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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION SMITHFIELD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
VOLUME 39
SMITHFIELD, N. N. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920.
Number 68.
A LESSON FROM THE PAST
Bits of History Giving Dates of
Interesting Events Of
Many Years Ago.
Wednesday was the 50th anniversa
ry of the battle of Sedan, which was
fought September 1st, 1870. This date,
together with the news of the death
recently, of the former Empress Eu
genie, recalls the romantic career of
this beautiful woman, and the tragic
downfall of her husband, Napoleon
III, which occurred at the great bat
tle half a century ago.
rjUgeme s origin was veneu m mya
tery. She was reared as the child of
the Count of Montijo, whose wife was
the daughter of an American citizen.
But after her great beauty had made
her a conspicuous figure in the social
circle of the nobility, her enemies de
clared that she was the daughter of
the Queen of Spain, by a former Mor
ganatic marriage. Envy and hatred
constantly pursued her, and she was
often the subject of slights and af
fronts. But Napoleon seems to have
loved her from first sight, and short
ly after the “Coup d’Etat” had placed
him on the throne of France, he made
her his Empress. Our Grandmothers
remember whem her name was a syn
onym for beauty, grace and vain dis
play. She made the court of her hus
band, the most brilliant in Europe,
and for a time, was the idol of France.
After a while she saw that her hus
band’s popularity, and her own was
on the decline, and as many a wily
ruler before her had done, she set
about to bring on a war, as the best
way to restore it, and secure the suc
cession to her infant son. She there
fore made herself the center of a
clique, which clamored constantly for
war with Germany.
On the other side of the Rhine was
Bismark, the most skilful diplomatist
of his time. His dominant ambition
was to weld the loosely confederated
states of Germany, into a great em
pire, with his beloved master, King
William of Prussia, at its head. He
too, regarded war as the best means
to this end.
An opportunity soon came to the
two schemers. A Hohenzollern prince
was a candidate for the vacant throne
of Spain. Napoleon sent Count Bene
detti, the French Ambassador to Prus
sia, to the King, with a note stating
that France objected to the candidacy
of this Prince, and asking for as
surances that it would be withdrawn
and not renewed. The King received
the Ambassador at Ems, a famous
German watering place. King Wil
liam acceded to the request that the
candidacy be withdrawn, but declined
to promise that it would never be re
newed. Both request and answer were
made with the punctilious politeness
proper to diplomatic occasions. But
Bismark had the transmission of the
notes.
Now we would not believe what fol
lows, if Bismark had not written it
himself. In his Memoirs published
twenty years later, he admits that he
changed the wording of both notes,
so that he made it appear to the
Prussians that the French Emperor
had made insulting demands, and to
the French that the Prussian King
had been insulting in his refusal. Both
sides believed that a diplomatic af
front, the gravest national insult had
been offered. The scheme worked.
Poisoned with the war propaganda of
Eugenie and her clique the proud
French nation flew to arms, and an
invasion of Prussia was begun with
feverish haste. Prussia, “A nation
hatched from a cannon-ball,”
was
iuny prepared.
The results of this war are well
within the memory of persons now
living. France was not the equal of
Prussia. Her army was completely
routed at Sedan and the Emperor cap
tured. Paris fell two months later,
and the Empress fled in disguise, to
spend the remainder of her life, in
quiet seclusion, in England. Victori
ous Prussia exacted an indemnity of
one billion dollars from France, the
loyal provinces of Alsace and Lor
raine were annexed to Prussia against
their will, and nearly two hundred
thousand soldiers, on both sides, were
killed in battle.
The study of the past is of little
avail, unless we learn therefrom, some
useful lessons for the future. Sup
pose that this incident had occurred
between two nations, which were both
members of a League of Nations,
such as the one just now beginning its
functions in Europe. What would
have been the procedure of events?
By the terms of this League, both na
tions would have been bound to sub
mit the question, with all facts and
correspondence bearing- upon it, to the
council of the League. This Council,
composed of one representative from
each country, would have considered
every aspect of the case, and would
have rendered its verdict regarding it,
taking six months, if necessary. Then
no matter what the verdict was, each
nation would have also been bound to
refrain from going to war,-until three
months after the CouneiThad made its
decision. It is morally certain that,
amid all the disclosure of facts, the
French Ambassador would have seen
that he had been misquoted, the Prus
sian King,—a much more honest man
than his great prime minister,—would
have disowned the forged dispatches,
the people,—the common people,—on
both sides, would have seen that they
had been duped, a bloody war would
have been averted, France would have
saved her billion dollar indemnity,
Alsace and Lorraine would have been
spared 48 years of Prussian bondage
and two hundred thousand young hu
man lives would not have gone out on
the battle field.
