VOLUME 39
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1920.
Number 27.
TERRIFIC CYCLONE
HITS UNION COUNTY
Three Killed As Storm Sweeps the
Country North of Monroe—Great
Property Damage.
A dispatch from Monroe to the
News and Observer says three per
sons are known to have been killed
and a score of more injured, some of
them seriously, in a cyclone which
swept over the northern portion of
Union county Monday night about 9
o’clock, according to reports reaching
Monroe Tuesday. School houses and
churches were swept away and a half
dozen farm houses demolished. Robert
L. Polk, aged 30, Hilton Williams,
aged 6, and his brother, Aubrey Wil
liams, aged 5, are dead and Mr. Sam
Preston is seriously injured and may
die.
The storm started about six miles
north of Monroe, striking first the
.home of Mr. Polk, demolishing his
house, killing him and slightly injur
ing others in the family, then swept
on in a northeasterly direction, pass
ing a few miles north of Unionville
and crossing into Stanley county.
The Williams boys were lying in
the same bed asleep when the top of
the house was blown off and timbers
fell across their bodies mashing their
stomachs and causing instant death.
It required six men to remove the
timbers from their bodies.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Griffin,, an aged
couple, living in Goose creek town
ship, had just gotten out of bed when
the chimney of their home fell across
the bed, splintering it. Reports of
the damage are conflicting, but the
property losses will amount to thou
sands of dollars.
Both the church and the school
house at Ebenezer arO said to have
been completely destroyed, and the
Carriker school house was blown into
fragments.
Kitchin Files Notice.
Congressman Claude Kitchin, rep
resentative from the Second Congres
sional district, has filed his petition
with the State board of election, and
is now a candidate without opposition.
Other applications received were
Prof. Needham Y. Gulley, of Wake
Forest, candidate for justice of the
State Supreme Court; Justice W. A.
Hoke, candidate to succeed himself;
M. L. Shipman, commissioner of labor
and printing; Baxter Durham, State
auditor, and W. H. Cox, Laurinburg,
candidate for Congress on the Repub
lican ticket in the Seventh district.
The time for filing notices closes
on April 24th.
CLAYTON NEWS.
Clayton, April 14.—M\. and Mrs.
Thurman Smith made a trip to Ral
eigh today on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Priddy are
spending this week in New Y'ork City.
On Easter Monday Mrs. Joe Turley
gave a luncheon to several of her
friends announcing the marriage of
Miss Clee Ellis to Mr. Aubrey Gattis
on next Tuesday afternoon at the
Horne Memorial church. Two showers
are being given in Miss Ellis’ honor
this week, one by Mrs. R. B. Ellis on
Thursday from four until six o’clock;
the other by Miss Douschka Barnes
on Friday afternoon. Both miscella
neous showers.
The Y. W. A. held its regular meet
ing with Miss Barbara Gulley Tues
day afternoon at four o’clock. After
the business and program were finish
ed cream and cake were served.
Mrs. L. F. Austin will leave tomor
row for Washington to visit relatives.
Mrs. A. Sam White spent today in
Durham.
Mr. Clarence Powell of Raleigh was
a visitor here last Sunday.
Mrs. M. M. Gulley, Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Gulley, Miss Rochelle Gulley
and Mr. Newton Gulley of Nashville
spent last Sunday here with Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Godwin.
Miss Kittie Poole who is teaching
at Nashville came home for the week
end to attend the Hunter-Horne mar
riage Saturday at noon.
It will be of interest to the people
who know him to learn that Vaughn
Poole has landed safely in London,
England. In a letter to his mother
he says the trip occupied seventeen
days.
Miss Ruth Penny and Mr. Sherwood
Hobby returned to the University at
Chapel Hill Sunday after spending
several days with parents here.
Mr. Ekie Gattis of Four Oaks spent
last Sunday here with his mother,
Mrs. M. E. Gattis.
IN AND AROUND SELMA.
Mr. R. L. Ray spent Friday even
ing in Goldsboro on business.
Mr. Preston Turnage of Wilson’s
Mills was a visitor in the city Sunday.
Mr. John F. Ray has been appoint
ed local representative for the News
and Observer.
Mr. J. H. Broadwell of near Micro
passed through the city Tuesday night
on his way to see a cancer expert in
Wilmington.
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Worley and
sons, Carl and Sydney, spent a part
of the day in Pine Level Sunday.
