ffl)t Jlwit!)fiel5 VOL. 29 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1910 N mber 39 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR EDUCATION GOOD ROADS GOOD HEALTH PROGRESS FIVE CENTS PER COPY JOHNSTON COUNTY , FARMERS OAY DECEMBER EIGHTH TO BE A i BIG DAY IN SMITHFIELD. The Chamber of Commerce Has ! Raised a Nice Sum for Premiums To Farmers Who Have Good [ Things tto Show. Farmers' Day Exercises to be in Banner Ware house = nd Dr. D. H. Hill, Presl- ' Ident of A. & M. College, to Make 1 Address. The Chamber of Commerce of Smith- 1 Held has undertaken a very wor- i thy enterprise in Its move for a I Johnston County Farmers Day to be ' held in Smithfield on Thursday, De- ' cember 8th, 1910. No move made by this* town in recent years has been , a greater one, considered in many ( ways, and one that will be more far- j reaching in its general effects. Ev- 1 erybody recognizes that the farm- ? era rl the land are the mainstay of ' IflG COUniry, UUL in uinuj' iiiSbaucco, proper public recognition has not been given fiem. The Herald has for several years been striving in the interest of the farmer and has devoted three to four columns of its Epace each week for the past ten years for the encouragement of those who till the soil. The Chamber of Commerce of the town of Smithfield has planned to have a Farmers Day for .1-hngton County in ?.nii fiHri o:: Thursday, December ?>, in the Banner Ware house. The Chamber is co-operating with the County Board of Education in this move and it is hoped that the farmers of the County will be here that day in full force. Several nice premiums have been offered, (gee page two for list) the largest being $50.00 for the best acre of corn by the boys in the corn contest. Dr. D. H. Hill. President of the A. & M. College, of Raleigh, has been invited to deliver the address of the occasion. Let us all, farmers and everybody who are interested in the welfare of our County, combine our efforts to make this a Red-Letter i Day for the farmers of Johnston County. CLAYTON HAPPENINGS. Clayton, Nov. 13.?Rev. George B. (Starling spent Tuesday In Raleigh on business. Mr. Hugh A. Page, from Trinity College, spent part of last week here the guest of his mother, Mrs. J. E. Page. T>r. Battle A. Hocutt went to Raleigh today on business. Mr. Chas. It. Stott passed through here Wednesday, m,route for Bur- j lington on business. All the stortx will close tomorrow for the Thanksgiving services at the different churches. The ladies of M. E. Church will conduct a ba zaar on Main street, from 4 o'clock 1 until 11 o'clock p. m., for the bene- ' fit of the parsonage. Rev. A. C. Hamby made a very in teresting talk Monday morning to the students of the graded school. The school is going along-very nice ly, having enrolled up to date about 250 pupils. Rev. George B. Starling will fill his regular appointment at the Meth odist church net Sunday morning and uight. This is Mr. Starling's last appointment in Clayton, as the Con ference meets next week and he : will be assigned to work at another Place. He has been in the work ? for four years and during that time has won the love and esteem of ev ery one who knows him and his re moval to some other work will be 1 regretted very' much by his friends here. Fire At Archer. On Thursday night of last week about 6:30 o'clock James Holder a colored man living on the land of Mr. W. J. Dissott at Archer, seven miles from Clayton, lost most of his household goods by fire. The family was not at home when the fire caught. Mr. Bissett lost the house which was a two-room build ing. FORMER JOHNSTON ITE WEDS. Mr. Roger Richardson Leads Miss Mary Pleasant Saunders to Hy men's Alttar in Newport News. Virginia. One of the most beautiful church weddings of the season occurred at the Newport News Baptist church at naif past four o'clock yesterday af ternoon when Miss Mary Pleasant Saunders, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Saunders, of 130 Thirty second street, became the bride of Mr. Roger Francis Richardson, of Birmingham, Ala. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Lloyd T. Wilson. D. D., the pastor, In the presence of i large assembly of the relatives and friends. The bride entered the church with tier father, by whom she was given in marriage. She wore an exquisite ?own of liberty satin and was veiled In lace and carried a shower bouquet j if bride roses and lilies of the valley. Her veil was caught by a beautiful pin set in pearls and her only other I piece of jewelry was a handsome j iiamond brooch, the gift of the i ?room. The bride was attended by ler sister, Miss Lillian A. Saunders, ?nd Miss K. Blanche Webb as maids jf honor. They were becomingly ?owned in pink chiffon cloth over messaline and carried white chrysan themums. Mr. Paul A. Richardson, of Norfolk, brother of the groom, was the best man and the