VOLUME 39
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920.
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smithfield to have
exclusive shoe store
The Peoples Shoe Store to Open for
Business Sometime Before Easter
_Complete Line of Shoes for All
To Be Carried—Store to Be Manag
ed by R. L. Vaugn, an Expert Shoe
Man.
Smithfield is soon to have an up
to-date and exclusive shoe store. The
store on Market street near the Court
House Square which was formerly oc
cupied by Mr. Gregory as a Five and
Ten Cent Store, has been remodelled
and fitted up for this purpose. It is
to be called “The Peoples Shoe Store”
and is to be under the management of
Mr. R. L. Vaughn, an expert shoe
man of eleven years experience. Mr.
Vaughn is a native of Winston-Sal^m
but came here from Covington, Va.,
where he was in the shoe business
for several years.
Thevconcern will carry a complete
line of shoes for men, women and
children—baby" shoes, dress shoes for
all, work shoes for all classes—in
fact it is to be an exclusive shoe store
which will be able to fit every person,
young or old. Shoes will be carried
in all styles and widths, with an ex
pert fitter always on the job.
The management announces that
they will give every baby born in
Johnston county this year its first
pair of shoes if its parents will pre
sent it at the store when it is ready
for shoes. This is an interesting fea
ture and will no doubt attract many
a parent to the store during the year.
411 shoes carried in stock will bear
the label of The Peoples Shoe Store.
The management had hoped to be
open next Monday for business but
were unable to get a complete stock
in by that time. The opening will be
some time before Easter, the date to
be announced later.
Flight Across Pacific Proposed
The United States navy is prepar
ing two giant flying boats for the first
flight across the Pacific according to
announcement made by the Manufac
turer’s Aircraft Association. The
new boats will be triplanes, each boat
having a wing area of about 6,000
feet and carrying a crew of 16 men.
Three' high compression motors will
drive each of the three giant propel
lers, making it possible to make re
pairs while in flight. They will have
a speed capacity of 85 knots. The
route will be from San Francisco to
Honolulu; from Honolulu to Wake
Island; from Wake Island to Guam;
from Guam to Hong Kong—a distance
of 7,406 miles.
Although no official announcement
has been made by Great Britain the
association claims to have reliable in
formation that the British have be
gun construction of a similar boat for
a trans-Pacific flight. It remains to
be seen which nation will fly across
the Pacific first.
LITTLE ARMY PLAN IS LOST.
House Rejects Three Proposals For
Economy by Creating Smaller Army
—Agrees on 299,000 Men.
Washington, March 10.—Plans of
‘‘little army men” to reduce military
expenses were rejected today by the
house, which approved peace-time es
tablishment of 299,000 enlisted men
and 17,820 officers, after rejecting
three proposals for a smaller force.
The decision, though not final, was
reached by a 3 to 1 vote, leading sup
porters of the army reorganization
bill to believe that it virtually settl
ed the peacetime program.
In addition to authorizing a regu
lar army 100,000 stronger than pro
vided by the national defense act of
1916, the house also accepted a les
son of the world war by adopting the
principle of permitting the tactical
organization of the army to be pre
scribed by the President instead of
by law. Likewise, it-.approved of
making separate corps of the air ser
vice, the chemical warfare service,
and tho finance department, but re
fused to divorce the transportation
and the ‘construction services from
the quartermaster department.
J. H. Carter, postmaster at Mt. Airy
has tendered his resignation to the
postoffice department to take effect
June 30. He is surrendering the of
fice to enter upon the practice of law.
He expects to locate at Greensboro.
GENERAL NEWSj.*>
A measui? proposed by the city
j council of Youngstown, Ohio, pro
vides that unmarried men who pay ho
tax shall be taxed at the rate of 20
cents a month.
Tom Johnson, one of the most not
ed counterfeiters of the country, has
just been released at Leavenworth
penitentiary where he has been in
confinement for 23 years.
The Omaha, the second steel ship
built at Wilmington, has been leased
by the Shipping Bbard to the Green
Star Line of New York and will ply
between San Francisco and the Ori
ent.
Two hundred thousand dollars worth
of jewelry was found intact and un
damaged in the safe of the Chamber
lain Hotel which was burned Sunday
when the safe was unearthed from
the bed of ashes Tuesday.
