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ilif Smithfielb Hcralit. pgice one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies pive cents. VOL. 20. SMITHFIELD. N.C.. FRIDAY. MARCH 15, 1907. NO. 2. telephone talk made good. The Johnston Qounty Telephone Com pany Chartered and Organized. Officers Elected and Work to Be Begnn at Once. The stock having been sub scribed and the charter secured, the stockholders of t he Johnston County Telephoue Company met I last Friday night in ttie Pytban llall and effected a permanent organization by electing the fol lowing Hoard of Directors: W. L. Woo iu.ll. W M. Sanders, J. D. Spiers, 1 lv Hroadburst, J.I). Underwood, T. It. Hood, 11. P. Stevens, J. A. Wellons and J. K. Kirkman. The Hoard of Directors met in the Hank of Sniithtield Tuesday night of this week and elected the following officers: W. L. Woodall, President. F. K. Hroadhurst, Vice-Presi dent. H. P. Stevens, Secretary and Treasurer. It will be recalled that in December last the Suiithfield Re tail Merchants Association asked the Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Company for a readjust . ment of telephone rates here. The ' merchants after investigating the rates paid by other tpwns and the service given at other rvlonnc' nrotm flrmln ni ill \ 1 tinorl I piatCP, TV Clt 111 1UI y that they were being discriminat !ed against, and therefore they Jasked for a small reduction to which request the Carolina peo ple replied that the?/ had uoth- j ing to offer. Accordingly, the merchants asked to have their iphones removed as they preferr- j fid to do without them, rather Jthan pay a price which they be lieved unjust. But the phone is 20th century 3roduct, finlnnihilatorof space ind a happy medium of transact- i bg business quickly, which other- j Vise would require considerable | jime and perhaps worry. The lusiness men were quick to see me results?a step backwards to j me old way of sending notes lither and thither, pay the price fir Carolina phones, or build a -istem with local capital and olerate it merely a? a local ex change. Therefore with that indomita bh energy which is characteristic of our people, the citizens put tt ir shoulders to the wheel and tt results are today we have the -Ic n-ton Count? ? Telephone Co ip ny, a mutual company wi lt.ie stock scattered largely an mg our business people with a giod working capital paid in. Tie Board of Directors are al l eany at work making investiga tion and studying the situation so ft to be able to install the ver\ best system possible. As soo! is the plans now underway are jiati red,work will be begun at ci ce i m the new system. 1 i BIB it CONTAINS 773,746 WORDS. Some Interesting Facts About The Book of Books. 14 Bible contains 8,7)00,480 j lette i, 778,746 words, 31,178 yersi , 3.181) chapters and 66 book' k.. ?-iie word ' and" occurs 16,27 r time?. The word "Lord" occur 1,87," times. Hie word "reve nd" occurs but once, ' iich iin t!i.? iglith ver >ofthe luta'l md Eleventh 1m 71 .'die vet is the iLb4-e.se l the One Hundred and PVbteei 4 iVaitn- The til v-aiXtT v hc oi the seventh 1 i'te of Ezr coti iinu all. the ?rs >f the a 4a! t except the r ? j," in . ,:>r.. est vt rs ; thi nin ,h er- of tfie eitfth chap ter of 1.stiii . Tlie shortest v. rse irthe thirty-fifth verse of the eleventh chapter of St. John. There are no words or names of more than six syllables.?Ex. The feet of nearly 100 vessels, repress Umy 12 nations is ex pected t|> assemble at the open-' ing of file Jfamestown Exposi The clizeiMs of Bristol, Tenn., voted spoils out of that city last FriAy ?; a vote of 589 to 17. TI'B'>jni?"ranee seiitiment | conti_ State News Notes. While celebrating his 20th birthday Saturday afternoon, Zab Caldwell, ofCabirrascounty, met his death by the discharge of a gun in the hands of Miss Macie I'arks, aged lo, of Cou-| cord, who lid not know the gun was loaded. Hannah Whitfield, colored, SO years of age, was burned to deat h at Wilmington Saturday night VYuile asleep. The explo sion of a 1 rap set ihe bed cloth ing on tire and before help could reach her the old woman was fatally burned. By the caving in of a sewer ditch at Statesville, Saturday afternoon, six colored men were buried alive under tons of dirt. The rescue party found the six men standing bolt upright when the earth was removed and life was extinct. All tne men left families. Aubrey Harris, a young man who until recently lived in Dur ham, shot aud killed himself in Jacksonville, Fla., Friday night. He was married in Durham less than two weeks ago and had gone to Jacksonville, where he was employed as a telegraph operator in the office of the Sea board Air Line railway. No cause assigned. I he State, couuty and city re wards for the capture of the negro Walker, aggregating $830 have been divided as follows by agreement of those interested: 1). K. Taylor, $400; Henry Lamb and Howard Smith, $100 each; Anderson and Bass, police men at Dunn, $100 each; night railway operators at Fayette ville and Dunn, $23 each. In Moord county Friday Mr. R. W. Dairymple, living eight miles from Sanford, shot him self with a shot gun, the load taking effect in his left breast. The shooting was with suicidal