Mr. Edward Price was a visitor in
the city last Saturday. Edward for
merly attended school here and his
friends congratulate him on getting
his degree in pharmacy, which he has
received from a college in Macon, Ga.
Mr. Frederick Oscar Bowman of
Chapel Hill was the guest of his
brother, Mr, J. O. Bowman, Saturday,
leaving Sunday morning for Garland,
N. C.
The debate between the schools of
Selma and Smithfield was held last
Friday night which resulted in a split.
Selma’s affirmative team won over
Smithfield’s negative here, and Smith
field’s affirmative team won the de
cision over Selma’s negative in Smith
field. Both debates resulted in 2 to 1
decisions, each winning one debate.
Neither school can send representa
tives to Chapel Hill for the finals.
A number of our people were judges
in the triangular debates last Friday
night, among them being Miss Ina
Young, who went to Princeton, while
Rev. B. Townsend and Frank O. Ray,
Esq., went to Kenly.
One of Selma’s new enterprises is
The Selma Fidelity Building and
Loan Association, the object of which
is to construct and repair houses for
the colored people. Subscriptions have
been made for stock to the amount of
$38,000. The officers of the company
are W. S. King, president; John Dan
iel Turaer, vice president, and Ed
Barnes, secretary-treasurer.
Selma, N. C., April 14.
Recorder’s Court.
Tuesday, April 13, Moses Blackman,
colored, Assault and concealed weap
on. Sentenced to Clayton roads for
three months.
Ed Rhodes, colored, assault, drunk
and disorderly. Sentenced to Smith
field roads for eight months.
Jesse Faircloth, operating automo
bile while intoxicated, assault and
profanity /tfn public highway. Fined
$100 and costs.
Grant Powell, colored, had in his
possession one quart of blockade
whiskey. Fined $50 and costs.
How the Counties Voted.
The following counties voted solid
ly for the suffrage amendment at the
State Convention last week:
Alamance, Alexander, Brunswick,
Buncombe, Cabarrus, Catawba, Dur
ham, Edgecombe, Gates, Guilford,
Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, John
ston, Lee, Mitchell, Montgomery,
Orange, Pender, Person, Richmond,
Rockingham, Rutherford, Stanly,
Swain, Surry, Union, Wilkes, Yadkin
and Yancey.
These voted solidly against it:
Bertie, Bladen, Burke, Chatham,
Currituck, Forsyth, Greene, Hertford,
Iredell, Jackson, Jones, Martin, Mc
Dowell, Northampton, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washing
ton and Wilson.
The vote in the other fifty counties
was divided.
Johnston County at Buies Creek.
Buies Creek commencement which
begins May 8, has an especial interest
to Johnston county folks. The com
mencement address will be delivered
on May 13 by a former student, Rev.
Herman T. Stevens, who was reared
near Wilson’s Mills, but who is now
pastor of Deadrick Avenue Baptist
church, Knoxville, Tenn.
The class of 1915 will have a reun
ion on Tuesday night the 11th. John
R. Massey, of Johnston ounty, was a
member of this class, and was the
first member to lay down his life in
France.
Better Prices.
Warning was given in the house
Saturday by Representative A swell,
of Louisiana, to the effect that the
Southern farmer would not be willing
to labor twelve months a year in cot
ton fields unless he could get a fair
price for his product.
STATE AND GENERAL
NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF
Items of Local and General Interest
Clipped and Culled from Daily and
Weekly Papers.
Sumter C. Brawley of Durham will
manage the state capital end of Au
brey L. Brooks’ campaign for the
United States Senate.
On the first Monday in May a joint
debate between Charles L. Abersethy
and Representative Brinson, candi
dates for Congress, will take place at
Jacksonville.
L. M. Butler, manager of a big
Waco, Texas, department store, found
himself in Wilmingto* Wednesday,
his mind having been a blank since
Easter morning.
Plans for a four story, 64—room
hotel, have been considered by citi
zens of Reidsville. The hotel com
mittee expects to raise the necessary
fund by sale of stock.
The Presbyterian church in Kins
ton in which the Albemarle Presby
terial was meeting, caught fire Wed
nesday from a defective flue, causing
a damage of $2,500.
The “Overalls” movement has
spread to New Orleans. It was pre
dicted that in a few days the entire
student body of Tulane University
would appear in overalls.
