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VOLUME 3S. SMITH FIELD, N. C. TUESDAY. JULY 29, 1919. Number (if) HEAVY DAMAGE FROM FLOOD IN BOON HILL Crops Are Badly Damaged, Cotton Being Cut Short a Thousand Bales in the Township—Neuse River Six Miles Wide Opposite Princeton and the Highest Ever Known—Damage to Roads and Bridges in Boon Hill Estimated to Be Forty Thousand Dollars. The Herald’s correspondent at Princeton writes that the damage to crops and bridgesc and roads is very heavy in Boon Hill township. The corn crop is badly damaged and it is estimated that the cotton crop will be cut short one thousand bales on account of the recent heavy rains and the floods which followed the rains. The tobacco crop is cut off onc-half. many farmers having lost their entire crop of the goldeH weed. Neuse river is higher than ever be fore known. It is estimated to be six miles wide opposite Princeton. The steel bridge on Little River is wreck ed and several other bridges are wash ed away. The estimated damage to roads and bridges in Boon Hill town ship is forty thousand dollars. Get Knowledge. Each human unit has a place to fill in the world. That work demands that we separate the peasant from the horse. Even though the scope of his vision is small, this man knows there is a world about him, a world in which a man is superior to a horse. Society has realized this man has the power to think, and society must guide that power into proper channels. That is a primary obligation to the man. The duty of the man is to obey. Society has not fulfilled its obli gation to civilization merely by build ing school houses, employing teach ers, furnishing free books. It must search out the illiterate man and place within his reach the means of education. He must be given the light Illiteracy must cease. The power of man to think must be turned to the advantage of the people. The illiterate man is not fit to take up his share of the world’s' work. The load that it should carry is borne by another. That is wrong; unjust to the man, unjust to the people. Besides the right of every man to an education, we must give regard to the right of society to the services of every man. Now more than at any time in the world’s history, civiliza tion needs this service. Education is a mutual social benefit and at the same time a mutual social obligation.—Henry A. McAnarney in News and Observer. Where a Barrel Cuts Ice. The Wilmington Star says: “A bar rel has never amounted to any more than simply vdiat it is, although it has two heads. A barrel can’t do any head work with either of its heads, hence if some people had two heads like the one they have they would be almost in a class with a barrel.” It may be that politically speaking a barrel has been known to buy a whole lot of head work as well as many oth er things.—Jacksonville Times Union MANY BRIDGES ARE GONE , FROM JOHNSTON STREAMS Princeton, Tuly 26—Howell’s bridge at Little river, five miles north of town, washed away Thursday. The Little River Lumber Company log road trestle was also carried away. The concrete arch in the center of the river at Baker’s Mill steel coun ty bridge, one mile from town, was undermined Thursday night and tilted the bridge down the river but did not fall into the r;ver. The river was two feet higher than ever known before at Baker’s Mill. Richardson’s bridge ever Neuse moved bv raft but not srone. A fifty gaPon barrel, nearly fil'd of blockade com got away from blockuders Thurs day night in Neuse islands. Frantic efforts were made to save it, but the river was dangerously swift and all efforts failed. Barrel partly above wate - in vur, of river, passed Rich - ardson’s bridge eaily Friday morning and should have reached Goldsboro about 12 o’clock tomorrow. MR. RANSOM SANDERS TO BE CHIEF MARSHAL j Smithfield Young Man Has ISeen Ap pointed to This Position at the Com ing State Fair by President Chas W. Horne. Through Sunday’s News and Ob server we learn that our popular young townsman, Mr. Ransom San ders, has been appointed Chief Mar shal of the coming great State Fair by President Charles W. Horne, of Clayton This is a signal honor for one so young, but it is an honor that will be,,well borne by Mr. Sanders. He is well known over the State, having taken courses at both the State Col lege and the State University. He is one of Smithfieid’s leading young business men and is rapidly forging ahead as a progressive man of affairs. Handsome in appearance and affable in manners and a social leader, he is very popular and will make one of the finest chief marshals the State Fair has had in years. Our congratulations both to Mr. Sanders and the State Fair. John I). Rockefeller Horn July 8, 1819. John D. Rockefeller was born in Tioga county, N. Y., July 8, 1839. His father was a farmer. When the future billionaire was 10 years old the family moved to the valley of the Susquehanna, near Os wego. At the age of 15 John D. accompa nied his parents to Cleveland, which city he has ever since regarded as his home. At the age of 15 he left school and took a short course at a commercial college. In 1855 he found his first employ ment as an office boy with a firm of produce commisson merchants. In 1859 he engaged in the produce commission business on his own ac count. with. $1,000 capital borrowe 1 from his father at 10 per cent inter est. In 1861 he first became interested in the petroleum industry, which wras destined to in time to make him the richest man in the world. In 1866 he oil refining firm of Wil liam Rockefeller & Co. was esti Wish ed, consisting