intent and following this Mr. j Dalrymple tried to cut his throat with a knife but was too weak to do so. He died a few hours later. His mind was unbalanced. A wife and four children survive. Governor Glenn issued a com mission Tuesday to Thomas M. Meekins, of Manteo, N. (J., as State Fish Commissioner, under the act of the Legislature ratified on March 11th. He will have general supervision of the fishing interests on the coast and the collection of the fishers tax. It will also be a part of his duties to see to it that the law is not violated as to the ' meshes in nets, etc. Announcement is made that M. L. Shipman, assistant com missioner of Labor and Printing, has declined to accept the private sectaryship of Congressman Crawford and Roswell Flack, of Rutherford, is appointed in his stead. It. is understood that Mr. Shipman wiil be in the race for Commissioner of Labor aud Printing two years hence. Mr. Shipman is editor of the Hender son Hustler. Got Mad and Wouldn't Go to Town. A relative of Henry Clay, Mrs. Frances I'aea Peter, aped 91 years, died at ht-r home in this county today. She lived seven miles from town and had not been here in more than 45 years. She became angry at some of the people in the city before the civil war and vowed that she would never visit theplam attain. She was weaii>#y ?!, xington, Ky., Dispatch, 1th. How to Uemaln Young. To continue young in health and strength, do as Mrs. N. F. Itowan, McDonough, Ga., did. She says: "Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured me of chronic liver and stomach trouble, complicated with such an unhealthy condition of the blood that my skin turned rod as flannel. I am now practically 20 years younger than before I took Electric Bitters. I can now do all my work with ease and assist in my hushand's store." Guar anteed at flood Bros. Drug Stoie i Price 50c. NOT GUILTY WAS THE VERDICT. H. J. Blvlns Who Killed an Unknown Tramp Was Set Free Here Monday Brief History of Case. ()u account of the absence of i two of the State's witnesses the Bivins murder trial, which was set for last Thursday, did not begin until Friday morning. The! following jury was empaneled to trv the case: \Y. I Holland. M M. Jone , \Y. 1). .lohnson, B. E l.angdon, J. O. .Johnson, 0. I> Allen. I. L Smith, J. E. Jones. C. 1).Stanley, (i. M. iiinton, N. It. Batten and A. B. Sasser. The remainder of Friday and until after dinner Saturday was taken up in hearing theevidence. The State was represented by Solicitor Armistead Jones. The defence was represented by Argo & Shaffer; Womack, Hayes & Pace, of Raleigh; Mr. T. J. Jerome, of Salisbury; Congress-, man E. W. Pou and Mr. Ed S.! Abell, of Smithtield. Messrs. 1 Jerome, Abell, Pace and Pouj spoke Saturday and Colonel' Argo and Solicitor Jones Mon day. The case was given to the jury a little after two o'clock! Monday and a verdict brought in about 0:15 that afternoon. W hen the foreman of the iurv announced a verdict of "not guilty" there was some applaud iug by those present, which the Judge immediately stopped, threatening to put the next one who applauded in jail. The prisoner was then released from custody and the jury excused. The following history of this case appeared in the Raleigh Times of March 7th:, J ustice of the Peace Separk left this morning for Smithfield, where he is summoned as a wit nes in the Rivins case which; comes up in court at that place to-day It will be remembered that s Rivins, at that Dime acting as de- \ tective for Seaboard Air Line in this city, shot and killed a tramp who he said was heating his way into Raleigh on a freight train, and when he was seen by Rivins broke and ran with Rivins after him shooting as he ran. After running down the railroad quite a distance the tramp ran uown an embankment into the woods, where he was shot by the detec tive- When arraigned Rivins plead that he killed him iu self defense, as the tramp was trying to cut him with a knife, when he shot him. Rivins was arrested and com mitted to jail without bail and was later tried on a habeas cor pus proceedings for bail, but was not allowed to give bond and was sent back to jail to wait for trial, which was to come up in superior court in this city. When the case came up the at torneys for the defendant asked for a removal of the trial to .Inhnwf.nn pnnnt.v s?ll<jorinrr t-Ko witness could not get a fair trial in this county owiug to the feel ing agaiusthim. The trial was moved to John ston county and is scheduled to come up this afternoon at four o'clock. The man killed by Itivins was never identified. Goose Is 72 Years Old. New York, Mar. 11.?William j Yours Strong, a farmer neari Caldwell, N. J., owus a goose which is seventy-two years of age, he swears. "William Yours, the man I was named after, gave me this goose in 1H7I," said Stroug to-day, "Yours was going back to'he old country, and he said: 'Bill, I've owned this goose for thirty six years. I would take her with me, but I fear she cannot stand the voyage, so 1 give her to you. Cherish her, Bill: be kind to her in her old age, for she is almost like a sister to me.' "Yours kissed the goose good by," Mr. Strong added. "Look at her, she is as active as a gos ling." The Thaw case is expected to go to the jury within the next two weeks. THE COTTON CROP FOR 1906. 