OUR HOME GIRLS
WRITE FROM EUROPE
Misses Pou and Austin Tell
Of Seeing the King and
Queen of England
Through the kindness of relatives
of Miss Margaret Pou and Miss Mar
garet Lee Austin, who are touring
Europe, we are permitted to give our
readers a glimpse of some of the pla
ces they are visiting by publishing
extracts from their letters home. The
letters are very interesting, and
being the impressions of some of our
own folks gives them an added in
terest. They were'rot Written for
} ublicat’or. but we arc sure our real
m's will cain ouitc a bit of informa
tion from these extracts:
June 23, 1922.'
We are anchored just outside of
Cherbourg. This being our first sight,
of land in six days, you can well
‘imagine our e reitement at the sight
of a small light house gleam last
night! Of course we are not per
mitted to leave the boat—only the
Cherbourg passengers. France seems
a tiny little green spot to us just
now but of course untold delights and
pleasures await us there.
Our trip has been ideal, absolutely
devoid of seasickness. This boat is
a marvel! I do wish you could imag
ine its luxuriousness and beauty. It
is impossible to believe that such a
combination of science and art really
exists. The lounge is far more beau
tiful and spacious than the lobby of
the Shoreham. A heavy wine col
ored carpet covers the floor while
velour and sik overstuffed chairs and
divans invite one to comfort and
ease in the lounge. Nothing has
been left undone to permit one to
travel under delightful circumstances.
Our party is altogether interest
ing and attractive. Mr. Vermont
makes an ideal guide and Mrs. Bailey
a lovely chaperone. There are four
North Carolina girls in our party.
Wo have met so many interesting
people—Mabel Normand and Billie
Burke are both aboard, and of course,
have added lustre to the passage.
Our voyage so we are told has been
splendid and quicker than even the
record breaking maiden trip of the
Majestic, despite the fact that we
detoured southerly to avoid icebergs.
Sharks and flying fish have won a
great share of interest (with two
real live sharks added!)
Since beginning this letter this
morning I have been constantly in
terrupted in order to view the beau
tiful scenes. Wonderfully big battle
ships cf England are sprinkled all
along til is coast. Just now we are
passing : he Isle of Wight and a
gorgeous old castle of gray, perched
on a hill, is perceptible. We are
really in the land of feudalism and
revolutions!
This voyage has been of inestimable
value to me already. This eontact
with the English has opened my
eyes. They are inately cultured and
refined, beautifully educated and
rigidly trained. Their efficiency to
do what they are taught to do is re
markable—they do without a mur
mur.
Almost every nationality in the
world is represented aboard ship and
we have had such an interesting time
studying. Tourists are literally
flocking to Europe this year.—M. P.
June 25, 1922.
We left the Majestic early yes
terday morning at Southampton. We
then got into the cutest little train
you ever saw. We laughed at the lit
tle thing, but presently the whistle
blew and we started out for London.
If you ever want to see a lovely sight
take that ride from Southampton and
London. There are the loveliest,
quaintest little houses with neat lit
tle gardens, well-kept and gayly col
ored. We even saw thatched cot
tages and little canals, little farms,
big estates, horse show places, etc.
I wish I could describe the English
country district to you. It is the
loveliest picture I have ever seen.
Finally and in too shorta time we
got to London, and how could any
body be disappointed in this land rf
Dickens? It is a very quaint, unmod
ern city. I have loved it from the
time we first got off that little train
and all of us crawled in a red bus
and came to our hotel. The English
have the funniest cars you ever saw
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TYPHOON KILLS
10,000 CHINESE j
Desolation Hovers Over Port After ;
the Storm—Wrecked 75 Per
Cent of Buildings
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Hong Kong, Aug. 7.—Casualties in !
the typhoon and tidal wave which last
Wednesday swept the port of Swatow,
250 miles north of here, are now es
| timated at 10,000.
Another British steamer, in addi- j
| tion to the two previously reported
ashore, was bound from Hon^ Kong ;
(to Shanghai when it met the fury of I
the typhoon and was wrecked, but her
passengers were saved,
j Desolation hovers over the ruined ,
j city and horror haunts its streets.
In the native quarters hundreds of
j corps and the carcasses of animals :
■ are mingled with the debris. It is j
, estimated that more than 75 per cent !
| of the city's buildings were destroyed, j
The American consulate was slightly
damaged.
