NEWS ITEMS FROM ROCK HILL1
Farmers Hear Co-operative Market
in Discussed; School Goes To
Raleigh Sight-Seeing.
Mr. A. W. Swain addressed the
farmers of this section on “Coopera
tive Marketing” at Rock Hill last
Tm sday evening. Owing to a misun
der; funding about the place of meet
ing very few were present.
The teachers, pupils and parents of
Rock Hill school spent last Thursday
in the city of Raleigh sightseeing.
They visited the museum, hall of his
tory, asylum and many other places of
interest. The weather was a little
inclement, but everybody seemed to
enjoy the trip. The trip was made es
pecially for the benefit o fthe school
children.
A missionary, who has spent 32
years in China, will be at Blackman
Grove Baptist church Sunday morning
and everybody is cordially invited to
come out and hear him relate his ex
perience in China.
Mrs. Rlufus Bdasley of MJeadoW
spent last week with her parents, Mr,
and Mrs. George Massengill.
Messrs John M. Tart, B. B. John
son and Lennie Tart of Lower Johns
ton were in this section Sunday even
ing.
Mrs. Paul Lee is very ill with the
mumps this week.
Misses Thelma and Retta Lee and
Messrs Herbert and Garrett Lee and
Tommie Adams motored over to Ben
son Tuesday night to hear the Oxford
Orphans sing.
Mr. George Wood and family spent
Sunday afternon in Four Oaks at the
home of Mr. Daniel Keen.
Mr. Audrey Johnson of New Hope
section was in this section Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. Jim K. Hudson and family, of
Sampson spent Sunday with hi^,
daughter, Mrs. Wilbur Lee, who has
been quite ill for the past few weeks.
Miss Th'dnia Lee and brother, Gar
rett Lee spent Sunday in New Hope
section.
Mrs. Amanda Johnson of New Hope
section is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Sarah Lee.
Misses Fannie Lee, Maude Burnett
and Esther Langdon spent the week
end in lower Johnston at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Malcom Denning.
Mr. J. B .Lee ad family of Wilson
spent Sunday with Mr. Lee’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Leo.
Mr. Jim Massengill and family of
Arkansas arrived in this section last
week. They made trip all the way
from Arkansas through the country
on a car. Mr. Massengill is going to
make his home with his mother here.
His relatives and many friends are
glad to have him come back to Johns
ton county again.
Misses Henrietta and Victoria Lee
and Mr. Ernie Tart of Ixjwer Johns
ton visited at the home of Mr. John
Johnson Saturday night.
Mrs. Scroggie Smith of Wilson
spent Sunday with her daughter. Mrs.
John Halley.
“BLUE EYES.”
Explosion of Fire Works
Raleigh, April 7.—C i ti z e n s of
Greensboro, who felt the “earth
quake’’ of the explosion of the Texas
Oil plant there two years ago, kill
ing: one man and damaging much
property .just at sunrise, no doubt
have been as much interested as the
State Insurance Department officials
in the past week by account of the
explosion of fireworks in storage at
Chicago Tuesday, at Cleveland, Ohio,
and Pittsburg, Pa., on the night of
March 23. Besides killing seven men
and three women the Chicago explo
sion injured 80. destroyed a solid block
of business houses and broke windows
half a mile distant. The damage is
in the millions. The display at both
Cleveland and Pittsburg, is described
as having been wonderful. At these
places the fire works were stored in
several buildings furnishing a series
of spectacular explosions, blasts, pyro
technics and cross firings of rainbow
colors, that exceeded the “meteoric
shower” told of by old inhabitants
that occurred in 1856. Commissioner
Wade was moved to observe that
“fireworks were dangerous at both
ends of the line, whether at the manu
facturer and distributor or the small
boy end,” and such illustrations as
these should fix firmer the resolve In
North Carolina tihat indiscriminate
storage of explosive oils or fireworks
and sale of fireworks, should be more
closely guarded, if not proscribed.
Benson I>ady Weds
Mr. Edgar Richardson, of Richmond,
Va., and Miss Nettie Anderson( of
Benson, were married yesterday at
noon at the home of Dr. T. W. O’
Kelly on West Edenton street, the
ceremony being performed by Dr. O’
Kelly. There were only a few friends
present. They left in the afternoon
for a trip north after which they will
be at home in Richmond. Mr. Richard
son is chief electrician for the Sea
board Air Line.—News and Observer.
Watch your label! Renew!
The Quiet Life
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Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields
with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with at
tire;
Whose trees in summer yield him
shade,
In winter, fire.
Blest, who can unconcem’dly find
Hours, days and years slide away
In health, of body, peace and mind,
Quiet by day.
Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix’d; sweet recreation,
And innocence which most does please
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented, let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
—Alexander Pope.
Improvements at Pine Level Oil Mill
Nothing improves a town or section
of country more than factories. They
give employment to our people and
keep much of our business at home.
They send goods ot? and bring money
back to us. Besides her cotton mills
Johnston has several guano factories,
which mean much for her develop
ment. Among them is the Pine
Level Oil Mill which has in connection
a first class up-to-date guano mixing
plant. Last year they erected a new
building at a cost of about 30 thous
and dollars including the machinery.
