The Great Johnston County Fair October 22, 23, 24 and 25th, 1918
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VOLUME 37.
THE SMITHF1ELD HERAEHFRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 191S.
Number 78.
ALLIED FORCES
FORGING AHEAD
BULGAR ARMIES FLEE BEFORE
OUR VICTORIOUS TROOPS.
TROOPS.
The Teuton and Turk Getting in Bad
Everywhere. Brtish Forces Take
Many Ottoman Prisoners in Pales
tine. On French Front British Make
Further Progress.
The Asosciated Press war summary
for Wednesday says:
The Teutonic allied forces in Mace
donia and Turkey still are in flight
before the armies of the Entente,
while on the highly important St.
Quentin sector in France the British
and French armies, after hard fight
ing have drawn more closely their
lines in the investment of the town, on
the northwest west and south. The
stubborn resistance of the Germans,
in defense and in counter attacks has
been unavailing except to impede the
progress of the men of the armies of
Field Marshal Haig and General Deb
ney.
In Macedonia the Bulgarian and
German troops are still faced with dis
aster; in Palestine the remaining
Turks seem to have scarcely a chance
for escape from the British forces and
friendly tribesmen who are closing in
upon them east of the river Jordan.
More than 40,000 prisoners and 265
guns have been taken by the British
and yet Gefieral Allenby’s appetite for
further emoluments for his hard cam
paign has not been satiated.
Gauged by the swiftness of the
strokes Allenby is delivering, it is his
purpose absolutely to overwhelm the
Ottomans. And the fulfillment of his
plans seems appreciably near.
In no less critical situations are the
Germans and Bulgarians in the Mace
donian theatre. ^ Here, except imme
diately on the Bulgarian frontier,
where the mountainous country gives
them ground for strong resistance to
the invasion of Bulgarian territory
through the passes, the Bulgarians
and Germans everywhere are in rapid
retreat before the Italians, Serbians,
Greeks and British. Bent in twain at
several points the enemy forces are
bewildered and operating as separate
units.
Respectively on the western and
eastern flanks the Italians and the
Greeks and British are fast throwing
forward their lines in endeavors to en
velop the enemy, while in the center,
where the Serbs have driven their
sharp wedge toward Ishtip, there is
no lagging, notwithstanding the dif
ficult territory being encountered.
Rear guards of the enemy, armed with
machine guns, are but little delaying
the men whose task it is to reclaim
their kingdom.
As yet there is no news of great
activity in Albania, but a resumption
of operations there in conjunction
writh those in the east apparently can
not long be delayed.
On the French front the British have
taken the village of Selency, a scant
two miles from the western environs
of St. Quentin, and both the British
and French troops north and south of
this line have driven further wedges
into the German front. More than a
thousand prisoners and many machine
guns have been taken by the British
in these operations. Numerous strong
counter attacks were delivered by the
enemy, both at Selency and at Gri
court, but Haig’s men put all of them
down, with heavy losses to the Ger
mans.
HEALTH OF SOLDIERS GOOD.
Surgeon General Reports Death Rate
Far Below That of Civilians.
Health of American troops at home
and overseas continues remarkably
good. The surgeon general an
nounced Thursday that for the two
months’ period ended August 31 the
death rate of the entire army was
2.18, compared with that of civilians
of military age of 6.7.
Health conditions are better among
soldiers overseas than at home This
is due, the surgeon geneial said, to
the fact that only men of the best
physical condition are sent to France.
—Washington Post.
Old Glory waves from the top of
the water tank now, thanks to the city
water and light superintendent.
HAPEEX1XGS AND PERSONALS
OF INTEREST AROUND SELMA.
Selma, Sept. 26.—Mr. and Mrs. T.
M. Benoy and family are attending- the
Presbytery at Kenly this week.
Mr. C. M. Winston, president of the
Ethel and Lizzie Cotton Mills, made a
busines trip to northern cities this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Poole are
spending the week in Baltimore pur
chasing ready-to-wear goods for their
new store to be opened soon in the
old picture show stand.
Miss Mabel Wilkinson spent Satur
day in Durham visiting friends.
Lieutenant Frank Ray, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Ray, of Selma, spent
the first part of the week at home
with friends. Lieutenant Ray is ex
pecting to see active service soon.
