VOLUME 41
SM1THFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922
NUMBER 20
N. C. FARM LANDS
AVERAGE $56 ACRE
Corn, Wheat, and Oat Crop
for the State; Consume
Wheat Crop at Home
RALEIGH, N. C., March 13.—Al
though the price of corn in North
Carolina is reported, on an average,
higher than any other state, accord
ing to the report just released by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
there are many farmers who experi
ence difficulties in finding a market
close by for their corn. There is 48
per cent of the 1921 corn cron still
on the farms in this state, amount
ing to 23,(542,000 bushels, including
corn held for seed. Of the 49,254,
000 bushels produced last year, 85
per cent, or about 41,865,900 bushels
were reported as of a merchantable
quality. Drought and a reduction in
the use of fertilizer were factors in
reducing the yield.
North Carolina wheat is largely
consumed at home as is evidenced by
the small amount (2 per cent) which
is shipped as grain, out of the produc
ing counties. This is by far the low
est percentage shown by any state.
Last year, we produced 4,500,000
bushels of wheat, and of th:s quan
tity, 22 per cent or 990,000 bushels
were still on the farms March 1st,
1922 as compared to 33 per cent in j
1921, 20 per cent in 1920, and a 10
year average of 25 per cent. As with j
corn, the average price of wheat
($1.52) is reported as higher in
North Carolina than any other state
in the union.
The 131,136,000 bushels of wheat
on farms in the United States March
1st was 16.5 per cent of the 1921
crop as compared to 26.1 per cent of
the 1920 crop on farms March 1, 1921.
The amount shipped out of the coun
ties where grown, will be about 61.6
per cent compared to 58.9 pei* cent
shipped out last year.
Of the 3,060,000 bushel crop of oats
produced in this state in 1921, about
17 per e#nt, or 520,200 bushels re
mained on farms March 1st of this
year, against 18 per cent of the 1920
crop on hand March 1, 1921. Only 1
per cent will be shipped out of the
producing counties, which is about
the same as for the 1920 crop.
Of the Nation’s oat crop, 21.1 per
cent, or about 40,950,000 bushels re
mained on farms March 1, 1922 com
pared to 34.5 per cent at that time
for the preceeding year About 36.1
per cent will be shipped out of the
counties where grown.
The reported value of the different
types of farm lands in North Caro
lina shows a marked decline since
last year, when every thing was ad
justing itself under the new valua
tion system. On March 1st, 1921,
the average value per acre of poor
plow lands was about $36.00. This
year, the same is valued at about $33,
and good plow lands, which in 1921
averaged $76.00 per acre, this year
are valued at about $67.00. The av
erage value of all plow lands in the
state this year is $49.00 per acre.
In 1921, $59.00 per acre for all
farm lands including lands with im- !
provements, etc., was considered a
reasonable price by farmers. This
year, the same land, with improve
ments, is valued at $56.00 per acre,
while the value of all farm lands with
out improvements is about $41.00
per acre.
Farms seldom rent for cash in
North Carolina, but, as reported, a
cash rent of $5.00 per acre for farms
is considered a fair return where
the value per acre of the land aver
ages $46.00. Plow lands, valued at
about $52.00 an acre rent for about
$8.00. The usual rental for all farm
lands however is a proportional
share of the crop produced.
Where cash rent is paid for pasture
or grazing lands, $2.25 per acre is
considered a reasonable price in this
state and pasture land is valued at
about $30.00 per acre.
Borrowing Trouble.
The teacher was talking of Niagara
Falls. “The falls are slowly wearing
back toward Buffalo, and in the
course of some two hundred thou
sand years they will wash away
Erie.”'
One of the girls in the classroom
began to cry and the teacher asked
what the trouble was.
“Oh,” wailed the girl, ‘my sister
Jives in Erie!”—The Uplift
STATE S. S. CONVENTION IN APR.
Charlotte Is the Place of Meeting;
Special Rates on Railroad
Will Be Given.
Sunday School workers jf Char
lotte are completing plans for en
tertainment of the hundreds of visi
tors who will be in thc.t city April
11-12-13, attending the State Sunday
School Convenion, accordhig to in
formation received from headquar
ters of the North Carolina Sunday
SchocJ Association in Raleigh.