A Swatow newspaper reports that j
lawless elements raided houses of ty
phoon victims and held up passers-by
| for plunder, but prompt action by po
lice prevented wholesale looting.
The police frustrated an attempt to
loot the offices of the Banque Indus- j
trielle de Chine, arresting two men.
The British in Hong Kong have re- \
mitted $10,000 to the British consul at j
Swatow and are shipping rice for dis- !
tribution among the homeless and des- 1
titute.
The captain of a steamer arriving 1
today from Swatow told The Associ- !
ated Press correspondent that his ves- I
sel, fifteen miles before reaching Swa- ;
tow, from Shanghai, encountered
corpses and carcasses floating on the ’
ebb tide.—Associated Press.
BIG GROCERY STORE
CRASHES IN RALEIGH
Undermined by Adjoining Excava
tion, Mann Building, and Stuck
Drops Into Big Hole.
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RALEIGH, Aug. 3.—While work
men were digging out the founda
tion of Raleigh’s negro bank this
afternoon the W. B. Mann Grocery
company’s store, run constantly by
the present management for 43 years
collapsed with all the clerks at work, I
caving into the newly digged hole j
and burying every article of mer- 1
chandise beneath the debris,
i Every clerk escaped injury and
J even the five mules working on the :
; bank foundation were saved. The ;
’ salesmen ran when the plate win- j
1 dows crashed and the walls shook I
■ another shock qr two and the roof
; fell through, pushing every brick j
| from its moorings.
The stock of $25,000 is absolute
, wreck.
Johnston County Boy To Graduate.
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Wm. G. Boykin, member of the !
Free Will Baptist church of Kenly is '
a member of a class oi one hundred
and seven students, fifty-two men,
and fifty-five women, who will grad
uate from The Moody Bible Institute i
of Chicago, Thursday, August 10th. i
The graduation address will be given j
by Rev. John Roach Straton, D. D-, j
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, (
| New York City. These students rep- ,
| resent twenty-four states of the (
i’Union, and six foreign countries- ,
| Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Aus- ,
tralia, Wales, and Syria. They have j
completed a two year course in the i
Bible and related subjects, gospel \
music, and practical methods of j
Christian work, and will go forth in
to various lines of Christian work
at home and abroad. Forty-five of
these students have volunteered for
the foreign field. Mr. Boykin ex
pects to enter the ministry.
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Friday morning five truck loads j
, of ladies and girls, seventy persons (
j in all, from Craven County, passed
through our city en route home from !
the Farmers and Farm Women’s i
Convention which was held in Ral- (
eigh last week. The public school
. trucks were used for the trip. A
number of club girls were in the i
party. Miss A. M. Carter is the
Home Demonstration Agent of
( Craven County.
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Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Pearce left ,
Friday for Lumberton to spend a
week with relatives and friends.
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CO. COMMISSIONERS
HAVE A BUSY DAY
Tax Rate Reduced; Court
House to Be Dedicated;
Civil Court Jury Drawn
The County Commissioners with
Mr. Oliver the chairman presiding,
met here yesterday and were kept
busy throughout the day. Those who
have had their ears to the ground
will perhaps not be surprised that
the tax rate was reduced for the de
mands have been insistent for a low
ered rate. A tax of 40 cents for
general school purposes and a ten
cent tax for school buildings and
incidentals was levied being a total
reduction of ten cents over last year’s
levy. (The special tax rates will ba
published later.) A levy of 14 cents
was made for county tax, a court
house tax of nine cents. (The road
tax was not complete and will also
he published later.) The court hous'
tax is one cent less than last year.
The commissioners are carrying out
a program of retrenqhment, a note
that has been sounded in all govern
mental affairs, and no doubt their ac
tion will be received with satisfac
tion over the county.
Other important business trans
acted yesterday was to set a date
for dedicating the new court house
which will be ready for occupancy in
September. The date set is September
26, and the following program was
recommended to be carried out:
1. Prayer.
2. Song: The Old North State.
3. Presentation of building by
County Commissioners.
4. The Johnston County Bar, bv
Mr. James A. Wellons.
5. Short Talks by Members of
the Johnston County Bar.