The new census has announced the
population of St. Louis as 773,000, in
crease 85,971. The rate of growth
during the last ten years was the
smallest of any decade since the
founding of the city.
Mrs. Mary Settle Sharpe, of Greens
boro, Republican nominee for the
State superintendent of public in
struction, will deliver an address at
the' Randolph Republican convention
■which meets tomorrow in Asheville.
The frost and freeze Tuesday and
Wednesday nights, played havoc with
the fruit crop around Statesville.
Half the peach and pear crop was re
ported as destroyed. Cherries and
apples had not bloomed sufficiently to
be injured.
Surry county is planning an inten
sified campaign along public health,
lines. The international board of
health, the state board, the county
board and the Surry chapter of the
Red Cross will provide an annual
budget of $8,700.
Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, the
well known novelist, will test whether
or not a woman from a non-suffTage
state, can aspire to be a delegate to
the Republican national convention in
Chicago. Her name has been filed in
Pennsylvania as a candidate.
Parker-Jerome.
Kenly, April 13.—Friends here have
received the following announcement:
Rev. and Mrs. C. P. Jerome announce
the marriage of their daughter, Grace
to Dr. Paul Godwin Parker, on Satur
day, April the third, nineteen hun
dred and twenty, Jackson, North Car
olina.
At home after the fourteenth of
April, Jackson, North Carolina.
Winston-Salem Largest City.
With a population of 48,395, Wins
ton-Salem goes ahead of Chai’lotte in
the list of North Carolina cities.
Charlotte’s census showed 46,318. The
twin city celebrated the announce
ment Wednesday night with the
sounding of bugle calls by Scouts, the
ringing of bells, and the blowing of
factory whistles. A great bonfire was
lighted on the square where appropri
ate exercises took place, after which
a torchlight procession paraded the
streets.
Home Team Defeats Wilson’s Mills.
Yesterday afternoon the Junior
baseball team of the High School de
feated Wilson’s Mills School by a
score of 8 to 0, on the home grounds.
The game was one-sided from start
to finish. The work of the visitors
was good while in the field, but they
just couldn’t get onto Cotton. The
features of the game were the excel
lent team work of the home boys, a
home run by Wharton and the fast
work of Wilson’s Mills’ short stop.
Fire Saves Apple Trees.
Fires built in the orchards to pro
tect the trees from the late frosts
saved several thousand dollars to the
owner of one of,the largest apple or
chards in North Carolina situated
near Waynesville. More than 100,
000 fine apple trees of choice varieties
are in this orchard.
STRIKERS MAKE FIRST
OVERTURES OF PEACE
Rush of Volunteers Eager to Substi
tute Impresses Strikers—Conditions
More Normal.
New York, April 14.—The first ov
ertures of peace on the part of strik
ing railroad workers, who have dis
organized the railroad transportation
facilities of New York and northern
New Jersey, came tonight when Ed
ward McHugh, chairman of the strik
er’ committee, gave out a statement
that “now that the railroad labor
board has been appointed we desire
to avail ourselves of the opportunity
provided by it for a consideration of
our grievances.”
Restoration of passenger train ser
vice on the principal railroads into
New York made headway tonight.
The rush of volunteer students and
business men eager to substitute for
the strikers apparently has had an
impressive effect on the strikers.
Their defiant attitude toward the rail
roads was reported to have under
gone a change following optimistic
reports of the movement of trains
without their assistance.
Conditions in the Grand Central ter
minal late today more nearly ap
proached normal than during any
period of the strike.
Overman’s Position On Suffrage.
In his speech before the State Dem
ocratic convention Senator Lee S.
Overman stated his position on wo
man suffrage as follows: “I recog
nize that suffrage is inevitable—that
is, it seems to be. I have been and
am opposed to it, especially by Fed
eral amendment. It is fundamental
with hie, deep and inborn. I was op
posed to Federal interference with
the rights of suffrage in the States
and have always claimed that if suf
frage was to come it should come
through the State and not through
Federal-amendment.
“I have a letter from one of the
best women in North Carolina, and
one of the leading women for suf
frage, in which occurs this para
graph :
“The women of this State desire to
be given suffrage at the hands of the
men of North Carolina, rather than
by the vote of other States. We -want
ever to be able to say that our men,
guided by their belief, decided this
matter.”
