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OLD HERALD TELLS STORY OF THE FIRE In 1889 Business District of This City Was Almost Totally Destroyed Yt st i day Mt. T. R. Hood brought in an ( id copy of THE SMITHFIELD 11ERA1 1 > published in April 1889, the first issue after the big fire which almost totally destroyed th* business section of Smithfie’d. It :s a minature copy and gives very little news except concerning the fire. The printing office was among the build ings burned and this issue was print ed by the “Rocky Mount Phoenix.’ Editors and owners of THE HERALD at that time were Messrs Sadler and John Sneed. The issue was volume 7, number 41. The fire which swept the city at that time is one of the historical events of the town. Everything from about where Mr. Kirkman’s ga rage now stands to the Vctory Thea tre was totally destroyed. A para graph n the paper tells of the beau tiful shade treesi the pride of the city being reduced to blackened stumps. Another paragraph attributes the cause of the fire to boys smoking cigarettes. A bouyant note, however, pervades the whole paper, as plans were announced for rebuilding. Many of our citizens will be in terested in the account of the fire published in THE HERALD and we are reprinting it as follows: “Last Sunday evening at 2 o’clock the alarm of fire was given by Mr. Tom Lindsay, who was walking down Second Street, and it was immediate ly discovered that the rear end of Morgan’s Carriage Shop was in flames on the inside and with such rapidity did the fire gain headway that it was only a few minutes be fore the building was enveloped in a blaze which sent the flames tow ering heavenward, whence they were driven by the gale which was blow ing at the time, to the surrounding buildings, and the block was doomed to be swept away by the greedy flames. “The wind was blowing such a gale at the time the fire originated that despite the heroic efforts of the citi zens, who fought the flames like Trojans, the flames leaped to Mark et and Third Streets and made a clean sweep of the handsome row of brick buildings that lined our prin cipal business thoroughfare. “Indeed it was a sad and melan choly spectacle to look at the tall blackened chimneys that stand grim and silent monuments over the tomb where our beautiful city lies in a shroud of ashes, but we must not repine at the losses; it is better for us to look the disaster squarely in the face, pull off our coats, roll up our sleeves and go to work to resur rect Smithfield from the tomb in which the flames consigned it on Sunday and soon we will see it resur rected and clothed with new vigor and energy. “The loss is a heavy one and falls alike on all, but most heavily does it fall on the men whose silvery heads are bowed by life’s well spent years, men who have toiled from youth to accumulate a competence, and it is distressing to think of their losses. “Below we give a detailed account of the loss, the best we could ascer tain: “S. R. and J. A. Morgan, two stores, stock of goods, and carriage factory, loss $20,000; no insurance; D. W. Fuller, stables and store buildings, about $10,000, no insurance; Fuller & Hyman, stock of goods, loss $10, 000, insurance $3,000; Adrian and Vollers two stores, loss $2,000, no insurance; J. T. Barham, bar room, loss $500. no insurance; Mrs. M. V. Sneed, loss about $500, no insurance; W. L. Riley’s two store-houses, loss $1,000, no insurance; C. Harris, store house, loss $400. no insurance; J. W. Talton, 2 store houses, loss $1, 500, no insurance; J. B. Alford, res idence, loss $800, no insurance; N. Keeter, bar, loss $800, no insurance; W. G. Yelvington, four store houses and stock of goods, loss $12,000, in surance $4,100; A. Katz, market and residence, loss not known and no in surance; Hood Bros., stock of drugs, loss about $4,000, insurance not known; Sasser, Woodall & Co., brick building loss about $6,000, insurance not known; Sadler & Sneed, HER ALD Printing House, loss about $3, 000. insurance $1,500; Blake Bros., stock of goods, loss $5,000, insurance BASKETBALL DOUBLE BILL HERE TOMORROW NIGHT Smithfield Highs Meet Wilson Highs And Girls Team Meets the Goldsboro Tossers. By DONNELL WHARTON With games scheduled with Wilson Highs and the Goldsboro Girls here tomorrow night, Sat urday promises much to the sport loving fans of Smithfield. The game with Wilson is looked for ward to as the best game on the local court so far this season. The only comparative standing of the two teams is through their games with Roanoke Rapids High School. While Wilson eased out of her game with Roanoke Rap ids by