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m mitljfidii HcraliV VOLUME 40 SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1921 NUMBER 77 PROGRESS MADE IN BAPTIST REVIVALS More Baptisms Reported This Year Than Ever Be fore in the State Sanford, Sept 24.—The Baptists of North Carolina are 'n the midst of a great religious awakening. More baptisms have been reported thus far this year than in any previous year at this time. During the entire year last year there were reported 15,724 additions to Baptist churches in North Carolina by Baptism. Already 13,154 additions have been reported to Sec retary Chas. E. Maddry, and he esti mates that perhaps not more than 10 per cent of the churches have reported to him. By the end of the year it is safely estimated that there will be more than double the number of addi tions reported last year. At the meeting of the Southern Bap tist Convention in Chattanooga last May the convention adopted as its slogan for this year, “Every One Win One.” An important phase of the 75 Million Campaign launched two years ago by Southern Baptists was the winning of two and a half million new converts. The first step in the campaign was the raising of the $75, 000,000 with which to prosecute the work. More than 92 million dollars were subscribed to the campaign. So the campaign is now in its second stage, that of winning millions of new converts. The campaign is on in dead earnest, not only in North Caro lina but all over the South. From all the Southern States there comes the thrilling news of great revivals. But this “Every One Win One” campaign is very different from the ordinary revival, in that it is oper ative when there is not a regular pro tracted meeting on at the local church. It harks back to apostolic times when every Christian was supposed to be a soul winner. .This campaign has for its goal the enlistment of every mem ber of every Baptist church in the South in the business of winning souls all the time. In North Caro lina a definite month has been set apart for concerted action along this line—from September 10 to October 10. Each Baptist in the State is urg ed to do ,his best to win a new recruit to the Kingdom between these dates. Of course this does not mean that with the expiration of the time limit the efforts to win souls are to cease; but it means that each one will have the inspiration of knowing that a great many of his brethren and sis ters are engaged in the same work he is engaged in at the same time.— Walter M. Gilmore in News and Ob server. New Building Underway. Chapel Hill, Sept. 26.—With the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Ma sons in charge, the cornerstone of the first of the new buildings provided for the University by the last legislature will be laid Wednesday, October 12. It will be a celebration, in the best masonic style, of the expansion pro gram which will enable the University to take care of hundreds of North Carolina youths who are now kept out of the State’s own institution because there is no room for them. The Grand Lodge members will come from Raleigh, will be met at Durham by .automobiles for the cross country trip'Ho Chapel Hill and will march through the campus in full re galia, preceded by a band and follow ed by the student body in procession. They will be the guests at a luncheon after the ceremony. The building whose cornerstone will be laid Oct. 12, is one of four dormi tories that will shelter 120 students each. These dormitories, together with a classroom building and an ad dition to the eating hall now so badly crowded, will be finished in a year. The second year will see the erection of another classroom building, a building for the Law School, and at least one more dormitory. At the recent rate of growth the University will have 3,000 students in five years if it can provide accommodations for them. Because there are unhappy mar riages, matrimony as an institution is not a failure. Might as well say the ocean is not a success because some people drown in it. Mrs. Arthur Johnson Dead. Died at her home near the County Home, Sunday night, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, wife of Mr. Arthur Johnson. The deceased had been in bad health for a number of years and her death was not unexpected. She suf fered with heart dropsy. She was the daughter of Mr. Israel Stephenson and leaves besides her husband and father several brothers and sisters among whom is Mrs. John Hamilton of this city. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at Hopewell church conducted by Rev Ruffin Coats. Interment was made in the Hopewell cemetery. ! PROMOTION DAY IN M. E-, S. S. Names of Graduates From One De partment to Another; Attend ance Records; Honor Roll. Sunday morning one of the most successful Promotion Day Exercises in the history of the Methodist Sun day School took place at the regular Sunday school hour. After the les son period, the entire school assem bled in the auditorium, the Beginner’s Department having the first part of the program. At the close of their songs, Mr. J. D. Spiers delivered di plomas to the following children, who, on next Sunday will go to the Pri mary department: Charles Broad hurst, Charles R. Royall, Annie Rose Fuller, Richard J. Noble, Edwin Broadhurst, Julian Phillips, Edward Boyett, Ezekial Creech, Stella Wood all, Wilbur Johnson, Athleen Moore, Frank Gordon, David Sellers, Ruby Jones, Ruth Gardner, Lelia Pilking ton, Dixie Lee Penny, Sherwood Coats and Joseph Bradley. In this de partment little H. C. Woodall, Jr., was present every Sunday except one. Then the children of the Primary Department rendered appropriate ex ercises and Rev. D. H. Tuttle award ed diplomas to the class going to the Junior Department as follows: Daisy Young, Rebecca Royall, Bjll Joe Aus tin, Henry Johnston, Wihfield Lyon, Grace Smith, Liwie Jones, Gladys Johnson, Frank Johnson, Carrie Ful ler, Joseph Beasley, Ellen Borden Broadhurst, Floyd Parrish, Kenneth Smith, Mansfield Creech, Donald Blow Ward, Dora Warren, Vara Fn nis, Rachel Peterson, Carrie Pilking ton, Carrie Belle Pilkington ar.d Eill Bradley. In the Primary department there was one pupil who was present erery Sunday during the year except one—Sam Honeycutt. The Juniors came next on the pro gram giving some of their memory work, after which the Junior Super intendent, Miss Bettie Lee Sanders gave diplomas to the following- Vir ginia Broadhurst, Elizabeth Creech, Jeannette Holland, Ruth Johnson, El sie Penny, Ruth Coats, Rosa Jones, Leona Coats, Ava Wallace, Thad Young, Zoe LeMay, Bill Hooks, Ray mond Woodall, Norman Grantham, Herman Jones, Harold Fuller, Edward Lee Parrish and Walter Harris. There were four pupils in this de partment who did not miss a single Sunday during the year: Elizabeth Creech, Wade Boyett, Robert Cotter, and Theo Ellis. Russell Parrish and Ronold Ellis were present every Sun day except one. JLne lntermediate-bemor Depart ment had no part on the program, but the superintendent, Mrs. T. J. Lassi ter awarded certificates to the class going from the Intermediate depart ment to the Senior. Ten boys as fol lows compose this class: Thomas Wat son, Theron Johnson, LaMar Ellis, Malcolm Ennis, Heath Johnson, Law rence Wallace, Marvin Jordan, James Kirkman, Elmer Lassiter and Elmer Stephenson. Present every Sunday during the year in this department: Irene Page Stevens, Worth Boyett, and Carrie Young. Those missing on ly one Sunday were: Theron Johnson, Thomas Watson, Nellie Grantham and Pauline Broadhurst. It was also announced that among the number not missing a Sunday dur ing the past year was Mr. J. D. Spiers, assistant superintendent of the Sun day School, and furthermore he has missed only two Sundays in twenty years. The honor roll will be published in our next issue. London, Eng.—Ernest A. Hill, 36, postman attached to the Wimpole street station, was caught taking stamps off three letters. He got four months imprisonment,^without hard labor. FOUR OAKS SCHOOL OPENS OCTOBER 4 Splendid Corps of Teachers —O. F. Blankenship Principal Again The Four Oaks graded school will open on October 3d. Mr. 0. F. Blank enship, who has been at Four Oaks for the last two years, will have charge of the school for the coming year. An unusually strong faculty has been selected as follows: Mr. 0. F. Blankenship, Barnards ville; Mr. Ray Mann, Swannanoa; Mrs. Leon Adams, Four Oaks; Miss Leola Sanders, Four Oaks, Miss Zel ma Wester, Franklinton; Miss Caro line Fitzgerald Micro; Miss Esther Creech, Four Oaks; Mrs. William Ad ams, Four Oaks. As soon as the bonds recently vot ed by Four Oaks can-be sold construc tion will be begun on the new school building. Father of Mr. Lyon Dead. The people here will regret to learn of the sorrow which has come to our townsman, Mr. W. H. Lyon in the death of his father, which took place in Raleigh Saturday. Mr. Lyon locat ed here recently for the practice of law and has made many friends who sympathize with him in his bereave ment. The following account of the death appeared in Sunday’s News and Observer: The funeral of W. H. Lyon, well known Raleigh merchant, who died at his home, 103 South Bloodworth st., yesterday morning at 8 o’clock, will be held from the residence this after noon at 4 o’clock. The sons and grandsons will be pallbearers. Mr. Lyon, who has been in the mer cantile business here since 1879, was born at