The city of Berlin, Germany, with
adjacent districts, is reported by the
recent census which began on October
8, 1919, to have a population of 3,
801,235. The report shows a consid
erable decrease in the city proper,
amounting to 8 per cent.
Winter wheat acreage for 1920
shows an increase in France and
British India and a decrease in Spain
and Rumania, in comparison with
1919, the International Institute of
Agriculture at Rome reported to the
department of agriculture.
A recommendation of its finance
committee providing for equalization
of the salaries of men and women
teachers in the primary and gram
mar grades and raising the present
salary minimum from $875 to $1,000
a year hasAeen adopted by the Phil
adelphia board of education.
America’s chief debtors are Great
Britain, with $4,277,000,000; Franqe,
$3,047,974,777 and Italy $1,1521,338,
986. Belgium’s debt is $343,445,000,
and Russia is charged with $187,729,
750. Rumania, Serbia, Greece, Cuba,
Czeiho-Slovakia and Liberia are the
other countries listed on the books of
the treasury.
Senator Overman has been invited
by Chairman Warren, of the state
democratic conupittee of North Caro
lina, to deliver the key-note speech
at the state convention at Raleigh
April 18, and he has accepted. Senator
Overman delivered a similar address
before the state convention at Char
lotte several years ago, at the time
Governor Craig was nominated.
A Community Cemetery.
Some time ago Pisgah Baptist
church purchased a lot^ adjoining the
church lot, containing two acres, or
more, which the church proposes to
utilize as a cemetery—not for its
members alone, but for the entire
community.
It is proposed that this shall be in
corporated under the laws of North
Carolina, so that it will be preserved
through all time as a burying place
for the people of the community. So
much for the action of the church.
What follows express the views of the
writer.
The family burying ground is pass
ing into disuse. One can have no def
inite assurance that such places will
not, in the course of time, pass into
the hands of strangers and his own
grave and those of his loved ones will
fall into neglect, or desecration. Rev.
Lemuel Burkett was one of the pio
neer preachers of the great ChoWan
section of this State and his name is
a household word throughout that sec
tion. And yet, no one living can def
initely identify the spot where his
bones repose.
Let the people of the community
adopt this as their cemetery, place
around it a neat, durable enclosure,
erect in it an attractive pavilion and
make it as attractive as possible. Here
let them bury their dead and plant
flowers over their graves, without fear
of future desecration. Make this the
Mecca of Sunday afternoon visits
where, with subdued reverence, they
may commune with their most sacred
memories, and come into touch with
God. R. L. GAY.
Another Still from Same Blockaders.
On last Tuesday Sheriff W. J. Mas
sey and Mr. J. D. Stephenson captur
ed another blockade still from the
blockaders who lost one by capture
last week. This was on the Roger
Smith farm in Boon Hill township.
It was a copper still and they got the
cap and worm and six barrels of beer
and some jugs and measures. There
were four negroes at the still when
they got in sight of the place.
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BURNED TO DEATH]
AT COUNTY HOME
We learned yesterday that G. M.
Pilkinton, an inmate of the County
Home was burned to death near noon
Tuesday. It is not known how the
distressing accident occurred since no
one witnessed it. At eleven o’clock,
he was seen dressed and sitting by
the fire in the men’s building. About
noon smoke was seen coming from the
building and some of the people rush
ed in and found Pilkinton dead sit
ting by one of the beds which was
burning. His clothes were partly
burned from him. Some think he
struck a ,match to light his pipe and
set himself on fire in some way, and
then rushed to the bedside. It ap
peared that he had tried to take off
his sweater and shirt and it is thought
that he may have been smothered and
could do no more. His face and breast
were badly burned. The people were
busy around nearby in the yard and
no one heard any outcry. The fire
was extinguished with no other loss
than the burning of the b^d. It was
not the bed in which Pilkinton slept.
Pilkinton had been an inmafe of
the home for a year or more.
FAMILY LOSES TWO CHILDREN.
Meadow Home Sorely Stricken On
Account of the Influenza.
