VOLUME 39
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1920
NUMBER 91
NEWS FROM THE
CAPITAL OF BANNER
John G. Jernigan Dead—
Play Be Given by School
—Club Meets
Benson, Nov. 24.—Miss Ruth An
drews leaves today to spend several
days with friends in Clayton.
Mrs. J. H. Rose is in Smithfield for
the Thanksgiving holidays.
Mrs. J. L. Hall has been confined to
her home on account of illness for the
past few days but is better today .
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Lanier are vis
iting relatives at Chalybeate Springs
this week.
Mrs. Edgar Johnson, of Oxford ar
rived yesterday to visit relatives for
a few days.
Mr. William Canaday, of Richmond,
spent a few days in town this week
with relatives and friends.
Mrs. D. McL. Holt, of Jonesboro,
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
J. B. Faircloth for the past week.
Mr. Eli Morgan, a student at the
State college spent the past week-end
here with his parents.
Mr. Jesse Ryais, of Rocky Mount
was in town for a few days ihis week
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Gordon of Ham
let, spent the past Sunday with their
children, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Barbour.
Miss Webb and Ruth and John Las
siter were the guest of friends in
Smithfield Sunday.
Miss Vermelle High left today to
spend Thanksgiving with her parents
in Wilson.
Miss Lois Carter is spending the
Thanksgiving holidays with friends
in Kenly .
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wells are
spending this week at Asheville. Mr.
Wells is one of the delegates from
Johnston county to the Annual meet
ing of the Teacher’s Assembly which
he goes to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Lassiter *re
to spend Thanksgiving at the home of
Mr. Lassiter’s parents at Clayton, Mr.
and Mrs. John Yelverton who on that
day will celebrate their thirty-ninth
wedding anniversary.
Miss Lois White leaves today to
spend Thanksgiving with her uncle in
South Carolina.
Mis? Webb presented her music pup
ils in a recital last night at the school
Auditorium. Her students gave evi
dence of careful instruction and be
cause of the varied selections and the
charming little dances and playlets
with which the numbers were inter
posed, the monotony which usually
haracterizes such recitals was entire-_
ly lacking
Mi. John 0. Jcrnigan died at his
home three in l> s from Benson on the
Dunn road, Monda- night after a brief
illness. He leaves a widow and sev
eral sons and c'aueIters. He was
about 70 years old and had lived
most of his life near Benson.
“Miss Fearless and Company”, a
play, will be given by the School fac
ulty in the< Auditorium on the even
ing of December the tenth. It is an
event which is being eagerly antici
pated, as every one feels sure that
this crowd of vivacious and intellec
ual young folks will present- some
thing worth going to see, and as the
School will be benefitted by the pro
ceeds, no doubt it will be largely at
tended.
The John (Jharies MCiNeni cook
Club held its regular meeting on last
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. T. T. Lanier. The Southern
Short Story Writers studied at this
meeting were Caroline Howard Gil
man, South Carolina’s most emmi
nent woman writer; Richard Malcom
Johnson, and our own “Christian Reid’
—Mrs. Frances Christian Tierman,
whose home is in Salisbury, N. C., the
author of about thirty novels and
whose travel sketch. “The Land of the
Sfcy,” it is said, introduced the won
derful mountain section of North
Carolina to an unconscious world, and
pointed the way to Biltmore and Tox
away, Mrs. Boone in an interesting
manner sketched the lives and writ
ings of these people after which Mrs.
0. A. Barbour read a description of
Black Mountain from “The Land of
the Sky”, also one of Christian Reid’s
• oems, “Regret”. A selection from
Caroline Howard Gilman, “The Col
onel’s Clothes” was read by Mrs. J.
R. Barbour, which concluded the pro
gram. The hostess then served re
freshments and the cluh adjourned to
S PENCK IS POSTMASTER IS
BOUND OVER TO COURT
He Is Charged With Shortage In His
Accounts and Removed From
Office—Successor Appointed
Spencer, Nov. 23.—Following an
investigation made by Postoffice In
spector Webb, of Washington, Post
master, W. D. Petrell, of the Spencer
office, was today removed from office
under a charge of shortage in his ac
counts. . He was given a hearing be
fore United States Commissioner W.