ushers were: Messrs. M. E. Weeks, of Washington, D. C.; 3. C. Swann, of Hagerstown, Md? and Charles O. Epes, of this city. The church decorations were beau :iful and unique. The chancel was lecorated with palms and ferns and ranked in autumn leaves and in ?lace of the usual ribbons there were <ates covered in white and trimmed with smilax at which Masters Frank uid Frederick Barrett officiated. One of the prettiest features of the iccasion w?s the appearance of the jride's Sunday school class of little jirls. who were gowned in white and wore white chrysanthemums. Mrs. Frank Momll. of Richmond, . formerly Miss Eliza Crenshaw, of- this :ity, sang, "T^e Four-Leaf Clover," sefore the bridal pirty entered the ?hurch. Mrs. Charles C. Epes pre sided at the pipe organ and rendered he wedding march from Lohengrin is the processional and Mendels ihon's march as the recessional. Dur ing the ceremony she played Moore's 'Believe Me If All Those Endearing Jfoung Charms." I After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. 1 Richardson left for Norfolk, where :hey boarded the Old Dominion ' steamer for New York. On their re urn they will spend a few days in | Newport News before going to Birm ingham, where they will make their tiome. Mrs. Richardson has lived here | since her childhood and is popular with many friends. Since her child hood she haa been an active worker in t.hf? church and Sundav school. Mr. Richardson is the superintending constructor for the United States Steel Corporation at Birmingham. He formerly lived here, being employed as a draftsman at the shipyard and has many friends in Newport News.? Daily Press, Newport News, Va., Nov. 17th. Attention Smithfield Township. A movement by the Chamber of Commerce of Smithfield Invites the citizens of Johnston County to join in starting a county exhibit of our products. At a meeting of said board on the 21st of November, a few farmers were present by invitation, and plans were laid, a synopsis of which will appear this week. Having been appointed solicitor of exhibits with Mr. J. H. B. Tomlinson, assistant, for Smithfield township, I take this me thod of appealing to you. Other townships will be heard from. It is desired that a large and fine display be made. Everybody invited to "chip ln.w Look around, get some thing, bring something. You will be surprised at your own self when you see the bunch. Professor Royall, of Smithfield, will have charge of the exhibit and it is requested that ev erything be in place by 10 o'clock the 8th day of December, at a place to be designated in Smithfield. Don't say you can't; It's too late, or I've got nothing. Get the cracklings out of your eyes and find something, and bring your family, and get interested and next year we will wind up with a "Barn-dance." Suitable premiums will be paid and if any of your pro ducts are for sale, mark them so and you will be astonished how quick ly you are bought out. Come, and come loaded; anything from a bale of cotton to a crawfish chimney. Am ple provisions against plck-pocke(s, and street car service assured. C. S. POWELL, Solicitor of Exhibits. SOUTH CAN CONTROL HOUSE .? DEMOCRATS HAVE 63 MAJORITY Figures on Membership of Next j House. Prepared by G. O. P. Of ficials and Roster Committee. Next National Convention to Be Old Time Affair. Claude Kitchin Says Champ Clark Will Have No Oppo sitlon for Speaker. Washington, Nov. 20.?According to | Republican officials of the House. ? working In connection with the Dem ocratic congressional committee, the defeat of Representative Alexander, of New York, makes the next House 1 stand as follows: Democrats 227 1 Republicans 163 : Socialists 1 !1 Total 391 1 Democratic majority 63. There may be some slight change, |1 but the vote will hardly vary one I' either way. j' Of thp 227 Democrats comprising 1 the next House, 129 come from the j Southern States, including Maryland I and West Virginia, while ninety-eight ! I come from the States north of a I (Mm [ iniiiiimil or uic wmo illvi r line. < One hundred and forty-two Democrats I were elected from States east of the 1 Mississippi River and eiglJty-five i Democrats from States west of the . Mississippi River. I "Every sign at present points to a I Democratic National Convention in i 1912 that will be absolutely free from !1 the domination of any one man," [ ( said Frank S. Ober. of New York, !. to-night. Mr. Ober is an attorney j who is actively interested in poli- ; tics, besides having acquired consid erable prominence in the scientific ! world by his contributions to maga- j zincs. "The Democratic party is going to j be organized for the presidential i campaign according to real Demo- j cratic methods," he continued, i "There is not the slightest chance j that any one individual will gain suf ficient strength before the conven- j tion to give him the power of dictat ing