Lane Writes of His Trip
Across the Atlantic to Bremen. i
Editor Herald:?I promised !
to write as soon as I crossed the
little pond. Well, we had a tine:
trip. The steamer tried to stand
on her fore legs and then on her
bind legs. It somewhat remind
ed me of some of those ponies
Hunter Ellington sells in Smith
held. Sometimes it would try to .
roll a fellow off. yet I did not get J
sick the least bit. 1 ate my feed ,
three times every day for 14 days ,
and I have just eaten one of the ,
finest sirloin steaks you ever ,
want to try.
We arrived in Bremen harbor ,
at 2 p. m. and had to wait there j
one hour for the custom house <
officers. You would be amused ,
to see them go through a trunk j
and especially a lady's trunk. e
We then took the train for f
Bremen 42 miles and it took us {
until G p. m. to get through. It
is a very low country this far, t
though you can see every inch of (
it is put to some use. I saw on j
the way this afternoon two oxen t
hooked to a mowing machine. 1 t
1 u*- ivf.?4-u n ii 1- 1
lijuu^uu ui nunii \_>tkruuiia wutk- .
iug oxen. The fields are green j
here now with grain and they {
are plowing and gardening. The
trees are putting out and bloom- (
ing. This is a fine country but j
you would laugh to see their g
trains, yet they are quite com
fortable. 1 will take in this city j
tomorrow und then goto.Vlagde- |
burg. ,
I am so very sorry to hear of j
the fate of San Francisco.
Well, I will have to ask vou to
excuse me for this timefor I want ^
to listen to the grand music I t
hear. I would like so much to e
Be a Smithfikld Herald.
Truly yours,
W. T Lank.
Bremen, Germany, April 2">.
c
Town Officers. j t
it
The Board of Town Aldermen? D
has elected the following officers
for another year: t
Mayor? E. J. Holt. 0
Clerk?J. H. Woodall. t
Treasurer?T. R. Hood. a
Tax Collector?C. L. Eason. !c
Chief Police?.T. T. Barbara.
:fi
The pace that kills wouldn't be
so bad if it killed only the pace- F
maker. I
General News
Happenings of the Week
Tersely Told.
Items 6t Interest From Far and
Near Served in Short
Courses.
The Canadian Parliament has
given $100,000 for the relief of
San Francisco. President Roose
velt refused the gift. It was then
offered to the city which accept
ed.
The Berkshire Cotton Mills at
Adams, Mass , have given notice
of a ten per cent, increase in
wages of operatives on May 1-4. |
There are 8,000 operatives in
these four mills.
Ten killed and twenty injured,
tells the gruesome story of a
head-on collision in Pennsylvania
last Friday night. Train orders
misunderstood. Ten lives snuff
ed out because somebody failed
to do his duty.
Rev. J C Berryman, a Metho
dist preacher aged 07, died at
Caledonia, Missouri, Tuesday.
He was the only surviving mem- j
ber of the General Conference of
1844, when the split between the
Northern and Southern Metho
dists came.
TDe Panama Canal Company
had 27,000 employes on its pay
roll during the month of April.
Five thousand of these were paid
in gold and 22,000 in silver. The
number of men at work exceeds
by 9,000 the greatest number
the French Company ever had in
its employ.
William Cox and his son-in
law, William Carney, both coal j
miners of Smithfield, Ohio, quar
reled last week over the posses- [
sion of two cats. As Carney was |
leaving the yard Cox seized a j
shotgun and shot him dead. He j
then turned it on himself and |
tired the second load into his
breast, dying almost instantly.
Talton-Llles.
On Wednesday evening, May
2nd. at 7:30 o'clock Ilepzibah
:hurch, Wake county, was taxed
:o its fullest capacity by those
vho had gathered to witness the
iiarriage of Mr. Arthur R. Tal
:on and Mis Oma Thomas Liles,
30th of Eagle Rock. The prelode j
;o the ceremony was the render
ng of the very appropriate song,
'Because" which was sung with
;he tenderest feeling by Mrs. Ed.