H. Hobson tonight, and waived ex
amination. Inspector Webb, repre
senting the department, asked for a
bond of $3,000, which was given by
friends of the former postmaster, who
will be required to appear at the next
term of federal court. Inspector Webb
declined to state the amount of the
shortage.
Perell had been postmaster at
Spencer for about seven years. He
was formerly a locomotive engineer
and was a member of the legislature
in 1914. He declined to make any
statement for publication.
The charge against the postmaster
caused quite a sensation on the streets
here today and many are hoping that
the irregularities in the offide here
will be straightened out.
To fill the vacancy caused by the
removal of Mr_ Petrell, W. D. Kizziah
a well known young man and son of
Engineer and Mrs. W. A. Kizziah, of
this place, was sworn in as acting
postmaster. Hi' has had considerable
experience and it is expected will fill
'the office in a most satisfactory man
ner.
TARE IT BY THE YEAR
The fall is here and everybody
soofi will have some money. We hope
to add a large number of subscribers
to our subscription list. We want
the people to take The Herald and
hope all who can do so will take it foi
st least a year at a time. If you sub
scribe for only three or six months
we have to make the same entries on
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Besides it is more trouble for you to
look after it when you take it a
shorter time than a year. You should
look at the label on your papo>
before your subscription expires
us a check for two dollars, for the f<'
lowing year. Do not wait to come to
Smithfield to subscribe or to renew
your subscription. It takes but lit
tle time to renew by sending check
and then your name does not have to
be taken off and later placed back on
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your time is out you will not miss
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Johnston county to cooperate with us
in enlarging The Herald circulation.
Take it for yourself and if you like the
paper, speak a good word for us to
your neighbors and get us some sub
scribers. We can not get around to
see everybody but you can help us out
where you are. We will greatly ap
preciate your help. We can best
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a first-class paper.
Family Fights Eagle to Rave Bov
It took the combined efforts of the
Spaulding family at their ranch near
Glendo, Wyo., Monday to save 8-year
old Walter Spaulding from being car
ried away by a giant eagle.
When the huge bird attacked Wal
ter in the ranch yard, he grasped it
by the neck and screamed for. help.
John, his 7-year-old brother, came to
the rescue, and a third boy ran for
help. Mrs. Spaulding beat off the
bird with a stick and the eagle attack
ed her.
She was saved when her husband
came with a shotgun and dispatched
toe bird. It had a spread of eight
feet. The two boys were severely
la- era ted by the eagle’s claws.
Methodist Church
Rev. S. A. Cotton will preach at
the Methodist church Sunday morning
nr.d evening. These will be Mr. Cot
ton’s last services before going to
Hr new pastorate at Franklinton.
meet in December with Mrs. W. D.
Boone for which meeting a musical
program is being arranged by the
Program Committee.
THE BAPTIST WORK
FOR THE PAST YEAR
Report Shows Total of $12,
495.20—Good Sunday
School—Orphanage
The work of the Baptist church of
this city for th ■ past year makes a
fine showing. Rev. H. W. Baucom,
the pastor of the church, who has just
been to Asheville to the Baptist State
Convention, had the satisfaction of
representing a church with all finan
cial obligations paid, and developing
along other lines as well.
The total membership of the church
is 208, seventy-three having been ad
ded during the year, 2:1 by baptism
and 50 by letter. The Sunday School
with Mr. T. S. Ragsdale, as superin
tendent, has 258 members which in
cludes 160 church members, 18 of
venom joined during the year just
closed.
The women of the church ar-e or
ganized into a' Woman’s Missionary
Society with Mrs. W. N. Holt, as the
president. Under the auspices of this
organization are the Young Woman’s
Auxiliary of which Miss Ruth Brown
i president; the Girls Auxiliary with
Mrs. H. G. Gray as leader; and the
Sunbeams under the direction of Mrs.
H. H. Radford. These socities raised
last year for all purposes $1,486.4(1.
The church also has a good B. Y.
P. U. Mr. H. P. Johnson is president
and although only organized a few
months ago, it has thirty members.
The financial report for the entire
hurch shows a grand total of $12,
105.20. This amount includes $6,123.
08 for—the 75 Million Campaign,
11,395.50 for building and repairs, and
$947.00 for the Thomasville Orphan
■ ige. Over $2,000 of the above sum
I was raised through the Sunday
! School.
