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VOLUME 40 FOUR OAKS SCHOOL HAS FINE RALLY Mr. J. D. Parker and Rev. D. H. Tuttle Make Address es; Junior Order’s Part A very successful Educational meeting was held by the Four Oaks Council of the Junior Order at the Baptist church last night, the Juniors in full regalia marched from the hall on South Main street to the church followed by the school children and the Hi-Y’s who sang several march ing songs and gave their yells. Ar riving at the church Rev. E. B. Crav en, acting as master of ceremonies (and a good one he is) introduced Mr. J. D. Parker, of Smithfield, a prominent Junior who in a few well chosen remarks touched on the main points of the Junior Order, declaring that Education is and will always be second to only one thing with a true Junior, the first being the church, and that the voting of bonds for the furtherance of cultivating the minds of the young if left with the Juniors will always be “for” and never “against”. Mr. Parker mentioned the fact that in the Hall of Fame in Washington the names of Southern ers are scarce, which he charged not to natural intelligence, but to lack of educational advantages that other sections of the country have enjoyed. He pictured a future when our Southland will have spent as much for education and will be equally ren resented by its sons and daughters anywhere. He truthfully pointed out that what you are is the same as that which you have been inoculated with, let it be good schools and build ings that the boy will be proud of and appreciate, and the same kiud of homes; or unpainted, leaky buildings that prove to him that if there is no investment made for this education it can’t amount to much anyway so why worry. Each act of goodness is one more link in the golden chain that binds us to heaven and the key of virtue (a word recognized by all Juniors) fits the lock of opportuni ty. No person can become really great without first being good. Rev. D. H. Tuttle of Centenary Methodist church of Smithfield was the next speaker introduced, who complimented Professor Blankenship and his corps of young ladies on the appearance, marching, and singing of the 300 school children present, saying that the best dividend on any investment was that on money spent for schools, and lasting even into eternity. In referring to the Junior Order he said that he loved them be cause they stood for the Bible and the flag. They were always ready to back up the flag even unto death, and that they had said to the biggest church organization on earth, “You may do as you like in other countries but in America you shall not take the Bible from the public schools,” With out education and developing brains the human body has less value than a hog for the average human weight —150 pounds—has a value of $7.00 for all properties contained, while God has made that same body a shrine for a soul, he refers us to Isaiah 6th for proof of the old pro phets believing in eudcation. Igno rance is accountable for the worst conditions of our country today, among them being those who will drink whiskey colored with stable manure. The rich do not believe in large families; the poor do. The rich pay most of the taxes. Let’s put our families against the dollars of the rich and vote bonds on them next Tuesday, April 12th, thereby arrang ing for the people of our community who are in best circumstances to bear the burden of educating our boys and girls who may some day have their names written in that Hall of Fame.—R. Death Near Blackman's X Roads We regret to learn of the death of Mr. Nichols J. Lee at his home near Blackman’s Cross Roads in Ingrams Township last Sunday morning about six o’clock. He had been ailing for a short time but his death was unex pected. He was buried yesterday at a neighborhood graveyard. HARDING TO OPEN FIRST SUBMARINE TELEPHONE President of United States Will Talk To President Menocal, of Cuba In Havana. New York, April 10.—The first sub marine telephone cable to link the United Stattes with Cuba will be for mally opened tomorrow night when President Harding talks from Wash ington to President Menocal in Ha vana. The Washington end of the opening will be under the auspices of the Na tional Press Club and will be held in the Pan-American building. In ad dition to the President members of the Press Club will entertain as their guests secretary Hughes, Secretary Mellon, Secretary Weeks, Secretary Denby, the Cuban Minister and other prominent Washington officials. Ad dresses will be made by Avery Marks, president of the Press Club, Dr. L. S. Rowe, director of the Pan-Anierican Union, and J. J. Carty, Vice President of the American Telephone and Tele graph Company. Immediately after the opening cere mony the cable will be turned over to the service of the public. The new cable system has been in stalled by Cuban-American Telephone and Telegraph Company to connect the systems of the Cuban telephone company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The sys tem was designed and laid under the direction of the experts of the Bell system.