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VOL 30 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1911 - - Number 26 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. EDUCATION GOOD ROADS GOOD HEALTH PROGRESS PIVE CENTS PEE OOPY. hold cotton thirteen cents SOUTHERNERS IN WASHINGTON PLAN FOR 1911 CROP. Efforts Looking to Keeping the Price From Foiling too Low on South ern Staple. Washington, Aug. 23.—What was referred to generally as threatening the cotton market was thoroughly discussed to-day at a meeting of senators and representatives, includ ing Representatives John H. Small, of North Carolina; Oscar Underwood and Heflin, of Alabama, and Sena tors Williams, of Mississippi, and Ow en, of Oklahoma. I "Hold cotton for 13 cents, is the advice the committee will give the I fanners of the south in a letter which will be sent to every cotton grower in the southern states. In an interview for the Daily News Representative Small said: “The meeting was one of the most impor tant ever held in the interest of the cotton growers. The agriculture de partment’s cotton report issued a short while ago indicates, that a crop of 15,000,090 bales will be produced this year. The world can only use about 13,000,000 bales of American cotton, and if the report of the de partment is taken seriously it will result in the price of cotton being forced down to about nine cents a pound. Reports from the different states indicate that the total crop will not be more than 13,000,000 bales, so our idea is to get every man who has got cotton to sell to refuse to sell for less than 13 cents a pound, and to withhold at least 20 per cent of this year’s crop. “We are making arrangements with the banks throughout the country to lend the farmer from $25 to $30 on each bale of cotton which he refus es to sell, and at a rate not to ex ceed 6 per cent per annum. There may be some banks in isolated parts of the country who are not able to make this loan and we have ar ranged to take care of them. "The New York cotton exchange is using the government’s cotton re port to depress the price of the cot ton and unless the farmers refuse to sell at less than 13 cents the price of this year's crop will drop belowr 9 cents a pound.” Letters have already been sent to all of the farmers’ state unions with a request that the county and district unions be advised of the action of the committee.—P. R. An derson, in Greensboro News. FINE MEETING AT CLAYTON. Rev. Charles E. Maddry Aided Pas tor Hamby in a Resultful Meet ing at Baptist Church. A very successful protracted meet ing closed at Clayton Baptist church last week, after holding for about fifteen days. The pastor of the church, Rev. A. C. Hamby, was aid ed by Rev. Charles E. Maddry, of Statesville, who did the preaching. Mr. Maddry is one of the leading young Baptist preachers in the State. At *he services at Clayton he preach ed the plain gospel in such terms T-hat the people could understand and heed. As a result a great many back sliders were reclaimed, many made Professions and thirty-three were bap tized into the fellowship of the church. Others were restored. pARMER DIES FROM POISON. D- Byrd After Being Crazed By M*an Liquor Drinks Carbolic Ac id and Succumbs. f Bens°n, Aug. 19.—John D. Byrd, a •armer living two miles south of ere’ draak carbolic acid tonight as the result of an overcharge of 0 ind tiger liquor and died a few jtonute* later. Byrd, who is mar le > and has several children, came .ere '•bis afternoon, tanked up on D°^ze an£l started for home. of p tlle way he stopped at the homt ac' restoQ Norris and asked for the he* be bad left there, saying jjr Uanted it for sores on the chil dr.,‘‘,s bands. After reaching home h« her * tlle ac'd’ called his wife, told a ’ ''hat be had done and asked for Pori u S'Cian t0 be called> but is re‘ riven t0 Bave died before he ar vga Byrd was about thirty 0 °-d and drank occasionally. NEWS OF THE WORLD. Russia has awarded contracts for two battleships to be added to the Black Sea fleet. Theodore Ridge fell 100 feet in an aeroplane at Aldershot, England, Fri day and was killed. The Prussian Government has re duced the railway freight rates on feed for livestock one-half owing to the drouth. Over fifty persons were injured when a Big Four fast passenger train jumped the track near Columbus, O., Friday night. The veto bill, limiting the powers of the House of Lords, became a law Friday, the King’s assent hav ing been given. Oscar A. Brindley broke the world’s record for altitude with an aeroplane at Chicago last Friday by ascending 11,726 feet. There were 215 business failures in the United States during the week ended August 17 as compared with 268 the previous week. Four men were killed and four were fatally injured in an explosion in the Illinois Steel Company’s plant at Joliet, 111., last week. A factory fire at Russelheim, Ger many, Sunday, caused a loss of two lives and a property damage of be tween $1,600,000 and $1,250,000. 