VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1923
NUMBER 17
MRS. BRITT DIES
FROM INJURIES
Pneumonia Develops and
Causes Death; Others In
jured Improving
The death of Mrs. Cynthia Britt,
mother of Rev. Fred T. Collins, pas
tor of the Baptist church here, oc
curred yesterday morning at the
Smithfield Memorial hospital follow":
ing an automobile accident Thurs
day in which Mrs. Collins and her
eleven months old baby were also
severely injured. Mrs. Britt who was
72 years old suffered no broken
bones and it was first thought that
her injuries were less serious than
the other two hurt. However double
pneumonia set in, and she was not
able to withstand the disease.
Mrs. Collins, who suffered bruises
and cuts on her head and neck has
regained consciousness and is im
proving. The baby whose foot was
amputated is also improving, and
the entire recovery of both patients
is expected.
The body of Mrs. Britt was taken
to Lumberton, her old heme yester
day afternoon where interment will
take place this afternoon at 2:30 o’
clock.
Mrs. Britt was twice married her
first husband being Mr. John Collins,
of Lumberton. To this union two
children were born Rev. Fre.d T. Col
lins, of this city and Mrs. John
Lewis, of Wilmington, both of whom
survive. After the death of Mr. Col
lins, she married Mr. Caswell Britt,
also of Lumberton, and a daughter,
Mrs. W. G. Baldwin, was born to this
union. After the death of her second
husband, Mrs. Britt made her home
with her son. Rev. Fred T. Collins.
Those called here on account of
the illness and death of Mrs. Britt
were: Mrs. John Lewis, and Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Baldwin, of Wilmington
and Mrs. W. J. Britt, Messrs L. H.,
W. C., and E? .L~6ritt7~of Lumbiffbn.'
Those from this city besides the
family accompanying the remains te
Lumberton were: Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Underwood and Mr. Herman Jones.
THREE-FOURTHS COTTON
MIDDLING OR BETTER
RALEIGH, Feb. 24.—Three-fourths
of the cotton delivered to the North
Carolina Cotton Growers’ Co-Opera
tive Association averaged middling
or better, according to financial
statement prepared by Secretary
Ashley Bing as of close of business
at the end of January.
Out of 106,634 bales on hand at
the time, 39,759 bales was strict
middling or better while 37,165 bales
was graded middling, making a total
of 76,924 bales. Thirteen thousand
bales of cotton had not been classed.
Sixteen thousand bales were grad
ed as strict low middling, right up
next to middling, leaving only 5,543
bales in the lower grades.
The cotton co-operatives report,8
618 bales of long staple cotton on
hand, which includes all cotton of
1 1-8 inch or better.
Twenty-three thousand bales or
cotton sold and delivered prior to the
date of the financial statement are
described as having been of the lower
grades, as the demand has been
greater for this class of cotton and
the average price obtained tvas ^20.25
cents.
The statement showed the value of
the cotton at he market price then
prevailing to be fourteen and a half
million dollars.
The Association reported loans or.
cotton of seven and a half million
dollars. Total advances on cotton
to members is reported as being $9,
230.000.
Birthday Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. Zell Barnes, of Wil
son s Mills gave a birthday dinner
Feb. 22 in honor of their twins, Nell
add Thel. At 1:30 the guests were
invited u* the dining-room to partake
of the many good things which were
spread g: a long table. The table
was beautifully decorated with
flowers of various colors.
Those present besides the family
connections were: Mr. and Mrs. D
E. Adams and family, Mr. and Mrs
J. W. Kennedy and children, Mrs
Florence Taylor, Miss Fannie Casey
Mrs. Jessie Johnson and little daugh
ter, Pauline. F. L. C.
Real happiness is cheap enough
yet how dearly we pay for its coun
terfeit.— B al lou.
FIRE DESTROYS WATTS t
BUILDING AT DAVIDSON
Hard Work by Students Saves Ad
joining Rumple and Georgia
Dormitories
—
DAVIDSON, Feb. 25.—For the sec- !
ond time in 15 months disastrous fire j
swept down on Davidson College this '
morning, completely destroying the
three-story Watts dormitory where
50 students live, entailing a loss of j
some $50,000, partly covered by $20,- ■
000 insurance. No one was hurt.