NEWS FROM KENLY
Kenly, Nov. 24.—Mr. F. H. Under
wood of Wilson was the guest of
Mrs. R. A. Turlington last week.
Miss Fannie Hooks visited friends
i in Grimesland last week.
Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Turlington will
} he among the number here to attend
the Thanksgiving football game in
! Raleigh between Wake Forest and A.
i & E. College.
Mrs. George Walston of Wilson visit
ed Mrs. H. M. Grizzard for a few days
la^t- week.
Miss Jessie Perry of Raleigh will
arrive today to be the guest of Mrs.
G. B. Woodard during the holidays.
Rev. C. P. Jerome, of the Perqui
mans circuit was a visitor here this
week.' He was a former pastor of
the Methodist church here.
Mrs. R. A. Turlington was hostess
to the Priscilla club last Thursday
evening from four to six o’clock.
Mrs. F. A. White and Miss Ethel
Morris spent Tuesday in Raleigh do
ing some shopping and visiting
, friends.
Miss Sadie Morris will arrive from
Clinton tonight to spend the Thanks
giving holidays wi>(^h her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Morris.
The A. C. College, of Wilson pre
sented a play in the Kenly high school
Auditorium last night.. The play
was in two acts and was entitled, j
“The Obstinate Family”. It was j
throughly enjoyed by the large aud
ience present.
We are very glad to have Rev. J.
E. Holden with us another year. Sev- j
eral of the people here attended the j
Conference in Rocky Mount and re
port a wonderful time—good preach
ers, good meetings and good eating.
Rev. C. E. dark will deliver a
Thanksgiving sermon at the Presby
terian church tomorrow. No other
announcement has been hade as we
have learned.
Mrs. Z. V. Snipes and daughter, of
Dunn visited Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Grizzard Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Savage left
Saturday for Charleston S. C., after
spending sometime here with relativ
es and friends.
Mr. Ralph Hales, of Rocky Mount
spent Sunday in town with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hales.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wilkinson spent
Sunday in Bailey as the guest of Dr.
and Mrs. Foster .
Mrs. T. C. Bailey has been visiting
friends in Richmond for sometime.
GENERAL AND STATE
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Happenings of Interest As
Gathered from Daily
Newspapers
Refusal to take baths led to the
finding of $1200 concealed in the cloth
ing of William Porter and Charles
Carter held at Roanoke, Va., in con
nection with a bank robbery.
Fifteen women have been licensed
as preachers in the Methodist Epispo
cal church since the right was granted
last May by the general conference of
the church according to a statement
made in Chicago by the president of
an association of women preachers in
the United States and Canada.
Beginning Monday and to continue
for an indefinite period of time, the
largest paper mill in the south at
Canton, this state, will reduce opera
tions to four days per week.
One new presiding elder was made
at the recent .Methodist conference at
Rocky Mount. Rev. J. M. Daniels,
who has just served the church at
Dunn for four years, was made an
elder and given the Wilmington dis
trict.
An eight-year-old child in Danville,
Va., was terribly burned Wednesday
afternoon, her dress having caught
from a gas stove. She was uncon
scious when her mother reached her.
The Gastonia tragedy when John
Ford was killed and Essie Beatty was
seriously wounded recently still re
mains a mystery. Several suspicious
negroe have been arrested but noth
ing has been learned. The three sur
vivors have not changed their story
of the sad occurrence.
' A dispatch from Macon, Ga., an
nounced that the local telephone ex
cb-.n^e of that city .wp.uk! be served
Thanksgiving dinner for the small
sum of 10 cents. The menu was to
include baked goose with cranberry
sauce, oyster dressing, stewed corn,
heart of celgty. rolls add coffee. The
quantity served to each person, it was
stated, would not b’e limited, and that,
the ten cents would cover the cost.
HOLD TO YOUR NEWSPAPERS.
A farmer who was here recently
• id that since tobacco had pone down
in price he had quit reading. His
papers are still coming, but he does
not read them. As we see it, he is mak
mg a mistake, it is true, some had
news comes out in the newspapers,
but they do not make it any worse
than it really is. Wc should be will
ing to look at the dark side of the
picture as well as the bright side. In
other words, wc should want to see
things as they really are without
thinking too much about how they
should be. It is useless to worry
about conditions. Tf things are wrong,
we should try to get them right and
beyond that we should not worry. Af
ter doing the best we can our respon
sibility ceases. Newspapers cost but
iittle and the farmer should not be
gin to economize by cutting them off.
