NEWS LETTER FROM
THE TOWN OF KENLY
M. E. Sunday School Class
Spends Day at Orphanage
In Raleigh; Personal
KENLY, Aug. 22.—Miss Nora Dun
lap and Jessie Perry, of Raleigh, were
the week end guests of Mrs. G. B.
Woodard.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Bridger, of
Bladenboro, and Mr. and Mrs. H. P.
Johnson, of Smithfield, were guests
of relatives here Sunday.
Miss Annie Aycock has returned
from northern markets where she
has been purchasing fall millinery.
Mrs. J. J. Edgerton has for her
guests for this week, Mrs. Hoyt Har
ris and children, of Nashville, Tenn.,
Mrs. L. L. Smith and children, of
Pinetops.
Mr. Donald Kirby, who holds a very
responsible position in a bank at
Greenville, was at home here during
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hooks and fam
ily spent Sunday with relatives at
Fremont.
Mrs. C. L. Lawrence spent Monday
in Wilson.
Quite a number of the Kenly folks
attended the barbecue dinner ir.
Northampton county last Friday giv
en by Mr. H. F. Edgerton on his farm.
Mr. Rudolph Kirby and Mr. Dobbin
Bailey, two of the Kenly boys who
hold positions in Texas, are at home
on their vacation.
Mr. and* Mrs. John Edgerton from
Lebanon, Tenn., are spendng some
time here, the guests of the family of
Mr. H. F. Edgerton,
Miss Clyde Watson who holds a po
sition in Wilson, spent the week end
here with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Darden spent
Tuesday in Wilson.
Rev. Mr. Shepherd, of Fremont, will
speak here Sunday at the Missionary
Baptist church. Mr. Shepherd has
accepted the pastorate of this church
and will move his family here at an
early date. The Kenly people give
them a hearty welcome.
Miss Mildred Darden spent Monday
in Wilson.
Rev. E. Poston delivered a very
able sermon Sunday at the Freewill
Baptist church.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Tiner spent Sun
day in Wilson.
The Community Betterment Asso
ciation held a meeting Monday after
noon at 5 o’clock and elected new
officers.
Mr. and Mrs. John Edgerton, of j
Lebanon, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs. W. j
A. Edgerton, of Wilson, were guests
of Hiss Emma Matthews and mother
Tuesday.
Miss Nell Hardison spent Saturday
in Wilson.
Misses Bertie and Lovie Watson,
Mrs. J. R. Harper and children, of
Tarboro, are visiting friends in town
for a few days.
The Ladies Missionary Society of
the M. E. Church had a meeting on
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. The
meeting was conducted by Mrs. W. C.
Hollowell and Mrs. F. A. White.
Mr. Jack Hardison and Mr. Ells
worth Hardison, of Jamesville, are
•n a visit to Mr. Justice Hardison.
The “Wesley Workers” Sunday
School class of the M. E. Sunday
School accompanied by their teacher,
Miss Emma Matthews, enjoyed a very
nice day Sunday at the M. E. Orph
ange in Raleigh. They were very
hospitably received by the Superin
tendent. Rev. A. S. Barnes, of the
institution and th ematron, Mrs. Jen
kins who gave them a warm welcome.
This ciass took their dinner with them
ar.d invited the twro orphan children
that the Sunday School is support
ing to have dinner with them which
was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The
class wishes to express their grati
tude to Mr. Barnes and Mrs. Jenkins
for their day’s pleasure.
Arms For China Barred.
TOYKO„ Aug. 22.—A strict em
bargo against the shipment of arms
into China from either the United
States or Japan will be enforced, it
was learned from authoritative sour
ces here.
At the Washington conference Italy
found herself unable to subscribe to
the agreement against such ship
ments, but negotiations to make
the embargo more general have been
reopened.—Associated Press.
REJECT PROPOSAL TO
END NATION-WIDE STRIKE
Group of 25 Roads To Consider Offer
of Mediators For Individual
Settlement.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—The Asso
ciation of Railway Executives by a
vote of 254 to 4 today rejected the
proposal of the big five train service
brotherhoods, that the carriers end
the nation-wide shopmen’s strike by
reinstating the men with seniority
unimpaired and Bert M. Jewell official
spokesman for the strikers, declared
the association had closed the doors
to peace and voted for a lockout to
smash unionism.
