VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923
NUMBER 30
EASTER CANTATA BY!
THE CLAYTON CHOIR
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Lancaster-Hinton Marriage
Took Place Sunday A.
M.; Local Items
Clayton, April 10.—Mr. Hugh A.
Page rtturned to Aberdeen last Tues
day alter spending Easter at his home
here. j
Miss Penelope Nichols, of the grad- j
ed school faculty, spent Easter at her
home near Durham.
Miss Matilda Mayo, who is attend- !
ing school at Greenville, spent Easter ‘
with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Mayo.
Mr. W. B. Weaver and son, Billie, !
of Leaksville-Spray, were here to at- j
tend the Johnson-Poole wedding J
Monday.
Miss Eula Maie Farmer, who is
teaching at Cameron, spent Easter
here with her mother, Mrs. A. J.
Farmer.
Miss Louise Young, who is attend
ing school at Winston-Salem, spent
the Easter season with her parents,
Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Young.
Miss Mamie Morgan of the graded
school faculty, spent the Easter holi
days at Wilson with friends.
Misses Rosa Hamilton and Allie
Ann Pierce, members of the school
faculty, spent the Easter season at
Lacrosse, Va.
Mr. Laurie Poole, student at the
State University, spent Easter at his
home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Hamilton, of
Smithfield, spent Sunday here, the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Vin
son.
Miss Zelda Barnes, student at G.
C. W., Greensboro, spent Easter with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Barnes.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Campbell, of
Abingdon, Va., were the guests of
Mrs. Campbell’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Musgrave, last week.
Mrs. J. A. Griffin returned this
week from Richmond, Va., where she
has been for the past few weeks un
dergoing treatment at a private san
atorium.
Miss Larue Williams, of the Selma
school faculty and Miss Mary C. Wil
liams, of the Red Oak high school fac
ulty, returned to their schools Mon
day, after spending Easter with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H.
Williams.
Rev. A. O. Moore, pastor of the
Baptist church here, left Sunday for
Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville, where
he will spend a month attending the
reserve officers ’training school.
Mr. Mclver Lancaster and Miss
Lela May Hinton were married Sun
day morning at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Carroll, Rev. A. 0. Moore
officiating. The wedding was quiet
and was witnessed by only a few in
timate friends and relatives. The
bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Hinton, of Wilders
township and is quite a pretty and
attractive young lady. Mr. Lancaster
is the son of Mrs. J. H. Lancaster, of
Clayton, and is a promising young
business man, connected with the
dry goods firm of Chas. Carroll. Im
mediately after the ceremony, Mr.
and Mrs. Lancaster left on a bridal
trip to Richmond and other points.
Returning to Clayton they will make
their home with the groom’s mother.
The Choir of Home Memorial
Methodist church, under the direction
of Mrs. Chas. G. Gulley, choir leader,
rendered Alfred R. Gaul’s Easter can
tata “The Holy City” at the church
Sunday night. The music was up to
the usual high standard of the choir
and was enjoyed by a large congrega
tion. Solo parts were sung by Mrs.
R. W. Sanders, Mrs. Y. M. Holland,
Mrs. Gulley, Miss Gwendolyn Mitch
ell and Mr. James Stancil. Mrs. H. G.
Pope presided at the organ through
out the cantata.
Tons of Fish Smothered.
Tons of fish were smothered in
Gler.niore Lake, Orange County, New
Yarn., by the ice which covered the
lake two feet thick from shore to
shore. When the community found
the water supply objectionable they
investigated and when a hole was cut
through the ice thousands of dead fish
came to the surface together with
many live fish in search of air.—The
Dearborn Independent.
BUY SWEET POTATOES
NEXT WEEK, APRIL 16-21
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RALEIGH, N. C,, April 12.—Des- |
ignating the week of April 16 to 21 j
as “Sweet Potato Week” in North j
Carolina, the Agricultural Extension j
Service of the N. C. State College and j
State Department of Agriculture ur- 1
ges every consumer and every house- i
hold to buy at least one bushel of j
sweet potatoes during this period. As !
a reason of setting aside a week for j
a campaign of this kind, the Division
of Markets states that farmers n !
certain sections of North Carolina
have been forced to seek new money
crops on account of damage to cotton
by the boll wreevil and to tobacco by
wilt disease. A large number of
them turned to the sweet potato and
the production has been somewhat
out of proportion to the present de
mand. In several counties of North
Carolina, states Mr. Gorrell Shumak
er, acting chief of the Division of
Markets, the farmers have made con
siderable investments in storage
houses to keep the potatoes in good
condition for the spring trade.
