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THE SMITH FI ELD HERALD ... . FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1919. Number 25. FARMERS WAREHOUSE GREATLY ENLARGED Plans Are Now on Foot to Make It One of the Biggest Warehouses for the Sale of Leaf Tobacco in the East ern Part of North Carolina—Wil' Reach From Third to Fourth Streets With Grading Rooms and and Stalls in the Basement. Plans are now on foot to make th> Farmers Warehouse one of the very biggest in Eastern Carolina. Thi'.' warehouse is now owned by the farm ers of Jonhston county. The name of the company is the Farmers Ware bouse Incorporated and Mr. J. W. Ste phenson, one of the leading farmers of the county and a well known busi ness man of Smithfield, is the presi dent. Mr. Ed. F. Boyett, who has been connected with the old Farmers warehouse from the time it was firs' built, is the secretary and treasure". The concern was organized last ye Hi under the name of the Johnston Coun ty Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Com pany. This year the company decided to enlarge the business considerably and got a new charter, changing the name to Farmers Warehouse Incor porated. The company paid fine divi dends last year. This year it is hope 1 that much more business may be done Since the new’ charter was obtaine i the company has been selling stock and has already placed a good bit or it among the farmers of this section. The house was entirely too smal1 for the business last year and the board of directors decided some time ago to enlarge the house. An addition 208 feet wide and 215 feet long will be built from the eastern end of the house clear through to Fourth street The house will then be 415 feet long and stretch from Third street through the block to Fourth street. There will be drive way entrances on both streets. The walls of the new addition will be built of brick. A basement will be built under the new addition which will be used for grading rooms and stalls for the farmers’ stock. Two pairs of the best scales will bo in the house, one at the western end where the scales now are, and one in the middle. When completed, which will be long before the next crop is put on the market, the Farmers will be one of the largest and best equip ped warehouses in the State. N. L. Perkins With the Farmers The Farmers Warehouse Incorpora ted is' fortunate in securing Mr. N. L. Perkins as auctioneer the coming to bacco season. Mr. Perkins has been on the Smithfield market for the past four or five years as auctioneer for the Center Brick warehouse. He is one of the youngest auctioneers in the State and is very popular. He is not only one of the youngest auctioneer-, in'the State, he is also one of the best. He knows the farmers of this section and knows how to please them. His services as auctioneer are sought far and wide, not only in this Statr but in other States He spent the win ter season as auctioneer with one o' the big Kentucky warehouses. He says North Carolina is good enough for him and that hereafter he is going to stay with us through summer and winter. Mr. Perkins is already on the job with the Farmers Warehouse Incor porated and will aid the promoters in selling the new stock until all on the market is sold. He will then visit the farmers in this section and get readv for the biggest tobacco season John ston county and Smithfield has eve had. Rev. E .T. Phillips Visits Smithfield Rev. Edgar T. Phillips, formerly of Pine Level, but now a resident of Av den, N. C., was here Tuesday for the first time in a quarter of a century. He seemed much surprised at the changes wrought in the old town dur ing these years. More than seventy five years ago his father, whom the old people of the county remember as Elder Ray Phillips, a preacher of the Freewill Baptist church, clerked in Smithfield in a drug store for a man named Williamson. During his stay here he had a severe case of sickness and was attended by Dr. J. B. Beck with. Rev. E. T. Phillips knew all the old residents of Smithfield and went to see their graves as most of them had passed away. Mr. Philips moved from Pine Level many years ago; For a long while he was editor of the State church paper for the Freewill Baptists. He still writes for that paper and others and serves sev eral churches as pastor. He is editor of the Sunday School literature for the Freewill Baptists of North Car olina and other Southern States. Mr Phillips is the brother of Mrs. J. W Strickland, of Boon Hill township, who died recently. SAW HOMECOMINGS OF THREE OTHER WARS. \ esterday Declared by Miss Martha Smith, One of Greatest of Her Life. The parade of yesterday was hon ored by the presence and admiration of a lady who had seen the soldiers return from three other wars, ihe Mexican (18-ft>-48), the Civil War and the War with Spain—Miss Martha J. Smith. She made the journey from her home in Smithfield and so viper ous is she that she stood without weariness throughout the time the procession was passing. She declared the day to have been one of the great est in her life, and added thAt she would not have missed the occasion for anything Let it be said that while the war was on none surpassed her in war service. She knitted socks, helmets, sweaters, etc., without num ber, and on yesterday her skilful fin gers were still busy. She has given eight hundred hours to the Red Cross. She proudly wore a pin carrying six service stars representing grand nephews in the service—-one of them being the lamented aviator, Edwin Smith Pou. While in Raleigh Miss Smith was the guest of her nephew, Mr. James H. Pou.