North Carolina Newspapers

V THE COMMISSIONERS NAME LIST TAKERS Raise Judge Noble’s Salary; Hear Com. on National Guard Unit The County Commissioners met in regular session here yesterday, and had a full day’s program. The morn ing session was characterized by routine business, matters of minor importance being transacted. The outstanding transaction before ad journment for dinner was the nam ing of the tax list takers for the various townships. Those named v.ere as follows: Wilsons M’ills: H. N. Wilson. Clayton: V. R. Turley. Pleasant Grove: Ed S. Coates. Elevation: W. L. Massengill. Banner: J. M. Lawhorn. Meadow: L. P. Johnson. Bentonsville: L. G. Westbrook. Ingrams: Ned H. Barber. Boon Hill: H. A. Watson. Micro: Joe D. Creech. Beulah: A. G. Hooks. Oneal’s: J. Willard Oneal. Wilders: R. E. Barham. Selma: Theo Easom. Pine Level: Alex Wiggs. Smithfield: R. E. Smith. When the commissioners re-assem bled after lunch, a committee repre senting the National Guard Unit which has recently been organized in this county, came before the board and asked for an appropriation to help finance the military company. Mr. J. A. Wellons presented the mat ter to the board and called upon Capt. Springs to give the facts con cerning the organization. It develop ed from his remarks that 72 men now form the unit; that equipment to the amount of $100,000 will be forwarded here as soon as quarters h«ve been provided; and that the government will expend annually about $15,000 in maintaining this unit. The matter of housing the equipment is the question confront ing the organization and for this the committee asked an appropria tion. The government provides $600 for rental of a place, the town of Smithfield has appropriated $300, and at least $750 more is needed. It was pointed out that the unit will he protection in the county and a help in preserving law and order. The commissioners after carefully con sidering the proposition decided to make an appropriation of $300 for the next six months, the matter to be, taken up again at the expiration of that time. When this committee had retired the county board of agriculture ask ed for some financial help which v. granted, and the matter of raising the salary of the judge of the Record er’s Court was taken up. This posi tion has heretofore rewired $1200 per year, but the commissioners yes terday increased it $300 making the salary f jr judge of this court $1500 per year. TOWN OF SELMA IS TO GET NEW HOTEL SELMA, April 1.—Construction on a new hotel for Selma will ' begin about April 15, according to an nouncement made here recently. The hotel will be built by J. T. Barham, proprietor of the Merchants’ Hotel, and will be constructed upon the site of the old Wyoming Hotel, which was burned several years ago. The hotel will be modern throughout, and its location is near enough to the passenger station for the con venience of the traveling public. DISCOVERS 100-YEAR-OLD « BIBLE WORTH 8100,000 In a large collection of books re cently presented to the Cambridge Massachusetts Municipal library b> a woman donor whose identity is kept secret, has been discovered an edition of the Bible nearly 400 years old and now valued at $100,000. T. Harrison Cummings, librarian, has just learned the value of the edition. The volume, it is stated, is one >f four extant in the world and came off the hand press of Peter Quentel? in Cologne in 1527. Other copies are in the British Museum, London; the Royal Library, Stuttgart and the Na tional Library, Paris.—Mocksville En terprise. Look at the date on your label. HISTORY OF ETHOPIA IS LAID BARE BY EXCAVATORS Ethiopians Were Not Real African Negroes; Excavations Reveal Them People of Culture. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 31.— The history of the i :cient Kingdom of Ethiopia through the long span of 1,100 years—from 750 B. C. co 350 A. D.