—News and Observer. HAD RATHER BUILD ROADS THAN SANITARY PRIVY. Sampson County Citizen Goes To Road in Defiance of The State Sanitary Privy Law. Choosing 30 days on the county roads as an alternative for complying with the State sanitary privy laws, W. B. Faircloth, a white citizen of Sampson county, living near Haynes, has donned penal habiliments and is serving his sentence, according to the State Board of Health. Mr. Faircloth was haled into court early last week. The trial magistrate is said to have been disposed to be lenient and let the defendant off with $4.50 for costs. Faircloth didn’t think that even that much was justified and he stalk ed out of the magisterial "presence with the statement that certain things would ensue to the personal discomfort of the magistrate before he would pay any costs. So goes the report to the State Board. A constable was dispatched in pur suit of Faircloth, and he was returned to the presence of the court and 30 days imprisonment on the county chaingang was imposed. Although amply table to retain counsel and make a fight, Mr. Faircloth declined to have further to do with the magis trate or with any other courts, and suffered himself to be led to the stock ade. Health authorities are in no wise disposed to let roadbuilding compen sate for unsanitary premises, and are minded to continue legal processes to the end that Mr. Faircloth builds the prescribed type of privy when he re turns from his roadbuilding expedi tion. They are watching the case with considerable interest. It is the firs: time that so stern measures have been required for the enforce ment of the privy law.—News and Observer, April 10th. Alcoholic Melon is Invented Burlington, Colo., April 8.—F. H. Chandler, a prominent melon grower, has contracted to raise one acre of watermelons for each of three real estate dealers in Burlington, Chand ler to receive $1 for each melon that equals or exceeds 10 per cent alcohol ic contents. When the melons are half grown Chandler will plug each melon and in sert in the cavity from which the plug comes a special yeast of his own in vention. The rind part of the plug will then be replaced, covered with grafting wax and sealed in place with adhesive strips. According to Chand ler, the yeast acts on the natural sug ar contents of the melon and im mediately begins to develop alcohol in the tissues. Mr. I. W. Medlin attended the Wesley Bible Class Federation at Goldsboro Sunday. THE SIXTY SEVENTH CONGRESS CONVENES Machinery Started Yester day—Real Work Today; Kitchin Minority Leader Washington, April 10.—The new Republican administration will get under full headway tomorrow when the sixty-seventh American Congress convenes at noon for the extraordi nary session called a few weeks ago by President Harding. The program tomorrow is expected to be limited to the usual opening formalities, including the adoption of resolutions providing for a joint ses sion Tuesday to hear the President’s address and to organization work. Committtees of leaders also will be appointed tomorrow’ to notify the President of the assembling of Con gress. Domestic needs, including tariff and tax revision, are expected to be emphasized by President Harding Tuesday but he also is said to be planning a considerable discussion of international questions. Republicans prominent in Congress received re ports tonight that he would state with considerable definiteness his at I titude toward the proposal to estab lish peace with Germany by congres sional action. Tomorrow’s program calls for read ing in both bodies of the President’s proclamation calling the extra ses sion and for election of officers. Speaker Gillett is to be re-elected in the House, after the call of the roll by States. Committee slates also are to be adopted, with Representative Mondell of Wyoming to continue as majority leader and Representative Kitchin, of North Carolina, succeed ing the late Champ Clark as minority leader. The usual opening flood of bills and