At the same time, splitting away
from the majority, was a group of 25
railroads, principally western lines,
which debated a new suggestion of the
brotherhoods that individual settle
ments be effected. This minority,
while professing to stand with the
majority in reaffirming the stand on
seniority, still indicated that it de
sired to hear further regarding the
individual settlement suggested.
Hale Holden, president of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy, who at
tended a meeting of the minority
held in the Yale club after the gen
eral membership of the assoc iatien
had ended its session, joined with
members of hte majority group in de
nying that there was any split.
“There is no question of a split”,
he asserted. “The railroads are all
standing pat on seniority and any
individual settlement will have to be
made in the light of that understand
ing.—Associated Press.
Beautiful Bunch of Asters.
THE HERALD office is indebted to
Mrs. C. V. Johnson for a beautiful
bunch of asters. Everyone who has
visited Mrs. Johnson’s gardens know
the beauty of the flowers blooming
there. Always a lover of growing
things, and having had unusual luck
with chrysanthemums, she has gain
ed quite a reputation not only at
home but abroad for the perfect speci
mens which she grows. Her floral
establishment especially in the fall is
worth a trip to see.
BOLL WEEVILS DETHRONING
KING COTTON IN JOHNSTON
The coming of the boll weevil is no
lctnger a theory. The ugly pest is
already in Johnston county and is
going ahead with his work of de
throning old King Coton. Messrs C.
B. Lee and L. H. D. Williams, of
Bentonsville township, were in the
city Thursday and left a glass jar
containing some two dozen bugs. The
jar with its gloomly-looking contents
is now in the HERALD office and
may be seen by any one who would
care to call by to pay their respects
to these little destroyers.
There were gathered from the
field of Mr. J. R. Weaver, who lives
near Mill Creek Church in Bentons
ville township. Mr. Lee informed us
that practically all the fields in his
community are infested.
An Enoyable Day.
GOLDSBORO, R.F.D., Aug. 23.—
Mr. David Pipkin and sisters were at
home Wednesday, August 23, to a
number of their friends. The day
was spent in a very enjoyable man
ner. Many beautiful musical selec
tions were rendered at the piano by
Mrs. J. C. Thompson, after which a
bountiful dinner was served, consist
ing of barbecue, chicken, sandwich
es, cakes and pies.
Among those present besides mem
bers of the family were, Mr. Ben
Sasser and mother, Mr. Leonard
Street and mother, Dr. "and Mrs.
Will Crawford, Rev. and Mrs. W. G.
Farrar, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thomp
son, Mrs. Katie Rose, Mr. Newson,
and Misses Annie Bell Rose, Bessie
Dail and Mr. Charlie Coon.
President Harrison Sends Relief
Salisbury, Aug. 24.—While another
day of quiet confirmed the general
feeling that there will be no more
disorder in the strike zone of the
Southern Railroad in Salisbury, Spen
cer and East Spencer, announcement
was made here today that Fairfax
Harrison, president of the Southern,
has sent his personal cheek for $1,000
here to be used to relieve suffering and
want on the part of women and chil
dren in the families of the striking
shop craftsmen.
HON. J. W. BAILEY
TO BE HERE SEPT. 4
_ i
Will Make Chief Address At |
The County-Wide Thanks
giving Service
The propram commitee for the
county-wide Thanksgiving service to j
be held here September 4, composed
of Messrs C. A. Corbett* of Selma; J.
T. Edgerton, of Kenly; W. N. Barden, j
of Micro; and J. R. Ledbetter, of I
Princeton, has arranged a program for !
the occasion which will appeal to a |
large number of our Johnston County |
folks.
The meeting is called to give thanks
to God for the favors bestowed in a
material way upon our people. The
program will start promptly at 11
o’clock, “Praise God From Whom All
Blessings Flow” being the first thing
on the program. The scripture les
son, the eighth chapter of Deuteron
omy, will be read by Rev. S. H. Styron
of Pine Level. Prayer will be offer
ed by Rev. C. A. Jenkins, of Claytor..
Then theaudience will join in singing,
“All Hail the Power of Jesus N&me”
after which a prayer will he offered
by Rev. D. H. Tuttle, of this city.
The speaker of the occasion is to
be Hon. J. W. Bailey, of Raleigh,
and he will be introduced by Judge
F. H. Brooks. The speaker will be
escorted by Mr. C. M. Wilson, of
Wilson’s Mills, Pr. Geo. D. Vick, of
Selma, and Mr. J. R. Barbour, of
Benson.