Desperately hard work with the i
meager local fire-fighting apparatus, ,
supplemented by bucket work by 1
hundreds of students, prevented the
Rumple and Georgia domitories on j
either side* of the Watts building j
from catching fire. They were j
scprehed but not badly hurt. The
Mooresville fire department respond- ,
ed to a call for aid but because of the
lack of apparatus here was not able 1
: to render material help except with
. buckets.
j The Watts building was burned to
the ground in less than two hours.
Students who lived on the third
( floor lost nearly all of their clothing
and furniture, but hard work saved
! virtually all equipment on the first
and second floors.
Coming close behind the disastrous
' Chambers building fire of November
j 28, 1921, which cut deep into “the
! heart of Davidson,” the loss of the
. Watts building is a severe bl.>w to
j the college. President W. J. Martin
| said tonight that although it was
j too early to make plans he thought
j unquestionably the dormitory would
! AUTOMOBILES CRASH TO
GETHER ON FOUR OAKS ROAD
Sunday evening about dark,
two cars one driven by Mr. J. T.
Matthews of this city and the
other by Mr. Carl Lewis, of Four
I Oaks ran together just on the
f fitifsThYfsToTTfie’ciFy'VTtrthe' Foilr "
Oaks road. The car driven by
Mr. Lewis was overturned but
none of the four occupants were
seriously hurt. Those in the car
besides Mr. Lewis were his sister,
1 Missf- Luna Lewis, and Miss Leta
Potts and Miss Woody, teachers
in the Four Oaks school. Miss
Potts is a niece of Mrs. H. L.
Skinner, and the young ladies
were carried immediately to her
home where medical assistance
was rendered. Aside from a few
bruises and the shock, their' in
juries were negligible, and in a
few days they will be able to re
sume their school work.
Mr. Mathews was unhurt al
though his car was damaged.
j •
; WILL GIVE ASSISTANCE FILLING
OUT THE INCOME TAX RETURNS
There will be a United States De
puty Collector of Internal Revenue
! at the places and on the dates bo
low given for the purpose of assist
ing taxpayers to file their income
tax returns -for the calendar year
1922. This assistance is furnished
without cost to you and will be to
your interest to take advantage of
same.
February 19 to 20 at Selma.
February 21 at Clayton.
February 22 at Holiday.
.February 23 to 24 at Kenly.
February 26 to 28 at Smithfield.
March 1 to 10, at Goldsboro.
March 12 at Mount Olive.
March 13 at Fremont.
March 14 to 15 at Goldsboro.
There will also be a U. S. Revenue
Agent at the places and on the dates
below given for the purpose of as
sisting Corporations, Partnerships
and Individual file income returns for
the calendar year 1922.
Goldsboro March 1, 2, 14 and 15.
Wilson, March 3..
Rocky Mount, 5, 6, 10 and 12.
Scotland Neck, March 7, 8.
Roanoke Rapids, March 9.
Weldon, March 13.
Where Waste is Conspicuous
Nowhere in American life is waste
more conspicuous than in our forests
and forest products, says the annuli
report of the Forest Service, Unite 1
States Department of Agriculture.
In all the stages of manufacture there
is appalling waste. American busi
ness has begun to see the vital im
portance of better methods of manu
i facturing and using wood. The For
, est Products Laboratory is ' solving
the problem of curtailing waste.
EXAMINATION FOR
TEACHERS IS HELD,
Count for Reading Circle
Work; Guests of W. L.
Woodall’s Sons
—
More than two hundred teachers j
of Johnston county were here Satur
day and stood an examination given
by County Superintendent H. B. Mar- ;
row on Reading and Arithmetic, <
which examinations will take the l
place of the usual Reading Circle 1
work. All teachers under the county
system were required to take this ex
amination. Three schools, Selma,
Clayton and Smithfield do not come
under the county system, since they
operate under special charters.
The examination was held at the
new high school building.
A pleasing courtesy was extended
the teachers and committeemen who
were present by W. L. Woodall's
Sons, in the serving of a lunch at
the noon hour. The Home Demon
stration Agent, Miss Minnie Lee
Garrison, assisted by Mrs. Lee San
ders, Mrs. W. L. Fuller, Mrs. W. H.
Byrd, Mrs. Wallace Francis and
Mrs. Thel Hooks prepared hot coffee,
sandwiches, pickles, crackers and
fruit which were served by the fol
lowing high school girls: Arab
Hooks, Mary Gattis Holland. Virginia
Williamson, Ellen Patterson, and
Rose Grantham.
