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/ PROGRAM SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING N. C. S. S. Association Will Hold County Convention Here October 26-27 The opening session of the Johnston County Sunday School Convention will be held in the Methodist church, Smithfield on Wednesday night, Oc tober 26, at 7:30 o’clock. The conven tion will continue through Thursday, Oct. 27, there being three sessions on that day, morning, afternoon and night. The Sunday school leaders of the county consider themselves very fort unate in having secured Dr. D. W. Sims, General Superintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation as one of the speakers. Under Mr. Sims direction the Association is doing progressive Sunday School work throughout, the state. Before taking up the w^ork in North Carolina Mr. Sims served for five years as General Superintendent in Alabama and for 8 years in Georgia as Sup erintendent of the State Sunday School Associations. Mr. Sims not only kn(ows the organized Sunday School work, but he has also had practical experience as Sunday school teacher and superintendent. He was superintendent of a Sunday School in Richmond which increased in mem bership from 951 to 2,072 in less than three years time. He is noted for the practicality of his addresses de livered in such a humorous, interest ing and instructive way. Mr. Sims long experience as a Sunday School Superintendent and teacher will make his lectures of special interest to all workers. In connection with his Sun day School work Mr. Sims has travel ed in 13 foreign countries, one of which was Palestine and last fall he took a trip to the Orient, including China, Korea and Japan in his travels. Miss Flora Davis, Asssistant Sup erintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, will also be one of the speakers. Miss Davis knows the Sunday school work and her addresses on methods of work are said to be very helpful and de livered in a very attractive manner. Miss Davis was one of the official delegates to the World's Sunday School Convention in Tokyo, Japan last October. She also took an exten sive tour into China and Korea as well as visiting many of the principal cities of Japan. She has recently tak en up the work in this state and comes to North Carolina from Geor gia where she has done similar work for the past nine years. The Sun day School leaders feel that a very competent assistant has been secured in Miss Davis. The meeting at Smithfield is ar ranged und|er the auspices of the North Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation. The Association stands for those interest common to Sunday School workers of all denominations. It is a systematic effort of workers from the various denominations to create public sentiment in favor of more and better denominational Sun day Schools. Leaders in thought in the various denominations help in this work. The following local committee ahs in charge the arrangements for the convention: T. R .Hood, Supt. Methodist Sunday School; T. S. Ragsdale, Supt. Baptist Sunday School; L. D. Wharton, Supt. Presbyterian Sunday School; N. M. Lawrence, Supt. Episcopal Sunday School. The program for the four sessions of the convention follows: First Session, Wednesday Night, Oc tober 26th. 7:30 Period of Worship. Led by Rev. D. H. Tuttle, Pastor Methodist Church, Smithfield. 7:45 The Adults in the Sunday School ..Miss Flora Davis 8:15 Song. 8:20 The Weak Link in the Sunday School—-Mr. D. W. Sims 9:00 Adjourn. Second Session, Thursday Morning, October 27. 10:30 Period of Worship. Led by Rev. Neill Mclnnis, Pastor Presbyterian Church, Smithfield. 10:45 Four Essentials of a Graded Sunday School_Miss Flora Davis. 11:15 Record of Attendance. GEN. METTS DIES FROM IN JURIES IN RECENT ACCIDENT Funeral Today of Commander of State Division of Confed erate Veterans. Wilmington, Oct. 18.—Funeral ser vices for General James I. Metts, com mander of the North Carolina division of United Confederate Veterans will be held at St. James’ Episcopal church tomorrow afternon at 4 o’ clock. General Metts,.who was injur ed when his automobile was strucK by a street car Saturday night, died at 11:30 o’clock. General Metts was the father of Adjutant General John VanB Metts, of Raleigh. In accident General Metts receiv ed lacerations about the head and his skull was slightly fractured. He was unconscious until the end w'ith the exception of a few minutes yesterday. Besides Adjutant Metts, he is sur-. vived by one other son, Edwin A; Metts, of thi’a. city, and a daughter, Miss Elia IXSlfitlls* both of Wilming ton, and a brother, Charles G. Metts, of Norfolk, Va. Improvements at Jordan-Edmundson We notice with a gteat deal of pleasure the wonderfuK improvement which has recently taken place in one of the most important business hous es .in our county. The proprietors of this business have been a source of great convenience for the many peo ple of our county who find the necessi ties which they must have when they call upon them. Yet we have often wondered how they stored so many different things with the room they had. They kept their store in splendid order before the improvement, but for one to step into the Jordan-Edmund son Hardware store now we are sure they will be amazed. In the store and range department, which is the old Austin-Stephenson Co. store, you will find at a glance anything wanted in the line of stoves and ranges. You will find oil stoves and heating stoves of most any kind it seems to us, and