RECORDERS COURT
IS HELD AS USUAL
Negroes Fined For Gamb
ling ; Other Cases Include
Whiskey Violations
Recorder’s Court was held by
Judge Noble as usual Tuesday, Su
perior Court having adjourned in time
not to interfere.
The first case to come up was the
state vs. John Scott, Debro Turner,
Claud Dublin, Sport Woodall and El -
mer Woodall all colored, charged with
gambling. Chief Cable and Mr. Joe
Stephenson caught them gambling
Sunday about noon and made the ar
rests. The defendants plead guilty,
and a fine of $10 each was imposed,
each one to pay one fifth of the costs.
Other cases were tried Tuesday as
follows:
State vs. Herman Johnson charged
with violating the prohibition laws.
Not guilty. Prosecuting witness was
taxed with the costs.
State vs. Willie Byrd and Loving
Byrd, charged with violating the pro
hibition laws, Defendants were found
guilty. Continued for judgment un
til Nov. 6th, 1923.
State vs. Oscar Stanley charged
with larceny. Defendant guilty.
Judgment suspended upon payment of j
costs.
State vs. J. Q. Tart and Aulsie i
Tart charged with violating the pro
hibition law. Defendants were found j
guilty on two counts. Upon payment j
of costs prayer for judgment was
continued as to J. Z. Tart. Auslie Tart ,
was sentenced to pay fine of $100 on
first count; judgment was suspended
on second count for two years during
good behavior.
State vs. Gartha Sanders and Mat
tie Sanders charged with assault with
deadly weapon.
State vs. Rosa Williams charged
with assault with deadly weapon and
with carrying a concealed weapon.
The last two cases had to do with
each other and were consolidated and
tried together. Defendants were found
guilty. Upon payment of one half
costs by Rosa Williams and one half
costs by Gartha and Mattie W illiams,
prayer for judgment was continued
for two years during good behavior.
AS KSAUNDERS TO
GIVE AN ACCOUNTING
Memphis, Aug. 22,—The Piggly
Wiggly Corp., has filed a bill in dis
trict court here demanding Clarence
Saunder president of the corpora
tion personally and as head of the
Piggly Wiggly company to give an
accounting of Class A stock and
seeking an injunction to restrain
money or notes received from the
Saunders from disposing of any
sale of such stocks.
COOLIDGE SAYS FUEL
NEEDS WILL BE MET
Chairman Hammond of the Coal Com
mission Does Not Consider the
Situation Yet Serious.
Washington, Aug. 21.—Failure of
the anthracite operators and miners to
reach an agreement at their Affantie
City conference will not be permitted
to inflict a fuel shortage on the con
sumer, it was announced tonight at
the White House. While no indica
tion of the administration program
was given it was indicated that Presi
dent Coolidge wished to assure the
public that normal requirements for
fuel would be met.
Chairman Hammond of the coal
commission, ■who discussed the an
thracite situation late in the day with
the President, said however, an at
tempt would be made to fix the re
sponsibility for the failure of the
latest negotiations, and it was indi
cated that the commission’s finding
in this particular might be incorporat
ed in an emergency report to Mr.
Coolidge which is now in preparation.
Mr. Hammond declared the com
mission did not consider the situa
tion yet warranted the submission of
this report but he denied that either
of his assistants proposed to take
the initiative at this time endeavor
ing to obtain a resumption of nego
tiations between the operators and
their employes.
“Devil’s Grippe”, Is
New Disease Reported
NEW YORJ£, Aug. 21.
THE peculiar epidemic, thought
to be “Devil’s Grippe” now
prevalent in parts of eastern
Virginia, which last month at
tacked 150 boys at the New
York Catholic protectory in the
Bronx, has subsided, health au
thorities announced today. Only
five cases were reported last
week and no new cases have
since developed. The cause of
the epidemic has not been de
termined.
RICH LANDS ARE
BADLY FLOODED
The Famous Rocky Ford Cantaloupe
Belt Has Been Ruined and Crop
Just Ripened Is Lost.
PUEBLO, Colo., Aug- 23.—Fertile
farms and ranches in the Arkansas
valley in Southern Colorado experi
enced one of the worst floods in re
cent years last night when an im
mense reservoir on the Apischapa
river north of Fowler cracked and
precipitated a great rush of water
down the valley.
