VOL 30 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1911 Number 29
ONE DOLLAR FEB YEAR. EDUCATION GOOD ROADS GOOD HEALTH PROGRESS FIVE CENTS FEE OOFT.
hold cotton for
FIFTEEN CENTS
French-English Syndicate Guarantees
$75,000,000 With Cotton As Collat
eral.—Estimate Of 12,500,000 Bales
Reported By States.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 13.—Five
hundred farmers and as many bank
ers, Congressmen, United States Sen
ators and business men representing
every cotton-growing State in
America, declared in convention to
day that the farmer’s cotton is worth
15 cents a pound, and resolved that
the farmer should hold his cotton for
that price. The resolution followed
a comSnittee report that the crop in
America would be 12,500,000 bales.
For financing the crop of this year, a
resolution was adopted to the effect
that the farmer should deposit his
cotton In a warehouse and use his
receipt as collateral until he could
sell his production at not les3 than
15 cents. There was also a resolu
tion that the several State Legisla
tures provide for bonded warehouses.
The meeting in Montgomery 1b to
be followed by a similar convention
in every Southern State, to be called
by the Commissioner of Agriculture
of each State. By these conventions
the action of the congress is to be
ratified and reinforced by further
steps toward securing a better price
for cotton.
It was Senator Smith who made
the speech which decided the con
gress in its naming the price of cot
ton at 15 cents, for Congressman
Heflin wanted to make the price 15
or 14 cents, with 14 cents as the
minimum. Congressman Clayton in
his speech declared his belief that
within ten years the world would be
using twenty-five or thirty million
bales of American cotton.
President C. S. Barrett, of the
Farmers’ Educational and Co-Opera
tive Union, delivered an address on
co-operation. He denounced as base
less the reports of a bumper cotton
Crop; denied the charge that the Far
mers’ Union was a combine to hold
up civilization, and asserted that
there is a combination for the pur
pose of hammering down the price of
potton.
W- P- G. Harding, president of the
First National bank of Birmingham,
spoke on “Financing the Cotton
Crop.” During his speech he de
clared that the present crop could
at best be only an average one. He
advised agreement fixing a minimum
price at which cotton should be
Bold but urged farmers to market
their cotton slowly and gradually.
As to the result of a conference in
Montgomery yesterday afternoon,
President C. S. Barrett of the
Farmers’ Union announced to-day
that a French-English syndicate has
guaranteed any amount of money up
io seventy-five million dollars to
finance the South’s cotton crop. The
deal w*s made through a personal
representative of the syndicate. The
money is to be loaned at 6 per cent
and the cotton is to be put up as
collateral. Details of the plan are
to be perfected by a committee to be
Composed of one Southern banker
and two members of the Farmers ’
Union. *
The estimate of this year’s cotton
crop, recommended by the committee
on statistics, and adopted by the con
vention at the morning session, is
approximately 12,500,000 bales.
MR. COBB TO PETERSBURG.
Goes There in Promotion to British
American Company.
Mr. J. N. Cobb, who has been with
the American Tobacco company in
this place, has been promoted to the
Petersburg and enters the manufac
turing end of the British-American.
Mr. Cobb, the bright- red-headed,
very read-htaded young man, has
■*on a deserved advancement. Con
stitutionality blessed with the gift
a golden silence, he is making in
every phase of the tobacco busi
ness that he has worked, a valuable
man and everybody expects to see
him continue to move up as long
as there are steps on the ladder.
—Durham Herald.
'Phere were 194 business failures in
the United States for the week end
September 7 against 164 for the
previous week.
THE SUPERIOR COURT AT WORK.
Judge Peebles Presiding.—Those Sell
ing Cigarettes to Minors Receiv
ing Heavy Fines.—Three Murder
Cases to Be Tried.
The September Term of Johnston
County Superior Court convened Wed
nesday morning, with Hon. Robert
B. Peebles, Judge Presiding. The
following were chosen as grand jur
ors to whom Judge Peebles deliver
ed a clear and forcible charge: W.
A. Edwards, Foreman, Ashley Boy
kin, J. H. Edwards, Ralph Hill, J. E.
Wall, W. C. Wilson, E. R. Hines, J.
B. Smith, C. H. Hill, L. E. Creech,
R. B. Barnes, Robert Johnson, J.
D. Jeffreys, J. B. O’Neal, R. K.
Daughtery, J. B. Davis, Preston
Woodall, J. Daniel Stephenson. T.
B. Wall was appointed officer in
charge of the grand jury.