They now have a quantity of these
pototoes on hand and it is absolutely
necessary that some of the holdings
be converted into cash before farm
ing operations for the coming year
j can be financed.
The Division of Markets, says Mr.
I Shumaker, is eager to find a market
j for this surplus of potatoes, especial- j
ly in the stricken areas, because it I
i realizes the plight that some of these 1
i people find themselves in. The divis- \
j ion has secured a list of parties from
whom good sweet potatoes may be
! secured and grocery stores and oth
| er concerns desiring to stock up for
i “Sweet Potato Week” can get this
list on application to the division at j
Raleigh.
S Mr. Shumaker states that in set
| ting aside this week of April 16 to
21 as a special time for selling and
: consuming sweet potatoes, his divis
ion is urging growers to use the ut
most care in grading to see that on
ly the best of potatoes are offered for
sale. Further, the growers are ask
! ed to make only a reasonable charge
: per bushel so that every family in
North Carolina may purchase a sup
ply. Dealers will be asked to sell the
roots on the lowest possible margin
of profit and to depend on the quanti
. ty of sales to compensate for the
j extra trouble in pushing this prod
uct. Some stores have already made
! arrangements to not only sell for
, the growers without charge but also
to use their own paid space for ad
! vertising the potatoes.
! The movement as initiated has the
hearty endorsement of Director B.
, W. Kilgore of the Agricultural Ex
tension Service, as well as the var
| ious divisions and organizations of
the State College and Department of
1 Agriculture. The State Federation of
Sweet Potato Storage Houses, the
Agricultural and Industrial Develop
l ment service of the Atlantic Coast
| Line Railroad and various other civic
! and business organizations have giv
i en it their full approval and are help
ing to put the movement across.
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i NEW TREES TO MAKE
UP FROST’S RAVAGES
! SOUTHERN PINES, April 5.—
Current rumors that the Sandhills
peach crop has been annihilated by
the recent heavy frosts are being re
I placed by statements that increased
j production in new bearing trees will
I replace, in the Belle and Carmen va
rieties, the ravages of the frost. The
! Alberta crop, according to those ’n
close touch with the peach situation
, has been seriously curtailed, but that
, the Bell and Carmen peaches are
i plentiful, is the general opinion,
j The estimate that the 1,500 cars
j of peaches shipped from the Sand
hills last year has decreased to 500
I cars is thought problematical and
1 with the increase in the total num
ber of bearing trees that the produc
; tion will fall only a little short of
the last year’s shipments.
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Didn’t Have But One.
Willie’s mothe- was r. m< nstrr.t.n/
with him for figl.ti’g
‘‘Well, he hit mr lirst,” declared
Will.i!
“But the Bible tells to turn the
other cheek,” she suggested.
“Yes, but he hit me on the nose,
and it’r the only one I've got,’’ re
plied Willie.—The Logician.
Go to church Sunday. The church
can’t go to you.
CONFERENCE CAN’T
REACH A DECISION
R. R. Officials, State High
way Men, Local Com.
Discuss Crossing
The conference between citizens or j
Smithueld, representatives of the
S*ute Highway Commission and of
ficials of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway held here yesterday result
ed i.i ro definite decision as to les
sening the danger at the station rail
way C' ssing here, but various routes
fer the highway were thoroughly dis
cussed and a later conference to be
held in the near future will probably
settle the matter satisfactorily.
In the conference yesterday the
State Highway Commission was rep
resented by Mr. B. E. Snowdan of !
Kingston, engineer for the third dis- j
trict, and by Mr. Chas. M. Prichard :
of the Raleigh office, assistant locat
ing engineer. Those here in the in
terest of the A. C. L. R. R. were
’’apt. W. H. Newell, General Super
intendent of the A. C. L., Mr. J. B.
Trenhom, road engineer for the rail
way company, Mr. B. J. Huff, sig- j
nal engineer and Mr. C. G. Sibley, su- j
perintendent of this division. Com- j
mittees from the town board of al- j
dermen, the Kiwanis Club, the Chamb- '
er of Commerce, together with the j
mayor represented the citizenship of
Smithfield.
These men met at the station and
went carefully over the situation.
The railway engineers have made a
survey of possible routes and cros- ;
sings which was submitted to those
present. fThree possible routes of
the highway are suggested, all of
which apear feasible since a new
bridge to span Neuse River will
necessarily be built, whether the pres
ent location is changed or not.