1X10,11 W CIO IVllitJU CUIU ilUULIltJr was seriously injured in a collision between a traction car and an auto mobile at Richmond, Iud., Sunday. The House Monday, after concur ring in the Senate amendments to the Underwood cotton tariff revision bill by a vote of ISO to 107, sent the measure to President Taft. There were three deaths from cholera on the steamer Re d’ltalia, which arrived Friday at New York from Naples and Palermo. Two pas sengers now in the hospital show symptoms of the disease. Gov. Johnson, of California, has honor on a r : sition from the Gov 'Hior of Indiana for the return to In dianapolis of t;- e Los Angeles detect ive charg 'd vv nh the kidnapping of John J. McNamara. In a collision between an Illinois Central passenger train and a bug gy at Louisville, Sunday afternoon, Mis. Brent Hays of 2330 West Maple street, was almost instantly killed, and Mr. Hays was perhaps fatally injured. After a long debate on a motion to pass the wool tariff revision bill over President Taft's veto the House Friday failed to pass the bill by the necessary two-thirds vote, the result being 227 to 129. This kills the wool bill. After a visit to Niagara Falls, Ad miral Togo, of Japan, closed his of ficial visit to the United States and went to Canada Sunday. He sent a telegram of thanks to Secretary Knox for the cordial reception accorded him. The strike of British railway em ployes has spread to every part of the empire and Tuesday night it was estimated that 220,000 men had heed ed the unions’ call. Traffic in all sections is demoralized and in some places no trains are being moved. Troops are still maintaining order and no serious rioting has been re ported. Later—The strike has been settled and business is about normal again. J. W. HODGES HELD FOR FORGERY Arrested Near Benson Yesterday And Carried to Harnett County Jail. Benson, N. C., August 24.—J. W. Hodges, a young white man of this place, was arrested yesterday ev ening near here by Deputies Wheel er and Smith, charged with forg ing checks on W. R. Denning. The arrest was made on complaint from Dunn and Hodges was carried to Lil lington and lodged in jail to await a hearing. Hodges is charged with forging checks on W. R. Denning on one of the Dunn banks and also on the Farmers Commercial Bank of Ben son. We learn that this is not the first time such a charge has been made against this young man. Vast quantities of coal are handled on the great lakes of the Canadian border. In 1910 more than 13,000,000 tons passed through the Soo canal. CONGRESS ADJOURNED TUESDAY OVER FOURTEEN THOUSAND BlLLS INTRODUCED. Was In Session 121 Days. Speaker Clark and Vice-President Sher man Deliver Valedictories. Washington, Aug. 22.—The first session of the sixty-second congress ended to-day and immediately the ex odus of members began. President Taft joined with several hundred tired legislators in the hegi ra and *o-night official Washington was comparatively deserted. Every out-going train bore senators and representatives on their homeward journey after being together 121 days, and setting the liveliest pace of any legislative session in years. Both Vice-President Sherman and Speaker Clark delivered valedictor ies, expressing appreciation, extend ing congratulations on good will shown in a strenuous session and be speaking health'and happiness dur ing the recess. Then, officially at 3 o’clock, but actually two minutes later in each house, the extra ses sion of congress was declared ad journed. The session record of measures in troduced in 14,083 bills and 484 re solutions in the house, and 3,296 bills and 68 resolutions in the senate. On ly a few of these were, passed. The senate adjourned without filling the office of president pro tern, to take the place of Vice President Sherman in temporary absence. COTTON BELT WEATHER FAVORABLE IN SPOTS. Washington, Aug. 22.