After the address by Mr. Bailey,
the meeting will be thrown open for
three minute talks by anyone present.
The Doxology will be the closing
hymn, and the benediction will be
pronounced by Rev. J. A. Russell, of
Four Oaks.
One of the biggest crowds ever
assembled in the county is expected
here on that day. Being Labor Day,
a legal holiday, will permit a num
ber to come who otherwise could not
do so. The occasion is one that
should appeal to every man, woman,
and child in the county. Gratitude is
a feeling which should spring from
all hearts, and the coming together,
actuated by the spirit of thankfulness
will surely result in an enriched life
for all who attend.
HOUSE PASSES MEASURE
TO PROBE COAL INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The ad
ministration bill for creation of a
federal commission to obtain all facts
possible relating to the coal indus
try and on which miners and opera
tors were denied admission, was
passed tonight by the house 219 to 56.
Three separate attempts were made
by Representative Bland, Republican,
Indiana, to amend the bill so as to
put representatives -f the miners and
i mine owners on the commission, but
| all of them failed.
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| WOULD NAME PHARMACIST
I • ON STATE HEALTH BOARD
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RALEIGH, Aug. 22.—A movement
I to get a pharmacist on the state
board of health has been launched by
the state pharmaceutical association.
, Looking on pharmacy as one of the
j most important agencies of medical
! work, the druggists want representa
1 tion on the board. James P. Stowe,
Charlotte druggist, has been put for
ward by members of the association
forthe place. The executive commit
tee of the State Retail Druggist^
association met here today and gavs
, some thought to the desire for repre
! sentation on the health board, in ad
dition to handling financial matters.
■ —By Brock Barkley in CharlotU
' Observer.
John W. Futrell Dead
Just before going to press we learn
of the demise of Mr. John W. Futrell
which occurred at his home in Selma
last night. The burial will take place
, this afternoon at four o’clock at the
home of Ed Futrell.
I Mr. Futrell was at on6 time treas
urer of Johnston county and has a
, wide circle of friends who will regret
to learn of his passing.
I There is such a rush around the
courthouse that we are unable to get
the proceedings for this paper but
will nave them next week.—Chatham
Record
TOBACCO COOP
MARKET OPENS
More Than 100,000 Pounds
Received First Day; Gen
eral Satisfaction
The Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative
Marketing Association opened its
receiving warehouse here yesterday
with more than 100,000 pounds on the ,
floor. By ten o'clock in the morning, I
when a short devotional service was J
held with Judge F. H. Brooks, Mr. W. !
M. Sanders and Rev. D. H. Tuttle tak- \
ing part, between 65 and 75 thousand !
pounds had been received, and the
weed kept coming in until late in the
day. Farmers were here from all
over Johnston and adjoining coun
ties.
In order to help with the opening,
Mr. T. C Watkins, Director of
Warehouses for the Association, Mr.
C. B. Cheatham, assistant manager of
the Leaf Department of the Tri
State Association, and Mr. J. R.
Hnymes, all of Richmond, Va., were
here for the day. These gentlemen,
together with the manager of the
local warehouse, Mr. A. G. Johnson,
assistant manager, Mr. W. H. Lassi
ter; book-keeper, J. N. Cobb; assist
ant book-keeper, Mr. E. D. Roberson;
clerks, Messrs W. A. Smith and J.
Walter Coats; and grader, Mr. P. H.
Kasey. made for an orderly market
ing of the first lot of tobacco receiv
ed here by the association.
The warehouse presented a differ
ent scene from an auction sale and
yet there were similarities. Instead
of the crowd gathering around the
auctioneer the grader was the center
of attraction. But the satisfaction
(expressed by the farmers who had en
red the pool rivaled that of the
farmers who received a big price for
their tobacco on the opening auction
sale. So far as we were able to learn
none of those who were marketing
their crop through the association
were dissatisfied.
Sounds Like It'd Take the Hide Off
The Sulphur Springs and Tanner’s
Grove clubs met with Mrs. H. Carroll
Tuesday, August 2.—Rutherford Stir,.