The suggestion which meets the
approval of quite a number of the
citizens here is to locate the high
way so that the bridge will be built
at the end of Market Street and ross
the railroad to the south of the pres
ent crossing about where the station
shed is now situated.
Another possible course is to locate
the highway as it now is, until the
hospital corner is reached, and then,
instead of coming through the busi
ness part of town, extend up Bridge
Street crossing to -'the railway to
the north of the present crossing.
The third suggestion plans for the
highway to be built practically
straight from the “pines” across the
river, the bridge to be built near the
location of the power plant, the high
way following Caswell Street and
crossing the railway considerably
further north of the present crossing.
The State Highway Commission
will put their engineers on the job,
and in a short time, another confer
ence will be called to make final dis
position of the matter.
Son of Johnston Honored
That the growing tribute paid
George Grantham of Dunn by the
Carolina Journal of Pharmacy in de
dicating its April issue to him is wor
thily bestowed, no one who kno vs
him will deny. Moving to Dunn from
his birth-place in Johnston county in
1887, he has grown up with the town
and his life and his works have wield
ed great influence in making Dunn
the good and progressive community
that it is today.
He might be termed a pharmacist
of both the old and the new schools,
and, yet his work is not confined to
■ that one profession. He finds time to
serve humanity in other ways and is
active in the church, educational and
political life of his home town, coun
ty, state and nation. When any ques
tion arises George Grantham is found
ready to fight for the right; he 5s
the type of citizen that makes North
Carolina the great State that is—
Dunn Dispatch.
Heard the Old Gate Creaking.
“Thank you so much for your song,
my dear,” said the elderly wor
when the daughter of the house,
where she visited, had finished her
solo. “It took me back to my child
hood days when on my father’s farm,
and while I listened to your voice I
seemed to hear the old gate creaking
in the wind.”
Why make an enemy when it is
easier to make a friend?
PROF. J. A. CAMPBELL j'
SPEAKS AT PRINCET N;
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Group Commencement At j
Princeton April 20; C. H.
Holt Nominated Mayor
Princeton, April 11.—Miss Bessie (
Mason is visiting relatives in Norlinii ,
this week.
.Mrs. Wallace Curron1-, n.' Richmond,
visited her father for a few days this
week.
Miss Peail Tolor s; ent the week
ei'd in Dunn.
M'ss Ora Tayor visited her parents
ir. Raleigh for the week end.
Mr. and Mrj John YY i", mis. » nml
J e and Alt", Mary YVilha o • of
WJson ounty, visited Mrs. Florence
llinton Sundav.
Mrs. Charlie See, of Norlina, spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Warrer.
Rev. W. G. Farrar spent Wednes
day in Mount Olive.
Mr. Astor Holingsworth from
Spring Hope visited Mrs. Florence
Hinton Sunday.
Mrs. L. D. Grantham and Mrs. J.
K. Ledbetter spent Wednesday in
Goldsboro.
Miss Cora Smith and Edgar Bat
ance, of Fremont, were the guests oJ
Misses Ila and Fatsy Odum Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Russel Ginn, of Golds
boro, visited their parents, Mr and
Mrs. C. L. Curley, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Murry Lynch visited
relatives at Pine Level Sunday.
Miss Maud Pittman was married to
Mr. Bonus Ilolt on Wednesday, Ap
ril the fourth.
Mr. and Mrs. Boaz Woodard, of
Selma, are visiting friends in town
this week.
In consideration of the approach
ing- Methodist conference which meets
With Princeton church in May. the
church is being given a new coat of
paint and some other improvements
are being made which adds greatly to
the appearance of the building.
Mrs. Zeb Harrison and children
from Greene County were visitors in
town Saturday.
The relatives and friends of Mrs.
C. L. Gurley will regret to learn that
she has been real sick for the past
week.
Miss Sarah Stallings and Mr. and
Mrs. Hal Odum from Pine Level were
visitors in this section Sunday.
A tenant house on the farm of
Mr. George Worley was destroyed by
fire a few nights ago, supposed to
have been fired by unknown persons.
Even though the i v-nnometer has
been down around the freezing point
fo ■ the past several nights, those who
went fishing in Nea«e River hao
been catching lare,e quantities of
hickory shad.