While Mr. Ray was in town he became
interested in the drilling of the high
school boys are attempting and gave
them some valuable assitsance.
Houston Reynolds, of the last year’s
graduating class, has returned from
the A. and E. and expects to join the
navy soon. Mr. Reynolds could not
get in the college for military duty
because he was not old enough to
register on September 12.
Judge Brooks, of Smithfield, was in
Selma Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Tom Winston, of Oxford, was in
Selma Sunday visiting his relatives
and friends.
Mr. P. C. Worley, a prominent fur
niture man of Selma, is in New York
this week on a business trips.
The cotton gins of Selma are called
upon to work overtime to accommo
date the farmers who are trying to
get their cotton ready for market.
Rev. C. K. Proctor, of the Selma
Methodist church, is conducting a se
ries of meetings at Sanders Chapel
this week.
A service flag containing seventeen
stars was presented by the Philathea
and Fidelis classes Sunday night to
the Baptist church and Sunday-school.
Superintendent E. H. Moser present
ed the flag in a short speech on “You
are a Flag Maker.” The pastor, Rev.
R. R. Lanier, accepted the flag in a
short appropriate talk. There was a
pleasing program of special music ren
dered by the classes who gave the
flag.
The writer has had opportunity to
visit in the Sanders Chapel commu
nity somewhat this week. He has
been in some of those good country
homes. One finds in this community
some of the ideals worth living for.
Hospitality, good cheer, pleasant com
ladeship and a hearty welcome greet
you on every hand. At this time of
year one can feel the atmosphere of
comfort that crowns a year of toil as
these big hearted people gather in
their crops. Nothing boastful in their
nature or make-up to be sure, but a
genuine gratitude that their honest
efforts have been crowned. Surely
the farmer is coming into his own and
is reaping the fruit of his labors. May
this condition continue to exist in
America. Such folks as these are go
ing to better their conditions too.
I They are going to demand better
schools. They are going'to demand a
teacher with a vision and the spirit of
leadership to live among them twelve
months in the year and be one of them.
They are going to demand a pastor
that has his abode in the community
and who is one of them. When this
happens then rural North Carolina
will truly come into her own. It is
coming, too. Some of the men and
women in the community referred to
in this item are already talking about
a resident pastor and a longer school
term with good teachers who live in
the community and have the country
problems at heart. A few of the fin
est souls I ever met live in this coun
try district. They are going to de
mand that the country give their chil
dren advantages that it did not offer
them. They have the means now to
do it with.
North Carolna has never lacked
vision to do for her people, perhaps,
but she has lacked the means to do it
with. Dr. Branson, of the University,
once said that the thing that was the
matter with rural North Carolina
was that she was so “Dad-Blamed
Pore.” That is a has been though. We
are not so “Dad-Blamed Pore” now,
but we have money to spend and to
make improvements with. The coun
try churches and the country schools
should command our attention first.
Build up the country schools, put in
them teachers who can lead and who
have the country child at heart and
you put the mud sill under our form of
MORE NEW CASES
SPANISH INFLUENZA
Number of Cases in Army Camps
Now Reaches Nearly Twenty-three
Thousand. Deaths Tuesday Hun
dred and Twelve. Medical Officers
and Nurses Among the Dead.
Washington, Sept. 24.—Nearly 3
000 new cases of Spanish influenza n
army camps had been reported to the
office of the Surgeon General of the
army up to noon today, increasing the
total number df cases to nearly 23,
000. Deaths reported numbered 112,
due chiefly to pneumonia which fol
lowed influenza. The total of pneu
monia cases was 390 for all camps.
New cases of influenza were report
ed today from 21 camps in all, while
Camp Beauregard. Louisiana, report
ed its first cases. Camp Devins, Mass.,
had the highest number of new cases:
610, and Camp Lee, Virginia, the sec
ond highest, 528.
The total number of cases at Camp
Devens is now placed at 10,789, and it;
was announced that Col. William H.
Welch, a bacteriologist and organizer
of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Ru
fus Cole, an expert on respiratory dis
eases from the institute, and Col.
Victor Vaughn of the division of san
itation, have been sent to Camp De
vens to study conditions there in an
effort to combat the disease.
Sixty-six Deaths at Camp Devens.
