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VOLUME 4i SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922 NUMBER 16 PRINCESS MARY MARRIED TODAY Crowds Flocking to London For the Great Social Function LONDON, Feb. 26.—The air min istry’s weather forecast of dull, rainy weather for the first few days of this week has faded to lessen popu lar enthusiasm over Tuesday’s great event, the vcedding of Princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles in Westminister abbey. It is fairly certain that a combination of one of London’s worst fogs and a torrential downpour would not prevent multitudes from lining the route which is to be tra versed by the state carriages bearing the bride-elect and King George and Queen Mary' to the abbey. Against the vagaries of the weath er, water proof shelters have been provided for the severan stands in front of Buckingham palace, whence the procession will start, and about the west door of the abbey. Shoul3 the skies be of modish “Mary blue” the state processions, which are to be part of the elaborate wedding ceremonial, and the beautiful gowns of the wedding guests will afford the populace a spectacle of surpassing elegance. me caretuuy selected toilettes oi the more than one thousand women guests will make the event a gor geous show of gowns, jewels and other fineries, the furnishing of which has been a welcome stimulant to the trade of dressmakers, shop keepers and business houses in gen eral. The hotels and restaurants are sharing in the benefits. Tonight it was more difficult to find lodgings, even in the humblest of establish ments than at any time since the coronation of King George. The res taurants and clubs have labored in their endeavors to cope with the avalanche of patrpns, the numbers of which are being increased heavily by excursionists from all parts of the kingdom and continent. As far as has been ascertained, George Harvey, the American am bassador and Mrs. Harvey will be the only Americans fortunate enough to receive invitations to the abbey service. It is known that here are dozens of transatlantic visitors at tracted to London by the wedding, who are endeavoring by the exertion of influence in diplomatic, court and business circles and by the expendi ture of large sums of money, to ob tain coveted tickets of admission. The dressmakers and milliners who made the dresses and hats of Princess Mary are to be her guests when they will have a glimpse of the marvelous accumulation of wedding gifts exhibited in the state rooms. Some of the tenants of offices in Piccadilly and other streets which are to be traversed by Viscount Lascells and his bride will realize a year’s rental from the sale of seats in windows, so keen is the desire of the people for a glimpse of the couple. The inland revenue officials have decided that a wedding, even one with a royal participant, can not be termed “an entertainment” within the meaning of the entertainment tax law, so the money received by the lessees of offices for seats in their windows will be clear profit to them. The scene within the abbey during the ceremony will be preserved for future generations by Frank 0. Sal isbury, the painter, who already has begun painting a large canvas by rojsl command. The abbey will be closed tomorrow. It will be open to ticket holders at €••45 o’clock Tuesday morning, and a few hours after the marriage cere mony it will be re-opened to the pub lic when a charge of one shilling will be made for a view of the scene of the ceremony. All the warships in Portsmouth will dress ship and at night will be illuminated in honor of the wedding. Announcement is made that King George has appointed Viscount Lascells a knight of the order of the garter.—Associated Press. FREE GOVERNMENT SEED READY FOR DISTRIBUTION The government seed which Con gressman Pou desires to be given out free, is here ready for distribution. A package of garden seed can be had by calling at this office. TO ORGANIZE CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOLL WEEVILS Community Meetings Will lie Held In Different Sections of the County This Week. Community meetings will be held at Glendale school, Wednesday night at 7:80, March 1st. Meadow school, Thursday night at 7:30, March 2nd, for the purpose of organizing the campaign against the boll weevil, and also to discuss the Boys and Girls Club Work. Mr. E. W. Gaither, District Agent, in Dem onstration work will assist the Home and Farm Demonstration Agent in these meetings. Everybody, men and women, boys and girls are urged to attend these meetings.