The thing to do is to decide on what
papers the family needs and get them.
No paper should be stopped if as
many as one member of the family
reads it. A man should not take
away the mind food of the family any
sooner than he would take away from
them the food qr the body. Regard
less of hard tttnes, you should sub
scribe for your papers and buy a few
good books occasionally. Do not let
the horrtp be dark for want of some
reading matter which would cost you
but little.
Large New Paper Plant
Asheville, N. C.—When completed
1he paper mill of the Champion Fiber
Company, at Canton, Haywood coun
ty, near Asheville, will manufacture
paper on a scale never before attempt
ed in the South. At present the
Champion Fiber Company opera
tions are limited to wood pulp pro
dution, the mills using 405 carloads
of wood a day. The paper plant now
under construction will represent a
total outlay of 2,000.000 for construc
tion work equipement, one machine
alone costing over 250,000. The plant
will probably be in operation by June
of next year. The machines will be
driven by electric power of which 1500
horsepower will be required.—Chris
tian Science Monitor from its South-;
ern News Office.
PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING
HAS INVITED DEMOCRATS
President-elect Asks Three Demo
crats To Confer on Making
Peace With Germany.
Harry M. Daugherty, pre-convention
manager and intimate friend of Presi
dent-elect Harding said today that
Mr. Harding had invited at least 3
Democratic Senators to confer with
him at Marion during December re
garding the future international pol
icy of the United States.He mentioned
Senators Shields (Tenn.), Reed (Mo.)
and Pomerene (Ohio) as those already
invited to conferences, and said there
might be others. He was not certain
whether Senator Hitchcock had been
invited.
The three Democratic , Senators
named represent the three views of
the Democratic party during the Sen
ate light over the treaty. Senator
Reed was an irreconcilable, Senator
Shields held out for strong reserva
tions,. while Senator Pomerene in the
main followed the wishes of President
Wilson, though willing to go some
what further on reservations than the
President. The general purpose of
the Marion conferences, according to
Mr. Daugherty is to reach an agree
m r.t with the Demcorats so that
peace can be made with Germany and
the war ended.
‘•We wish,” said Mr. Daugherty, ‘‘to
reach Some undhrstending about which
there will be no doubt of the country’s
approval.” *
In addition to the Democrats Prosi
dent-elect Harding of course will con
fer with prominent Republicans. A
mong those already invited are Sena
tors Lodge, Borah, Johnson, Poindex
ter and Knox, and Elihu Root, Will
iam H. Taft, Charles E. Hughes and
George W. Wickersham. *
Mr. Harding, according to present
plans, will resign from the Senate
soon after January 10. This will al
low the appointment of a Republican
' fill out the unexpired term, as on
that date Jamps M. Cox will be sue
ceoded as Governor of Ohio by Harry
1 . Davis, a Republican.New York
Herald.
BETHANY NOTES.
Mesrs Moses Creech, W. M. Bunn |
Edgar Ryals and George Balance
spent a while Sunday at Mr. Jake
Tyner’s near Four Oaks.
Farmers are feeling blue over the !
low price of cotton.
Mr. Julian Creech, who has been
quite sick for sometime, is improving ;
but is still unable to sit up. Miss j
•Julia Price, of Rocky Mount, who has
been nursing him, will leave for her
home sometime this week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Earp of Thanks
giving, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Broadwell,
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. C. I,. Batten, of Micro, Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Atiknson, of Florida, Mrs.
D. II. Jones, of Goldsboro, Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Boyett, Mr. and Mrs. L. B.
Boyett, of Glendale were visitors at
the home of Mr. Kirkman Creech
Sunday. >
We are sorry to note that Mr. Frank
Creech broke one of his arms a few
days ago.
Mr. G. R. Renfrew was seriously
hurt last second Sunday when the car
he was driving turned over.
The Juniors of Little River Lodge,
enjoyed an oyster supper on the ev
ening of the 24th. A large number
of the members were present.
Kenly, N. C.
B.
A STRIKE IN 1535
An amusing old chronicle, dating
from Cromwell’s time, and enlivened
with marvelous spelling, informs us
that one day in the year 1535 a crowd
of English shoemakers sat on a hill
outside Wisbech, waiting while their
committee in the town dickered with
the master shoemakers about wages.