—has been completed in principal outline by excavations in tombs and pyramids in the Anglo Egyptian Sudan by the Harvard Boston Exposition headed by Profes sor George A. Reisner. The most recent researches of the expedition in the pyramids at Baroe have established that the gulture of the Ethiopians stood as an outpost of Egyptian civilization in middle Africa, Dr. Reisner said in the re port which he has just made; that in the art of the Ethiopians a Greek influence obtained and that the in vention of a. script of the$r own was evidence that the Ethiopians were people of genius. The Ethiopians, Dr. Reisner de clared, are not and were not African negroes. He described them as “dark colored races, in which brown pre vails,” adding, however, that many individuals show a mixture of black blood. The impression that Ethiopia was governed by a long line of queens named Candace, held in the New Testament and by Pliny and Strabo, already weakened by the discovery that the name was only a title mean ing queen, was further dispelled by the excavations. It appeared that from 750 B. C. every ruler of Ethi opia was a male, Dr. Reisner assert ed. The five queens buried in the royal cemetery with the country’s kings were mothers who had served as regents during the minority of their king-sons, he thought. This latest report from Dr. Reisner has to do principally with discoveries at Meroe, which is not far from Khartoum and some six hundred miles south of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings. The report picks up the main outlines of the history of Ethiopia from 300 B. C., where Dr. Reisner’s earlier report of research es at Napata left off. The capital of Ethiopia was changed from Napata to Meroe at that time. Dr. Reisner, whose report from Napata made it possible for the first time to write the history of Ethiopia from 750 B. C., to 300 B. C., now brings the story of the kingdom in main outline through the following six and one half centuries up to its conquest by the Abyssinians about 350 years af ter Christ. The customs of sati-burial, accord ing to which the members of the king’s household killed themselves or were killed when he died and were buried in the same tomb prevailed at Meroe from the second century B. C., onward, says Dr. Reisner. — Associated Press. U. S. PATENT OFFICE TO INCREASE FORCE WASHINGTON, D. C„ Mar. 31.— Congress has authorized the Patent Office at Washington to add 43 new assistant patent examiners to its force. This may be regarded as an indication of the activity of inventive minds of the country, for the ex amining force must try to keep abreast of the applications for pat ents. It is not unusual for the Patent Office to receive as many as 100,000 applications for patents in a single year. The U. S. Civil Service Commis sion will hold examinations for as sitant examiner in the Patent Office in April and May. The entrance salary is $1740 a year and there ;s provision for promotion to positions paying as high as $3900. Training in physics, mechanics, technic.1?; and in chemistry or some line of engineering, is required. Full infonnation and application blanks may be secured from the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Wash ington, D. C., or the secretary of the United States civil-service board at the post-office in any city. New Irish Potatoes. I Mr. and Mrs. Joe Coates enjoyed their first new Irish potatoes la.;t Friday. Most of the gardeners in this vicinity have just planted their crop, and some have not even planted yet. The potatoes eaten by Mr. and Mrs. Coates were grown in a barrel. The idea of an all the year round garden is growing. MILITY UNIT ELECTS : CORPS OF OFFICERS I , St. Julien L. Springs is Capt. Chas. Springs and Horace Johnson are Lieuts. Sometime ago we published a list of those who had joined Ibe military unit recently organized in this city, but since that time office • i have t^een elected and some changes made in the personnel of-the company. There fore we are publishing again the roster of the members of Headquar ters Detachment and Combat Train 2nd Bn. 117th Field Artillery as fur nished us by Staff Sargeant William E. Barbour. The unit will use the Farmers Warehouse for meetings which are i held Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock until the regular equipment arrives, j The Scotton Motor Company build | ing will then be permanent headquar I ters. I The officers and enlisted men are as follows: Springs, St. Julien L. Captain. Smithfield. Springs, Chas. D. 1st Lieutenant, Sfmithfield. Johnson, Horace. 