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Sljr lleralit. ' " " "? ' - 1 ? - 1 i ?? VOL 30 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1911 Number 9 ? ??_____ __________ ? . ? . ? ? - ? ? ?_ ? ?- 1. ? - - ? . .. . ______ CNE DOLLAR PER YEAR EDUCATION GOOD ROADS GOOD HEALTH PROGRESS FIVE CENTS PER COPT. DEMOCRATS PASS PRESIDENT'S MEASURE reciprocity bill adopted by vote of 265 to 89. Measure Sent Over to Senate Is Same In Context As When Intro duced, the Strenuous Efforts of Both Minornty Insurgents and Reg ulars to Amend Being Futile?De bate Lasted for Six Days in Low er Chamber. Washington, April 22.?Supported by all the Democrats who were pres ent, except ten, and by a minority of the Republicans, President Taft's Canadian reciprocity agreement, at the close of a debate that has last ed six days, was passed by the House yesterday evening by a vote of 265 to 89. The Republicans were divided along the same lines as in the recent session, when the bill was passed by the House. Of their num ber, 67 voted in favor of the bill and 78 against it. The two vaguely classified members of the House were divided on the question: Victor Berger, the Socialist member from Wisconsin, stood for the bill, and Representative Akin, the independent member who succeeded Mr. Drury, was opposed. The reciprocity bill emerged from the House after the overwhelming vote indorsing it in exactly the game form in which it was introduc ed. Not an amendment was accept ed by the triumphant majority. The measure, as it goes to the Senate, Is practically the same bill which was sent over during the closing days of the Sixty-first Congress. It bas only one additional section. This contains a request that the President uliall make further efforts to extend the reciprocal trade relations be tween the United Statse and Cana da. The principal interest of/ the ses sion was in the vote against the re ciprocity measure, especially that of the Democrats. The ten who stood against their party leaders were Representatives Bathrick, Clay pool, and Whitacre, of Ohio; Dough ton, Gudger, and Webb, of North Carolina; Fowler, of Illinois; Ham mond, of Minnesota; Pujo, of Lou isiana, and Rucker, of Colorado. BENSON NEWS. Benson, Apr. 27.?Mr. Pat Moore, of Chapel Hill, Kpent Sunday in town with friends, returning to the t'niversif.y Mo.Hay morning. Mrs. Luna Tolar and Miss Mary Cooke \ isitcd in Fayetteville Satur day and Sunday. Misses Ethel Hooks and Bessie Denning, of Dunn, visited at the bome of Mrs. Willie Boone this week. Mrs T. B. Justice returned Mon tley from an extended visit to Ral eigh and Fraiiklinton. Mensrs. W. E. Barbour and John Stronp, of Four Oaks, were in town Monday night to attend the show. Mr. C. C. Walton, of Richmond, Va , was In town Monday night. He Is traveling salesman for the Royal Typewriter Company and sold sev eral o' their machines here. Mr. L. F. Wallace, of Fayetteville, was Jieie Tuesday. Misses I eola Sanders, Irene Strlck laart, Syrena Oliver and Mrs. Oli ver, .if Four Oaks, were here Sun da/, the guests of Mrs. J. A. John eon. Miss Bessie Prince, of Dunn, is viBHlnf at the home of Mr. Alonzo Parriah. Mr. John Sanders and Dr. Stan ley, r* Four Oaks, were in town Tuesday. A fame of base ball played be- | tweeu the Benson boys and the Bules | Creek team on the latter's diamond, ; Tueft'ay afternoon, resulted in a 1 tie between the teams, the score atai.dlng 8 to 8. The High School team here has not been defeated this aeason. Mr. Jake Greenthal, of Green th&ll'a Underselling Store, returned V'tday from Baltimore, where he baa been spending several days with hi* parents. The home of Mr. R. I. Austin, on Wert Church Street was burned Monday afternoon. The origin of tbe fire Is not known. The build l"C and the entire contents was totally destroyed by the tire. The loss was about $2,000.00 with only $500.00 insurance. Dr J. C. Caldwell, president of the Atlantic Christian College of Wilson, will preach the baccalaureate sermon at the commencement of the school here, in the school auditorium on Sunday, May 14th, at eleven A. M. He ranks among the best speak ers in North Carolina. The inter-society debate at the closing exercises of the school here will take place on Friday night the l?ti of May, in the school hall. The subject for discussion is, Resolved: j "That United States Senators Should be Elected by Popular Vote." The affirmative will be represented by James Ray nor and