6. Short talk bf Architect.
7. Short talk by Contractor.
8. Receiving of building by Judge
F. A. Daniels.
The day will be a red letter day
in the history of Johnston County),
and its entire citizenship is invited
to come to the county sect on that ,
day to the house warming. The
court house is complete in every de- j
tail. Every modern function of coun
ty government has been ’onsidered, j
and when ihe people see the build
ing, its simplicity and convenience,
they will swell with pride lhat
Johnsfon rank= among the best as
to its administration building. A
committee will have charge of the
details of the program and no pains
will be spared to make the day one
to be remembered.
After e. discussion of the Dedica
tion service, the commissioners took
a recess and motored out to the
County Home where they were the
guests of the keeper. Mr. Stephnson,
for dinner.
At the. afternoon session among
other items of business was the
drawing of the jury for the two
weeks term of Civil Court which
begins next week. The list is as fol
lows:
First Week
W. F. Morris, S. W. Booker, A. P.
Grice, J. D. Spiers, W. H. Langdon,
J. A. Lee, Jr., H O Ellis, D. M. Mor- :
ris, J. B. Raynor, Ed Stevens, M. F.
Holly, W N. Lee, P. A. Boytt, W. M.
Weeks, J. E. Wall, R. C. Ogburn, J.
I. Pope, Vance Hales, Jesse B.
Creech, W. T. Grimes, C. A. Fitzger
ald, Jeff Penny, Henry Morgan, W.
T. Bailey.
Second Week.
T. M. Benoy, L. P. Johnson, P. B.
Steven^, WT. H. Capps, W. M. Bar
den*. E. T. Futrell, W. O. Rackley, W.
T. Woodard, W. V. Blackman, L. D.
Debnam, W. J. Langdon, J. M. Vin
son, P. L. Hayes, C. W. Langston, R.
R. Davis, J. A. Batten, M M. Hobbs,
J. D. Daughtry.
Severe Hail Storm.
MOUNT AIRY, Aug. 1.—A severe
hailstorm swept thru the best tobac
co section of Surry county this aft
ernoon, beginning' near Low Gap and
visiting Dobson and the Fish River
and Little Mountain sections, sweep- ,
ing through White Plains and Mount
Airy in the direction of Westfield.
At Westfield there was little rain,
but hail lay on the ground in piles.
At White Plains the tobacco was
completely stripped from the stems.
The loss to farms from tobacco alone
is estimated at something like $100,- {
000.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
CONVENTION AUG. 31
County Chairman Calls Con
vention In City Hall Here
At Eleven O’clock
To the Democratic Voters of Johns
ton County:
By direction of the County Execu
te - ommittee I hereby give notice
to all Democratic voters, both ladies
and gentlemen, that the Johnston
County Democratic County Conven
tion will convene in Smithfield at
11 o’clock, A. M., Thursday August
31, 1022, at the Town Hall. At this
convention County Officers will be
nominated.
I trust that each Township will be
in attendance in large numbers of
both ladies and gentlemen. The nom
ination of these officers is of vital
importance to every citizen and you
should ^xert your rights in helping
name the candidates.
Every Democratic woman and man
in the county who can arrange to do
so, should attend. It is your privi
lege and your duty.
Respectfully,
GEORGE ROSS POU,
Chairman County Dem. Ex Com.
I)R. JOYNER HEADS FARMERS
Co-operative Marketing and Boll
Weevil “Burning Issues.”
Resolutions Adopted.
RALEIGH, Aug. 3.—Electing Di.
J. Y. Joyner, former superintendent
of public instruction, as their pres
ident Tar Heel farmers adjourned
their annual convention this after
noon. The farm women elected Mrs.
Lacy McArthur, of Cumberland
county, as their president, yesterday.
Resolutions adopted at the final
session expressed the convention’s
gratification at the triumph of co
operative marketing, and commend
ed the preparations being made by
the state for combating the boll
weevil, the “two burning issues"
of the meeting.
Resolutions also thanked Gover
nor Morrison for his interest in the
“live-at-home” campaign; Dr. E. C.
Brooks for his rural school pro
gram; the general assembly for its
liberal appropriations for agricul
tural work; the state home demon
stration department for its efforts
among the farm women, and ex
pressed pride and pleasure in the
development of the Sandhill section.
The convention advocated more
credit unions, more dairy and
creamery routes, a more vigorous
drainage campaign, and urged ade
quate provision by the federal gov
ernment for the development of
Muscle Shoals.