12,716,000 Bales of Cotton are Ginn ed up to March Second. Staple Is Closely Picked. Memphis, Marcli 11.?The Na-1 tioual dinners' Association issued a l??ill?-tiu at one o'clock today slit * ring the number of bales of cotton pinned up to March 2, to be 12,710,000 bales. The report by states follows: Alabama. 1,231,000; Arkan sas, 830,000; Florida. <52,000; Uei rgia, 1.021,000; Indian Ter ritory, 301,000; Kentucky; 1,300; Louisiana, 031,000; Mis sissippi, 1,144,000; Missouri, 30,500; North Carolina, 007,000; Oklahoma, 430,000; South Caro lina, 003,000; Tennessee, 201, 000; Texas, 3,003,000; Virginia, 15,000. Total, 12,710,000. The report, which is signed by J. A. Taylor, president of the as sociation, says: ?'Owing to the very fine weath er in the west, cotton has been picked very uiuch closer than usual and this has increased the crop at least 200,000, if not more. Our reports indicate that there will not be much change in the acreage except in Texas, and the territories, where there will be an increase of from 5 to 10 per cent. "Scarcity of labor is Oie rpnnrt ? - ? I from all sections. We have re ports from a large number of un counted towns that show very much lighter stocks than last year." Dignity Of Jury-Service. Judge Long made a strong! point in his charge to the grand jury Monday morning when he said that if the grand juries were uniformly made up of the best men in the county, men who were not afraid to do their duty, J crime would rapidly vanish from the country. The dignity of the juror's posi tion is not appreciated as it should be. The juror?whether it be grand or petit?is a man in to whose hands we place our most sacred rights. When the grand jury is sworn the juror be comes one of the most powerful men in his county. In the laith ful discharge of his duties, as out lined in his oath, lies the safety, happiness and prosperity of his county, and the court itself is largely at his tuercy. The position of juror is one of the most honorable that is open to a man; and the juror who does his full dnty promptly and courageously deserves the thanks of his county and the considera tion of his friends and neighbors. It may require something of a personal sacrifice for a man to become a juror. There may be other duties and responsibilities pressing upon him; but he should remember that a public duty calls him. And a public duty faithfully performed entitles a man to a position of the highest honor ? Kinston Free frees. 490-LB. WIFE WANTS DIVORCE. Could Not Squeeze Into Elevator To Reach Lawyer's Office. New York, March 11.?When Cherry Volkman, 19 years, old, | weighing 190 pounds,afid whose occupation is "The Fattest (? ii 1 in the World" in a Broadway museum, went to see her attor ney. Abraham Goldfirb, at 1102 Broadway, several days ago to institute a suit for divorce against her husband, William, her size prevented her from get ting into the elevator in the building. After she made a futile attempt to get to the basement, where she might have entered a freight elevator and thus mounted to the floor on which her attorney's office is located, Goldfarb was summoned and discussed Cherry's case with her on the ground floor. Cherry, in her petition for divorce, charges nousupport and cruelty against William Volk man. Her husband, she says, is now imprisoned on Blackwell's Inland, having threatened her I ite in November 1906. I General News Items. Great Britain will send nix war ships to Jamestown. Four persons were burned to death in u tenement, house tire in Brooklyn, N. Y , Sunday. M. Jean Paul Pierre Casimir l'erier, former President of France, died suddenly at Paris Tuesday. By the will of Edmund P. Dwight, of Philadelphia, various; church organizations will get $200,000. A C. A- O. train ran into the slide near Hjnton, W. Va., Tues day and the engineer and tireniau were killed. A wireless message from l'ensa cola, Fla., was caught by the station at Point homa, Califor nia Tuesday. Allen LeUoy Locke, a Philadel phia negro, is to get the Rhodes scholarship allotted this year to Pennsylvania. It is reported that the engin eers iD charge expect to have the Panama Canal completed by January 1, 1915. The Richmond Board of Alder men have appropriated $5,000 to erect a monument to Edgar Allan Poe in that city. The stockholders of the Penn sylvania Railroad have approved the proposed increase of $200, 000,000 in stock and bonds. A two cent railroad fare bill has gone into tffect in Nebraska and the railroads have abolished all reduced fares. A two-Cent bill has also passed the House of Ihe Illinois Legislature. Mrs Russell Sage, widow of the New York tiuaucier, has set aside $10,000,000 for what is to be known as the Sage Foundation, the income to be used in improv ing social and living conditions in the United States. Hon. James. L. Pugh, 10 years United States Senator from Ala bama, died in Washington Sat urday, aged 87. He was a mem ber of the Confederate Congress. He was succeeded in the Senate in 1897 bv Hon. E. W- I'ettus.1 In Chicago Monday Mrs. Sophie Wambaugh stole $.'1,000 from her husband William Wam baugh. who on Friday