Ayer, Mass., Sept. 4.—Sixty-six
deaths were reported at Camp Devens
from influenza or pneumonia today.
Among the victms were Capt. Charles
A. Startevant, of Manchester, N. H.,
medical officer of tre 74th infantry,
and a nurse, Miss Dorothy W. Crosby,
<:f Boston.
Official reports tonight indicated
that the general situation remained
about the same with approximately
six thousand cases of influenza or
pneumonia under their treatment.
$10,890,000 FOR CAMP MILLS.
Cantonment Construction to Replace
Tents; 2,000-Bed Hospital.
The present tent camp at Camp
Mills, Long Island, N. Y., will be con
verted into a cantonment for approx
imately 50,000 soldiers the War De
partment yesterday announced. Regi
mental infirmaries also will be con
structed, and the work, which will cost
$10,890,000, will be rushed so as to
have the buildings ready before win
ter.
A 2,000-bed hospital, costing $2,
468,000 for Camp Mills will be built
at Mineola, Long Island.
It also was announced that a 1,000
bed hospital would be erected at the
United States general hospital No. 20,
Whipple barracks, Ariz., in addition to
the 300-bed hospital recently author
ized. The new structures will be set
aside for tugercular patients, and will
cost $1,581,525.
An Appeal to Negroes and Negro
Preachers.
As a result of the many complaints
coming to this office regarding the
tendency of the negro laborers and
cotton pickers in Johnston county to
work only part of their time in the
fields, we are asking the negro preach
ers and workers to remind all such
woriters that these are war times and
that if this practice continues we will
be compelled to take other means
than moral persuasion to correct it.
Our common labor has not been de
creased to any great extent and our
cotton crop has not been increased so
we are not short of harvesters for the
crop. The common labor shortage is
more mental than otherwise, but we
ire short on skilled labor and ent cal
ly so. Commend those who are doing
their duty to their country and remind
the slackers that they are helping out
the Kaiser, and we will be able to har
dest this year’s crop all right.
A. M. JOHNSON, Co. Agent. '
F. H. BROOKS,
County Chairman Council Defense.
government. You make our democracy
;afe for the people and the world.
“The school teachers are the rally
ing ground for the best beloved pos
sessions of a country—its childrem. To
;he teachers belong the splendid privi
lege, the solemn duty, of rallying
around the flag and implanting in
their hearts and sending into the
homes of America the message which
will keep the flag flying high.”
NEW DRAWING MAY
COME NEXT WEEK
Additional Time Necessay to Allow
Local Boads to Correct Any Errors.
Men Aged 19 to 37 First,
Washington, Sept. 24.—The na
tional lottery which, in a measure,
will determine the order of the calling
of the 13,000,000 men between 18 and
45 years of age who registered on
September 12, probably will not be
held before next week. Officials had
hoped to fix a date late this week, but
this plan is understood to have been
abandoned in order that additional
time may be given local boards to cor
rect any errors made in assigning se
rial numbers to the registrants.
Since men between 19 and 36 are to
be called to the colors first, the draw
ing will have less effect upon deter
mining the order of the call than did
that for the nearly 1,000,000 men who
returned 21 before last June 5. Order
numbers for all the 13,000,000 men
wll be drawn, but youths of 18 and
men between 36 and 45 will not be
classified until the boards have given
classification to all the men between
19 and 36 who are the first to receive
their questionnaires. In the meantime
many of the 19-36 classes will have
been inducted into service.
Reports Received today by Provost
Marshal General Crowder from nearly
all States indicated that satisfactory
progress is being made by local boards
in attaching serial numbers to the
registration cards, but in one or two
instances mistakes by local boards
have made necessary the renumber
ing of the cards for all registrants un
der their jurisdiction. No date for
the drawing can be fixed until this
work is completed and the serial num
bers posted, and while this may be
done this week, it is understood that
General Crowder will allow several
days for the discovery of any errc's
before holding the drawing.
Only five States have now to report
the totals of the registration. Unless
their returns show sharp decreases
under the official estimate, the total
registration will exceed the original
estimate of 12,778,000.
GUARD HEALTH OF CHILDREN.
All over North Carolina, in every
city, town and village, and in every
country district, hundreds of chil
dren are entering school, or preparing
to do so, says a bulletn from the State
Board of Health. A large number of
these children will this year be in thp
same class as last year-, having failed
of promotion. To the parents of all
such children the State Board of
Health suggests that the probable
cause was some physical defect that
can,-and should be corrected.