The Census Bureau has announced
that the population of Chapel Hill is
1,483; Hillsboro, 1,180; Carrboro, 1,
129.
TOWNSHIP MEETING HELD
Cleveland Names Women As
Delegates to County Dem
ocratic Convention.
The following persons were elected
and nominated at the Cleveland Town
ship courthouse Saturday, September
4th, 11 A. M.
Every Cleveland town shipper owes
it to his township and county to at
tend the county convention and act
in behalf of Democracy.
Township Executive Committee: A.
M. Johnson, chairman; C. T. Young,
secretary; J. E. Jones, F. M. Weeks,
C. L. Sanders, W. G. Wrenn.
Magistrates: J. E. Jones and W. G.
Wrenn.
Constable: N. T. Johnson.
Road Commissioners: A. M. John
son, J. L. Myatt.
Township Delegates to County Con
vention: J. 0. Ellington, H. E. Weeks,
Seba Johnson, Mrs. E. N. Booker, C.
J. Coats, Miss Emma Tomlinson, Mrs.
J. O. Ellington, Miss Inez Coats,
Chas. C. Williams, H. B. Brady, Miss
Mina Johnson and J. L. Myatt.
Every person who attends the
county convention is considered a del
egate.
C. T. YOUNG, Secretary.
The Republican County Ticket.
The Republicans of Johnston coun
ty held their convention here Satur
day to nominate their county ticket.
Mr. Ezra Parker, of Benson, was
chairman of the convention, and Mr.
James Raynor of Benson, and Mr. W.
P. Lee, of Meadow, were secretaries.
The court house was full of rep
resentatives from all sections of the
county who had come out to hear the
Hon. E. A. Holton, the Republican
nominee for Senator. We did not
hear Mr. Holton, but we were told
that he took up a good deal of time
finding fault of Democrats and the
revaluation act.
The following county and legisla
tive ticket tvas nominated, each man
being nominated by acclamation:
Sheriff, A. J. Fitzgerald, of Boon
Hill township.
Register of Deeds, W. E. Clifton,
of Smithfield.
Recorder, Ezra Parker, of Benson.
Solicitor Recorder’s Court, J. Ira
Lee, of Four Oaks.
Coroner, John A. Coats, of Smith
field.
Surveyor, J. B. Penny, of Elevation.
County Commissioners, Elam Tem
ple, of Ingrams; J. W. Boyett, of
Boon Hill; Chas. W. Beasley, of
Smithfield; Q. B. Hocutt, of Wilders,
and J. B. Faircloth, of Banner.
House of Representatives, G. W.
Boyd, of Wilson’s Mills and J. D.
Ballance, of Micro.
Paul Boyett, James Parrish, B. A.
Coats and J. W. Jones were placed
before the convention for County
Commissioners, but they declined the
honor and did not allow their names
to go before the convention. R. I.
Wallace’s name was placed in nomi
nation for coroner, but Mr. Wallace
would not consent and his name was
withdrawn.
The population of Mount Airy, the
largest town in Surry county, is 4,
752; and Dobson, the county seat, 368.
CONVENTION MEETS HERE
Democrats Will Meet Thursday
To Nominate County Ticket
—Candidates for Register
Thursday, September 9th, is the
day that the Democratic convention of
Johnston county will be held in Smith
field. On that day, candidates for
couRty offices will be named, and also
two men for Representatives in the
next General Assembly.
Among those who are candidates
for the various positions, we have
heard of three for Register of Deeds.
—Mr. W. T. Adams, of Smithfield;
Mr. H. I. Ogburn, of Pleasant Grove,
and Mr. T. L Hudson of Meadow.
These are all fine mcs, and are well
equipped to hold the position. Each
has a number of friends who will
work for their favorites until the con
vention names a man.
For Sheriff, only one man is a>
avowed candidate, as far as we know.
This is the present incumbent, Mr. W.
J. Massey of Boon Hill township.
Other avowed candidates for the dif
ferent offices are: Mr. J. A. Keen of
Ingrams township, who is running for
County Auditor; Mr. Harry P. John
son of Smithfield, who is running for
Solicitor of the Recorder’s Court; Mr.
Romulus Lambert of Pleasant Grove
township, who is a candidate to suc
ceed himself as County Surveyor.
So far as we know, there are no
avowed candidates for the other plac
es to be filled, but we are sure that
the Democrats can find plenty of good
men to fill these offices.