The building is a hundred and fifty
feet long. It has all modern conveni
ences for unloading and loading and
mixing. This is nearly all done by
machinery of the latest invention.
They can work 24 hands and turn
out 300 tons per day. The building is
three stories high with a basement
below. Mr. N. B. Males, the manager,
prides himself on turning out high
grade guanos.
MEMORY
Ah, love me, love me, for my youth is
flying,
Age’s old knuckles k .ock upon my
heart.
The hour is late, the fire of faith is
dying;
Stay with me, love, while other
guests depart.
Stay with me, beauty, for silence now
and sorrow
Stir in the corner; memory awakes.
They will be there to sit with me to
morrow';
Stay with me, love, until the morn
ing breaks.
Ah, love me, love me, I can feel Sep
tember
Creep into winter, I can feel the
snow.
You only, loving me, makes me re
member.
You only, singing, makes the dark
ness glow.
Let me believe I hear my lost youth
crying,
His voice is your voice, while the fire
is dying.
—ROBERT NATHAN.
(In the Century Magazine.)
Before and After
There is nothing new hut only Before
and After,
Before you went and after you left
me alone,
Before is a garden green or roses and
laughter.
After is a gray world, cold as stone.
Did I shed any tears and you there to.
dry them
Truest, lovingest, nobody’s, only
mine own
Tears, my beloved; but sweet in your
arms to cry them.
Now you are cold to my sorrow, cold
as a stone.
Before—why did I fret, why was 1
grieving ?
We were sure enough for each other
who had such love.
Could you come back to me, darling,
warm and living,
Nothing could hurt me, having you
was enough.
But it is After—Before so dim in
distance,
Not to be counted by days that fled
and the years
We lived, we loved, we were glad in
another existence.
Now it is After; Before is hidden
in tears.
—KATHERINE TYNAN.
(In the New Witness, London.)
The Story of the Rubber Eraser
“Come, Helen, it’s time you were
going to bed," called mother.
“Mother, dear, please may I stay up
a little longer? Daddy said he would
tell me a story about something I use,
and he hasn’t told me yet.”
“A'l right,” said mother.
“Tell me about the thing that goes
on top of a pencil tonight, Daddy
A nice rubber eraser,”
“This is the most interesting of all.
Rubber comes from tropical lands in
Me <>co and Central and South Amer
ica where rubber trees grow wild,just
like you saw the maple trees in the
country this summer.
“Rubber erasers are the sap or juice
which comes out of the tree. It was
first discovered by civilized man when
the early Spaniards found cloth cov
ered with this gum used by the na
tives to keep the heavy rains from
them; rain could not go through it.
“The natives cure the gum by build
ing a great big fire with green leaves
in it to make a heavy smoke. Then
they get a stick and take some of
this sap they get out of the trees on
it and keep turning it and turning on
this stick till it becomes all hard,
then they get more until that gets
hard. They cut this away from the
stick and send it to America to make
erasers and boots, auto tires, water
proof clothing and lots of things.
“In 1843 a man by the name of
Goodyear, who was an inventor of
New Haven sat before an open fire
place anil was trying as he had done
for months, to see if rubber could be
made pliable and made into the many
things he thought it could be. When,
all of a sudden, he got discouragd and
threw this piece of rubber into the
fire, and went away, determined never
to try and do anything with rubber
gum again. Then he dug it out again
and behold it was then pliable and
possible to form any shape he wanted
it.
“By accident Mr. Goodyear discov
ered how to vulcanize rubber.
“Oh! I have forgotten the most im
portant part: before he threw this
piece of rubber into the fire he had
rubbed sulphur into it.
“The rubber eraser, then, you see, is
purely the pure gum treated first with
sulphur, then heated. By using more
or less sulphur the rubber can be made
soft for erasers or hard for hair
combs.”
“How do they get enough trees to
make all the tires for the automo
biles? Remember, Daddy, there are
four tires on each auto and oh, so
many autos.”
“Yes, there are many, many tires
made each year, but then, too, there
are many, many rubber trees planted
each year. And there are many other
things besides tires and erasers to
supply rubber for.”—Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
School Extension Work
It was thought at one time that
the oommunity service, or school ex
tension as the service is now’ called,
would be discontinued in Johnston
Coutny.
But Mr. Crosby, the state director
of the work, says Johnston is too big
a county, meaning big in a broad sense
to allow a work of this kind to be tak
en from its people. So he is going to
give them another chance.
There has been a splendid work done
here. The people rallied to the sup
port beautifully. But taking the
county as a whole the w’ork seems to
lag a little. I have been sent here to
see what can be done.
As the service is financially em
barrassed at this time we will have to
do our very best and meet our own
expense for a time, or we will have to
submit to the service being taken from
the county.
I am looking to the teachers and
the school committeemen especially
to help me in making the work go.
Without their help it is a failure.
JULIA WARNER,
Director of School Extension.