of William Rockefeller, John D. Rockefller and Samuel An drews. In 1869 the firm of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler was merged into the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, with $1,000,000 capital. In 1882 he organized the Standard Oil Trust which was dissolved in 1892 and since then various companies have been operated separately, but under identical control. In 1911 Mr. Rockefeller retired from the active direction of the co lossal industrial enterprises which his genius and energy had established. The most Huthoi’itative estimates put Mr. Rockefeller’s present hold ings at $1,200,000,000, and his yearly income at $60,000,000. His income is learger than the com bined incomes of all the sovereigns of Europe. In federal income tax last year he paid $38,400,000. He is frugal almost to penurious ness in his personal expenditures. His houses are unostentatious, his habits are truly simple. He lives like any well-to-do middle-class man. As a youth he became identified with the Baptist church and has al ways been a most active and gener ous supporter of the denomination. His gifts to the church grew greater in proportion to the inciease in his income. The total g;fts of Mr. Rockefeller to colleges, schools, churches, mis sions and other charitable causes now amount to $200,000,000 or more. He claims that the greatest happi ness that has come to him has been identifying h'mself with Christianity. He is a moral man, of blameless private lift. He doesn’t drink, nor does he smoke. He never speculates—he deals only with those things which other people have proved sure. He declares that his success is due to the training he had at home and his willingness to work. He says that the first aim of every young man desirous to succeed in life should be to win a reputation for in tegrity. His speech is low, deliberate, agree able and has something of the rhyth mic cadence or a preacher SUPT. L. T. ROYALL OFFERS RESIGNATION Has Been Head of Johnston County Schools for Nine Years—Sent in His Resignation Last Y\ eek to Take Effect August First—His Successor to He Chosen Soon. Several days ago Prof. L. T. Royal! sent in his resignation as County Su perintendent of Schools to take effect August 1. So far as wc know the County Board of Education has no one in view to succeed him. The Board will meet in pecial session Monday, August 4, to consider the election of a new man to fill the place. Prof. Royal! has no announcement to make as ro the future. Prof. Royall who was at that time principal of the State High School at Benson, was chosen County Superin tendent in the fall of 1910 to succeed the late Prof. J. P. Canaday, who was compelled to give up his work on ac count of ill health. Prof. Royall has been in charge of the schools for about n'ne years and has teen a won derful growth in the Johnston school work since he became superintendent. He has given his best relf to this great Work, and his efforts have met with success. We would be glad to give some fig ures of the school work in Johnston county since 1910 but have not the available fads nor the time to get them in shape for this issue. In a week or two we shall have the figures and will give a brief review of what has taken place in Johnston county educationally in the past nine years. Prof. Royall has hosts of friends all over the county who will receive the news of his retirement from the school work with much regret. Protracted Meeting. Rev. John E. Lanier is holding a meeting at Bethesda Baptist church this week. Services are held every morning at 11 o’clock, old time, and at 8:15 at night, old time. Rev. A. 0. Moore, pastor of Clayton Baptist church, is aiding in the meeting. On Thursday, August 31, special all day services will be held. Services that day, morning, afternoon and” night. All members of the church and all who have ever been church mem bers are urged to attend that day. Six Millions for New School Buildings North Carolina will spend for new school buildings within the next year aprpoximately six and one half million dollars. The cities of the State will spend about 33,000,000 of this sum, the smaller towns about $2,000,000, and the rural districts about a millior am1 a half, according to an estimate reccnCy completed by State Superin tendent Brooks. New High School Building. Wilmington is to have a new high school building, the contract to be let during the present week. The build ing, when complete, and furnished, will cost about $265,000, and will be the finest school building in the State and among the finest in the South. Seashorellotel to Be Rebuilt. The Seashore Hotel on Wrightsville Beach recently destroyed by fire is to be replaced at once with a modern fire proof structure which is to be opera ted as a seashore resort the year round. The new building will be put up at a cost of $500,000. County Superintendents to Meet. The district meeting of the Associa tion of County Superintendents for the Southeastern District of North Carolina, will be held at Wrightsville Beach August 18 to 20. An address by Superintendent Brooks will be a feature of the meeting. Days spent on the golf links have given him a rather ruddy complexion. He has small, keen eyes, steel blue, restless eyes. He has a wide, thin lipped restless mouth, seamed at the corners with ,ines of repression and tenacity. Mr. Rockefeller was an old man at 60, but through care, careful diet and eyerc-ise, is a young man at 80—Se lected.