FOUR MACHINES RECOMMEND
ED FOR DUSTING COTTON
RALEIGH, Feb. 26.—There a-o
four general types of machines re
commended for dusting cotton, says
Mr. Franklin Sherman, Chief of the
Division of Tntomology for the N.
C. Experiment It is recog
nized that the cost of these machines,
their liability to breakage and rapid
wear, dre some of the chief obsta
cles to dusting cotton with calci”
. ;irsfA0.te_as_ recommended by the
State and Government agriculture
officials; however, the farmer who
does not leave his machines in the
hands of careless or inefficient ten
ants or laborers usually gets good
results from their use.
Mr. Sherman says that there are
many ways to do a thing wrongly;
therefore there are ways to dust
cotton so that no results will be ob
tained, but good farmers are dusting
with good results all over the South
and the extension workers got good
results in their demonstrations in
Scotland county and elsewhere last
year.
Mr. Sherman has already told
about the calcium arsenate to use.
He now gives the four types of ma
chines to use in applying this dust:
Hand Gun. Carried by the n an
operating it; crank turned by hand;
treats one row at time. Costs $12
to $18. One machine can attend to
5 to 8 acres; for larger acreages
get more than one. Not advisable
to attempt these for more than
to 25 acres (too many machines, toj
many delays). One of these ma
'■ chines will last from 1 to 8 years.
Saddle Gun. Sits on back of mule
j in front of operator who turns two
| cranks; treats a row each side. Cost
around $50. One machine can attend
| to 30 or 40 acres. Machine should
i last 2 to 4 years.
One Mule Machine. Runs be
I tween rows like walking cultivator,
j on one wheel which is geared to
i fan; operator holds handles like
plow; mule between shafts; poison
blown out of two nozzles behind op
| erator, treating a row each side.
Cost around $100. One machine can
attend to 50 to 60 acres. Should
.last 3 to 6 years.
; Cart machine. Two wheels, strad
! les a row; two mules; wheels gear
ed to fan; operator rides; three noz
zles behind; treats three rows at a
time. Cost around $250 to $300. One
machine can attend to about one
i hundred acres. Should last three to
, six years.
Attend Birthday Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Smith and
Miss Jessie Smith went to Sampson
county Friday afternoon to be pres
ent at a birthday dinner given in
honor of the seventy-fjrst birthday
of their uncle, Mr. R. D. Smith, who
lives near Clinton. They returned
home Saturday.
Meat and potatoes and white
, bread will never make a boy or p:
There isn’t the stuff in them to do
it.
i
SMITHFIELD TO BE ,
IN SEMI-FINALS
Speedy Local Quint Defeat
Pikeville, Fremont and
Wilmington
Fighting its way game by game
Smithfield High School Basketball
team advanced to the semi-finals of
the Eastern North Carolina Champ- j
ionship series when they defeated !
the fast Wilmington quint at Chapel I
Hill Friday night. Smithfield began |
the championship for the entire state 1
when it walked away with the Pike- :
ville crew here Thursday the 15. |
Last Thursday the boys journeyed '
down to Goldsboro and in one of the I
prettiest games of the season took I
the second step to fame by winning ;
from Fremont 47-25. Following this ]
Friday night arrived with the W’il- 1
mington game at Chapel Hill.
Getting off with a flying start
Smithfield snowed the Wilmington j
team under for the first half, ending
with the score trippled at 24-8. With
Skinner out of the local line-up in th • i
second half the Wilmington aggrega- j
tion found a holy in the Smithfield
defense and with Smithfield leading j
by 22 points staged one of the finest ■
comebacks possible, scoring twenty
points in rapid succession Smithfield 1
tightened up and ran the score on to |
37 points while the game ended with I
Wilmington fighting desperately, 37 1
to 33.
The game was attended by a large !
crowd of Smithfield fans.
Line up:
Smithfield (37) Wilmington (33)
Holland------ Tiencken
Right Forward ,
Hill_ Shepard
Left Forward
Stephenson--... Kelly
• Center
Skinner _Hewlett
Right Guard . v
TRiWir rv .•_> &»rkbejtaei*
Left Guard
Referee: Lineberger (Carolina).
The following are the results ox tne
championship series in each of the
seven districts of the east:
Raleigh won out in district by de
feating Wilson Saturday night.
Durham defeated Ellerbe and be
came champion of that district.
