VOLUME 39
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1920.
Number 39
CONTRACT LET FOR
COTTON WAREHOUSE
J. E. Beaman of Raleigh to Build
Storage Warehouse in Smithfield to
Be Ready by November 1—At a
Price of $78,000—To Be A Five
Thousand Bale Capacity.
The building committee according
to Mr. A. M. Johnson, of the Farmers
Cotton Warehouse, Inc., Smithfield,
let the contract for a 5000-bale brick
cotton warehouse to Mr. J. E. Bea
man, of Raleigh, N. C., who built the
new bank at Clayton. He is to com
plete the building by November 1st,
1920, for $78,000.00. Two compart
ments will be ready by October 1st;
five compartments in all.
The warehouse will be built on the
Flour Mill site with the ends of the
houses facing the main line of the A.
C. L. Railroad. The our mill building
will not be moved but will be used for
general storage for a time. It is pos
sible that the corporation will put up
a compress gin just north of it, and
use the mill house for a seed house,
in the near future.
The official cotton grader and clas
sifier has been engaged and will be in
Smithfield October 1st, to grade the
cotton as it comes from the gins.
Mr. Johnson, secretary-manager of
the corporation, says that the board
of directors favor limiting storage
room and marketing the cotton direct
to spinners to stockholders only in
view of the demand for storage room
already. That is they will fix it so
that only those who help put up the
warehouse will get any of the bene
fits from its organization. Mr. B. W.
Kilgore, director of Extension in Ag
riculture for North Carolina, says that
it will mean at least $20.00 a bale
more for the stockholder than the out
sider. Anyway you can bet on it that
we are going to have a cotton ware
house in Smithfield now. Hurrah!
for Johnston County.
Rose Hill Sugar Seizure.
Department of Justice Agents took
charge of 600 barrels of granulated
sugar in Rose Hill Wednesday, which
was the largest seizure of sugar in
the South since the Lever Act became
operative. The sugar was consigned
to J. G. Townsend & Co., of Dela
ware. It was stored in warehouses,
Oscar Fussel holding the keys. Fussel
claimed to know nothing of the sugar
except that it was sent to Rose Hill
to be used in canning strawberries,
and that it was not used because the
strawberry crop was a failure.
The writ of seizure authorized the
confiscation and holding of the sugar
until further orders from Federal
court of the eastern district. It fur
ther provides that the parties concern
ed appear in Federal court at Raleigh
on June 19 to answer to the libel of
information.
Half Million for Wood.
Before the Senate investigation of
pre-convention political financing,
Col. Wm. Cooper Proctor, Cincinnati
soap manufacturer, testified that he
(had advanced $500,000 to Wood’s nat
ional organization. The witness stat
ed that his contribution had been “as
idealistic as giving to the Red Cross
before the war,” and added that he
“intended to advance as much more
as he felt would be proper.” He fur
ther explained that the money had
been largely spent oil publicity and
educational campaigns, and that 47
states had been entered spending
probably an average of $8,000 for
each state.
Newspapers Going Up.
The greatly advanced cost of labor,
printing supplies and newsprint pa
per is advancing the subscription
price of newspapers all over the coun
try. Recently The Statesville Land
mark has advanced its subscription
price from $2.00 to $3.00 per year.
The Landmark is published semi
weekly.
The Robesonian of Lumberton has
announced that it will be $3.00 after
June 1.
Norfolk’s Population.
The population of Norfolk, Va., has
been announced to be 115,777, an in
crease of 71.6 per cent. Norfolk is
the 11th city thus far in the 1920
census which has risen into the 100,
00Q class.
CAM MORRISON IN
SALISBURY AND SPENCER
Demand for Morrison Buttons Fol
lowing His Speeches In Rowan
Towns Tuesday.
A Salisbury special to the State
dailies gives a short account of Can
didate Morrison’s appearance at
Rowan’s capital Tuesday, as follows:
“Two fair-sized audiences compos
ed largely of laboring men heard
Cameron Morrison speak in Salisbury
this afternoon and tonight despite
the street attractions here in connec
tion with the annual convention of
the Elks. At the conclusion of each
speech fully two-thirds of those pres
ent came forward and requested Mor
rison buttons.