Superintendent D. W. Sims, of the
State Sunday School Association, has
been in Charlotte several times in
the past few weeks conferring with
the Chairman of the various commit
tees. Mr. W. E. Price, President of
the Mecklenburg County Sunday
School Association and Superintend
ent of Knox Presbyterian Sunday
School, is Chairman of the General
Committee on Arrangements.
Associated with Mr. Price on the
General Corryjiittee are the Chairmen
of five sub-committees who are as
follows: Finance committee, Capt.
T. S. Franklin, Superintendent of
First Baptist Sunday School; En
tertainment Committee, Mr. Lloyd
Ranson, Executive Secretary of the
Tryon Street Methodist Sunday
School; Hall Committee, Mr. Boyce
M. Brown, Superintendent of First
A. R. P. Sunday School and Secretary
of Mecklenburg County Sunday
School Association; Parade Commit
tee, Mr. S. W. Dandridge; Local Pub
licity, Mr, E. R. Bucher, Superintend
ent Trinity Methodist Sunday school.
Meeting of the Entertainment Com
mittee will be held on Friday night,
March 17th, at which time, workers
from practically every Sunday School
in the city will be present. The work
of the committee in securing homes
for the out-of-town delegates will be
launched at this meeting. The plan
is for all who attend to pay for their
own entertainment. The local com
mittee will provide entertainment for
the delegates in the private homes of
Charlotte on the Harvard Plan—
lodging and breakfast—at the rate
of $1.00 per night. •
All white Sunday Schools in the
State are requested to send three
delegates besides the pastor and sup
erintendent who are delegates by vir
tue of their office. In addition to
these, many officers of County Sun
day School Associations will attend
as official delegates. It is also ex
pected that numerous Sunday /chool
workers of the state, whether ap
pointed as official delegates or not,
will be in Charlotte for the Conven
tion, as the sessions are open and
free to any Sunday School worker in
the State. The Charlotte Commit
tee is planing to have sufficient num
ber of homes for all who attend.
The railroads of the state have
granted a special reduced rate of one
and one-half, certificate plan, provid
ed as many as 350 certificates are
presented for validation. The com
mittee in charge is urging all who go
to Charlotte by rail to be sure and
get certificate receipt when purchas
ing ticket to Charlotte as the certifi
cate will have a cash value of one
half the return fare.
More than thirty of North Caro
lina’s leading Sunday School work
ers of all denominations will take
part on the program of the conven
tion. In addition to these six special
ists of national reputation have been
secured. These specialists will not
only speak several times during . the
convention but will also take care of
the various sectional conferences ar
ranged for the Children’s, Young Peo
ple’s, Adult and Administrative
workers.
The out of state specialists secured
are—Dr. Plato T. Durham, Atlanta,
Ga., Dr. H. E. Tralle, Philadelphia,
Pa., Miss Anna Branch Binford,
Richmond, Va., Rev. E. W. Hnipenny,
Chicago, 111., Prof. Hard! F. Hum
bert, Boston, Mas?., and Mr,. Maud
J. Baldwin, Clr'cago. 11!
Death Near Smithfield.
Mrs. Nancy Benson died on Thurs
day of last week at the home of he*
grandson, Mr. H. B. Adams who lives
on the J. D. Boyett farm between
here and Selma. She lacked only a
little time of being 85 years old. She
had been a member of Corinth Meth
odist church for many years. The
burial took place last Friday in the
Webb graveyard at Piney Grove
Free Will Baptist church near Four
Oaks.
POTATO STORAGE
HOUSE BE BUILT
Potato Growers Organized
Ass’n Here Saturday;
Selma Will Act Friday
By S. J. KIRBY.
Farmers living in the vicinities of
Selma and Smithfield are making
real preparation for living under boll
weevil conditions by putting in a few
acres each, of sweet potatoes as a
substitute money crop. It is alto
gether probable that a storage house
will be erected at each of these points
to provide storage capacity for at
least enough potatoes to supply the
local markets.
The Smithfield people will build a
five or six thousand bushel house so
arranged as to make it easily possible
to add on to the capacity in the fu
ture should the conditions make it
necessary. The potato growers of
this viciniy met in Smithfield last
Saturday and started on the work of
organizing themselves into a grow
ers’ cooperative association. Several
of the leading farmers in this com
munity are putting in fi'om one to
three acres each to go through the
association. Many of the men have
already placed their orders with the
county agent for bedding stock that
is known to be free from disease and
true to variety type. The Smithfield
Association has already gone far
enough to make it a sure go.
