VOLUME 38.
SMITHFIELD, N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1919
Number 81.
Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN
ON FOR NEXT WEEK
Mr. Robert A. Wellons C hairman for
Johnston County. Our County Asked
to Raise One Thousand Dollars to
Help on This Work.
The State Committee of the North
Carolina Young Meirs Christian Asso
ciation is conducting a campaign dur- I
ing the month of October to raise
$80,000 for the extension of the Y. M.
C. A. work in North Carolina. It is
intended to use this amount of money
towards the extension and develop
ment of the Y. M. C. A. in this state,
including development in the high
schools among the boys in the towns
and cities and mill- settlements as
well as in the rural districts. Sum
mer Camps for the boys will be estab
lished, local organizations will be put
in working order, and thus the com
munity which now 'floes not have the
benefit of a Y. M. C. A. Worker will
be given this benefit if this campaign
is successful. All of us know the
great good which has been done and
which can be done by the Y. M. C. A.
and all of us remember the work they
did both here at home and abroad dur
ing the great war.
Up until this year North Carolina
did not have an organization of its
own, but the Association work in this
State was done under the supervision
of the office which controls several
States. It is the intention of the As
sociation if this financial campaign is
successful to operate by itself thus do
ing all the work in this State allowing
this State the greatest benefit from
its work. /
Johnston County has been assigned
a quota of $1,000 to be raised in this
campaign and Mr. R. A. Wellons, who
has accepted the County Chairmanship
has sub-divided the county and assign
ed to each town and the vicinity a
round the towns a quota in keeping
with the town’s size.
The campaign to raise Johnston
county’s $1,000 quota will begin on
Monday, October 13 and it is hoped
will end within a few hours after it
begins, for Johnston county is well
able to support a movement of this
sort, and it is felt that when the peo
ple are called upon to support such a
movement as this they will respond
readily. Each town in the county has
a local chairman in whose hands full
information of the purpose of this
campaign has ben placed, and it is
hoped that people will fall in behind
Chairman so that Johnston County
may wire the State Committee that it
has over subscribed its quota long be
fore the day is over.
TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION.
State Examination for Teachers to be
Held in Smithfield October 14-15.
All teachers who are already teach
ing and who expect to teach in this
county this year, if their Certificate is
not in force, must take the State Ex
amination in Smithfield October 14th
and 15th.
The summer school which has been
running for one month closes today.
The work done has been of the highest
order, and the attendance all the time
has been good.
Supt. Hipps attended the Fair in
Pleasant Grove township Wednesday,
and the one at Mill Creek Thursday.
The Tractor Demonstration.
The Sanders Motor Company held
a very succesful tractor demonstration
at the John A. Johnson farm one mile
from town yesterday. They showed
how Fordson tractors can run corn
mills and cotton gins and cotton press
es or pull plows. Perhaps the best
part of the demonstration was the
plowing. It was done with turning
plows and disc plows, which were
made to follow tractor. Double disc
and double and single turn plows were
used. Both the Oliver and the McKay
disc plows were demonstrated. Dinner
was served at 1 o’clock old time. The
best fried fish and the best barbecue
with plenty of bread and cold drinks
were served free and about two hun
dred people enjoyed the good dinner.
The demonstration was successful ev
ery way and the company should take
several orders as a result.
What a Dollar Will Buy.
The American dollar will buy more
foreign money now than ever in his
tory; but, alas! one cannot eat foreign
money.—Rochester Post-Express.
COTTON WAREHOUSE NEEDED.
The Only Solution for the Cotton
Situation—Some Communities Al
ready Organized—Cotton Farmers
Urged to Hold their Fleecy Staple.
(By Jule B. Warren.)
Raleigh, Oct. 8.—Cotton warehouses
in every cotton growing county in the
South is the only solution to the low
priced cotton problem, say officials of
the American Association and other
agricultural leaders in North Caro
lina, and these warehouses will come
only through organization of the cot
ton farmers. Some communities in
the state have already organized
warehouses and many others are con
templating the erection of these stor
ages in the near future.