married her in court after stopping a case which he had against her for stealing another $.'1,000 while they were courting. President Crump,, of the Mem phis Cotton Exchange, complain ed before the Interestate Com merce Commission Tuesday that the railroads have allowed cot ton to congest at Memphis and that 23,000 bales are tied up for lack of transportation. On Monday night in Zion City, near Chicago, impressive funeral services were held for the depart ed 'Prophet Elijah," John Alex ander Dowie, the solemn service being conducted by one of his iaitniui deacons ana the house being crowded by those who were true to the First Apostle, while other thousands ridiculed and scorned; permission to share in the rites was denied to Glad stone Dowie who deserted his father in the days of his trouble. before a cargo of wool which arrived by the Ashanti, a British steamship from Melbourne, Aus tralia, Saturday could be releas ed from bond the consignees had to pay into the treasury of the Fiuted States a trifle more than ?700,000 in duties. The cargo consists of nearly 11,000 bales of the finest Australian wool and is worth nearly ?2,000,000 It It is the largest and most valua ble of a kind ever brought to this country, and the wool ift a kind never before imported here. Nearly one hundred officers and men on the French battle ship lenia were blown into eterni ty Tuesday afternoon at Toulon, Frauce, when a torpedo exploded and set off the war ship's maga zines containing tons oi powder and shells; the ship, one of the finest in the French navy, was practically destroyed, and the continuous bursting of shells played havoc on board and ashore; hundreds were frightfullv injured as there were nearly 700 ru n ab > *rd. LOOK OUT FOR GAME LAWS. Against the Law to Kill Certain Birds and Other Game?Several People Arrested and Fined for Violat ing the Law. It would be well for all our citizens to observe tbp State Law iu regard to buutiug out of season. We publish, Section 8466 of tbe Revised Statutes, wbieh reads as follows: "It any person, shall, at any time bunt, capture or kill any non t;ame bird, or shall during the close season, or time iu each year in which the hunting or kill ing is prohibited, chase with dogs, hunt, kill or in any manner take or capture any game bird, or any deer, opossum, rabbit or squirrel, tie shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be lined not more than fifty dollars or im prisoned not exceeding thirty days. Provided, this section shall not apply to birds caught or killed by authority of the Audu bon Society for scientific purposes only. This section shall not ap ply to the English or European house Sparrow, Owls, Hawks, Crows, lflackbirds, J ackdaws and Kice birds." Mr. Upchurcb, the game war den for this part of the State was in our town this week and had eight of our young men arrested and lined for killing birds in violation of the above section. Rural Free pellvery Mall. I uless the people living along many of the free delivery mail routes take more interest in them they will be discontinued. Complaint is made by post-ottice department officials that on some routes few people patronize them and that in many instances they will not put up boxes, five and six families clubbing togeth er and using one box. The peo ple whose routes are discontinu ed will find that they have suffer ed a great loss?even those who use the service to a small extent only. All on every route could at least put up boxes. Those who lose their routes through carelessness in this matter have no one but themselves to blame. They cannot tiud fault with their congressmen if thev so bring this inconveience upon themselves. This is a matter whi :h the peo ple in the rural districts should not neglect. Let every house holder put up his box and do something to increase the amount ot mail carried on his route. He should take a daily or one or more weekly and semi-weekly papers. T^he latter are now so cheap that they are within the means of every farmer. We would hate to see any routes in this section of the state discon tinued. We do not know that it is contemplated, but the depart ment is making serious com plaints as to conditions in tue south. We beg the people of our section to see to it that none of their routes are discontinued. They will be kept up if the people will use the service, It rests with the people.?Wilmington Messen ger. A Young Man Passes Away. Mr. Thomas B. Woodard, son of Mr. J. I. Woodard, died at bis homo iu Meulab township on Sat urday, March 2ud, after an ill nes of twelve days of pneumonia, livery attention was given the young man but human hand could not stay the ravages of ( the terrible disease which had fastened itself on both lungs. The deceased leaves a young widow, having been married only fourteen mouths. Mr. Woodard was a prosper ous youug farmer only "27 years old. Found At Last. J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, West Va., says: "At last I have found the perfect pill that never disapoints nie; and for the bene fit of others afflicted with torpid liver and chronic constipation, will say: take Dr. King's New Life Pills." Guaranteed satis factory. 25c. at Hood Bros. ^Druggists.