Farmers in the vicinity of Selma
are to meet in the office of the Cham
ber of Commerce on next Friday
night at 7 o’clock to consider and to
take definite action on the proposi
tion. Most of the leading men of
Selma are solidly behind the plan, and
if the farmers come up with their end
of it, Selma will have a market for
one of the most profitable crops
grown in this section.
It is generally conceded that most
people can grow sweet potatoes, but
to grow marketable sweet potatoes
is different. Too many people fail to
realize the importance of quality.
We can get quality only by using di
sease-free stock, the best methods of
production and a storage house which
will insure our ability to keep the
crop indefinitely in an A-l condition.
An illustration on the value of qual
ity is found on one of the local mar
kets in this county. Hill potatoes on
this market are be.ing offered by the
grocerymen at 30 or 35 cents per
peck and storage house potatoes at
60 cents per peck. The trade de
mands that storage house potatoes
not only because they are guaran
teed to be sound, but because they
are actually better. When growing
an article for market, we must con
sider the wishes of the^trade.
Speaking of the boll weevil, the
public generally entertains considera
ble antipathy toward accepting the
fact that the boll weevil is here and
that he is going to make cotton pro
duction a great deal more of an un
certainty than it has been in the past.
At least the farmers and business
men have not really grasped the situ
ation as to the severity of the prob
lem with which we must deal. We
expect some damage from this cotton
pest in 1922 and in all probability the
least damage that we can possibly
expect to 1923 crop will be from 20 to
30 per cent. A 20 to 30 per cent loss
is far greater than the margin of
profit on the last several crops. To
get our loss reduced to 20 to 30 per
cent means that we must use the
very best varieties, the most improv
ed methods of culture and fertiliza
tion, and furthermore that we must
spray the cotton crop several times
during the season. It is also pre
supposed that the crops will be rotat
ed, that acreage will be reduced to
a point which Will facilitate the best
and most progressive methods in
production. If these conditions are
not met, we may expect a loss to the
crop of from 30 to 90 per cent. Let
this be the year when we put our
selves in condition to live at home
and to materially reduce the cost of
production.
League Prayer Service.
Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock, a
short prayer service will be held by
the Epworth League in the League
room. This will be just prior to the
evening service to be conducted by
Mrs. Steidley.
MARCH TERM OF
COURT IN SESSION
Judge Thomas H. Calvert Is
Presiding; Many Cases
To Be Tried
The March term of the Johnston
Superior Court, Criminal, opened for
a week’s session on Monday, March
13, with Judge Thomas H. Calvert
presiding.
The following men were empan
nelled and sworn as the grand jury
with J. A. Wilson, of Wilson’s Mills,
as Foreman, W\ D. Avera, Z. I?.
Hill, A. J. Fitzgerald, J. E. Talton, J.
D, Hamilton, J. J. Broadhurst, D. C.
Smith, Emmette Aadms, L. F. Aus
tin, Victor Austin, Ellington Tart, R.
T. Hudson, B. N. Hamilton, D. A.
Holland, E. S. Lassiter and H. V.
Brady.
The iuge’s charge to the grand
jury was brief but enough to the
point that it called attention to the
following duties: To visit the Coun
ty Home and other places of charita
ble and penal nature for an investi
gation; to ascertain the number of
orphans in the county who have not
had suitable guardians appointed;
to inspect the returns of the several
Justices of the Peace of the county to
see that each has been made accord
ing to law. The charge called special
attention to a strict enforcement of
laws against violations of the prohi
bition laws, automobile laws, .laws
against the carrying of concealed
weapons, and laws ngainst morality.
It also stated that the law providing
for the test of weights and measures
for those who buy and sell should be
strictly enforced.
vThen followed the checking of the
docket by Solicitor W. D. Siler. The
docket, after many cases had been car
ried over, was a heavy one and a b;g
week is now before the Court.
The only case disposed of before
the noon recess was the State vs W.
E. Wallace, charged with violating
the compulsory attendance act of the
school law. The defendant plead guil
ty and was discharged upon the pay
ment of cost, i
The Court until further notice will
meet each morning during the week
at 9:30.
There is only one murder case that
will come before this court which has
been set for Thursday morning. This
case is the state vs. Satterfield.
Disabled Ex-Service Men.
