NEWSY PARAGRAPHS
FROM FOUR OAKS
Marriage of Mr. Ralph Canaday
and Miss Onie Lewis Early
Wednesday Morning.— Go to
Asheville on Bridal Tour. Four
Oaks Wins From Smifhfield.
Four Oaks, July 28.—Mr., and Mrs.
W. J. Stanley, accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. R. B. Strickland, motored to
Bennettsville, S. C., last week to visit
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lee.
Mrs. Mary Burgess, of Bailey, has
accepted a positibn in the Bank of
Four Oaks. Mrs. Burgess was with
the bank in 1918 while living here.
We welcome her to Four Oaks.
Mrs. Duncan, Mr. Eugene Canaday
and Mayor C. C. Canaday and wife of
Smithfield attended the Lewis-Canady
wedding here Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Adams will
leave today for Morehead City where
Mr. Adams will spend some time with
his son-in-law, Dr. Ben F. Ro.vall.
Miss Snll-'e Adams, with quite a
number of Four Oaks young people,
gave a kitchen shower as a surprise
to Miss Onie Lewis, on Monday night
which resulted in a number of kitchen
articles for the bride and a pleasant
time for the participants.
The Methodist Sunday school held
their annual picnic in Pullen Park,
Raleigh, on Wednesday.
Miss Nell Moye, of Farmville, and
Mrs. Ella Brewer and Ethel Debnam,
of Raleigh, are the guests of Miss
Sallie Adams this week.
Mrs. Chas. Wellons and little
daughters are spending the week-end
with Mrs. T. H. Sutton in Fayette
ville.
Mrs. W. T. Gardner and little
daughters, Nell and Mildred, of Pine
tops, were guests of Mrs. W. E. Stan
ley last week end.
Mr. J. T. Allen is visiting his fath
er at Falcon.
Misses Mildred Alien and Lola Mae
Baker visited in the Allen section
Sunday.
Mr. Russell Gardner of Pinetops
spent the week end here with Mr.
Ray Allen.
Rev. H. H. GofF and daughter, Eliss,
were visitors here for a few hours
Tuesday.
Four Oaks ball team defeated
Smithfield here last Friday to the
tune of 5 to 2. A homer "by Cole foT
Four Oaks and pitching of Sanders
for Four Oaks and Byrd for Smith
field were features of the game.
Mr. Ralph C. Canady and Miss Onie
Lew’s were married at the home of
the bride’s father, Mr. W. J. Lewis,
Wednesday morning at 6 o’clock.
July 28. The bride was given away
by her father. The maid of honor
was Miss Julia Thornton of Golds
boro and the best man was Mayor C.
C. Canady of Benson a brother of the
groom. The marriage vows were giv
en by Rev. F. F. Grim of A. C. Col
lege, Wilson. Under the beautiful
elms on street in front of the Lewis
home, an arch had been very artisti
cally arranged for the occasion. The
beautiful ring ceremony was used.
Miss Nell Moye of Farmville sang
“I Love You Truly,” and Miss Sallie
Adams played the Mendlesohn wed
ding march. The flower girls were
little Misses Nancy Austin and Edna
Thornton, while master Shelton Lewis
acted as ring bearer. The happy
couple left on the shoo-fly for Ashe
ville in which vicinity they will spend
several days. Our best wishes go
with them. Among those from out of
town who attended the wedding we
note the following: Misses Minnie
Summerlin and Irene Thornton of
Gcdsboro, Miss Catharine Thornton
of Newton Grove, Misses Myrtle and
Bessie Warren, and Miss Ethel Bailey
of Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Thorn
ton of Goldsboro.
Flour Prices Drop; Market Slumps
Minneapolis, Minn., July 28.—Re
flecting the slump in wheat prices,
flour dropped today et all large mills
here, one of the largest mills report
ing a reduction of seventy cents a
barrel, and another a 7a-cent drop.
Today’s quotations were $13.50 to
$13.55 a barrel in carload lots, in 98
pound cotton sacks, for family pat
ents.
Bran also dropped to $45 a ton
from yesterday’s quotation of $49.
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS
North Carolina Matters of In
terest Clipped and Culled
from the Daily Papers.
The Census Bureau has announced
the census of Granville county, North
Carolina, as 26JS46. The figures show
that the county’s population increas
ed 6.7 per cent during the past decade,
the growth in number of persons be
ing 1,744.
John Henry Bethea, a negro charg
ed with killing Deputy J. A. Kitchene
of Robeson county, on the night of
July 2, gave himself up to an officer
in South Carolina Saturday and is
now in jail at Lumberton. Bethea
was a native of Dillon county, S. C.,
and was taken to jail at Columbia af
ter he surrendered to the officer Mon
day.
