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Number 28. SCHOOL MEETING A GREAT SUCCESS Representatives From All the High Schools in the County Present.— Prof. N. W. Walker Delivered a Fine Address and Spoke of the Needs for a Greater School Pro gram.—Banquet Served By The Ladies of the Woman’s Club a Most Pleasing Feature. Perhaps the greatest school meet ing ever held in Johnston county was held at the Woman’s Club rooms in Smithfield last Friday evening. Supt. W. H. Hipps had invited all the high school principals and the committee men of the high schools to be present and nearly every one was here to hear 'v^the school problems discussed. * * »—The first on the program was the elegant repast which was prepared and served by the ladies of the Smith field Woman’s Club. Tables had been set for sixty plates and nearly every place was taken. After all had thor oughly enjoyed this feature, Supt. Hipps, who presided, made a short talk telling why he had invited the school people to come and mentioned some of the problems before us to day, and then introduced Prof. N. W. Walker of the State University. Prof. Walker made a very thought ful address calling attention to some of the problems that followed every great war, how the business, the edu cational and the financial equilibrum had been upset. All these things call for larger vision, unbounded enthusi asm and a firmer determination if we are to meet them in a successful way. Prof. Walker said that the demands of the day call for a bigger and broader school program. He spoke of the need for more and better teachers, better buildings and better equipment and filled every one pres ent with greater enthusiasm for the greater school program. Following Mr. Walker’s address, Supt. Hipps, after a short but inspir ing talk, called on those present to make short talks on the situation. Many responded and inspiring talks were made and much enthusiasm pre vailed. The meeting is calculated to result in great good for the schools of Johnston county. All the %nembers of the County Board of Education were present, as were committeemen, from Selma, Mi cro, Kenly, Glendale, Pine Level, Princeton, Wilson’s Mills, Clayton, Archer, Four Oaks, Benson, Meadow and Smithfield. Nearly all the princi pals of these schools were also pres ent. It was a great meeting and Superintendent Hipps was highly pleased with the attendance and the interest which was manifested. School Closed at Emit. The school at Emit, which has been taught by Mrs. W. 0. Hocutt and Mrs. Lee, closed with appropriate ex ercises last Saturday, the 17th. The morning exercises were devot ed to songs and marches by the lit tle folks and by the principal ad dress of the day, which was deliver ed by Rev. J. J. Murray, of Smithfield. Following Mr. Murray’s address Mr. H. V. Rose, Superintendent Public Welfare, and Prof. J. 0. Bowman, principal of the Selma Graded Schools made short talks. At 1:00 o’clock a sumptuous picinc dinner was spread, which was much relished by all. Ball games were played in the afternoon, and at night the program was concluded. The school this year has had a very successful course. The attendance has been excellent and the pupils have in almost every instance made their grades. Special mention should be made of Nellie Oneal, age 9, and Grace Winston, age 11. They at tended the entire term without miss ing a day or being tardy a time dur ing the term. They are, therefore, entitled to the “Certificate of Perfect Attendance,’ which was offered by Supt. Hipps last fall. The certifi cates will be awarded within a few days. Molasses Sold at Auction. Yesterday at the court house door in Smithfield two barrels of molasses —one of 55 gallons and the other 56 gallons—were sold to the highest bid der bringing 85 cents a gallon. These two barrels were taken at a blockade still in Wilders township several days ago. JESSE HALES NOW IN THE PENITENTIARY Governor Revoked Reprieve Granted Him Until August Sixteenth.