resolutions is due tomorrow in the House but not until Tuesday in the Senate. The first legislative achievement promises to be enactment of the em ergency tariff bill, vetoed at the last session by President Wilson. This is to be introduced in the House tomor row and reported during the day on Tuesday. It will be taken up for de bate Wednesday and Republican lead ers will press for a final vote before the weekend. Senate leaders also will press the measure, hoping to get it into the President’s hands by next week. Work in the Senate will begin on the $25,000,000 Columbian treaty, probably Tuesday. Taken up during the special Senate session last month, the Senate is under agreement to reach a final vote April 19 with rati fication generally predicted. A hard fight however, is in prospect, despite President Harding’s request for rati fication. It is planned to have most of the debate in public.—News and Observer. Kitchin Elected Minority Leader. Washington, April 9.—The expect ed happened when at the caucus of the Democrats of the House, Con gressman Claude Kitchin, of Scotland Neck, was made the Democratic choice for speaker, and was again chosen for a place on the Ways and Means committee, being the ranking Democratic member, and by virtue of this becoming the minority floor lead er, Congressman Kitchin was placed in nomination by Congressman Pou, of North Carolina, who paid high tribute to him, the nomination being seconded by Congressman Finis J. Garrett, of Tennessee, the election being unanimous. Mr. Kitchin returned warm thanks for honor done him, and referring to his selection as the Democratic nomi nee for speaker and thinking of the Republican majority, said with a laugh: “I have grave fears that I may not be elected.” The entire North Carolina delegation was present at the caucus some members having ar rived during the morning. Prayer Meeting M. E .Church At the mid-week prayer meeting the pastor will speak on the Bible and Our Bodies; the Prayer of Faith for the Sick. Everybody invited. JUDGE PRITCHARD PASSES TO REWARD Asheville Jurist Succumbs To Pneumonia Attack After Long Illness Asheville, April 10.—The body of Federal Judge Jeter Conley Pritch ard, senior Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth District who died here this morning at 6 o’clock of pneumonia in his sixty-fourth year, will lie in state at the First Baptist church Tuesday between the hours of 11 and 2 o’clock. With fellow jurists of the Federal bench, other prominent local figures and leading citizens of the common wealth and civic and fraternal organ izations pf this city will in a body at tend the funeral services to be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, con ducted by Rev. Dr. W. F. Powell, his pastor, at which time ex-Congress man Janies J. Britt will deliver the memorial address. Mayor Gallatin Roberts tonight is sued a proclamation requesting the suspension of all business for a period of ten minutes, beginning on the fun eral hour. Among the great number of mes sages of condolence received by Mrs. Pritchard was one from President Harding which read as follows: “I have learned with deep regret of the death of Judge Pritchard, whom I held in great respect and high re gard. Please accept assurance of very genuine sympathy and know that many of his countrymen feel a share in the great loss his death brings to his State and country. “WARREN G. HARDING.” For more than 8 hours previous to his death he had been unconscious and while medical experts exerted every effort to save his life, the disease continued to fasten its grip. While his death was not unexpected this morning, it was a great shock to members of the family who had kept constant vigil at his bedside. Judge Pritchard, son of Wm. H. Pritchard was bom in Jonesboro, Tenn., April 12, 1857, his father be ing of Irish and Welch ancestry and his mother, Elizabeth Browne, of Irish parentage. Facing the problem of obtaining an education during the trying days of Reconstruction in the Southland, and following the death of his father at Mobile, Ala., his mother instilled in to his mind and heart those stern pre cepts of morality by which he has ever been governed. Judge Pritch ard, yet in his teens, walked 35 miles across the mountains of East Ten nessee and Western North Carolina to Bakerville where he arrived with ten cents and nothing more save the clothes he wore. Eking his subsist ence through toil in the print shop by day, a desire to achieve fame prompted him to by night search such text-books as were