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VOLUME 39
SMITHFIEJjD, N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12th, 1920.
Number 78.
JOHNSTON COUNTY PLANS
FOR A NEW COURTHOUSE.
Structure, Costing $500,000, Will Be
One Of the Most Handsome Of
Its Kind in the State.
Harry Barton, local architect, has
sent out to a number of contractors in 1
the state plans for the new Johnston 1
county courthouse, which is to be er- j
ected at Smithfield, and will cost ap- j
proximately $500,000. Bids from the
contractors will be received by Mr.
Barton October 25. It is thought that
the work may begin immediately after
the contractor has been selected. The J
old courthouse is to be razed at an
early date.
Mr. Barton said the Johnston coun
ty building, which is to be four stories
high, will be one of the handsomest
county structure in the state. It is to
be modem in every respect, fire proof,
electric lights and running water.
The interior will be finished in marble
wainscoting and ornamental plaster.
The exterior will be conposed of In
diana limestone and granite.
The first floor will be occupied by
county officials and for recording of
ices. The second will be made into a
large courtroom, with adjoining room
for witnesses, lawyers and other
court officials. The third story will
also be used by county officials and
the fourth one is to contain the jail.
The main entrance will be of log
gia while the two side entrances will
be of portico. The building will be
located in a square in the heart of the
town of Smithfileld.
Johnston if one of North Carolina’s
most prosperous counties and as stat
ed by Mr. Barton, the building is be
ing planned to take care of the grow
th of the county for a number of years
to come.—Greensboro News.
Who Must Register?
All persons not previously regis
tered, and who expect to vote in the
coming election, must register. “Pre
viously registered” means in the pre
cinct in which the voter expects to
cast his vote. If he has moved since
he last voted, he will have to register
again.
Female voters are subject to the
same qualifications as are male vot
ers, except that they are not required
to pay poll tax this year. She must
be a citizen of the United States, a
resident of North Carolina for two
years, and of the county one yearj
and of the precinct in which she ex
pects to vote for four months.
Female voters are not required to
tell their age. They may assure
the registrar that they are beyond 21
years of age. It has become the cus
tom of most registrars to register
women with their full names as “Mrs.
Sallie Jones Smith,” instead of “Mrs.
J. W. Smith.”
“At the coming election six boxes
will be provided in which the follow
ing ballots will be deposited: (1)
State officers, including United State8
Senator; (2) member of Congress;'
(3) Presidential electors; (4) mem
bers of thee general assembly and
county officers; (5) township con
stable and justice of tfy? peace, and
(6) unconstitutional amendments.
“Under the absentee voters law,
any person duly registered who may
be absent from the county or physi
cally unable to go to the polls for the
purpose of voting in person, which
fact shall be made to appear by the
certificate of a physician or by affi
davit. shall be allowed to register and
vote upon application to the chair
man of the county board of elections,
who will furnish the voter ballots and
blank certificate necessary for vot
ing.—H. M. London in Hamlet News.
Prices Long Ago.
Mr. William B. Eason, who mer
chandises at the Smithfield Cotton
Mills, says that one year while he
farmed in Wilson county he sold
most of his cotton at four cents per
pound and cotton seed at ten cents
per bushel. He had some tobacco
which brought him from one to twen
ty cents per pound and helped out
greatly. The following winter he
moved back to Johnston to the Ed
Moon place near Eelma. Before
moving he sold his best corn for sev
enty cents per bushel. Mr. Moon
who was leaving the county had a
sale at which Mr. Eason bought fod
der at sixty cents per hundred and
com at from thirty cents to fifty
cents per bushel. The com was sold
in five barrels lots and some of it
went a low as thirty cents per bush
el.
MOVED INTO NEW QUARTERS.
Sanders—Cunningham and Ward in
Their New Building Just Com
pleted on Johnston Street.
This enterprising wholesale groc
ery firm is now occupying the hand
I some brick store, recently erected by
I Mr. H. C. Woodall, on Johnson st.
! The building is 100 feet long by 70
^ wide and two stories high. The
. front is of pressed brick and the
i structure is an ornament to that sec
I tion of town. Mr. Lasley the genial
1 manager, met our reporter, and show
ed him over the large establishment.
