CRAVEN CO. MEN AND
BOYS STOP OVER
More Than 200 Are Served
Refreshments on Court
Yard Square Friday
Fifty-six cars from Craven county
carrying more than two hundred far- .
mers and their sons, parked in front
of our handsome new court house Fri
day afternoon for a half hour’s rest. !
The citizens of Smithfield were pre
pared, and a committee from the j
Chamber of Commerce, and from the
Woman’s Club were on hand to wel- |
come the visitors to our town. Plen
ty of lemonade with wafers were serv
ed by the ladies after which a few
moments were devoted to speech
making. These men and pig club ^
boys were on their way home from
a five hundred mile auto trip through
Moore County where they visited
Pinehurst with its famed dairy of
Ayrshire cows and piggery of Berk
shires.
The speeches included an address
of welcome by Judge F. H. Brooks on
behalf of the citizens of Smithfield, a
brief talk by Mr. N. B. Stevens, coun
ty farm demonstrator, who extended
a cordial hand on behalf of Johnston
County, and a happy response by
Mr. C. C. Kirkpatrick, executive sec
retary New Bern Agricultural Com
mittee. Mr. Kirkpatrick sounded a
note in his brief remarks which
should be sounded more and more—
that North Carolina should feed her^
people without outside help. He
said that Craven county proposed to
do its part in keeping the dollars
at home instead of sending them
North and West, and from the looks
of that energetic crowd of men and
boys, we believe they will do it.
Lawyer and Blockader.
Judge James* L. Webb is to open
a term of criminal court in Gastonia,
next wek, and The Gazette is advis
ing him in advance that he is going
to have a big batch of bootleggers
to deal with, that sort of business hav
ing been on the increase in recent
months. The Gazette seems appre
hensive that some of these offenders
may get off with fines, which is “only
a form of license to do business.” The
Gazette maintains that there is only ;
one way to break up the traffic.
“Bootleggers and lawyers,” it makes
bold to say, “know this, and that is
why they fight the road sentences.”
And then The Gazette gives intima
tion to the outside world that there
are some lawyers with an eye to
“business.” It is a pretty tough ar
raignment, but The Gazette must
have some ground for it. Our plain
ly-spoken Gastonia contemporary re
marks: “The affluent bootlegger is a
good client and the lawyer knows it.
He has money to pay, where many
other devils don’t. It is no wonder
that some of them, therefore, want ■
to keep the bootlegging business
thriving. They get clients from
among that gentry, whereas they
would starve among a peaceful, law
abiding people, if their ability to
make a living were gauged by their
skill as a real lawyer.”
Talk like this in the newspapers is j
calculated to #ive serious considera
tion by respectable lawyers to the ex
ample with which several lawyers in
Charlotte have been accredited with
establishing, or purposing to es
tablish, of refusing to appear as de
fenders of bootleggers.—Charlotte
Observer.
Boll Weevil in Bentonville.
Mr. W. H. Weaver, of Bentonville
township, was in town Friday. He j
says tha tthe boll weevil have damag- ;
ed his cotton considerably. He does .
not think now that he will make ;
more than half a crop where he was ;
expecting to get a bale and a half j
per acre. Mr. Weaver said that the
weevil had not attacked the cotton of
some of his neighbors.
A Good Addition.
The man who once wisely said:
“Be sure you’re right and go
ahead.”
Might well have added this to wit:
“Be sure you’re wrong before you
quit.”—Ex.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and
sometimes harder to find.
BLOW UP WATER MAIN
AT SPENCER SHOPS
SPENCER, Aug. 20.—Sunday was
featured by establishing camp
headquarters for nine companies of
state militia three miles from the
Spencer shops, by the - blowing up
of the large water main that sup
plies the shops and hundreds of
locomotives that are used out of
Spencer;' by the burning of some
bad order box cars near the yard
limits: by the small sized skirmish
reported on the outskirts of East
Spencer; by the arrival of 25 re
cruits for the working force at the
shops, and the passing of another
group of workmen headed for Co
lumbia shops.
Surpassing all other matters in
general interest was the blowing
up of a water main, shutting off
the entire water supply for en
gines and fire protection.
Negro Fireman Hurt.