Too low by far the wages had been.
Growled 'Ihe fellows on the hilltop.
“There shall none come into the town
to serve for that wages within a
twelvemonth and a day, but we woll
have an harme or a legge of hym, ex
cept woll take an othe, as we 'have
doon.”
By this we see that the problem of
labor is a very old problem. Away
back in 1535, behold a full-blown
strike, with its demand for better pay,
its vow of fealty to the union, its
threats against strike-breakers, its
faith in violence—precisely the sort of
thing that has been going on, here
and there, ever since!—Literary Pi
gest.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM PRINCETON
Neuse River Out Of Ranks
Causes Trouble Union
Veteran Dead
Princeton, Nov. 24.—Mrs. Silas
Worley is very seriously ill at her
home after giving birth to twin bab
ies, one of them being dead. Mrs.
Worley had been in bad health for
several months, and her many friends
hope that she will soon recover
Mr. Elwood J. Pearson died at the
home of his sister, Mrs. George How
ell, here in town Friday evening. He
was said to have been a soldier in the
Union army during the Civil War
and had been at the old soldier’s home
near Washington City, since the war.
He was here on a visit to his sister
at the time of his death.
ivir. lom braswell and Miss Mildred
Massey, Mr. Dock Masey and Miss
Thelma Toler went to Buies Creek
last Sunday to carry Miss Mary
Massey who is in school there this
year. -
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Edwards, Mr.
and Mrs. Bradley Hinton spent the
day (Sunday) at Mr. Oscar Neels in
Wilson county. The party say they
were never treated so royally and nev
er before enjoyed such an excellent
and bountiful dinner.
Mr. Richard Woodard strated to
Goldsboro Monday morning with a
load of tobacco. Whon about 2 miles
out of Princeton on the Goldsboro
-road, a man, said to be drunk came
up the road driving an auto at a ter
rific speed and ran into Mr. Wood
ard’s mule and wagon, killing the
mule and breaking the wagon up.
This happened just before day as Mr.
Woodard was seen to pass through
Princeton about four o’clock.
Mrs. Pittman and daughter, Miss
Margaret, from Goldsboro have been
visiting in town.
Mr. Alfred Capps has just killed
three pigs, aged 18 months. The
three weighed 1,125 pounds. One of
them weighed 432.
Boon Hill township had three men
who were very fond of booze, and it
is claimed that the three had imbibed
in the last 30 years enough whiskey
to float, the battleship North Carolina.
The most remarkable fact is that they
have quit drinking and now they
don’t touch a drop.
Mr. Hubert Cox, of Bentonville sec
tion brought a load of cotton to
Princeton Saturday. Returning home
that evening, Neuse River was about
four feet deep in the road and the
mules got into deep water and broke
the wagon tongue. In order to save
himself and mules, Mr. Cox got his
mules out of the harness and left his
wagon and bale of cotton with several
bags of oats in the river. Sunday
evening with his mules and some
neighbors they returned to the river
to try and save his wagon and its
load. When they arrived there they
found Mr. Jake Lynch stuck in the
high water with his automobile, the
water was then running over the
seats in the car. Mrs. Lynch with a
small baby was perched on top of the
seat, all wet as rats. With the as
sistance and mules Mr. Cox pulled
Mr. Lynch’s car out to safety. After
many hours dangerous work in the
rushing waters the wagon and its
load was pulled out on dry land.
Robbers entered the store of Ed
gerton Brothers here last night.
They broke in at the back dcor. A
large quantity of goods were carried
away, uits of clothing, auto tires and
many other articles. Blood hounds
are on the way here at this hour.
Mr. Roscoe Cox had the misfortune
to fall from a ladder at his home a
few days ago, receiving injuries from
which lie is now in a serious condition.
His many friends wish for him a
speedy recovery .
T. G. S. Observes Thanksgiving
, Wednesday morning appropriate
Thanksgiving exercises were render
ed in chapel at the Graded School.
The program was well carried out and
a most commendable feature of the
occasion was the gifts of food and
fruit which the children carried to be
distributed among any needy of the
community. The school adjourned
Wednesday until Monday, several of
the teachers having gone to Asheville
to attend the Teachers’ Assembly.