VOLUME 42
SM1THF1ELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1923
NUMBER 50
BOYD GIVEN TWO
YEARS ON ROADS
Henry Boyd, Colored, Tried
In Recorder's Court and
Found Guilty
Henry Boyd, colored, faced the Rec
order’s court Tuesday on a charge of
gross violation of the dry and drastic
Turlington Act. He was unwilling
to stand the gaff of a trial before the
Recorder, Judge A. M. Noble, and
asked for a trial by jury which was
granted. A venire of twelve regu
lar jurors was summoned and trial
was set for Wednesday, June 20.
Poyd, 'who lives near the brick plant
and Beasley’s store and garage on the
Raleigh highway just beyond the
Neuse river from Smithfield. was
arrested in June 1 as a consequence of
a raid made upon him by officers
C. R. Cable and J. D. Stephenson, of
Smithfield, and J. H. Griffin, of Sel
ma. in which 33 1-2 pints of bootleg
whiskey were confiscated. The testi
mony of the three officers and the
confiscated whiskey which was uni
formly bottled in old-fashioned pint
flasks, was the only evidence offer
ed by the State; and this evidence was
enough to convict Boyd, .notwith
standing the strenuous effort on his
part to establish an alibi.
Not since the prohibition act of
1908 has there been a bolder defiance
of the dry laws or a more fearless
end fruitful raid upon the lawbreaker
than this over-the-river episode. Hap
pening in a sense within the shadow
of the court house and on such a
large scale, the ^conscience of the
community felt shocked and incensed
enough over this high handed disre
gard of the law that when court open
e 1 Wednesday the court room was
fairly filled with people who were in
terested to know what the case would
develope.
Solicitor Harrp P. Johnson was as
sisted in the prosecution by Col. Ed
S. Abell and Judge F. H. Brooks,
while the defendant was represent
ed by Mr. S. S. Holt. The warrant
contained two charges against Boyd,
both of which if carried to the ex
treme means a two-year sentence,
one for having whiskey in his posses
sion for purposes of sale, the other
for transporting. Chief C. R. Cable,
star witness for the State, substan
tially stated that information came
to him on June 11, that he immediate
ly went to the Sheriff’s office where
he found Chief Griffin of Selma and
Deputy Sheriff J. D. Stephenson, that
he was advised by Griffin to go to
Boyd’s house without delay while he
and Stephenson waited the issuance
of a search warrant; that he left
town by motor and went as far as
the highland bridge where he took
the woods and stalked Boyd’s house,
that in the meantime Boyd got wind
of his coming and went to his house
in great haste to re
boxes containing the 33 pints of
whiskey hiding them in the woods be
yond his house; that he soon arrested
Boyd and found on his person two
empty whiskey bottles, that in the
meantime officers Griffin and Steph
enson reached the scene and the house
was searched and more empty bottles
and fruit jars smelling of whiskey
were found; and that, one-half pint of
whiskey was found in a trunk, that
jugs were found in a small out house;
that Boyd was held by Officer
Stephenson while search was being
made in woods for hidden whiskey,
that after careful search by Chief
Oriffen and himself the whiskey was
found. Chief Griffin’s and Deputy
Sheriff Stephenson’s testimony was
in the main corroborative of Chief
Noble’s testimony.
Boyd went on the stand and sub
stantially testified that he was born
in Georgia but left there at ten and
went to Newport News where he liv
ed until four years ago when he came
to Smithfield. On the morning of
June 11 he went to work as usual at
seven ( ’clock, worked an hour and
got off from brick kiln and went to
nearby pump for water. When t
turning to work some one called him
saving that oficers were there to
search his house. House was search
ed and only one-half pint of whiskey
was found and this was some that
his wife had received some time last
tall from one of her brothers and
this she intended to convert into
camphor. The two bottles found on
his person were stray bottles he had
found near the pump and which he
intended to throw into burning k’h.s
to prevent broken glass from ac'umu
' MT. ETNA LAYS WASTE TO
SURROUNDING COUNTRY
■ Rome, June 18.—Mount Etna, in
j violent eruption, is laying waste the
surrounding countryside, say dis
patches reaching the mainland.
Great rivers of molten rock, pour
ing down the steep sides of the
mountain from numerous fissures, are
overwhelming all before them and
! the inhabitants are fleeing in despair
i while crobs and homes disappear un
! der the hissing flood.