Wilson, this county, Decem ber 28, 1842. He received his educa tion in the neighborhood schools and at Cedar Fork Academy. He was in school when the call for volunteers came in 1861 and under the inspiring leadership of his school teacher and Major R. W. York, he volunteered for military service and with other boys in the academy he en listed as a private on May 28, 1861, in Company I, Sixth North Carolina In fantry. He received successive pro motions for gallant service and when a lieutenant was captured at Cold •Harbor, Md., November 23, 1863. He was transferred to the military pri son of the Union Army at Point Look out, Md., where he remained as a pris oner until the close of the war. Mr. Lyon was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mollie Wiggins, of Wake County, and the following children survive: Mrs. W. A. Carr, and W. C. Lyon, of Durham. On No vember 27, 1879 he was married to Miss Bettie Wood, of Johnston coun ty, and she and two daughters, Miss es Ethel and Marcellite Lyon and one son, Winfield H. Lyon survive. Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey To Cornell We are in receipt of a letter from Mrs. Jasper L. Stuckey who with her husband went recently to Ithaca, N. Y., where Mr. Stuckey will teach in the Geology department and study in Cornell University in which interest ing facts are given about Cornell. We quote the following paragraph from her letter: “Ithaca is a beauti ful city, the county seat of Tompkins County and is in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region. Cornell Uni versity is the prettiest place I ever saw. There are over 50 buildings and new ones are being built. There are 5,000 students here in comparison to the 1500 we had at the University of N. C., last year. The faculty con sists of about 700 teachers.” Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey are both graduates of T. G. S. and Mr. Stuckey is now studying for his Ph. D. degree in Geology. They have been at Chapel Hill with the Geological Survey since Mr. Stuckey’s graduation there, until this fall. THE HERALD extends best wishes for a most successful ca reer in his chosen work. Court in Session. The September two weeks term of Civil court opened here yesterday morning with Judge Cranmer presid ing. An account of its work will ap pear in Friday’s HERALD. BRYAN INTO FIGHT FOR THE DRY LAW Flays Tactics of Wets in the Senate in Delaying Action On Anti-Beer Bill Washington, Sept. 25.—The success of the opponents of the conference re port on the anti-beer bill in shoving it aside and the fact that the report of the Senate Finance Committee on the revenue bill and of the judiciary committee on the ratification of the peace treaties are slated to have the right of way in the Senate beginning Monday have not feased the support ers of the measure inside or outside of Congress. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Salon League said today that the “delay does not mean any weakening among the friends of the measure,” that it will finally pass, that “the opponents of the bill have been afraid to let it come to a test vote any time within the six weeks the report has been pending in the Senate. A filibuster can delay ac tion but it canot permanently defeat the passage of a bill which is favored by a large majority.” “1 don’t believe that any beer reg ulations will be issued in the face of this continued filibuster. There is every Teason for withholding these beer regulations now, that obtained when the vote was delayed by the former filibuster before the recess. If the wets think they are making headway with the people by restoring to these tactics they are welcome to it. The constant reiteration by Sena tor Stanley that the pending bill vio lates the fourth amendment does not change the fact that this measure gives no right of search, either with or without a warrant. And in addi tij®, it penalizes any officer who makes a search without a warrant as authorized under existing laws which have been on the statute books for decades if such officer makes the search without probable cause and maliciously. If the officer makes the search through an honest error of judgment he may, in certain instances be subject to a civil damage suit, just as he always has been under the ex isting laws. The conference report on the anti beer bill gets the earnest support of William Jennings Bryan, who spent some days here during the week. The former Secretary of State condemns the filibuster against the bill as be ing thoroughly undemocratic. He is sued a prepared statement for use in Monday’s papers giving his views on the measure saying as to it: “The conference report on the an ti-beer bill