—News and Ob server, 23rd. THE NEWS AROUND DIXIE. We were sory to hear of the death of Mr. Bunn Stancil, who lived near ' Stancil’s Chapel church. Mr. D E. Narron has lately pur cased a player piano. Mr. Edwards, from Wilson, was here on business one day last week. We were scry to hear that Mr. T. E Talton happened to the misfortune to lose a horse with lockjaw last Thurs day. Mr. William Narron and family, and Miss Addie Woodard visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lee’s Sun day near Bethany. Quite a number of the people from this section went to Raleigh Monday to see the parade of the soldiers. Little Miss Lola Johnson, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Johnson is suffering with a head trouble which has badly affect ed her eye-sight. We hope for her a speedy recovery. The Sunday School here is progress ing nicely. Mr. Willie Oscar Narron, Misses Nell Whitley and Mamie Hocutt spent Sunday in the Bethany section. Misses Leone Foster and Mamie Hocctt went shopping to Selma and Smithfield Saturday. Messrs. Millard Parker and Oris Johnson, who are attending school at Middlesex, spent the week-end at home with their parents. Miss Nellie Wood, and Mr. Joseph Talton, who are attending school at Selma, spent the week-end at home with their parents. Wc are very glad to note that the school at Sandy Spring is still on the increase each week. Selma, R. 2, March 25. Set the Clock Ahead One Hour. On next Sunday morning, March 30. at two o’clock, all railroad time-pieces, all government clocks and watches will be set forward one hour. All trains will be run on the same sched ules, which will be an hour earlier by the sun. Those people who want to leave Smithfield on Train No. 80, which is due here at 1:33, will have to start from home an hour earlier if they do not run up their clocks. Why not everybody run up the clocks? No one has to begin work any earlier un less he \yishes to, even if his clock has been run up according to law. The farmer could easily run up his clock and instead of stopping at 12 o’clock for dinner, he could work on until one The plan should be followed by every one that will bring about the least confusion—and that plan will be for every one to move up his time-piece according to the United States law. The trains will be run by the new time, the postoffices will open and close by the new time, the rural mail routes will observe the new time the banks will observe the new time. We, of the South, see no need for such a law, but we cannot change the law, so the better plan would be for us to obey the law without complaining. The more ure try to observe the law, the less we complain and grumble, the less confusion there will be and the happier we will be. War Souvenirs Attract Attention. The collection of war souvenirs which Rev. H. W. Baucom has place'’ in one of the windows of The Herald office, is attracting considerable at tention. Numbers stop every day to examine the helmets, swords, gao mask and various other implement0 used in the war. Save and succeed. Buy War Sav ings Stamps and get the thrift habit. STATE AND GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF By a vote of 128 to 27 the Baltimore conference on Wednesday voted for women to hod oflice in the Methodist Ep:seopal Church, South. The United States Forest service has received a $50,000 appropriation for the building of a first-class auto mobile road from Asheville to Bre vard. _ Thousands of tons haf nitrate ol soda for North Carolina farmers have been received at Wilmington within the last three weeks. A half dozen vessels have unloaded nitrate at the Carolina port recently. Appointments for the Rhodes schol arships to Oxford, England, suspended during the war, will be renewed ibis year, beginning with Octobei\ Only one Rhodes scholar will be selected from North Carolina. The Federal Employment Service will keep open 364 local offices until Congress appropriates funds for more offices. During the week ending March 15, the service found jobs for 12 211 discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, and for 57,174 civilians. An American girl, Miss Marioi. Mower, of Syracuse, N. Y., has been awarded the French croix de guerre for conspicuous bravery under fire. The French decoration was award**! to her a few day safter her 19th birth day. She is the first American woman to be thus honored. The life of a six-year-old child at Lumberton was saved Sunday night by throwing him into a well. A can op gasoline exploded near the child and his uncle, who was near by, took the above measure to save him from burn ing to death. He was rescued from the well and