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VOLUME 39 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1920. Number 29. MEETING TO BE HELD AT BAPTIST CHURCH Services Began Wednesday Night and Will Continue for Several Days. Dr. E. D. Poe to be the Preacher and Prof. Wolslagle to Lead the Singing —Both Are Coming Monday. Rev. L. B. Padget Preached Good Ser mon Wednesday Night. No Service Saturday Night, Pastor H. W. Baucom is conducting a series of meetings at the Smithfield Baptist church which are planned to run about fifteen days. Preliminary services were held Wednesday night and last night. Tonight Pastor C. C. Wheeler of Benson will preach. The service last night was conducted by Pastor Townsend of Selma. The ser vices Sunday will be in charge of Mr. Baucom! Monday the p&stor is ex pecting Dr. E. Dodson Poe, pastor of Temple Baptist church at Durham who will be the preacher for the se ries of meetings. Prof. E. L. Wols lagle, of Asheville, who is to have charge of the singing during the meeting is expected to arrive Monday and the meeting begin in earnest. The services held this week have been pre paratory for the meeting which it is hoped will be ready for the visiting preacher Monday. Right Relationship. The first of the preparatory services which are to lead up to the revival at the Baptist church was held Wed nesday night. After a live song ser vice, Rev. H. W. Baucom, the pastor, introduced Rev. L. B. Padgett of Wen dell, who was the speaker for the evening. Mr. Padgett read, for a basis of his talk, the Lord’s prayer for his dis ciples which is recorded in John’s gospel—not the pattern prayer, but that earnest appeal or petition that "Christ made to the Father prior to His ascension, that those whom the Father had given Him might be one in Christ and that they might be kept from the evil in the world. The theme of Mr. Padgett’s sermon was “Right Relationship—to God and Man.” He pointed out that the life thus rightly related, would be first of all a life of prayer. Christ, the Great Teacher and Leader, being in perfect accord with the Father and having a self-sacrificing love for man, mani fested the prayer life. Before His miracles He was found in prayer; early in the morning He was found out on the mountain side praying. He was in constant touch with the Fath er through prayer. The rightly related life is also a sacrificial life. It is will ing to be spent in service to others. It is a conquering life—conquering selfish ambitions and 'personal desires and surrendering to Christ Its Cap tain. It is a victorious life—victor over sin and temptation. It is a glo rified life—glorified through unself ish service and wholehearted coopera tion with God through Christ in bringing His kingdom to pass in the earth. There is nothing between the rightly related life and God; no sin that separates and no dcor that shuts Christ out. Mr. Padgett is an excellent singer as well as a forceful preacher, and just before the sermon he sang “Noth ing Between,” the choir and congrega tion joining on the chorus. A goodly number were present and greatly enjoyed the entire service. Bad Storm at Albemarle. Albemarle suffered one of the most terrific storms of its history Wed nesday night. It did not seem to be a cyclone but blew furiously for about three minutes followed by a down pour of rain accompanied by thunder and lightning. Roofs were blown off, chimneys blown down, windbws blown out, and the colored Methodist church moved from its foundation. Tele phone and electric wires were put out of commission. Tax Collector Appointed. Mr. A. V. Gulley, of Clayton, was here Monday. He has been appointed tax collector for Clayton township by Sheriff Massey and now has the books in his possession. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of New York, president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, will preside part of the time at the Geneva Con gress of the Alliance. PICTURES UNFIT FOR ORPHANS Orphanage Superintendents Believe It’s Best to Provide Their Own Picture Shows. Pictures shown in moving picture places in towns adjacent to denomina tional and fraternal orphanages in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are not fit for the children of these institutions to see, declared the Tri-State Orphanage Conference in session here last night. The 25 orph anage superintendents present at the conference declared in favor of pri vate picture shows for their wards. Decision against allowing the chil dren to attend moving picture shows was reached after the question had been discussed at considerable length. The trend of the modem moving pic ture toward sex exploitation and ap peal was disapproved, and it was the unanimous conclusion of more than 25 orphanage superintendents that the unquestioned usefulness of the moving picture could be better appli ed through shows given under the di rection of the institutions themselves. —News and Observer, 21. Prosecutions Under Sanitary Law. William and Sam Watts, of Auburn, were found guilty by Justice of the Peace J. E. Owen yesterday of a vio lation of the State Privy law but judg ment was suspended on their promise in the presence of the court to make installation of sanitary privies with out delay. The State Board of Health recom mended that inasmuch as this was the first case of prosecution for non-com pliance with the State Privy law in Wake county, the defendants be dis missed on their promise to install the privies -\yithout delay.