The following cases were then
taken up and disposed of: State vs
Jim Ashford, Sci fa. Dismissed up
on payment of csots.
State vs. Luther Howell. Wrecking
train. Nol pros.
State vs. Jesse Eason. Cruelty to
animals. Not guilty.
State vs. George McLamb. Larceny
and receiving. Nol pros.
State vs. Preston Blackman. R. W.
L. Nol pros.
State vs. Joe Clark. R. W. L.
Not guilty, and prosecutor taxed with
the costs.
State vs. Lon Pool. Selling cigar
ettes to minors. Guilty. Judgment re
served.
State vs. Appas David. Selling cig
arettes to minors. Defendant pleads
guilty. Fined $250.00 and costs,
j State vs. Selma Drug Company,
[selling cigarettes to minors. Guilty.
Fined $500.00 and costs.
State vs. H. M. Hodges and Co.
I Selling cigarettes to minors. Fined
I $250.00 and costs.
j State vs G. C. Deer. Obtaining
I marriage license fraudulently. Fin
1 ed $10.00 and costs.
State vs. Willie Ricba-rlson. L. and
R. Guilty. Prayer for judgment.
State vs. William Henry Todd.
| House breaking. Guilty. Judge or
dered that he be whipped by his
! grandmother, and upon this being
| done judgment was suspended.
True bills for murder were return
ed against Lonnie Blalock for the
killing of Walter Watson; Joe W.
Whitley for killing Preston Black
man; Jesse T. Jones for killing Jas.
Hull; and Alex Jernigan for killing
Albert Todd. The first of these cas
es to be tried is the Jernigan case
which is set for Saturday morning.
The Jones trial is set for Mon
day morning of next week, and that
of Blalock for Tuesday morning.
NEGROES START THEIR SCHOOL
ON SUNDAY.
Sometimes when a church lot is
deeded to trustees certain people in
terested in the building of the
church will offer prayers to God to
bless the work. When a church is
completed and paid for it is usual
ly dedicated and prayer enters as
! a part of the ceremonies. Sometimes
when a dwelling is erected the first
thing done is an acknowledgment of
he family’s dependence upon God.
All this seems fitting, but the first
meeting held at the colored academy,
near the depot, in Smithfield, seems
to us like a bad start for a school.
I On a Sunday evening recently since
!the building has been framed sever
! al negroes met there and did some
high class gambling. We forget now
whether it was crap shooting or
cards that were being played, but in
one of the games Lewis Holden was
successful over Robert Futrell and
took the money. This so angered
Robert Futrell that he drew a revol
ver and shot at Lewis Holden. He
j missed his mark, but was so frighten'
ed at the thought of having shot at
a man that he departed for parts
unknown. This was the first ser
vice held in the new building and it
took place on Sunday.
Child Badly Hurt.
Last Saturday little Ila Lee, the
two year old daughter of Mr. R. E.
Lee, of Bentonsville township, found
a bottle of carbolic acid, which was
thought to he out of reach of all
the children, and taking the stopper
from the bottle, spilled the acid all
over the front part of her body. This
has caused her much pain and at
last accounts she was not doing
well.
THE NEWS IN BENSON
Benson, Sept. 14.—Mr. L. H. John-j
son spent Sunday in Goldsboro.
Miss Mary Barber, of Four Oaks,
is spending the week with her aunt,
Mrs. Reaves, who lives near town.
Mr. Eli Cavenaugh and family, of
Wilmington, have been visiting rela
tives near town for the last sev
eral days.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Boon and
hisses Jim and Herman Boon went
to Raleigh Tuesday in Mr. Boon’s
touring car.
Mrs. Martha Dixon, who has been
visiting her son, Mr. J. G. Dixon,
for a few days, returned to her
home in Elevation Sunday.
Miss Mildred Harrington, of Aber
deen, after spending a few days with
Miss Emily Canaday, left Wednes
day for the State Normal of Greens
boro.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Darden, of
Clinton, have been spending several
days with Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Britt,
of our city.
Quite a number of our citizens
have been attending court at Smith
field this week, as witnesses, spec
tators, etc.
Mrs. L. E. Stevens, who has been
visiting relatives at Lucama for
| several days, returned home Wednes
1 day.
| Mr. Stonewall Stewart, of Dunn,
spent Sunday in town with his bro
ther, Mr. Z. B. Stewart.
Miss Elsie McNabb, of Baltimore,
visited Miss Leola Smith this week.
She left Wednesday for Selma.