All disabled ex-service men are
urgently requested to attend the first
North Carolina Annual State Con
vention of the disabled American
Veterans of the World War at Char
lotte March 24-25. This convention
is called for the purpose of perfect
ing the State organization, electing
delegates to the National Convention
at San Francisco June 26th to 30th,
and for electing state officers for the
year 1922—23. It is desired that the
name and status of every disabled ex
soldier who has not received justice
in his claims be presented at the meet
ing. Representatives of the Bureaus
will be present, and these claims will
be taken up and rushed through.
Many prominent speakers will be
present, including national officers of
the organization. . .
Those attending the convention will
have to bear the expense of railroad
fare and hotel bill, but other ex
penses of the convention will be borne
by the Convention Committee. Those
expecting to be present are requested
to send name and address to Chair
man Z. B. Thornburg, Charlotte, N.
C., Box 1354.
BABE RUTH STARTS
OUT'TRUE TO FORM
NEW ORLEANS, March 10.—Babe
Ruth, redoubtable home run special
ist, signalized his arrival at New
York American League training
quarters here today when in batting
practice he knocked the first ball
pitched over center field fence. It
was the second time in the history of
the park that a ball had ever been
knocked over the fence and Ruth
holds both records.
The fence is 14 feet high and 480
feet from home plate.—News and
Observer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Beaty visited
friends in Wilson’s Mills Sunday aft
ernoon.
SEVEN KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
Sixteen Injured in Smash and Others
Are Exacted to Die; Coach
_ Crashed Into Creek
Atlanta, Ga., March 11.—Seven per
sons were killed and sixteen injured
thff; morning when a passenger coach
of an Atlanta, Birmingham nad At
lantic train, en route to Fitzgerald
was derailed fifteen miles from At
lanta and sent crashing into Camp
Creek, fifty feet below.
Approximately thirty persons were
in the coach, the last of the train,
when a wheel on the first truck burst,
sending the car bumping over a hun
dred yards of ties before the trestle
was reached and almost crossed, when
it suddenly turned over. The coach
tore away from the preceding car as
it fell and was almost completely de
molished when it dropped into the
shallow creek.
The seven persons killed, six men
and one woman, met instant death,
their bodies being badly mutilated. All
of the injured are expected to live.
From eight o’clock until noon, scores
of other passengers and persons from
nearby towns, spurred by the cries of
the injured worked in the wreckage,
releasing those imprisoned and re
moving the dead.
Ambulances and physicians were
rushed from Atlanta, and the injured
and dead removed to hospitals and
morgues here. The following list of
dead and injured was issued by the
A. B. and A. officials tonight after
checking with hospital authorities:
The dead: C. T. Elmore, cashier
local fi-eight station A. B. and A.
Railroad Company; W. E. McIntosh,
Imperial Hotel, New York City; B. C.
Driver, Roanoke, Ala.; W. E. Johnson,
section foreman, Birmingham Divis
ion, A. B. & A., Birmingham, Ala.;
R. W. Lanier, operator, Senoia, Ga.;
Mrs. I. H. Etheridge, Atlanta, Ga.;
W. M. Brooks, Western Union Tele
graph Company, Manchester, Ga..
The injured: C. D. Moore, Atlanta;
Thomas W. Etheridge, Atlanta; Mrs.
Thomas W. Etheridge, Atlanta; Thos.
Etheridge, Jr., baby, Atlanta; Miss
Mittie Wall, Fitzgerald, Ga.; Miss
Estelle McNeice, Talbotton, Ga.; Miss
Carolyne Dunbar, Langdale, Ala.;
Mrs. A. B. McNeice, Talbotton, Ga.;
H. F. Hentz, Atlanta; Miss Oliver
Sigert, Atlanta; C. A. Davis, Alvaton,
Ga.; Miss Mamy Whitelock, Atlanta;
Mrs. B. G. McNeilly, Atlanta; Mrs. J.
H. Murray, Atlanta; J. H. Murray,
Atlanta; Willard Cope, Atlanta; Mrs.
McNeice is the widow of A. B. Mc
Neice, superintendent of Talbot coun
ty, Georgia, schools, who was killed
last year by Major Lee H. Coart, re
tired army officer, and with Miss Es
telle McNeice, her sister, and H. F.
Hentz, a relative, was enroute to Tal
botton to attend the trial Monday of
Coart, who is charged with murder.
Owing to prominence of the princi
pals and the great interest in the case,
a number of those oir the train were
enroute to attend the trial.
Willard Cope, who is injured seri
ously, was one of the newspaper m^n,
on the train. Miss Mittie Vyall is a
sister of Solicitor General J. B. Wall,
of Fitzgerald.