—S. J. Kirby, County Agent. Supt. W. H. Hipps Attends Meeting W. H. Hipps, Superintendent of schools of Johnston county, left Sat urday morning to attend the National Educational Association which meets in Chicago. This is the most im portant gathering o,f educators in our country and the State of North Carolina will be represented by its leading educational men numbering about fifty. Mr. Hipps is a member of the Superintendent’s Department of this Association. Educators and business men of na tional prominence will address the gathering on various phases of school work and their relation to the business world. The Convention op ens Monday, February 27th and con tinues throughout he week. Mr. Hipps is expected to return to Smithfield the first part of next week. WHISKEY STILL CAPTURED FROM CLAYTON TOWNSHIP Between midnight and day during a rain on Thursday night of last week Messrs C. H. Johnson, Johnnie Barbour, J. D. Stephenson and Bert I sell Smith captured a whiskey still with worm and cap complete in the Duncan neighborhood about three miles south of Clayton. They found two barrels of beer and two and one half gallons of whiskey. Two neg roes and a white man were arrested at the still. Declension of Bons. Bonus is a latm'word. Before the Chicago convention it was in the nom inative case; before the election it was in the dative; before Congress it is in the vocative; before the Amer ican legion it is not yet in the pos sessive.—Renfrow Record. LACY WILL SIGN BONDS WEDNESD’Y, Although Physicians Object He Expects Undertake to Complete Job State Treasurer B. R. Lacy, who has been critically ill at the Penn sylvania Hotel in' New York City, for the past two weeks, was much better yesterday and plans to con* plete the job of signing 2,C00 State bonds, oyer which he collapsed, ac- j cording tb a telephone message from Governor Morrison in New Y ork yes- : tcrday. Physicians attending Mr. Lacy are opposed to his determination to sign ; the bonds on next Wednesday, but i he himself thinks that he will be | sufficiently recovered in strength to ; undertake it. Governor Morrison will today confer with bankers in the matter of extending the time for the delivery of the bonds, which fell due on February 15, two days after Mr. Lacy was stricken with pneumonia. The condition of the State Treas- ; urer and the outcome of the con ference between the bankers and Governor Morrison today will deter- j mine whether State Auditor Baxter Durham will go to New York tonight to sign the bonds for Mr. Lacy. Un der the law, the auditor is author ized to sign for the Treasurer in case the latter is incapacitated. The heroic determination of Mr. Lacy to fulfill the duties of his I office, even when laboring under illness and physical exhaustion has stirred the profoundest admiration among his thousands of friends in the State. He went to New York two weeks ago to sign 4,500 State bonds in time for delivery on February 15, when they fell due. Although ill when he left Raleigh, he began work when he reached New York, sitting on the side of the bed with two nurses in attendance. Tem porary arrangements for extending the time were made by Joseph G. Brown, president of the Citizens Na tional Bank, Raleigh, when Mr. Lacy grew too ill to continue his work. Governor Morrison left Friday for New York.—News and Observer. SELMA PREACHER TO PREACH AT SARDIS BAPTIST CHURCH Arrangements have been made for Rev. A. A. Butler who begins work at Selma March 1st, to preach also at Sardis Baptist church the 1st and 3rd Sunday afternoons. He will preach there next Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. MRS. JOSEPHUS DANIELS BE HERE Will Speak at Opera House Friday Night on Wood row Wilson Foundation The people of this city and sur rounding community will have the unusual pleasure of hearing Mrs. Josephus Daniels, of Raleigh, speak at the Opera House Friday evening, upon the Woodrow Wilson Founda tion. She comes at the invitation of the Woman’s Club. The matter of the Woodrow Wil son Foundation has been presented to the public through the columns of THE HERALD, and contributions were asked, for this fund. However, other calls for the Jewish Relief and Near East Relief came at about the same time, and the Wilson Founda tion was for a time overshadowed. Nevertheless Woodrow Wilson has many admirers here and in Johnston County, and there is sure to be a number who will gladly contribute to this fund to do honor to Wilson and the principles for which his name has become a synonym. Mrs. Daniels is an interesting speaker