Among the most important offices
to be filled, is that of County Cqpn
missioners. The next Board of Coun
ty Commissioners will have a big
problem to tackle. The special ses
sion of the General Assembly passed
a bill authorizing th« County Commis
sioners to build a new Court House
and Jail. They will either have to
issue bonds for this or borrow the
money. .
It is the privilege and duty of every
Democrat in the county to come to
Smithfield next Thursday, and use his
best efforts to name a ticket that will
appeal to the people, that will meet
with their approval and one that will
be elected next November.
Hilliard-Cole.
A romance originating while the
groom was a student in Kansas City
was culminated on August 19th, when
Miss Eunice Cole of Oklahoma City,
Okla., became the bride of Mr. Ezeki
el Hilliard of Rocky Mount. Rev. O.
G. Gilbert, pastor of the First Chris
tian church, performed the ceremony
in the presence of a few friends of
the groom, at the home of Mr. T. C.
Robbins on Nash street. After the
ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard left
for the western part of the state. Up
on their return they will make their
permanent home at the residence of
Mrs. J. S. Tunstall, corner of Nash
and Church streets. The groom is a
son of Mrs. Eli Batten of near here
and is engaged in a garage business
at Rocky Mount, while the bride is
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Cole of Anadark, Okla. Mr. Hilliard
met her while he was a student at an
automobile school in Kansas City
some time ago, and after a correspon
dence which has been continued since
that time, the romance was consum
mated with the arrival of the Okla
homa girl in Rocky Mount August 19,
and the wedding that night.—H. E.
B., Wilson’s Mills, N. C.
Robert L. Flowers Wounded.
Robert L. Flowers of Benson was
wounded at a whiskey still near Fay
etteville last Saturday. He and one
other man made a raid on a still
where there was a white man ami
several negroes. The blockaders op
ened fire on the officers and one ball
went through the flesh of one of Mr.
Flowers’ thighs and broke a bone in
the other leg. He was taken to Fay
etteville and placed in a hospital. Mr.
Flowers returned the attack of the
blockaders but did not know the re
sult for several hours after. Some
parties from Fayetteville came out
and found the white man shot through
the stomach. He was taken to a hos
pital at Fayetteville where he died
Saturday afternoon.
Books
No ornament of a house can com
pare with books; they are constant
company in a room, even when you
are not reading them.—Harriet
Eeecher Stowe.
MANY ROSES IN PORTLAND
Some Measure Eight Inches In
Diameter—Great Parade
Of Automobiles.
(By Dr. R. J. Noble)
ARTICLE NO. VIII.
The most if not all of this paper
will be of more interest to the ladies
than to the men, as I shall write about
the beautiful flowers seen before we
got to Portland, at, and beyond Port
land.
It was told me by a party, ■who had
visited Oregon a year or so ago, that
in the flower season the townspeople
of Portland kept a pair of scissors on
a hook at the front dcor that were
called the guest scissors. They were
kept there so as to be handy when
guests came. Of course I did not
doubt the lady’s word, but I was from
Missouri, and had to be shown, and I
was shown, too, for she did not tell
half there was to be seen in the flower
line, nor can I. I wish I had the
ability to describe them. I can say
though to begin with that the roses
and Peonies were by long odds the
most perfect and beautiful flowers
that I ever saw. It looks hard to be
lieve, but I saw any number of roses
that were eight inches in diameter,
the peonies being slightly smaller,
seven and a half inches being the
largest I saw. Now this measure
ment was not guess work. I had a
little one-foot rule in my pocket and
I measured them. They would not go
inside of my hat without touching the
sides. I started to tell about the
roses before we arrived at Portland,
but got off on other lines. When we
got over the divide into Oregon when
ever our train came to a stop people
would meet us with large baskets of
roses telling u» to help ourselves.
They all seemed glad to see us and
wanted us to take some of their roses,
and we took them. Everybody had
roses in their compartments and
seats. Our train was perfumed with
roses. The rose bushes arc trained in
all sort of shapes and sizes. At one
place, in Portland, we stopped to ask
a man who was at work among his
roses about them. He said they were
not fertilized at all. That the soil
and climate seemed to suit roses as
no other place in the world did. All
one had to do was to set them out and
cut them back as any old way would
do. Now this man had cut his roses
back until the stem, or rose tree was
from two and a half to four feet high
and fully one inch in diameter or
more. Then the tree put out shoots
from the top of this stalk and made
a big brush top. The shoots were
about eighteen inches long. One lady
counted the shoots from one stalk.