—News and Ob server. DR. RANKIN’S HEALTH REPORT. At a joint meeting of the North Carolina Medical Society and the State Health Society in Charlotte this week Dr. W. S. Rankin submitted a report which showed greater activity than any previous year. The News and Observer reports as follows: Dr. Rankin gave a full report of the work of each bureau connected with the State board. Some of the items were: laboratory tests were ov er 9,000 analyses of various speci mens; 9,000 Wasserman tests; vacci nation points distributed sufficient to complete anti-typhoid vaccination of 150.000 people. The laboratory ex pended $47,000 and saved to the peo ple of the State nearly $250,000. The tuberculosis work has been sat isfactory, including 250 discharged patients from the State tuberculosis sanatorium. Dr. Rankin estimated that 100 lives were saved by the edu cational work of the bureau alone. Under county health bureau, Dr. Rankin said six counties had added whole-time health officers during the year and four more are ready to come in, giving a total of 20 counties for the State. During the year nearly 8.000 sanitary closets have been in stalled. The county health depart ments gave 34,000 typhoid vaccina tions. Over 10,000 cases of contagi ous and epidemic diseases were treat ed during the year. This work by es timation saved 1G8 lives and many cases of illness. Biltmore May Be Offered President. It is understood that there is a pos sibility that Mrs. George W. Vander bilt will offer her handsome mansion, Biltmore, in the suburbs of Asheville, to President Wilson for his summer capitol. It is believed that he will accept the place if offered. It is more than large enough for the entire party to be taken to the summer capitol; se cluded, yet within a few minutes of the railway and telegraph offices, with wonderful scenic views on every side. Miss Margaret Wilson has just re turned to Washington after spending two months in Asheville. With encouraging reports from pri vate sources from Washington that the President might consider Ashe ville’s offer of a summer home for the presidential party, the local civic or ganizations are preparing to go to Washington to lay the matter before the chief executive personally, if pos sible.—Morganton News-Herald. It is very important that every per son who wishes to vote either in the June primary or the fall election pay his pell tax on or before May first. SENATOR OVERMAN COMING TO JOHNSTON Junior Senator From North Carolina Will Deliver Memorial Address In Smithfieid on May Tenth Upon In vitation of Daughters of the Con federacy. We are glad to make the announce ment that Senator Lee Slater Over man will be in Smithfieid on May 10th to' deliver the Memorial Day address to the veterans of the Confederacy^ the veterans of the Spanish-Ameri can and the World War. Senator Overman is coming upon the invita tion of the Holt-Sanders Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The junior Senator from North Car olina is no stranger to Smithfieid having been here before and has many warm friends here. STATE AND GENERAL NEWS. Augusta, Georgia, has a population of 52,548. Gain of 11,508, or 28 per cent. The mother of the late Bill Nye, the humorist, died at Moorehead, Minn., Tuesday at the age of 93. The town aldermen of Burlington have ordered the issuing of $160,000 bonds for school purposes for that city. John M. Parker of New Orleans was elected Governor of Louisiana Tuesday by the usual Democratic ma jority. Mrs. Mary Adams, mother of Judge W. J. Adams, died at her home in Carthage Monday night at the age of 87 years. The 34th cheese factory in North Carolina will soon be ready for busi ness. It will be at Crabtree, Hay wood county. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Case of Le noir county have been married 64 years. Mr. Case is 86 and his wife 84 years of age. The State Republican convention of Delaware has adopted a resolution favoring the ratification of the suf frage amendment by the Legislature of that state. The second game of the Virginia Carolina annual series will be played at Cone park, Greensboro, tomorrow afternoon, April 24th. Offices for Herbert Hoover along presidential row will be opened April 21 in Chicago. The Illinois headquar ters will later be expanded into a national headquarters. Four negroes were apprehended Sunday near New Bern for being in a car which ran over three men kill ing two and injuring the other. The driver of the car made his escape. Lester Prevett, 14 year old boy was electrocuted Wednesday when he took hold of a wire fence enclosing the transformer plant at the Shuford Mills at Hickory. The fence was charged. Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic national committee, has been selected by the executive committee to be temporary chairman of the national convention at San Francisco. The election on the removal of the court house in Brunswick county held Tuesday resulted as follows: South port, 418 votes; Bolivia, 361; Supply, 315. Another election will be requir ed since no place has received a ma jority. Fifteen young men of New Orleans with the drug habit have been sen tenced to the federal prison for a year and a day with the end in view that they may be cured of the habit. They had violated the Harrison auti-nar cotic act. Thomasville is a great manufactur ing town and during the past year shipped an average of 39 car loads of manufactured products daily. The tows is claimed to be the finest busi ness town on the Southern Railway between Washington and Atlanta. Cam Morrison and Bob Page, Dem ocratic candidates for the nomination for Governor, dined together at Clark ton Monday night. They had a good time together, each calling the other by his given name. When they part ed they wished each other “good luck and a few votes.” The Senate has passed the army reorganization bill, providing for a regular army of 297,000 and a Nation al Guard of 425,000 men. The bill al so provides for a voluntary system of military training for young men be tween the ages of 18 