Messrs. Jas. and Herman Boon,
who have splendid positions with
j drug companies at Wilmington and
New Berne, respectively, spent a
' few days in town with their father,
Mr. J. H. Boon, this week.
| Mr. .Toe Allen, who is in the Un
ited States Army, and has been sta
tioned at Washington, D. C., has
been spending some time in the city
recently.
i Mr. and Mrs. Syke Campbell, of
: Madison, and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Campbell, of Pittsburgh, Penn., spent
; Sunday with their sister, Mrs. Zeb
Stewart.
Rev. Mr. King, of Raleigh, assist
I ed by the pastor, Rev. E. J. Rodgers,
■ is conducting a series of meetings at
! the Baptist church this week. Great
interest is manifested and quite a
| number have decided to give their
j lives to God.
j Of those who have left this w<Sek
to attend college we note: Misses
j Julia Cnnaday and Mattie Smith, to
! the State Normal; and Messrs. Claud
Canaday, H. D. Lambert and Jesse
Turlington, to the University.
The Primitive Baptist Association
meets this week at Bethsaida ’church,
2 miles west of Benson. Quite a
large number of people have already
arrived to attend, and a very large
crowd is expected.
Walter Norris, the 14 year old son
' of Mr. John Norris, who lives be
tween Benson and Dunn, suffered a
severe cut on his leg while riding
! a bicycle by running against the end
of a fence rail Saturday night. Dr. ;
Utley was called and rendered Med
ical aid.
Prof. Jas. Mehegan is here this
week to organize a band. At the
present he has about twenty-four
members. Orders have been given for
instruments and within a few weeks
we hope to furnish splendid music.
We understand that Benson is to
have another bank real soon, the
charter having already been secured.
The incorporators are Messrs. R. T.
Surles, R. F. Smith, R. V. Cooper, J.
L. Hall and Orus Matthews.
FARMERS’ BULLETINS FREE.
If You Want One of These Mentioned
Below Write to Congressman Pou.
I have received from the Agricul
tural Department at Washington two
hundred copies of each of the fol
lowing Farmers’ Bulletins: No. 369,
“How to Destroy Rats;” No. 379,
“Hog Cholera;” No. 383, "How to
Destroy English Sparrows;” No. 411,
“Feeding Hogs in the South; ” No
464, “The Eradication of Quack
grass.” I will be glad to send a copj
of any or all of the above bulletins
to any one who may be interested in
the same.' In writing for any of
these bulletins it will only be ne
cessary to mention the number of
the bulletin desired.
EDWD. W. POU.
Smithfield, N. C.
WENDELL HAPPENINGS
Wendell, Sept. 12.—Miss Clyde
Daniels, of Wakefield, has been
spending some days with the Misses
Bullock.
Mr. Jack Todd had Dr. Allen to
operate on his dog, which proved to
be a success.
Miss Annie Owens’ friends are
glad to see her back from Durham,
Oxford and other points of interest.
We are glad to see J. E. May out
again.
We are glad to see Mr. Harris
Price out again and planning to go
off on the train to take a job mak
ing tobacco hogsheads at Zebulon.
It is very sad to look in the pa
pers and see so many people kill
ing themselves, as well as one an
other.
It is with much pleasure to the
relatives and friends of Rev. W. C.
Nowell to see him and wife back
home in Wendell, after a long and
extensive trip this summer among
churches and friends of years ago.
We learn that Rev. J. W. Nobles,
of Wendell, filled the pulpit at Sel
ma for Rev. T. H. King last Sun
day.
Some of our fanners say more than
one-half of the cotton crop is now
open. '
Tobacco is coming on our market
very rapidly and the opening sale
seems to be very satisfactory so
far as we have heard.
The merchants are very busy
hauling all kinds of merchandise in
and out.
Friends and relatives of Mr. N. A.
Parker are glad to see him on our
streets after being away for a few
weeks on business, at his old home
in Randolph county.
It was said by some of the mem
bers of the Wendell Baptist church
that Rev. T. H. King had the lar-1
gest crowd at church that had been 1
there before, on last Sunday night, 1
and his text was on the “Busy World
for Money—a Man Buying Land; the1
Man Buying Oxen; and the Man Mar-;
ried a Wife, and no Time to Serve
God.”