A cement driveway extends the en
i tire length of the house, and on either
I side, separate compartments, under
! lock and key, contain the many dif
| ferent varieties of stock which the
j firm carries. The heaviest truck
can thus be driven in and loaded,
without the necessity of carrying the
goods more than a few feet.
The sample room in front will soon
i be completed and this will be a great
convenience to customers. It -will
contain a sample of every article in
! stock, so that the purchaser can sit
I in a warm comfortable room, and
, make his selections, without the trou
, ble of going over the large building,
j Miss Cherry Gurley with her short
i hand book and typewriter seemed
I thoroughly at home in her pretty pan
I elled office. A heavy truck-load of
groceries rolled out ahead of the re
I porter and Miss Guirley remarked
! that that was not an unusual occur
[ ence, that their sales are constantly
I increasing .
Such an establishments the San
ders-Cunningham-Ward Co., is a
| great asset to the business value of
j the Smithfield market, and under the
competent management of its wide
awake proprietors is sure to be a
J great convenience to its customers
throughout the country.
A Good Woman At Rest
j Last Sunday morning at 1:30 o’
clock, the white winged angel of
Death came to the home of Mr. B. M.
j Stephenson and took from him his
J loving wife. She was sick with a
I cancer for over a year. On May 20
she was operated on at Rex Hospital,
Raleigh, and for a time she seemed
to improve, but sometime in July she
began to grow worse and gradually
weakened until the end. On Thurs
day before her death she gave birth
I to a baby boy but the child did not
I live, and together with his mother
was laid to rest in the family bury
ing ground near the home.
She made her stay on earth 45
years, 4 months and 17 days. She
leaves a husband and eleven child
ren, five boys and six girls to
mourn their loss.
She was a friend to all who knew
I her and was always ready to lend a
helping hand. We have no doubt
but what she now has a home in
Heaven. H. S.
Benson, N. C., October 5, 1920.
Paul Wasn’t a Married Man
The apostle Paul urged women to
obey their husbands. And any man
will bet you that Paul wasn’t mar
ried.—Carolina Mountainer.
Woman To Introduce Mr. Daniels
Mrs. W. J. Jones, head of the Pine
land School for girls, mas been se
lected to introduce Secretary of the
Navy, Josephus Daniels, who is the
chief speaker at the Dunn Fair on Oct.
13th.
Who’s Got Cockroaches For Sale?
A physician in Pittsburgh advertis
es for live cockroaches to be shipped
to him. He offers five cents apiece
for them. He has a theory that a
roach, if eaten bya rat, will cause a
tumor to develop in the stomach of
the rat, and eventually kill it. He in
tends to ship his roaches to certain
districts of France which are infected
with rats, and by this novel method
he hopes to rid the country of them.
Deputy Shot to Save Sheriff
James Brim, a white farmer in
Rockingham county was, fatally shot
by Deputy Sheriff Brown, who by
bis timely shot saved the life of Sher
ff Gardner. Brin had been on a
Irunken spree and had made murder
ius threats.
105,683,108 PEOPLE IN U. STATES.
j These Figures Do Not Include Out
lying Possessions. Shows In
crease 13,710,812 or 14.9 perct
Washington, Oct. 7.—The total pop
, ulation of continental United States
is 105,683,108, an increase of 13,710,
| 812 or 14.9 per cent.
This figure does not include approx
imately 12,250,000 people living in the
country’s outlying pcsecsions. The
population of Alaska and the total
classed under the military and naval
service abroad are yet to be announc
ed.
With the outlying posessions, the
United States in 1910 had a popula
tion of 101,115,487. These posessions
included Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico,
the Philippine Islands, the Panama
Canal Zone, Guam and Samoa and the
total of persons in the military and
naval service abroad was added. This
year the population of the Virgin Is
lands of the United States, acquired
from Denmark is included.
The growth of the country’s popula
tion, exclusive of the outlying possess
ions, is set forth briefly in the follow
ing table:
Census Per
Year.
1920 „
1910 __
1900 ..
1890 __
1880
1870 __
1860
1850 —
1840 __
1830 __
1820 ..
1810 --
1800 —
1790 -
Population
.105,683,008
-91,972,266
_ 75,994,575
. 62,947,714
. 50,155,783
_ 38,558,371
_ 31,443,321
. 23,191,876
. 17,069,453
. 12,866,020
. 9,338,453
. 7,239,881
. 5,308,483
_ 3,929,214
Increase
13,710,845
15,977,692
13,046,861
12,791,931
11,597,412
7,115,050
8,251,445
6,122,423
4,203,433
3,227,567
2,398,572
1,931,398
1,379,269
Ct.