The reservoir built two years ago
by farmers of the valley was more
than 100 feet deep and had a storage
capacity sufficient to irrigate 20,00
acres.
A wall of water various estimated
at from 10 to 20 feet high rushed
down the valley when the dam col
lapsed. The break had been foreseen
so that residents in the path of the
flood had time to escape to high
ground. No loss of life had been re
ported early this morning.
It w'as reported from various parts
of the valley that the loss in live
stock was considerable and great dam
age done to farm buildings and crops.
THE NORTH CAROLINA
ORPHAN ASSOCIATION
The anr.ual meeting of the North
Carolina Ohphan Association will be
held at the Methodist Ohphanage in
Raleigh on Wednesday, September 19,
1923, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m.
To those interested in orphanage
problems the program may be of in
terest.
The Association is composed of or
phanage workers and sympathizers
from all religious bodies, fraternal
orders, benevolent societies, social
clubs and people generally who mani
fest an interest in the care and pro
tection of orphan children. The or
ganizations enumerated are requested
to send representatives.
Those who can conveniently do so
are invited to attend and contribute
to the interest of the gathering.
The Program
The program is as follows:
10 a. m.
Meeting called to order by Presi
dent J. J. Phoenix.
Invocation—Rev. M. L. Kestler,
Thomasville, N. C.
Address of welcome—Rev. A. S.
Barnes, Superintendent Methodist Or
phanage, Raleigh.
Response—President John J. Phoe
nix, Superintendent Children’s Home
So iety of North Carolina.
10:30 a. m.
Annual report of the President.
Annual report of M. L. Shipman,
secretary and treasurer.
Appointment of Standing Commit
tees by the President.
11:15 a. m.
Addriss: “Our Orphanage Popula
tion”—Miss Mary G. Shotwell, Bu
reau of Child Welfare, State Board
of Charities, Raleigh
Address: “The Teen Age Boy”—
Rev. G. i 'cvd Rodgers, Charlotte.
12:30—Recess for luncheon.
2:00 p. m.
Address: “Supervised Play for tn;
Depends t Child”—Rev. Wdliam H.
Wheeler, superintendent Ot phanagc,
Charlotte.
Address Rev. M. L. Ke. Gen
eral M.v ager, Thomasville Baptist
Orphanage.
Address: R L. Brown, superinter-1
er.t Cxro-c! Orphanage.
Address: I B. McBrayer, superin
I tendert North Carolina Sana1 >-iuni
o> Tuberculosis.
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COOUDGE INVITED
TO JOHNSTON CO.
Asked To Deliver Dedica
tion Address at Benton
ville In October
Washington, Aug. 22—President
Coolidge will be invited tomorrow
by a delegation of southerners to de
liver an address at the dedication in
October of a monument at Benton
ville, N. C.,. making the spot where
the last victory was won by the Con
federates during the civil war. The
date of the dedicatory exercises, the
President will be told, will be arrang
ed to suit his convenience.
Colonel Benehan Cameron, of Dur
ham, N. C., will head the delegation,
which will include William G. Bram
ham, chairman of the republican state
executive committee in North Caro
lina; Mayor Manning, of Durham;
M. E. Newson, president of the Dur
ham Chamber of Commerce; Speaker
Dawson and Representative D. 0. Ev
erett, of the North Carolina house
of representatives; General Julian S.
Carr, former commander of the Con
federate Veterans; Mrs. B. N. Duke,
of Durham, and Professors Brown,
of Trinity college, and Connor, of the
University of North Carolina.
DIFFERENT REPORT
REGARDING STRIKE
Charlotte, Aug. 23.—Places of all
strikers at Highland Park Mill No- 3
have been filled and the plant is
running with its normal force L. E.
Anderson superintendent announced
I today but J. E. Barrett declared 150
1 operatives are still out.
Mr. Anderson asserted only 29 went
I out when the strike was called after
the discharge of the worker. These
I have been ordered to vacate their
houses and a majority of them will
fight this it is said
GOLD PIANO AT WHITE HOUSE
FASCINATED MRS. COOLIDGE
But Policeman Ordered Her to “Step
On” As She Paused to Examine
The Instrument
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Washington, Aug. 18.—“Please step
on,” said a White House policeman to
Miss Grace Goodhue, of Vermont, 18
years ago, when she paused to exam
ine the gold grand piano in the East
Room.