obtainable. It was then that he received the attention of statesmen in North Car olina and identifying himself with the Republican party, began a career the prominence and limitations of which were only stopped by his calling to a reward for service rendered human Entering politics he was elected to the North Carolina House of Repre sentatives from Madison county in 1885 and again in 1887. Pursuing his method of home study until master of Blackstone and legal procedure he obtained law license in 1887. In 1888 he was nominated as Re publican candidate for lieutenant gov ernor of this State. He then became the caucus nominee of his party for the Senate of the United States and was re-elected to the Legislature in 1891. / He was elected for a two year term to the United States Senate in 1895, which he served, and was elect ed to the six year term in 1897 which he also served. The establishment of the Farmers’ Alliance at this time and its coalition with the Populist party brought about a change in the political situation and he-succeeded in consolidating the fac tions into a co-operative campaign and the State went Republican. On April 1, 1903, he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the Supreme Court bench of the Dis HIGH SCHOOL WEEK AT THE UNIVERSITY NORTH CAROLINA 500 Debaters and Athletes Expected To Be Present; Contests To Be In Debating, Tennis, Etc. Chapel Hillt April 11.—Nearly 500 high school debaters and athletes, their superintendents, principals, teachers, chaperones and well-wishers will pour into Chapel Hill April IS, 14, and 15 for High School Week at the University of North Carolina when championship contests will be settled in debating, in tennis, and in track. It wil be the largest number of high school students that has ever been in Chapel Hill at any one time. Fifty-two schools, the survivors of the state-wide contest in which more than 200 schools all the way from the mountains to the sea fought out the question of collective bargaining through labor unions, will send their winning teams to Chapel Hill for the further eliminating rounds. This means 104 debating teams or 208 de batersi nearly one-half of whom will be girls. Added to these wil be the largest entry list that has ever been received for the tennis tournament and the track meet, approximately 25 tennni players and 75 track men. The debating cohorts will arrive Wednesday night and Thursday morning. A preliminary meeting will be held in Peabody Auditorium at noon Thursday where lots will be drawn for the section in which the de baters will fight. There will be 13 dicerent section with 4 complete de bates in each section. The first elimination round, Thurs day night, April 14, will be in these 13 sections. From each section one team on each side of the question will be chosen. The second elimination round will bring together :.ll the 13 surviving affirmative and the 13 sur viving negative teams Friday morn ing. Ffom these two groups one af firmative and one negative team will be selected. Friday night these two teams will meet for the final contest, the state championship, and the Aycock Me morial Cup, awarded by former inter collegiate debaters at the university. President Chase will preside, E. R. Rankin will be secretary, and Pro fessors H. M. Wagstaff, L. P. Mc Ghee, W. S. Bernard, L. R. Wilson, and George Howe will be judges. Professor Horace Williams will pre sent the Aycock Cup. The interscholastic track meet will be held on Emerson Field Friday af ternoon, April 15, and the tennis tournament will continue through Thursday and Friday. University athletics officials and members of the track and tennis teams will handle these contests. Professor M. C. S. Noble will present the medals and prizes. Entertainments of various kinds have been arranged for the high school visitors. The Carolina-Trinity baseball game Thursday afternoon will be a stellar athletic event and the county clubs of university stud ents will look after visitors from their own counties. Roads or Schools It is hard to tell which the people are going in the more strongly for— schools or roads. But both are esen tial for progress and while all the money spent on them will not be judiciously expended enough of it will be wisely used to justify the outlay. Roads are an investment not an ex pense. Schools are a necessity. No community need worry because it goes in strongly for schools and roads.