“The candidate spoke in Salisbury
at 6:30 o’clock this evening and at
Spencer at 8 o’clock tonight. J. Frank
Flowers, Charlotte attorney and
prominent in labor circles, spoke al
so at the Spencer meeting in behalf
of Mr. Morrison’s candidacy, paying
him a high tribute and declaring him
to be a man who would deal justly
and honestly with all classes of men.
“Mr. Morrison made a clear-cut,
practical speech on the subject of in
terest to labor men. He warned
against class government and ex
pressed the conviction that the labor
ing men do not desire to dominate the
country and do not wish to see any
other class dominate it. All they de
sire, he declared, is a square deal and
their just rights, he announced him
self to be in sympathy with all just
ambitions of’the laboring men.”
MANY VISIT POTATO TRAIN
Much Interest Shown by Those Who
Saw the Exhibit and Several Order
ed Plans for Potato House.
The division of Horticulture of the
North Carolina Department of Agri
culture co-operating with the Atlantic
Coast Line had a very interesting ex
hibit here at the depot Wednesday,
showing a model sweet potato storage
house, plans and estimates for the
building which interested quite a few
farmers. Between 75 and a hundred
people visited the train and about a
dozen gave orders for plans for the
potato stoi-age house. Baskets, ham
pers, barrels and shipping crates for
sweet potatoes were also shown.
Plates were shown concerning dry rot
and other potato diseases. The mat
ter of grading the otatoes was ex
plained by the experts accompanying
the train.
Those in charge of the train were:
Dr. R. A. Jehle, Extension Patholo
gist; Prof. Paul T. Schooley, Exten
sion Horticulturist, and Mr. A. C.
Cardwell, of the Agricultural service
conducted by the Atlantic Coast Line.
The National Department of Agricul
ture is co-operating with the North
Carolina Department in this work of
extension service.
Bank Building at Clayton.
The formal opening of the Clayton
Banking Company’s new building at
9:30 Monday morning elicited much
interest. The opening was made even
more sacred than the usual launching
of a ship. A scripture lesson, Luke
19:12-27, was read by Rev. 0. 1. Hin
son,pastor of Horne Memorial church
and prayer was offered by Rev. A. O.
Moore, pastor of the }ocal Baptist
church. Then Mr. John T. Talton,
cashier of the bank, welcomed the vis
itors and a number of congratulatory
speeches followed by visitors present.
This marks a new epoch in the
bank’s history. It was established in
1899 with a capital stock of $10,000;
it now has a caiptal stock of $100,000
and assets aggregating $840,000. It
started as a toddlihg baby—now it is
a full grown man with its high mission
before it.
The new building is perfect in all
its arrangements. It has not been
cheapened in its construction to save
expenses. Its finish is the most mod
ern, and can not be excelled in beauty
and perfection of plans.
Dr. A. C. Dixon in Revival.
Dr. A. C. Dixon, of Los Angeles,
Cal., who delivered the baccalaureate
sermon at Greensboro College for
Women Sunday, is holding a revival
this week at the First Baptist church
of Greensboro. This great preacher
has held pulpits in Brooklyn, Chica
go and London.
WHEAT CROP BETTER
THAN FIRST THOUGHT
U. S. Report on Grain Conditions in
Western States Found to Fall Short
Of Actual Yield Expectation—Huge
Crop of 1919 May Be Rivaled.
Wheat crop prospects in the South
west indicate a harvest considerably
greater than the recent estimates of
the United States Department of Ag
riculture.
In contrast with the very discour
aging reports as to the condition of
the growing crop in March and April,
a majority of advices from the large
producing sections of Kansas, Mis
souri, Oklahoma, Texas and sur
rounding states describe the plant
growth as good to excellent.
In only a few spots in scattered lo
calities is the crop outlook discourag
ing, that being in sections where
heavy damage from winds was suf
fered.
The May government estimate on
the probable Kansas production of
wheat was 92,000,000 bushels, but
close observers of ciop conditions now
estimate 120,000,000 to 130,000,000
bushels.
WTith favorable growing weather
the remainder of the season, a crop
of 130,000,000 bushels would not be
surprising. That is only about 20,
000,000 bushels less than the total
harvested a year ago, which was the
largest crops on record for the state.
For Oklahoma the estimates range
from 30,000,000 to 35,000,000 bushels;
Missouri, 25,000,000 bushels; Nebras
ka, 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels,
and about 15,000,000 bushels for
Texas. A yield of 250,000,000 bush
els is now considered conservative for
those five important producing states.