She has “stepped on.” Soon she will
go to the White House, not as a visi
tor but as mistress of the mansion
and the gold piano.
The first visit of the present Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge was made as a tour
ist in Washington on an Easter trip
with several other young school teach
ers in New England.
They were “doing” the White House
like hundreds of other visitors. It was
in the Roosevelt administration w'hen
I policemen were numerous about the
White House and loitering within or
without the mansion was discourag
ed.
The gold piano was new, a gift to
| the White House, not to any person
It was made to order by a famous
firm, with the shield of each State in
j colored enamel forming a high relief
all about the gold case. The Ameri
can eagle is conventionalized to form
the legs, which are in tow tones of
' gold.
The young woman from Vermont
had never seen anything like it, and
naturally, she wanted to see it closer.
Her friends had passed into the hall
as she lingered to study the instru
ment, and then the guardian of the
room issued his polite command to
step on.
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NEW COTTON CO-OP
WAREHOUSE IN RALEIGH
Raleigh, August 23.—N. E. Edger
ton announces the completion of the
Raleigh Bonded Warehouse—the
warehouse that is to be used by the
North Carolina Cotton Growers Co
operative Association for storage of
cotton the present season. This is
one of the most modern storage ware
houses in the State.
“But,” said Mrs. Brown, “will it
take him half and hour to get through
his ‘lastly’?”
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TOBACCO CO-OPS
OPEN WAREHOUSES
Small Deliveries at Local
Warehouse; Prices Said
To Be Satisfactory
The Tobacco Cooperative Ware
house opened here Tuesday along
j with other warehouses in eastern
i North Carolina. The deliveries at
| the local warehouse, however were
I small, but acording to information
1 obtained from those in charge at the
warehouse, there was general satis- ;
faction oyer the prices received. Seven
i teen cents per pound was the highest
! received on the local market as a first
advance.
From the papers, it seems that, de
liveries every where were small on
opening day. Advances as high as
I twenty dollars for the best grades
| on several markets were reported. The
> cooperative association are not an
ticipating large deliveries for sever
■ al weeks, Qwing to late harvesting :n
. eastern North Carolina.
A. V. Bobbit, association warehouse
manager for eastern North Carolina,
commenting through the News and j
Observer on the opening of the co
operative houses Tuesday said:
‘'There has been entire satisfaction
all over the territory today, not a :
complaint from any one. Nothing has 1
shown up but the common priming
and the first advances on them in |
some instances average over 20 cents. ,
“There were crowds at many re
! ceiving points, and with only the low
er grade showing up, everyone was 1
satisfied. Those who delivered to
bacco and the spectators were equal
ly enthusiastic. The deliveries were I
better than expected, owing to the !
small amount of tobacco that has been j
j graded, several points having receiv- j
! ed from six to eight thousand pounds, j
I am looking for as good, if not bet- j
ter, receipts tomorrow than today.”
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TWO PREMIERS TO
TALK IT OVER
London, Aug. 23.—Recognizing the
futility of a further exchange of
lengthy note on the reparations issue
Prime Minister Baldwin has decided
to meet Premier Poincare on the
former’s return from his vacation at
Aix La Baines it became known today.
The British premier will not for
mally ask his colleague for an ap
pointment but will make known quiet
ly his readiness to meet to witness
the whole problem.
A TREE DEDICATED
TO PRESIDENT HARDING
The American people rather pride
themselves upon being hard-headed,
practical* matter of fact, unsenti
mental. But there is one sentiment |
: of which no American is ever j
ashamed; a fervant and burning pa
triotism. Wherefore it is that the ;
dedication to the memory of the late i
President Harding, of the second;
largest living thing in all the world
a giant redwood tree in Sequoia Na
tional Park, by Col. John R. White,
superintendent of that reservation,
has brought tears to more than one
eye in official Washington.
Joyce Kilmer, gentle poet, who gave
his life for his country in Flanders
Field, wrote:
“Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.”
And, excepting only the General
Sherman tree, the President Harding
tree is the most beautiful example of
God's tree handiwork in the world.
It seems peculiarly fitting that two
men who gave their lives for their
country should be linked in this way;
Kilmer, a humble soldier in the A.