The Rosier Manufacturing compa
ny of Salisbury started up its cot
ton mill Tuesday morning after an
enforced shutdown of seven weeks
following a disagreement between em
ployes and employers. The day pass
ed quietly on the hill and no trouble
is expected. Some of the old em
ployes returned to work, others are
out yet.
The street bridge over the Roanoke
river at Roanoke Rapids has been
purchased jointly by Northampton
anti Halifax counties and the town of
Roanoke Rapids and hereafter will
be operated without cost to the trav
eling public. It was first reported
that the commissioners of Halifax
county had purchased the bridge,
which was a mistake.
Less than a quarter of a mile out
side the corporate limits of Chapel
Hill, and about the same distance
from Franklin street, where a number
of well known citizens, including sev
eral university professors live, Chief
of Police S. F. Long and Deputy Sher
iff Frank Ivey of Orange county have
captured a 45-gallon still which Chief
Long says shows evidence of having
been recently in operation.
Tom Johnson, the negro convicted
at the last term of Guilford Superior
court of having committed a criminal
assault upon a white woman at her
home south of Greensboro in May,
and sentenced by Judge P. A. Mc
Elroy to die in the electric chair on
August 20, was taken to the state
penitentiary at R;ileigh Tuesday
morning by Sheriff D. B. Stafford.
The Jones county tobacco crop was
damaged considerably by the recent
rains, excessive over parts of the
county. In many fields the apparent
ly drowned weed is recuperating,
however, and in a few days will be
ready for curing. The county despite
the numerous drawbacks of the sea
son will make one of the finest tobae
co crops in its history. It is estimat
ed that Jones planters will get sev
eral million dollars for their product.
The figures compiled at the office
of the County Superintendent of
Schools of Durham county show that
101 of the 122 teachers to which the
county schools are entitled the com
ing year have been elected. This
is 40 percent more than had been
elected at the corresponding time last
year. Twenty-six of the 42 colored
teachers in the county have also been
elected. It is also announced that a
large majority of last year’s teachers
are returning for the coming year.
Gov. T. W. Bickett has revoked the
pardons of four men who were let out
of prison and given their freedom on
the condition of future good behavior.
The governor did not m ke public the
names of the four men, but he has
sent ordters to the sheriffs of the dif
ferent counties in which they were
convicted, that their re-arrest is now
in order. The men have not been
following the line of strict rectitude
since they got out of prison, but have
been celebrating their freedom by acts
which do not conform to law.
’ Former Adjutant-General Beverly
S. Royster, of Oxford; Col. A. H.
INoyden. of Salisbury; and Judge W.
H. Whedbee, of Greenville, have been
named by Governor T. W. Bickett as
members of "the commission appointed
by him to investigate the conduct of
th» rr>',fhj"o company
"a • 'i Monday n'cht of last week
wh'D they-were guarding the jail to
or'vent the lynching of three negroes
held as suspects of having committed
criminal assault. AH three members
have signified their willingness to
serve. The commi=s'on wPl have its
first sitting early next week.
ANTI-TYPHOD FIGHT
TO BEGIN MONDAY
County Commissioners Co-Ope
rating With State Board Of
Health. Campaign Directed by
Dr. Thel Hooks, Our County
Health Officer.
Johnston County’s time has come!
The first gun in the anticipated vac
cination campaign agfcinst Typhoid
Fever will be fired on Monday, August j
2nd. The bombardment will continue |
throughout the month. The shrapnel |
this time will consist of Typhoid Vac
cine and the point of attack our ene
my’s fort, Tyhpoid Fever.
Through the cooperation of our
Board of County Commissioners with
the State Board of Health, arrange
ments have been made with the Coun
ty Physician, Dr. Thel Hooks, of
Smithfield, to carry on a county-wide
campaign of vaccination. Similar
carnpaigns in other counties of this
state have been remarkably success
ful, but success always depends on
the number who turn cut. The pro
tection will only protect those who
accept the opportunity. It is provid
ed free to all. Three treatments at
intervals of one week are necessary.
The treatments are very simple prac
tically painless and safe. The pro
tection will be effective for years to
come.
Following is a list of the dispensary
points and the dates and hours when
citizens may receive the treatment
free of cost to them:
Selma, 10-12 A. M., Mondays, Au
gust 2, 9, 10 and 23.
Kenly, 2-4 P. M., Mondays, August
2, 9, 16 and 23.