The American Cotton Association,
through its township and county
branches, furnishes the easiest and
most simple way of getting an or
ganization for warehouse building, for
in every section where the Associa
tion has formed branches, plans have
been immediately set in motion for
the erection of enough warehouses to
store all the cotton grown, because
the branch association provides an
organization of all who are interest
ed, the farmer who produces the cot
ton, the merchant who sells to cot
ton farmers and the banker who lends
money to the merchant and the far
mer with cotton as the basis of his
security. What the farmer needs to
day more than anything else in his
fight for fair price cotton is organi
zation and money. The organization
will come through membership in the
county branch of the American Cot
ton Association, and the money can
be secured from any bank easily when
the cotton warehouse is organized.
But cotton warehouses will not
spring up over night, and will not be
erected this year in sufficient num
bers to take care of the cotton pro
duced. The temporary need of the
cotton farmer must be met by the
farmer himself, and perhaps with the
aid of his business friends in towns
and cities of the state. The cotton
farmer must hold his cotton until the
price offered is at least cents for
October, and increase half a cent a
month until May, according to the
program of the Association adopted,
at the New Orleans meeting. There
is a great scarcity of cotton in the
country, and if the farmer holds for
the Association price, he will be able
to get it in the end.
Community Leagues and Recreation*
I am hereby making an announce
ment that will be an unpleasant sur
prise to many people over the county.
Our community and recreation work
will be temporarily discontinued after
this week.
While I shall not engage in this
work again myself, I shall use my
influence to get this work re-continued.
I wish to take this opportunity to
thank my friends over the county for
their fine cooperation 'and the many
kindnesses they have shown me.
I beg to remain, your friend,
R. P. MERRITT.
Cotton Profited Most.
A compilation by the National City
Bank shows that the cotton farmers
profited most and contributed least in
farming for the war. The wheat
farmers increased their acreage for
the war 10 per cent and. northern
farmers generally increased their
farm acreage ia crops 10 per cent.
Cotton’s acreage actually declined du
ring the war, from over nearly 37 mil
lion acres in 1914 to less than 36
millions in 1918. But wheat prices
increased 105 per cent, while cotton’s
price increased from 6 cents a pound
in 1914 to 27 cents in 1918, an in
crease of 300 per cent.— Cappers
Weekly.
Kainit For Use Again.
Kaimt refined makes muriate of
potash. Potash of salts makes sul
phate of potash when refined. On ac
count of the demoralized labor con
dition it is said we need not expect
much if any muriate or sulphate but
we will be able to get kainit. It is
being sold again in the United States.
This will Relieve the potash shortage
to a considerable extent.
Dubb Bolfer—The day I get round
these links in less than a hundred I’ll
give you a dollar. Caddie—Thank ye,
sir. It’ll come in handy in me old
age.—Toledo Blade.
THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE TO MEET
i
Will Hold Regular Meeting In Court
House Next Tuesday Night at 8:30.
The Proposed Hospital for Smith
field To Be Considered.
A regular meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce will be held in the Court
House next Tuesday night, October
14, at 8:30 o'clock. This is to be an
important meeting and every citizen
of the town who is interested in the
welfare of the community is urged to
attend. Among the important matters
to be considered is the proposed ?ne
morial hospital for Smithfield. One
man in Dunn has promised a donation
of fifty thousand dollars for a hospital
in that town. Smithleld is amply able
to have a modern hospital. But let us
get together next Tuesday night and
take up the matter in dead earnest.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Ten persons were killed and 28 oth
ers seriously wounded by the throw
ing of a bomb into a funeral proces
sion in Moscow recently according to
advices from that city. Many other
]>ersons were slightly injured.
The government crop report for Oc
tober 1, shows that the forecast for
the United States corn crop for 1919
is 2,900,511,000 bushels. The forecast
shows an increase during the month
of September of 43,000,000 bushels.
The condition is 81.3.
Lieutenant B. W. Maynard, of Kerr,
N. C., a ministerial student at Wake
Forest College, flew from New York
to Chicago Wednesday at the rate of
about two miles a minute. He is in
the army race westward from New
York to San Francisco and so far has
led all competitors on the lap of the
journey to Chicago.
The Protestant Episcopal Church of
America will spend in foreign and do
mestic missions, during 1920, $1,215,-.