while badly burned t is thought he will recover. According to dispatches to the Montreal Star, fifty per cent of the inhabitants of northern Labrador per ished during the winter from an epi demic of influenza, small pox and measles. The full extent of the ca - amity will not be known until th'c opening of navigation in the summt Medical aid was unobtainable. News is sent out from Wilson that that growing town is to have a six story building. Mr. W. E. Smith, formerly of Selma, is one of the lead ing promoters in the new building The Planters’ Bank, of which Mr Smith is president, will occupy the first floor of the building. The re mainder o fthe building will be fitted up for offices for rent. George Summers, an Iredell county farmer, was burned to death at hts home Saturday night. His wife and children were away from home When they returned they found his charred remains. They came in time to save the home. About $100 was in his pocket and was burned. It is sup posed he lighted a cigarette and went to sleep, his clothing catching the.1; way. Lieut. David M. Prince is the firs' officer attached to the 119th infantrv. of the 30th division, to return to Goldsboro. He came by way of New York on special military detail with 19 other officers on similar commis sions. Lieutenant Prince left Golds boro as a private with Company E, and while in active service was pro moted to first lieutenant, his commis sion being given him by General Per shing himself. The War Department is making plans for a large medical reserv" corps, including all members of the profession who have served creditably during the war. Commissions in the reserve are being offered officers of the medical department who are being discharged from the service upon the completion of their duties. It is de sired to put the medical profession of the couutry on an organized basis in preparation for any future contin gency. A review of the strawberry, lettuce, potato and green vegetable crop situ ation in eastern North Carolina, South Carolina. Virginia, based on reports printed Tuesday from many of the more important shipping stations in all this territory, disclose a situation that is favorable in the extreme for the eastern Carolina growers covering 75 or 80 different shipping stations. From these reports it will be seen that from a slightly reduced straw berry acreage this year the growers are expecting to ship as many or mor* berries this season than were shippe1 last year. This view of the situation is based on the fact that this year’s acreage has been more highly cult; vated and fertilized than ever befor? with a view primarily to harvesting more stuff from the same acreage an4 thus meet the labor shortage to the best advantage by making every acre under cultivation yield the maximum output rather than any old thing, such as many of the growers have been content with in the past.—Carolina Trucker’s Journal. Inews budget from TOWN OF CLAYTON | 'lore Soldier Hoys Ciet Their Dis. charge and Are Home Front Camp Jackson—Clayton Boy Who is a Member of 113th Field Artillerv Spent Sunday Night With Home People—Local and Personal Items of Interest. _ > Clayton, March 2(5.—Mr. K. H. Gar | rison, of Raleigh, is here, the guest of j Mrs. John S. Barnes. > Mrs. 0. G. Smith returned a few Jays ago from a visit to Franklinton Mrs. C. B. Gurley and Mrs. W F. | Weathers left today for a two weeks’ ! visit to Mrs. Joe Pittman at Oxford Mr. and Mrs. Earl Edgerton and j mother, Mrs. Edgerton, of near Kenlv. pent the past week-end here with rel atives. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hinnant and Miss Thel O’Neil, of Wendell, spent Sun day here with relatives. Mrs. Sanders Cox, of Durham, vis ited his aunt, Mrs. J. E. Austin, last Sunday. Mr. Hugh Austin and Mr. and Mrs Will Long, of Smithfield, spent Sun lay at the home of Mr. L. F. Austi*’ at Wildwood Farm near/liere. Mrs. Jack Stallings, and Miss Beulah Bailey, of Kenly, have beer the guests of Mrs. R. B. Ellis during the past week. Miss Bertie Taylor spent yesterdav in Raleigh. Miss Telza Barnes, a student at the Conservatory of Music, Durham spent the past week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Barnes She was accompanied by one of her school friends, Miss Ilolladay, f.om Roanoke Rapids. Mrs. P. Winstead, of Petersburg and Miss Rochelle Gulley, of Nash ville, were in town for a few hours Sunday, en route to Raleigh to attend the parade and to see their brother Newton Gulley, who was a member of the 113th Field Artillery. Mrs. H. Coats has the thoughts and very best wishes of her many friends here while taking treatment and un dergoing an operation at Rex Hos pital.. Mrs. L. F. Austin returned Sunday from a visit to relatives at Durham Three more of our home boys came in this week with dischaiges from Camp Jackson. Thesa were Jesse Austin, Lee Penny and Jame Hardee, all of whom live in the coun try nearby. These boys have never been overseas, yet have bravely done their part on this side and were ready to go over if they had been called. Miss Ethel Talton spent the past week-end in Raleigh with relatives. There was no