Micro, 4:30-5:30 P. M., Mondays,
August 2, 9, 16 and 23.
Benson, 2-4 P. M., Wednesday, Au
gust 4, 11, 18 and 25.
Four Oaks, 4:30-5:30 P. M., Wed
nesdays, August 4, 11, 18 and 25.
Clayton, 2-4 P. M., Fridays, August
6, 13, 20 and 27.
Wilson’s Mills, 4:30-5:30 P. M., Fri
days, August 6, 13, 20 and 27.
Pine Level, 1-2 P. M., Saturdays,
August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Smithfield, 2-5 P. M., Saturdays,
August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Princeton, 2-5 P. M., Saturdays,
August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Farmer’s Mercantile Co., 3-4 P. M.,
Saturdays, August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Newton Grove (Dr. R. B. Wilson),
9-12 A. M., Saturdays, August 7, 14,
21 and 28.
Peacock’s Cross Roads, (Dr. S. P.
J. Lee) 9-10 A. M., Saturdays, August
7, 14,-21 and 28.
Dr. Thel Hooks at Smithfield will
give the treatment at his office at
any time.
An ounce of prevention is worth
many pounds of cure!
MISS WEIL ASSUMES CHARGE
President of Equal Suffrage League
Arrives in Raleigh From Goldsboro
For Campaign.
Miss Gertrude Weil, of Goldsboro,
president of the North Carolina Equal
Suffrage League, arrived in Raleigh
yesterday afternoon to assume person
al charge of the Headquarters of the
League at 118 Fayetteville street, and
to direct from there the activities in
behalf of the suffrage amendment.
“'V es,” said Miss Weil shortly af
ter her arrival, as she smiled confi
dently, “I am here, and I am here to
stick.” Miss Wei] comes armed for
the fray, but in gay spirits and en
tirely undaunted by the strenuous
days ahead.
It is thought that the arrival in
Raleigh of the head of the suffrage
forces in North Carolina will add im
petus to the campaign which is al
ready being waged with such spirit.
—News and Observer, 28th.
Death'at the Age of 102.
Or. Jesse C. Green, a Ph'ladelphia
dentist, died a few days ago. age 102
years. He had a fall two weeks prior
to his death breaking two ribs and
sustaining other injuries which caus
ed his death. He lived at the home
of his neighbor, Mrs. Eliza Hipps
Hartings. Each morning he shaved
h’mself and took a bicycle ride daily
when the weather was pleasant.
“A pessimist is a man who has the
choice of two evils and chooses both.”
OLD NORTH STATE
HELPS GOVERNMENT
Pays More Money Into Federal
Treasury In Internal Revenue
And In Ineome and Excess
Profits Tax Than Any Other
Southern State.
R. E. Powell, writing from Wash
ington to the Raleigh News and Ob
server tells his. readers how much
money North Carolina pays into the
Federal Government. The figures are
astonishing and almost beyond, belief.
Here is the story Mr. Powell sends
his paper:
“Of the mo’-e than five billion dol
lars in internal revenue taxes collect
ed and deposited during the fiscal
year ending June 80 last. North ( ar-1
olina forwarded to the Federal Treas
ury $169,206,007.77. nearly sixty-s:x
million dollars more than any other
Southern State.
“The department says this repre
sents the greatest annual tax collec
tion since the revenue bureau was es
tablished in 1862. The cost of collec
tion will approximate fifty-five cents
for every $100 collected.
“The income and excess profUs tax
netted the treasury $3,944,555,787.93
and from miscellaneous taxes $1,465,
729,136.97 was received. Respective
ly, North Carolina furnished $45,032,
387.50 and $124,173,620.21 of the
grand total.
“Texas, with collections slightly
above 103 million, is the only South
ern State that approaches North Car
olina. The second New York district,
which included the old third New
York district, i' the only New York
district ahead of North Carolina. The
Chicago, Boston. Detroit, Cleveland,
PhTadelpbia and Pittsburg districts j
are the only ones in the country that j
jiass the North Carolina mark.
“The combined total collections in
the Southern States, as reported, are:
Arkansas_$ 12,233,877.50
Alabama _ 29,560,235.92
Florida_*_ 15,336,538.36
Georgia _ 42.665,792.53 j
Kentucky _ 47,793,022.59
Louisiana _ 50,984,323.90
Maryland (including
Delaware and D. C.) 120,752,457.82
South Carolina_ 26,653,541.89
Texas _ 103,004.360.30
Tennessee _ 36,138,137.07
Virginia (2 districts) 79,312,349.87
KENLY NEWS NOTES
Kenly, July 28.—Mr. and Mrs. K.