Tin town authorities tt,tough and
with the aid of the property owners
a.o paving the sidewalks on four
blo< ku in the business se :tion, this of
course is a much needed improve
ment, and possibly marks the begin
ning of more permanent work in the
future.
In addition to the music teacher in |
the high school Princeton has a
professor who is teaching violin les
sons. The students at present are Dr.
Lester Aycock, Clairborn King, Eail
Watson and DeLeon Holt.
As a result of the mass meeting of
the citizens of the town in the Ma
sonic Hall Monday night, the nomina
tions for town commissioners for the
next two years was as follows: Mes
srs. M. B. Lynch, M. B. Rains, L. D.
Mitchell and C. G. Holt, and for
mayor Chas. H. Holt, the meeting
was well attended by merchants and
business men, and there were sever
al ladies present who expressed them
selves freely as to what they wanted
and expected from the town oficials.
The town election will be on Tues
day after the first Monday in May,
which will be the 8th day of May.
Friday, April 20th, will be group
commencement at Princeton. Thirteen
surrounding schools will be represent
ed. Prof. J. A. Campbell, of Buie’s
Creek, will speak at 10:45. P ompt
1 ly at 9:45 all schools will assemble
i and begin the parade at 10:00. Af
I ter the address the seventh grade
I certificates will be presented by Miss
( Mary E. Wells, of Smithfield, to all
passing the examination given April
7th. Dinner will be served on the
grounds. In the afternoon each
school will be given fifteen minutes
for a program. The best program will
; be awarded a prize. Following this
there will be a spelling contest by
IAKING FINAL ARRANGEMENTS ' i
FOR THE BIG CEREMONIAL 11
WASHINGTON, N. C., April 14.— |
lecorder J. F, Rhern, of Sudan Tem
|
)le was in the city yesterday, rnak- :
ng final arrangements for May IT.
Four beautiful silver cups, stand- j
ng ten to twenty inches high, are '
ilso on exhibition, one for the club |
■oming the greatest mileage, anoth
>r for the best looking patron, an
>ther for the best float and last but j
jy all means the most important, for
:he most attractive young lady at the
jail.
The decollators who will ha/e j
■harge of all decorations in the city |
nas arrived and Washington will soon
iress up for the Big Ceremonial. A
Sue large boat will give all ladies • i
opportunity to see the beauties of the
famous Pamlico river. This event in j
tself will make ’em happy.
U SEPARATE EARTHQUAKES
FELT IN U. S. DURING 1922
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During the calendar year 1922, 84
separate earthquakes strong enough
to be felt by the unaided senses were
reported from different parts of con
tinental United States.
These occurred chiefly in Calit’or- j
nia and in a section of the Central j
States, with scattered disturbances in j
various other States. Earthquakes i
of reported intensity of 5 or greater i
on the adapted Rossi-Forel scale, but j
not accompanied by appreciable dam
age, occurred in Arizonia on June 15
and 17; in California, Jan. 31; Feb. 5,
March 10 and 16, June 16, Aug. 13,
Sept. 5; in Illinois, March 22-23; in
Indiana, Jan. 11; in Kentucky, March
22-23; in Missouri, March 22-23; in
Oregon, Jan 31; in South Dakota, Jan.
2; in New York, Dec. 8; and in Ten
nessee on March 22, 23, 30.
The emihquake of Jan. 31st, was
of marked intensity, but the epicenter
was apparently in the Pacific Ocean,
off the California coast. Widespread
shocks occurred on March 22 in Ark
ansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Missouri and Tennessee; on March 30
in Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and
Tennessee; and on Nov. 26 in Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana,
but all these were of slight intensity.
The Badge of the Great.
The gifted man bears his gifts into
the world not for his own benefit, but
for the people among whom he is
placed; for the gifts are not his, he
himself is a gift to the community.
That is the way Life gives gifts to
the people; it wraps them up in men,
and sends them forth.
If then the bearer purloins the
gifts for his own use, and turns his
ability to serve into an excuse for
over-lordship and exploitation of
those who need him, he is a traitor to
the Universe.
Every kind of ability or superior
ity is an obligation. Here is the so
lution of all racial, national, class,
and individual problems. Service is
the badge of the great. There is no
greatness without it.—Dearborn In
dependent.
representatives of grades four, five
and six from each school ;a story-tell
ing’ contest by representatives from
grades one, two, and three, and ath
letic contests on the grounds. All
winning contestants in athletics will
be awarded ribbons. The best story
teller will be given prizes.