Their yield a year ago was 346,000,
000 bushels, and two years ago, 228,
000,000 bushels.
Preparations for harvesting the
wheat crop already have begun, but
no important work in the fields is ex
pected until the middle of June.
There is scarcity of labor in farm
ing districts of the Southwest, and
difficulty will probably be experienc
ed in obtaining sufficient hands for
gathering the wheat crop.
Federal and state labor bureaus al
ready are actively engaged in supply
ing harvest hands. Seventy cents an
hour has been fixed, temporarily, as
the standard price for labor.—Kansas
City dispatch in Philadelphia Ledger.
Tobacco Acreage Cut in S. Carolina
Mr. B. C. Boney of Wallace, N. C.,
took a trip a few days ago on an au
tomobile into South Carolina. He
says he saw very few new barns af
ter passing through Fayetteville. In
Robeson county this State and in Dil
lon and Marion and Harry counties
South Carolina the acreage is cut
about fifty per cent, ^partly on ac
count of the scarcity of plants, but
mainly on account of the low prices
paid in thtft section for tobacco last
fall. The crop south of here is sold
earlier than our people sell. Last fall
the tobacco there was marketed before
the tobacco companies found out the
crop was so short and they took the
tobacco at very low prices. Mr. Boney
reports a case where a boy bought
three hogsheads of tobacco early in
the season last year in Conway, S.
C. He shipped this tobacco to Wal
lace, N. C., and sold it late in the
season and made a fine profit. He
bought the tobacco at 6 cents per
pound or $180 for the three hogs
heads. He sold it for $1,710 and made
clear of expenses $1,100.
Community Meeting at Meadow.
On Friday night, June 4, the com
munity meeting will be held at Mead
ow, at which time Miss Lawley will
be present with the motion pictures,
and also, a number of fiddlers, form
ing a kind of fiddlers’ convention, will
furnish some good music. All fiddl
ers are invited to come and take part
on the program—their presence is es
pecially desired. This will be one of
the best meetings we have ever had
and the public is invited to attend.
Governor Glenn’s Estate.
The last will and testament of the
former Governor Glenn has been filed
for probate in Winston-Salem. The
estate is valued at $150,000. Mr.
Glenn’s widow is the principal bene
ficiary.
PRESBYTERIAN WORK
AT CHARLOTTE
Sixtieth General Assembly of Presby
terian Church of United States Met
In Charlotte Last Week.—A Review
Of Some of the Work of the Church
The 60th General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States convened in Charlotte Thurs
day. On the fourth ballot Rev. Wal
ter L. Lingle, D. D., was elected mod
erator.
The following extracts of the meet
ing of the General Assembly are from
Miss Mamie Bays’ report in the Char
■ lotte Observer:
“The regular receipts of the execu
tive committee of foreign missions
submitted to the General Assembly
the past year amounted to $1,115,345,
as shown in the report. The cost of
the work of this committee for the
year amounted to $1,095,241, making
the receipts $20,104 more than the
cost of the work of this committee.
The report calls attention to the fact
that this is the first time since 1913
that the receipts to this committee
have exceeded the cost of its work.
“The total number of additions to
the Church reported from the mis
sion fields of the Church is 4,617 for
the year, the number being 874 less
than that reported one year ago, this
loss being due to heavy loss in the
Congo mission in Africa.
“The foreign mission fields of the
Southern Presbyterian Church are
found in Africa, Brazil, China, Cuba,
Japan, Korea and Mexico. The re
port submitted to this General As
sembly shows the total population of
these mission fields to be 33,471,127.
The number of foreign missionaries
engaged in work in these fields is 384
and the number of children of these
missionaries is 311. The number of
native workers assisting the mission
aries is 2,802. On these mission fields
there are 1,320 out-stations or places
of regular meeting; the number of
organized congregations is 241 and
the number of communicants is 43,
797, with a Christian constituency of
80,000. The Sabbath schools number
1,014, with a membership of 60,085.
There are 739 day schools of the
church in these mission fields, with
an enrollment of 26,117 students.
“During the past year $290,717 was
received by the committee from na
tives on the foreign fields to be used
in extending the work of foreign mis
sions.
“The report showed the work of
the Church in all of the mission fields
to be progressing in a way that is
encouraging.