lour points Smiibfield came off with a 24-3 decision. But since then )Jfilson is reported to have greatly improved its playing. In the two years in which Smithfield and Wilson have engaged in ath letic relations the teams have met twice on both gridiron and court. In every contest Smith field has emerged the victor, but “revenge is sweet” and Wilson is out to win. Goldsboro is the first team the local girls have on their schedule for this season. The Smithfield aggregation have been putting in more than the usual amount of practice for them and will be ready for the game. With all last years team back except Miss Young and many new candidates the game will no doubt be a good one. BRITISH TO HONOR WALTER HINES PAGE LONDON, Jan. 23.—An appeal for funds for a permanent memoral to the late Walter Hines Page, former American ambassador to Great Bri tain, will be issued within a few days over the signature of Prime Minister Bonar Law. the EarT~bf'Batfour, LfeT^ bert Aquith, David Lloyd George, and Lord Grey, the British ministers with whom the ambassador was brought into closest contact. The form the memorial is to take will depend upon the amount of the con tributions.—Associated Press. $1,000; E. Dannenberg, two stores and stock of goods, loss $15,000, in surance $6,000; Julia George, resi dence, loss $400, insurance $250; E. J. and J. S. Holt, hardware, loss $10, 000, insurance $4,500; Maj. Surle3, store house, loss $400, no insurance; Dr. G. J. Robinson, stables and hor ses, loss $500; L. R. Waddell, office, loss $150; E, S. Abell, law library and furniture, loss not known, no insurance; Mrs. McCulterS, furni ture, loss unknown, no insurance; W. B. Surles, stables, loss $200, no in surance; B. R. Hood, store house, loss $100, no insurance; Calvin Cha vis, stock of goods, loss $250, no in surance; Thomas heirs, 5 store houses, loss $1,500, no insurance; G. H. Watson, stock of goods, loss $500, no insurance; J. L. Scarborough, stock of goods, loss $200, no insur ance; J. M. Beckwith, stock of goods, loss $150, no insurance; Dan iel Thomas, residence and furniture, loss $500, no insurance; Amanda Thomas, residence and furniture, loss $500, no insurance; A. M. Rand, store house, loss $100, no insurance; Bingham’s store, loss $200, no in surance; T. J. Baxter & Co., Jewel ers, loss $800, insurance $250; J. A. j Taylor, Jeweler, loss $200, no insur ! ance; W, L. Woodall, stock of goods j about $1 200, no insurance; Miss N. ! Wade & Co., stock of millinery goods, j loss not known. The fronts of T. ; R. Hood’s Drug Store and W. M. i Sanders’ Grocery were some damag | ed by the flames. Messrs Ives Bros., j J. M. Beaty and Seth Woodall & Co., j sustained considerable loss in mov I ing then’ goods, and the Odd Fellows i lost their whole outfit, with no in surance. • “Insurance was held in the follow ( ing companies, and who lose as fol lows: Liverpool, London and Globs, $8,300; V. F. & M„ $4,500; Southern and New Orleans, $2,275; Rochester German, $2,800; N. C. Home, $600; i Georgia Home, $3,800; Wytheville, $1,000. .“This is the most terrible blow Smithfield has had in some years, but she will rise frou the ashes and come forth with redoubled vigor and energy. Fortunately for most of the business men they had safes and their valuable books and papers were uninjured.” NUMBER CASES IN RECORDER’S COURT | _ ! No Civil Oocket Wednesday Until Criminal Cases are Disposed of — I The Recorder’s Court docket was ! full Tuesday the last case of the ! day being finished about seven o’clock ! P. M. Even then nine cases were continued. No civil docket has been set for Wednesday, January 31, it being the intention of Judge Noble to continue the hearing of the criminal docket until it is disposed of. The following cases came up Tuesday: State vs. John K. Sanders, charg ed with unlawfully impounding a cow, the property of Andrew Caudill, The defendant found not guilty, and the prosecuting witness was taxed with cost of state’s witnesses. State vs R. A. MeLamb charged I with assault with deadly weapon. Nol pros. State vs. Jim Holt and Robert Jones charged with blockading. De fendants were found guilty. Holi was given 12 months on the roads and Jones 6 months. According to the evidence, soon after Christmas these men together with Guilford Cogdcll were discovered by Chiet Griffin of Selma, at a still located about 200 yards from the house oi Robert Jones, colored tenant on Jim Holt’s farm in Boon Hill township, The still, however, was not on Holt’s land but was on land belonging tc a Mrs. Gurley, about 30 or 40 yards from Holt’s line. The officers made the raid