and well qualified to handle her subject. She is chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in North Carolina and Smithfield is hap py to have the opportunity of hear ing her. Remember the time Friday evening at 8 o’clock at the Opera House. Marriage Near Smithfield. On Wednesday, February 22nd a large number of people drove from the Powhatan section to the home of Rv. W. R. Faircloth near Smithfield where he united in marriage Mr. Mack Spence, a son of Mr. B. H. Spence and Miss Gertie Godwin, a daughter of Mr. W. E. Godwin. The attendants were Mr. Elbert Jones with Miss Guailla Britton,Mr. Worth Woodall and Miss Agnes Duncan, Mr. Wi.bert Duncan or.d Miss Myrtle Benson. Mr. R.a Woodall asd Miss Vistula Britton. The marriage oc curred in the afternoon after which the yourg people went to the home of Mr. B. H. Spence where a fine supper was served. Preaching at Hepzibah Church. Rev. E. B. Brooks will preach at Hepzibah Baptist church the first Sunday in March at 11 o’clock and the same day in the afternoon at 3 o’clock at Live Oak church. BETTER SCHOOL WORK THIS YEAR r Failures First Term a I93H-21 and 1321 -22. Junior High SchoaJ, Smiihfieli^U.C.. iSiO-ZI ]/3P/-23) Failed, fwo-ar mars suhj tats 1920-2) fy'/ed Th yps-ar mare j&hjecTs iaja-di yw-zz 7 th .1 1th 1920-21 1910-21 I Bfh '931-27 Bn I juaiscj j-gt/jji-es Py uvQ4.*t£ In the first term last year 49 of 88 pupils In the junior high school, or 55%, failed on two or more subjects; this year 8 of 103 pupils, or 8%, failed on two or more subjects. Last year 37% failed on three or more subjects; this year only 2% failed on three or more subjects. Last year the subject failures for the three junior high school grades was 38%; this year it was 7%. Last year in the first year of the junior high school, or the 7th grade, the subject failures was 42%; this year it was 9%. Last year in the 8B grade it was 45%; this year it was 1%. Last year in the 8th grade it was 29%; this year it was 10%. CHURCH MEETING TO RE HELD HERE FRIDAY Conference at the Presbyterian Church In Interest of the Progressive Program. There will be a conference in the Presbyterian church, Friday, March 3 in the interest of the Presbyterian Progressive Program. This is for the county and it is hop ed that every Presbyterian Church in the county will be represented. The convention will begin at 1:30 p. m. We have secured good speakers and it is the purpose of the Presby ters manager and the county man ager to make this conference as in teresting and helpful as possible. And in order that it may reach the greatest number it is earnestly de sired that here be a large attendance of both men and women. The pub lic is cordially invited. Objectives. 1. Spiritual Life—The family al tar promoted. 2. Evangelism—That every church give itself more earnestly to the sal vation of souls. 3. Christian Education—The dedi cation of life. 4. Missionary Education—Foreign and Home Mission study classes. 5. Religious Literature—The Mis sionary Survey and a Church paper in every home. , 6. Stewardship—Adequate support for approved classes. 7. Ministerial Support—A living salary for pastors. 8. Every Member Canvass.—Much from some—Something from all. GIRLS LOSE FAST GAME TO THE RALEIGH HIGHS Raleigh High school girls scored a victory Friday night when they de feated the Smithfield girls team by a score of 28 to 23. The game was close and hard-fought throughout, the Smithfield girls taking the lead Jn the first few minutes of play. Mowery and Weaver starred for Raleigh High, Mowery being respon sible for 22 of the team’s 28 points, while Weaver played a great floor game and fed her forwards well. Mull was closely guarded, but succeeded in finding the basket for three field goals. Teachey and Thomas held the fast Smithfield forwards in the last half and enabled Raleigh to win by a safe margin. For the local team, Wellons was the star, this one forward getting all but four of Smithfield’s points. Avera also played well at center and pass ed accurately, but was held by Weav er’s close guarding. The following is the line-up and summary: Smithfield (23) Raleigh (28) Wellons _ Mowery Left Forward Patterson _ Mull Right Forward Avera - Weaver Center Sanders —..—__..._Teachey Left Guard Young --- — Bagwell Right Guard Substitutions: For Raleigh, Thomas for Bagwell. For Smithfield, none Time of halves, 20 minutes. Referee, Grant. New Selma Pastor Weds. A wedding of more than usual lo cal interest was the marriage last Tuesday of Rev. A. A. Butler and Mrs. Annie Hughes Shannonhouse at the Hertford Baptist church in Hert ford at 11 o’clock. Rev. B. L. Rhodes performed the ceremony, which was witnessed by a few intimate friends of the high contracting parties. The bridegroom was a former pas tor of the Hertford Baptist church, and is held in high esteem by Hert ford people'who know him. He be comes pastor of the Baptist church at Selma after March 1. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Annie Hughes and has always lived in Hertford where she enjoys the love and esteem of everyone. While the wedding has been ex pected by friends of both for several months, all were taken by surprise when it really occurred. A short wedding trip followed the ceremony. Rev. and Mrs. Butler will live at Selma.—Hertford Herald. Make the farm unsafe for insects, rodents and plant diseases. COTTON STATES PLAN COOPERATE Want Uniform Legislation Throughout the Cotton Producing States NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 24.—Meas ures for securing uniform legislation 'throughout the cotton producing states on subjects related to the pro duction, financing, warehousing and marketing of cotton and plans for waging a relentless warfare against crop pests, with all the cotton states acting as a unit, were adopted at the final session of the cotton states commission here late today. Measures adopted by the cotton commissioners will be embodied into a set of recommendations which will be presented to the governors of the cotton states by the state representa tives who attend the conference, with the request to the governors ‘that they be passed on to their legisla tures to the end that uniform legisla tion governing the cotton industry be enacted by the several states. The organization of a permanent cotton states commission with three commissioners from each cotton state one of whom will be an officer of the state department of agriculture, will be urged upon the governors. The specific objects of the commis sion, if adopted by the several states, will be according to the plans of per manent organizat.cn adopted, “the control of insect pests, the bet*ci • ment of living condition® for farm dwellers. th« establishment of ade quate and uniform warehouse sys tems, reduction if the cost? of mar keting (including terminal charges and transportation) the financing of the farmer during periods of produc tion and marketing and other prob lems of like character.” In the event such an organization | is perfected, the United States sec retary of agriculture will be request ed to appoint at least two represena tives of the depai%nent to attend the sessions of the commission. Members of the commission to night expressed themselves as en thusiastic over the results of the meeting and predicted that with the start they have made a permanent organization will be perfected and will result in better conditions for the cotton producer. Following the adoption of the per manent program, the meeting ad journed sine die, to reconvene at the call of the chairman, R. 0. Everett, of Durham, N. C., at some place to be designated by the governor of North Carolina who originated the idea of seme concerted action by the cotton states.—Associated Press. BENSON GETS INTO GROUP CHAMPION CLASS. Johnston County “Invincibles” Win Final Group Game at Chapel Hill Thursday Night. Benson Thursday night joined Asheville as a group champion, the Johnston County “Invincibles” de feating Smithfield 28 to 15 in the fi nal game of the fourth eastern group at Chapel Hill. Charlotte, Kanopolis and Fremont won victories last night that pro ject them into the final games in their respective groups and final group games will be all the vogue in the elimination series from now on, the last one being scheduled in the group consisting of teams in the vi cinity of Greensboro tonight. Small schools continue to figure largely in the results, although Ashe ville, Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Greensboro all remain in the run ning in the West. 2,727 Lbs. of Meat From 14 Hogs Mr. J. C. Barbour who lives on Benson, Route One, in Elevation township was here yesterday and call ed to see us. He informed us he had killed this season 2,727 pounds of meat from 14 hogs. He says that with plenty of corn, peas and pota toes he can make plenty of meat ev en getting good results from feed ing scrub hogs. Mr. Barbour says that from $59.90 in 1920 his taxes increased last year to $77.41 of whie'n $42.48 went for schools. Misses Margaret Wilson and Sadie Puckett spent Sunday with friends in Spring Hope.
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