to the party. "The convention of 1912 will be made up of delegates, many of them pledged, it is true, but not all pledg ed to one man. The Ohio delegation, of course, will be solid for Harmon; Massachusetts will be instructed foil Foss; New Jersey will have its vote ready for Woodrow Wilson; Connec ticut, in all probability will be for Judge Baldwin; Indiana will line up for Marshall. New York will un doubtedly cast her vote for either Mayor Gaynor or Gov. Dix. "That makes a fine field from which to select the Democratic stan dard-bearer for the campaign of 1912. It is hardly possible for the party to make a mistake with such presi dential timber to choose from." Predicting that Chamn Clark will be unopposed for nomination as Speaker of the next House by th<" ! \ Democrats elected to the Sixty-second Congress, Representative Claude Kitchin expressed the opinion that j the present minority leader would take rank with the greatest presiding officers of the House. Mr. Kitchin said, with regard to the speakership: "When the Democratic caucus of the sixty-second Congress assembles the name of Champ Clark will be the only one presented for the speaker ship. The Democracy of the coun try in its heart and in its hope has already elected him. We had a sweeping victory. No man contribut ed more to it than he. His wise lead ership in the House sent out of Washington at the last adjournment, for the first time in eighteen years, our party united, organized and mili tant, and the Republican party di vided, disorganized and dismayed."? Louisville Courier-Journal. Board of Education to Meet. The County Board of Education will meet the first Monday In December. Any one having anything to bring before the Board 'will please do so. J. J. ROSE, Chairman. L. T. ROY ALL, Secretary. On account of tthe revival servi ces at the Baptist church, there will be no service at the Methodist church Sunday, November 27th. Mr. S. W. Myatt, the popular book keeper of the American Tobacco Co., at this place for the past 3 years, left Wednesday for Richmond, hav ing been promoted to a better posi tion with the company. His position here Is filled by Mr. Ed Patten, of I Durham. I < SPIRAL GLIDE CAUSES DEATH 1 _______ << DARING AVIATOR IS DASHED TO j DEATH. a Ralph Johnstone Falls From Height *' Of 500 Feet. Wing of Aeroplane J' Crumples During Denver Flight. Recently Captured World's Altl- , tude Record of 9714 Feett. Spiral , Glide to Blame. Crowds Fight for . Souvenirs. Denver, Nov. 17.?With one wing r tip of his machine crumpled like a 1 piece of paper, Ralph Johnstone, the daring young aviator, holder of the li world's altitude record, dropped like t a plummet from a height of 500 feet '1 Into the inclosure at Overland Park b iviation field this afternoon and v was instantly killed. When the spec- tl tators reached him his body lay be- c neath the engine of the biplane, with ti the white planes that had failed him v in his time of need, wrapped about o it like a shroud. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. J c He had gambled with death once d oo often, but he played the game to d the end, fighting coolly grimly to N he last set-ond to regain control of n .he broken machine. Fresh from o riuniphs at Belmont Park, where he .1 iad broken the world's rcc <rd for n lltitude with a flight of 9,714 feet, tohnstone attempted to give the S thousands of spectators an exrta m lirill with his most daring feat, the f< jpiral glide, which has made tlv a Wright aviators famous. The spec-! " .ators got their thrill, but it cost w lohnstone his life. 11 The fatal flight was the second fi Tohnstone had made this afternoon. 11 In the first flight when he was in '? ?he air with Hoxsey and Brootyns he h lad gone through his usual pro lamine of dips and glides with the machine apparently under perfect con & :rol. Then Johnstone rose again and ifter a few circuits of the course to ?' ;aln height headed toward the foot- u lills. Still ascending, he swept back [ lj n a big circle and as he reached the U lorth end of the inclosure he started i lis spiral glide. He was then at an |f' iltitude of about 800 feet. With his 0 planes tilted at an angle of almost 90 11 iegrees he swooped down in a nar- " :ow circle, the aeroplane seeming to j t' :urn almost in its own length. j " As he started the second circle the c middle spur which braces the left e side of the lower plane gave way n md the wing tips of both upper and a lower planes folded up as though ^ they had been hinged. For a sec >nd Johnstone attempted to right the ^ plane by warping the other wing . tip. Then the horrified spectators saw the plane waver like a wounded p bird and plunge straight toward the p earth. Johnstone was thrown from his T r seat as the nose of the plane swung j t downward. He caught on one of j the wire stays between the planes | and grasped one of