in perfect order. You will see all kinds of cooking utensils which are lined up in such an attractive way they act as silent salesmen. With this mammoth stock removed from the adjoining store they have the hard ware department arranged so that one can see in this department as in the other at a glance what he came for. The Jordan-Edmundson Hardware Co., is certainly on the job. They have been in business for 20 years, as the present owners have onl$ changed in name from the Cotter Hardware Co., which name they bore for so long a time. They are progres sive business men who will extend to you the greatest consideration, and we are among the many who know of no service better than the service given by these people. We congratu late them upon the last big improve ment, and wish for them much suc cess. 11:25 Our Purpose and Our Task.. __By Mr. D. W. Sims. — 12:00 Miscellaneous business: 1. Offering for support of the North Carolina Sun day School Association. 2. Announcements. 12:16 Adjourn. Third Session, Thursday Afternoon 2:30 Period of Worship. Led by Rev. H. S. Hartzell, Rector Episcopal church, Smith field. 2:45 Practical Points for Increas ing Sunday School Effici ency. By Mr. D. W. Sims. 3:15 Song. 3:20 Story Telling. By Miss Flora Davis. 3:50 Problem Solving Period. Con ducted by Mr. D. W. Sims. 4:15 Adjourn. Fourth Session Thursday Night. 7:30 Period of Worship. Led by Mr. T. S. Ragsdale, Superin tendent Baptist Sunday School, Smithfield. 7:45 Trained Workers for the Sun day School. By Miss Flora Davis. 8:15 Song. 8:20 Doubling the Sunday School Attendance. By Mr. D. W. Sims, 9:00 Adjourn. It frequently happens that when a man thinks he is confessing his sins, he is only bragging. REPUBLICAN PEACE PROGRAM RATIFIED — Senate Blocks Efforts of the Democrats to Substitute Versailles Treaty Washington, Oct. 18.—The admin istration’s peace treaties with Germany( Austria and Hungary were ratified by the Senate tonight, the vote on the first two being 66 to 20, or 8 more than the necessary two thirds, and in the case of the Hun garians treaty, due to the absence of three senators, Being 66 to 17. The Senate action completed the ad ministration’s immediate peace pro gram and brought a full state of peace with the principal enemy pow ers. Remaining now only are the for mal exchanges of ratification, except pin the case of the Hungarian treaty, as that government alone has yet to complete parliamentary action on the treaty. Only three Republicans—Senators Borah, of Idaho, LaFollette, of Wis consis, and Norris, of Nebraska, who, absent on account of illness, was pair ed against ratification—voted against the treaties. Fourteen Democrats, on the other hand, supported the treaties, while two more were paired in favor of ratification. Before final action was taken a Democratic effort to substitute for the German treaty the treaty of Ver sailles with the 12 Lodge reserva tions was defeated and the foreign relations committee reservations pro hibiting American membership on the Allied Reparations commission or any other international commission without the consent of Congress were adopted. SIX INJURED WHEN AUTO IS HIT BY PASSING TRAIN Mount Olive, Oct. 19.—A. C. L. train No. 42, northbound, passing here last night, struck a Ford automobile at Pollock street crossing and turned it over twice. In the car were A. C. Price, the driver; his son and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Price; his daughter Miss Margaret Price and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Martin, all farmer folks residing near here, and all of whom were more or less ser iously injured, the full extent of which in some cases, isn’t ascertainable yet; but all were skinned and bruised up painfully with one or two probably sustaining internal injuries. Harvey Lee, another young white man, standing near, was hit by the tumbling car and apparently, is the worst hurt of any, this morning still remaining in an unconscious state. He is from near Faison. All had been here to a tent meet ing and were getting ready to leave just as the train came. Blinding lights from a large car across the street is said to have kept the driver of the Ford from seeing the oncoming train. —News and Observer. The Smithfield Tobacco Market. The Smithfield tobacco market is still on the upgrade. Prices have been advancing on all better grades of to bacco. The sales have been good here this week notwithstanding the fact that it is the week of the Raleigh Fair. The farmers seem well pleas e dwith the sales they are making and we can say with safety that you will make no mistake to bring your tobacco right along to this market. Now that the cotton picking season is almost over we feel sure it will pay you to get your tobacco ready and sell it. RISKS LIFE FOR DOG Railroad Agent Attempting Rescue of Pet Badly Hurt By Train. Wilmington, Del., Oct. 18.