14.9
21.0
20.7
25.5
30.1
22.6
35.6
35.9
32.7
33.5
33.1
36.4
35.1
Woman’s Club Notes
The following ladies joined the club
at the meeting last Wednesday. Miss
Alice Lindsey, Mrs. W. H. Lyon, Mrs.
W. D. Avera, Mrs. Clement Byrd, Mrs.
T. C. Jordan, Mrs. Ina Aycock, Mrs.
E. I. Pool, Mrs. C. V. Tyner, Mrs. W.
S. Ragsdale and Mrs. H. H. Radford.
The books have come for the Lit
erature course this winter. The sub
ject of the course is “Our Heritage,”
and promises to be quite interesting.
The following officers were elected
to fill vacancies: Treasurer, Mrs. J. H.
Kirkman; Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. P. H, Kasey; and Chairman of
the Music Department, Miss Bettie
Watson.
The matter of side shows at the Fair
here last year was brought before the
club. After due discussion, it was
agreed that the type which showed
last year were undesirable and the
club voted a protest against such a
midway again.
The Citizenship part of the program
was in the hands of Mrs. S. T. Hon
eycutt and Mrs. H. W. Baucom. Pap
ers were read on “The Choice and El
ection of a President and Vice-Presi
dent” and on “The Powers and Duties
of President.”
40 Billion Dollars in Insurance
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance
has been put upon a peace basis and
more than half of the employees
have been suspended. The amount
of insurance taken out amounts to 40
billion dollars. 1 billion, 100 million
dollars have been paid out for death
| claims and nearly 30 million dollars
for disabilities.
I
Never Talks to Interviewers
Elihu Root never talks to inter
viewers, and he will not say anything
about his international Court. But
there is no secret about it. The act
I for its creation and operation has
been published. Its charter is in the
covenant of the League of Nations,
I which most of Mr. Root’s party as
sociates repudiate. It is one more
j achievement of Mr. Wilson for pre
' serving the peace of the world and
preventing predatory nations from in
dulging their appetites.—Philadelphia
Record.
College Girls Pick Cotton
Flora McDonald College girls at
Red Springs have put on p cotton
! picking campaign on the farm of L. J.
i Bright. Two teams have been form
j ed and the race begun. They* hope
to receive for their services as mu<ji
as $500.
LARGE ENROLLMENT OF SCHOOL
Fifty More Than Last Year This Time
* No Money in Treasury to Pay
Teachers. Situation Critical
The enrollment in the Turlington
Graded School has passed the' 510 j
mark. Last year at the beginning of
the 2nd month the 500 mark was reach
ed. Therefore the enollment is about
50 ahead of what it was last >ear at
this time.
Thefirst school month ended on Oct
ober 8th. At that time those children
who were not keeping up with their
work have been put back a grade. In
planning the schedule of recitations
this year an effort has been made to
arrange each pupil’s work so that he
will have a recitation and then a study
period. This supervised study makes
it much easier for the pupils to pre
pare their work. Of course this ar
rangement cannot be made in the
grades which have to run on double
schedule.
The school situation here is almost
acute>. There is not enough room
without having doable schedule in a
number of grades which denies some
pupils the supervised study period.
Btit not only are the pupils undergoing
disadvantages, but the teachers will
probably have to go without their sal
ary for a couple of months. This is
much to be regretted but until the
funds can be replenished it seems
unavoidable. It is to be hoped that
something can be done in the near fu
ture to relieve the situation.
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Mr. S. H. Hobbs Visits Here
Mr. S. H. Hobbs, of Clinton, Samp
son coutny, was here last week and
called to see us. While here he stop- ^
ped over with his daughter, Mrs. S. J. I
Kirby. He was on his way to Raleigh !
to get out papers necessary for the
ogening of the new cotton storage!
warehouse at Clinton for Sampson
county which has just been completed.
The warehouse company bought four
acres of land at Clinton for this ware
house. They now have room for four
to five thousand bales of cotton. They
will be open for business next Wed
nesday. Mr. Hobbs thinks the law
passed by the legislature of 1919 pro
vides tjie ^>efet warehouse forking
plan of any in the United States.