the wooden bra- ^ ces of the upper plane with both hands. Then, working with hands and feet, he fought by main strength ( to warp the planes so that their surface might catch the air and check his descent. - , For a second it seemed that he y might succeed, for the football hel- ,, met he wore blew off and fell much j more rapidly than the plane. The j hope was momentary, however, for j when about 300 feet from the ground ? the machine turned completely over { and tthe spectators fled wildly as j the broken plane, with the aviator p still fighting grimly in its mesh of j wires and stays, plunged among them , with a crash. c Scarcely had Johnstone hit the t ground before morbid men and wo men swarmed over the wreckage t fighting with each other for souve nirs. One of the broken wodden stays had gone almost through John- . stone's body. Before doctors or po- 1 s lice could reach the scene one man j had torn this splinter from the body | and ran away, carrying his trophy , with the aviator's blood still dripping , from its ends. Frantically the crowd tore away the canvass from over his body and fought for the very gloves that had i protected his hands from the cold. 11 The machine fell on the opposite side of the field from the grand-stand and there were but a few hundred persons near the spot, but physicians and police were rushed across as soon as possible. Physicians declare that death must have been Instantaneous as Johnstone's back, neck and both legs were broken, the bones of his thigh being forced through the flesh and leather garments ho wore. Mr. W. R. Long spent yesterday In Richmond. i I BENSON NEWS. Benson, Nov. 22.? Mr. Farthing, the ihotographer, spent Sunday and Monday at Konly. Mr. J. W. Whittenton spent Sun lay night in Dunn. Attorney J. R. Barbour went to Norfolk, Va., Tuesday on profession .1 business. There were services at tho Metho tist church Sunday morning and light by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Sut on. Mr. J. E. Hall, salesman for the Mchmond Hardware Company, spent tonday and Tuesday with Ills fain ly here. There will be services at the liap ist church at the usual hour Sunday iiornlng conducted by the pastor, lev. T. B. Justice. Karl Jansen, the Swedish humor it and entertainer, will be the at raction at the School Auditorium on 'uesday night. November 29. Every ody should come out and hear this wonderful entertainer. This is the hird of a series of amusements tiiat ome under a guarantee by some of tie citizens of our town. The two .?hlch have already beeu, have been f a high order and well patronized. At the regular meeting of the ommissioners of the town last Tues ay night. Mayor O. A. Barbour leu ered his resignation to lake effect londay, November 21. At a call | looting Monday night the resignation I f I(r. Marbotir was accepted and tie board elected Mr. N. T. Ryala as i lay or to succeed him. Mr. Willie Smith, son of Mr. I. .1. | mith, died at his home a few j llles from town Monday, of typhoid jver. Mr. Smith was 32 years old nd leaves a widow, daughter of Mr. < I. D. Creech, and two children. He as a hard working man, good far ler and loaves a large number of ?iends to mourn their loss. His re lains were interred Tuesday even ig at the family burying ground at Is old home. On Monday evening at the home of :ev. Charles Johnson near Benson, Ir. Telfair McLamb, son of the ? te Wm. McLamb, and Miss Celia 'age, daughter of Mr. P. P. Page, of luke, were united in the holy onds of wedlock. It seems that tie young couple had been trying to ike a sail on the matrimonial sea ir several weeks, but owing to the bjections of the girl's parents and !ieir vigilance in watching their aughter, had been unable to launch tieir boat on this unknown sea, un ,1 Monday; the girl managed to es apt: the watchful eyes of her par nts and the result?two hearts are lade happy. May their lives be long nd happy. Mrs. Catherine Johnson, wife of Mr. oshua Johnson, died suddenly at her ome a few miles from town last 'hursday. Mrs. Johnson was about 8 years of age and had been in very oor health for a number of years ast but her death was entirely un xpected at this time. She is sur ived by her husband, six sons? leorge and Willie, who live with heir father, Oscar, Walton and Char ie, who are merchants of Benson, nd Bradley Johnson, of Emporia, ra., and one daughter, Miss Fannie, ' rho lives with her father. The fun- j ral took place Friday afternoon at i he family burying ground near Pea ock's Cfoss Roads. On Friday night of last week j here was an entertainment at the School Auditorium, consisting of re- j itations, piano duets, etc., also the j nter-society debate. The subject for ; liscussion was, resolved: "The Uni- j ed States Government should own tnd operate the railroads." The af irmative speakers were Messrs. j ames Raynor and Jasper Massen ;ill; for the