“And with this sentiment I hearti
ly agree.
“I may be wrong, but I have done
what I thought was right. The good
women of North Carolina would not
have asked me to change my opinion
to get down and be a times-server.”
STEVENS CHAPEL NEWS.
Mr. Rufus Joyner and Miss Letha
Hartley were married last Sunday.
Their many friends wish them much
success in life.
Mr. and Mrs. Phonso Phillips, who
live near Pine Level, spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Robbins.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sullivan, who live
over Neuse River, are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Hartley.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Braswell, of
Pine Level, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Peedin.
There will be service at Stevens
Chapel next Sunday afternoon at the
usual hour, three o’clock. Everybody
is invited to go.
Mr. Alex Thompson spent last week
at Morehead City.
Quite a number.of the farmers are
planting their corn this week. *
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thopmson vis
ited Mrs. Thompson’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. O. Phillips near Holt’s Lake
last Saturday night and Sunday.
GUESS WHO.
Noted Sunday School Man Dead.
Sunday school workers everywhere
who have used “Peloubet’s Select
Notes on the International Sunday
School Lessons,” will regret to learn
of the death of the author, Dr. Fran
cis N. Peloubet, which occurred at his
home in Auburndale, Massachusetts,
on March 27. Dr. Peloubet was in
his eighty-ninth year, having gotten
out these notes on the Sunday School
lessons for 45 years. He was a min
ister of the Congregational church.
Born—A Daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. F, Hunter
Creech, in New York City, April 11,
a daughter, Pauline Bryan.
NEWS FROM PRINCETON.
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Princeton, April 14.—Miss Alma
Hall from Clayton has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Luther Edgerto* for
several days.
More than one thousand people went
out to a field near Mr. Amos Pitt
man’s last Saturday to see one of the
big army airplanes which had engine
trouble and had to come to the ground
The big machine remained out there
all night but when the repairs were
made, and everything ready it went
up like a bird and was soon out of
sight.
The farmers and patrons of Baker’s
mill will be glad to know* that the
machinery has arrived and that work
men are building and it will not be
many weeks before the new saw mill
and gin will be ready for business.
Many citizens who travel the road
to Richardson bridge over Neuse riv
er, desire to thank those men from the
south side of the river who came over
and filled up those bad holes and oth
erwise made some much needed re
pairs to the road on this side of the
bridge. Many thanks to you gentle
men.
Mrs. P. H. Joyner has gone to Che
raw, S. C., to spend some time with
relatives.
Mr. Henry Fitzgerald from Micro
was a visitor in'town Sunday.
Mr. A. F. Holt, Jr., has one of those
smiles that don’t rub ofl\ It’s a girl,
arrived on the 8th. Mother and baby
are getting along nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Moore from
Raleigh were the guests of Dr. and
Mrs. Stevens Sunday.
Mr. J. M. Beaty from Siythfield
was in town Tuesday.
Misses Lessie Woodard, Elma and
Pearl Crocker from Saulston were
visitors in town Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Julian Richardson from Kenly
was a visitor in town Sunday.
Mr. Henry Edgerton and Mr. Nor
man Hinton from Kenly were in town
Monday.
Mrs. R. S. Stevens has gone to Ral
eigh for a couple of days visiting
friends.
Mr. and Mrs'. W. S. Stevens from
Smithfield were in town a short while
Tuesday evening.
Mr. Dal Hines and Mrs. John Smith
from Wayne county were visitors in
town Sunday.
Mr. ar*d Mrs. W.,T. Edwards have
been visiting their children down at
Eureka for several days.
Miss Bettie Lee Sanders and Mrs.
Robert Turner arc spending a few
days with Mrs. Ed A. Holt.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Williamson and
children from Wilson county were the
guests of their sister Mrs. Clifton Holt
in town Sunday.
Mr. Grover Dees and his mother
from Beulah section came over Sun
day to attend morning services at the
Methodist church.
Mr. John T. Holt from Wilson’s
Mills spent the day Sunday with rel
atives, Misses Lena and Ethel Holt.
Mr. W. C. Rye Is is driving around in
a new Studebaker. Mr. Geo. P. Mas
sey is out with a bran new Ford Se
dan.
The Princeton debating teams will
go to Chapel Hill to participate in the
eliminating contest this year. Prince
ton feels rather elated over her de
baters since this is their first experi
ence in public debating and marks her
entrance into the debating union.