Jesse Turlington; the negative by A. L. Goodrich and Henrj Lambert. The boys are all excellent speakers for school boys and deserve much credit for their society work. MILL CREEK ITEMS. ! The farmers of this section are mostly through planting corn and | are beginning to plant cotton. Almost all the young people of this ! section attended services at the 1 Catholic Church at Newton Grove, on Easter Sunday. Mr. John H. I.angston has been appointed as mail carrier for route No. 2 from 1 teas ley, which service was resigned by Mr. Seth W. Las sifer, March 1st. Rev. R. H. Massengill preached at Mill Creek Church, the 4th Sunday in the absence of Rev. J. T. Owen, the pastor, who is very sick. It was announced that the place for I'nion Meeting for the Mill Creek Circuit had been changed from Dunn t-. Pleasant I'nion, in Sampson Coun ty, on account of small pox in the town of Dunn. Mr. S. P. Phelps, who recently save up his business as a machin ist at Apex, on accornt of poor health, and moved to the home of h:s son, Mr. A. H. Phelps, to recuper ate. we are glad to say is so much improved that he is at work every day in the blacksmith and wood shop of his son. The Mill Creek Literary Society had a public debate on last Satur ,jiy n'ght.. The query discussed was, Resolved: "That Woman Has More Influence Over Man Than Money." Speakers for the affirmative, were Messrs. J. H., D. S. and O. B. Lang !ston; for the negative, were Messrs. H V. Rose, E. F. Weaver and I. R. 1 Langston. The contest was hot and the judges decided in favor of the negative. Our section was saddened to learn 1 "1 the death of Mr. Fraud Tart, of Meadow township, which occurred on the 17th inst. He was about 40 years of age and for several years 1 past his health had been declining. ! About eight months ago cnosumption set in and never loosed its grip till it claimed its victim. He leaves a 1 widow and a very aged mother and a family and several brothers to mourn his untimely demise. He was one of the finest of the "old time fiddlers'' we have ever known and was a general favorite of all who knew him. R. Beasley, R. 2, April 25. To Fight the Fly. So completely have house flies been exterminated in England that screens are no longer used in win dows and doors. This shows what can be done. A solution of forma lin or formaldehyde in water is the best and cheapest exterminator. Put a spoonful of formalin in half a tea cupful of water and expose it in a saucer in your room. Try it once and you will see. Burn pyrthrum powder im a room and sweep out the stupefied flies. Or put twenty drops of carbolic acid on a hot) shovel. The vapor is deadly to the pest. Put a dram of bichromate of potash in half a glass of water and sweeten. Expose a little of the solution in saucers. Sticky fly paper also will do the work.?Louisville Courier Journal. Residence Burned In Benson. We regret to hear of the burning of the residence of Mr. R. I. Aus tin at Benson last Monday. He was at his farm in the country. The fire is supposed to have started from a defective flue. Very little was sav ed from the house. He had only five hundred dollars insurance. I BLIND TIGERS SENT TO ROADS RECORDER'S COURT HAS BUSY SESSION THIS WEEK. Sc/crai Cases Disposed of. Six Are Given Road Sentences But Two Appeal to the Superior Court. Sel ma N:g>o Gamblers Are to Help Build Road- for Thirty Days. The Recorder's Court had a busy , seesion this week, not adojurning till i Wednesday. This week's session | helped along the road building in I this county by sending four others to aid the force now at work. Two others were sentenced but took an appeal to the Superior Court. I The following are the cases dis posed of: The case of the State vs J. B. K. Johnson, mention of which has been I made in these columns before, was i ' | taken up and disposed of. The de fendant submitted and Judgment was ?iUHpended upon the payment of the cost and the aihount of the board j bill over which the case arose. State VD T Tl n T?hno/.? .J T I.HIV TO u . JU?. *V. UUU11DUU UUU <1. P. Temple. Sci fa. Judgment for costs. An appeal was taken to the Superior Court. State vs Caesar Gusbuehler. Car iyiDg concealed weapon. Guilty. Judgment was suspended upon the ' payment of the costs and the de fendant's regular appearance to the Court and show that he has been of good behavior. State vs Allen Norris. The de fendant was adjudged guilty of the | charge of malicious injury to person al property and judgment was sus | pended upon the payment of the ' costs. State vs Allen Norris. In this case the defendant was adjudged guilty of the charge of carrying con I cealed weapon. He was fined ten i dollars and taxed with the costs of the action. State vs George Manuel. George is a Smithfield negro who was found j | guilty of retailing and selling liquor. 