about 10:30 o’clock at nighl and watched the persons at the still for fifteen or twenty minutes be fore making known their presence, Holt, according to the evidence, had a lantern. He was seen to drink liq uor and to direct the punching of the fire. Jones was seen to fix a part oi the still which was leaking. Cogdell tlm-fttW nfgrrv escape and is still at large’ "ifalt denies the charge against him, de claring he was at the still to appre hend another party. The defendant took an appeal to the Superior court. State vs. Junius MeLamb and Buddie MeLamb charged with as sault upon Daniel Young. Upon conclusion of evidence the court or dered that Young be included in the warrant, and all the defendants were found guilty. Each was fined $15 and taxed with one-third of the costs. State vs. David and Junius Mc Lamb, charged with assault with deadly weapon upon Ezra Young, son of David Young. Not guilty. State vs E. West charged with per jury. Probable cause was found and the defendant was bound over to Superior Court under a $500 bond. State vs. Henry Robinson and Ruf fin McCoy charged with violation of the automobile laws. Henry Rob inson plead guilty and was fined $5 and costs. State vs. Milliard Daviis charged with blockading. Defendant plead guilty. The case was continued un til January 30 for judgment. State vs. Cab Boykin charged with block ading. The defendant plead guilty. Prayer for judgment until January 30. State vs. C. D. Watson, charged with obtaining money under false pretense. Not guilty. Prosecuting witness taxed with cost. The nine cases on the docket which were continued are as follows, the first eight being continued un til January 30, the last one until February 6. State vs. Johnnie M, Sanders charged with violation of the auto mobile laws. State vs. John McDuffy charged with carrying concealed weapon. State vs. Willie Barfield charged j with blockading. i State vs. John Smith, Napoleon | Fort and Percy Murphy, charged i with immoral conduct. I State vs. Zeb Norton charged with : blockading. State vs. D. A. Lee charged with violation of the prohibition laws. State vs. Hyman Fort charged with cruelty to animals. State vs. Robert Hastings charg ed with assault with deadly weapon. Episcopal Church. Church school 10 a. m. Morning service and prayer 11 a.m. Evening service and prayer 7 p. m. Rev. J. W. Barker, D. D. : SCHOOL HOUSE IS : DESTROYED—FIRE Brand New Building Had ! Been In Use Two Months $3,500 Insurance A brand new three room school house at Poplar Grove in Meadow township was totally destroyed by fire late Wednes day afternoon. About five o’clock the school truck from Meadow school passed Poplar Grove and no sign of any fire was visible at that time. About dark persons living near by discovered that the house was on fire, forced an entrance and endeavored to save the building. All efforts proved futile. From all indications, those witnessing the fire, think a defective flue caused the blaze. The school house had been in use only about two months. It was built at a cost of $4,530, and insurance was carried on the building to the amount of $3,500. There was no insurance on the furniture. The teachers at this school are Mr. Joe Tilson, prin c'pal, and Misses Ware and Christine George. Mr. Marrow, county superin tendent has gone to the district today to make arrangements if possible for the continuance of the school. STARTLING FACTS ON CRIME IN UNITED STATES Sir Basil Thompson Says Slow Courts Chief Cause of Crime in America GREENSBORO, Jan. 23.—Sir Basil Thompson, K. C. B., regarded as the original Sherlock Holmes, the world’s greatest detective, the most noted criminologist in the world, who dur .Jng the World War was at the head of the”~Brit?sh "'SJ9Sf£CJ""Se'rvKe t)e^ partment and is now head of Scot land Yard, England’s great poliee and detective agency, lecturing here last night revealed some startling facts, comparing British and Amer ican crime figures. Last year in the United States there were nine. thousand, five hun dred murders; in England 63. Of the 63 all but eight were cleared up and the newspapers of England are de manding why they were Pot. In one penitentiary in Illinois, at Joliet, there are as many prisoners as in all the prisons of Canada. - He attributed the much greater amount of crime in the United States than England to delays in meting out punishment and to under-policing. INDIVIDUALS PAY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF INCOME TAX RALEIGH, Jan. 23.