—Charlotte Observer. LUMBERTON HANDLES 300,000 POUNDS WEED I hursday of Last Week Was Record Day and Prices Soared as High as 01 Cents—Million Pounds of the Golden Weed Sold Since Opening of Market. Lumberton, July 26.—Thursday was a record day for the Lumbertor tobacco market, more than 300,000 pounds being sold on that day. Prices have advanced on all grades of to bacco during the last few days and much tobacco has been sold this week for above 60 cents the pounds. L. H. Britt, of Route 4, from Lum berton, sold 1,032 pounds at til cents per pound. This was one curing from six acres and judging from the sale made Thursday the six acres will sell for around $4,000. Good sales have been conducted each day this week and three warehouses h.»’e are sell ing all the tobacco they can possibly handle. The market has already sold more than 1,000,000 pounds and the present indications are that the mar ket will sell around 6,000 000 pounds during the season. Hnudreds of thou sands of dollars are being paid out each week to the tobacco growers and business in general is on a boom.—F. FAIRMONT TOBACCO IS BOOMING RIGHT ALONG. Fairmont, July 24.-—With several hundred pounds of leaf tobacco still on the floor for sale the buyers and warehousemen had to postpone sales till tomorrow. Ao total of over 500,000 pounds already being sold. Acording to the statements of sev eral farmers the prices eclipsed the sky-high prices of last season. After 4 o’clock farmers were trying to get somewhere to place tobacco on the warehouse floors. If the fair weathei continues the tobacco market will be taxed to capacity every day.—H. V. Brown, in Wilmington Star. Tobacco Bringing Good Prices. Whiteville, July 27.—Good tobacco is bringing a magnificent price on this market. The highest price paid to date was 55 cents per pound, this be ing raised and cured by B. F. Page, a £armer%of this section. It the rains would only stop a bumper crop could be the result as lots of tobacco was planted this year, a large majority of it being the better grade of tobacco Good tobacco is bringing anywhere from 35 to 55 cents per pound. Mr. Troy Eason Died in Raleigh. The News and Observer gives the following news concerning the death of a Johnston county man: “Mr. Troy Eason, of Selma, native Carolinian, died Thursday night at the home of h;s son, Mr. Moses Eason in this city. He was 75 years of age. The direct cause of his death was Brights disease. “Mr. Eason is survived by five chil dren: Mr. S. W. Eason and Mr. Moses Eason, of this city; Mr. Hiram Eason and Mr. Israel Eason, of Selma, and Mrs. Levi Parnell, of Smithfield. Fu neral services were held at the grave in Oneals township, the family burial plot, Friday afternoon about one o’clock. “Mr. Eason came to the city about three weeks ago to see Mr. Moses Ea son, who was seriously ill. When he arrived he was already sick, and he died without reaching his son’s bed side.” Moore's Creek to Celebrate. The annual celebration of the Moore’s Creek battle ground of Rev olutionary fame, will take place at that historic spot, near Currie, in Pen der county, August 14. One of the features of the day will be an air plane flight. The orator for the day will be O. Max Gardner of Shelby, one of the candidates for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor in next year’s camptign. Dyke at State Farm Broken. The dyke tnat guarded the corn fields of the State Prison farm in Hal ifax county from Roanoke river broke Saturday morning and 3,OOJ acres of corn went under water. The corn crop may not be totally damaged, prison officials hope, and no persona! property has been lost. COMMUNITY WORK IN WAKE. Miss Susie I)i\on. of Raeford. Is Elected Director of New Service. Joint Arrangement 15y Stale and County—State's Mobile Movies Will De Shown Regularly in Sixteen Coni munities. Wake county is to have a director of Community Service under the joint direction of the State and County De partments of Education. Miss Susie Dixon, of Racford, has been selected for the position and she w;ll report to Superintendent John C. Lockhart on August 1 to begin the ne,v work. Miss Dixon is to have charge of the premium of physical improvement of county boys and girls, community amusements and the organization of classes for teaching illiterates. Sixteen communities in the county will be visited regularly by Miss Dixon and the “community movie” outfit of the State Department of Education. Plans that have so far been worked out by Superintendent Lockhart, Mr. W. C. Crosby, State Director of Com munity Service, and Miss Elizabeth Kelly, State Director of Adult Illiter acy, include a series of educational moving pictures that have been cen sored by the United States govern ment. These pictures will be put on in each of the sixteen communities, six reels to be shown in each commu nity evevy four weeks. It will be a part of Miss Dixon’s job to explain the educational pictures. She will also have charge of the physical fitness work, teaching the value of athletic contests in the development of sound bodies. When suitable progress has been made in the county, a “Physical Fitness Day” will be observed in the communities. Miss Dixon will also organize classes for teaching those who desire to take up certain studies and who are deprived of the opportunity of at tending schooL These classes will b » open to all persons in the county over fourteen years of age. The director is to be paid principally from the proceeds from the moving pictures, supplemented by a part of the appropriation for teaching illiter ates.—News and Observer, 25th. Henson ('tub Meets. Benson, N. C., Ju’y 27.