—Ar rested in Kenly Saturday by Sheriff Massey and Carried to the Peniten tiary Saturday Evening by Deputies All the four men who were found guilty last June charged of the mur der of Deputy Sheriff J. Alf. Wall are now in the State penitentiary to serve a sentence of twenty years. Spain Bailey, J. H. Evans and John Stancil were taken to the penitentiary Wednesday afternoon after having surrendered to Sheriff Massey. It seems that Jesse Hales had been granted a reprieve by the Governor to August 16. This would have kept him out of prison until that date if the Governor had not seen fit to re voke the reprieve. Saturday Sheriff Massey received a telegram from Governor Bickett stating that the re prieve was an error and ordered the Sheriff to arrest Hales and take him to the penitentiary at once. Sheriff Massey accordingly went to look for Hales and found him at Kenly where he arrested him. Hales was greatly surprised as he thought he was safe until August and he was hoping that something would somehow turn up that would make him a free man. He was taken to Raleigh Saturday even ing by Deputy Sheriff George F. Moore and Mr. W. L. Ellis, and lodg ed in the State prison about eleven o’clock. The crime*for which Jesse Hales, Spain Bailey, J. H. Evans and John Stancil were found guilty and givert a sentence of twenty years in the penitentiai-y shocked all Johnston County as nothing that has taken place in recent years. It will be re membered that Deputy Sheriff J. Alf. Wall in the discharge of his duties was shot and mortally wounded when he went to cut up a blockade distill ery in Beulah township about a year ago. The four men who were found guilty of the crime were arrested at once and taken to Raleigh for safe keeping. The Governor called a special term of the superior court to try them and they were brought to trial last June before Judge John H. Kerr. They were found guilty after a very hard fought trial and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary. They gave no tice of an appeal and were required to give bond of ten thousand dollars each. The matter was heard at the Spring term of the Supreme Court and the verdict of the lower court was sustained. These four men are now in the pen itentiary and the majesty of the law has been upheld. ATLANTA PEOPLE PROTESTING. They are Preparing to Spend Summer In Tents Rather Than Keep Up Ravenous Landlords. News comes from Atlanta that the people of that live Georgia city are planning to alleviate the housing con ditions and combat the profiteering in rents. The fair price Commission er of Georgia is negotiating for sev eral acres of land on the Atlanta Marrietta suburban line where fami lies might live in tents during the summer. The high rents in Atlanta, like many other towns, is making it almost*impossible for some of the working people to be able to live and pay the profiteering prices. Repre sentative Upshaw, of Georgia, has in troduced a bill in Congress providing for the War Department to lend two thousand tents for persons who are unable to find homes. Must Resign or Not Run. The Commissioner of Internal Rev enue has ruled that W. T. Woodley, a revenue collector from New Bern, must resign his office or not run for State Auditor. The ruling means that a man canncyfc hold an office in the revenue department and run for a State office at the same time. The Adam and Eve Club. The immediate effect of the organ ization of Overall Clubs in the South as a means of bringing down the price of clothing was an increase in the price of overalls from $2 to $P> a pair. Amy one could have foretold it. The only way to get ahead of the profiteers is to organize Adam and Eve Clubs.—Philadelphia Record. BIG SCHOOL PLANS FOR SMITHFIELD The Board of Trustees Considering Plans for a Twenty-four Room Building for the High School and Grammar School. Architect Hook And Prof. N. W. Walker Here Last Friday Conferring With Trustees. The school situation in Smithfield has reached a place where it demands the best attention of the school board and the people of the community. The present building for the white school is far from being able to meet the de mands of the day. When it was built about nine years ago it was consider ed sufficiently large to take care of the school of Smithfield for twenty five years, but it has already beer overcrowded and school is being taught this year on double schedule from the sixth grade down. There are now fourteen class rooms in the building including the basement rooms which have been fitted up for jdass purposes. There are 21 teachers. Sc it is easy to see that there is not near room enough. Additional land has been bought and the proposition now is to builc another school building for use of the high school and grammar grades. The board has selected Mr. Chas. C. Hook of Charlotte, as architect. Mr. Hool and Prof. N. W. Walker, State In spector of High Schools for the pasi fifteen years, met with the members of the school board together witl Supt. Marrow of the city schools anc County Supt. Hipps Friday afternoor to consider the building program. The present indications are that with the best conditions that can be securer that it will be impossible