—News and Observer. trict of Columbia. Upon the death of Judge Simon ton, the President ad vanced Judge Pritchard to the judge ship of the Fourth District, April 9, 1904, which position he held until his death. As national committeeman and as Federal judge the jurist received na tional note and in the campaign last fall was prominently mentioned for vice-president of the United Stattes and at the Republican national con vention was given a complimentary vote. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, wife of ex-Solicitor Thom as A. Rollins; three sons, Dr. Arthur T., Solicitor George M. and Attorney McKinley Pritchard, and a sister, Mrs. J. T. Harris, all of Asheville.— News and Observer. J WOMEN OF COUNTY FORMA LEAGUE Representatives from Every Section of County Met Here Thursday Thursday afternoon representatives from Clayton, Selma, Benson, Four Oaks, Princeton, Pine Level and Smithfield met in the Woman’s Club room here and formed a county-wide organization among the women to be known as the Woman’s Law Enforce ment League. About forty women were present who had come together with the common interest of aiding in every way they can in ridding Johns ton county of the curse of whiskey. Rev. Mr. Farrier, of Princeton, Rev. D. H. Tuttle> Rev. H. W. Baucom, and Mr. G.E.Thornton were present at the opening of the meeting, Rev. Mr. Tut tle and Mr. Baucom making short talks, stating the object of the coming together. Rev. Mr. Tuttle led in prayer. After the gentlemen had retired from the room, election of officers took place as follows: Chairman, Miss Eula Parrish; Vice-Chairman, Mrs. T. J. Lassiter; secretary, Mrs. D. B. Oli ver, of Pine Level; and treasurer, Mrs. Lee Sanders. A finance committee appointed from every town repre sented was named as follows: Mrs. R. ' S. Stevens, Princeton; Miss Gladys Adams, Four Oaks; Mrs. B. L. Srick land, Pine Level; Miss Christine Gow er, Clayton; Mrs. Lee Sanders, Smith field; Mrs. M. A. Peacock, Benson; Mrs. R. J. Noble, Selma. Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, of Clayton was chosen chairman of a ways and means committee, and she will appoint one lady from each town to meet with her and make out plans to present to the League as a whole. This organization is intended to be permanent and a constitution will be submitted at the next meeting. Those present Thursday afternoon were: Mrs. Flossie Wells, Mrs. R. S. Stevens, Mrs. L. E. Howell, Mrs. H. A. Watson) Mrs. L. D. Grantham, Mrs. L. M. Edgetron, Mrs. P. H Joyner, Mrs. W. J. Massey, Mrs. John Wood ard, Miss Leona Holt, Mrs. J. R. Led better, Princeton; Mrs. W. P. Creech, Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, Mrs. W. S. Penn, Mrs. B. M. Robertson, Mrs. D. J. Thurston, Clayton; Mrs. G. K. Mas sengill, Mrs. R. B. Strickland, Miss Gladys Adams, Mrs. J. W. Paschall, Mrs. W. H. Tucker, Four Oaks; Mrs. R. J. Noble; Mrs. W. Thad Woodard, and Mrs. George F. Brietz, Selma; Mrs. M. A. Peacock, Mrs. M. T. Britt, Mrs. J. L. Hall, Mrs. J. W. Whitten ton, Mrs. C. C. Canaday, Benson; Mrs. E. R. Settle, Mrs. D. B. Oliver, Mrs. B. L. Strickland, Mrs. B. Godwin, Pine Level; Mrs. E. I. Poole, Mrs. E. F. Crump, Mrs. T. R. Hood, Mrs. J. D. Underwood, Mrs. C. V. Johnson, Mrs. Thel Hooks, Mrs. Lee Sanders, Mrs. C. B. Register, Miss Eula Par rish, Mrs. N. B. Grantham, Mrs. T. J. Lassiter, Mrs. H. D. Ellington, Mrs. Eliza Williamson, Mrs. W. N. Holt, Mrs. H. L. Skinner, Mrs. J. D. Spiers, Mrs. W. M. Sanders, and Miss Bettie Lee Sanders, of this city. CLAYTON NEWS Clayton; April 9.—Mr. A. B. Austin of Cary is spending a few days here with relatives. Mrs. A. O. Moore returned this week from a visit to relatives at Scotland Neck. Mrs. J. J. Misenheimer, of Char lotte is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. H. McCullers. Mrs. Jesse McLamb of Benson is visiting her parents near town. Mrs. Shirley Jenkins, of Hamptoa Va. ,is here on a visit to relatives. Miss Louise Young has returned to Salem College after spending some time here on account of the illness of her father, Dr. J. J. Young. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Vinson are spending the week end at Smithfield. Revival services are still going on at Horne Memorial church. The pas tor, Rev. Mr. Thift is doing some fine preaching something we all need to hear. The public is invited each evening at 7:30 o’clock, week in Durham with relatives. Mrs. G. F. Poole left this week for an extended visit to her daugh ter, Mrs. Ralph Parkinson at Phila delphia. I A number of our people expect to I hear Mr. Strickland at the Baptist church in Smithfield tomorow.
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