school here Monday on account of the parade in Raleigh of the 113th Field Artillery. Miss Agnes Austin is spending some time in Benson with her sisrer Mrs. Jesse McLamb. Mr. Eddie Martin, formerly of Wil son, who went overseas with the 113th Field Artillery and fought bravely throughout was allowed to come down Sunday night and spend the night with his sister, Mrs. Jim Talton, about three miles from town. He had to re port in Raleigh Monday morning by nine o’clock in order to be with the parade. It will probably be of interest to the folks of our to.wn to learn +hat Newton Gulley, a former Clayton roy is back from France safe with the 113th Field Artillery and was in the parade at Raleigh Monday. Miss Ruth Penny spent Sunday at her home in Wilders township. Next Sunday at .the Baptist church here Sunday School will begin at 10:30 o’clock instead of 9:30 owing to the hands of the clocks being moved up one hour on the night before. A glad welcome was given last Sun day to Miss Hockaday from Conserv atory of Music at Durham. She gave a vocal selection at the Baptist church which the entire audience enjoyed. A great many of our town people were in Raleigh Monday to see thee parade of the 113th Field Artillery. It was a great day for Raleigh. People gathered there from far and near to welcome the boys home and many to speak to loved ones in the artillery STATE HIGHWAY BOARD. Governor Biekett named the Stat'. Highway Board Wednesday. Lieuten ant Franke Page, of Aberdeen, chairman; John E. Cameron, of Kin ston; James K. Norfleet, of Winston Salem, and James J. Stikeleather, of Asheville, are the men who will now constitute the State Highway Com nisioners. Lieutenant Page, who is jrst home from overseas service, will devote his entire time to the service end draw a salary of $5,500 per year His appointment is for a term of six years. He is an engineer of consid erable experience which well fits him for the work. NEWS IN AND AROUND MICRO Ernest Page Home From France School Work Progressing—Union Meeting at Baptist Church. The hearts of the Micro people were once more made glad by the return of another one of our boys, Ernesf Pearce, who has been serving hi* country in France for the past eight months. He has two other brothers ir. service, Edward, who was wounded in France in one of the great drives and is now home. The other, Luther^ is in Germany at present. These boy3 left one of their brothers, Joseph ly-4 ing on the battlefields of France. H» fe’l while defending his country. There will be a union meeting a* the First Baptist church Sunday. Ali are invited to attend. The souls of the Micro people were very much inspired by the wonderful sermon of Rev. S. H. Styron last Sun day. We are proud to say that our schoo1 is progressing nicely at last. The Welbert Wellons and Priscilla socie ties are doing line work with their weekly programs. The patrons are invited to attend these meeting, as w think it would be helpful to them as well as the school. Misses Vera Parrish and Lucile spent the week-end in the Pomona section. Quite a number of our people went to Raleigh Monday for the purpose of witnessing the parade of the 113th field artillery. They report an in teresting trip. There passed a conspicuous person through our district early Mondav morning. The person was dressed in woman’s apparel, except his shoes which were about number ten, nietih shoes of the English cut style. The boys of our basket ball team played the Brown School team Fridav afternoon, the score being sixteen an 1 eleven, in favor of Micro. Micro, March 26. KENLY BRIEFS. Kenly, March 26.—Mr. Oscar Boyett having resigned the position, Mr. C. L Lawrence has been made chief of po lice of Kenly. Mr. J. C. Bowman h«s recently re turned from the hospital in Richmond, where he went to consult a physician. His brother was here last week >n a visit. Kenly was well represented in Ral eigh on Monday. Many car loads went to see the parade. Mrs. S. J. Darden and son, Mr. C F. Darden, have gpne to Richmond on a visit to relatives. Mrs. E. T. Watson, of Mount Olive, is visiting Miss Janie McNeal. Mr. W. T. Bailey has gone to Lynch burg, Va., on a pleasure trip. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Boykin, Mr. F Winborn and Miss Emma Howard from Wilson, were the guests of Mrs J. J. High Sunday. Miss Beulah Bailey and sister, Mrs Jack Stallings spent the week-end in Clayton with friends. Rev. C. P. Jerome will give an illus trated lecture Thursday night at the Methodist church. The subject is on “Making Democracy Safe for the World.” The Methodist Quarterly Confer ence will be held at the church on Monday. The Presiding Elder will be here on Sunday and probably other visiting preachers. Mr. Dobbin Bailey, who is a student at Chapel Hill, was at home for the week-end. The following girls have been se lected to debate in the triangular de bate against Lucama and Stantons burg: Negative, Miss Adna Lee Bailey and Miss Alice Grice; affirmative Misses Nellie Ballance and Marie Las siter. BODY OF LOST CHILD IN HOLLOW LOC Chattanooga, Tenn., March 26.