to complete a new school building before Septem ber 1921. By that time Supt. Mar row says that a building of eighteer rooms will be necessary to take care of the school situation for Smithfielc and community. Since that is true it is thought best that plans be con sidered for a twenty-four room build ing. The cost of building material am labor is so high at the present wit! no prospect of reduced prices foi years to come that a building like the one contemplated will cost $150,00( or more. On top of all this a building foi the colored school is very badly need ed and one must be built sewn if the educational requirements of the lie groes of Smithfield and community are to be met. There is only one way by which the funds necessary to carry out this big building program may be secured This is by a bond issue. No bone election may be had except by actior of the legislature which is soon te meet in special session. It is a mat ter of the greatest importance to this progressive community that the peo pie should begin to consider this im portant question. Shall the educa tional needs of this community b< met or shall we take a backward step? Mr. W. H. Hancock Dead. New Bern, April 17.—Following s second stroke of paralysis a few days ago, Mr. William H. Hancock diet at his home, No. 315 Metcalf street this morning. About ten days age Mr. Hancock suffered a stroke oi paralysis and later a second attack followed and his condition rapidlj grew worse until the end came. The deceased, who was in his 61st year, has been a resident of New Bern for many years and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. Surviving the deceased are his wife and six children as follows: Mrs. H. C. Pittman, Snow Hill; Mrs. T. S. Ragsdale, of Smithfield; Mrs. E. C. McCarty, of Ardmore, Okla., Mrs. W. F. Dunn, of New Bern; Mrs. O. O. Jackson, of Plymouth, a son Mr. Hugh Hancock, of Portsmouth, Va. His sister, Mrs. Mary Salter, resides at Mhrshiallburg and a brother, Mr. Jalles Hancock, at Harlow.—News and Observer. Pershing Willing to Run. General John J. Pershing, it is an nounced from Washington, while not | a candidate, he is willing to serve the nation as President if he should be called for. He has spent his life in the service of his country and feels it his patriotic duty to continue if the people want him. TO HEAD CITY SCHOOLS FOR ANOTHER YEAR Mr. H. B. Marrow Has Been Re-elect ed Superintendent for the Fourth Time and Has Accepted the Posi tion. Mr. Thomas H. Franks of Biltmore Will be Principal of High School Next Year. Smithfield and her school system are to be congratulated that Mr. H. B. Marrow is to have charge of the city schools another year. About the first of January Mr. Marrow gave no tice to the school board that he would not serve as superintendent after his present term expires in June. The board having under consideration the erection of a new high school build ing for the town felt that they needed Mr. Marrow’s help for the next year more than ever. He was re-elected at an increased salary and after several weeks he finally decided to accept. His experience in school work and his knowledge of the situation here made it very important that the board se cure him for the school another year if possible. Since coming here three years ago Mr. Marrow has proven himself to be a very fine school man. Many of the leading educators of the State place him among our very best city super intendents. He stands for system and efficiency in all things. He has thoroughly organized the school from the primary department up, and has placed the high school on the Accred ited List of High Schools in the State. It is an honor that no other High school in Johnston, and comparative ly few in the State, enjoys. The en rollment of the white school is now well over six hundred while more than four hundred are enrolled in the colored school. The board considers itself fortu nate in being able to secure Mr. Thomas H. Franks, superintendent of the Biltmore school for principal of the high school. He is a graduate of Elon College, has had several years experience in high school work, hav ing taught four or five years in the Asheville High School and served as superintendent of the Biltmore school for the past two years. He has at tended summer schools at the Univer sities of North Carolina and Virginia and comes highly recommended. OVERALLS PRICES TO GO UP. The Fad Recently Started Up Will Not Accomplish the Desired Result According to Greensboro Business Man. The “overall fad” may not be very productive of results, according to a Greensboro