2nd lieutenant, Smithfield. Barbour, William E. Staff Sergeant. Smithfield. Grimes, John A. 1st Sergeant, Smithfield. | Peterson, Junius V. Supply Ser I geant, Smithfield. Jordan, Lyndon. Mess Sergeant, Smithfield. Holland Norwood T. Sergeant R. Guide, Smithfield. Fuller, William H. Sergeant L. Guide. Avera, Nicholas A. Line Sergeant, Smithfield. Peterson, Linwood A. Corporal N c 1, Smithfield. Fuller, Thomas E. Corporal No. 2, ■ Smithfield. : btephenson, Kaymond. Corporal No. 3, Smithfield. Stallings, Sam H. Corporal No. 4, Smithfield. Biggs, Maurice A. Corporal No. Smithfield. Coats, Jesse, Corporal No. 6, Smithfield. Wellons, Floyd F. Corporal No. 7, ; Smithfield. ( j Fulghum, Thos. R. Corporal No. 8, Smithfield. | Adams, Charles Reid, Private. Four Oaks. Bandy, James M. Private, Four Oaks. ' Beasley, Charles Leon. Private, Smithfield. f Benson, Henry A. Private, Smith field, RFD 3. | Booker, Benjamin Walton. Private, Clayton, RFD 1. Blackman, Wilbert. Private, Smith field. 1 Brooks, Frederick H. Jr. Private, Smithfield. Bryant, John A. Private, Smith field RFD 2. | Creech, Thomas Bryant. Private, | Smithfield. * I Godwin, William I. Private, Smith- ; i field. ! Grady, Charles Gilbert. Private, j Four Oaks. j Hamilton, James J. Private, Smith , field. Hooks, Jonathan Thel. Private, j Smithfield. j Johnson, Adam Heath. Private, j Smithfield. : Johnson, Atlee R. Private, Smith , field, RFD 1. 1 LamAi, Ezekiel Clifton. Private, Wilson’s Mills RFD 2. Lassiter, Shepherd R. Private, , Smithfield, RFD 1. Lewis, Carl, Private, Four Oaks. Matthews, Thomas E. Private, { Smithfield. Moore, William Lee. Private, Smith- j field. Moore, Richard. Private. Smith- ' field. Moore, Ventonx Private, Four , Oaks. Parrish, Kenneth, Private, Smith- 1 field. Parker, Willie M. Private, Smith- i field, RFD 3. Patrick, Dan Gaston, Private, j Smithfield. Pilkinton, Clifton. Private, Smith field. Pittman, Herbert L. Private, Selma, j Ragsdale, George Y. Private. Smithfield. Ragsdale, Thos. Smith, Private. COUNTY BOARD OF AGRICULTURE MEETS Adopt A Program of Boll Weevil Control; Plan for Exchange Days The Johnston County Board of Agriculture met yesterday in the j Farmers room of the court house with A. M. Johnson, president, pre ! siding. Nine townships and twelve different communities of the county were represented. The board adopt ed a program of boll weevil control : which they expect to distribute in pamphlet form to the cotton grow 1 ers of the county. This program j stresses the cultural method of culti vation and the use of calcium arse nate as poison. This organization also proposes to issue a monthly publication devoted to the interests of better farming and especially .boll weevil control. A committee went before the commissioners in session yesterday and asked for a small ap propriation which was granted to start this work. The board of agriculture also out lined, at its meeting yesterday, a proposition to have Exchange and sale days in the county to dispose of | surplus farm products. A bulletin board will bp established in the county Farm Agent’s office, and farmers will keep the agent inform ed as to produce they have to sell. Auction sales to be held about three times a year probably in December, March and August are planned. 'Another proposition discussed at the meeting was the shipping of hogs cooperatively. The details in | regard to this have not yet been worked out, but in due time the org '■ anization will announce its plans. The ’ method used in Halifax county was ! discussed and those present thought i favorably of trying it out in Johns j ton. APPLICATION BLANKS READY CITIZENS’ MILITARY CAMPS FORT McPHERSON. Ga., Mar. 30. —All officers of the Army of the United States, which includes ofn cers of the Regular Army, National Guard, and Reserve Corps, are now in possession of application blanks for Citizens’ Military Training Camps. | Young men between the ages of j 17 and 24 who are interested in oh j taining a month’s healthful camp ; t : government expense will find it to j their advantage to file their applica- I tion as soon as possible. Prefer- ' ence is being given young men rec- i omended by an officer of the Army ! of the United States until April , 25th. Cape Fear Poultry Association. ; Drawing its membership from j New Hanover, Pender and Bruns- j wick counties, the Cape JF ear Poultry . Association has recently been orga- j nized in Wilmington to promote the , growing of better poultry, to buy feedstuffs