—An at tempt to rescue a pet dog from an approaching train today may cost Ralph Horn his life. Horn, who was assistant station agent for the Phila delphia & Reading Railway at Guyen court, near here, sprang to the res cue of the dog when it darted out on the tracks in front of an approach ing train. Horn hurled the dog to safety but was struck by the engine. He was brought to a hospital here, where it was said his skull is probably frac tured. HARRIS DIED IN CHAIR AT 10:30 YESTERDAY Made No Statement—Two Shocks Were Required To Kill Him While the gala day crowds surged into the city for the Fair and foot ball game this morning at 10:30 o' clock, old man Tom Harris, Ridge crest merchant, unassisted, walked in to the octagon-shaped death cham ber at the State penitentiary and paid the extreme penalty demanded by the law and society for the murder of W. H. Monnish, wealthy Baptist philanthropist who had a summer home at Baptist assembly grounds in the mountains near the Harris store. The execution wentthru in orderly manner, being little different from the others which have been carried out at the penitentiary since the law changed the method of execution from death by hanging. Warden Busbee waited until the last minute, giving J. T. Harris, the benefit of any last minute circum stance which might prevent or de lay the execution At 10:29 he called to an assistant for the prisoner. With the minister walking in front reading from the 16th through the 22nd Psalm and the 123rd Psalm, Harris came into the death chamber unassisted, walked to the chair with out apparent emotion and was help ed to sit in the right position by the attendants. He waved to the other prisoners on death row as he passed, but said never a word to them. Of low statute, but heavily and stockily built, and a drooping mous tache that was streaked with the grey of half a hundred and more years and dressed in the prison garb of blue shirt and dark trousers, J. T. Harris, walked to the electric chair in his stockinged feet without look ing at the crowd, which filled all the space in the little room where the ultimate in human punishment is meted out to those who break the man made laws of society. As he took his seat in the chair his eyes once turn ed towards the crowd. But there was little interest in the spectators, little interest in what was happening to him. He may have heard the min ister reading the Bible, but his stolid features gave no evidence that the ears were conscious what was hap pening around him. Only once was there any evidence of emotion. When the face strap was buckled to the back of the chair, covering the mouth and eyes, and af ter the dampened cap had been fitted over his shaven head, the chin and lower lip twitched as it does when a strong man resists a desire to ex pres his emotions in tears. Harris may have been crying or his lips may have been moving in prayer. None could tell. When hands had been buckled to the arms of the chair, his head fast ened to the back, and an immense leather harness pulled across his breast, the legs strapped to the chair —the right one bared by slitting the trousers to the knee for contact with the death-dealing current and the cap fited down over the skull, the at tendants stood away, and the warden turned on eighteen hundred volts of electric current. The body of the old man resisted with a stolidity that has characteriz ed his mental attitude since the mur der of W. H. Monnish on September 3, 1920 It stiffened as it met the current for the first time, then swayed back a little, stiffened again, limped again and then bolted up again twice during the three quarters of a minute the human body was furnish ing a conduct for the 1800 volts of electricity. The current was turned off and the warden coming over from the switch board, unbuttoned the shirt front and the undershirt for the physician to make the stethocopic examination of the heart beat. The examination seem ed to the crowd watching the per formance to take a long time. It seemed longer than it was. Then the physician shook his head, indicating that there were still evidences of life in the body, and the warden went back to his switches. The current was again thrown thru the body. The current was held there for several seconds and the resistance (Continued on page 4) FIRST REAL TEST FOR LABOR BOARD Government Completes Defensive Plans and Is Watching Developments. Washington, Oct. 18.—The threat ened railroad strike was recognized in high official circles today a shaving de veloped into the first real test of the practicability of the Railroad Labor .Board. The outcome of the negotia tions now in progress, it was declared would determine whether an '‘entire ly futile” agency has been created. Prominent in the defense put for ward by labor leaders in every contro versy in the past, it was pointed out, was the plea that there was no leg ally constituted body before which they could lay their grievances or to whose impartial judgment they could submit petitions for relief. With the labor Board expressly created to Till this gap .assurance was given today that it would be permitted to have a free hand in its efforts to meet the initial test provided by the disagree ment of the railroads and their em ployees over wage schedules and working conditions. With practically every active effort toward averting the walkout schedul ed to begin October 30,1 centered in Chicago, the government today had completed its defensive plans and was watching developments. The cabinet gave only “passive” attention to the subject at its regular meeting and there was no official", tatement on any phaso cf the : trike forthcoming from any branch of the government. While authoritative information still was lacking as to the basis up on which the labor board was pro ceeding, the impression was given that it involved some ^features at least, of the suggestion put forward by the public members of the board Sunday as “one feasible plan” for preventing the tie-up. The probability that official sanc tion would be given to the proposal that the July wage reduction be offset immediately by a proportionate freight rate decrease was discussed