Rev. Thos. H. King, of Smithfield,
assisting the pastor, Rev. J. W. No
ble, in a series of meetings at Wen
dell Baptist church, was a guest of J
Mr. J. C. Collins at the Hotel, on
Thursday night, September 7th, and
was delightfully entertained before
services by Mr. M. C. Todd, Misses
Mattie Mattox, Julie Todd and Julia
Nowell; and after services several
more of the leading young people
and their visiting friends, Misses Stel
la and Florence Fitzgerald, of Sel
ma; Miss Clyde Daniels, of Zebu
Ion; Mr. Tyre O. Bailey, of Kenly;
Misses Jessie White, Annie Lee Bul
lock; Messrs. Geo. Roland, H. P.
Hester and J. T. Allen, of Wendell.
Both vocal and instrumental music
was rendered very beautifully by
Misses Pluma and Annie Owens, Mat
tie Mattox and Pauline Griffin. The
party was ably assisted by Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Morris and Dr. J. L.
Moore. Such parties as we have
and the way they are carried out is
uplifting to any town or commun
ity. We are proud of our leading
yeung people and their way of en
tertaining visitors.
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HITCHED HIS WIFE TO PLOW.
Ohian Confesses And Gets 90 Days
In Workhouse.
Lisbon, Ohio, Sept. 9.—Jacob Zim
. merman, of Wellsville, Ohio, to
day pleaded guilty in the Probate
Court here to a charge of hitching
his wife to a plow and beating her
because she failed to pull it.
Zimmerman sought the mercy of
the court, but was sentenced to 90
days in the workhouse.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
at Chesterfield Courthouse, Va., Fri
'day. The jury was out fifty-eight
minutes. The penalty is electrocu
tion. Judge Watson sentenced Beat
tie to be electrocuted at Richmond,
Va., November 24th.
- The government report on the con
dition of crops for August shows on
ly a slight improvement over a
' month ago.
The numbers of women in the Un
. ited States who smoke tobacco In
some form or other is estimated at
2,000,000.
I
PRETTY HOME WEDDING.
Misa Mary Peterson, of Raleigh, Be
comes the Bride of Mr. Sanders,
Of Smithfield.
There was a pretty home wedding
solemnized at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. T. W. Dobbin yesterday
morning at 11 o’clock, when Miss
Mary Peterson. Mrs. Dobbin's niece,
became the bride of Mr. De Berni
ere Hooper Sanders, of Smithfield,
the vows being taken before Rev.
Father Griffin, pastor of the Church
of the Sacred Heart, in the presence
of a number of friends.
The decorations for the occasion
consisted of golden rod in the parlor
and hall, suggestive of the approach
ing autumnal season, while about
the nuptial altar were numerous
lighted candles, shedding a soft glow
about the room and forming a beau
tiful background for the wedding
ceremony, which was said in a most
impressive manner, being that of
the Catholic church.
The bride was handsomely gowned
in white chiffon, with a wedding veil,
her bouquet being of bride’s roses
and lilies of the valley.
Miss Dee Duncan, of Raleigh, who
was maid of honor, was attired in a
gown of white lace and carried
bride’s roses. The ribbon-bearers
were Miss Ethel Wynne and Miss
Helen Briggs, who formed an aisle
through which the bridal party
passed to the altar. These young
ladies were attired in white linger
ie dresses.
The groom was attended by his
best man, his brother, Mr. Robert
Sanders, of Smithfield, and the bride
was given away by Mr. Dobbin, her
uncle.
The groom is a well-known and
highly esteemed farmer of his sec
| tion, while the bride was originally
from Smithfield, but for the past few
years has made her home with her
aunt, Mrs. Dobbin. She is well
known and has a large circle of
friends and acquaintances in Ral
| elgh, who wish her much happi
ness.—News and Observer, 13th.
NORTH CAROLINA COTTON.
Commisisoner Graham Estimates the
Crop for 1911 At 650,000 Bales.
Maj. W. A. Graham, Commission
er of Agriculture, has made public
the estimate of the cotton crop of
North Carolina for 1911, as follows:
“Estimate of the North Carolina
cotton crop for 1911, made by the
State Department of Agriculture,
upon reports made by delegates to
the Farmers’ Convention at Raleigh,
August 29, 1911, ult., and corre
spondence with counties not report
I ing, 650,000 bales. Reports since
j the session of the convention have
'add declined.”
I _~ .
SHE IS A GRANDMOTHER AT 29.
Case of Mrs. E. W. Bender Is Con
sidered Remarkable.
Atlanta, Ga., September 10.—A
grandmother of two children at the
age of twenty-nine, and of three at
thirty years, is the record of Mrs.