Dr. Joyner succeeds as president
U. B. Blalock, of Wadesboro, who
soon becomes director of the North
Carolina Cotton Co-operative associa
tion; W. W. Jarvis, of Moyock, was
named first vice-president; C. A.
Brown, of Cleveland, second vice
president, and W. W. Shay, of Ra
leigh, re-elected secretary treasurer.
Today’s session were given over to
cooperative marketing. Detailed
plans for the cotton cooperatives
were given by Dr. B. W. Kilgore,
director of the association, G. A.
Norwood, president of the Tobacco
Cooperative Association, presented
the tobacco cooperative movement,
and former Congressman Robert N.
Page told how the Sandhill peach
farmers are getting good prices on
the 1,400 and more cars shipped
north. 0. I > Matthews, state horti
culturist, spoke on the co-operation
among fruit growers, particularly
the apple meh of western North
Carolina.
First Load of Sweet Potatoes
The first load of new sweet pota
toes we have seen this year was
brought to town Saturday by Mr. D.
Henry Stephenson who lives near
Wilson’s Mills. They were Porto
Rico yams and were “mighty nice”
potatoes- Mr. Stephenson is realiz
ing on one of his money crops ahead
of either tobacco or cotton.
Mr. W. F. Hammill, of Weldon, is
in the city relieving the express
agent, Mr. J. D. Harris who left
Friday to spend ten days at his home
at Atlanta, Ga.
WRECK TAKES A
TOLL OF SIXTY
Engineer Fails to Heed Block Signal
And Causes Wreck in Missouri
—Rear-end Collision
Sulphur Springs, Mo., Aug. 6.—
Failure of an engineer to heed a block
signal caused the rear-end collision on
the Missouri Pacific here last night in
which 38 persons were killed and a
bout 137 injured, 25 seriously, accord
ing to John Cannon, assistant general
manager of the road.
Train No. 4, a Tast passenger ves
tibule steel train running at full speed
crashed into No. 32, a local, composed
of five wooden day coaches, a baggage
and an express car, as the engine was
taking on water with the coaches
stretching back on a trestle over
Glase creek.
The impact hurled two of the lo
cal coaches down a 50 foot embank
ment edging the Mississippi and tele
scoped four other coaches, crushing
a number of passengers to death in
their seats. Both trains were behind
time, the fast passenger, running from
Fort Worth, Texas, to St. Louis, car
rying 180 passengers, and the local
100 persons.
According to Mr. Gannon, Matt
“Ginger” Glenn, of St. Louis, engineer
of the fast passenger, failed to heed
^ block signal warning him the track
was not clear ahead. Glenn, 57 years
old, an engineer for 35 years without
a black mark against his record, was
killed when he jumped from his cabin
just before the crash. Edward Tins
ley, also of St. Louis, fireman of No.
4, remained at his post and was in
jured seriously.
Engineer Glenn shortly before ar
riving in Sulpunr Springs received or
ders on the “run” to pull over on a
siding at Cliff Cave, 10 miles north of
here, to allow “Sunshine Special No.
1,” enroute from St. Louis to Texas
points, to pass, and Mr. Cannon ex
plained the engineer failed to heed the
signal because he apparently was
reading these orders when he passed
the block. The orders were found
near his body.
Ghouls appeared on the scene short
ly after the crash and robbed the dead
and dying. Only one was arrested,
and he said he was William Hall, of
St. Louis. Several pieces of wearing
apparel taken from the unfortunates
were found on his person, and a Bible
was in his waist. The Bible, it was
said, had been the property of the
Rev. V. O. Hensley of DeSoto, one of
those killed.-—Associated Press.
HAIL STORM SWEEPS
PIEDMONT CAROL1N A
With stones big enough to split
! watermelons wide open when struck
i by them and the fall reaching a
I depth of two inches in some places,
1 one of the most severe hail storms
in years swept several counties in
Piedmont and Western North Caro
lina late yesterday, according to re
! ports reaching hefe today. Cotton,
| corn and other crops are reported
badly damaged in some sections.
The storm was felt in parts of
i Cabarrus, Rowan, Iredell, Alexander
and Wilkes counties. The hail
| reached a depth of 12 inches in Ire
' dell county, according to reports
| from Statesville, and ice was still
( on the ground in sections of Cabar
j rus county this morning.—News and
, Observer.
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Another Old Rose Bush.
