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NUMBER 1 COMMISSIONERS HAVE BUSY DAY - s Appropriate Spin to Fight Boll Weevil; Retain Home ; Agent A Month The new board of .county commis sioners had a busy day here yester day, several things of interest to the people of the county being brought . before them for their consideration. j One of the important actions taken by the board was the appropriation ! of $300 to assist in a campaign j against the boll weevil, undertaken j by the Eastern Chamber of Com- j merce of which Johnston county is a j part. Mr. Bartlett, secretary of the Eastern Chamber of Commerce pre j sented the matter. The campaign opens up tonight with a meeting at j the court house in this city, and oth- ^ er meetings in the count will fol- j low. A Goldsboro dispatch of yesterday j has the following to say in regard to the work to be undertaken: “Those boll weevils in Johnston county that happen to be slumbering ! in the highways and hedges will be j shakened from their perches next , week when the big guns of the East- | ern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, assisted by the specialists from the State College of Agriculture,"' open up at Smithfield Tuesday night at 7:30. A monster mass meeting of bankers, time merchants and farmers has been called for Smithfield at the Cuurt house at that time and fol lowing Tuesday night, meetings will be held at Selma, Clayton, Benson and Four Oa^cs. “Johnston jeounty has been the ban ner cotton dounty this year, but the chances are/that this is the l^st big I year that s! I year the w< Lsnmej figun - ver the b #1 aimers are not, gom| f and let the weevil rr they wake Up, as has tol jom so many other sections of the belt. These various lines of bil have been moved to action by t program that is^eing put on bj Eastern Caiolina Chamber of merce.” The other thing of importance con sidered and over which a number of women in the county are aroused/, was the Home Demonstration work ir, the county. A delegation of women from various parts of the county were present and asked the commissioners to reconsider their action of a month ago when they voted to discontinue the work in this county. Mr. S. S. Holt was’ spokesman for the body of women present and after stating the request of the ladies called on one or two of them to give personal testi- ' month inorder to give time for further , eral ’ottoss in regard to the work j from women of different parts of the county were read. The commissioners gave a respectful hearing an i prom ’sed to trke the matter under advise ment. The delegation retired but in the afternoon reassembled to h< rr the decision of the Board. Th» re was a decided inclination to stick to the decision of a month ago, but af . ter some little discossion it was i agreed to defer the matter another ' month in order gtve time for further j investigation as to the urgency of the 1 work. TO EXCHANGE CROP NEWS WITH EGYPT BY RADIO — Arrangements for the interchange of crop reports on cotton and whtat in the United States and Egypt is announced by the United States De partment of Agriculture. As rapid ly as crop reports on acreage and . forecasts are available in each coun-j try the news will be dispatched at once by cable or adio to the other country. Immediately on receipt of tie Egyptian news, the reports will be broadcast throughout the United j States by telegraph and radio. The new plan is expected to cut to a minimum he time formerly consum ed in placing important crop new^ in the hands of American farmers. Risky Helen: “If he proposes, I shall sug gest that we postpone our wedding until things get back to normal.” Her dear friend: “I wouldn't do that . The man might get back to nor mal pimsolf.” —Pittsburgh Dispatch] r TOBACCO CO-OP GIVES FIGURES ( Jver $19,000,000 To Cooperators; 1 Membership Now 85000; Third Advance Soon. RALEIGH, Jan. 1.—The Tobacco j Growers Cooperative Association has increased its membership more than j 20,000 within less than a year, accord- j ing to official announcement from the j Raleigh headquarters of the associa j bion, and will begin the New Year with ^ a membership of over 85,000 organiz- ; ed tobacco farmers. Within five months of its first mar- j keting operation the association has i received 117,937,109 pounds of tobac- i co from deliveries by its members, j More than $12,000,000 in cash have j already been distributed to the coop- | erative growers and the second pay- j ment to be made this month to associ ation members in the Old Belt of Vir ginia and Western North Carol ne will bring the total disbursements if j the big tobacco cooperative to $19,- . 24S,i>95.64, with further payment as { sured in the not far distant future. j From South Carolina 15,356,949 j pounds have been delivered by coop- j ■native growers. In North Carolina ; 56,771,54 pounds have reached the j cooperative floors. In Virginia Bright i District the members have delivered , 39,025,576 pounds to date. The Dark j Growers of Virginia have marketed j 6,113,095 poonds through their asso ciation and the farmers of the sun cured area have added 669,936 lbs. FLOYD WELLONS CASHIER BANK R. L. Fitzgerald Made Acting Vice President Farmers Bank and Trust Company. The directors of the Farmers Bar.U and Trust Company held a business. I meeting here yesterday, January 1st! | and elected the following officers foil ! the Jistaing year: R. C. Gillett, presj ] irlenf' A. M. Johnsin first itiaktfesii president and Floyd F. Wellons, cash ier. At a stockholders’ meeting held last Monday the following directors | were elected: Chas. Davis, A. M. John-1 son, R. C. Gillett, J. D. Parker, W. j H. Flowers, of Four Oaks, R. F. D., Robert L, Fitzgerald and J. E. Wood all, of Smithfield, Route 2. Two new directors were elected, bringing the number up to nine: Sheriff W. J. Massey and D. W. Peterson. MARKS EXCEED A TRILLION. Paper Circulation Is Equaled by Reichsbank Credits. BERLIN, Dec. 29.