Sanford beat Chapel Hill in the
final game of the first series 26-21.
Rocky Mount defeated Roanoke
Rapid® in the final game.
New Bern defeated Jacksonville
and won out in her district.
Smithfield won out over Wilming
ton in district seven 37-33.
Washington won in her district.
TWO KILLED WHEN
TRAIN HITS AUTO
J. F. Ray and B. Toler Victims of
Crossing Crash at
Rennert
ROCKY MOUNT, Feb. 24.—J. F.
Ray and B. Toler, white, were fatal
ly injured when the automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
Atlantic Coast Line train No. 83 at
Rennert this morning.
Ray, who was a telegraph operator
in the employment of the Coast
Lire at Rennert, was killed instant
ly, while Toler, who is said to have
been an elderly man and father of
W. J. Toler, another Coast Line
operator, died shortly after the mem
bers of the crew from the tram
| which stfuck his machine reached
him. Bodies of both were badly
mangled while the Ford car in which
they were riding is also undenstood
to have been completely demolish
I ed.
The body of Ray was found sev
! oral yards from the crossing while
Mr. Toler was found on the front
" of the engine when it stopped sev
eral hundred yards away. The train
which is the Palmetto limited, was
running at a terrific speed. However,
no blame is attached to the engi
neer as there was plenty of open
, space for the driver of the car to
see the approaching train. The mo
'• tor of Mr. Ray’s car apparently
' stalled as he went on the track,
according to eye witnesses.
Circle Number Four To Meet
Circle Number Four of the Wom
an’s Missionary Society will meet
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
with Mrs. W. S. Ragsdale. Please
every member be present.—Leader.
LASSIES OVERCOME
GOLDSBORO QUINTET, 23-18
Win Second Game of Series With
Goldsboro; Wellons and Mea
cham Brilliant
(by Donnell Wharton)
The Smithfield Girls made 'It tv o
straight from Goldsboro by defeating
them on the Goldsboro court Friday
night by a 23-18 count. Though play
ing a crippled and captainless line-up
the local team put up the same kind
of fight that has characterized them
so far this season. Goldsboro started
the game with a foul goal and with
in a few seconds repeated. Smith
field soon found the basket for a field
goal and from, then on the Goldsboro
lassies were ever compelled to trail
along in the wake of Smithfield’s
score. The first half ended at 13-6,
Smithfield leading.
With three of Smithfield’s regular
players out, Goldsboro came back in
the second half and out-scored the
visitors but were never able to over
come the lead run up in the first
half. In fact Goldsboro never ser
iously threatened to win for it was
only with a minute or so to play that
they got as near to Smithfield’s score
as the final count indicates.
The most brilliant feature of the
Smithfield attack was found in righr,
forward Ava Wellons who scored five
field goals and five foul goals for a
total of 15 points while Nell Meach
am played the game of her life, hold
ing her opponent to 2 field goals and
allowing her none in the first three
quarters. Yelverton was the star of
the Goldsboro quint scoring 14 points.
Talton at center playing her first
game for Smithfield put up some
good floor work.
Line-up and summary:
Smithfield (23) Goldsboro (18)
Wellons_Yelverton
Right Forward
Patterson_....___ .- Miller
Left Forward
Talton___ Kornegay
'-_.
Meacham _ Hall
Right Guard
Sanders ---- - - Zealy
Left Guard
Substitutions: Young for Sanders,
Maude Meacham for Talton, Woody
for Young. Crowson for Zealy.
Field goals Wellons 5, Patterson
3, Yelverton 4, Miller 2; foul goals:
Wellons 5, Patterson 2, Yelverton 6.
Referee Miss Benoy (Queens
College.)
Time of quarters: 8-8—8-8.
OFFICER IS KILLED
AT FAYETTEVILLE
W. C. Callahan §hot to Death While
Standing Guard Over
Liquor Cache
FAYETTEVILLE, Feb. 24.—For
the sixth time within the past seven
years, an officer of Cumberland coun
ty was shot and killed in the perform
ance of his duty when W. C. Callahan,
special deputy was fatally wounded
by bootleggers near Victory lake
shortly aftern noon today, dying in
the Highsmith hospital in . this city
four hours later. Callahan’s slayer,
who is not known to the officers, is
being sought by a Sherig’s posse, but
is still at large, though John Smith,
a young white man of Gray’s Creek
township, alleged to have been one
of the two men placed under arrest
by Callahan shortly before the
shooting, was recaptured, late this
afternoon. It was said at the Sher
iff’s office tonight that the wounded
officers suffering was such that he
made no statement as to the iden
tity of the man who shot him.