- Mrs. Pres ton Wo dull was hostess to the John Charles McNeill Book Club Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The meeting was called to order by the president ! Mrs. .J. It. Barbour. No formal pro gram had been arranged, but Mrs. A. T. Lassiter read a brief but interest ing article by Zona Gale Much en thusiasm was shown in the plans which were made for mor-1 active lit err.ry work to begin in the all. Mrs. Henry Davis, of Raleigh, was a guest of the club. NEUSE RIVER REACHES HIGH HEIGHTS AT KINSTON We note in this morning’s papers that Neuse river established a new high record at Kinston yesterday and continues to rise. Thousands of acres of lands are overflowed and the dam age in that section is estimated to reach one hundred thousand dollars Everybody Believes Newspaper Men Editor Ike London, th” near-philos opher, who edits The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, hands out the follow ing bits of warm-weather philosophy: “A lawyer in a court room may call a man a liar, scoundrel, villain, or thief, and no one makes complaint when court adjourns. If a newspaper prints such a reflection on a man’s charac ter there is a libel suit or a dead ed itor. This is owing to the fact that the people believe what an editor says.”—Marshville Home. “I would like to canonize the man who suggests that ‘we put up a bar rage against the advance of prices,’ said the head of a household in which there are svernl very attractive daughters. “After winning the war we find that we still have the Hun of high prices to fight. Couldn’t we get up an allied effort of refusal to buy at present prices? And to add to the misery of the situation, news comes from the big marts of trade that prices are going higher. I don’t see but one thing ahead of us and that is a return—.sartorically—to Edenie days.”—From “One Minute Inter views” in Charlotte Observer. LIEUT. DAVID PRINCE DROWNED SATURDAY While Attempting to Save the Life of a Little Hoy He Lost His Own Life Saturday Morning—Had Recently Returned From France, Where He Was Breveted for Personal Deeds of Bravery. Lieutenant David M. Prince was drowned at Goldsboro Saturday morn ing while attempting to save the life of a little boy who had gotten beyond his depth in the raging, swirling wa ters not far from the union station. Hundreds of people had gathered at the union station to witness the high waters which had submerged the near by fields, the Little river having over flowed its banks. The boy was in the water and soon got beyond his depth and the alarm was given that he was drowning. Lieutenant Prince had just, arrived on the scene and seeing the great dangei the little fellow was in, did not hesitate but went to his res cue. He reached the boy and had brought him to a point where others took him in charge and brought him to safety, when he sank in the raging waters. Lieut. Prince was an expert swimmer and it is supposed that he was attacked with cramps and went down to rise no more alive. His body was recovered two hours later. Lieutenant Prince only recently7 came home from France, where he not only won his rank for heroic daring in the face of death, but was breveted on the fiefd by General Pershng for personal deeds of bravery His funera’ was held yesterday af ternoon. Lee’s Moral Courage. Soon after the fall of the Confed eracy there occurred throughout the South an attempt, marked by much heated controversy, to fix the blame for the loss of the Battle of Gettys burg. Many writers claimed thas this critical struggle, and with it the war, would have been won had it not been for the disobedience and tardi ness of General Longstreet. In order to settle the matter, repeated appeal? were made to General Lee for some statement on the subject. For a long while these efforts were in vain. Lee would say nothing. Finally, how ever, he broke his silence with just one sentence: “I alone am to blame.” What a contrast between the chief figure of the Lost Cause in America and the fallen leader of the lost Deutschtum! How much more digni fied would Wilhelm appear before the world if he, instead of shifting the responsibility for the great war upon his ministers, his generals, upon Rus sia, upon every one save himself, would repeat the words of the great American: “I alone am to blame."— Now York Evening Sun. The Greatest Ships. Another thin# Germany has lost and for good, apparently, is prestige as the builder of the biggest steam ships. Her biggest were long since appropriated by an appreciative Am erican government and now that gov ernment is proceeding with the build ing of steamships even larger than Germany had dreamed of. The new American leviathans will carry a nose so far from the tail that special har bors must be provided for them, and their depth will be so great that ocean depth harbors only will prove ade quate. New York will have to sacri fice her pride in the berthing of the world’s greatest ships, and to Forth Pond Bay, on Long Island, will go the glory. It will require a crew of 1,000 officers and men to man the liners, and none of these «hips is like ly be interned or in any other wav become the prize of any other coun try, for they will be fringed round about with a bark that carries a bite, though it is a remote possibility that their peaceful sailings will ever be interfered with, especially by Ger many.—Charlotte Observer. New Name. \ — ‘‘When the sleeping porch mania came in,” said a physician yesterday, “they called people who slept in them fresh air fiends. Now they refer to them as ozore-worsbipptis.”—Char lotte Observer.
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