E. W. Bender, of this ciy. It is
claimed that Mrs. Bender is the
youngest grandmother on record, and
her case one of the most remarkable
outside of tropical counrties.
Mrs. Bender, who is thirty-one
years old, was bora in 1880 in South
Carolina. She was married to E. W.
Moore at Columbia, S. C., in 1892.
She was only thirteen years and
three months old when her first
child was born. This child, a daugh
ter, was married in 1909 to Edward
Sinclair, and in January, 1910, gave
birth to twins, the mother being bare
ly sixteen and the grandmother not
yet thirty.
In January of this year Mrs. Ben
der’s daughter gave birth to anoth
er child, the third of Mrs. Bender’s
grandchildren.
Mr. Moore died when Mrs. Sinclair
was an infant. Later his widow mar
ried E. W. Bender, and»that union
has been blessed by several chil
dren. Physicians claim it is rare in
this part of the world that a woman
becomes a grandmother even in the
early thirties.
Building operations gained 11 per
cent in August as compared with the
corresponding month last year. Phil
adelphia led in the number of per
mits, with Los Angeles second and
Chicago third.
STATE OF MAINE
WILL DRY REMAIN
Small Majority Against Repeal of
Prohibition. Day Full of Surprise*.
Latest Figures Show 335 Ma
jority.
Portland, Me., Sept. 12.—After a
day of almost constant surprises, dur
ing which the result was many time*
hanging in the balance. It appeared
tonight on the face of official returns
from town and city clerks in all but
196 towns and plantations that prohi
bition had won in the special elec
tion of yesterday by 465 votes. Most
of the towns yet to be heard from
have been unofficially reported with
small majorities favoring retention
of the prohibitory amendment in the
constitution and any change in the
vote of these places is likely to
help the prohibitionists.
In addition to the 465 majority
j shown by the clerks’ returns, there
| are 50 more “dry” votes known to
exist in Portland, which are not in
cluded in the city clerk’s report be
cause of an admitted error. If neces
sary the anti-repealers will peti
tion for a recount.
The change from an apparent vic
tory for the “wet” side by 700 votes,
| to 500 votes in favor of the “drys”
j came as a big surprise. The prohi
bitionists had practically conceded de
I feat, while reports of those who
! sought repeal had sent out numerous
i statements on the strength of their
apparent safe majority.
' Of the other referendum questions
| before the people yesterday, that
| proposing to make Augusta forever
| the capital of the State and that fa
I voring the direct primaries act were
I carried by large majorities, according
| to returns at hand to-night.
I Mrs. L, M. Stevens, president Of
I the National W. C. T. U., made the
; following statement to-night:
“On September 9 England cabled:
‘Hold the fort, the world watches.’
“We have held the fort against
the terrible assaults of the united
forces of the liquor-makers, liquor
sellers and their allies, and the world
will rejoice.
“The remarkable campaign just
closed has revealed that there is
world-wide interest, not only in total
abstinence, but .n prohibition and
the day of final overthrow of the
liquor traffic has been hastened.”
Maine’s Majority for Prohibition 335.
Portland, Me., Sept. 13.—Report*
received by the Associated Press
at 6 o’clock tonight from all of the
521 cities, towns and plantations, a
large majority of the returns having
been revised by mail returns from
the city and town clerks, indicates
a majority against repeal of 335 votes
—that is, for the continued existence
of the prohibition amendment in
the State’s Constitution.
MAN KILLED AT CLAYTON.
Mr. Marvin Williamson Killed In
stantly at Planing Mill.
The news of the death of Mr. Mar
vin Williamson was received at The
Times’ office to-day by a telephone
message. The message stated that
early this morning Mr. Williamson
was working at a planing mill at
Clayton, and, in some way, a plank
was caught in some part of the ma
chinery. When he went to remove
the plank, the machine started and
threw the plank out, striking him
in the side, causing an injury from
which he died immediately. Physi
cians were called in hurriedly and
did what they could, but death re
sulted in a very few minutes.—Ral
eigh Times, 8th.
SALARY TOO HIGH, SAYS PASTOR
Resigns $2,000-A-Year Pulpit To
Accept $1,800.
Cape Girardeau, Mo., Sept. 12.—Eu
gene F. Abbott, of the First Presby
terian Church here, resigned to-day,
giving as one reason that his salary
of $2,000 a year was excessive con
sidering the amount appropriated in
charitable and other church work.
He has accepted a call to a church
at Fulton, Mo., where his salary will
be $1,800 a year.
The price of refined sugar was ad
vanced ten points in New York Fri
day. \