VOLUME 41
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1922
NUMBER 43
PRINCETON LETTER
OF MUCH INTEREST
Average School Attendance
Increased; Important
Community Meet
PRINCETON, May 31—Mrs. C. M.
Bynum and little son, Clarence, are
visiting- relatives at Bayboro this
week.
Miss Bertha Woodard, from Selma,
has been spending a few days with
her brother, Mr. John Woodard.
Miss Dollie Scott, from Glendale, is
visiting Miss Alberta Boyett.
Mr. Ray Whitley from Durham, is
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
T. Whitley.
Misses Ethel and Sadie Morris from
Kenly were visitors in town a short
while Sunday evening.
Raymond Snipes won the scholar
ship offered by Mr. W. P. Sugg. There
were five high school students work
ing to win this prize. Raymond does
not smoke cigarettes or use profanity.
Rev. N. H. Shepherd will preach
at the Baptist church next Sunday
morning and at night. The mem
bers regret very much that it has
been necessary to change the serv
ices from the third Sunday to the
first, but trust that hey will soon be
able to get a preacher for the third
Sunday.
Mrs. J. Ira Lee is visiting her par
ents near Durham this week.
Mr. Cohen Tart, from Raleigh, was
a visitor in town Sunday.
Miss Ellen Uzzle teturned to her
home at Wilson’s Mills Sunday after
teaching here the vast winter.
Messrs Bill and Moulton Massey
who are attending the Atlanta Dental
College, Atlanta, Ga., are at home
for the summer vacation.
There ,/T7u oe a debate in. the school
auditorium next Tuesday night be
tween the High School and the Com
munity. 1 he subject for debate is:
“Three Teachers for the High School.”
Mrs. Jennie Strickland and daugh
ter, Mrs. Arthur Counts, of Durham,
are visiting relatives in this section.
Lonnie Rains died at his home near
town Wednesday. Heart dropsy was
the cause of his death. He was about
25 years old and leaves a young wife
and one baby.
Miss Margaret and Frances Led
better have returned home from Louis
burg school.
Mrs. H. P. Yelverton and little
daughter, Jane Hall, from Fremont,
are spending several days with Mrs.
L M. Edgerton.
Much favorable comment is being
made of the excellent manner in
which the young people acted their
parts in the play, “The Fireside” at
the school auditorium last Thursday
night. While all did extra well, Leon
ard Talton receives the most favor
able comment.
Commencing on the third Sunday
night, the adult Bible class of the
Baptist Sunday school will endeavor
to conduct a service in the Baptist
church.
Misses Virginia Woodard, Mildred
Massey, Thelma Toler and Messrs
Paul Afmstrong and Joe Boyett at
tended the ball game at Kenly Tues
day.
The Ladies Missionary Society en
tertained the senior class and the
faculty of the Princeton High School
on Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. T. D. Sasser. The guests
were met at the door by Mrs. L. D.
Grantham and ushered into the hall
where they were served punch by
Misses Edna Grantham and Clyde
Mason. Mr. George Woodard made
a very interesting talk to the mem
bers of the class and faculty. A
musical program was then rendered,
Mrs. I. A. Snipes, of Smithfield, and
Miss Carrie Mae Hedgepeth, from
Lumberton, furnishing the music. The
gifts were presented to the class and
to Miss Blanche Penny, the principal,
by little Margaret Sasser and Mary
Ida Edgerton. Sandwiches and tea
were then served, followed by ice
cream. Those present besides the
members of the society were Misses
Eula Boyett, Mildred Massey, Tempie
Hinton, Thelma Toler, Ellen Uzzle,
Blanche Penny, Ora Taylor, Annie
Wester, Mae Nixon, Fannie Wellons,
Elizabeth Hall, Ruth Tyler, Grace
Jones, Carrie Mae Hedgepeth, Bertha
Woodard, and Messrs George Wood
ard and Raymond Snipes.
The Ladies Missionary Society met
at the home of Mrs. T. D. Sasser last
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OTEEN PATIENTS ARE
ANXIOUS TO VOTE
Big Controversy In Buncombe
County Because Democrats
Register Them.
ASHEVILLE, May 29.—A contro
versy over the eligibility of patients
at Oteen Hospital who were residents
of a State other than North Carolina
to register and participate in the
approaching primary has arisen here.