A negro fireman passing near
the scene of the explosion which
occurred about midnight was se
verely injured by flying debris and
was given medical attention. The
main, which was one foot in diam
eter, carrying ordinary city pres
sure, was apparently blown up by
dynamite at a point inside of the
shop yards, between a row of un
used box cars and the fence sur
rounding the property, and at a
point some 75 feet from a picket
stand, several pickets, it is said,
having been endangered by the ex
plosion which awakened most citi
zens in Spencer *or 10 bh cks
around. A section of the pips
entirely blown out and a
size ot a small house left in the
ground.
Section of Spencer Flooded.
A huge stream of water flooded
that section of Spencer for several
hours until the supply could be
shut off. There is no known clue
as to who blew up the pipe, though
Southern officials, and Sheriff J. H.
Krider have been making strenu
ous efforts to fasten the blame
where it belongs.—Greensboro Daily
News.
COLOR GRADES FOR EXTRACTED
HONEY TO BE ESTABLISHED
Samples of honey are being received
by the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture from beekeepers in all parts of
the country in connection with the
work of establishing reliable color
grades for extracted honey. A new
type of spectrophetometer will be us
ed in this work, wh’ch will be done
by agriculturists of the department
in cooperation with the Division of
Grades and Standards of the Bureau
of Agri ulturai Economics. It is
also planned to use the honeys exam
ined in other investigations. The pol
len content of the honeys will be
identified by the microchemical lab
or itrry of the Bureau of Chemistry.
MR. JOE A. BROWN
SPOKE HERE SATURDAY
One of the largest crowds which
has attended any of the meetings in
the interest of cooperative market
ing, gatherer! at the opera house
here Saturday afternoon to hear Mr.
Joe A. Brown on tobacco cooperative
marketing. Mr. Brown is from
Chadbourn and is intensely interested
in the southern farmer. He spoke
convincingly, and after his speech,
several came forward and signed
contracts. One of the signers is said
to have signed up for 50 acres.
A Woman’s Program.
Let the men see that we desire a
better, safer and cleaner world for
our children and their children. We
realize that only by doing our bit,
by facing unclean things with clean
liness, by facing wrongs with right,
by going fearlessly into all things
that may be disagreeable, we will
somehow make it a little better
world.
If we want this new world, we
can only get it by striving for it. The
real struggle will be within our
selves, to put out of our consciousness,
out of our hearts and thoughts all
that makes for war, hate, envy, greed,
pride, force and material ambition.—
Lady Astor.
Medical men say dirt-eating is
caused by the hook-worm. Also by
the desire to keep up with the car
that I is just passed.
REORGANIZ CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE HERE
Ransom Sanders Is Elected
President; Executive Com.
Names Committees
The chamber of commerce met in
the opera house here, Thursday eve
ning with about fifty citizens pres
ent for the purpose of reorganization.
Several speeches as to Smithfield
possibilities were made by business
men of the town preliminary to get
ting down to the business of reor
ganizing. Then a nominating com
mittee was appointed composed of
the following: Messrs J. W. Stephen
son, P. K. Broadhurst, W. L. Ful
ler, W. H. Austin, Ransom Sanders,
and F. H. Brooks. The committee re
: tired and after deliberation reported
as follows: President, Mr. Ransom
i Sanders; secretary, Mr. John Mor
ris; treasurer, Mr. H. C. Woodall:
i Executive committee besides ex officio
members, Messrs J. A. Wellons, W.
L. Fuller and F. K. Broadhurst. The
meeting adopted the report of the
nominating committee, and it was
| decided to take the old list of mem
bers of the chamber of commerce and
; ask the secretary to see the former
I members with the same proposition
: for membership as used before,
j On Friday evening the executive
| committee met in the office of Mr. J.
i A. Wellons and appointed sub com
! mittees which will have the be.-t in
| terests of Sntithfield at heart. *.Tr.
i J. J. Broadiiurst was Made chalk
man of the committee on transpor
tation. His field of endeavor promises
to be quite active, the getting of a
new station here, adjustment of
freight rates etc., coming under his
jurisdiction. Mr. J. W. Stephenson
was named as chairman of the agri
cultural committee, and the develop
ment of agricultural interests will hr
his job. Mr. J. A. Wellons heads the
Road committee, and his business
will be to see to it that “all good
roads lead to Smithfield.” Mr. F.