100 Veterans at Bay!
For one long hour, after the ad
journment of the meeting of Ham
burg Post, American Legion, at Buf
falo, N. Y., a polecat, entrenched in a
lower hall, the only exit from their
clubroom, held at bay more than 100
veterans of the 18th Infantry, who
helped to smash the Hindenburg line,
the polecat keeping them prisoners
until hastily summoned reinforce
ments in the person of Hamburg’s
contingent of State constabulary ar
rived and with a barrage from his
.45-calibre service revolver made
“casualty” of the enemy.
I
Women Voting Not So Bad
A woman who styles herself “a wo
man of the sticks,” writes a cheerful,
indeed, an exultant letter on the pre
parations being made in her locality
for election day. “We are even mak
ing new dresses,” she writes, “to
wear to the polls and our men are
pressing up their best Sunday suits.
I don’t know but that we’ll carry
lunch, take the children and spend the
day.” We might say for the confir
mation of the hopeful, interested view
of voting that this sensible woman
takes, that Raleigh women have tried
out voting (in the school tax election
Saturday) and found that there is
nothing disagreeable about it. There
was no disorder at the polls. No wo
man was insulted. The presence of
the women as was expected made for
order and decency.—News and Observ
er.
Salisbury Women Register
In Salisbury township, 153 women
have registered. Of these 145 are
white and eight are colored.
Connected With French Premier
The daughter of the new premier of
France is the wife of a North Caro
linian. Well, the family connection
is entirely creditable to the French
premier and North Carolinians will
hope that he will show himself worthy
of it. It’s up to the old man not to
discredit his daughter’s husband.—
Statesville Landmark.
MRS. McCULLERS AT TRINITY
Clayton Woman Makes Possible Lec
tures at Trinity College. Dr. G.
Campbell Morgan Speaker
A series of Avera Bible Lectures
were delivered last week at Trinity
College by Dr. G. Campbell Morgan,
a prominent English divine, in which
the college community and the citi
zens of Durham took considerable in
terest. The attendance was unusual.
Mrs. E. B. McCulIers of Clayton,
whose philanthropy made possible the
foundation of these lectures, was in
attendance. She had done a fine work
in thus establishing these lectures
thereby giving a splendid opportunity
to the young men who gather at Trin
ity College to have a broad vision.
Women Voters of State Meet.
The North Carolina League of Wo
men Voters was formally organized
Thursday in Greensboro with over 100
of the state’s representative women
present. Both Democratic and Repub
lican parties were well represented
' and in mapping out the League’s pro
gram every care was taken to make
the new organization non-partisan.
The platform contains but two main
planks—better education for citizen
ship and more progressive legislation
for the state.
The League of Women voters will
succeed the old organization,the North
Carolina Equal Suffrage Association.
The constitution provides for the for
mation of local league with the county
as the unit. Dues are levied at the
rate of 50 cents per member. Repre
sentation in the State Convention will
be in accordance with the paid up
membership of the local league. A
membership of 25 or less entitles the
league to two voting delegates with
another delegate for each additional
25.
At the meeting Wednesday, Miss
Elizabeth Kelly, of Raleigh, present
ed the names of the officers for the
nominating committee. Miss Ger
trude Weil, of Gokjsboro being made
chairman.
Y. M. C. A. Meeting at Wilmington
The Boys Work Department of the
State Committee of the Y. M. C. A.
is to conduct an older boys’ confer
ence at Wilmington on October 22, 23,
and 24th. Many boys are expected to
take advantage of this splendid oppor
tunity, and application are now being
taken by Mr. Lloyd Ransom, county
Y. M. C. A. secretary, who has charge
of tha.registration in this county.
Any boy of good character, above
fifteen years of age is eligible and
every school club and boys group is
invited to send one or more represen
tatives. Free entertainment will be
furnished the boys by the good people
of Wilmington and the only expense
will be railroad fare and one dollar
registration fee.
* The Confemece theme will be “In
vesting a Life.” A fine program is
being arranged and will be in charge
of prominent speakers and boys
workers f:-om all over the country. Mr.
Ransom will accompany the Johnston
county delegation and see that every
thing is done for their comfort and
pleasure. This conference will mean
much to the boys who attend as well
as to the school or club they repre
sent.