Legal opinion seems to hold that
the hospital is on a government
reservation and that the patients
who are from other states have no
right to vote in the State primary.
Allegations that the chairman of
the county board of elections acted
illegally in appointing Don Elias,
who resides in Asheville, to act as
register for Swannanoa Township
one day in place of the regularly
appointed registrar have been made,
while ihe chairman, George Pennell,
contends his actions were legal.
He appointed Mr. Elias, who went
to .he hospital at Oteen in Swan
nanoa Township, and is reported to
hr • registered about a hundred
patients, the great majority being
Democrats. It is alleged he in com
pany with certain candidates for
nomination in the primary influ
enced the soldier-patients in casting
their absentee votes.
The controversy over Mr. Pen
nell’s and Mr. Elias’ action has
brought on a stormy political fight
in Buncombe, the end of which is
not yet in sight.—News and Observ
er
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
MOST VITAL TO WORLD
French Savant Demands Country
men Learn It as Step to Mutual
Comprehension.
WASHINGTON, June 1.—tCapi
tal News Service).—Maurice Donnay,
French academician and savant, who
has recently returned to his home
country after a short visit in Amer
ica, said:
“When one sets foot in America
he is confronted by the fact that our
country has not yet comprehended
how indispensable it is to study the
English language. I assure you that
I felt this inferiority from the first
day. It is what struck me most. Our
professors and notables of all kinds
have gone to America and have been
invited to universities and clubs. They
must have remarked on this inferior
ity. Why haven’t they told us about
it?
“English is spoken in two-thirds of
the civilized world. Why don’t we
speak it? What do we know of Eng
lish literature? Who can read the
masterpieces in the original? We
must learn English. It is imperative
and a patriotic necessity.
Foreigners generally believe that
English is a difficult language to ac
quire. In its spelling, idioms, and
slang, its complicated grammar
(which at that is less cumbersome
than German or French grammar)
and Fa encinr.out range in synonyms
it undoubtedly is. But a speaking
and writing familiarity with its fun
damentals is not necessarily a life
study. If evidence were needed to
prove it, one S. Dabinsky, a Polish
immigrant can offer it. Mr. Dabin
sky has been in this country one year.
When he arrived he knew no English.
The National Society of Colonial
Dames has just awarded him its an
nual bronze medal for the best pa
triotic essay.
If a Polish immigrant can learn
our language well enough in a year
to win a prize, it is obvious that
English cannot be considered to pre
sent insuperable difficulties for the
average foreign student.
China’s Rulers in Need of Cash.
PEKING, May 30.—The Peking
government is facing a financial cri
sis. It announced that it is unable to
meet its ordinary current expenses,
and Finance Minister Tung Kang
has appealed to the provinces to re
mit the revenues due the federal gov
ernment which they have been retain
ing foi local use.
Five million dollars is needed on
the first of the month to pay the
government employes, but it is ex
plained that only a few thousands are
left the nation’s treasury. Unless the
provinces extend help, which they
have not done for years, the govern
ment says it will be ambarrassed.
FUNERAL OF MR. F.H.
I PARRISH WEDNESDAY
Large Crowd Gathered To
Pay Last Tribute; Inter
ment in Old Cemetery
None but those who have sat in the
shadow of a great bereavement can
justly weigh such a sorrow as came
to the family of Mr. F. H. Parrish
who passed away at his home here
Monday night after a lingering ill
ness with heart trouble. Several
months ago, Mr. Parrish became
alarmed over his condition and went
to Richmond to consult a specialist.
He got better from that attack and
was able to attend to his business for
some time. In January he was
stricken again and though he recover
ed from that attack enough to be out
on the streets, his condition was seen
to be quite serious. For several
weeks prior to his death he was con
fined to his home, and though the. end
came as a shock, it was not unexpect
ed.
Floyd Haywood Parrish was born
in Johnston County in ^1869, making
him 53 years old. He has spent his
life in his native county and was
well-known even beyond its borders.
In 1894 he was married to Miss Lou
ise Grantham, and to this union were
born twelve children, two of whom
had preceded him to the Great Be
yond. Those surviving, together with
his widow, are Miss Eula Parrish,
Mr. Kenneth Parrish, Mrs. D. G.
Ridenhour, Leland, Carrie, Louise,
Edward Lee, Russell, Floyd and Chaa.