—German note | cii-culation has now passed the tril- ’ lion mark, it was announced by Ru- : dolph Havenstein, President of the \ Reichsbank, at a meeting of the ; Reichsbank Committee today over whcih he presided. He added that during the last 3 . months the bank had granted credits 1 exceeding a trillion marks, which ; showed that the bank was doing its j best to jr>eet the necessities of Ger man indn. -ry. j President Havenstein urged the j bankers to recognize the perils of j the German economic situation and i do their utmost to prevent the col- | lapse of the German credit apparat- j us.—Associated Press. WOOLWORTH SALES ON DECEMBER 23 WERE $3,119,645 The stores of F. W. Woolworth Company report sales of $3,119,645 for the Saturday before Christmas, the largest single day’s business in the history of the company. Sales for the day before Christmas last year were exceeded by $920,487, or more than 46 per cent. In the seven days prior to Christ mas this year Woolworth sales reach ed a total of $13,715,120, an increase of $2,664,671. Of the increase, the old stores those which have been in operation for at least a year, are re sponsible for $2,315,006. According to the company’s esti mates gross sales for the 12 month* of 1922 will amount to $167,00 or $20,000,000 more than in 1921, which exceeded all previous years. —N. Y. Times. Didn’t Know He Could Play. Mrs. Hibrow: “Did the Earl you had to dinner last night bring his coronet?” Mrs. Newrich: “I didn’t even knew he could play.”—Washington Daily l5ews. CENER’L ASSEMBI CONVENES THE 31 Mass of Measures Bookei Be Introduced; Dawsc May Be Speaker j ) Probably every General Assq that has gathered in Raleigh fc past century has convened with] profound conviction that the just ahead of it surpassed in tar»e the aggregate proposed lation that ever greeted any pr^ legislature, but certainly the bers of the session that convene^ Wednesday at noon have more wide bills ready to be dumped the legislative hopper than any| 170 men who have ever been'^ here to enact laws. Pre-assembly statements fr scores of the members of the fortl coming session indicate a widespreq development of advanced thinkin from the reform of the judicial election laws and county government1 and finance to a commital of t;, j State to a policy of State ownership ' of shipping lines. The establhp. 1 ment of a four year medical c}j,_ I lege, investigation of the Ku ! Klan and making eight hours a sa_ tutory day’s work in North Ca'i lina. 3 How much oi it that may oe wvjt-^ House, unless all the signs fail. Rep resentative R. A. Doughton will prob- | ably assume the majority floor lead ership, and unless rebellion breakjs out among the nine Republicans. Chas. H. Cowles will get their ninle votes for speaker, and the minoritjy leadership. Leaders among the majority in the House who will re trun are Doughton, Everett of Richmond, Howie, Townsend, Cox, Hamilto.., Wright, Dawson, Moore, Neal, Phan-, Murphy, Connor, Warren, Ray. On the Senate side returning leaders ■ will be Stubbs, Varser, Brown, Men- 1 denhall, De Laney, Sams, Giles, Squires, and Old Man Rufe Hay more thrown in for a counter irritant sent down by the Re pub- 1 cans in the 23rd District. Although this election as speakcr has been practically assured for two years, Representative Dawson has1 been careful not to commit himself to any selection of committee chair men, nor has Lieutenant Govemoi Cooper who will again preside over ! the Senate given any intimation as to his plans. But this reticence on j the part of the presiding officers 1 has not hindered speculation on the ! part of public generally, particularly. j the House where returning mem- ' Lrs'are more nuuerous.—News and Observer. F RENCH TIGER LIKES FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 31.—Georg s Clemenceau, of France, fell so in love with Florida grapefruit while In this country recently, that he arrang ed for regular shipments to Paris un til the close of the season, according to an order received by a local citrus . fruit concern from its New York of See. The Tiger instructed that one box be shipped to him every two weeks. AL UNION HERE GREAT SUCCESS itation Extended to Re tt in July; Rev. D. H. Tuttle Preaches itavens iere have been fifth Sunday vocal around us but Smithfield t Sunday, held in the hand- j * nMr court house, and liked it ! welMhat before the union ad- 1 an invitation was extended to ; ;ck again in July. This or- ! n of choirs is known as the | ncton Vocal Union, and de- ! act that “flu” kept a num- I coming, a big crowd was I to participate in and lis ! rogram of the day. ce opened at 11:30 a. rr.., }th the' singing