200 more than was appropriated for
the w'ork last year, if recommenda
tions of the board of missions which
met in New York, to the triennial gen
era] convention, are adopted. The
board recommended a total budget for
mission work of $3,242,749.
The United States destroyer Laub,
arrived Monday from Antwerp and
landed $5,125,000 in German gold at
Pier 12, Brooklyn. The specie, pack
ed in iron-clamped wooden cases and
guarded by Secret Service agents un
der William Kavanaugh of the United
States Department of Justice, was
conveyed in motor lorries to the New
York FYderal Reserve Bank, 120
Broadway.
Sixty persons were killed Sunday
in the wreck of the Laredo-Mexico
City passenger train, which was de
railed between Venegas and Saltillo,
Mexico. Belief is expressed that a
complete survey of the wTeekage will
show that at least 15 more were kill
ed in the accident. The train left
Laredo Saturday and was very heavi
ly loaded, especially with second-class
passengers among whom all the deaths
occurred. The casualties among the
first-class passengers were limited to
more or less serious injuries. The
wreck occurred on the National lanes
and information regarding it was giv
en out at Mexico City Sunday night at
the Mexican Central Railway offices.
Gary, Indiana, site of one of the
United States Steel Corporation’s
greatest plants, affected for more
than two weeks by the strike in the
steel industry, Tuesday was under
military control of approximately 1,
100 Federal soldiers, commanded by
Major Genera] Leonard Wood, com
mandant of the Central Department
of the Army. The troops have just
returned from overseas. The call for
Federal troops wras made by James
P. Goodieh, Governor of Indiana, af
ter thousands of strikers paraded and
held mass meetings, although for
biddeif by the mayor, the police and
the approximately .300 State militia
men stationed at Gary.
Question for Mr. Gompers.
A correspondent of the Sun notes
that in Germany the twelve-hour day
and the seven-day week are largely
prevalent, and asks how the five-day
week with eight hours a day can com
pete with this sort of production. The
question is a fair one. Perhaps Mr.
Gompers will answer it w'hen he has
more time at his disposal. He works
all the time when he is not sleeping.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
| NEW BUSINESS
HOUSES OPENED
_
Three Selma Firms Have Recently
Opt ned Branch Stores in Smithtield.
Great Need for More Store Houses
Here.
Smithtield continues to prow. Just
as fast as a house can be secured some
one moves to town and starts busi
ness. Last spring the cry was for
id ore and more residences. That cry
is still on. While a number of new
houses have been built the cry is just
I as loud as ever.
There is an insistent demand for
more business houses. There are men
and firms who want to open business
in Smithfield but cannot for lack of
a place to do business. Within the
past month or two three leading busi
ness firms of Selma have opened
branch stores here. The first to open
in Smithfield was the Carolina Phar
macy which opened business in the
hotel building in the room formerly
occupied by the old Bank of Smith
field. This company now has a com
plete and up to date drug store here
and is beginning to do a nice business.
The store has an equipment second
to no drug store in this section and is
well prepared to handle prescriptions
and anything in the drug line.
The next Selma business firm to op
en up a store here was the Worley
Furniture Company. This company
which was established in Selma sev
eral years ago by Mr. Paul C. Worley
now has branch stores in Raleigh,
Wilson and Smithfield. Having four
large stores this company is able to
buy in big quantities and get goods
at the cheapest prices. They have
been open only a few weeks but they
have already secured a large and
growing trade. This firm is located
on Third street.
Another Selma firm is opening a
branch store here this week in the
•building on Third St. formerly occupi
ed by F. Williams. This is The Ward
Farp Co. This enterprising company
has'another branch store at Zebulon.
They will carry a large and complete
line of general merchandise and dry
goods.
All this shows how other people
have great faith in Smithfield’s future.
We hope to see other store buildings
erected here so that other good frms
may come and open up business.
A Call Meeting.
To the Colored School Committeemen
and Teachers of Johnston County:
Remember the date of meeting for
the purpose of lining up for the school
year 1919-1920 is October 18. Satur
day before the third Sunday. Each
of you are requested and urged to be
present. The County Supt., Prof. W.