Irving Parn>h. Besides his immed
iate farndy he leaves six bro'hetv.
Messrs C. M Parrish, of Greenville,
Ala.; L. H. Parrish, of Tampa, Fla.;
J. W. Parrish, of Benson, J. M. Par
rish, of Clayton, J. E. Parrish, of
Wilson’s Mills; and D. W. Parrish, of
this city and one sister, Miss Sarah
Parrish of this city.
Mr. Parrish was a member of the
Methodist hurch, having joined last
Easter a year ago. He was one o?‘
those men who sow’ no wild oats. His
record was always clean, and his wtelk
among his fellow-men above re
proach. He was a devoted husband
and a kind and indulgent father.
During his illness his words expres
sive of peace in God and though he
wanted to live, he was ready to obey
the summons
The funeral was conducted Wednes
day afternoon at the Methodist church
by his pastor, Rev. D. H. Tuttle. His
favorite psalm, the 103rd, was read
and a hymn which he often repeated,
“Come Thou Fount of Every Bless
ing” was sung. Tennyson’s “Cross
ing The Bar” was rendered as a solo
by Mr. Paul Eason. Rev. Mr. Tuttle
spoke fittingly of the life of the de
ceased, and repeated words of com
fort for the bereaved. Interment was
made in the old cemetery, and a pro
fusion of flowers more than covered
the newly made mound, expressions
of sympathy of a wide circle of
friends of the deceased and his fam
ily.
“The blossoms whispered of fadeless
bloom,
Of a land where fall no tears.”
EIGHTY BALES COTTON
BURNED NEAR CONCORD
CONCORD, May 30.—Fire of un
determined origin Monday afternoon
destroyed 80 bales of cotton at the
Morehead Place, several miles west of
Concord on the old Charlotte road.
The cotton was not insured, accord
ing to reports reaching Concord.
The Morehead farm is operated by
W. D, Harry and is owned by John
M. Morehead of Charlotte.
The cotton was stored in a ware
house built for it, and was not lo
cated near any other buildings on
the farm. How it caught has not
been determined. The blaze was
first seen shortly after 2 o’clock in
the afternoon, and after Mr. Harry
and members of his family and
friends had done everything possible
tn extinguish the blaze without suc
cess, a call was sent to the Concord
file department, which responded.
Chemicals were used but without
complete success, and the entire lot of
80 bales was either burned complete1?
or so badly damaged that it will Le
of little value.
The cotton was owned jointly by
Mr. Harry and Mr. Morehead, it was
reported.—Charlotte Observer.
REGARD TOBACCO
CAMPAIGN SUCCESS
A Number of New Cotton
Contracts Also Signed;
Work Continues
The campaign for cooperative mar
keting of tobacco which began in
this county Monday with speakings
on the subject at four different points,
is regarded by leaders in the work as
decidedly successful. Following the
address made on Monday, business
mm from Princeton, Selma, Four
Oaks, Wilson’s Mills and Smithfield,
as well as farmers in the county,
made an intensive campaign on
Tuesday. It being Memorial Day, the
stores in this city closed and the day
was largely devoted to the promo
tion of cooperative marketing inter
ests. A large section of the county
has been canvassed and we are in
formed that over a thousand acres
of tobacco have been signed during
the week. A number of the large
farmers who have heretofore held off
are reported as signed up. The pro
gram made in Johnston county is not
an exception. A message to Mr. T.
S. Ragsdale from Mr. Charles A.
Creech reads as follows: W. H.
Widley says six hundred acres tobac
co five hundred cotton signed May
eighteenth to twenty-sixth in Rob
eson. Largest warehouse Fairmont
signed Tuesday. Windley says Rob
eson will over in good style next
ten days. Things look good here.”
While the past week has been de
voted largely to signing up tobacco
growers, cotton cooperative market
ing has not fared badly. Seventy
five new contracts ranging from ten
bales to 300 bales have been signed
and the work goes on. Mr. Austin
tells us that new contracts are being
signed every day. He also states
that at an early date a special cam
paign will be put on to swell the num
ber of signers to the highest possible
figure.
A mass meeting was held at the
opera house here yesterday afternoon
at which Mr. Marvin, of Kentucky
told how tobacco was sold in Ken
tucky under cooperative marketing.