K. Broadhurst was made chairman
of the committee on Manufacturing.
Our town needs more manufactories,
and it will be Mr. Broadhurst’s look
out to bring such industries here.
Mr. Leon F. Uzzle, who owns an up
to-date dairy between here and Wil
son’s Mills, was made chairman of
the Livestock committee, and he will
turn his efforts toward more and bet
ter live stock in the county. Mr
Charles Broadhurst was made chair
man of a Poultry committee.
The plan of endeavor if carried out
is bound to make Smithfield bigger J
and more prosperous, and that is the i
end toward which all Chambers of
Commerce work.
Roosevelt Relic to Museum.
iNLW YORK, Aug. 18.—Among the
gifts recently received by the Metro
politan Museum of Art is one from
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, who sent
“Quentin’s porringer,” a family relic.
It is a fine piece of colonial silver
made by Josiah Austin before the
Revolution. Its first owner was Eliz
abeth Leighton, whose initials it
bears. Mrs. Roosevelt, who had wish
ed to hand it down to her son, killed
during the great war, wrote:
“I am deeply gratified that space
is found for Quentin’s porringer
within the walls where he passed so
many happy hours of short and hap
py life. As country people say, I |
could not ‘feel to’ have it elsewhere.”
TOBACCO ASSOCIATION
TO OPEN THURSDAY
The Tobacco Growers Cooperative !
Marketing Association will open its I
receiving warehouse here Thursday,
August 24. As the members of the
association are aware, the Farmers
tobacco warehouse was leased by the
association sometime ago which is
ample to meet the needs of the organ
ization.
Plenty of Canned Fruits.
Farm housewives last year either •
sold or put on their pantry shelves
1.335.000 containers of jelly, 9,500,- (
000 cans of fruit and vegetables, and
715.000 pounds of poultry and meat, |
canned according to methods demon- ;
strated to them by extension agents
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture and the State agricultural col
leges.
NEWS NOTES FROM
THE CITY OF BENSON
Successful Revival Closes at
Methodist Church: Other
Items of Interest
BENSON, Aug. 19.—Misses Marg
aret .md Dorothy Hall, of Goldsboro,
are visiting at the home of Mr. and
Mis. J. L. Hall.
The Sunday School of the Presby
terian Church enoved g picnic Wed
nesday at Holt Lake. The rain in
terfered a little with the afternoon
bathing and boat-riding but all en
joyed the .delightful dinner before the
rain began.
Mrs. L. Gilbert has been confined
to her bed for several days but her
frit nds hope to see her out again
soon.
Mr. J. H. Rose returned the vrst
of he week from Black Mountain
where he has been spending his va
cation. His family who are still
there will return the latter part of
the month.
Mrs. J. R. Barbour and two sons
returned last week from a several
weeks’ stay in Hamlet and Laurin
burg. While away they spent sever
al days at White Lake. They were
accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs.
R. R. Covington, of Laurinburg.
The meeting closed Sunday night
at the Methodist church with a splen
did sermon and a large congregation.
Mr. Noel who has been doing the
cbing won the love of all who
services and the meet
i-. ; pounced success in ev
j ery way.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim V- Hai* i?rh,
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Boon.
Misses Clara Edwards and Katie
"Lee Matthews, of Clinton, visited
Miss Sarah Turlington this week.
I* Miss .Alta Debnam, of Selma, spent
this week here with her sister, Mrs.
.A. S. Oliver.
Mr. Wade Royal and Miss Chellie
Royal, spent yesterday in Raeford.
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Brjtt and son,
De Leon are spending this month in
Asheville.
Mr. J. R. Barbour returned Wed
nesday from Chesterfield and Che
raw, S. C.
Rev. E. M. Hall left Monday for
Philadelphia, where he is receiving
medical treatment. When he returns
next week he will find a delightful
surprise awaiting him—a fine boy
having arrived at his home last
night.
Mrs. R. C. Wells and children will
return in ? few days from Asheville
where they have been spending the
summer.
Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Roberts have
moved into the new bungalow on
Church street belonging to Mr. J. H.
< lodwin.