Counties Make Sweeping Cut
Sweeping reduction of property
values in some of the counties of the
State under the authority of the last
session of the General Assembly were
made by county commissioners and
appraisers, sitting as county boards
of review Tuesday, some ranging as
high as sixty per cent on farm prop
erty. Several counties including
Wake, deferred action.
The Wilson county commissioners
authorized a horizontal reduction of
60 per cent in value of farm prop
erty and thirty-three and a third per
cent in town property; Wayne county
thirty-three and a third per cent re
duction in farm values and sixteen and
two-thirds per cent in town property;
Vance county, thirty-three and a third
per cent reduction. Duplin county
commissioners authorized a revalua
tion of county real property.—News
and Observer.
Cumberland Man a Suicide
Fayetteville, N. C„ April 5.—John
Elliott, one of Cumberland county’s
wealthiest men, committed suicide
about 10 o’clock this morning at his
home five miles from this city, blowing
off the top of his head with a double
barrelled shot gun. Mr. Elliott had
been in ill health for a year and is said
to have suffered from despondency.
His lifeless body was found in an
outhouse at 1 o’clock this afternoon hy
his cousin William Elliott, who lived
with him. He had placed the barrells
of the gun in his mouth and pulled
the triggers with a forked stick which
was still held in his hand when his
body was discovered.
His cousin had spent the morning
in Fayetteville and on his return home
was informed that Mr. Eliott had not
been seen for several hours, the search
following. His housekeeper had been
ill with pneumonia for ten days.
The news of the tragedy was a
shock to many friends of Mr. Elliott in
Fayetteville. He was very highly es
teemed socially and his sound busi
ness judgment was much valued. He
was a director of the national bank
of Fayetteville and an executor of the
estate of C. L. Bcvill. He was 62
years old and unmarried, the son of
George and Mary Smith Elliott of
this county. None of his immediate
family survive though he has a num
ber of relatives in Cumberland and
Harnett counties.—News and Observ
er.
A Two Hundred Dollar Prize
A two hundred dollar scholarship
has been offered to rural school teach
ers by Kenyon L. Butterfield, presi
dent of the American Country Life
Association, Amherst, Mass.
The prize goes to the rural school
teacher whose essay best describes an
effective elementary school taught by
a country school teacher. Effective
means adapted to the needs of Amer
ican country life, in curriculum, in
community enterprise, or in commun
ity relationships, in any one or in
all these particulars.
The essay must be based on actual
personal experience of the writer and
it may include practical plans for fu
ture country school development. The
contest is limited to country school
teachers actually working in the coun
try and the scholarship means two
hundred dollars to the winner for fur
ther preparation in rural school work
in any normal school or college.
The time limit for this essay is Au
gust 15, 1921. For detailed informa
tion write to Dr. Kenyon L. Butter
field, Amherst, Massachusetts.—Uni
versity News Letter.
To Visit Bond Market
Governor Cameron Morrison and
State Treasurer B. R. Lacy will leave
later in the week for New York and
other financial centers to investigate
the feasibility of a present issue of
bonds or the sale of short term notes
to provide for road construction and
institutional expansion authorized by
the 1921 session of the General As
sembly.
The mission was determined upon
after the Governor had discussed with
the Council of State yesterday morn
ing the general financial situation
of the administration, and the neces
sity for action in regard to the build
ing program recently provided for by
legislative action. The meting lasted
for nearly two hours, it is understood,
and the Governor laid before the Coun
cil his impression of the present con
dition of the financial market.
Killette Mayor of Wilson
Mr. E. E. Killette won in Tuesday’s
primaries in Wilson for mayor. He
is a brother of Mr. Charles Killette
who had charge of the water and light
system here a few years ago.
Announcement
Dr. R. Lane has purchas
ed Mr. F. H. Parrish’s inter
est in the City Market and
will continue to do business
with Mr. M. B. Strickland.
They will sell for cash only
to everybody, at the same
place, but sell it cheaper.
We wish to thank our many
friends and customers for
their liberal patronage, and
kindly ask a continuance of
same.
Yours to serve,
CITY MARKET
LANE & STRICKLAND, Props.
SMITHFIELD, N. C.
A GOOD GUANO DISTRIBUTOR
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Our Price While They Last
$9.98
GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION
Floyd C. Price
PINE LEVEL, N. C.
The Cash System—
\ FTER several years of credit we have
decided for your good and ours that we
will not credit any longer. The time has come
when we want our dollars to count as much
as possible and the way is to PAY CASH.
APRIL 1ST, WE START THE CASH SYSTEM.
We buy for Cash We buy Cheaper
We sell for Cash We sell Cheaper
E. A. Johnson & Co.
SMITHFIELD, N. C.
WITH RUBBER INSULATORTaRE
GUARANTEED FOR TWO (2) YEARS
And we stand ready to make the guarantee good with a new
tery any minute we should be called upon. * Bat*
Mr. S. B. Johnson of Smithfield used one for THREE (3) vears
and then bought another one just like it of us. Why shouldn’t “e?
Sold in Johnston County for the Past 10
Years Exclusively by The
Storage Battery Service
Station r
JAS. H. KIRKMAN, Mgr.