SHELBY WOMAN MISER
DIES AT HER HOME
SHELBY, May 29.—Mrs. Charlotte
Bridges, 79 year old miser, was
found in an unconscious condition on
the floor of her small farm house
Wednesday morning by neighbors
who missed her periodical trips to
their well, and becoming uneasy,
went to the house to investigate.
“Aunt Charlotte,” as she was
called, lived a life of seclusion since
the death of her father when she was
a young woman in her teens. On
her 17-acre farm, by hard work and
good business judgment, she accumu
lated an estate worth $10,000, al
though she contended that she was
a “poor widow” and not able to pay
the usual prices for the few things
she bought. Her faithful gray mare
was her only companion, and with
this she plouged her fields, growing
cotton and corn and making food
for herself.
When she died two days after she
was found unconscious on the floor,
she had right considerable money
loaned out on interest, and when the
cotton market was lower than she
thought it should be, she bought
cotton and held it for a higher price,
always having a quantity on hand.
Aunt Charlotte is survived by one
son, Seaton Bridges.—News and Ob
server.
METEOR PASSES OVER
CITY OF ASHEVILLE
ASHEVILLE, May 30.—A bril
liant meteor, described by eye-wit
nesses as about one-fourth the size
of the full moon, floated over this
city shortly after nine o’clock tonight
and settled apparently several mile3
north of ’n-re. It was a greenish
yellow in color, and had a distinct
tail, whi'h judging from reports
was about two miles in length, 't
was visible for several seconds, hav
ing the appearance of floating
rather than traveling at the speed
usually attributed to such phe
nomena.—Charlotte Observer.
HE CARRIED MESSAGE
TO GENERAL GARCIA
Man Who Performed Daring Duty
To Receive Belated Recognition •
for His Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 30.
—Lieut. Col. Andrew S. Rowan, re
tired, the man who carried the fam
ous “message to Garcia” in 1898,
during the Sapnish - American war,
will receive a belated recognition for
bravery, if Senator Samuel F. Short
ridge, of California, can bring it
about. The senator has received as
surances from Secretary of War
Weeks that he will take up with the
army board having jurisdiction the
granting of a medal or of a dis
tinguished service cross.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles ordered young
Lieutenant Rowan to deliver a
“message to Garcia.” Discretion,
initiative and bravery were required.
Rowan did not ask who Garcia was.
where he could be found, or how to
get there. Instead he delivered the
message to Gen. Garcia in the inter
ior of Cuba, where Garcia with his
little band of patriots was almost sur
rounded by Spanish forces. Rowan
knew that if the message were in
tercepted by the Spaniards he would
be shot or hunged as a spy.
Garcia, heartened by the promise
of aid from the United States, just
entering the war, with Spain ,fought
n, and the foe was overcome.
Lieut. Rowan was cited by General
Miles in dispatches to Washington
is follows:
“This was a most perilous under
taking, and in my judgment, Lieu
tenant Rowan performed an act of
heroism and cool daring that has
rarely been excelled in the annals of
v rfpre.”
Rowan later was appointed lieuten
ant colonel of volunteers, and in
1908 was retired from the regular
army with the rank of major. He
resides in San Francisco.—Greens
boro News.
FIGHT MADE ON THE
NEW SELMA R. R .STATION
The Southern Railway served no
tice on the State Corporation Com
mission yesterday that it would go
to the courts before it complied with
the Commission’s order to build new
depots in Selma and Newton. Cop
ies of the exceptions filed two weeks
ago will probably be made the com
plaint in litigation to be started
in Johnston and Catawba counties.
Exceptions were filed by the At
lantic Coast Line and the Norfolk
Southern roads in the matter of new
stations at Selma, Kinston and Ply
mouth, but as yet no notice has been
made of an appeal to superior court.
It is net yet known whether the
Kinston and Plymouth stations will
be held up by long litigation in the
courts.
Insuffiient funds was cited in the
exceptions by the Southern in the
Selma and Newton cases. The carrier
contends that it is making no money,
and has not the money to invest in
Commission promptly over ruled the
exceptions. Selma and Kinston have
been endeavoring for seven years to
get the railroads to build adequate
accommodations for passenger trains.
—No & Observer.