and 21. The bill having passed the House with several changes will now go to con ference. PROF. GULLEY IN RACE FOR SUPREME COURT Law Professor at Wake Forest Col lege to Be In the Race for Justice Of the Supreme Court. Prof. Gulley A Native Johnstonian. Prof. N. Y. Gulley, of Wake Forest, was here yesterday for a few hours. He is in the race for the nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court. He announced his candidacy sometime ago, long before the announcement that Justice George H. Brown would not be in the race to succeed himself. Prof. Gulley has been teaching law at Wake Forest College for the past twenty-five years and is well known in most sections of the State. He has assurances of active support in a great many counties. He has a great many friends in Johnston county, the county of his birth, and will poll a big vote in the primary in this county. While Prof. Gulley has never been on the bench his temperament, his train ing, knowledge of the law well fit him for a judicial position. Court Here This Week. The civil term of the Superior court convened here Monday for a two weeks term with Judge W. M. Bond, of Edenton, presiding. Quite a num ber of cases have been disposed of. Among them was the case of Caveat to the will of Corinna Holt, late wife of Percy Holt, of Wilson’s Mills. The propounders were represented by Messrs. W. W. Cole and S. S. Holt, while the caveators were represented by Gen. Beverly Royster, of Oxford, and Abell & Ward. The jury found that the will was not made by Corin na Holt and the caveators won the case. Another case of more than passing interest which was tried was the case against the Road Commissioners of Micro township and the County Com missioners. This was a case which was brought by a Mr. Davis for dam ages for injuries sustained from be ing kicked by a mule while working for the township road commissioners. Wellons & Wellons were attorneys for the plaintiff and Mr. Ed. S. Abell ap peared for the county. A demurrer was entered and sustained and the case dropped as there is no law that would sustain the suit against the commissioners in such a case. The case of J. H. Abell, Trustee of L. H. Allred, vs. A. P. May and brother, resulted in giving the plain tiff a judgment against the defend ants. Quite a number of other cases have been disposed of. Court will continue on for next week. Micro School to Close. Micro school closes April 29th and 30th. Thursday night April 29, an entertainment will be given by the primary department. Friday morn ing April 30 at ten o’clock a reading contest will be given by the girls of the high school department. The Cit izens Bank of Micro offers a gold med al to the successful contestant. After the contest a literary address will be delivered by Rev. J. E. Sawyer. A picnic dinner will be served on the grounds. Everybody is requested to bring a well filled basket. At 2:30 a declamation contesc will be given by boys of high school de partment. The Junior Order of Micro offers a gold medal to the successful contestant. At 8 o’clock an entertainment will be given by the intermediate and high school department. ' PRINCIPAL. New Towns in Burke. Two new towns, Valdese and Con nelly Springs in Burke county, have received papers of incorporation this week. Valdese has a population of 1500 with property valued at about one million dollars. Not Wanting Any Excuse. The killing of a New York man in church' last Sunday will, according to our calculations, furnish to exactly 5,621 Greensboro people an excuse next Sunday for not going to church. Not that they needed it.—Greensboro News. Pay your poll tax oa or before May 1, if you wish to vote for the next Governor of North Carolina. HAS CORNERED WORLD’S OIL. Sir E. M. Edgar Declares That Great Britain Will Soon Be Supplying the United States. | # t ‘ A dispatch from London to the New York World says: “In ten years’ time America will be forced to buy annually from Great Britain fully 500,000,000 barrels of oil. This prediction was made by Sir E. Mackay Edgar in the Sunday Times. He declared Britain has now cornered the world’s available oil sup ply saying: “Apart from Mexico it is almost a case of Britain first and the rest of the world nowhere ” In recent dispatches Britain’s plans to obtain world dominance in the Middle East, the most important de posits of which are in the Province of Mosul, in Mesopotamia. Sir Mackay Edgar, enumerating British holdings, says: “I should say two-thirds of the im proved fields in Central and South America are in British hands. The Shell group owns exclusive or con trolling interest m every important oil field in the world—in the United States, Russia, Mexico, Dutch East Indies, Roumania, Egypt, Venezuela, Trinidad, India (where, in conjunc tion with the Burmah Oil Company, it dominates the local position), Cey lon, Malay states, North and South China, Siam, Straits Settlements and the Philippines. What it comes to, therefore, is that with exception of Mexico, and to a lesser extent Central America, the outer world is securely barred against an American invasion in force. The British position is im pregnable.” The British Government, he says, acted with shrewd foresight when it acquired a majority interest iR the ordinary shares of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, whose concession for all the oil in Persia has still forty one years to run. Engagement Announced at Kinston. On Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Copeland in Kinston in the midst of a few friends announcement was made of the ap proaching marriage of Miss Hattie Arthur Copeland to Mr. Nathaniel Maurice Hill, Jr., of Smithfield. Miss Copeland is the attractive and accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs.- A. S. Copeland of Kinston and her numerous friends throughout the state will read of her approaching wedding with great interest. Mr. Hill is the son of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Hill of Pittsboro and a nephew of Congressman Pou. He has made Smithfield his home for the past sev eral months, being with the Sanders Motor Co. Biggest Month in Highway Building. March was the biggest month in the history of the North Carolina High way Commission, according to figures given out by Commissioner Page. In the past month surveys were com pleted for 160 miles of new roads, project statements approved by the Federal government totaled 38.53 miles of highway, agreements signed for 67 miles and contracts let for 39 miles of roads. New projects were surveyed in elev en counties. The total appropriation approved by the Federal Government was $1,107,163. Agreements were signed with the Federal Department of Agriculture totaling $1,104,816.94. Contracts let were for 39 miles of road in seven counties, approximating $645,121. Actual construction was be gun on six new projects. A number of roads were given their final in spections, accepted and paid for.—In dustrial and Engineering News. The registration books will soon be open dnd every person who desires to vote in the elections this year is re quired to pay his poll tax on or be fore May 1st. Miss Anna L. Jones, of Danville, Va., prominent in club circles, who was recently arrested in New York City charged with embezzling $7,000, died at her home Monday from nerv ous c. mplaint and pleural pneumonia. Her case was never completed, she be ing under bond. Morganton Elects Teachers. The board of trustees of the Mor ganton graded school has already se lected teachers for another year. They have about twenty teachers, all places having been filled except principal. \ BIG COUNTY COTTON CONVENTION SATURDAY Farmers and Business Men of Johns ton County Expected to be Here Saturday in Goodly Numbers to Hear the Reports of the Delegates From This County to the American Cotton Association’s Meeting At Montgomery. The stockholders of the Cotton Far mers Warehouse Company, and all the members of the Johnston County Branch of the American Association, together with every farmer, merchant and business man who is interested in the production and taking care of the cotton crop are invited to come to Smithfield tomorrow and hear the re ports of the delegates from this coun ty who went to Montgomery, Alaba ma, last week to attend the annual meeting of the American Cotton As sociation. This meeting is to be an important one. There will be models of cotton storage warehouses on hand and ware house specialists will be present to talk over the plans of the proposed warehouse for Smithfield which is soon to be built. Every interested farmer and business man in the coun ty is invited to attend. A Sad Death at Henson. Albert Lee, a sixteen year old son of Mr. Gaston Lee and Mrs. Bessie Lee, bgth of whom are dead, died Tuesday night April 20th. Several days ago he was taken with pneumo nia and was very sick from the be ginning. After what was considered the crisis he seemed to rally a little and hopes were entertained for his re covery but he grew worse and died in spite of all that could be done for his recovery. The burial took place Wed nesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Benson cemetery. The funeral was preached by Rev. A. T. Lassiter. He had lived in Benson all his life and was well known and popular with the people there. He was an industrious boy of good business qualities and showed promise of a useful life. A large number of people attended the burial and his death brought sadness to many. Day of Smaller Newspapers is Here. T lie scarcity of print paper, appar ently, is going to call for a revolution in newspaper practices. The News and Observer appears in twelve pages this morning. If newsprint were plentiful the issue would be one of twenty pages. Having but little space for reading matter it is necessary that everything be, in newspaper parlance, cut to the bone. Articles that ordinarily would be given a fourth of a column must be held to an eighth. Many must be left out altogether. Obviously in putting the new scheme of things into effect, many good friends of the paper—other pa pers, too, for all of us are in the same boat—will be disappointed. Yester day a good woman sent The News and Observer an article which would take a column, describing to the last de tail a reception wfhich had been given and urging that if the spaee could possibly be spared, all of it be print ed. It is positively painful to decline a request framed as politely as this one was, but, in all conscience, whe* paper is eleven cents a pound and when labor and all supplies are con stantly getting higher and scarcer a newspaper which seeks to have a wide appeal in order to have a wide clien tele cannot undertake to describe the material of which reception costumes are made, the shape in which the ices are served and the decorations with \Vhich the various rooms are embel lished. “Cut out some of the adver tising,” will be the rejoinder. Our answer is that this morning columns and columns of advertising are being left out and this will be the case doubtless, for many days to come. But readers will not suffer from a limitation in the reading matter. There has always been more in the average daily paper than could be as similated. This information is submitted, not as an apology, but to explain why it is necessary to shorten nearly every thing that is sent to the paper for publication, to leave out much that is sent and to hold other matter for a day when there is more room.— News and Observer, April 20.
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