Examinations by school nurses and
physicians prove that over one-half
of the children failing in school work
have some defect, chief among which
are adenoids and enlarged tonsils
which deprive the child of proper
breathing space, thus dulling and
stunting the child mentally and phys
ically.
The State Board of Health urges
that every failing child be given a
thorough physical examination and
any defect discovered remedied. The
United States Government found in
excess of thirty per cent of the men
in draft ages defective when they
were called for service in the army, a
very great many of whom are suffer
ing because of minor defects that
coulfl have been remedied in childhood
but which had been allowed to con
tinue and become permanent.
Every child is dependent upon its
parents for a fair start in life, and is
entitled to a fair chance to compete
with other children who have their
defects remedied and are kept free
from disease. Putting the matter on
the basis of dollars and cents it is
cheaper to maintain schools for full
terms to teach children than to pav
salaries to teachers for teaching chil
dren who are compelled to remain for
two or more years in the same class.
To Hold Revival Meeting.
The pastor, Rev. J. G. Johnson, will
begin a revival meeting at Batten’s
Cross Roads on the fifth Sunday night
in September. The services will he
held through the week at 8:30 p. m.,
standard time. The pastor will be as
sisted by Rev. T. E. Davis, of Four
Oaks.
COl NT\ FOOD ADMINISTRA
TORS COMMENDED.
County Food Administrator F. H.
Brooks has received from the State
Food Administrator, Hon. H. A. Page,
the following: letter, which explains
itself:
Mr. F. H. Brooks,
County Food Administrator,
Smithfield, N. C.
Dear Sir:
I have been gratified to receive the
following telegram from United
States Food Administrator, Herbert
Hoover:
“Washington, D. C.,
“Sept. 9, lfifs.
“Henry A. Page,
“Food Administrator,
Raleigh, N. C.
“I wish you would express to each
County Food Administrator in your
State the great appreciation we all
have for the fine service they have
given to our common task. I was par
ticularly struck by the repeated occa
sions during our recent conference
when such expressions arose as ‘We
can and must depend upon our Countv
Administrators for that.’ or ‘Our
County Administrator will put that
over,’ or ‘Our C^ounty Administrators
have done this or that.’
“All these expressions recalled to
me the relation of the Army Staff to
the men on the firing line and I wish
you would take opportunity to thank
them in my name for their great ser
vice to their country and her people at
home.
“HERBERT HOOVER.”
I am sure that all of you realize
how great my appreciation is for your
valuable co-operation. I do not. hesi
tate to say that the success of the
Food Administration in North Caro
lina is entirely dependent upon the de
gree, of co-operation which my office
received from you. We have received
this co-operation to a wonderful de
gree, and I am glad that I have this
opportunity not only to express to you
my personal appreciation, but that of
our chief at Washington.
Very truly yours,
HENRY A. PAGE,
Federal Food Administrator for North
Carolina.
Big Ginnery Burned.
On Wednesday afternoon, Septem
ber 25, about five o’clock the large
ginnery owned and operated by Mr.
Henry F. Edgerton at Kenly, was de
stroyed by fire. The loss is about
fifteen thousand dollars with no in
surance. Mr. Edgerton had planned
to take out insurance but had not con
summated the deal. There were about
two bales of cotton burned. Six gins
were being operated and the capacity
was about seventy-five bales per day.
Sixty had been ginned Wednesday be
fore the fire occurred. The capacity
of this ginnery was doubled last sum
mer. Mr. Edgerton phoned immedi
ately for another outfit which he ex
pects to install at once and will prob
ably be running again in thirty days.
A Gobbler Trying to Raise Turkeys.
Mr. J. C. Hardee, who lives on Ben
son, Route 3, tells us an interesting
story of the work of a turkey gobbler.
About a month ago this gobbler was
missing for about a week. Mr. Hardee
did not know whether he was dead or
stolen, or whether he had taken up
with some wild turkeys. He finally
came home and was fed and watered
but soon took his departure again.
Later Mr. Hardee found him in the
field having carefully prepared a nest
and took a squash to sit on in place of
the eggs. Mrs. Hardee has since placed
several eggs under the gobbler and he
is now giving his attention to them.