Mr. J. Mang Wcod, of Meadow
township, w:\s in to see us Wednes
day. Mr. Wocd has just recovered
from a case of flu. He and his wife
and five children all had it at about
the same time and two of his children
died. The first death occurred on
February 28 when his baby, Joseph
Hooper, aged eleven months, died
with influenza and complicr.tions. On
March 5 James Sherrill, age four
died after an illness of less than a
week of influenza and pneumonia.
The family had a hard time, the fath
er and mother both being sick at the
same time and help being difficult to
secure. Miss Pope, a trained nurse
Of Smithfield, was secured early last
week and assisted the stricken family
until they had all about recovered
from the flu.
Mr. Wood was taken with typhoid
fever on December 18 and remained
in bed fotf six weeks, and had been
up only a few days when he was tak
en with the influenza.
THE*FARMER AND HIS TABLE.
Governor Bickett of North Carolina
sums up the situation for cotton far
mers in this bit of homely advice to
make their own “hog and hominy1’
this year regardless of what they do
to stabilize cotton prices.
To fail to raise their own bread and
meat would be a criminal blunder in
the opinion of the North Carolina
Chief Executive, who in a letter to
President Wannamaker of the Ameri
can Cotton Association, suggests that
Mr. Wannamaker could render a great
service to the Southern farmers by
driving this truth home to them.
The Governor’s idea is the right one.
Unless the farmer provides his own
supplies, he will not be in a position
to have much to say about the price
at which he sells his cotton. Resolu
tions by organizations, denunciations,
and even good warehouses in which to
hold cotton will not get the farmer
very far who doesn’t have the basis
of his living already pi-ovided for.
Holding cotton in warehouses for
slow marketing is a good policy for
the fanner. But it is also a form of
speculation. His only safety, there
fore, lies in making his own “hog and
hominy” which assures him of food
no matter what happens to the cot
ton market. If he has his food sup
ply provided, as Governor Bickett
says, he can hold his cotton indefinite
ly
It is never wise for any man, farm
er or otherwise, to involve his living
in speculation.—The Houston Post.
Budget for Interchurch Work.
The Interchurch World Movement
drive which is scheduled for the peri
od from April 25 to May has set the
goal at $336,777,572. This is to be
divided as follows: Foreign missions,
$107,661,448; home missions, $109,
949,037; American education, $78,.
837,431; American religious education,
$5,931,925; American hospitals and
homes, $5,116,465; American minis
terial pensions and relief, $20,510,299;
miscellaneous, $8,770,927.
NEWS FROM OVER THE
STATE TOLD IN BRIEF
Two women are now on Wilming
ton School Committees. Mrs. Robert
Ruark is the second one elected, Mrs.
J. A. Sullivan having been elected be
fore.
Oxford Po3t Office Robbed.
Bold robbers entered the post of
fice at Oxford early Tuesday morn
ing, blew open the safe and secured
war savings stamps to the amount of
$10,000, about $5,000 worth of post
age stamps and $J5 in cash. The
safe crackers made their escape. •
Durham Child Burned to Death. ,
Little Frederick Ryal, an eight year
old boy, of Durham, was fatally burn
ed Sunday morning, his night clothes
catching from an open fire place.
There was no one in the room at the
time. It was thought he inhaled
flames causing internal injuries.
Overman and Hoey to Discuss Issues
At the Democratic State Conven
tion which will meet in Raleigh on
April 8, Senator Lee S. Overman will
deliver the keynote address on Nat
ional issues, while Representative
Clyde Hoey will discuss state issues.
The selection of two keynote speak
ers is a departure from the usual cus
tom.
Fall From Motorcycle Fatal.
The fifteen year old son of John
S. Michaux, of Greensboro, died Wed
nesday from injuries sustained when
he fell from a motorcycle which was
(driven by a member of the fire de
partment. The motorcycle struck a
tree when a turn at a corner was
made, throwing the boy to the ground
with great force.
Sanford Hotel Burns
The only hotel in Sanford was de
stroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon,
the fire starting in the attic and
burning rapidly to the ground. The
hotel property was valued at about
$20,000 partially covered by insur
ance. Furniture on the first and sec
ond floors was saved but nothing on
the third. The hotel will be rebuilt as
soon as practicable.