There were eighteen shoots and each
shoot had a rose from four to eight
inches in diameter on it. Can you
imagine how this rose tree looked
with a stalk over an inch in diameter
about three feet high and with eigh
teen shoots <jn it with a rose on each
shoot from four to eight inches in di
ameter? It was a sight I will never
forget. Now this was not the only
rose tree he had, for he had a row set
out about four feet apart around the
xront yard, and ne was on a corner
lot. He went to his front door, took
down his scissors and cut each one in
the party two or three roses. Not at
all' stingy with them, but won’t you
have more ? All over the city ’twas
the same way—roses, roses and then
some more. Every year there is a
rose festival in Portland. It comes
usually a little earlier, but this year
’twas put off till the meeting of the
Shriners. The flowers at the rose
festival were the most beautiful I ev
er saw and so many of them. ’Tis just
impossible for me to describe them.
The show is called the Rose Festival,
but all sorts of flowers are shown. I
had no idea there were so many vari
eties of roses and peonies. We saw
one peaonie that particularly attract
ed our attention, so I asked the price
of it. Only fifty dollars, but ’twill
bloom next year again. Of course
that ended the conversation. A little
farther on I secured a catalogue in
which I saw peonies priced at eighteen
dollars each. Then there was a pa
rade on Thursday night exhibiting the
decorated cars, automobiles. The pro
cession was three hours pass’ng a
given point. The fire department had
a hand in the parade also. The cars
were about fifty feet apart, so you
can imagine how many roses it took
to cover all the cars.
In some of the cars were littH girls
in various costumes, representing dif
ferent things. I can’t begin to tell
what they were. I remember one car
was the “Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe.” A great big shoe was covered
with all colors of roses with little
children in and all around the shoe.
The old woman was not an old woman,
but a beautiful young lady. There
was a hole in the toe of the shoe
from which two little childrc 1 were
peeping out. The “Old Woman” was
standing in the shoe surrounded by
little people, all sorts and sizes, i
was real sorry for them as it was
drizzling rain, not a hard rain, but
just enough to wet things and make
it disagreeable. I thought it cold. I
had on my overcoat and it felt good.
I was afraid the cold and rain would
make them sick, but was told that the
rain hardly ever made one sick. I
thought the little ones must be nearly
frozen as they had on very few
clothes and they were wet. But you
know it was style and show and little
folks and big folks, too, will do lots
to be in style. At different places on
the streets stands had been erected,
on which seats sold for one dollar and
a half. I do not like to sit in the rain,
so I stood up. The fireman’s carj
pleased me, but it did not get the
prize, which I thought it should have
had. The first prize was Two hundred
dollars. Well worth trying for. The
electrical parade was also very, very
pretty. That was Wednesday night.
Will try to tell about that sometime.
(To be continued.)
“I MUST WORK”—CHRIST
Rev. H. S. Hartzell Delivers
Strong Sermon at Episcopal
Church Sunday.
Sunday morning at St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church, the Rector, Rev. H. S.
Hartzell preached a strong sermon
from St. John 9th, 4th. “I must work
the works of Him that sent me while
it is day; the night cometh when no
man can work.” The preacher said
that the law of Christ’s life was
work,—He said, “1 must work”—and
that before He commenced His minis
try He worked in Joseph’s shop as a
manual laborer, thus for all time glo
rifying the work of the hands. After
He began to teach and preach, He
never lost an opportunity, day or
night, to work to relieve and elevate
people spiritually and mentally. Work
thus became the law of life, for all
those who would follow in His foot
steps.
Work is the law of all nature.
Plants constantly work, to draw from
the air and earth sustenance for their
growth. The animal world is under
the same law, and each of the lower
animals must labor to find food for
itself and its young.
Mr. Hartzell said that each person
is put into the world for some especi
al duty, and the happy and successful
person, is he who realizes this fact,
and sets about to find what is this
work, for which he is peculiarly fit
ted, and then goes forward and does
it with all his might, knowing all the
while, that he is thus fulfilling God’s
purpose for him.
He said that some people have been
put in the world for a divine purpose,
but have never realized it, although
they have fulfilled this purpose. He
said Alexander the Great was appoint
ed to carry Greek civilization beyond
the bounds of Greece, and did so, but
that he never realized that he was an
instrument of the Creator, and thus
lost the joy and steadfastness that
such knowledge would have given him.
Napoleon too was an instrument of
the Almighty, but not knowing it, he
died a disappointed and unhappy man.
At 8 o’clock P. M. Mr. Hartzell
preached a strong sermon from the
subject of Jacob’s encounter with the
angel.