D. Morgan spent the week end with
relatives in Middlesex.
Mr. James Kirby from Dunn spent
Sunday in town.
Mr. Marvin Revell from Chapel Hill
visited relatives and friends here
during the week end.
Mr. A. G. Tiner made a business
trip to Raleigh Friday.
Miss Mildred Darden arrived home
Wednesday after spending sometime
with friends in Warsaw.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. White left Sat
urday night to spend several days at
Ocean View, Va., and Hertford.
A good many of the town people
attended the base ball game in Wilson
Tuesday.
Mr. Herman Hamilton from Ral
eigh spent the week end here with
his family who is visiting at the
home of Mrs. Ross D. Edgerton and
others.
Mrs. W. T. Railey spent the week
end in Wilson with her daughter, Mrs.
Jack Stallings who is very ill in the
hospital there.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Atkinson from
Austin, Texas, who have been spend
ing several days with their cousin
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. High have left for
Fayetteville to visit relatives.
Mrs. J. M. O’Neal of Selma was in
town Friday the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. P. H. Etheridge.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Tiner spent
Monday in Wilson.
Misses Eva Lassiter of Raleigh and
Virginia Eoone of Rich Square left
fc their homes this morning after
snrnding several days with Miss Lu
cile Holden. <
Mrs. H. M. Grizzard has arrived
from Norfolk, Ocean View and other
po'nts.
A Oyosy Tea was given out a*
Lowell Tuesday night by Miss Lucile
HoHen in honor of the vi.sitirg girls
i*i town, and was most thoroughly en
joyed by all present.
PRINCETON-BOON HILL
Personal Items—Man Hurt by
Runaway Mule—Post Office
Now Third Class.
Princeton, July 28.—Mr. Van B.
Talton was Very painfully injured
Tuesday evening when a Jiorse ran
away with a turning plow hitched to
him. The horse passed Mr. Talton
and the plow point struck him in the
front part of the leg near the body
and ripped open his leg down to the
knee. This was on his good leg, as
he was a one leg man.
Heavy rains for trie last week have
seriously damaged the cotton and to
bacco fields.
The many friends of Miss Ethel
Baker will learn with sorrow that she
is seriously ill at her home near town.
Mr. Hubert M. Cox is wearing one
of those smiles that don’t rub off.
It's a girl—said to have arrived by
air-o-plane Monday at 9:35 A. M.
Mr. Frank Summerlin’s tobacco field
was damaged one thousand dollars
last Sunday by hail. Some of the
stones were nearly as large as a hen
egg.
All streams in this section are at
high water mark but Neuse river is
falling. Auto and buggies were able
to cross at Richardson’s bridge Tues
day evening.
One of the automobiles stolen here
last week has been recovered. A
young white man was arrested with
it in Augusta, Ga„ according to in
formation received here.
The heavy rain last Sunday did con
siderably damage to the roads. On
the road from Princeton to Mr. G. P.
Massey’s one heavy washout alone
will cost the township a few hundred
dollars to repair.
Princeton post office has been ad
vanced to the third class. The change
will not increase the pay of the post
master but places him on salary in
stead of the commission. Every per
son interested in the building up of
their home office should mail letters
on their route or in the postoffice.
When you mail them on the train your
town and office does not get credit for
the amount of business which it is
justly entitled to. Arrangements
were made six years ago to have the
lobby of the office open on Sunday,
but this plan could not be carried out
because the town does not employ
any policeman. Therefore no ar
rangement could be made to protect
the mail and the lock boxes through
the day. Every convenience and ac
commodation that could be allowed by
law has been given the patrons of the
I rinceton office for the past six years.
A great many patrons on the rural
routes send large numbers of letters
to the office each evening, and call for
the route mail. This of course is very
unjust to their route, as the rural
carrier does not get to handle the mail
each way. and this takes the business
from his daily report. Patrons should
certainly feel a great interest in
building up the business on their rur
al route, and if necessary go out of
Wour way to mail letters or anything
else on your route. The carriers do
not receive any more pay for deliver
ing ten thousand letters per month
than for five thousand but they much
rather have the large amount of busi
ness and always feel that the govern
ment is fully justified in keeping up
the route. The postmaster is inter
ested in building up the business of
the office and giving the patrons ev
ery accommodation that is permitted
by law. Each citizen can help a great
deal toward the forwarding of mail
Don’t wait until you hear the train
blow, but send your letters and par
cels to the office an hour beftfre train
time.
Dinner Dance.