INCREASE IN WAGES
FOR NON-UNION MEN
GREENSBURQ, Pa., Aug. 22.—In
creased wages averaging 47 per cent,
and affecting between 30,000 and
40,000 non-union miners in Westmore
land and Fayette counties were de
cided upon at a meeting of operators
here today, it was officially announc
ed tonight. Included in this group
are the H. C. Frick Coal and Coke
Co., Keystone Coal company, Del
mont Gas Coal company, Westmore
land Coal company, and the Mt. Pleas
ant Coal company.
BIG PAVING PROJECT AT
SELMA NOW COMPLETED
SELMA, Aug. 21.—The paving of
the streets and sidewalks of Selma
has been completed "and the con
tractor has loaded his machinery for
| shipment. The paving covers the
business district of the town and is
one of the greatest improvemests
that has been made here. There is
. general regret that the paving will
not be extended, but at a mass meet
ing held some time ago to consider
the extension of the work it was
decided that the burden would be
too heavy to assume at this time.
Mr. W. M. Sanders To Erect Fountain
Mr. W. M. Sanders showed us
yesterday a sketch of a proposed de
sign for the drinking fountain which
he will erect at an early date near
the Court House corner. The foun
tain, which will be quite a convenience
both for man and beast, will be built
of granite. It will measure about
three feet across and will stand
around five feet above ground. A
large bowls will be placed on the
side toward the street for horses to
drink fronj, with a smaller bowl
lower down for dogs. Two drinking
places for* people are shown in the
design, convenient to the sidewalk.
The sketch, if accepted, pictures a
plain substantial fountain, but ornate
enough to be an adornment to the
street as well as a convenience to
the people and animals.
RAILROAD CROSSING ACCI
DENT RESULTS IN 3 DEATHS
Col. and Mrs. J. M. Williams and
Miss Ann Williams, of Mont
gomery, Instantly Killed
DURHAM, Aug. 23.—Col. James
Marks Williams, coast artillery, U.
S. army, of 525 Perry street, Mont
gomery, Ala.; his wife Mrs. Ann M
Williams and Miss Ann Williams, al
so of Montgomery, were instantly
killed shortly after eight o’clock to
night, when Southern Railway pas
senger train No. 22 struck an auto
mobile in which they were riding, at
a grade crossing three miles west of
this city.
The accident occurred at a cross
ing on a detour from the national
highway between Durham an 1
Greensboro. The automobile, it is
said, was moving slowly, the detour
being rough. The train, two hours
late, is reported to have been mov
ing rapidly. The automobile, sedan
style, centered the track when the
crash occurred.
With the combined wreckage of
the automobile and the engine’s
pilot scattered from either side
the train went some distance beyond
the crossing before it was brought
to a stop.
The train crew picked up the bod
ies of (Colonel Williams and Ihe
two women and placed them in the
baggage car. Reports had it that a
negro driver was also in the car.
No trace of another person could lie
found, however.
When the bodies were placed
aboard the train, Col. Williams is
said to have shown signs of life.
He was dead when the train reach
ed Durham.
Aside from a cut on his right hand
Col. Williams’ body was without
a sign of injury. His left leg was
broken, however, near the ankle.
Mrs. Williams’ head was crushed
Otherwise her body was not multilat
ed. Miss Williams’ body bears cuts
and abrasions, but. is not; mutilated.
The victims of the accident were
taken from the local station to an
undertaking establishment to await
information from Montgomery as to
disposition.
COTTON MAY BE DELIVERED
TO ASSOCIATION SEPT 1.
RALEICII, Aug. 22.—Secretary A.
E. Bing, of the North Carolina Cot
ton Growers’ Cooperative Associa
tion is visiting the principal banking
cities of the state this we. to com
plete final arrangement? for financ
ing the orderly marketing of cotton
by the 27,000 members of the Asso
ciation. Sccietary Bing left the Cap
ital City with his plans endorsed by
the i.'aLigh Clearing House Associa
tion ,and the promise of Raleigh
banks that hey would back the asso
ciation to the limit of their resources.
The date for the first delivery of
cotton has been set for September 1,
and Secretary Bing will have all his
financial arrangements completed by
that time. B. F. Brown, manager of
the cotton department, has received
assurances of ample warehouse
space to handle the cotton of the
members.
General Manager Blalock is com
pleting arrangements for classing the
cotton in Raleigh. T. H. Donnelly, a
Liverpool cotton grader employed
for the special purpose of looking out
for the long staple cotton, arrived in
Raleigh this week and will be oi\ the
job when the first cotton comes in.