Miaaen eruption
The main crater of Etna after the
fitful displays of the last week, sud
denly opened up at midnight Sun
day with a noise like the firing of
a thousand cannon. There were sub
terranean rumblings, flames shot to
the sky, and the populations of the
> little towns about the base of the
i cone fled to the plains.
Five great cracks opened in the
northeast side of the mountain and
I from these mouths, several kilometers
from the old crater, came streams of
! lava.
! Thousands of tons of rocks and
i ashes were hurled to a height of from
j thirty to sixty feet from both the
| old and new craters, end the lava
• streams, advancing on a frontage es
| timated at 500 yards, laid waste the
I vineyards and forests in their paths
i and progressed at a speed of a mile
I and a quarter an hour,
j Isolated houses left early by their
occupants long acquainted with Etna’s
! habits were speedily devastated. The
j important railway station of Castig
lione was destroyed.
Linguaglossa, which is some ten
! miles from the central crater, was
I surrounded by lava. Several houses
! in the town collapsed and most of
j the villages in the neighborhood were
| qyickly deserted. The sky was dull
j with smoke and cinders and dust fell
j heavily over a If.’ge area.
; The sight of fugitives from the
' danger zone coming into Messina,
1 coupled with the terroring subter
ranean noises heard there drove hun
dreds of citizens of that town to the
| seashore for safety.
| No loss of life has been reported
, in the dispatches received.—Assoclat
i ed Press.
CULTIVATION IS FOR
PREVENTION, NOT REMEDY
The old time way of cultivating
crops was to wait until the ground
got hard or until there was a fine
crop of weeds to fight before culti
vating. The idea was that so long
as the ground was not baked and not
hard, why stir it? Thoughtless farm
ers said: “The weeds can’t do much
harm when they are small, can they?
If I wait until the weeds and grass
get big, I won’t have to cultivate but
once where I would have to cultivate
; twice if 1 started when the gj ass was
j small.”
| This attitude and argument is al
most as bad as that of the man who
! locked his barn door after his horse
' had been stolen, or the other fellow
who sprayed his peach trees after
worms had caused the peaches to drop
from the trees. Wise cultivation is
always for prevention and not an at
tempted remedy. The weeder and
the spike-tooth harrow are for the
purpose of preventing the ground
from becoming hard and for prevent
ing the weeds from making more than
a start. And in this as other things,
! “an ounce of prevention is worth
| a pound of cure.”—The Progressive
; Farmer.
Mr. J. R. Ledbetter, of Princeton,
! was in the city yesterday.
, lating around where he worked. The
; jug in the out house was James Mc
j Daniel’s and had been left there f ir
| molasses a day or two prior to the
j raid. He denied having any whis
| key about his premises and of having
any knowledge of the boxes of whis
! key found beyond his house by the
officers. James Me-Dariel; Maggie
! Boyd, the defendant’s wife; Jim
Smith; Ed Sipp, of Mobile; and Mes
i srs. Walter Johnson and Jpiarence
I Hinton testified for the defendant,
The trial began about 10 a. m. and
; lasted well into the afternoon. The
! jury composed of J. F. Hicks, J. H.
Hales, Julius M. Parker, A. W. Wilk
erson, P. A, Holland* and Osborn
Wilder was out of the court room
j for deliberation only a short tin s
and returned with a verdict of guil
ty Boyd was given a two-year sen
i tence and a fine of $100 and the cost
from which judgment he appealed to
the superior court,
CLAYTON GIRL IS
DROWNED IN RIVER
Miss Dorothy Gower Loses
Life Whiie Bathing in a
Stream Near Sylva
Friends throughout the county :
wore very much shocked to hear of
the death of Miss Dorothy Gower,
of Clayton, who was drowned while j
bathing in Tuckaseegee river Tues- i
day afternoon. Miss Gower, who was '
a senior at Meredith College and al
so president of the Y. W. C. A. at
Meredith, had been attending a Y. W.
C. A meeting at Montreat and was
visiting a friend, Miss Nita Garrett,
in Sylva, before returing home. While
she and a party of young people were !
in bathing she and another young j
lady became frightened and excited. ;
Mr. Robert Garratt. went to their res
cue and tried to help them to land
but they being excited, grabbed hold 1
of him and it was only after much
effort that he succeeded in getting
one ox tne gins xo tne oanK. rsy xne
time he returned for Miss Gower she
had disappeared. The alarm was giv
en and crowds of men and boys from !