meets the situation. The supporters of enforcement do not de sire to make the laws any more strict than necessary to compel obedience. A private residence is a permanent building and it is entirely proper to require a warrant for search. This might even be extended to permit any bona fide resident to protect his home from search without warrant by making affidavits that he has no liquor unlawfully concealed therein. But it is different with automobiles. To require a warrant before search ing a suspected automobile would practically nullify the law. The au tomobile could get into another coun ty before a warrant could be secured. It is inconceivable that any dry Sena tor can be deceived by the mock he roics of the wets. Liberty to disobey the law is not considered sacred by any large percentage of the American people. A filibuster by a majority to prevent the enforcement of a consti tutional provision is about as un democratic a procedure as could be imaginable, especially a constitutional provision which outlaws a criminal traffic.”—News and Observer.* ___ Tractors in Good Demand. The Sanders Motor Co., of this city, received a telegram last Saturday asking if they had any surplus trac tors they could ship to other places where the Fordson tractor is being sold. Some of the agencies are sell ing them faster than they can be had from the factories as is shown by this telegram. The Sanders Motor Com pany expects to deliver quite a num ber of these tractors during this fall to the farmers of Johnston County. They have made all preparations for a large fall business. Mrs. A. J. Whitley Dead. After a lingering illness of several months Mrs. A. J. Whitley aged 53 died at her home about four miles from town Thursday night. After a long, busy and useful life she died as she had lived—honored, trusted and loved. Her life was completed if work all done and well done con stitutes completion. Though not a member of any church, her Christian life was beautiful, and through all of her affliction her faith in God never wavered. The deceased was the mother of 8 children, who with her husband sur vive her. Vain is any attempt to measure the loss of a wife and moth er in the home, but the memory of her unselfish devotion will be a com fort to this family circle now and in the years to come. Impressive funeral services were held at the home conducted jointly by Rev. P. H. Tuttle, pastor of the Methodist church in this city, and by Rev. R. L. Gay, pastor of Pisgah Bap tist church. Both ministers made short talks in which they spoke beautifully of the life of the deceased and point ed the sorrowing ones to the Father in Heaven who has made reunion possible. Interment was made in a plot near the home, lovely flowers, emblems of sympathy, covering the mound. A large concourse of relatives and friends were present to pay a last tri bute to their neighbor and friend. The members of the family who survive her besides her husband are two daughters, Miss Pearl Whitley, and Mrs. E. B. Hales, and six son^, Messrs. Paul, Jesse, George, Adam, Ira and Percy Whitley. She al30 leaves several grandchildren. “We will weep for the days that come no more, For the sunbeam gone from the heart and door; For a missing step, for a nameless grace, For a mother’s form, for a mother’s face; But not for the soul whose crown is won, Whose infinite joy has only begun.” A Happy Reunion. On Wednesday, Sept. 14, there was a reunion held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stuckey in Elevation township. Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey are hale and hearty at the ages of sixty years, and had present their entire family of seven sons and daughters. It was,indeed a happy group assem bled as the family circle has never been broken by death. The day was quietly spent and will be long remem bered by everyone present. The fea ture of the day was the fine barbe cue dinner given by Mr. Stuckey in honor of his sons and daughters. Those present with Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey were their children, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper L. Stuckey, of Chapel Hill, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Whitley and son^ George P. Jr., of Durham, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stuckey, of Elevation township, Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Stuck ey and children, Pauline and Milton, of Elevation and Messrs Byron and David Stuckey and Miss Katie Stuck ey who still live with their father and mother. Meeting to Begin at Elizabeth. A series of revival services will be gin at Elizabeth church near here next Sunday and continue through the following