1 I He was sent to the roads for six months, with the provision that af | ter three months had been served | he could be released by paying the costs. 4P State vs D. J. Stanley. The indict ment was for disposing of mortgaged property. The bill was changed to trespass The defendant submitted and judgment was suspended upon ' the payment of the costs. State vs Lee Miles. Gambling. I Guilty. Fined five dollars and costs. State vs Mack Adams, Henry Hod Ges and Charlie Scott. These three | Selma negroes were charged with gambling. Being found guilty, they were sent to roads for thirty days each. State vs Hyman Fort. Hyman is a Smithfield negro drayman, who ?was adjudged guilty of selling li quor and given a road sentence of eight months. Being somewhat ad verse to working on the roads dur ing the summer months he took an appeal to the Superior Court. Will Futrell, another Smithfield darkey, was up for selling liquor. He was found guilty and given a sen tence of eight months on the public roads. Will, like Hyman, was not anxious to spend the summer months working on Johnston county's roads, and took an appeal to the next Sept ember term of the Superior Court. Will and Hyman hare both been be fore the courts before charged with selHng the liquid that exhilarates, but have been more fortunate hereto fore. If our Recorder's Court keeps up its record, Johnston county will soon have a large road force. Child Killed by Whiskey. Last Thursday the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McN'att McArtan, of Parkton, drank some whiskey that he found in a trunk and died from the effects a few hours lat~r.?Maxton Scottish Chief. Too Many. Too many men have the courage of other people's convictions.?Chi cago Record-Herald. Canadians are rapidly annexing the Northern ice. I THE SCHOOL BOND ELECTION AN EXPLANATION OF THE AN NEXED TERRITORY. Prof. Turlington Writes About the Old School Building and the Cost Of It. He Urges the Need of a New Building. An election has been called for May 16, 19X1, to give the citizens of the Siuithfield Graded School District an opportunity to vote for a bond issue to secure funds for the erection in Smlthfield of an up-to date brick school house, a building that will be the pride of the dis trict and town. At the same time the citizens, of territory adjoining the graded school district will be given an opi>ortunity of attach ing themselves tcj this district. The i people living In what is sometimes ] known as the Pilklnton District, just beyond. Buffalo, now send their chil dren to this district, or at least, they have the opportunity of doing ! so. But this is an arrangement made by the County Board of Education and is not permanent. The Board of Education can at any time detach the district from our district. This ought not so to be. The people ov er there ought to belong to this district permanently or not at all. They have an opportunity to become permanent citizens of this district on May 16th. As 1 see it, this is a great oppor tunity to educate their children, at small cost. Here the children have opportunity of a long term of school, while in that small district with the same cost, they cannot hope to have half as long a term. Our dis trict is saying, "come to our school and share the advantages here with our boys and girls." I fail to see where it would help our school for them to come. Now, fathers and voters of that district, the responsibility is with you. What will you do? The terri- [ tory across the river, formerly be longed to old district, No. 40, white, called later, district No. 1, white, Smithfield township. When the grad ed school district was established, this territory was not included. The County Board of Education did not know what to do with the children living in this territory. I was Coun ty Superintendent at that time and advised that they be numbered in the graded school district, and allow-1 ed to send here four months. This was all that I could suggest. The trustees of the graded school were not consulted and therefore had no opportunity of objecting. Under the law creating