cooperatively and to sell j poultry products. They began work j by saving ten dollars per ton on i feedstuff's, reports Miss Florence ^ JcfFress, Home Agent in New Han over county . Smithfield. Robertson, Edward David, Private, Smithfield. Skinner, Frank Lawrence. Private, Smithfield. Smith, Milton Muns. Private, Smithfield. Smith, Horace. Private, Smithfield. i Stallings, Thomas F. Private, 1 Smithfield. Strickland, Julius L. Private, Four Oaks. Stancil, Lawrence U. Private ! Smithfield. Talton, Leon T. Private, Smithfield. j Turner, Emmett Weber. Private, Smithfield. Turner, Wilbur LeMay, Private, ; Smithfield. Utley, James. Private, Smithfield. ! Warren, Walter B. Private, Smith field. Watson, Wm. Talmadge, Private, Kenly and A. C. L. Smithfield Wellons, Henry B. Private, Smith field. Wellohs, Hugh S. Private, Four Oaks. Woodall, Marvin E. Private, Smithfield. Woody, Julius til. Private, Smith field. Young, Joseph Judson. Private, Smithfield. SAYS PROGRESS OF N. C, IS ASTONISHING John E. Edgerton, Former Johnston ian, Enthusiastic About Devel opment of State. Asto!i’M.„.i-nt nins* fill the mind of every expitiated Tar..--.el returning to his native health after a quarter of a century’s absence, declares John E. Edgerton, once a Johnstonian, but now president of the American Man ufacturer’s Association and a citizen of Tennessee who is spending a few days at the home of N. E. Edgerton on Hillsboro street. This is not the first time Mr. Edgerton has been back home since he went to Tennessee 25 years ago, but each time he comes back his enthusiasm over the development and progress of the State grows big ger and each time he goes back to his adopted State he has more to i tell of what the folks back home have J done during his absence. The uniformity of development is the thing that impresses him most. He is unable to see where farming has grown faster than manufactur- ; ing, or where roads have developed ' faster than schools or public health, j or where business has moved faster | than the intellectual level of the j people has moved upward. The sum j total of it is almost unbelievable, j as he sees it. To his mind the gqnesis of the i renaissance in North Carolina goes back to the rehabilitation of the ; public school system in the State i under Governor Charles B. Aycock. j From that spring, he thinks, all the j great good in the State had its be- j ginnings, and if one thing has devel- | oped more rapidly than another, it is the school system. Mr. Edgerton left North Carolina to go to a j preparatory school. Tennessee* or no other Southern j State has done anything like North Carolina’s achievements of growth, he declared last night. North Caro lina is the best governed State in the South and in the Union, the most progressive of the Southern States and the most immune from ! the dangerous “isms” that are i threatening the fabric of society and I government, he said. The nation is coming more and , more to look to the South as the repository of the ideals upon which j the republic was founded, and in ; no State have they been kept so al- , together inviolate as they have been ; kept by the people of North Caro- ! lina. But one danger does he see j for Tar Heels and that is that they j may lack consciousness of the tru-;t that has been reposed in them. Mr. Edgerton during his term as ! president of the National Manufac turers Association has spoken in most, of the States of the Union, and has had splendid opportunity to ob serve at close range the economic and intellectual condition of many communities. The South, and North Carolina in particular will in the 1 next generation be called upon \o give the country leadership tctfpilot i it through its most critical pteriod is Mr. Edgerton’s opinion.—-^News ' and Observer, ^Raleigh). FIRST CLINIC FOR CRIPPLES IN NORTH CAROLIN A Other Clinics Will Be Held Following Examinations at Wilmington. WILMINGTON, March 29—Direct- ! ed by Dr. O. L. Miller, of the State Orthopedic Hospital, and Miss Emeth ; Tuttle, of the Public Welfare De- ! partmet, the first clinic for crip ples in the State, under the new plan of operation, was being held a: a local hospital here today. Cripple children of surrounding counties 1 were being examined. Decision as to the location of other clinics in the State was to be reacn- j ed during the day. Follow1 eensus of all cripples in the Stqrte conducted by the welfare department several months ago. it was decided to hold the clinics in convenient cities. Following the examination of the children, they will be placed on the Orthopedic hospital lists for treat ment. \ The clinic here was the result of efforts on the part of the Wilming ton Rotary Club. The clubs in oth er cities in the State will assist in ! the work, it was stated. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. H. Franks went to Raleigh Friday afternoon. REVIVAL METHODIST CHURCH CONTINUES Visiting Preacher and Singer Leave but the Pastor Will Continue Services The revival which has been in prog ress at the Methodist church here for the past two weeks will continue through this week though Rev. Jim Green who has been doing the preach ing and the singer, Mr. Newsom, left yesterday for Goldsboro where they will assist in a meeting at St. John’s Church. Rev. D. H. Tuttle, the pas tor, will do the preaching himself this week. The day services will be held in the early morning from 6:20 to seven o’clock, and the evening service at the regular hour, 7:30. The Woman’s Missionary Society was a special committee yesterday to advertise the services; the Junior and Senior Epworth Leagues form the committee today; the board of stewards is the committee Wednes day; the Busy Men’s class of the Sunday School, Thursday; and the Departments of the Sunday School, Friday. The services thus far have been well worth while. About sixty pro fessions have been made; six young people have formed a class for church membership which will be instructed during the week by Rev. D. H Tut tle; the church has been quickened to a deeper consecration for service. The various denominations of the town have joined in the meeting and have contributed to its success. sermons have been deep and spirit ual, the singing good, and large crowds have attended each* service. MISS TIJTTLE TO STUDY MOTHER’S AID ACTS Miss Emeth Tuttle, of the State Department of Public Welfare, w>\ go to Ohio in April to study tie-’# operation of the Mothers Aid law in that .state in eonr.c lion with the rune: vision of a s.p.Tar act in North Carolina. T he General Assembly ap propriated $50,000 annually for mothers’ aid work in the State. Whenever aid is granted, the county of the State, in which the mother resides mast furnish an amount equal to that of the State, which would re sult in case all of the State fund was used, in $100,000 being devoted to the work. Miss Tuttle stated yesterday that according to estimates she has made it will be possible in some instances to aid as many as five mothers in a county, but that she expected ^tha average to be three. She plans she continued, to endeavor in each case to assist mothers in securing work and an income so as to dis charge them from the aid as soon as possible.—News and Observer. MUSIC CONTEST AT N. C. C. W. TO TAKE PLACE APRIL 19-20 GREENSBORO, April 2.—High schools from many sections of the state will send representatives to the music contest at the North Car olina College for Women on April 19 and 20. This is the fourth annual con test of the kind, and more schools are sending contestants than ever be fore. This year no county contests are being held, but all the schools may send representatives to Greens boro. Prof. Wade R. Brown is direc tor of the contest. Contests will be held in Piano playing, violin playing, singing and choral work. The choral work will in elude boys' and girls’ glee clubs, boys quartets, girls' quartets and mixed quartets. Voice solos will be divided into those for soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass. Special se lections for each group have been listed by the committee in charge as guides for the schools in choosing numbers for competition. BOY’S SKULL ( RUSHED WHEN KICKED BY MULE CLAYTON, April 1.—Eugene Creech, the six-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. It. Creech, of Clayton, was brought, to Rex Hospital with a fractured skull and other injuries sus tained when he was kicked by a mule on his father’s place yesterday after noon. The extent of his injuries had not been determined last night, but his condition was considered very grave by attending physicians.—News and Observer.