business man, in the Greensboro News: “The fad will absorb the available stocks of overalls now on the market. The manufacturer will shoot the price merrily higher as the demand grows. The retailer will speedily close out his normal supply of overalls, and when he goes into the market again for a stock, instead of being able to buy these goods so as to sell them at the present prevailing retail price, about ?5 a suit, he will have to pay such an increase that he cannot sell the gar ments for less than, perhaps, $8 a suit; perhaps more. , “The fad will not seriously interfere with the clothing business, for when a man wants a nifty suit of clothes, he’s going to buy it, fad or no fad. But whether he buys or not, he is most certainly running up the price of overalls, which are the necessary apparel of the workingman. When next the workingman, who habitually wears overalls, and isn’t in the fad business, goes to buy him new over alls, he will have to pay, may be, 100 par cent, increase over what he paid for his last pair. Thousands of men who are joyfully donning overalls as a lark will buy just as many suits of clothes as they always did, because they got the money to pay for them, no matter how high they are. They will soon discard their blue trousers for the reason that a fad is always shortlived; and will be wearing their ordinary clothing. But the men who work for them and others, will feel the pinch. They will raise a holler for more pay on account of the h. c. 1., and employers who have helped along the overall fad will have to come across.” The Kinston police will probably wear khaki during the summer to re duce the high cost of living. INSANE MAN KILLS NEW YORK DOCTOR New York Doctor Shot While Taking Up Collection in A Fashionable Church.—Crazy Man Had Escaped From Asylum at Fergus Falls, Minnesota. James Markoe, a well known sur geon was shot and killed Sunday while taking up the offering at the morning service in the fashionable St. George’s Protestant Episcopal church, 15th Street and Stuysevant Place in the old aristocratic district of New York, says an Associated Press dis patch. His assailant was captured after a short chase by a group of parishion ers. He gave name first as Thomas W. Shelley and later as Thomas W. Simpkin. The police said he told them he had escaped Thursday from the Eastern State hospital for the in sane at Williamsburg, Va. Dr. Markoe, a wealthy vestryman of the church, was a friend and per sonal physician of J. Pierpont Mor gan, also a parishioner there. He was 56 years old. The church was crowd ed with parishioners, many of them representatives of the wealthiest fam ilies in New York when the shooting took place. Dr. Markoe was walking down the left aisle taking up collec tion while the choir was singing an anthem. As he reached the 12th pew from the rear and leaned over to pass the plate, Shelley who was seated next to the aisle, whipped out a re volver and filed at the physician. The bullet struck him over the left eye and he collapsed in the aisle. Several women screamed and men rushed from their seats, some to the aid of the physician and others in pursuit of his assailant. Shelley, with the revolver in his hand, leaped over the body of the physician to run out of the church. The choir, led by Charles Safford, continued singing in an effort to quiet the congregation. Had Escaped from Insane Asylum. Thomas W. Simpkin, also known as Thomas W. Shelley, who shot Dr. James Markoe in a New York church Sunday, had been an inmate for some time of the Minnesota State Insane Asylum, Fergus Falls, up to two years ago when he made his escape, says a dispatch from Fergus Falls, Minn. He was committed to the asy lum froir^ Duluth. His mind, it is be lieved, became affected through study of spiritualism. He had a wife and two children in Duluth, who returned to England after Simpkin's commit tal to the asylum. Before he succeeded in escaping which was accomplished by knotting bed clothing together and‘lowering himself from a third story window, he had made two attempts to get away but on each occasion was re captured. Simpkin was not regarded as dangerous, having a cheerful dis position. While here he claimed to be in communication with spirits and showed a religious leaning. Tennessee for Wood. The Republican State Convention of Tennessee has instructed its dele gates to the Chicago convention to vote for General Leonard Wood for President as long as his name is be fore the convention. J. O. Ellington, Jr., Honor Student. Among the 97 undergraduate stu dents at the University of North