Mr. Hardee says this gobbler seems
proud of the eggs furnished for his
nest.
The Circus is Coming.
The children of the town, and we
are all children when the circus conies
to town, will be glad to learn that the
advance advertising agent of Sparks’
Circus has been to town this week.
The circulars distributed and the pos
ters put up testify very loudly to this
fact.
We have spent over $12,000,000 just
for staple supplies for our array, such
as flour, bacon, rice ,etc., Every sub
scriber to the Liberty Loan helps
feed our soldiers.
NEW LIBERTY LOAN
THEJBIGGEST YET
Six Billion Dollars is Sum to Be Rais
ed by Fourth Liberty Loan. McAdoo
Outlines Government’s Plan of
Campaign. Bonds Run for Twenty
Years.
Now ^ oik, Sept. 24.—Six billion
dollars is the minimum amount which
the people of the United States are
asked to subscribe for the fourth lib
erty loan, according to an announce
ment by William G. McAdoo, in a
stirring address here tonight outlin
ing the government’s plan for the
campaign, which starts Saturday.
The share allotted to New York fed
eral reserve district is $1,800,000,000
or 30 per cent of the greatest loan
yet offered. The loan, which will bear
four and one-fourth per cent interest,
will run for 20 years, maturing Octo
ber 15, 1008, unless the government
shoud exercise its reserved right to
redeem the bonds on or after October
15, 1933.
Asserting that, without this vast •
sum. “we cannot lick the kaiser,” the
secretary made a special appeal for
the subscription of corporations and
wealthy individuals, as returns from
the third liberty loan indicated that
wealthy corporations and persons of
large means had not responded “com
mensurately with their abilities to
help.” He pointed out that of the 18,
000,000 Americans who subscribed for
the last loan, only 22,500, including
corporations bought bonds in excess
of $10,000.
“It would be preposterous,” he said,
“to say that there are only 22,500 men,
women and corporations in America
able to lend more than $10,000 each to
their government in liberty bonds.”
PRINCETON AND BOON HILL.
Princton, N. C., Sept. 26-.—Little
Miss Lillian Thomas, of Apex is vis
iting Miss Jarvis Mitchell.
Mrs. A. G. Woodard, of Burlington,
is spending a few days with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Joyner.
Harvey Gulley, Molton Baker and
Bill Massey have gone to Trinity
Park School, Durham.
On account of the burning out of
the electric motor at the gin Monday a
large number of farmers have been
delayed in ginning their cotton.
Great quantities of Virginia whis
key are being brought to this section
in suit cases. Partices come back
on night trains with one and two suit
cases full of whiskey. They get off
the train at Fremont, Pikeville and
Selma. Friends meet them in automo
biles. Some of them are bold enough
to come to Goldsboro and then get
eleven o’clock train up here. One of
them told a friend it wasn’t any trou
ble to get back with the goods.
Mrs. Lida Evans and two children,
of Selma, are visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. Brown.
Tuesday night about 12 o’clock an
automobile ran into Mr. Brock’s bug
gy, one mile south of town. The au
to was run by a negro, and did not
have any lights on his car. A white
man was in the car, his name being
unknown, but he was from Smithfield.
A man who saw the accident says the
car was running 30 miles an hour
when it struck Mr. Brock’s buggy,
and immediately the car increased the
speed and left the wrecked buggy at
a speed near 60 miles an hour. The
buggy was tom all to pieces. Mr.
Brock and his wife were in the buggy
and had just left Princeton on their
way home. It is a miracle that both
parties were not killed. Mrs. Brock
was seriously injured and was brought
back to town for medical assistance.
The automobile did not stop to render
any assistance or to lend any help to
those they had tried to kill. Mrs.
Brock is a sister of Mr. W. C. Massev,
one of the largest merchants in town.
The auto struck the two wheels on
the side of the buggy but did not
strike the mule. The buggy was
smashed from under Mr. and Mrs.
Brock; they were thrown out to one
side of the road and the buggy was
scattered for a distance of one hun
dred and fifty feet long the road.
Herman Higgins Wounded.
A telegram was received here yes
terday by his father, Mr. Henry Hig
gins., announcing that Herman Hig
gins, of Company I, 120th Infantry,
had been severly wounded in action.