—Individuals paid less than one-fouith of the state income tax last year, according to figures given out by Revenue Com missioner A. D. Watts today show ing that of the total tax of $2,414, 726.06 for 1922, corporations paid $1,871,533.16 and individiuals $543, 192.90. Only two persons in the state paid on an annual income of more than $100,000, the state collecting $12,805. 77 from them on reported incomes aggregating $426,865. Twenty-two persons paid on incomes ranging from $56,000 to $100,000. The tax from these amounted to $40,367.14. Col. Watts reports the further classification of individual income tax payers as follows: Seventeen with incomes between 40,000 and $50,000, total tax $20,910.75; 27 with • incomes between $30,000 and $40,000, | total tax $52,920.71; 89 with incomes between $20,000 and $30,000, total | tax $52,920.60; 310 with incomes j between $10,000 and $20,000, total tax $78,431.41. Twenty-six thousand three hundred and sixty-six individuals reported taxable incomes of less than $5,000 and they paid income tax $230,860.73. —Brock Baikley in Wilmngton Star. I Free Garden and Flower Seed. A letter from Congressman E. W. Pou announces that he is now mak ! ing preparations to distribute his al * lotment of garden and flowe ? j In distributing these seeds, he w") | first supply those who make a re ; quest by postal card, after which the seeds will be distributed indiscrimi nately. WELFARE WORKERS HOLD MEETING IN RALEIGH Endorse Mothers’ Aid Bill; Dr. H. H. Hart, of New York Speaks on Prison Conditions I The social service conference which ! was held in Raleigh this week was well attended by welfare workers j from all over the state. The after- j noon session Wednesday was devot- ' ed largely to a discussion of child j care. The dicussion was led by J. .1. Phoenix, of Greensboro, president of the North Carolina Children’s Asso ciation, and the proposed Mothers’ Aid bill was the subject that claim ed most attention. It was heartily endorsed by the superintendents of public welfare and by every superin tendent of an orphanage who vv is present. Superintendent M. L. Kes- I ler, of Thomasville Baptist Orphan age, Supt. Brown, of Oxford, Supt. Barnes, of the Methodist Orphanage, Raleigh, Supt. Pender and Miss Ag nes McNaughton, of Samarcand, were among those who spoke in be half of it. Supt. Phoenix, of the Children’s Home Society, Greensboro, said that of the 856 homeless chil dren offered the society within the past two years, 171 or about 20 per cent were subjects for mothers aid. New officers were elected, the con stitution revised, and other business dispensed with. The feature of the program Wed nesday night was an address by Dr. ; Hasting H. Hart, of New York, president of the American Prison Association. Quoting the Greens boro News: “The well-known clergyman’s theme, “The new development of pri sons in the south,” was distinctly more hopeful than northern prison workers have been generally able to say about the south. He found ir. Alabama, for instance, abandonment of the flogging, and the policy is so successful that nobody pretends to desire its restoration. In North Carolina he finds some points of di veLp^yc with the committee^of 100, particularly in its proposal to have women’s quarters on the state farm, though segregated as suggested. Fifty miles isolation is the least he would accept. “He said much against the jails. For one’ thing they are often in habited by people who are held sim ply as witnesses and therefore as governmental conveniences. That is all wrong, he declared. Another thing that makes them bad is the enforced idleness necessarily so be cause the law thinks it cannot set men to work who have not been tried and sentenced. He said that modern students have learned the use of recreation in prison and life is or dered with the understandiing that recreation is a portion of the hu man regime. “After he had surveyed prisons generally throughout the country he was asked to give his opinion on the abolition of capital punishment. Quite apart from his own right to inflict vengeance, a prerogative of the Lord, he said, was his belief in the :.tter futility of capital punish ment. He thinks it defeats justice often because it is so drastic. Asked whether states without it suifer more from crimes of violence, he declared •he figures would show th^y do not He could ' nk the publ. execu tion taught any salutary lesson.” TRINITY COLLEGE BUYS OVER MILLION MARKS WORTH BOOKS DURHAM, Jan. 23.