the graded school dis- j trict, no one was allowed to send to the graded school, except those who live in the district or who have been attached by the trustees or who pay tuition, and the trustees were not allowed to attach any one till that person had listed his property for taxation in the district. Now, the citizens of this dis trict have an opportunity of becom ing citizens of the graded school. | If they do not vote to join this | Idistricl, iliej may find themselves a great distance from a school that | their children can enter. The Coun-: ty Board of Kducation has no right to attach this territory or its ctt- j izens to the graded school district j and the Board of Trustees of the j Smithfield Graded School District has no right to attach them. I took j the liberty of having them attached when the graded school district was established because tho citizens of1 that territory had not been given an j opportunity of coming into the dis trict. It was I that suggested that; they have tUis opportunity. Now, | citizens ot this territory, what are j you going to do about It? The other two annexations are ; made to give their citizens an op- j portunity of becoming permanent cit-, izens of this district. The section of I tho law giving the Trustees the pow- j \ or to attach citizens living outside of the district has been repealed. The Old Building. It may be thought by some that the old building is good enough. Some may dislike for It to go from mere sentiment. I must confess that I would regret to see the old bnilding torn down from sentiment. | That old balldlag la dear to me. It grates upon me to hear it spoken of in words of disgust by those who know nettling of its cost. I love the old building for what It has cost me. It has cost me many an hour of anxiety, many an hour of worry, many an hour of sleepless ness. It is a costly building. When it was put up just twenty years ago this summer, it was the best, most commodious, most state ly school building within twenty-five miles of Smithfield, nearer than Wil son, Ooldsboro or Raleigh. It was the pride of the town and of a large part of the County. Many of the people here referred to it as the "college." Then Smithfield had 550 people, white and black. It had been but two years since the town was burned out almost "root and branch," as to the business sec tion. The school then known as Turlington Institute was about the most Important institution in town. It attracted far more attention the county over, and over a good por tion of the eastern part of the State than all else in the town. But this old building has had its <;ay. It is no longer adequate for tiifc needs of the school. It is not large enough. The rooms are too small. It must be repaired every year. If a new house is not built, soon one or more rooms must be added to this one. Hather than spend mon ey year after year on this old buil ding, it would be wiser to erect a modern school building with modern heating apparatus, nioilorn ventilating apparatus that would better protect the health of the boys and girls and give them better opportunity for training their intellects. It is almost impossible to keep a school room comfortable with the ordinary stove. Some of the pupils will be too hot and some of them too cold. Many a child has taken cold from going out of a too highly heated room in to the cold air. This is all avoid ed in a building heated and ventilat ed by modern methods. Let us have the new building. Next week I shall write something about the bond issue. IRA T. TURLINGTON. A TRAIN DROPS 250 FEET. Twenty-One Passengers Killed in South Africa. Cape Town, April 22.?A passenger train on the Kowie Railroad plunged to destruction in a rocky gorge 25Q feet deep through the collapse of the Blaauwkrantz Bridge, thirteen miles from Grahamstown, to-day. Twenty-one passengers were car ried down with the coacheq and kill ed. Their bodies were torn to pieces and inextricably mixed with the deb ris of the cars, which were ground to splinters. The Kowle Railway follows the general direction of the River Kow le from Grahamstown to Port Alfred, on the southern shore of Cape Col ony. It is forty-three miles long and was opened in 1884, being own ed by a private company. The Blaauwkrantz Bridge crosses the deep ravine in one span at a great elevation. In point of design the bridge was the most graceful In the colony, the mountainous charac ter of which makes necessary