“The annual report of the execu
tive committee of Christian educa
tion and ministerial relief, Rev. Hen
ry H. Sweets, D. D., of Louisville,
Ky., secretary, which was submitted
to the sixtieth General Assembly of
the Southern Presbyterian Church
shows that the receipts of this com
mittee for the past year total $283,
371, an increase of $68,567 over those
of the year previous.
“This report showed that since the
meeting of the General Assembly of
1919 a life work secretary has been
secured, in the person of Rev. Ed
ward E. Lane, who is giving his time
to visiting churches, schools, colleges,
universities and normal schools and
presenting the claims of the ministry
for the purpose of conferring with
students about their life work and
presenting the claims of the ministry.
“During the past year from the loan
fund for the ministry and mission
service, this committee remitted loans
to the amount of $18,638 to 149 can
didates for the ministry, 21 young
women preparing for various forms of
mission service and four volunteers
for medical mission service, these
loans to be repaid in money or in
service when the education of the
candidates has been completed. From
the student loan fund this committee
has aided 149 boys and 116 girls dur
ing the year to enable them to pursue
their college course in Presbyterian
schools. These loans will be repaid
and used to aid other students. The
student loan fund now amounts to
$112,456 and special effort is being
made to increase it to $250,000 with
in the next year.”
Funds contributed for home mis
sion work last year were the largest
in the history of the^ Southern Pres
byterian Church according to the an
nual report of the executive commit
tee of home missions submitted to the
General Assembly. Contributions to
ROBERT N. PAGE IS
HEARD AT GOLDSBORO
Receives a Warm Welcome on His
Tour of the East Says the News
paper Reports.
Goldsboro, May 25.—Here in the
eastern stronghold of one of his two
opponents Robert N. Page was tonight
given the warmest welcome accorded
him since he began his tour of the
eastern counties in the interest of his
candidacy for the democratic nomi
nation for governor. Mr. Page arriv
ed late this afternoon from Wilson
where earlier in the day he had been
heard by nearly five hundred Wilson
county voters. Still earlier he had
met with a large number of Nash and
Edgecombe voters in Rocky Mount
who had come in anticipation of a
speech he was to have delivered there
at 10 o’clock. Circumstances pre
vented the address, (however. Mr.
Page was introduced here by George
Kornegay who for many years was
chairman of the democratic executive
committee. He was entertained by
M. T. Dickinson and Kenneth Royal,
members of the local bar, who prom
ised him that he would poll a large
part of the voting strength of Wayne.
Mr. Page will speak in Kinston to
morrow afternoon and New Bern to
morrow night.—Wilmington Star.
DEATH AGED LADY IN BEULAH.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stancil Leaves a Will
And Fails to Remember Her Aged
Husband in It.
Mr. L. B. Boyette, of Beulah town
ship, was in town yesterday and told
us of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth
Stancil, wife of Mr. Janies H. Stancil.
Mrs. Stancil passed away Sunday
night at her home in Beulah and was
buried at the home burying ground.
She was 79 years old. Her husband
is 83 and practically blind and almost
deaf. On Monday prior to her death
Mrs. Stancil made her will and left
nothing to her husband. Rev. Debro
Stancil is the chief beneficiary get
ting a large part of the 262 acres of
land owned by Mrs. Stancil. The aged
couple never had any children, and
the strange part of the case is that
she did not leave her aged husband a
thing, not a thing to support the old
man with whom she had lived and
labored with all these years. There
is quite a lot of sympathy among the
people of the section for the old man
who is almost blind and deaf and
practically helpless.
A Good Man Gone to Rest.
Mr. Frank P. Wood who lived about
six miles south of Four Oaks in Ing
rams township departed this life at
10:30 o’clock Saturday night > May
15th. He had been very feeble for
the past year or two but pneumonia
was the final stroke of disease which
took him away. On Wednesday be
fore his death he visited his brother,
Mr. Alex Wood who is in poor health
also. The trip was very trying on
him. Life went away quickly after
pneumonia seized him. The burial
took place in the family graveyard
near his home Sunday afternoon. His
pastor, Rev. C. E. Stevens was away
from home and so the funeral was
preached by Mr. Craven, pastor of
Four Oaks Methodist church. Mr. B.