Lee, of Raleigh. Miss Lola Liles,
lister of the bride, artfully per
ormed at the organ and sound
id Mendlesshon's lovely wedding
narch. The bride, who was at
:ired in a beautiful white silk and
:ai ried bride's roses, was ushered
n on her father's arm, while
he groom approached the alter.
)y the opposite aisle, accom
janied by his beet man, \lr. A
i. Duncan, of Clayton. The
iride accepted the arm of the
jroom just beneath a rustic arch
)f evergreens, and it was here
teneath the evergreen arch?they ;
itood while the pastor of the
:hurch, Rev. A. A. Pippin, with |
mpressive words spoke the
anguage which made the son of
dr. R. E. Talton and thadaugb- |
,er of Mr. VV. A. Liles, husband
ind wife.
Just after the ceremony the
lenedict and his bride followed 1
>y the ushers, waiters, relatives |
ind friends left for bis fathers
tome where a most sumptuous g
upper was served.
The array of the many elegant
?resents was productive of much i
omment by all those who saw
hem, and plainly it was seen
hat they were popular among
aany. <
Now we come to the plaice and ; ]
ime to congratulate the young
uan. In simple words we do so,
>y saying that, since he was the
iccepteifone, he should be glad
iver his success and let the <
mowlpdge of victory suffice for (
ill congratulations.
Wp wish for them a life of love. |
?rospei<ty nod happiness. j
Reporter.
WILSON'S MILLS SCHOOL CLOSED.
The Example of Wilson's Mills Has
Helped Local Tax In Other Places.
Wilson's Mills, N. L\, May 9.?
This quiet little village, the cen
tre of a splendid agricultural
section, has the best scnool pro
perty of any village of its size in
Kasteru North Carolina. When
the war closed Mr. John A. Wil
son, of Warren couuty, who had
made a fortune before the war,
came to this place, which thm
had splendid piue forests about
it. lie put up a saw mill ami
for years conducted a large tuiii- J
ing establishment. He was the
best type of the sort of men who
laid deep and broad the founda
tions upon which this genera
tion of North Carolidians is
building a prosperous and rich
State. Mr. Wilson's sons suc
ceeded him in his business here
and they are among the State's
most useful citizens. Their sash
and blind factory sends its pro
duct all over the State i
The people of this community
have the correct idea about the
education of their children. A
few years ago they vuted a local
tax by a majority of one vote.
Some good men opposed it. But
the school has been so successful
that nobody would go back to
little old schools with one teach
er. The school committee here,
composed of Messrs. W. (T. Wil
son, L. F. Uzzle and N. H. Mitch
ener, have built a modern school
building that, with the furniture
and lot, cost $.'1,250. The school
tax is thirty cents, and, with the
regular fund, enables the com
mittee to employ three teachers
and give the children of this dis
trict as good a public school as
you will find in the State. The
principal of the school this year
is Mr. H. M. Lilly, a graduate of
the A. & M. College, who does
credit to that institution. He is
assisted by Mr. W. C. Wilson, a
capable tescher, and by Miss
Bessie I'oe Law, a brilliant
graduate of St. Mary's School.
The enrollment of the year was
105.
There was a full house today
to hear the annual address by
Mr. Josephus Daniels, editor of
The News and Observer. He
was introduced by Mr. D. O.
Uzzle. He spoke nearly an hour
and at the conclusion of his
speech Prof. J. Y. Joyner and
County Superintendent Turling
ton and W. GL Wilson, chairman
of thq school committee, made
brief addresses. The community
is proud of its school and has a
right to the pride it feels.?News
and Observer.
CLAYTON HIGH SCHOOL.
Commencement Sermon Next Sun
day by Dr. Dunaway.
The following is the programme
for the commencement exercises
of Clayton High School:
Programme?Sunday, May 13,
10:30 a. m.,?Commencement
Seruiou, Dr. A. B. Duuaway.
Wednesday, May 16, 1:15 p.
m.,?(graduating exercises and
address to graduates, by Hon.
E. W. Pou, member of Congress
from tbe Fourth District.
Thursday, May 17, 3:30 p. m.
?Entertainment by primary and
intermediate departments.
8:15 p. m.?Drama by High
School department.