R. A. Wellons was host at a de
lightful dinner dance at the Carolina
Country Club Fridav evening eomoli
mentary to Miss Marguerite Dutten
hofer, of Cincinnati. Mr. Wellons'
guests were: Misses Marguerite Put
tenhofer, Belle Cameron of Raleigh
Irene Myatt and Mabel Wellons of
Smithfield, Miss Palmer of Richmond.
Va., Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Adams.
''Tr. and ,'f>‘s. Vrrf Af~ an-j
George Ross Pou, and Mrs. Edwin
W. Pou. George Carmichael of Frank
’;nton. H. T. Herndon, W. Ransom
C!ar)de”s of SmPhfield, Robert Hoi'1
be St. «TuB«n Si'-ire-s and Lour
Mahler.—Er.leigh Times.
THE CHAPEL HILL
SUMMER SCHOOL
Over Eleven Hundred Teachers
In Attendance—AH of the
Hundred Counties of State
Have Representatives There
With the Exception of Five.
In point of attendance the Universi
ty Summer School this year is the
most successful yet held. Some facts
of interest about the school is found
in a bulletin sent to the Press from
Chapel Hill:
'‘When the summer school at the
University of North Carolina closes
next week, out-going trains from
Chapel Hill will carry at least one of
the 1,192 students to every county in
the state except five which are hidden
behind the Blue Ridge—the counties
of Ashe, Graham, Mitchell, Swain,
and Watauga. The announcement
comes from the office of Dr. T. J. Wil
son, Jr., registrar.
“Every other one of the remaining
95 counties is represented, with Or
ange, whose own summer school is a
part of the University summer school,
away in the lead with 110 students.
Other leaders are Guilford, which
sent 32 students; Mecklenburg, 20;
Sampson, 30; Rowan, 29; Alamance,
28; Wake, 24; Forsyth, 23; Carteret,
23; Durham, 22; Wayne, 21; Pitt,
Gaston, Beaufort, and Catawba, 20
each; Iredell, Johnston and Stanly, 18
each.
1'orty-five students are studying
law and 1,147 are in the summer
school proper making the largest num
ber of students that has ever been in
( hapel Hill in the summer. Women
are far in the lead over men, with
828 to a mere 319. Seven hundred
fifty-six have taught before and 151
are preparing to teach. Four hundred
thirty-six are taking college credit
work.
“The Methodists and Baptists as;
usual are far in the lead of the other
religious groups, the Methodists lead
ing with 415, the Baptists second with
328, the Presbyterians third with 176,
the Episcopalians fourth with 67. The
remainder are scattered among a doz
en denominations, including Chris
tians, Lutherans, Friends, Disciples,
Reformed, Jews, Roman Catholics,
Congregationalists, Unitarians, Uni
versalists, Moravians, Adventists, and
Christian Scientists.”
CLAYTON NEWS
Clayton, July 28.—Miss Esther
Pate of Apex was the truest of Mrs.
Chas. G. Gulley for the week end.
Mrs. June Parrish spent Tuesday
in Raleigh.
Mr. L. M. Edgerton was in town
Sunday. He returned to his home at
Princeton, accompanied by his wife
and baby who spent the week here
with friends.
Mrs. H. J. Parker and children of
Baltimore, Md., are here visiting Mr.
and Mrs. C. P. Ellis.
Messrs. E. L. Oneil, Cedric Oneil
and Mr. H. O. Ellis spent last week
at Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Walter Ellis is at home again
after spending a couple of weeks at
Rex Hospital.
Mr. A. V. Gulley made a business
trip to Smithfield today.
Miss Coma Cole of Durham will ar
rive in town today to visit Miss
Gladys Barbour for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Poul Wallace return
ed from Selma Sunday after a few
days visit.
Master Lawrence and Frances
Whitley of Portsmouth, Va., are here
visiting their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Hamilton.
Rev. A. O. Moore with about twen
ty-five members of the Boy Scouts
left Monday for a week’s camping
trip at Lakeview.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Armiteage of
Dunn spent the week end here with
Mrs. R. J. Honeycutt.
Miss Theo Wooten is the guest of
Mrs. Chas. Gulley.
Mrs. C. D. Bass has returned from
an extended visit to relatives and
friends at Warsaw.
A large number of people attended
the lawn party given on Mrs. C. J.
Hunter’s lawn yesterday afternoon
from six to eight-thirty. The pro
ceeds will go to the town treasurer to
help beautify the town.
Mrs. Hill of Los Angeles, California
s the guest of Mrs. J. Walter Myatt.