Mr. Gardner Morgan and Mr. Ken
neth Cavanaugh have entered school
at Mais Hill, N. C.
Rev A T. Lassiter is conducting
a meeting at Community this week.
Mrs. R. C. Collins, of Charleston,
S. C., :s visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Busbee Pope and children, of
Dunn, are spending the week end i
with Mrs. W. M. Smith.
Mrs. Lula Baucom, of Roxboro,
spent several days this week here |
with Mrs. J. W. Whittenton.
SENATE PASSES TARIFF
BILL BY VOTE OF 48 TO 25
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The ad
ministration tariff bill. officially
“the tariff Act of 1922,” was pass
ed by a vote of 48 to 25 late today
by the Senate after four months of
debate. It now goes to conference.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, was the
only Republican to vote against the
measure. Three Democrats—Brous
sard, Kendrick and Ransdell—voted
for it.—Associated Press.
Want to Spread It.
“A little learning is a dangerous
thing,” quoted the Wise Guy. “Still
it inspires a generous spirit,” re
plied the Simple Mug. “The less peo
ple know, the harder it is for them
to keep it to themselves.”—Philadel
phia Record.
She: “Oh, the monotony c£ this
place! I fear before the day's over
it will drive me wild.”
He: “May I come around this eve
ning?”—Outlook.
DAY LABORER FALLS
HEIR TO MANY MILLIONS j
GREENSBORO, A up. 19.—J. II.
Browning, a workman in the Whit
Oak Cotton Mill here, finds himself |
changed almost overnight from a
poor day laborer to several times a
millionaire, one of the richest heirs
to a fortune of one hundred fifty
million dollars, left b yhis uncle,
who died possessed of some of the
richest oil land in Texas.
Today, answering the questions of
a newspaper man, he stated that he
had just heard from his lawyer, and
he estimates that his share of tiff
vast estate will be about fifteen
million dollars at least.
First Woman Blacksmith.
Saturday’s Daily Times, made a
brief notice that Ann Jack was dead,
referring to the death of “Old Aunt”
Ann Williams, a well known col
ored woman of this town. Aunt Ann
was one of the old time darkies that
are fast disappearing in the South.
She was the wife of Jack William
son, a blacksmith and horseshoer,
and being his helper she soon mas
tered the art and was tHe first wo
man blacksmith and horseshoer wo ;
ever knew, and we think the first in j
North Carolina, and probably in the i
United States. We remember years j
ago an article in the Atlanta Consti- !
tution claiming the only woman
blacksmith in the United States was
in the Georgia penitentiary, also col
ored, being sent there for killing her
stepfather, braining him with a
chain, as she was so powerful they
put her to work in the blacksmith
shop. We wrote to the Constitution
and told them Wilson had a woman
bla. - >n h who was working at the I
trad* yea■ (heirs begun, re-!
ferring to . . ,n<: 'bat she i
was aR-itPiu'.si h •kinjfr, md de
serving citizen and had never bem
convicted of any crime. The last
years of Aunt Ann’s life were ones
of much suffering, as she was af
flicted with rheumatism, death was a
release.—James Dempsey Bullock, in
Wilson Times.
$14,000 RADIUM TUBE
FOUND INSIDE OF WOMAN
CHICAGO, ,Aug. 18.—A tube of
radium valued at $14,000 was back
in the hands of the surgeon who owns
it, and Mrs. Martha Spohn,a patient
in whose body the radium was “lost,”
was reported to be recovering today, i
following an operation to recover the !
missing metal.
In a previous operation radium j
treatment was recommended and the ,
tube was inserted in the incision. I
When Mrs. Spohn was placed on the '
operating table for removal of the j
tube it had disappeared. Another in- j
cision revealed mat the radium had
burned through the tissues to another
part of the patient’s body. —Associat- I
cd Press.
Accidents Among Children.
Speaking of children and accidents,
The Lincoln County News recently j
remarked that “the wonder to the
average person is not that so many
children are accidentally killed, but
that so few are killed, considering j
the risks.” That paper then goes on ,
to refer to the deplorable accident \
which occurred at Norwood more than j
a week ago, in the follonwig language: j
“Down in Stanly County the other ,
day a 7-year-old girl was playing '
about where some carpenters were
at work. She accidentally stepped
on a drawing knife and died from the
effects before anything could be done
for her, the loss of blood and the
shock being too great.”
