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VOLUME 39 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1920. Number 37 DEMOCRATS TO HEAR GARDNER SATURDAY Candidate for Nomination for Gover nor Coming to Smithfield. Will Speak in the Court House Tomor row Afternoon, May 22. Has Many Strong Supporters in This Section Who Want to See Him Our Next Governor. The people of Smithfield and John ston county are to have an opportuni ty to hear another Democratic candi date for the nomination for Govern or speak here tomorrow afternoon. Hon. O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, will be here and speak in the court house at three o’clock. Mr. Morrison and Mr. Page have already been here and been heard. It is no small honor to be a candidate for Governor of the great State of North Carolina on the Democratic ticket. To be the nomi nee is an even greater honor, for to be the Democratic nominee means to be the next Governor of the State. Mr. Gardner has been touring the State this week, making speeches and arousing much enthusiasm wherever he goes. His friends in this section are expecting to shake hands tomor row with our next Governor. Come out and give him a hearing, whether you are for him, Mr. Page, or Mr. Morrison. He has been attacked by Mr. Barrett, the labor leader of Ashe ville who is said to have been a Re publican in other campaigns. From the reports in the daily papers Mr. Gardner is paying his respects to Mr. Barrett in a handsome manner. Remember the day, hour and place: Saturday, May 22, at three o’clock, in the court house at Smithfield. LEVI P. MORTON IS DEAD. Levi P. Morton is dead. He died last Sunday on his ninety sixth birthday. He contracted a cold three days prior to his death at his home in Rhinebeek, N. Y., after spending a part of Sunday afternoon reading congratulatory telegrams on his birth day. He was born on a little farm in New York State. He was the son of Rev. Daniel Oliver Morrison, a Congrega tional minister. He never went to college, but at tended the academy in his home town of Shoreham. He began his business career as a clerk in Boston and soon went to New York and accepted a position in a bank. President Hayes appointed him as honorary commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 1878. In the same year he was elected to Congress and served two terms in the lower House. He was a candidate for a seat in the United States Senate twice but was defeated both times. He served as Vice President of the United States with President Harri son from 1889 to 1893. He became Governor of New York in 1895 and served one term. He was a great financier and died a very wealthy man. He made many lorge gifts to Grace church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, be-* sides numerous other benefactions. BROOKS CHALLENGES OVERMAN A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, candi date for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, has challenged his opponent, Senator Lee S. Overman, to five or more joint dis cussions in the state. 'Mr. Brooks evi dently desires to give the people of North Carolina an opportunity to choose. He asserts “that this is a fighting age in which we are living and nobody but a fighting Democrat is worth a hurrah in the next Senate to contend with Lodge, Johnson, Borah and others.” Polenta’s School Committeemen. Polenta school district, Cleveland township, has a set of committeemen that cannot be beaten in the whole country. They were all born on the same day of the month. They are John O. Ellington, Horace M. Bar bour and Cadmus T. Young. They were all born on May 10. They are all good, live, progressive men and splendid citizens. They take a lively interest in their school and stand by the school and the teachers. And Po lenta always has a good school. MEADOW NEWS. The community meeting was held at Meadow last Friday night. Miss Lawley was present with the motion pictures which were enjoyed greatly. The next meeting will be held on Fri day night, June 4, at which time we will have the best old fashioned fid dler in Johnston county with several other musicians, who will render mu sic for the occasion. We will also have the motion pictures and several other interesting features on pro gram. An effort is being made to make this the best meeting we have ever had and everybody is invited to come out and enjoy the pi'ogram and boost our community. A very enthusiastic meeting of the Sunday school was held at Trinity Baptist church last Sunday morning. Funds were raised and definite