This will also be “Book Day” for
Princeton library. Every family in
the community is asked to present the
school with at least one book suitable
for lower or upper grades to read or
use for reference. Princeton library
has grown considerably in the past
few months but is still very inade
quate. This is an apportunity for all
to contribute something worth while
to the school. A new book is not
expected in all cases but a good and
useful one will be much appreciated
by teachers and pupils.
Misses Clara Pearce and Irene
Franks, Virginia Woodard and Evelyn
Edwards accompanied by Miss
Blanche Penny left early Thursday
morning for Chapel Hill where they
will contest for the silver cup award
ed annually to the best debating team
in North Carolina. Princeton won
both sides of the triangular local
contest over Clayton, March 30. This
is the third time a Princeton team
has had the honor of competing at
Chapel Hill. We believe no other
school in the county has won the
local contests three times. We wish
the present teams much success in
their trip.
SELMA TO HAVE NEW
PASSENGER STATION
Supreme Court Upholds the
Decision of State Corpo
ration Commission
The Supreme Court Wednesday up
held the hands of the State Cor
poration onimission when, it direc.ed
the Southern Railway and the At
lantic Coast Line, the latter by agree
ment and consent, to proseed at once
with the erection of a union depot at
Selma as ordered in 1914 by the Cor
poration Commission.
The court, in an opinion written
by Associate Justice Walker, affirm
ed Judge ramer, of Wake Superijr
Court, who, at the instance of the
Corporation Commission, direoted a
mandus at the two railroads order
ing the construction of the joint sta
tion and at the same time denied the
motion for a certiorari made by coun
sel for the railroads, for the purpose
of bringing the action into Superior
Court for review.
The original order of the Com
mission, made in 1914, was held up
during the stringency of the war
period and its recent renewal by the
ommission brought on strenuous
opposition on the part of the South
ern. The Atlantic oast Line took
the position through counsel that it
was prepared to proceed as soon as
the Atlantic Coast Line was ready.
“In no view we are entitled to
take of this case,” said Justice Walk
er, “can we decide that there was
any error in the well considered de
cision of Judge Cranmer requiring- the
judgment of the Commission to be
enforced by peremptory writ of man
dus.”
“It is therefore our conclusion,” he
adds, after an exhaustive opinion,
“that there was no error in the judg
ment of the lower court as rendered
j by Judge CranmerjUjid we must there
I fore afirm it and, as suggested in the
Selma Railway connection case 137 N.
C., I., this court has the power, if
it so elects, to enter judgment here,
instead of remanding the case at the
present time.
“It is therefore ordered that final
udgment be entered here to the ef
fect that a peremptory mandus be
I issued from this court compelling
the respondents the Southern Rail
way ompany and the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway ompany (by its con
sent and agreement) to comply at
once with the udgment of the State
Corporation Commission and any or
der heretofore made by it in aid of
said enforcement and the said de
fendants (the railroad companies)
will prosecute the work of construct
ing said station and in other respects
as designated in the order of th» Com
mission with reasonable diligence un
til the same is finally completed. And
for trn. present, at !cact, this cause
will In retained in f nis court for
' such ’‘.I ' ei oruc.- - nd direr .- us
as in the opinion of the court may
be required.—News and Obserrui.
EVANGELIST HAM SERVICE
CHANGED TO WEDNESDAY
Judge Brooks is in receipt af a
letter this morning from Earl S.
Rogers, Secretary to Evangelist V.
F. Ham, stating that it w’ll be iia
posible f / tl' rr. to be here oa Mor
day, April li'th, 1923. bit they
would come on Wednesday, April 18th
191':'., ;.r>o will hold a service ti*.lv >.cn
me ruiP'ng of train No. ^0 at 1:30
and t nin No. 89 at 3 o’clock.
It i as been decided to hold the
seiico at the Methodist ehui«:h at
1 .lo an that date, which \.U4 give
one nt.ur for the service aod l • e to
get them oack to the tra:r..
Those who have never heard Mr.
Ham are urged to come out and hear
him as he is a wonderfully strong
preacher.
Reforesting Denuded Areas.
The total amount of land repeated
ly burned over, chiefly before the
creation of the national forests which
can be restored to productivity only
Dy planting, is estimated to be at
least 1,500,00(1 acres, according to
the Forest .Service, United States De
partment of Agriculture. Because of
the lack of available funds only a
small amount of planting has been
possible so far. At the rate at which
i the work is now being conducted it
j will require between 150 and 200
years to reforest these denuded areas.
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