—The contin uation of frequent showers in the central portion of the cotton belt, with much cloudy weather, v/as gen erally unfavorable, but in the eastern portions local showers and sunshine prevailed and conditions were, as a rule, favorable, although more rain is needed in portions of Georgia and the Carolinas, says the national weekly weather bulletin issued to day for the week ending yesterday. West of the Mississippi the week continued unusually warm. Heavy rains occurred in portions of Arkan sas and there were some local show ers in northern and eastern Texas, but over the greater part of that State as well as the whole of Oklaho ma there was practically no rain as during the preceding week, and the ground :s again becoming dry. colored convention here. S. S. Convention of the A. M. E. Church Opened Yesterday At The St. Mark Church. (By C. L. W. Smith.) The Sunday School Convention of the Fayetteville District, N. C. Con ference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church convened yester day (Thursday) at the St. Mark Church and will continue its sessions through Sunday. Promptly at the hour designated the delegates and pastors assem bled and after devotional exercises proceeded to an organization with tin following officers: President, Rev A. Stroud, P. E.; Vice President Rev. G. G. McGhee; Secretary, Mrs T. A. Lassaine; Assistant Secretary Miss Snow-Drop Bailey; Marshalls Rev. J. R. Cox, and C. E. Bell. The reports from the various Sun day schools composing the conventio: contain much interesting data con cerning the growth, financial condi tion and religious development o: the schools. Some of the topics to be discusset are: Should public collection be lift ed from the Sunday school or shoulc it be lifted from the several class es? Should pastors be responsibb for the workings of the Sunda; school or should the Superintendent' Among the noted visitors to bi present will be Prof. J. R. Hawkins General Secretary of Education o the A. M. E. Church, who will deliv er an Educational Address to-nighi Also Rt. Rev. L. J. Coppin, Bisho] of the Church, is expected to b< present Sunday. Busy At Bridge. “Miss Gwendolyn, I should like t< ask you to marry me.’’ “You are interrupting the bridg game now, Mr. Wibbles. Wait unti I'm dummy.”—Ex. BANNER’S HUSTLING CAPITAL BENSON HIGH SCHOOL TO OPEN NEXT THURSDAY. A Good Roads Meeting Saturday.—A Surprise Marriage.—Local and Personal. Benson, N. C., Aug. 24.—Miss Mat tie Smith, of Meadow township, was here several days this week at the home of her brother, Mr. R. F. Smith. Miss Louise Cox, of Dunn, is spend ing a few days at the home of Mr. W. D. Boon. Dr. W. T. Martin war a visitor to Raleigh last Friday. Mr. Red Farmer went to Smithfleld Monday on business. Mr. Claud Canaday left Wednes day for Elevation township where he will visit his mother, Mrs. Lucy Johnson, for a few days, j Mr. Will Grimes, of Bentonsville township, was here for a short time Monday on business. Mr. C. T. Johnson left Tuesday for New York and other Northern cit ies where he will be for several days buying goods. Miss Anna Cavenaugh, of Wilming ton, arrived Monday to visit Miss Lovie Denning and Mrs. C. T. John son. Mr. E. J. D. Boykin, of Richmond, we s here this week to see his father, Mr. Dan Boykin. Messrs. Leahman Johnson and Ru fus Smith were visitors to Smitlifield Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. Vass Barber, of Norfolk, Va., was here Sunday and Monday to see reiauves. Rev. T. H. Sutton preached an in teresting sermon at the Methodist church here Sunday morning, but did not hoid services Sunday night ow ing to a revival at Gorinth. I Mr. and Mrs. .T. R. Holder and Miss Mary Richardson, of Wendell, who have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Boon, returned Saturday. Mr. George F. Moore, who has ac cepted a position with Mr. E. L. Hall of Fayetteville, left for his new home this morning. Miss Jewel Hall, of Fayetteville, is here at the home of her grandmo ther, Mrs. Duncan, on a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Hodges return ed this morning from Emporia, Va., where they have been on a visit to ! Mrs. Hodges parents. I Miss Meta Holder left Tuesday night for Baltimore where she will be for several days buying the fall stock of millinery for Goldstein Co., of Dunn. Messrs. E. D. Britt and Jas. E. Wil son, of Shady Grove, Sampson coun ty, were here Monday to see Mr. M. T. Britt. Mr. J. L. Hall