ONE KISS COST I>OC
MERE SUM OF $20,000.00
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Miss Mathilde
, Benkhardt, formerly a student nurse,
! was awarded $20,000 for a kiss in
| sealed verdict returned in court last
night and opened this morning. This
is $5,000 short of the amount asked
| by Miss Benkhardt against Dr. Justic
L. Mitchell, staff physician in the
hospital in which she was a nurse
' She claimed she was discharged from
I the hospital after she had accussed
the physician of kissing her.
Meeting in Raleigh
Mr. St. Julien L. Springs is in re
ceipt of a letter from national head
quarters stating that Commando
Owsley will speak in Raleigh or
March 6. All ex-service men are es
pecially invited to attend this meet
ing.
FRENCH CAPTURE
GERMAN MARKS
Board Birlin-Cologne Train
and Ransack Compart
ments; 12 Billion
BERLIN, Feb. 24.—A consignment
of 12,000,800,000 marks, fresh from
the Reischbank and plates belonging
to the Reischbank were seized today
by French soldiers from the Berlin
Cologne Express at the small tank
station of Hengsley, near Hagen. The
soldiers boarded the train just a3
it was coming into the station and
ransacked every compartment at
the point of the bayonet. Many of
the passengers were not aware of
the soldiers’ presence for some
time.
A guard began wondering why the
express had stopped so long and
was about to look out of the window
to make inquiries when a soldier
outside shouted “stand where you
are, close the window or we shoot”.
Finally the soldiers uncovered the
crisp new marks hidden away in a
third class compartment. Two Reisch
bank guards vainly protested the
seizure.
The soldiers also took duplicate
sets of copper plates for an issue
of 20,000 mark in !<\ " -
and plates w%re on the way to the
Reischbank’s Rhineland branches.
The cash seized amounts to only
a small fraction of the bank’s daily
output in currency, yet the officials
are highly incensed at the seizure
claiming the money as well as the
plates, is private property, abso
lutely immune from confiscation.
They believe, that the French will
not be able to make practical use of
the plates, since a special quality
of paper is required to print the
20,000 mark notes.
The German government will make
immediate demands to the French
and Belgian governments for res
torqtjor^,<flP^he .money and pities
J on the ground that they are private
property.—Associated Press,
MOTHERS AID BILL IS
PASSED 1 i HOUSE
Ushered before the House with the
statement of Parker, of Alamance,
that its $50,000 appropriation will
build less than two miles of hard
surface roads while it will build six
thousand paths from infancy to good
citizenship, the Mothers’ Aid Bill,
designed to aid mothers of orphaned
children to hold their families to
gether, passed the House yesterday
without a record vote against it
and upon its ratification becomes a
law.
The last cry of centralization
raised against the State school sys
tem wa sanswered yesterday in the
House with the introduction of the
Townsend measure, striking out of
| the school laws that provision which
| requires that “the county board of
! education and all other school offi
cers in the several counties shall
| obey the instructions of the State
j superintendent and accept his eon
j struction of the law.”
j This measure, along with the bill
for the distribution of the State
school equalization fund and the
omnibus bill appointing several hun
dred members of county boards of
education, submitted simultaneously
by Mr. Townsend, completes the
program of school legislation, and
in the opinion of Dr. E. C. Brooks,
State superintendent, gives the school
system a clearly stated and work
able code of laws.—Greensboro Daily
ews, Feb. 25.
AGED MAN CONFESSES
TO SEVERAL MURDERS
BALTIMORE, Feb. 22.—Charles
F. McCandless, 62, of Hurst, Texas,
who confessed, according to the po
■ lice, he killed four men in Texas and
! New Mexico, between 1900 and 1910.
' and who claims there is a $10,000
| reward for his arrest, surrendered to
( the police here today. HSs motive
I for surrendering, he is alleged to
| have told authorities was that he is
. tried of living under assumed names
i and that he wants to visit his 84
' year old mother in Hurst, Texas,
who wants him to atone for his mis
deeds before she dies.
Mrs. Pat Sellers 111
Mrs. Pat Sellers who lives near
Selma has been very sick. She is
now, however, somewhat better.