negative Messrs. Bright Horgan and Willie Ryals. Tho argu- ! nents of all these young men show-1 id study and research. This was he first time that either of these ? oung men had debated in public and :hey showed that when the raw ma erial we have here is trained, we ihall have some splendid speakers. The judges decided that the affirm ative won the question. Miss Lou se Carroll will give a musicale at he close of the school for the Christ mas holidays. There will also be jxercises by the school at this time. Rev. Dr. W. C. Tyree is preaching some very able sermons at the Bap tist church this week. Services are held every afternoon at three and at night at seven o'clock. The servi ces for Sunday will be at eleven in ir the morning and at seven at night. Seldom have the Smithfield people had tho opportunity of hear ing an abler preacher, and all who desire to hear sermons that will build up spiritually and awaken the conscience to higher and better as pirations should hear him. The pub lic is cordially invited to attend all the services.. DEMAND LODGE LEAVE SENATE DEMANDS LODGE LEAVE THE SENATE. Progressive People of Massachusetts Want Him Out. Eugene Foes' Statement. Governor-Elect De clares if Lodge Ignores Meaning of Democratic Landslide He'll Go Out After Him. Boston, Mass., Nov. 19.?Gov.-elect Eugene Foss issued a statement to night in which he demands that Sen ator Henry Cabot Lodge withdraw from the field for re-election. In the event of a refusal, Mr. Foss declar ed he would go into every section of the commonwealth in a campaign to defeat the senator. Mr. Foss' statement, in part, is as follows: "In the name of the majority of the sovereign people of the common wealth of Massachusetts, I demand that Henry Cabot Lodge surrender his seat in the United States senate by withdrawing from his contest for re-election. ?'Ills election to the senate would be a repudiation of the victory of the people at the last election. He was on trial as much if not more flian Gov. Draper, and it he had been the candidate my majority would have been double what it was. ? ?Tl... 1IIC issues Oil Willed till" fight was made, on which I was elected, were honest tariff revision downward, low er duties on the necessities of life, free raw materials, and untaxed food supply, reciprocity with Canada and more democracy in our form of gov ernment. "We all know where Senator Lodge stands 011 these issues* and where he has stood all these years. To re-elect him would be a step backward and Massachusetts, has nev er learned to walk backward. "I shall never sign his credentials except at the end of a campaign which will make the last one look like an afternoon tea party. "He must surrender or fight. He must defend his position before the people. The people of Massachusetts will not permit him longer to ma nipulate the legislature. I am ready and if he does not retire I will be on the stump in every section of the state and we will find out where the people stand. Senator Lodge is not in touch with the new order of things, with the progressive spirit of the times. He does not represent the people, the men and women in the ordinary walks of life." Death of a Young Man. On Monday, November 21, at 9:3? o'clock the death angel visited the home of W. E. Smith and bore his spirit to heaven (we hope.) He was born November 25, 1878, making his stay on earth 31 years, 10 months and 26 days. Willie was a good boy and loved by all who knew him, from his childhood days. If he had an enemy, I never knew it. He was married to Allie Creech, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Creech, on the 26th day of October, 1904, and to this union was born three sons, the oldest not living but five hours, the other two?Jesse Nowell Smith and Wilbur Smith, living. Besides leav ing a loving wife, he leaves four brothers, three sisters and a fa ther, who loved him. He was laid to rest on the 22nd, in the family burying ground with his mother, two sisters, four brothers and his little infant baby. We feel like our loss is his eternal gain. We bow to the divine power who does all things well. A loving father, ISAAC J. SMITH. Benson, Nov. 23rd. Death of a Child. On the third of November the death angel entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Benson and took from them and bore Into the portals of heaven their Infant daughter, Fan ; nie Hazel, age, 13 months. Her death was caused by the dread ed disease, pneumonia. She was of ! a lovable and sweet nature, and all was done that loving hands and ; kind friends could do to relieve and restore her to health, but God knew best. Just why Qod took little Ha zel, none can tell, but we know this: He does things always well. Weep not, fond parents. Little Ha zel has gone to await you till the Resurrection Morn. A. FRIEND. I

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