Refuses to Send Child to School.
C. L. Sauls, a decp-well-digger of
Wilson, has been indicted for keep
ing his twelve year old daughter out
of school and allowing her to work
in a store on his premises. The wel
fare worker caused the first indict
ment because of the compulsory
school law. Prof. C. L. Coon has
sworn out a warrant on the grounds
of violation of the child labor law.
Drydock for Wilmington
Plans are underway and unless in
vestigations which are now being
made prove the project unwarranted,
will be executed to the effect that
Wilmington will have the biggest
drydock in the South Atlantic district.
The plans call for a concrete drydock
capable of handling ships up to 7,
500 dead weight tons, the total cost
of the plant will be in the neighbor
hood of one million dollars.
Advise Higher Pay for Teachers.
The Ladies Advisory Committee of
Wilmington through its chairman,
Mrs. Robert Ruark, has recommended
to the Board of Education that white
graded school teachers in the city
receive as a minimum salary $1,200
per year, and requiring all persons
employed as teachers to have a col
legiate education, supplemented by
three years experience, or without
collegiate education, five years ex
perience.
Infant Left on Porch.
On the porch of Dr. and Mrs. E.
H. Bowling, of Durham Tuesday night
was left a basket containing a pretty
girl baby, dressed in fine clothing
and the pink of'^neatness. A short
time after the baby was found a tele
phone call inquired if the present on
the porch had been found. An affir
mative answer cut off the conversa
tion and the incident was closed. Dr.
and Mrs. Bowling having no daugh
ter, decided to adopt it.
CLAYTON ITEMS.
Clayton, March 10.—Mr. B. L. Hall
of New York left yesterday after
a visit here to his mother, Mrs. J. F.
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Wallace spent
last Sunday in Selma.
Mrs. L. M. Edgerton of Princeton
was here Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. J. A. Vinson is out again after
a serious attack of influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Barbour are
spending this week in New York and
other northern points. Mr. Barbour
will buy the spring line of goods for
J. G. Barbour & Sons.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Poole, Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Smith and family of Sel
ma spent Sunday afternoon here.
The condition of Mr. Leamon
Barnes, who is ill with influenza is
reported better.
Misses Genie Thomas and Eloise
Turley of Meredith College spent the
week end here with parents.
Miss Alma Hall spent yesterday
in Raleigh.
Mr. James Hall of South Carolina
was here for the week end.
Mr. Bennette Nooe, Jr., of Fayette
ville, spent Sunday here.
Miss Gladys Barbour who has been
very ill with influenza-penumonia in
New Yoik for several weeks, came
home last Friday. She is getting
along nicely and hopes to be out in
a few days.
The Graded School opened Monday
morning after being closed for four
weeks on account of influenza.
Mr. Thurman Smith is back on his
job in the office of Horne’s store af
ter an attack of influenza.
Miss Bertie Taylor has returned
from New York where she went to
buy her spring line of millinery.
HOPEWELL NEWS.
The flu has about died down in our
neighborhood as we haven’t any new
cases.
Miss Lessie McLamb spent the
week end at her home near Benson.
Miss Bessie Stephenson spent the
week end with Miss Callie Lassiter,
who is spending a few days at home,
from Pine Land school, Salemburg,
N. C.
We are glad to have Miss Eula
Lassiter back in school after being
absent two weeks, on account of the
illness of her sister, Mrs. R. A. Keen
of Four Oaks.
Misses Sallie and Nettie Wright
spent Saturday night with Mrs. Wal
ter Langdon of Smithfield en route
to their home near Princeton.
We are glad to note that Mrs. D.
U. Thompson is improving after a few
days illness?.
Miss Inez Stephenson who has a
position with Byrd Drug Co. in Smith
field, spent the week end with.her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Stephen
son.
Miss Neta Toler entertained a num
ber of her friends Saturday night on
her eighteenth birthday. She furn
ished music on the piano and victrola
while others were playing rook. About
9:30 they were led to the dining room
where pineapple and cake were serv
ed. The guests departed about 10:30
dcelaring Miss Toler a most charm
ing hostess.
A very sad accident occurred at the
county home yesterday, when one of
the inmates was burned to death. The
writer hasn’t learned the particulars
cf the death yet.