the bridging of many ravines in the con struction of railway lines. IREDELL WANTS GOOD ROADS. Vigorous Campaign Under Way For a $400,000 Bond Issue. Mooresviile, April 22.?A strong and vigorous campaign is now being made throughout Iredell county for the bond issue of $400,000 as a fund to be used for building a system of public roads. South Iredell will go almost solidly for the issue as this end of the county sustains her rep utation for progressive road building. A splendid meeting was held this af ternoon at the Brawley school house, In Davidson toWnshlp, largely attend ed, and another meeting was held In Barringer township at Pine Valley school house. Dsath of An Aged Woman. Mr. A. C. Johnson and Mr. Lem uel Hardee were here yesterday for a coffin for Miss Rachel Johnson, a very old lady, who died at the County Home, Wednesday. Her re mains were Interred In the grave yard at Johnson Chapel, Free WIU Baptist church, yesterday afternoon. - - . i I AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY PLANNED MAYOR WELLONS AGAIN CH08 1 EN PRESIDENT. The ChamSer Gives Its Enthusias tic Suppert to the move for the New School Luilding and Endors es the Cencal Highway Proposi tion. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held in its offices April 21st, 1911, James A. Wellons was reelected president, F. K. Broadhurst re-elected secretary and H. L. Skinner was elected treas urer to succeed A. M. Noble, re signed. The vice presidents were re-elected to succeed themselves ss follows:. W. M. Sanders first vice president, H. L. Skinner, second vice president, W. L. Woodall, third vice president, F. H. Brocks, fourth vice president, J. H. B. Tomlinson, fifth vice president. Tne following directors were re elected: T. R. Hood, L. D. Wharton, Ira T. Turlington, and J. D. Under wood; Dr. N. T. Holland was elect ca to succeed the late E. J. Holt. The reports of the officers show ed the Chamber of Commerce to be in tiood standing and to have done considrisble work during its exis tence. The following were elected as ne# members: H. C. Hood, Chas. Davis, D. H. Creech, O. V. Hooker, ?las. H. Abell, T. S. Kagsdale, T. C Jordan, L. T. Royall, A. M. San lie'*, H. P. Hill, Walter Parrish, Joe Marler, L. G. Patterson, Dr. Thel Hooks, A. S Johnston, S. T. Honey cutt. A. Vermont, W. D. Avera, J. R Walton, l'oyetx Bros., W. S. Stevens, F. 11 Pavrish, R. O. Cot ter. J. A. Oani;>beti, Claud Smith, R. R. Holt, A. V. (iulley, Jas. H. Wot.'all. C R. Hand, F H Brooks and Dr. L D W fiartou v ere appointed a committee to draft resolutions re specting the <:?at!i of one of the members, K J Holt. Tl.e Chamber of Commerce decid ed to organize an Agricultural So ciety fcr Johnston County. One of liie purposes of which will be to hold in this county an Agricultural Fair. Also ringing resolutions were adopted endorsing the movement to build the Central Highway from the Tennessee line to the ocean. The Chamber of Commerce also endorsed the movement to build a new school house for our town, and appointed a committee whose duty It is to see that our people are properly registered and that they attend the election to be held here on May 16th for the purpose of is suing bonds to erect said school house. The Chamber of Commerce has done many things for our little town and by adopting for its slo gan the slogan of - *">"?*<. "Unit ed and Onward," there are many other things that it will accomplish during the next twelva months. Ev ery citizen of our town should send in his name to the Secretary and become a member of this Chamber of Commerce. DIRECT VOTE IN MINNESOTA. Governor Signs Bill for Popular Nom ination of United States Sena tor*. St. Paul, April 22.?Governor Eber hart signed the Keefe bill to-day, passed by the Legislature at Its clos ing session. It provides for the nom ination of United States Senator* by direct vote of the people. The measure provides that each candidate for the Legislature shall take a pledge to support the sena torial candidate receiving the popu lar Indorsement, or sign another pledge declaring his unwillingness to do so. A Senator is to be elected in 1912 to succeed Senator Nelson. Car Blows Up and Seven Die. St. Louis, April 22.?Four persons, two men and two women, died la a hospital to-night, making the deaths resulting from an explosion of a tank car of gasolene to-day num ber seven. Six others are serious ly burned.
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