Reads Blockaded by Automobiles
1 wo snntnneia men returning irame
Sunday afternoon report roads com
pletely blockaded by automobiles. At
Middle Creek bridge near the home
of Mr. N. G. Rand the road was block
aded for more than half an hour.
Baptizing in the creek caused the peo
ple to assemble there. At Little Riv
er bridge near old Beulah church the
roads were blockaded for about three
hours, *t is said. One man eighty
miles from home going south could
not get by. Another man going for
medicine and another going for a doc
tor had to wait. A large baptizing
from two churches caused an im
mense crowd of people to gather at
this place. These blockades show
that the country is getting full of au
tomobiles and that on such occasions
one or more men should be appointed
before hand to go early and carry out
a systematic parking of the cars.
WOULD ERECT MONUMENT
Mr. W. A. Powell of Bentonville
Ready to Help in the Un
dertaking.
Mr. Editor:—In last week’s Herald,
I noticed an article by Mr. H. V. Rose,
on the Confederate monument at Bes
tonville. As I am a resident of the
section in which this historic spot is
located, I feel inclined to go to the as
sistance of Mr. Rose, and help all I
can to make this spot a joy to the
surviving “Boys of ’65,” and a credit
to Johnston county.
This cemetery is located on a part
of the late John Harper Home place,
on the Goldsboro, Fayetteville and
Dunn road,—the most public road in
the southern part of Johnston cousty.
A monument erected several years
ago, in honor of the brave men who
gave their lives at the battle of Ben
tonville, marks the spot where a
number of them now rest. I am
ashamed to say that this sacred place
has been so entirely forgotten and
neglected, that the little stones, which
marked the graves, are all misplaced.
Only those who know exactly where
the graves are, can tell others. The
cemetery has never beeh enclosed com
pletely, but has been open to any pil
lager. The monument is hidden from
the eager eye of the passerby or spec
tator, by bushes and briers. The cem
etery is over-run by a similar growth.
I want to appeal to the lovers of
the great cause, which this monument
commemorates, and which is hallowed
by these graves, to help us make this
spot an honor to this, the most his
torical section of Johnston county.
This little cemetery was, until a
few years ago, visited by people from
different parts of the United States.
Now, for some reason, these visits
have ceased. What is the cause? I
can see how beautiful this place can
be made with just a very small out
' lay of money. Shall we donate to
this noble cause, small contributions
from a few citizens, or shall this spot
continue to say to the passerby that
the New South has forgotten?
Let’s get together, and plant this
cemetery in shrubbery and good shade
trees with a fence to protect.
W. A. POWELL.
Bentonville, Sept. 4.
WILL GRADE NO MORE TOBACCO
This Decision Reached at a Meeting
of The Eastern Tobacco Asso
ciation Held Yesterday.
The Eastern Tobacco Association
held a meeting in Goldsboro yesterday
and decided to grade no more tobacco
by the warehouses belonging to the
Association. The Smithfield Tobacco
Board of Trade at a meeting last
night endorsed the action of the East
ern Association and the warehouses of
Smithfield will grade no more tobacco
and will accept no more after tomor
row (Wednesday) night, September 8.
There has been so much complaint
about the poor grading by both farm
ers and buyers that the Association
has made this ruling, that the mem
bers of the Association will grade no
more tobacco. The Smithfield tobac
co warehouses are members of the As
sociation. Many warehouses have
thought for the past two or three
years that they ought to stop grading
tobacco. If the farmers will grade
their tobacco at home they will save
the $3.00 a hundred pounds for grad
ing and will have their tobacco grad
ed better and get better prices for it.
Every pile of tobacco brings only what
the commonest grade in it is worth.
The farmers are very busy at this
season and many of them think that
they cannot take the time to grade
their tobacco, but they will find that
the rule not to grade any more to
bacco at the warehouses will prove to
be of benefit to the tobacco growers.
Congressman Pou who has been ia
Washington City for several days, re
turned home Sunday.
Big Still Captured near Kenly.
On Friday of last week Messrs. E.
G. Richardson, N. E. Rains, J. E.
Shugart and Sheriff W. J. Massey
captured a large copper still on Mr.
J. T. Revell’s land about four miles
from Kenly back of the home of San
dy Davis, colored. They found at the
still two hundred gallons of beer and
a great number of empty beer barrels.
Everything about the equipment was
complete. They captured at the still
John H. McAlister, a negro ftom S.
Carolina. At the home of Sandy Davis
nearby they found about thirty gal
lons of whiskey. *