week. Rev. E. B. Crav en, the pastor will preach next Sun-/ day, but during the week he will be assisted by Rev. D. H. Tuttle. The services will be held each evening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. Mr. Craven will preach Sun day afternoon at Jones’ School house at three o’clock. A Family Reunion. There was a reunion held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Stephen son in Smithfield on Saturday, Sept. 17. It was a happy occasion for all. Every member of the faimly was at home to enjoy the day together. Those present with Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson at the reunion were their children, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hodges, r.nd son, Earl Jr., of Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Jasper L. Stuckey, of Chapel Hill; Mr. and Mrs. Chester L. Stephenson, of Durham and Mr. Cot ter Stephenson who lives with his father and mother. WOMEN’S “BILL OF RIGHTS” PROPOSED Program Includes New Con stitutional Amendment to Give Equal Rights Washington, Sept. 25.—A Woman’s “bill of rights,’’ proposed for enact ment by the Federal and all State governments to remove all legal dis criminations against women, was out lined today in a statement by the Na tional Woman’s party. The program includes a new con stitutional amendment, declaring that “no political, civil or legal disabilities or inequalities on account of sex, or on account of marriage” shall prevail, together with a bill to give women the same rights, privileges and im munities as men. It was announced that Senator Cur tis, Republican, Kansas and Repre sentative Fess, Republican, Ohio, would introduce the proposed consti tutional amendment in Congress, Oct. 1, and that copies of the new bill had been sent to all State chairmen of the woman’s party except Wisconsin, which already has enacted the law. Women would have the right, upon marriage, to choose their names and have equal voice in custody of their children, legitimate or illegitimate, under the proposed new bill of the women’s organization. Other legal rights for women include: Suffrage, eligibility for all offices, freedom of contract; choice of domi cile, residence or name; jury service; acquisition and control ofe property; control of labor earnings, eligibility for fiduciary positions; equally in grounds for divorce and immunities and penalties for sex offenses. All common law disabilities of wo men would be abrogated under the legislation. The Primitive Association. The annual session of the Little River Primitive Baptist Association was held at Rehobe*b church in the western part of the' county last Fri day, Saturday and Sunday. The Asso ciation began Friday at 11 o’clock with the introductory sermon by El der J. T. Coats of Harnett County. In the afternoon there was preaching at the stand near the church. The business of the association was car ried on in the church. Elder J T. Coats was moderator and Mr. R. F. Smith, of Benson was clferk. There was no preaching at the church at night but both Friday night and Sat urday night there was preaching in certain homes by the visiting preach ers. Saturday morning was devoted to finishing up the business of the Association, preaching going on at the stand at the same time. There were several sermons Saturday af ternoon. The attendance was large every, day but especially on Sunday. Sunday was devoted to preaching both morning and afternoon. There was an abundance of good things to eat. Water was a little scarce but some was secured from nearby wells. Part of the congregation brought their water with them and a consider able quantity was hauled there jn bar rels on trucks. The Association was a complete success in every way. The next session will be held at Angier beginning on Friday before the last Sunday in September, 1922. Announce Engagement. Weldon, Sept. 23.—The announce ment of the approaching marriage of Miss Mary Ellen Travis and Mr. Troy McNeil Myatt which takes place at the Grace Episcopal Church on Octo ber 5, is an event of much interest to the many friends of both parties. Miss Travis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stanford Travis of this place. Miss Travis is much be loved in her home town for her gentle manner and ready thoughtfulness for the comfort of those with whom she is associated. She was educated at St. Mary’s School, Raleigh, where she has a host of friends. Mr. Myatt is a popular business man of Smithfield. —News and Obherver. Plot to Kill Obregon. Mexico City.—The discovery of an alleged plot to assinate President Obregon resulted in the arrest of Gen. Jesus Salas Lopez.—Zebulon News.
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