This reminds us that parents j
and others generally cannot be too ,
careful, and we are moved to say in
this connection that every thinking
person should be especially careful \
about rusty nails. Nothing is more
dangerous to children than a lot of
rusty nails driven in planks with the
sharp points turned upward lying
around where the little tots are ac
customed to play barefooted. We .
should make it a point, regardless
of where we may be, when we sec
one of these deadly weapons, to go
to the trouble of removing it, lest
some child may be seriously injured.
—Stanly News-Herald.
If his feet crowd his shoes too
tightly, rest assured his brain doesn’t
treat his skull that way.
A PICNIC FOR CLUB
BOYS AND GIRLS
Mr. John A. Park of Raleigh
Evening Times Will Lead
Community Sing
It. has come to be the custom for
the club boys and girls of the county
to have some kind of an annual out
ing, and this year the program prom
ises more than the usual interest be
cause of the community singing
which will be led by Mr. John A.
Park of the Raleigh Evening Times.
The outing this year will he a picnic
at Harden’s Mill near Kenly, as an
nounced in our last issue, and the
singing will be conducted in the open.
Mr. N. B. Stevens, county farm ag
ent, and Miss Minnie Lee Garrison,
county Home Agent, have the fol
lowing announcement about the picnic
which takes place tomorrow:
“Mr. John A. Park, of the Raleigh
Evening Times, has promised to come
to your Club Picnic at Darden’s Mill,
on Wednesday and lead the Commu
nity Singing. You can’t afford to
miss the picnic and if for nothing
else you cannot afford to miss see
ing and hearing Mr. Park, so make
your plans now to attend this picnic
and bring every club member that
you know, also urge your parents to
come with you.
“No doubt you have seep an ac
count of the trip the Pig Club mem
bers of Craven county made through
the State last week, and we feel that
Johnston County can do just as much
in Club work as any county in the
State. It is our plans now to outline
a campaign or set of plans at this
picnic by which we will be one of the
leading counties in club work next
year. However, we can’t do this with
out your aid and cooperation, so be
and end this rally of the
Club menvjj id let’s get a good
start ^“ '
Don't forget Mr. Pork will attend
this meeting and you can’t
miss meeting him, and we !' rtner
want to extend an invitation to any
boy or girl in the county who is not
a member rf the Club, but is inter
ested to attend this meeting.”
The Humble Tomato.
If the tomato were something
which could be manufactured and
monopolized, it would now be widely
advertised and sold by the drug
stores as “Vito, the Great Health
Food.” Tomatoes contain moderate
amounts of Vitamin A and very large
amounts of Vitamins B and G. They
seem to be far richer in vitamins than
apples, grapes, pears or any of the
fruits that have so far been tried out.
Vitamin C, which is the special con
tribution of oranges and lemons,
seems to be found in just as large
amounts in tomatoes. Moreover, to
matoes, even after they are canned,
see mto retain their vitamin virtues.
For maintaining the family health
durin gthe winter time, it is appar
ently far more important to can to
matoes than it is to make apple but
ter or grape jelly, or the other pre
serves which are traditional favor
:tes with the housewife.
How the tomato has come up in the
world! In the memory of men now
living it was the ornamental but
poisonous love apple, and then follow
ed a time when people looked on it
for a time as a rather inspid thing
which was neither fruit nor vegeta
ble. Then improved varieties were
brought out, and today it stands out
as one of the richest of all our com
mon foods in vitamins, being almost
as rich as milk in Vitamin A and
considerably richer than milk in Vita
mins B and C.—Wallace’s Farmer.
Defining the Professor.
Enthusiastic Professor of Physics
(discussing the organic and inorgan
ic kingdoms)—“Now, if I should shut
my eyes—so—and drop my head
so—and should not move, you would
say I was a clod. But I move, I
leap, I run—then what do you call
me?” •
Voice from the Rear — “A clod
hopper!”—London Evening Stand
ard.
Aviator (crashing through plank
ing and plaster from a disabled air
plane): “Where am I?”
Voice: “You’re in my cellar but
I’m watching you.”—Forecast.