returned Tuesday from Fayetteville where he has been on a visit to his brothers who live there. Mrs. William Turlington and chil dren and Miss Cleo Yelverton, ol Fremont, came yesterday to visit Mr, and Mrs. Eli Turlington. Miss Vada Stewart, of Coats, and her brother, Mr Jarvis Stewart, of Pittsburg, Pa., were here for a few days recently with relatives. Mrs. Arthur Pope, of Raleigh, who is remembered here as Miss Pearl Adams, of Greensboro, is spending some time at the home of Dr. F. T | Moore. lj Miss Mary West, of Willard, was here for a short time Monday and will return later to assume her du ties as one of the teachers at Went worth in Meadow township. Among those from Benson who at tended the Falcon Camp Meetlns Sunday we note Messrs. Worth Pope Jake Greenthal, Henry Slocumb, \V T. Martin, Red Farmer, Henry Smith Ros Smith and W. F. Smith an< others. Prof. Z. H. Rose, of Fremont, wai here Sunday and will return to-da; to be here till thue school opens oi Thursday, August 31st. The first bale of new cotton soli on the Benson market was sold Tues day by Mr. Archie Byrd, who lives ; few miles west of town. The pric was not learned. Several bales hav been sold since that time. Rev. Neal Rowland, of Texas, wh has been conducting a revival a Pleasant Grove cLunh, was here re cently. He seems to have mad many friends in Benson judgin from the large numbers who wen out to hear him while the meeting waa in progress. Mr. Ralph Spence, of Kipling, Mrs. Killian Rollins and Mrs. Hanfort, of Fort Pierce, Fla., Miss Mamie Burt, of Holly Springs, and Mr. and Mrs. T. ti. Rollins, of Merry Oaks, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. Par rish this week. Mr. M. T. Britt has moved his fam ily into the Beasley building on West Main Street. He has had the building remodeled and repaired, which adds very greatly to the ap pearance of Main Street. Benson High School will open on Thursday, August the 31st. There will be a meeting of the school chil dren and the patrons of the school, together with the teachers, in the auditorium of the school building on Wednesday night, August 30, at 8:00. Short speeches will be made by cit izens of the town and everyone is invited to come and bring a friend. Near three hundred pupils are ex pected to be present on the first day of the school. Remember the day, the time and he place: Saturday, August 26th, at 10 o’clock A. M., Benson, N. C. Ev erybody who is interested in good roads is requested to be present at a meeting of the Benson Good Roads Association and hear a discussion of the road question and see what plans the association has for the upbuild ing of our county and the building of good roads. Come and see what we offer you. A marriage that was a surprise to their many friends culminated here Sunday afternoon when Miss Lettie Kyals became the bride of Mr. Wal ton Johnson, both the contracting par ties being highly popular and resi I dents of Benson. Very few of their close friends knew of the mar riage till after the ceremony which took place at the home of Rev. N. H. Gibbs, where the couple had driv en apparently on an afternoon drive. Miss Ryals is the daughter of Mrs. C. C. Ryais and is very highly es teemed while the groom is a member of the mercantile firm of Chas. John son & Brother, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are stopping at present at the Boykin Hotel. THREE ARE BEHIND BARS. Face Charge of Murder in Connection With Coatesville Lynching. Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 19.—Three men, alleged to have been members of the mob which last Sunday took Zach Walker from a hospital here and burned him to death, are behind the bars of the county jail at West Chester, charged with murder. They are Joseph Swartz, who came here recently and is a rigger for Worth Brothers, iron and steel manufac turers; Capt. E. C. Berry, a para chute jumper, and William H. Gil bert, a Philadelphia and Reading rail road fireman. The two latter were arrested yesterday and sent to jail in default of $1,000 as “material wit nesses.” They were later released on bond, but late this afternoon af ter the district attorney had question ed Swartz for a long time, Berry and Gilbert were rearrested and held on the charge of murder in the first degree. ■ I i According to the district attorney Swartz admitted that he was one ol the persons who had hold of the rope and helped to drag the negro to the field