in unison of “Jesus (Ver of My Soul,” after which a pture lesson was read and Mr. Keen led in prayer. This was fol by another song in unison, Jest Re The Tie That Binds.” Judge F. H. Brooks made a brief >me address, and then the sing ing bv choirs began. Stevens Chapel sang two songs; Tee’s Chapel sang two selections; Benson Grove sang two; and Johnson’s Union two. Rev. D ,H. Tuttle, pastor of the Methodist church here, then preached the ser of the occasion, using as h.r “The Value of Song in Di of an hour was taken af ter the sermon, for dinner. At 2:30 all assembled again and the follow ing choirs sang several songs each: Chapel, Tee’s Chapel, Ben rove, Corinth, Johnson Union, Ivington’s Grove. Rev. Mi. called on for another 11—"ing which the invi in July was giveijfc h£he invitation gn| an invitatic ield peoij The service elosedfwith the*Tng+ of “God Be Wit* You Till We jeet Again/’ and a irayer by Rev. R. Faircloth. . he next union will be held on the “^lh Sunday in May at Hopewell. FRi SNCO-GERMAN NON-WAR ‘ACT REJECTED BY BRITISH HAMBURG, Dec. 31.—The Franco Ger an non-war pact proposed by Germany to France through the medi ation $>f a neutral pow(er has been re jecte<4 by Premier Poincare. This stater,jent was made by the German chanceiior> Wilhelm Cuso, in the course 0f a significant speech before the Ha:nburk bourse today. The chancellor’s revelation was the /lr<st official admission that the German government had recently un dertaken serious steps to placate t'.’ench war apprehensions, and inci dentally dispose of the recurrent French accusations that Germany was arming for a new war. The German New Year’s non-war pact was proposed to France through the medium of an unnamed power probably Switzerland or Holland, and provided for a solemn pledge by all the powers interested in the Rhine that none of them should wage war on the other for a generation, with out active authorization of their peo p'e as expressed through a popular referendum in all the countries in volved. The German government stipulated that a world power which was not interested in the Rhine should be guardian or trustee of this pledge. Such an obligation, Chancellor Cuno stated, would commit each nation which was a party to the pact to a peace policy and would afford the most secure guarantee conceivable. “To my regret,” said the chancellor “France has seen fit to reject our proposal.” The major part of the chancellor’s speech was devoted to a discussion of reparations and their effect on the na tional and international situation. He gave the barest outlines of the new German proposals, declaring that the government had decided to name a definite sum, which it believed it would be able to pay ofr t < aid of a system of domestic and for eign loans. He expressed strong ap proval of the sentiments voiced by the American secretary of state at New Haven and believed that Mr. Hughes’ views closely tallied with those entertained by the Germans.— Associated Press Renew and get a Turner’s Almanac. CO. HOARD EDUCATION MEETS Turlington Day Formally Adopted, Sale of Bonds For New Schools : Set For January 3rd. . The County Board of Education 1 held their regular monthly meeting here yesterday, Mr. A. M. Nohle rep resenting the committee to raise funds for the Turlington Memorial Fund went before the board and pre sented the matter of setting apart January 26 as Turlington Day in all the schools of Johnston county. The board received the suggestion favor ably and January 26 was formally set apart as “Turlington Day.” Th ■. day will in no sense be a holiday, but a program will be observed by eac h school on Friday afternoon designed j to teach the children something of the man who has done such a great edu cational work in Johnston county. Also on that day all the pupils are asked to take some contribut’on it large or small for the Memorial Fund to be used to erect a bronze j statue of Prof. Turlington on the { court house square., Another matter taken up was the sale of bonds voted recently in the following district: Brogden, $12,500. Archer Lodge $12,500; Corinth-Hold ers, $12,500. The date of the sale was set for tomorrow, January 3. The county superintendent already has 6 sealed bids in hand which promises lively competition. LEAPS IN RIVEH TIED TO CHILD Mother, Rescued, Faces Prison for Attempt to Kill Son. Tying her 6-year-old son to her with a rope, Mrs. Florence Golden 35, of Chicago, waded out among the i,ce floes in the Des Plaines River s*nd plunged into the icy water. Two ytciys skating nearby rescued both ijfether and child. > /■he may be charged with attempt Hjj^Ato murder the child if aliAmsts . i— — i.n- ailfchr tinJ^Bile planned to end her life becaWWW had money enough to buy fowl for only another day. Her husband re cently failed in the restaurant busi ness and was employed as a redcap in a railroad station. She admits he supported her as best he could, but “ibey never got along very well.” DELIVERS KISSES WITH CREAM Romeo Milkman Fined $100; Unwill ing Juliet Asked $500 DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 28.