Homer H. B. Mas^, manager of the
field department, is continuing the
membership drive with increasing
success. Many new contracts arc
being received daily. The drive wil
be continued until Saturday, Septem
ber 2, when a big county rally wi!
be held in each court house in the
cotton belt. Five thousand new cor
tracts is the goal set for that date.
Field representatives for the As
sociation have been called for a
ference in Raleigh next Monday. The}
will meet with group leaders in eac!
county court house on Wednesda\
afternoon, August 30, at 2 o’clock
and in each community on Thursday
August 31, at 3 o’clock there will b<
a meeting of cotton growers to re
ceive the final plans for handling th<
cotton of members of the Association
Plants it in the Spring.
“Sambo, how do dey git de wate
in de watermelon?”
“Dat’s easy, dey plants it in d<
springs.”
JAMES O’NEAL KILLED
BY ONE SHEPHERD
Well-Known Farmer fo Wil
der* Township Killed in
Bloody Affray
James O’Neal, farmer and ex
deputy sheriff of Wilder town
ship;, was instantly killed in a
bloody affair Wednesday after
noon at sunset by Martin Shep
herd and his son, John Shep
herd. O’Neal was returning
from Wendell where he had been
to the tobacco market and was
driving a mule to a wagon. Pas
sing the store of Martin Shep
herd, which is in sight of O’Neal’s
home, O’Neal was stopped by the
younger man and was questioned
something about “some lies that
he had been telling since the
shooting of his father about a
month ago”. Some few words
followed at which instance the
elder Shepherd sprang out of the
door oft he store and went to the
rear returning with a shot gun
and advanced to within fifteen
steps of the team upon which
O’Neal was sitting. He deliber
ately fired a load of No. 4 shot at
O’Neal, which took effect about
the face and neck, causing instant
death. Stray shots hit the mule
which caused him to run for some
thing like a half mile down the
road. As the mule ran off John
Shepherd fired two shots from
a .45 caliber pistol at the pros
trate and dying form of O’Neal,
both shots entering the body of
tho dying man.
Colon Doan, a white man, and two
negroes were witnesses to the entire
' tragedy. They gave immediate alarm
and the subsequnt firing of +hs .-he
gun in the hands of th< . lor Fhep
herd brought Messrs Julie ad Thus.
| Williamson and Mr. Wiley McGee to
the place of the killing. They pur
sued the mule and found him some
half mile down the road calmly
awaiting human help, while his
master lay dead in a pool of hoc
blood in the wagon body.
Martin Shepherd is something ov
er 50 years of age, while his son is
about 2. years of age. Immediately
following the shooting, the two men
went, and surrendered themselves to
Deputy Sheriff H. H. Hinton, who
kept them under guard over night
1 and conducted them to the sheriff at
1 Smithfield early Wednesday morn
; ing. A preliminary hearing was had
j before Justice of the Peace D. T.
| Lunceford and they were committed
without bail to the Goldsboro jail,
i It will be remembered that Mar
| tin Shepherd was secretly assau’tel
I on July 7th ' T some unknown party
! or parties. Sufficient suspicion fas
, tened upon James O’Neal that a re
I cent indictment of the grand .jury
1 had him placed under a $5000 bond
' for his appearance in the December
| term of the Superior Court. Shep
herd received such a wound from
| this assault that he was expected to
die at first but treatment in Rex
hospital soon put him on his feet
again and after about two weeks he
returned to his business,
j Bad blood has existed between
O’Neal and Shepherd for some three
' or four years. It is generally re
ported that both Shepherd and O’Neal
have been engaged in making block
' ade whiskey. Later O’Neal claimed
to have got out of the business and
was made a deputy sheriff and was a
good officer, devoting special atten
tion to the tearing up of blockade
stills in his section. It is probable
that Shepherd did not entirely quit
the business and grew intensely sus
picious of the reformed O’Neal.
O’Neal leaves a wife and five small
children. He was a substantial
farmer and it is supposed that he
left his family in a fairly good finan
cial condition. Shepherd has a wife,
a married daughter, and the son who
is implicated with him in the mur
der of O’Neal. Shepherd’s wife is
a Holiness preacher and has not liv
ed with im for several years un
til the time of his being shot in
July. She went to his assistance in
the hospital and stayed with him un
til he wsa able to return to his busi
ness.
i Evil cannot bt foneht once and done
: with. It must be faced and conquered
day by day.