where he was burned. He al so said, according to the court offi cials, that he helped to gather the hay with which the pyre was built. All three of the men were taker into custody late this afternoon anc rushed to West Chester, where they are held without bail. These are . the first men to be held on a di ; rect charge of muraer. , There were many rumors that mor . arrests were to be made to-day, bu f the district attorney before leavinj l for his home in West Chester, sai< that no more men would be takei s into custody before Monday. Thi r names of several persons who an l prominent in this borough have beei mentioned in connection with th 1 lynching, but District Attorney Gaw - throp refused to state w'hat he ha< i learned from Swartz and would no i discuss probable arrests. A Cure. 3 - t Judge—“Why did you steal th - gentleman’s purse?” a Prisoner—“I thought the chang g would do me good.”—Washingto t Star. BENSON YOUNG LADY SUICIDES MISS GERTIE HOLMES DRANK CARBOLIC ACID. Daughter of John B. Holmes Kill* Herself Because of Disappoint* ment in a Love Affair. Benson, N. C., Aug. 19.—Miss Ger tie Holmes, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Mr. John B. Holmes, of this place, committed suicide this af ternoon by drinking one and one-half ounces of carbolic acid at her home in South Benson. It seems that she was to have married this month, but was jilted by her lover, who mar ried another girl, a few days ago, and wishing to live no longer, she took her own life. A few days ago, just after the marriage of her lover, she attempt ed to end her life, by drinking laud anum, but the dose was not suffi cient, and she was revived by phy sicians, to whom together with sev eral members of the family she ad mitted her attempt to take her own life, and told why she wished to die. She was watched closely by her parents until to-day, when she bath ed, dressed in the gowns in which she was to have married, put on her wedding ring, and other jewelry, the gift of her lover, drank the ac id and was dead in less than half an hour. Dr. H. H. Utley was called at once, but she was beyond the reach of restoratives, when he arrived. Miss Holmes, till recently worked in the central office here and was thought well of. Her remains will he bur ied tomorrow afternoon in the Ben son cemetery. Dies. Grandfather of Forty-Three Bedford, Ind., Aug. 18.—(Special.) —Christopher Schmidt, one of the I oldest men in the county, is dead I at the home of his daughters at the age . f 97. Four sons, one of whom is Erdman Schmidt, of New Al bany; five daughters, forty-three ; grandchildren and seven great grandchildren survive. Three days i ago he walked to the barber shop ' for a shave. TEMPERATURE OF 105 RECORDED IN OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 20.—Ok lahoma suffered from one of the most oppressive days of the summer to day. The temperature here reach ed 105 at 4 o’clock. From noon un til after 6 o’clock this evening the mercury remained above the cen tury mark. Big Trade of Little Switzerland. Teeny weeney Switzerland, bunch ; of hills, mountains and snowy peaks, is a great big trader with ■ the out ! side world. Think of it! Foreign , commerce last year $561,500,000! The Swiss sold nearly thirty-eight millions ■ of embroideries and more than fif ty-two millions of manufactured silks. They scattered around the world about thirteen million of their watch es, cases, movements, etc., and scoop ed in for them more than $28,000,000. Swiss cheese went out to the value of more than $12,000,000, and that must have meant selling, perhaps, half a billion holes for good money. —New York Press. Others Might Learn the Lesson. It has been observed that there are no bees to be seen in town sucking watermelon rinds, whereas last year 1 they were very much in evidence. An observant citizen attributes their dis appearance to the fact that 1910 be 5 ing an unusually good fruit year, the - bees found it too easy to make a > living, stayed drunk most of the l time, neglected to lay by anything 1 for winter, and so they froze out 5 last winter.—Webster’s Weekly. A, Bad Break. “To-morrow will be Sunday,’’ re marked the little boy. “So you know when Sunday comes, do you?” inquired the minister. “Yes sir.” e “And how do you know?’’ “We alius gets a case of beer day before.”—Ex. the For 2,000 years prior to our era irrigation was extensively practiced in Egypt for agricultural purposes.