in high official circles. In case this was adopted as the government’s com promise plan, the test of the rail road board’s authority would arise immediately, it was pointed out, in the question of its acceptance by eith er or both of the parties to the con troversy. Entirely apart from the suggestion of the public group, official intimation was given that a freight rate reduc tion was being considered. There was no indication as to the factors upon which such a rate revision would be formulated or how soon a decision by the proper governmental agencies could be expected. It was indicated that the entire support of the government would be given the labor board in its effort to reach a settlement of the controversy and that other government agencies would be instructed to co-operate ac tively. In case the settlement involves modification of the present rate sche dules, the procedure would include a petition from the labor board to the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has jurisdiction for the neces sary rate change. With respect to his conference with the public group yesterday, Attorney General Daugherty said today, he has gone over with them every angle of the law under which the board ope rates and had examined into legal arguments and court decisions in the past . Whether this reference had anything to do with the possible use of the injunction Mr. Daugherty de clined to say. He declared, however, that the Department of Justice ex pected to maintain silence on phases of the strike until called upon for action, adding that if that time should come the government’s legal branch would be ready. White House officials declined again to discuss the possibility of the brotherhood chiefs being called to Washington by the President. Rev. Goodrich To Preach at Bethel Rev. A. L. Goodrich will preach at Bethel Baptist church next Sunday afternoon October 23rd at 3:30 o’clock. This church is four miles north of Kenly near Mr. J. T. Revell’s. A man who decides quickly hopes he is right; a woman who does so, knowB she 1b. NARROW ESC ?E FROM EX1 'OSION Deadly Missile Sent to Am bassador Herrick by A French Communists Paris, Oct. 19.—(By the Associat ed Press.)—A small, oblong package wrapped in plain white paper, tied with a strong cord and marked “per fume,” lay on a table in the American Embassy all this morning. It was ad dressed personally to the American Embassador, Myron T. Herrick, and had been delivered by registered post. Thinking it was a gitt for the Am j bassador, Secretary Lawrence Norton ! carried it to the Ambassador’s resi | dence. Early in the evening the Ambassador’s valet, Blanchard, saw the package on the desk, and follow ing custom, started to open it. The removal of the paper revealed a small pasteboard box, such as might be us ed for holding soap. Almost immed iately a spring was released and as ! Blanchard lifted the lid he heard a familiar noise which brought back the days when he was a bomber in the British army. He hurled the box thru the open bathroom door and ran from the room. The bomb ex ploded in the doorway, two frag ments hitting the valet in the back. He was not seriously injured. The Ambassador, his daughter-in law, Mrs. Parmley Herrick and her 7-year-old son, were just at this time ascending the stairway preparatory to entering Mr. Herrick’s suite. Blanchard came running out as the Ambassador reached the top. “A bomb exploded and I am hit,” the valet shouted. “Thank God, you were not in the room.” SMITHFIELD MEETS OXFORD IN FOOTBALL HERE TODAY The first important football game on the local field will be staged here today (Friday) between the Smith field Highs and the Oxford Highs. This game will be closely contested by two teams of apparent equal strength. The Smithfield Highs de feated the Odd Fellows Orphanage last Friday by a score of 12 to 0 in the first and only game of the season. This has some importance for the Orphanage bunch played the Golds boro Highs to 7-7 tie. Last year they defeated the Wilson Highs by a 26 to 7 score. Oxford defeated the Hen derson Highs by a smashing score of 40 to 0. The Smithfield line-up will have few if any changes from that used in the Orphanage game. The line, from endto end will average 161 pounds. The backfield carries a weight of 146 pounds. The average of the complete team is 150 pounds, a good weight for a high school. The line-up is as follows: Honeycutt—R. E. Biggs—R. T. Beasley—R. G. Wharton, D.—Center. Brown—L. E. Pittman—L. T. Hamer—L. G. Holland (Captain)—Q. B. Ellington—L. H. B. Skinner—R. H. B. Godwin—F. B. Oxfords team is not much if any heavier than ours. The game will be played on the High School gridiron beginning at 3:30 (to-day) Friday af ternoon . The team needs the support of the city. Come out and back up your city, school and team. New High Record for Gasoline Con sumption. Washington, Oct. 19.—A new high record in gasoline consumption was established in the month of August when 503,000,000 gallons were used, according to an announcement today by the bureau of mines. Although the average daily production in August of 13,921,000 gallons was 386,000 gal lons more than in July, total stocks of gasoline on Aug. 31, amounting to 567.645.000 gallons, showed a decrease of 116,000,000 gallons during the month, according to the figures. Ex ports of gafloljne in August totalled 47.803.000 gallons, or 75 per cent more than in July. Total production for the month was given as 431,577, 000 gallons.
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