—Kisses and cream which Jerome Messerman milkman, delivered to Elizabeth Kol zvare, a week or so ago, cost him $100 in Justice Court. Other women patrons were called by Messerman’s lawyers to prove that Messerman never kissed them, but the jury didn’t think their denials rele vant and brought in a verdict of $100 for the plaintiff. She had asked $5C(1. U. S. SUES SECRETARY MELLON AS TAX DODGER PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 28.— Statements of claim, naming Sec retary of the Treasury Andrew W, Mellon and seventeen other residents of Pittsburgh, have been filed in United States District Court by Special Assistant U. S. Attorney W. H. Van Kirk, seeking to recover $488,953 allegedly due as income tax on a stock divi dend by the Gulf Oil Corporation in 1913. Praecipes were filed in these cases in 1919..Collection of $231, 666 from A. W. Mellon and $226, 684 from R. B. Mellon, local banker, is sought. The other claims are small. A. W. Mellon was vice president of the corpora tion. SAYS WOMEN OF SOUTH HAVE REPUDIATED LYNCHING NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Women in I the South have repudiated lynching as a protection for womanhood, and | have joined in a demand that the j Dyer- anti-lynching bill be enacted by Congress, the Association for the Advancement of Colored People de clared today in its annual report. According to the statement, sev- j eral leading Southern journals also have joined in the demand for the bill. The association asserted that it is responsible for preventing ex tradition of colored men accused of j crimes in certain Southern States and has protected the civil rights '■ of such men. M BUSINESS SHOWING NEW YEAR IS GOOD U. S. Chamber of Commerce Is Confident of Improve ment In Country WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Indica tions of continued commercial activ ity, for several months at least, sub stantially above the level for 1922 is forecast in the final report for the year of the committee on sta tistics and standards of the United States Chamber of Commerce. . The report, made public today by Arthur Wall Douglas, the committee chair man, declared general business to be on a definite upgrade after hav ing passed the “normal point” in November. Business activity, as surveyed smce the beginning of the world war, reached an extreme height of 15 per cent above normal late in 191(1, according to the report, whicn traces the recession then to the low est ebb about the middle of 1921. At that time, the report says, it was 18 per cent below normal. The re covery has been accomplished, it adds, “in spite of many influences tending 10 restrict business acti vity.” “Advances in prices thus are meet ing with ‘stubborn resistance,’ it states, and contrary to usual erperi cnces, they are a handicap father lhan an incentive to buying. Heavy construction and building activities is predicted during the coming spring except in localities where agricultural crops are scanty and prices unremunerative, “But it is evident,” the report | continues, “that high prices for I labor and material will soon bring j building activity to its peak, especi I ally as it is only an apparently short time aheac^^en the necessity which prompt^^^H^ictivity throughout the Cohcernffig committee says that in (the g^J||8 part of the country «ie situation ranges from “fair to good.” Taking up conditions sectionally the report continues: “New England manufacturing con ditions are generally good. This is especially true of such lines as shoes and textiles. Retail business, however, is somewhat adversely af fected as a result of the pr-J strikes now ended. Agriculture is not in such good shape, especially m Maine, where the raising of Irish potatoes suffers from the double combination of a disappointing crop ;.i;d exceedingly low prices. “South—Throughout the cotton belt the nature of business depends upon the size of the cotton crop in each particular locality, as the prices are unusually high, which means prosperity to those who own cotton. Ihc rotton is practically a'i ginned and has largely passed out of the hands of the farmers and planters. Long standing obligations are being sett leu by the latter to a very great '“■•ten. and there is more buying in the South generally thin for two years past. Buying is still of a con servative nature, however. Broadly speaking, the entire South offers the, promise of very good business dur ing the winter and spring. “Middle West—All the industries other than agriculture are well em ployed. At this time there prevails advancing prices on the important farm products, such as corn and wheat, materially fair prices on hogs and sheep and generally low prices on cattle. The dairy industry is a very present help in time of trouble. “West—In that part of the coun try west of a line drawn north and south from the center of the State of Kansas to the Rocky Mountains there are not so many good spot*, rather more poor ones, although fail conditions are in the ascendant. Much of the trouble comes from the distance of this part of the coun try from the primary markets where the greater part of the agricultural products are sold. Freight rates are a very serious handicap. Did Not Deceive Him. “Is your new son-in-law a good provider?” “He can just about keep my daughter in gloves. I pay for every thing else.” “Then he deceived you as to his circumstances.” “No. I remember he merely ask ed for her hand.”—Boston Transcript.
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