H, Hipps will address us, and pre
sent his plans of work and cooperation
for the educational advancement of
our people. The Negro population of
Johnston County is 11424. The great
er per cent of which not only own
their homes, but many are well to do
farmers: men who desire their chil
dren properly educated. Think of the
vast number of children of school age
included in the above figures, and the
school facilities o£ the various districts
for their educational training. While
strenuous efforts have been put forth,
and a very creditable work accomplish
ed for the educational development, as
is now seen at various points, the goal
has not yet been reached. For before
us lies a vast scope of unexplored ter
ritory'. With concentrated effort on
the part of all concerned, I see no rea
son why Johnston County should not
boast of the best public school build
ings for Negroes in the state, and the
best qualified teachers to train the
children. Well you say, “Rome was
not built in a day.” That’s true, but
Rome was built. The solution I see
to the problem is; that in each school
district where school sites are to be
purchased, buildings and repairs to be
made, etc., for us to accept the pro
position offered by the county also
that of Mr. Rosenwald, i. e. we raise
a certain amount of money to which
they add a certain amount. So let us
plan to raise building and repair funds
where necessary.
Mrs. Annie Holland, state eupervis
or, also Mrs. F. A. Williams, state
Health Agent, promises to be present.
LAURA J. A. KING,
Super, of Negro Schools Johnston Co.
The Cincinnati Red Sox are the
base ball champions of the world,
having won yesterday’s game from
Chicago by a score of 10 to 5.
BIG AUCTION SALE NEXT WEEK
The l>r. Holland Home and Seven Res
idence Lots Will Be Sold Here Next
Wednesday.
The Union Auction Company of
Smithfield will offer the eleven-room
residence, until recently owned by Dr.
N. T. Holland, for sale at auction next
Wednesday, October 15. The remaind
er of the Dr. Holland lot has been
cut up into seven residence lots.
These will be sold at the same time.
This valuable property is located in
the western part of Brooklyn, near the
Turlington Graded School. Dr. Hol
land sold this property some weeks
ago to Messrs. A. S. Johnston and
Leon G. Stevens. They have now
turned it over to the Union Auction
Company.
Smithfield real estate is valuable
these days and increasing in value ev
ery week. This sale will give those
desiring to invest here a nice oppor
tunity to secure some choice resi
dence lots.
THE NEWS IN CLAYTON.
Clayton, N. C., Oct. 8.—Miss Eu
genia Thomas, of Meredith College,
spent the week end here with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Poole of Selma
visited Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hinton Sun
day.
Rev., and Mrs. Paul Gulley and lit
tle son, George Truett, of Nashville,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Godwin for the week end.
, Miss Lillian Beasley of Cary spent
Sunday with Mrs. Luther Hinton.
Mrs. E. R. Gulley and Mrs. .1. D.
Gulley spent one day during the past
week with relatives in Selma.
Quite a number of town people went
to Raleigh yesterday to hear Dr.
George W. Truett of Dallas, Texas.
He was there in the interest of the
“Baptist 75-Million Campaign.”
Mr. T. M. White went to Smithfield
on business Monday.
Miss Veta Austin who is in school
at Raleigh spent the week end at
home.
Mr. Hampton .Jackson of Garner
was in town Tuesday.
Miss Charity Swindell will leave
today for her home at Aurora after
spending the summer here with Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. Hollowell.
Mr. Fqy Thompson, of Princeton,
visited friends here during the week.
Mrs. L. M. Edgerton and daughter,
May Ida Edgerton, of Princeton, vis
ited relatives here last week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Robinson spent
the week end at the Pythian Home
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pen
der.
Mr. L. F. Austin, Misses Carrie
Austin and Jessie Gulley spent Mon
day in Smithfield.
Mr. C. V. Williams who for a num
ber of years has held a position in
the Grocery Department of A. Horne
and Son's store has withdrawn and
has a business of his own in the new
White Building on the corner at the
Building and Loan Office.
Mrs. Walter Barham of Selma was
here Tuesday visiting relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. Broughton of Raleigh
spent Sunday here with parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Ellis.
The Last of Yellow Fever.
Medical science is making many of
the most atractive parts of the world
fit to live in. Major General (Dr.)