BRITISH HONORS AMERICAN
DEAD BURIED THERE
LONDON, May 30.—Great Britain
joined with the United States today
in honoring the American soldier
dead. At Brookwood, 28 miles from
London, the great plot of ground in
which rest 450 American soldiers and
sailors who gave their lives in the
allied cause was dedicated as a na
tional cemetery for the American il
lustrious dead. The cemetery also
contains bodies of soldiers from Great
Rrita.n’s overseas possessions.
Most of the American dead are
those who died in English hospitals
from wounds received in France and
whose relatives wished that they
might rest in the soil of Britain.—
Associated Press.
Piano With Two Keyboards Invented.
A new piano with two keyboards,
one an otave above the other, has
been invented by Emanuel Moor, of
England. The keys on the double
board are close enough for the fin
gers of one hand to play notes on
both simultaneously. — Greensboro
News.
CLARK WOULD NOT
MOVE STATE FAIR
Thinks It Would Be A Big
Mistake to Move From
Raleigh to Method
The following letter from Mr. Wal
ter Clark to Mr. Josephus Daniels,
Edmn of the News and Observer, as
to <he proposed removal of the State
Fair from Raleigh to Method, will
be of interest to our readers:
“1 note your editorial of this morn
ing and the ? foresting article in Sun
day’s issue by Col. W. M. Sanders, a
public spirited citizen of the State
and a successful man in business of
Johnston county. Having been for
years Trustee of the mortgage on the
Fair Ground, I at once addressed a
letter to the Secretary of the State
Fair, asking a financial statement of
th* N. C. Agricultural Society. And
have his reply before me.
“The suggested removal to Method
would be high comedy if it were not
that the tragical result will inevitably
follow of the destruction of the State
Fair if the proposal were successful.
The buildings on the grounds are
insured for .$40,000 and it will take
$100,000 to replace them. It will be
impossible to tear them down, haul
them two miles and rebuild them.
T ic removal would mean the loss of
$100,000 in this way. The fencing
and the like could not be replaced
for $10,000 and would also be junked
and we have just completed a splen
did new race trask at a cost of $18,
00C and there is a debt on the so
ciety of about $32,000, which is a
lien on the grourds, making an out
go of $160,000 total loss. Then the
suggestion is that we buy 200 acres
further out at $60,000, though there
ace those who say we can.at •o r. •!
for less than double that sum , nen
on the new grounds the buildings
would cost $100,000, the fencing and
race track not less than $20,000 and
against all this we have nothing to
show but the suggestion of an enter
prising real estate man that he can
cut up and sell our present grounds
for $125,000—payable as the property
is sold and of course at a profit to
himself. There would be a loss and
certain expenditures of more than
$340,000 against an uncertainty and
slow receipt of $125,000.
“To an ordinary business man and
probably even to an extraordinary
one, the addition of these figures
will seem appalling for the Society
which is to do all these things, in the
language of its secretary in his let
ter which lies before me, will have in
its treasury, “after all payments of
overhead expenses, and final payment
on the new race track, as estimated,
approximately $300 on 1 June 1922.’
“Even if we had the money, or it
were in sight, there are these furth
er matters to be considered. Meas
ured not by guess, but by milometer
on an automobile, it is a mile and 7-10
from the monument at the Capitol to
the gate of the State Fair. Measured
in the same way the distance from
that gate to the nearest place at
Method where the Fair could be
placed, is just double this distance,
i.e. 3 1-2 miles from the Capitol, and
if it should go to the location of
the Penitentiary Headquarters, would
be 4 1-2 to 5 miles.
The enterprising real estate agent
who has been urging the advantage
of letting this property be sold—of
course to his profit—deserves no
| criticism for he has been open and
above-board in the whole matter. He
stated in the last few days to a mem
ber of this Society that he had got
ten options on all the property he
could between the present Fair
Grounds and the place to which ae
proposed to move it This and the
profit he will make out of the sale
of the Fair Grounds he thinks will
be “goot peesness” for him and for
whatever financial interest, if any,
which may be behind him. What we
have to consider, however, is wheth
er it will be to the best interests
of the city and the State and of the
Fair, which is a very different propo
sition. To the ladies we are indebted
for the best building on the present
Fair Grounds. That will have to »>e
junked wnth the rest and it is more
than doubtful if they will interest
themselves to put up another build
j ing like it 3 1-2 or 4 miles from Ral
i eigh when the street cars run only
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