Enters Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Albert Barnes, Jr., has enter
ed the Johns Hopkins University for
postgraduate work in the department
of chemistry. He graduated at Trin
ity College, last June, and was award
ed a scholarship by the university of
which he is now beginning to take
advantage. Mr. Barnes is the son of
Rev. A. S. Barnes, Superintendent of
the Methodist Orphanage at Raleigh.
—N. C. Christian Advocate.
Mr. Barnes lived in Smithfield for
four years while his father was pas
tor of the M. E. Church here and has
many friends who will learn of his
success with pleasure.
T~
Woman Fought in Civil War
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Niles, who, with
close-clipped hair and wearing a uni
form, concealed her sex and is said to
have fought beside her husband thru
the civil war, died at her home at
Paritan, N. J. this week at the age of
92. The war call found .the couple on
their honeymoon.
JOHNSTON IS BANNER FARM
COUNTY IN THE STATE.
Leads A11 Other Counties in North
Carolina—Having 7,026 Farms.
Dare Has Least Number.
At the same time th£ census bureau
announced the population of the Unit
ed States, it also published its census
of farms by states and counties. Ev
ery patriotic Johnstonian’s heart
thrills with pride that Johnston leads
all of the counties of North Carolina
as to its farms, the total number of
which is 7,026.
In the United States, there are' 6,
459,998 farms in 1920 as compared
with 6,361,502 in 1910 and 5,737,372
twenty years ago.
The farm census does not tabulate
the relative ranks of the states as to
agriculture but with more than 269,
000 farms the Tar Heel , state stands
well toward the head of the class, just
as she stands to the front industrially
and in the payment of federal taxes.
Other counties besides Johnston
which show a large number of farms
include Wake with 6,804; Robeson wit
6,564; Sampson with 5,771 and Wayne
with 5,030. Dare County is least giv
en to agriculture and has only 77
farms within its borders. New Han
over has a low score having only 323
farms.
Senator Simmons Speaks at Bailey.
Nearly three thousand men and wo
men heprd Senator Simmons expound
the principles of Democracy at Bailey
in Nash county last Thursday. An
able discussion of the League of Na
tions and of the record of the Demo
cratic party was received with en
thusiasm. Congressman Pou pre
ceded the senator in an instructive ad
dress of fifiteen minutes. Both
speakers referred to the distressing
ly low prices of farm products.
In touching on price reduction, both
Senator Simmons and Representative
Pou blamed unsettled conditions
chiefly on the failure of the United
States to ratify the peace treaty and
enter the League of Nations, thus
laying the cause at the door of the
Republicans, and the “Senatorial Oli
garchy’' especially. Congressman
Pou asserted that prices did not begin
falling until a Republican1 Congress
came into power, and Senator Sim
mons promised that the election of a
Democratic Congress and Governor
James M. Cox as president in Novem
ber would rapidly tend to stabilize
conditions.
The Teacher Shortage
The teacher shortage remains a
menace to the public schools according
to preliminary reports made public
recently by the National Education
Association.Replies to questionnar
ies sent out by th^ Association have
come from all sections of the United
States. These reports .jhow that in
places whcie teachers’ salaries he.ve
been increased one hundred per cent
or more the situation is nearly al
ways satisactory. But sucW places
are comparatively few, and to locali
ties where salaries have been increas
ed fifty per cent or less thje teacher
shortage is commonly greater than a
year ago. Rural communities an
hardest hit. Signed reports from
superintendents of many counties in
dicate that a third of their rural
schools cannot open for want of
teachers. Tens of thousands of
schools will be in charge of teachers
who have had no professional prepara
tion and whose academic training
barely exceed that of the children
they teach.
Relief from this serious situation,
which imperils the stability of Ameri
can rural life, will be sought from the
next session of our Congress. Re
newed efforts will be made to obtain
the passage of the Smith-Towner bill,
which creates a department of educa
tion with a secretary in the Presi
dent’s cabinet and provides federal
aid of $100,000,000 for education.
“If Dead, Please Wire”
“Sam, I heard you is dead. If you
is, telegram me; if yo ain’t, send me
$10.”
This is a copy of a telegrc.ni re
ceived in Greenville, S. C., recently
by a negro, John Collins, from another
negro living in North Carolina.
Collins, who has about recovered
from recent gunshot wounds, said he
intends to wire his friend: “I is dead.
Your $10 will be ’plied to a coffin.”