plans were made for the construction of class apartments and an effort is be ing made to have an A-l Sunday school. We are very glad to see our people waking up to higher ideals in religious life as well as other things. Mr. J. M. Beaty was in our section last week, being interested in the surveying of the plot for the erection of a parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Wood and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wood attended the commencement at Buies Creek last week. Mr. P. L. Lee from near Four Oaks was in our section last Saturday. Mrs. Mary Ryals and Mrs. Allie Holley of Raleigh are visiting rela tives and friends in this community. A baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lee last Mon day. A fine mule belonging to Mr. Birch ed Langdon died last Sunday night which is, indeed, a heavy loss to Mr. Langdon. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mashburn of Bentonville visited at the home of their fathdt, Mr. T. J. Mashburn last Sunday. We are glad to know that Maida, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Lee is greatly improving after an attack of pneumonia. Messrs. Eric and Eli Lee were vis itors at the home of Mrs. Negilena Morgan in lower Johnston last Sun day afternoon. Mr. Gartha Dudley and sister, Miss Lula, visited in Sampson county last Sunday. If you wish to hear the best fiddler in Johnston county come to Meadow on Friday night June 4. Mrs. Lessie Holloway of Jamesville is visiting her father, Mr. Pias John son. Misses Myrtle Wood and Myrtie Lee returned home last Friday from Buies Creek where they have been in school for the past session. They were both members of the graduating class, Miss Wood having finished a commercial course and Miss Lee the literary course. Owing to the dry weather the far mers of our section are having trou ble about getting their tobacco set out. It is thought that there will be a larger tobacco crop in this section this year than has ever been before. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Denning of lower Johnston visited Mrs. Den ning’s sister, Mrs. Jasper Lee, last Sunday. Benson, R. F. D. 2, May 19. Kenlv Adds Two to Her List. Kenly, May 20.—Kenly defeated Clayton on the home diamond Monday to the tune of 12 to 7. The game was one sided from start to finish. Kenly defeated Smithfield oh Ken ly’s diamond Wednesday to the lone some tune of 13 to 0. The Smithfield boys could not find Pittman, while the Kenly boys batted Poole all over the field. The features of the game were the pitching of Pittman, W. H., Jr., and the batting of the whole Ken ly team. Hits for Kenly 15; Smith field, 3. Batteries: For Smithfield, Poole and Johnson; for Kenly, Pittman and Jones, Doc. Big Fish. Mr. R. C. Crute caught a nice fish on the moming^of the twentieth. His catch was a carp 35 inches long and weighed 241-2 pounds. Mr. Crute’s appearance in town with such a fish created quite a little scene at the court house, where he displayed his catch. He told that it took him twenty minutes to land the fish after he hooked it. THE JOHNSTON COUNTY HOSPITAL ORGANIZED Smithfield Is Soon to Have Place to Treat Disease. Stockholders Name T. S. Ragsdale, F. K. Broadhurst, J. D. Underwood, Dr. Thel Hooks and H. I*. Marrow on Board of Directors. To Name Other Four on Board Later. The subscribers to the capital stock of the Johnston County Hospital, In corporated, met in the office of The Sam T. Honeycutt Company Tuesday night and effected an organization which is to be completed at an ad journed meeting to be held next Tues day night. Mr. Sam T. Honeycutt was named as temporary chairman and Mr. C. S. Broadhurst as temporary secretary. The charter which was secured from the Secretary of State last week was read and accepted. It was decided to have a board of nine directors. Five were elected at the meeting Tuesday night. The other four are to be nam ed by the five already chosen at a later meeting. The five chosen at the meeting are: T. S. Ragsdale, F. K. Broadhurst, J. D. Underwood, Dr. Thel Hooks and H. B. Marrow. F. H. Brooks, Dr. C. V. Tyner and Dr. L. D. Wharton were named as a committee to draw up the by-laws for the hospital and present at an early meeting of the stockholders. The directors and officers who are to be chosen later were authorized to collect forty per cent of the subscrip tions to the capital stock at once. They were also authorized to go ahead and purchase the Myatt House prop erty on the comer of Second and Bridge street. There will be some changes to be made in the building and furnish it as a hospital, but it is hoped to have it open for the reception of patients by the first of August ov sooner. Six Days in Glass Box. Cambridge, England, April 12.