—Figured on the foreign exchange market for last Wednesday, the Trinity College li brary here has just imported 1,300, 000 marks worth of books from a Ger man agent. At pre-war prices 1,300, 000 marks would have been worth $309,400. The facts are that Trinity paid $65 for 378 bound volumes of the great French publication “La Revue Des Deux Mondes,” which be ing interpreted is “The Review of Two Worlds.” The volumes include the regular issues from 185. to 1914 and the annual volumes from 1851 to 1867 inclusive. As the collection was bought in Germany, it ends with the third volume of 1914. The volumes on the American market today would probably bring $1,000, while if the rarity and age of some of them was considered the sum would go much beyond this. Farm prices are low, and the boll weevil is here, but the farmer raises most of the food for his table is not worrying about his next meal. THE LEGISLATIVE NEWS OF WEEK Senate Committee Approves Boat Bill; Mothers’ Aid Bill Is Introduced A number of bills of state wide interest have been introduced in the legislature this week. The outstand ing action of the senate Monday night was to kill the bill which would cre ate a pardon board thus relieving the governor of a responsibility which many think is too great for one man to assume. Governor Morri son however is said to be personally opposed to such a board which fact may have had some effect upon the reception of the bill. The general state education bill was introduced in the Senate Tues day and a time appointed for a joint meeting of the house and senate committee on education. Probably the most interesting dis cussion since the legislature has been in session up to the time the bill was introduced centered around the bill of Representative McKinnon, of Robeson county providing for the election of the Robecon County sup erintendent of schools by the people. Representative Burgwyn, of North ampton county who contemplated a similar bill for his county and Rep resentative Connor of Wilson warm ed things up as they spoke on the measure, Mr. Connor being in favor of the present system of naming County Superintendents, while Mr. Burgwyn is opposed to having them named “from Raleigh.” If other similar local measures are introduc ed, the maintenance of the present system may be the chief issue at stake in considering the proposed bills. The mothers’ aid bill, which pro vides for an annual state appropria tion of $50,000 to be used in match ing appropriations from the several counties to aiid mothers left to sup Port_ijie family in caring for their chndrenaTTome^ather^tEa^&emfiS? them to an orphanage, was introduc ed Tuesday simultaneously in both branches of the General Assembly. Quoting from the News anil Observer: “The act makes the county juvenile court the unit for the administration of the law, with supervisory powers lodged in the State Board of Wel fare. Any board of county commis sioners may make appropriation for any case recommended by the county juvenile court where the recommen dation is approved by the State Board of Welfare and the State will bear one half of the expense up to the limit of appropriation, with the fund of $50,000 apportioned among the counties on a per capita basis as far as practicable. Support under the act is limited to needy mothers of children under fourteen who are morally and physically fitted to care for their children. The allowance is limited to $15 a month for the first child, $10 a month for the second child and $5 a month for each additional child.” On Wednesday, the Senate commit tee on Water Commerce legislation advocated by Governor Morrison, unanimously reported favorably on the bill. This measure carries with it an appropriation of $2,000,000 to buy and operate a state line of steam ships. The bill has not yet been re ferred to the House Committee. This measure will probably be considered iln the Senate on some special hey yet to be named. The Baggett Anti-masking bill ajmded at the Ivu Klux Klan which though rejected by two judiciary committee, through a minority re port. his bill is again on the senate calendar and will be consider d at the close of the morning session to day. STATE ASSOCIATION OF FAIRS ORGANIZED RALEIGH, Jan. 23.—A state asso ciation of fairs was organized here today at a meeting of secretaries rep resenting 15 Carolina fairs in the U. S. district court room when Dr. J. Vance McGougan, of Fayetteville, was ('looted president. Colonel Jos eph E. Pogue, of Raleigh, was elect ed first vice-president; George How ard, of Tarboro. second vice-preri-1 dent, and Garland Daniel, of Greent boro, secretary and treasurer. Get the cotton land ready. Beat the boll weevil by better seed, better cultivation, and better fertilization. The early bolls are hard to puncture.
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