The Hopewell Community Club met
Thursday night March 4, where an
interesting program was rendered by
the members. WS had a very large
attendance and will meet again Thurs
day night March 18.
Miss Pauline Thompson spent last
Sunday with Miss Lizzie Stephenson
near Smithfield.
EVANGELINE.
Ohio Hospital Burned.
When one cottage and the dancing
pavilion at the Ohio hospital for
epileptics at Gallipolis was burned
Tuesday, eight persons were suffo
cated and two more are expected to
die. The dead and injured were pa
tients at the hospital, there being 25
patients in all.
Baby Swallows Peanut Hull.
The nine-months-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Walters, of Oakboro,
died Wednesday as the result of swal
lowing a peanut hull which lodged in
its windpipe. Physicians worked
hard to extricate the obstacle but
without avail. Pneumonia “soon de
veloped and the child died.
NEW SITE PURCHASED
FOR FAIR GROUNDS
The Brenizer Property on the Selma
Road Just Beyond the Ivanhoe
Cotton Mill Secured by the Johns
ton County Agricultural Society—
Plan Big Things for Fair.
The Johnston County Agricultural
Society is planning to have a fair
ground in Johnston some of these
days that will be one cf the best in
the State. Some time ago the stock
holders of the^ society met and ap
pointed a committee to select and
purchase a fair ground site that will
be suitable and adequate for a county
fair of the first order.
A visit to Washington by Judge
Brooks and Dr. R. J. Noble of Selma
to see Mrs. Nell Breqizer in regard
to buying her tract of land between
Smithfield and Selma, resulted fav
orably. Several days ago the Execu
tive Committee of the Agricultural
Society met and confirmed the pur
chase of the above named land. This
is a nice tract of about 100 acres of
good land. It is a nice place to build
a race track and alsc to have plenty
of room for the fairgrounds and build
ings.
The plans for future fairs are not
all complete yet and the fair for next
fall will probably be held at the cld
location.
Hoover Makes a Statement.
Mr. Hoover says:
“First—I am an independent pro
gressive in the issues before us to
day. I think that at this time the is
sues before the country transcend par
tisanship. It is well known that I
was a progressive Republican before
the war, and, I think, rightly, a non
partisan during my war service. The
issues confronting us are new and
the alignment upon them has not yet
been made by the great parties. I
still object as much to the reactionary
group in the Republican party as I
do to the radical group in the Dem
ocratic party.
“Second—I am not seeking public
office and, consulting my own personal
inclination, I dc not want public of
fice. I cannot prevent any citizen, or
group of citizens, from agitating that
I should take public office, but I can
not conscientiously participate in any
organization to th.at end. I belong to
a group, which thinks that the Ameri
can people should select their own
officials at their own initiative and
volition and that resent the manufac
ture of officials by machine methods.”
“I am not a straddler on any issue.
I spend most of my time agitating
for issues that I believe in. It is the
privilege of all of us to hold our own
views, and it is our duty to express
them when called upon to do so. But
no man can be so arrogant as to as
sume that ho can dictate the issues to
the American people or to the great
parties they support.”
Interchurch Survey in Durham County
From an article in the Charlotte
Observer concerning the work of the
Interchurch Movement in this State
we gather that the survey has been
completed in Durham county by Mr.
B. O. Landis. We quote:
“This survey shows that there are
37 churches in the rural communities,
but only two resident ministers in the
whole county—that is, two ministers
who live in the district in which they
preach. This applies, of course, to
the rural sections of this wealthy
county. One-third of the churches of
this county show only a very small
increase in memberships in the past
10 years. Of the 37 churches in the
rural communities of the county, not
more than 30 have service more than
once a month.”
The survey is under way in 39
counties.
Million Dollar Hotel at Winston.
A contract has been let for a mil
lion dollar hotel for Winston-Salem.
A Chicago Company will build the
hotel which will be operated by a
Cleveland, Ohio, man.
Woman Suggested National Delegate
A suggestion which seems to meet
with general approval has been made
that Mrs. Palmer Jerman, of Raleigh
be given a place on the delegation
from North Carolina to San Francis
co.