Dillsboro and Sylva began diving for
the body. The searching parties and
boatmen searched twenty-four hours j
before the body could be located. It
was found about five o'clock Wed- j
nesday afternoon about a quartei of |
a mile from where she was drowned
Dynamite and other explosives had
been used in efforts to bring the
body to the surface.
The body was taken to Clayton
where the funeral services will be :
held at the Baptist church this after
noon. after which interment will b.
made at Clayton.
, Miss Gower was about twenty-one
years old and was one of the young- j
est daughters of Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Gower. She was a splendid young
woman of Christian character ar.d
will be missed by a large circle of
friends. She is survived by her fath
er and mother and seven brothers and
sisters.
The sympathy of many friends is
extended to the bereaved family.
HEALTH CAMPAIGN
CTADTW HIT C • vT
Washington, June 21.—A physical
examination foi every person in the
United States, to be held on the per
son’s birthday, is the goal set by the
National Health Council for its cam- j
paign, starting July 4, and lasting for
one year.
Statistics shewing that Americans
are wearing out more rapidly than
Europeans have been collected by the i
council to show the need of such a i
campaign.
Two great bodies of persons were '
examined by the Life Extension In
stitute to ascertain the cause of the ;
increase of the American death rate.
These were life insurance policy |
holders and employees of large com- !
mereial houses.
Of the first less than two and one- |
half per cent were normal; more than '
ninety-seven and one-half per cent j
needed advice regarding their phy- ’
sical condition or living habits. Near- j
ly sixty-six per cent were referred to j
physicians for treatment. More than
ninety-three per cent were unaware
they were in danger without medical
attention.
Of the commercial group a few
more than three per cent were found
to be normal and fifty-nine per cent
were sent to physicians for treatment.
HENRY FORD NOT AFTER
WHITE HOUSE JOB
Springfield, Mass., June 18.--“I
have no desire to be the President of
the United States,” Henry Ford said
while stopping over the week end
here on his way from Providence, R.
I., to Poughkeepsie, N Y.
‘‘I am too much occupied with my
own affairs to become the next Presi- 1
dent and I do not intend to run. All |
this you hear about my name being
associated with the Presidency is
newspaper talk. There is nothing to
it.”
Stationary, but No Station.
Old Colored Mammy—‘‘Ise wants
a ticket fo’ Florence.”
Ticket Agent (after ten minutes
of weary thumbing over railroad
guides)—“Where is Florence?”
Old Colored Mammy—“Settirx’ over
dar on de bench.”—Fhrineeton Tiger.
MR. W. M. SANDERS
HEAD COTTON CO-P
His Election Is Announced
After Meeting of Board
Directors Tuesday
Raleigh, June 20.- W. M. Sanders,
of Smithfield, has been elected presi
dent of the North Carolina Cotton
Growers' Co-operative Association
and U. B. Blalock, of Wadesboro, has
beer, re-elected general manager, ac
cording to the announcement from
headquarters of the association fol
lowing the meeting of the Board of
Directors of the organization.
The choice of Mr. Sanders as presi
dent of the association followed his
election as director . M. T. Britt of
Benson, who was elected director
from his district in the convention
recently when W. H. Austin, former
president, declined to be a candidate
though hi- name was placed on the
tickit. It developed later, however,
that Mr. Britt., while a business man
o: rronuncrce was not qualified as
a director hy reason of the fact that
he did not (trow cotton. In tin
failure of Mr. Britt to qualify, all fac
tions among- the growers agreed on
Mr. Sanders who was elected.
Another director placed on the
board in the meeting was Mr. Blalock
who has hitherto been general man
ager without a seat on the board of
directors. He succeeds Dr. B. W.
Kilgive who was not reappointed by
Governor Morrison as one of the di
rectors representing the public, since
he recently became dean of agricul
ture f N< rth Carolina State College
and his whole time will be required
in the reorganization of tho college.
Am. >g tr•. other officers re-elect
ed bv the directors were R. W. Chris
tian, vice president, and A. E. Bing,
secretary and treasurer.
A third payment has been made to
grower members of the association
up to 19 cents on the basis of mid
dling and according to Mr. Blalock,
a fourth distribution -will be made
before i final settlement.
Many sales oi Worth ( aroiina cot*
ton, according to officials of the as
sociation have been made to Ger
many, through the agency of an At
lanta agent. Payment for this cotton
however, is in hand before the cot
ton is shipped. The co-operative is
taking no chances.