— Joseph Barcroft, a reader, of physiol ogy at Kings college here, has lived for six days in a hermetically sealed glass box. The experiment arose out of a 30 year-old controversy as to whether it is possible to calculate the amount of oxygen in the blood from a knowledge of the amount of oxygen in the breath. The test was also made to demon strate whether it was necessary that airmen should have oxygen appara tus when flying at great heights. It proved that oxygen was necessary to flying men but it did not show to what height they could fly with safety. While in the box Barcroft kept a record of his sensations and made scientific observations. He said he suffered from sleeplessness but other wise did not experience much incon venience except on the last day when the atmosphere became extremely rarified. He then had headache and nausea. He was watched continually while in the box. He took food and slept in two small compartments fit ted up with wicker chairs, a table, a small bed and a bicycle on which he exercised every morning.—Associat ed Press. Page Resigns. Fair Price Commissioner Henry A. Page has tendered his resignation to the Department of Justice on account of ill health. In regard to his work R. E. Powell in Wednesday’s News and Observer gives the following com ment: It is well known in North Carolina that the profit margins established by Mr. Page as Fair Price Commissioner and the plans he evolved for the pros ecution of the campaign against the high cost of living were warmly ap plauded by Attorney-General Palmer. The Attorney-General regarded them so highly until, when a committee of merchants called here to ask Mr. Palmer to check the Page activities in the State, the Attorney-General not only declined to hear the suggestion but bluntly informed his delegation that the Page program would be adopted by the Department as a model for the country. Rocky Mount organized a Page Club Tuesday night. The club pro poses an intensive campaign in be half of their candidate during the few remaining weeks. NEW TOBACCO CONCERN GRANTED A CHARTER Smithfield Leaf Tobacco Company Chartered Last Week by the Secre tary of State. The Company Will Buy and Sell Leaf Tobacco. T. S. Ragsdale, T. M. Myatt and 1*. H. Kasey Incorporators. Smithfield is fast forging ahead in new business enterprises, five new concerns, if not more, having been in corporated since January 1, 1920. The first of these was the Smithfield Stemmery Company which was grant ed a charter early in the year to ope rate a tobacco stemmery and redry ing plant. Next charter granted was the Johnston County Publishing Com pany for the purpose of publishing The Smithfield Observer and do a gen eral printing business. Last week two charters were granted to Smithfield concerns, one to the Johnston County Hospital, Incorporated, and the other to the Smithfield Leaf Tobacco Com pany. An important concern also incorporated since January 1, is the Farmers Cotton Warehouse with an authorized capital of $150,000. The charter granted to the Smith field Leaf Tobacco Company autho rizes a capital stock of $50,000 with $10,000 paid in by T. S. Ragsdale, T. M. Myatt and P. H. Kasey. This com pany will buy and sell leaf tobacco and do a general leaf business. The new company will have no connection with the T. S. Ragsdale Company which operates a stemmery and re drying plant. This plant is being doubled in its capacity and greatly in creases the facilties of the Smithfield market. FOUR OAKS NOTES. Four Oaks, May 20.—Col. J. L. York is in Greensboro and vicinity this week on business’ for the Caro lina Handle Co. Miss Esther Creech and Messrs Cleon Sanders, Carl Lewis, and Vern on Moore are at home from Buies Creek School. Mrs. J. H. Stanley, entertained Monday evening 8 to 11 o’clock in honor of Miss Annie Lee Webb of Benson Graded Schools. Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Benson lost their baby boy Monday after a short illness of meningitis. The sym pathy of the community goes out to them in the loss of their little one, he was buried in Four Oaks cemetery Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Willis Smith, scci'etary of Trin ity College Alumni, was here Thurs day in the interest of the Gymnasium to be built at Trinity by members of Alumni. Mr. C. H. Wellons has returned from Conway, S. C., where he visited his brother, Mr. R. S. Wellons whose wife is not expected to live. Miss Josephine Bandy came home from Louisburg College Tuesday. Messrs. Thos. Canady, Jesse Stan ley, and Reid Adams, went to Cleve land, Ohio, this week to bring back new cars, the freight situation is such that driving through is the only way to get any. Rev. A. T. Lassiter, of Benson, preached here in the school building Sunday evening, and will be here each third Sunday night in future. Mayor Joe I. Lee, and the new board of Aldermen, B. I. Tart, Wm. Keen, and Henry Massengill, have taken the oath of office and have al ready made their presence felt by closing everything tight last Sunday except the sale of drugs. Not even gasoline can be bought here on Sun day. “Tourists take notice.” Go to it, we are for you if you don’t weak en, but if you do then we’ll be sorry we missed our drinks any Sunday. Mr. W. E. Barbour was in Wilson Tuesday oa business. Messrs. B. B. Adams, Albert Keen, I. M. Massengill, Rev. E. B. Craven and D. J. Wellons went to Franklin ton Thursday to attend the District Conference of the M. E. church. Rev. Chas. E. Stevens has returned from Washington, D. C., where he at tended the conclusion of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mrs. Stevens has returned from Smithfield and Newton Grove. We are expecting large crowds at our Chautauqua under the big tent which opens Friday and runs through Monday. This is the Radcliff Chau tauqua and will afford the best in amusement and topics of interest. GENERAL AND STATE NEWS. Seven stills in Wilson, Johnston, Wayne counties were captured the past week by revenue officers. The ax-rest of ten men was made. The Dowager Queen Alexandra, of England has been suffering from a bronchial cold which has caused great anxiety. She is 75 years old. The flag over the State eapitol in Raleigh Monday was at half mast in memory of former Governor Glenn, who died in Winnepeg, Canada, Sun day. Fifty acres of land a mile and a half from Wilson, was sold last Sat urday for $50,000. The land only a few years ago was bought for $50 per ijcx-e. Beulahville, a small town in Duplin county, was visited by a destructive fii'e Monday. The hotel, postoffice, drug store and other buildings were burned entailing a loss of at least $100,000. The cost of food in England up to May 1 had risen to 146 per cent, above pre-war level. It is stated, however, by the English minister of food that the price of food in England is lower than in France, Italy and Sweden. The report of the capture of 24 trains and other government muni tions and the flight of President Car ranza by automobile with a great quantity of coins has been confirmed at El Paso. The privilege of wearing army uni forms and use of military titles ac corded during the war to officials of charitable and social organizations has been withdrawn by the War De pai'tment. A dispatch from Rome states that at no time within the last foi'ty years have thei-e been so few Americans in that city as at present. There is a demand in Italy for immediate re sumption of foreign tourist traffic. In a landing field near Friendship Monday an airplane from Langley Field, Va., was almost completely wrecked. The mechanic in the plane with the pilot received slight cuts. A defective axle gave way when the machine struck the ground. The commencement address at Trinity College, Durham, this year will be delivered by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, on June 9. His speech will be a discussion .of live nat ional problems. Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, of Malden, Mass., will preach the commeneeinent^ sermon. Arrangements have been completed for the transportation of 2,000 per sons weekly from Poland to the Unit ed States. The Polish authorities es timate that a quarter of a million per sons have already applied for pass ports about 95 per cent of these being women and children, dependents of persons now in America. Miss Margaret Moore’s Recital. Miss Margaret Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moore, is a mem ber of the graduating class at Peace Institute, Raleigh, next week. She will receive a diploma in the regular college course and a special diploma in piano. Her piano recital was given last Saturday night. Monday’s News and Observer gives the following ac count of this recital: A recital was given Saturday even ing at Peace Institute by Miss Bennie Lee Upchurch, senior in voice, and Miss Margaret Moore, senior in pia no. They gave an interesting and well balanced program before a large audience. Miss Upchurch has a rich well plac ed soprano voice, singularly even throughout and she used it with skill and intelligence. She was perhaps at her best in “My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair’’ of Haydn, Clark’s “Fanchi onette,” and Treharne’s “Spring Song.’’ Miss Moore has ample tech nique and her playing is individual, interesting and pleasing. The poetic slow movements of the sonata in par ticular made a deep impression and her fleet fingers and delicate touch added much to the pleasure of the evening. The commencement exercises will be completed next Tuesday night. The sweet potato is on a “personal ly conducted tour” of the state in a special car—the conductors say the sweet potato is going to help lick the boll weevil. North Carolina produced 14 per cent of the peanut crop of the United States in 1919. - DANIELS’ TRIBUTE TO THE NAVAL DEAD Impressive Ceremonies Over Bodies Of 151 Men of Navy and Marines. Twenty-six to Be Buried at Arling ton. New York, May 19.—Secretary Daniels today paid tribute to the first American Sailor and Marine dead of the World War to be brought home from overseas. At impressive ceremonies in the New York navy yard over 151 flag draped caskets which were landed by the transport Nereus last Monday, he called upon the Nation to “ever bear in mind that they made the su pi'eme contribution on the altar of their country, reverently, solemnly and as courageous men always go in to battle.” “As we gather here today to give welcome to the dear bodies of the first of the sailor and marine dead to be brought home for interment,” he said, “we do not think of these lads as gone before their time nor do we find it in our hearts to bow down in mourning. Rather as mother earth gives hospitable sepulcher to their , forms, sacred to us, we thank God that in the hour when the woild was tottering these strong and valiant .youths kept it from an abyss of ab solutism and despotism. “Better than we, these lads knew what they were fighting for, and the highest honor we can show them i3 to keep alive in our hearts the glory' of the cause which srfhctified their sacrifice. Here and now let us con secrate our lives to complete the work for which they gave themselves, and be as willing as they were to sur render all for world justice and world peace. • “Some of these lads went to glory from the heights in the aviation sec tion. Some were stricken by disease. All died honorably in the service of their country. “ft was not given these generous and high-spirited youths to know the disillusions that come to men in ma ture years or the weakness of the sere and yellow leaf. They were call ed and gave the cheerful 'em aye, aye, sir’-—by the captain of the heav enly Hosts, and they live with the Immortals.” Of the bodies, twenty-six will be buried in the National cemetery at Ai lington on Saturday. The others 'were claimed by relatives. Among them was the body of one civilian, Llewellyn Snowden, of the American Legation at Rome.—News and Ob server. Construction Company Passes Here. Mr. J. M. Thomas, of Hamlet, N. C., who has charge of the local construc tion company of the Carolina Light & Power Company, with a force of sixteen, passed through Smilhfield Tuesday on their way to Marion S. C. They were traveling on a big track and carried their own ladders and other equipment. For the past twelve months they have been at work for the Company at Goldsboro having re built the plant there. The Company has taken over the electric plant at Marion, S. C., and Mr. Thomas and his crew are on their way there to re build the plant which it is estimated will take two years. They are ex pecting to make the trip to Marion, via. Raleigh and Hamlet in two days. They are stopping along the way tak ing views of the towns through which they pass and other scenes of interest. They took a few kodak pictures in Smithfield. Cary Votes School Bonds. / At a special election held Tuesday, Cary voted a $20,000 bond issue for the purpose of erecting an additional school building. The total registra tion was 167. Ninety-three vot »d for the issue and 52 against. Typhoid Fever Campaign. Fifty thousand North Carolinians vaccinated against typhoid fever is the goal of the State" Board of Health for this summer. Preparations are being made for another intensive drive, quite a number of counties hav ing already accepted the proposal of the State Board of Health to put on the campaign at a cost to the county I of 25 cents per person.
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