— News has been received here from Newport, Tenn., that the body of Abraham Lincoln Ramsey, three-year old boy, who became lost in the Smoky Mountains March 11, had been found in a hollow log in a dense forest about three miles from his home. The lad had attempted to follow his sister to a country store and on being turned back took the wrong fork in the roa^ and disappeared. A search had beer kept up by neighbors for many day-! and nights. It is supposed the boy becoming wearied from his wander ings and with night coming on, crawl • ed into the hollow log and either died from exhaustion or hunger. Two Aviators Killed. Arcadia, Fla., March 26.—Two avi ators, Lieutenants Burns, of Indianap olis, and Matthews, of Ithaca, N. Y were killed at Charlestrom Field near here today in a fall estimated at 1, 500 feet. Their machine got out of control in some way unknown. Both were dead when hospital men reached them. x AIRPLANE RUNS WITHOUT A PILOT lender Automatic Control Machine Makes Trip and Lands Almost at Spot It Is Sent to Reach—Its Meth od of Control Yet a Secret. The wonders of aerial travel will never cease. When the Wrights first announced that they had a heavier air machine that would fly they wer« looked on as dreamers. But long since their widest dreams have become more than realities, and yet aerial travel is only in its infancy. The small boys of today will live to see even greater wonders than the men of today have seen or ever will see. The following interesting story of the wonderful work of the airplane was sent out from Fort Worth,Texas. Monday and published in Tuesday’s daily papers: “Under automatic control, an ni? plane-capableiof carrying a heavy load and without any human being aboard to guide it, has made a trip of mors than a hundred miles and landed with ing a very short distance of the point it was sent to reach. “Invention of the automatic guide, which has been kept secret until now, was mentioned by Secretary of War Baker in a speech here today, while he and General March, chief of staff of the army, were in Fort Worth to inspect Camp Bowie. Secretary Ba ker referred to the invention to im press on his hearers the possible hor rors of future wars if there is to be no league of nations. “The invention was made in Amer- • ica, according to Mr. Baker. In one test, as described by Mr. Baker, an airplane was first sent out under con trol of a pilot without making land ing, returning to its point of origin after locating the distant point of ob jective. Then another airplane was sent out under automatic control set to land at the designated point and it affected the landing so close, said Mr. Baker, that had it been a shell, ic would have been considered a good shot. “Secretary Baker did not e1 m the exact nature of the invention but he made it clear the war department considers it one of the most wonder ful pieces of destructive mechanism ever contributed.” SLEEPING DISEASE NOW AT RICHLANDS. Richlands, Mar. 26.—“Sleep death.” the new disease which it is said is appearing as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic, has invaded Rich lands. A 15-year-old negro boy has been sick two weeks with a disease diagnosed by Dr. Allen M. McCuiston as encepalitis lethargic. The boy appears to be in perfect health and can be aroused with some effort. He takes his meals regularly, but there is, according to Dr. McCuis ton, a complete paralysis of the ali mentary canal. His eyes are slightly swollen, the pupils being widely dila ted. There has been no fever except one afternoon, but his breathing is retarded and pulse unduly quickened. He had a slight attack of influenz,, in the fall. It is necessary to support h’m when he is standing or walking. “I have had to rely absolutely on my own initiative in the treatment,” said Dr. McCuiston yesterday. “Think that it possibly might be a strepto cocci infection. I have loaded him up on tno strepto-vaccine—but I have got ten better results from massive dcses of caccadylate of soda, 10 grains giv en hypodermically every 24 hours. I have noticed and the family has also noticed, that he is brighter and opens his eyes a little wider at eight or ten tours after caccadylate is given Therefore I am led to believe that this disease might possibly be the least bit akin to the disease called African lethargic or sleeping sickness. Wa know' arsenic (caeeudylate of soda) will destroy the trysomosome in that disease.” Dr. McCuiston admits that the problem is still unsolved, but wants to exchange views with ether physi cians that have come upon cases of the disease, and have been successful in treating them.—News and Ob server. .' -1 ONE DAY’S BIG GAIN. Ninety-five Received at Hamlet Meth odist Church Sunday. Hamlet, March 26.—On last Sunday the Hamlet Methodist church receive.’ 95 new members, many of them letter from other places, and a num her on profession of faith. This was not the result of any series of services!, but was Jargely through the work of Rev. J. H. Buffaloe, the pas tor. The day was a red letter day with the Hamlet Methodist congrega tion. There are now more than 601 members of the church, and the large church is filled at every service.