Car olina who made grades of 90 per cent or better in the quarter just ended, the name of John O. Ellington, Jr., whose home is near Clayton, is noted. Mr. Ellington spent two or more years in Turlington Graded School, graduating from that institution in 1918. NEGROES AND OFFICERS DEAD Another Officer Was Perhaps Fatally Mounded When Trying to Break Up Card Game. According to reports received at Winston-Salem late Sunday evening three negroes and one officer, Ex Sheriff Lee Joyce, were killed and Jim Matthews, special deputy, was probably fatally wounded in a fight between the officers and negroes at Walnut Cove. The officers attempted to break up a gambling game in a negro restaurant. As soon as they entered the place the negroes began shooting. BIG COTTON MEETING HERE NEXT SATURDAY To Hear the Reports of the Delegates To the American Cotton Associa tion at Montgomery Last Week.— Plans for Cotton Warehouse At Smithfield to be Considered. The members of the Johnston Cbunty Branch of the American Cot ton Association are called to meet in Smithfield next Saturday, April 24, at one P. M. This is to be a very im portant meeting and every member of the Association and every person who has taken stock in the Farmers Cotton Warehouse .are invited and urged to be present. Matters of much importance will come before the meeting for consideration. Among the matters that will come before the meeting are these: To hear the reports of the delegates to the National Convention; to give options or sell cotton to foreign buy ers; to see the plans and models of the cotton storage warehouse for Smithfield now being built; to hear Dr. B- W. Kilgore and J. M. Work man explain the exact working of the Cotton Warehouse System under the state law, and many others. Not only are members invited to come but every farmer and business man who is interested in the welfare of all will be given a hearty welcome to the meeting. Automobile Wrecked Near Princeton On last Thursday night an automo bile was wrecked in Wayne county near Princeton. Below we give an account of it taken from the News and Observer, which was sent up by their correspondent, Mr. Emmett R. Brown: Goldsboro, April 16.—J. C. Bail, Frank Hill and Richard Dawson and Leo Albritton, of Kinston, are pati ents at tho Spicer sanatorium in Goldsboro, where they were taken late last night following an automo bile accident which occurred to a car in which the foregoing men were oc cupants. A report from the hospital this morning says that the condition of Messrs. Bail and Allbritton was criti cal and that the other two injured were also seriously injured. John T. Whitfield and H. II. Ferrall of Kinston were occupants in the car but escaped serious injury. According to the story told by one of the men last night at the hospital the party were on their way to Kins ton from a trip to Raleigh when Hill’s automobile turned turtle and plunged down a steep embankment as it struck the front of a new concrete bridge now under way of construction about seven miles from Goldsboro on the county'highway. It is said that Mr. J. C. Dail was driving the car, which was traveling at a fast clip, and as no light was on display at the bridge, so the men claim, they did not see the danger until it was too late, and the driver in attempting to avoid a col lision with an obstruction at the bridge lost control of the steering wheel and the car turned over three times. The automobile was com pletely demolished. Goldsboro, April 18.—The condition of Lee Albritton, of Kinston, one of the men who was seriously hurt in an automobile accident last week, is not improved and fears are entertained for his recovery. The other three men hurt when the machine ran off an embankment are reported to be as well as could be expected. Railroad From Raleigh to Clinton. Much interest is manifested by the Sampson and New Hanover people over the proposed railroad from Ral eigh to Wilmington via Clinton. A meeting was held in Wilmington Fri day in the interest of the new rail road. This meeting was largely at tended by Clinton and Sampson peo ple. At the meeting in Wilmington it was brought out that Sampson people are willing to finance fifty miles of the road if the other people will fall in line. The proposed rail road would run across a good section of Johnston county. Population of North Carolina Cities. Winston-Salem, 48,395; increase of 26,395, or 113.2 per cent. Salisbury, 13,884; increase of 6,732, or 94.1 per cent. Burlington, 5,952; increase of 1,144, or 23.8 per cent.
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