B. Adams spoke also at the grave.
In his death we have lost one of
Johnston county’s best men. He was
a good citizen and a good farmer. He
had been a member of Blackman’s
Grove Baptist church since its organ
ization. He did more than any other
one man in the establishment of this
church. His help and influence will
be missed in many places. He leaves
his wife and many relatives and
friends who will mourn his departure.
Thomas Alexander, of Charlotte,
has been made campaign manager in
North Carolina for Governor Edwards
for the Presidential nomination.
taled $407,651, an increase of $104,
651 over the year before.
In the last year the 764 home mis
sionaries preached 422,700 sermons,
made 25,000 pastoral visits and re
ceived 5,767 converts. The report on
evangelism showed that 161 evangel
istic meetings were held, 1,188 ser
mons preached and 2,920 additions to
the Church were received as a result
of these meetings and 650 additions
by certificate.
JUDGE BIGGS CLAIMS
GARDNER WILL WIN
Campaign Manager for the Shelby
Man Issues Very Optimistic State
ment Claiming His Man Will Win
In the First Primary.
Judge J. Crawford Biggs, manager
for Max Gardner’s gubernatorial cam
paign, issued an optimistic statement
at Raleigh Tuesday, claiming that
Mr. Gardner will win in the first pri
mary. His statement follows:
“The question now being discussed
is whether Mr. Gardner’s lead in the
first primary will be so great as to
insui'e his nomination without a sec
ond primary. While some are pre
dicting a second primary, the Gard
ner forces are confident the lieutenant
governor will be nominated in the
first primary.
“In approximately seventy-five of
the one hundred counties, the fight is
either between Gardner and Page, or
between Gardner and Morrison. In
the majority of the remaining twen
ty-five per cent it is a three-cornered
contest.
“In other words from Buncombe to
Beaufort and throughout the entire
state, Gardner must be reckoned with
either as the leader or a strong fac
tor, whereas in many counties the
Morrison and Page following it, negli
gible.
“The question now being most of
ten asked is as to whether Page or
Morrison will run second in the first
primary. Mr. Gardner begins the
drive down the home stretch in fine
condition and confident of victory.”
Johnston Men Tried for Distilling.
H. M. Brooks and Wilmer Branch,
two white men from Richmond, were
tried yesterday in the United States
District Court on the charge of violat
ing the Harrison narcotic act. The
two men, who are said to be confirm
ed drug addicts, were accused of
breaking into a drug store at Benso*
and stealing a quantity of drugs. The
defendants were taxed with the costs
and the case was held open to further
judgment.
All of the other cases tried yester
day were for violation of the prohibi
tion laws, nearly all of the defendants
being from Johnston county. Noah
Raynor, a white man, was fined $25
and costs and judgment against A. E.
Flowers, another white man, was de
ferred. Cleveland Morrison, Lucius
Cooper, David Woodall and Willie
Woodall, all of Johnston county, were
found not guilty Austin Parrish, of
Johnston county, Jim Morgan, of
Wake county, and Anderson Thorpe,
of Granville county, were discharged
upon the payment of costs.—News and
Observer.
Confederate Veterans in Fayetteville
The annual reunion of the North
Carolina United Confederate Vete
rans will be held in Fayetteville June
1, 2 and 3. Only camps that have
paid their dues to General A. B.
Booth, in New Orleans, will be allow
ed representation. The veterans are
requested to attend in uniform. The
railroads are allowing the veterans a
special of two cents per mile and all
who intend to be present at the reun
ion are asked to notify headquarters
at once. It is necessary for those in
charge of arrangements for the en
tertainment of the veterans to know
the number of veterans, auxiliary or
ganizations and families that will be
represented.
Fined Fifty Dollars Each.
The case of Tom Parnell and El
mond Wood, who were charged with
taking some soda which did not be
long to them, was heard in the Re
corder’s court Tuesday. The warrants
was changed to Forcible Trespass.
They submitted and were fined fifty
dollars and costs each.
De La Huerta Mexican Head.
Mexico City, May 24.—Adolfo De
La Huerta, governor of Sonora, was
named president ad interim of Mexi
co by an extraordinary session of
congress this evening. He received
224 votes against 28 for Pablo Gon
zalez.
The extraordinary session had been
fixed for 3 p. m. today, but did not
get to work until 6 o’clock because of
lack of a quorum.