A movement which is Southwide
in character will be launched on July
4 for an increase in the membership
of the North Carolina association.
The present membership which is
around thirty-one thousand will be
increased by conservative est ; *
to 40,000.
Getting down to work on plans for
another year of co-operative selling
of cotton, representatives from four
Southern State associations were in
Raleigh yesterday for conferences
with officials of the North Carolina
association.
The delegation was headed by Carl
Williams, of Oklahoma City, presi
dent of the American Cotton Grow
ers’ Exchange, who also represented
the Oklahoma association. Other
visitors included H. G. Kaminer, pres
ident and general manager of the
South Carolina association, Presi
dent J. E. Conwell, of the Georgia
asoeiation, and H. Haughton, treas
urer of the Alabama association.
General Manager U. R. Blalock and
Secretary Ashley Ding, of the North
Carolina asoeiation, entertained the
visitors with a fried chicken lunch
eon at the Raligh Country Club.
Other guests for the luncheon were;
Sales Manager Lawrence Macao,
Warehouse Manager B. F. Brown, and
Field Manager Homei H. B. Mask,
of the North Carolina association,
and Dr. B. W. Kilgre, who has
served for the past year as director
for the public in the North Carolina
rssociation.
The leaders in the co-operative
marketing movement in other states
were very much interested in study
ing at first hand the methods used
in North Carolina which put this
state at the head of the list for the
cast year—News and Observer.
Presbyterian Church.
The regular Sunday services will
be held at the Presbyterian church.
Subject for the eleven o’clock serv
ice: “The Sinfulness of Sin.”
Sunday-school at 9:60 a. m.
All are welcome and invited to at
tend. There will be no evening ser
vice.
LENOIR AND THE ROCK
WELCOME N. C. EDITORS
Lenoir, June 20.—The editors of the
state are in convention assembled ■< t
Mayview Manor, at Blowing Rock,
to the number of about 100, luxuriat
ing in the beauty of the scenery and
the cool breezes, which are giving
them new inspirations.
Less than 50 rolled into Lenoir to
day on the 12:55 train, and were met
at the station by Lenbir citizens.
They were taken immediately to the
Kiwanis club headquarters where a
splendid dinner was served to them. I
Many citizens also joined them at
this meal. Others coming through in
their automobiles arrived here in time
for the noonday meal.
Mayor V. D. Guire, in hearty greet
ing opened the feast with a cordial
welcome to the visitors. In a tabloid
fashion he told of the beauty of Le
noir; her standing near the head in
manufacturing industries; her trades,
and the pleasure of her people in
having the editors to “bide a wee,”
even if they were going through her
gateway to the grandeur of the beau
tiful country at Blowing Rock.
His remarks were warmly received
bv the press.
aryC C. Dowd, of the Charlotte
News, responded to the gracious wel
come in commendation of the spirit
of Lenoir, no finer had he seen any
where in North Carolina, and the
good people of the beautiful and pro
gressive town had gone a long way
out of their way to lay such a spread
before the editors and their wives. He
bore testimony to the meeting of the
press in Lenoir in 1911 and its pleas
ing memory.
Immediately after the luncheon the
visitors left for Blowing ocRk, where
the first meeting was held this even
ing at 8:90 o’clock, President J. B.
Sherill, of Concord, presiding. Rev.
| James P. Burke, of Valle Crucis, in
| voked blessing on the meeting, its
acts, and individual members. W. C.
Ncwland, of Lenoir, welcomed the ed
itors to “Skyland. above the clouds,
and among clouds which did not bc
colud, but gave inspiration to their ]
senses, surrounded by unexcelled I
scenery and coling breezes that j
j put the visitors into a new and rap
; turous world in this good Old North
State.”
C. A. Webb, of the Asheville Citi
zen, who lives in the “I>and of the
Sky,” responded to the welcome giv
en by Mr. Newland, on behalf of
the press, and expressed the senti
ment of all in the pleasure of the
editors in meeting in such a wonder
The executive committee made a
j report, and quite a number of new
! members were introduced to the as
j soeiation.
| Miss H. M. Berry, secretary North
j Carolina Good Roads association
made an interesting address on the
; subject of good roads, which was en
! lightening and highly entertaining,
especially that portion which referr
ed to mountain roads.—Greensboro
News.
Recorder’s Court Proceedings
The Recorder’s court opened Tues
day with a light but important dock
| et. The following cases were before
. the court for disposition.