William C. Gorgas, former surgeon
general of the United States army,
says yellow fever has practically been
eradicated from the world. He made
that declaration a few days ago when
it was announced that sanitary meas
ures adopted at Guayaquil, Ecuador,
have occurred at Guayaquil in the last
low fever at that notoriously infested
port. General Gorgas returned a few
days ago to Panama after directing
the fight against yellow fever in west
coast localities. No cases of fever
have occurred at Guafaquil in the last
three months. It is the last large in
fected rentre that has been subjeat to
yellow fever epidemics heretofore,
and Dr. Gorgas says that while there
may be a few sporadic cases, he feels
confident that yellow fever is the first
great plague to suffer extirpation.—
Wilmington Star.
Special arrangements have been
made for medical benefits for English
men invalided from war services. The
approximate number admitted to this
benefit is 270,000 in England, 28,000
in Scotland, and 20,000 in Wales.
VISITING KING
DRIVES OWN TRAIN
Belgian King Takes Over Throttle
From Grimy Engineer. Royal Party
Given Warm Welcome at Toledo,
Home of Brand Whitlock.
Chicago, Oct. 7.—The king of the
Belgians today ran the engine of his
own train for 10 miles. The special
train on which the king and his party
are traveling westward was stopped
at Wauseon, Ohio, while hisvmajesty
climbed into the cab of the engine
and took over the throttle from the
grimy pilot. The king, who has a
thorough knowledge of locomotive en
gineering, ran the heavy train for 10
miles without a jolt. Then he stopp
ed the engine and returned to his car.
The king, traveling “unofficially”
with his queen and the duke of Bra
bant, passed through Ohio and India
na today enroute to California. The
train was stopped for an hour at To
ledo, the home of Brand Whitlock,
American amhassador to Belgium,
where the party received an enthusi
astic welcome. The stop was made
hy the king as a personal friend of
Mr. Whitlock and not as an official
visit.
A Rich Man Is He.
Tuesday ni^ht the Progressive Far
mer Rave a birthday party for Prof.
W. F. Massey, who was celebrating
his 80th anniversary. It was a din
ner at the Yarborough hotel in Ral
eigh. Men from three states met to
do him honor, and a guest from Vir
ginia declared that there is no or
ganization of farmers in his state but
knows Prof. Massey and loves him.
Other things said of the guest of
honor were: “He has taught us how
to farm,” “he has taught people how
to make a living.” “In every county
his name is known, no one has brought
more happiness into North Carolina
farm homes.”
Prof. Massey, a born farmer, was
not bom on the farm, but describes
himself as a convert to farming1. He
started out as a civil engineer, and
had gone some distance when he drift
ed into his ^natural vocation, which is
that of growing things and teaching
people how to handle the soil so as
to get the best results from their
labor. Prof. Massey was a member
of the original faculty of the College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts,
and for many years connected with it.
He has been writing about farm prob
lems for 50 years, and for 80 years
and more he has been recognized as
one of the foremost instructors in the
beneficent art and science of making
two bales of grass grow where one
grew before. Another thing said of
him the other night is that he has
helped a million people, Dr. Clarence
Poe calling him a new type of million
aire.
It is a rich life indeed that he has
lived, and a rich man is he. He lived
through the years when “book farm
er” was a term of reproach, while the#
most conservative tribe on earth re
fused to admit the possibility that
its traditional knowledge of its own
business could have anything added
to it except by its own members, fol
lowing that traditional knowledge. His
example, his success, has inspired
many of that great throng who pur
sue farm knowledge for the purpose
of diffusing it, of passing it along to
others, to .the end that the earth may
yield more abundantly its fruits and
the husbandman escape a life of grind
ing toil unrequired. It has been the
happy lot of Prof. Massey to witness
intimately and understanding^ the
Great Evolution, and to be a part of
it.—Greensboro News.
For County Wide Road Management.
A leading citizen of Johnston coun
ty complains that he knows of a road
engineer who is getting a salary of
$175 per month in several different
townships. This shows one of the
troubles with township road work.
If our road work was under county
management one road engineer would
be enough for the whole county.
Attempts Suicide When “Revenuers”
Raid Place.
Wilson, Oct. 9.—About 7 o’clock this
morning Arthur Lamm, while under
the influence of liquor, attempted sui
cide in Walter Harris’ cold drink
stand. The pistol ball passed through
his body, striking a bystander. He is
now in a local hospital.