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Sometime ago, Mr. Phillip Lee, who
lives near Four Oaks, told us of a
. very old rose bush which is growing
. in his yard. One day this week we
, were told of another old rose bush
| which is growing in the yard at the
; old George L. Jones’ place near Wil
| son’s Mills. This bush which is a
1 monthly red rose, was planted by
Mr. George L. Jones’ mother, Mrs.
Harriet Jones, w-ho has been dead
for 45 years. This makes the au
thentic age of the rose bush at least
45 years and the probability is that
it is older than that. The bush has
grown to considerable size and re
quires a frame to hold it up.
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Grantham,
Misses Rose and Nellie, and Masters
Norman and Joe Mike Grantham,
will leave today to visit relatives in
Washington and Baltimore. They
expect to be away a faeek or ten
days.
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WOODROW WILSON
ON DAVIDSON COM
Ex-President Accepts Ap
pointment on Campaign
Committee
' CHARLOTTE, August 5.—Dr.
Woodrow Wilson, ex-president of the
United States and former student at
Davidson College, near here, today
accepted an appointment as member
of the Greater Davidson Campaign
Committee, according to the an
nouncement of Malcolm Lockhart, Di
rector of the campaign to raise $600,
000 for the expansion and endow
ment of the Presbyterian institution.
The committee of which Dr. Wilson
is a member is organized to present
the needs of Davidson to its friends
and alumni, and to build “A Greater
Davidson for a Greater Southern
Presbyterian Church.”
Dr. Wilson has long retained a
great interest in Davidson College
where he entered as a Freshman in
1873, under the name of Thomas
Woodrow Wilson that he used thru
out his earlier years until he final
ly dropped the “Thomas” from his
name. While president he once vis
ited the institution, and the college
records show that he took a promi
nent part in college activities. Dr.
Wilson was 17 years old upon enter
ing Davidson, and it was here that
he made his first public addresses
and took the interest in political af
fairs of his country that characteriz
ed his later life.
Rev. Joseph R .Wilson, father of
the famous president and prominent
Presbyterian minister of Wilmington,
N. C., was a member of the Board
of Trustees of Davidson for a num
ber of years, and was responsible
for his son’s matriculation at the
institution.
While at Davidson Dr. Wilson liv
ed in Room IT, Chambers Kali, ainr
in later life, he has often joked about
A13” eing his lucky number, Room
13 in Chambers Hall being the first
of a number of times that “13” was
connected with his life. When
Chambers Hall was recently destroy
ed by fire Dr Wilson wrote that he
hoped with all h;s heart “that funds
can be raised to rebuild it,” and one
of the objects of the present cam
paign is the rebuilding of the histor
ic old hall. The other object of the
movement is to increase the endow
ment of the college to provide more
teachers.
A Unique Entertainment.
WILSON’S MILLS, Aug. 5.—On
Thursday evening, Misses Lottie Wil
son, Odessa Massey and Imogene
Murray entertained a number of
friends at the home of Miss Wilson.
The season of summer was well
verified by the decorations of lux
uriant cut flowers and quaint Japa
nese lanterns. The guests were
cordially greeted and invited to the
punch bowl. An imitation dance in
the form of a progressive conver
sation was enjoyed by all. At the
close of the evening cream and cake
were served in daintily decorated
covers.
The invited guests were: Misses
Mary Holmes, Greenville; Annie
Mae Benton, Spencer; Elizabeth
Whitley, Clayton; Christine Talton,
Gladys Turnage, Mildred Wilson,
Messrs Noah Wilson, Charles Wil
son, Orrell Massey, Leonard Massey,
Robert Uzzle, Cecil Turnage, Hunter
Turnage, Otha Ellis, Leon Talton
and Carlton Adams.
Mr. L. E. Watson’s Mother Dead
Friends here will be sorry to learn
of the passing of Mrs. Bettie A. Wat
son, who died at her home in Elm
City early yesterday morning. She
has been quite ill for some time and
her death was not unexpected. Sev
eral months ago she had a fall from *
which she never recovered. She
will be buried at Elm City this after
noon at four o’clock. Mrs. Watson
was well known in Smithfield having
spent a good deal of time here with
her son, Mr. L. E. Watson. Mr.
and Mrs. Watson and sons, Messrs
Edgar and Thomas left yesterday for
Elm City and will remain until after
the funeral. They have the sympa
thy of the community in their be
reavement.