State vs. Henry Boyd charged with
violating the prohibition laws. Jury
requested and trial set for Wednes
day the 20th, at 10 a. m.
D. B. Narron, seduction. Bound to
! superior court under $500 bond,
i Coon Smith, found in garage of
i A. D. Driver in Selma with intent to
I steal, was given a rix months road
| sentence.
Bud Hudson stood charged for
I tearing down a fence and on another
warrant for using profanity on the
1 highway. When called he was not
present but later appeared under a
copias. He was intoxicated when he
reached court but after he had time |
to cool he plead guilty to both charg- j
es and received a seven months road i
sentence.
Willie Smith, of Kenly, charg d
with possessing and transporting j
whiskey under the Turlington Act.,
; plead guilty and received a twelve
; month road sentence.
Charley Marris, F. and A., tried.
Not guilty and discharged.
Revival At Piney Grove
A revival meeting will begin at
Piney Grove Free Will Baptist
church Sunday night, July 8th. We
invite one and all.
CONDARY STANLEY.
CO-OPS MEET AT
THE COURT HOUSE
Hold Their Regular Monthly
Meeting; Fourteen Locals
Represented
Tho members of the cotton and to
bacco grower’s co-operative market
ing associations held a very enthusias
tic meeting here Wednesday after
noon in the court house. These meet
ings which are held once each month
are usually well attended by the
members, and Wednesday afternoon
several ladies were in attendance.
Fourteen local organizations were
represented.
Mr. B. T. Leppard, district field
agent, of Raleigh, was present and
led in the discussion of the member
ship campaign.
Mr. W. M. Sanders who was rec
ently appointed by the Board of
Trustees as director of the fifth dis
trict which is composed of Johnston
and Wilson counties, made an inter
esting talk on the benefits of the co
operative marketing system from the
viewpoint of the farmer. Ho review
ed the progress made among farmers
during the past fifty years, and com
pared the old system of selling farm
produce with the marketing of today.
He predicted that much more prog
ress would be made in the next fifty
years.
At the close of Mr. Sanders’ talk,
the members gave him a rising vote
of thanks, .and invited him to meet
with them every time if possible.
Mr. L. E. Rogers, district represen
tative from the Tobacco Growers’
Co-operative Association, then outlin
ed the dangers to the organization
from those who are opposed to the
co-operative movement, and advised
the members against such dangers.
He mentioned several definite ways
in which the members, to a great ex
tent might offset these dangers.
A general discussion followed Mr.
Rogers’ talk, which resulted in all
the members pledging to do their ut
most to increase the membership in
the cotton and tobacco associations
one hundred per cent during the
year.
At this meeting several resolutions
were voted on and passed by the
members.
LARGE PRESERVE BUSINESS
GROWS OUT OF CLUB WORK
When home demostration work was
first started in Charleston, S. C., ten
years ago, Mrs. Julius Towsend, of
Martins Point, became keenly interest
ed in preserving and pickling, and
made rapid process under extention
direction. F'or the first two years she
canned locally abundant fruits andveg
etables for home use only. In her
third year of clu bwork she began to
market in a small way such product
as Dixie Relish, pineapple pears, gra
pefruit preserves, mixed pickles,
watermelon rind preserves and pick
les, peach preserves and sweet pick
les, ginger pears, cucumber rings,
plum preserves, blackberry jam, arti
choke pickle and relish,canned shrimp,
grape jelly, green tomato pickle, pum
pkin chips, fig preserves, and palmetto
pickle. Five years ago her annual
output was not over a thousand con
tainers a year.
About this time a new home dem
onstration agent came to the county
and assisted Mrs. Townsend in enlarg
ing her market. In 1920 she added
a small canning kitchen to her home
and began to employ her niece and
sister to help. She increased her
output to 4,000 containers. A field
agent of the United States Depart
mnet of Agriculture visited Mrs.
Townsend in 1921 and found that
she had built a factory, and put up
over 12,000 containers, necessitating
the employment of from six to ten of
her neighbors daily. In 1922 her out
put was even greater, but she invested
the entire proceeds in another factory
twice the size of the first, with proper
commercial equipment. The establish
ment is a great benefit to the com
munity, as it furnishes employment
to many who otherwise have only a
few sources of income.
Mr. Marion Parrish, father of Mr.
M. B. Parrish, who lives on Oakland
Heights, continues critically ill. He
■ .,s been confined to his bed four
months but for the past few days has
been gradually growing weaker