Thomas W. Etheridge, his wife and
small son, composed a funeral party
enroute to Fairburn, the remains of
Mrs. Etheridge’s mother, Mrs. Mollie
Newman, being in the baggage car.
When the car began to lurch from the
track and finally turned over Mrs.
Etheridge who was in the front part
of the coach threw the child from a
window. The boy fell in a heavy
growth of bushes and was only slight
ly injured.
Five of the men killed were in the
small smoker. Their bodies were all
found together. C. D. Moore, who
was in the same compartment ran to
the rear platform and jumped. He
fell in the creek, breaking a leg.—As
sociated Press.
In the Congressional Race
Two sisters, Mrs. Irene C. Buell,
the city prosecutor of Ashland, Neb.,
and Mrs. A. K. Gault, Mayor of St.
Peter, Minn., have entered the con
gressional race for this year. This
is the first time in the history of
woman suffrage that sisters have en
tered the race at the same time.
Some autoists would live longer if
they didn’t think the signs at the
crossings were made for the trains.—
Carolina Banner.
TO PUT ON “LIVE
AT-HOME” DRIVE
Governor Appoints County
Officials to Help Win Eco
nomic Independence
By JOHN PAUL LUCAS.
RALEIGH, March 13.—A county
campaign committee consisting of
the farm demonstration agent, the
home demonstration agent, the sup
erintendent of education, the superin
tendent of health and the welfare of
ficer in each county has been ap
pointed by Governor Cameron Morri
son and charged with the responsi
bility of “putting over’’ the “Live-at
Home” Movement, through which it
is hoped that North Carolina may
win economic independence and be
started upon the road to greater
prosperity and better conditions of
health and physical fitness.
The county officials named arg de
clared by Governor Morrison to be
in better position'than anyone else to
realize fully what a deplorable hand
icap North Carolina has had, from a
financial and health standpoint, in
the practice of a large part of its
farming population of neglecting to
raise at home proper food for the
family and feed for live stock. These
officials are in close touch with the
situation and are • already working:
upon the proposition. In this cam
paign they will organize, secure the
assistance of their local newspaper
men and other interested citizens and
conduct an intensified campaign, in
which they will have the assistance
and backing not only of the Governor,,
the Department of Agriculture and
the State College of Agriculture and
Engineering, but also of the Depart
ment of Education, the State Board
of Health, the Board of Charity and
Welfare, and other agencies, includ
ing the special central campaign
committee at Ruleigh, of which John.
Paul Lucas is Executive Secretary.
It has been emphasized in inaugu
rating this campaign that the big
idea is the production of food and
feed products for home consumption
and not for the market. In some sec
tions of the state there are commer
cial possibilities for the growing of
these products, but this is declared
to be a negligible factor as compared
with the importance of every farm,
family producing its full supply of
food and feed stuff on its own premi
ses.
Kaiser Signs Must Go.
BER rv. March 10.- M! insignia
of monarchical Germany mu it be re
moved from oublic buildings. Minis
ter of the Interior Adolf Xoester to
day told the Reichstag, He aided
that the Government had decided to
fix a definite period within which this
decision would Le carried out.
Exceptions will be made, he sa'd..
only where these emblems have been
structurally incorporated in build
ings where their removal would de
stroy architectural value and effect.
All paintings, busts and statues in
Government offices must also be re
moved, if their retention is incom- .
patible with the republican regime.
This order will chiefly apply to por
traits of former Emperor William,
although Herr Koester said excep
tions might be made if their removal
destroyed the “artistic and historical
unity” of the interior decorations.—
Associated Press.
BOMB THROWN IN AMERICAN
LEGATION IN BULGARIA
SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 11.—An
explosion occurred in the American
legation here early this evening. No
body was injured but several of the
..'in^ows were shattered and some
damage was done to the building
Charles S. Wrilson, the American min
ister, expresses the belief that the
explosion was due to a bomb.
The bomb was thrown shortly be
fore 8 o’clock in the evening and
landed in the garden of the legation.
The fact that this part of the lega
tion was without lights and that no
onb was there at the time seems to
indicate that the perpetrator of the
outrage had no intention of killing
anyone.
The king and cabinet have ex
pressed deep regrets to the Ameri
can minister and gratification that he
was not injured. Bulgarian public
opinion strongly condemns the act.—
Associated Press.