HOPEWELL NEWS.
Miss Inez Stephenson who has been
working in Smithfield for the past
four or five months is at home to
spend the summer with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Stephenson.
We ai’e glad to note that Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Johnson have purchased
them a new five passenger Jordan.
Mr. and Mrs. Eli Batten and grand
daughters, Misses Hattie and Sarah
Batten, spent Sunday in our burg.
We are sorry to note that Mr. Dal
Thompson's little boy got kicked
Wednesday morning by a mule, knock
ing some of his teeth out and split
ing his lip. It is not serious and
hope he will soon recover.
Misses Lessie and Essie Phillips of
Four Oaks were the guests of Misses
Eula and Annie Lassiter Sunday.
The many friends of Mr. D. A.
Thompson will be glad tp learn that
h!s rheumatism is slowly improving
I as he has been plowing some this
! spring.
Mr. Manly Johnson and daughter,
Esther, and Mr. and Mrs. John Lang
don of Coats attended services at
' Clement Sunday.
X. Y. Z.
PLUMBERS STRIKE;
WANT CHAUFFEURS
No Apprentices and Wages of Twelve
Dollars a Day Among Other De
mands.
Birmingham, Ala., April 13.—Sixty
seven journeymen plumbers are alleg
ed to dominate plumbing and plumb
ing repair work in Birmingham, ac
cording to findings made by a com
mittee of allied civic clubs in an in
vestigation of the recent demand of
local plumbers for a wage of $12 a
day, which has resulted in the closing
of 24 of 32 shops here. Other findings
include:
Master plumbers are required by
the union men to furnish a chauffeur
to drive a journeyman to and from his
work and the chauffeur is not permit
ted to do any plumbing work.
Use of apprentices in union shops
is forbidden, with a view to curtail
ing the number of plumbers available
in Birmingham.
Unskilled labor is not permitted to
work on plumbing jobs, even where
no skill is required.
The wage scale demanded—$12 for
an eight-hour day, double time for
overtime, Sundays and holidays—is
the highest in the United States, ex
cepting two oil “boom towns.”
Where the owner of a one-man
shop does his own work, the union
compels him to give 50 per cent of
his work to members of the organiza
tion, even if it keeps the owner of the
shop idle.—Washington Post.
A Raleigh Landmark Removed.
On© of Raleigh’s sweetest land
marks yras removed Monday; the
flowering crab-apple tree near the
corner of North Wilmington and East
Edenton Streets, in the entranceway
of the Chaswill Apartment House now
under construction. For half a cen
tury or more this tree with its wealth
of fragrant flowers told the story of
the spring time. A widely known
Raleigh lady looked at the fragments
of the tree in the gutter, and said it
was almost like saying good-bye for
the last time to a dear one to bid it
farewell.—F. A. Olds in Raleigh
Times.
This is the best day the world has
ever seen; tomorrow will be better.
Let each man do his best.—Shakes
peare.
Housekeepers Week in Henderson.
The housekeepers of Henderson un
der the direction of the Home Dem
onstration Agent, Mrs. J. K. Plum
mer, have just concluded the first
“Housekeepers Week” ever held in
the state.
In the rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce, demonstrations of bread
making, the manufacture of musca
dine grape products, butter making,
cooking meats, sewing and making
hats were given. Around the sides
of the room were arranged all the
latest devices for making the home
more convenient, from a folding
ironing board to refrigerators and
cooking stoves, all of which were
loaned for the week by local mer
chants. The last day of the week
was given over to demonstrations of
power plants.
Rocky Mount Strike.
The strike of 325 employes of the
Rocky Mount mills, has been settled
amicably. The walk out was caused
by the transfer of an employe from
the carding department to the spin
ning department, but the exact terms
of settlement were not given out.
North Carolina Overall Club.
Winston-Salem has started the first
“Overall Club” we have heard of in
North Carolina. Canvassers have
been soliciting names, the office force
of the F.. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com
pany and other industrial enterprises
manifesting much enthusiasm.
Only two kinds of hay: one kind
is raised at home, the other is bought
—the difference between them is
about $20 a ton.
Hertford Issues Street Bonds.
Bonds to the amount of $200,000
have already been issued for paving
streets in Hertford. It is likely that
a concrete foundation with top layer
of asphalt will be the kind of street
built, _ Jj