Friday, May 18?Recital by de
partment of Music and Elocu
tion.
Graduates of High School De
partment?Miss Lucy Poole,
Miss Mina Blanchard, Miss Da
phne Williams, Oscar Eason,
Milford Hinnant.
Graduates of Business Depart
ment?Miss Lillie Barnes, Miss
Lela Cole, O. P. Creech, T. T.
Wellons.
Marshals?J. W. Stephenson,
Jhief; ft. F Coats. Doue Speuce,
Floyd Gower, L T. Rose.
For Pou and Simmons.
Pittsboro, N. C , May 0.?The
convention in ;u nere yesterday
endorsed E W. Pou for Congress,
Hon F. M. Siminous for the
Senate and R H Hays for Solic
itor in this, the Eighth Judicial!
District
ELDER L. H. HARDY ON LIQUOR.
A Leading Primitive Baptist Preach
er Shows Some of the Evils
of The Drink Habit.
"Brother Hardy, do you thiuk
chat one's love for Christ is very
| strong v hen he will quit it for
mean whiskey? Write us a piece
on this subject, if you feel so in
| dined."
The above is the request of one
I of our very worthy deacons of
| one of our Eastern churches, and
| 1 fee! inclined to write and give
' an emphatic no in answer.
1 do wish from my very heart
that every Primitive Baptist in
this world was a total abstainer
from alcoholic drinks. 1 do not
see any excuse for one to get
drunk. I tnink of other things
for which one would be excluded
from the church without any
ceremony which are muoh more
tempting and wnicb are greater
snares to man or woman thair
alcoholic spirits, but if one comes
up and makes an excuse for
drunkenness he is readily for
given.
There may be among us today
members who give more money
annually to replenish their whis
key jugs than they do to defray
the expenses of their churches
and for the support of their pas
tors, and yet these things are
treated liizhtlv.
1 know of a case that I am
satisfied is this way, aud in that
very church one of the deacons
asked me, "Brother Hardy,
what is the matter with us? \\ e
are the deadest church I ever
saw?"
Can it be expected to be other
wise when the members give
themselves over to whiskev
(aud it may ba blockaded) flinch
cards, the draft board? etc.
What right have we to defile
the temple of the living God? "It
is written that my house shall be
a house of prayer but ye have
made it a den of thieves." Is not
this body the temple of God?
And yet when we speak or write
about these things we hear the
cry, "You want to take away
our privilege." Is it tue privi
lege of one professing the name
of Christ to get drunk? But o/ie
says, "1 can drink it or let it
alone, aud am not going to get
drunk, for I know what to do
with it." I don't suppose that
there is one drunkard in a hun
dred who had any idea of being
a drunkard when he began, but
many of our strongest minded
men, and some of them very
worthy members of the Primitive
Baptist church have fallen vic
tims to that fatal snare, Drunk
enness.
1 do believe that we bear with
this thing too much and too long.
It is a reproach on the sacred
cause of Jesus Christ for one of
the members of the church to be
guilty of this awful curse on any
people. A man who is drunk is
not tit for anything that is good,
1 :K aL . _ . -* il * ?
anu 11 cue Bervice in cue nouse oi
tbe Lord, or the example that
one who has a name there is not
a good work we had beet to
abandon housekeeping altogeth
er.
Just think of a deacon or oth
er member of the church wnohae
been guilty of drinking with the
drunken, and it may be, has been
drunk himself, sitting in the
judgment of a church conference
and giving his word and vote in
a case of discipline against an
other brother who is far less
guilty than himself.
Does not your heart sicken?
Good Lord deliver us from tne
judgment of such guilty sinners.
I give it as my honest judgment
that when one shows to the
church by barroom visiting, by
drinsing with the drunken, by
drunkenness or any such things
ttiat he loves these corrupt
things better than he does the
church, he should be excluded
from the church at the very first
meeting.?L. H. Hardy, inZion'e
Landmark.
.Judge Thos. A. McNeill, judge
of the seventh judicial district,
has announced that be will u t
be a candidate f??r reelection.
Solicitor!' (' Lvoii will beac.ui
didate to succeed .ludg. u Nviu.