E. F., whose delicate skill with words
will live long after the wounds of
war have heaed, and Harding, whose
skill at understanding people drew a
nation together in closer bonds of
unity and love.
Kilmer loved trees so much that he
wrote of them often. One of the
greatest trees in the world is forever
to be linked with the name of a much
loved patriot. Generations yet un
born will revere the memory of him
whose name is now given to the huge
Sequoia, and will quote again from
Kilmer:
“A tree depicts divinest plan
But God Himself lives in a man.”
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First Horse to Drink at
Fountain on Square
WEDNESDAY morning just
after the water was turned
on to test the connections of the
beautiful new fountain erected
on the court yard square by Mr.
W. M. Sanders, Willis Mitchiner,
a colored man who lives in the
country, drove up Second Street
and watered his horse. This
horse has the distinction of be
ing the first thirsty beast—for
the day was hot—to appreciate
what man had provided for his
comfort. More than one “swig”
of the running water was re
quired to quench his thirst.
UNUSUAL WEATHER
RECORD IS MADE
The Coldest August This Section Has
Ever Known; Thermometer
Drops From 91 to 54 in N. C.
ATLANTA, Ga-, Aug. 23.—August
tveather records continued to tumble
today throughout the south. Lower
temperatures were general, some of
the southern states reporting decreas
es of approximately 32 degrees over
that which prevailed during the fore- ;
part of the week. In a number of
eases the drops were accompanied or
preceded by rain fall. Atlanta’s low
est temperature yesterday as report
ed by the local weather bureau was
G8. Early today the mercury was still
falling and the coldest August wea
ther was predicted by the local wea- 1
ther man who declared the tempera
ture probably would descend as low
as GO degrees.
According to reports, Richmond,
Va., last night experienced the cold
est August weather in its history
when the mercury registered 49. The
maximum temperature for the day
was reported as 79 degrees. A 32
degree drop in one hour was reported
in the Carolinas yesterday when the
mercury dropped from 91 to 54.
DISASTROUS WATER SPOUT
Genoa, Aug. 23-—A huge water
spout burst upon the coast of the
Genoese Rivera today injuring nu
merous people and doing much dam
age.
LATEST RECORDS OF
FORDS AND TRUCKS
Detroit, Mich.—Production of the
Ford Motor Company has gone to
6,900 cars and trucks a day.
And the new production figure
means that within one eight-hour
working day Domestic Assembly
Branches of the company are at pres
ent turning out four times as many
cars as were produced in the entire j
first year of the company’s existence.
The new production record was set
up Friday, July 27th, when domestic
output reached 6,960 cars and trucks,
the Ford News announces. This is
23 better than the previous high day
of June 30th when production was
6,884.
During its first year the company
produced 1,708 cars, so last Friday’s
production was just 75 more than four
times that figure and was 1,905 more
than the first three year’s output of
the company which totaled 5,002.
COOLIDGE WILL RIDE
TO OBTAIN EXERCISE
Washington, Aug. 16.—President
Coolidge will probably find his recre
ation in horseback riding rather than
in golf or motoring—the means of
rest utilized by most Presidents of the
last decade.
Since assuming the duties of the
Presidency Mr. Coolidge has been tak
ing a walk each morning, leaving his
hotel about 6 oc-lock and returning
before the downtown district becomes
crowded. Today his walk took him
to the White House stables, where he
looked over the horses and selected
Fom them a big chestnut bay named
General for his own use.
Mr. Coolidge did little horseback
riding while in Washington as Vice
President, but in the course of his
vacations on his father’s farm in Ver
mont he rode frequently.
JUROR IS FOUND
MENTALLY UNSOUND
Judge Daniels Orders Mis
trial and Murder Case is
Continued to December
A unique situation in the workings
a court developed here in Superior
-ourt this week when, after sitting
3n a case for two days, one of the
jurors became mentally deranged, in
consequence of which Judge Daniels
who was presiding, declared the case
a mistrial and turned the defendant
aver to the sheriff until the December
term of court. Such cases are very
rare, and possibly a hundred years
may go by before another such case
happens. It is without precedent in
this state.
The defendant Allen Pennell, who
was being tried for the alleged mur
:ler of James E. Woolard, gave bond
for his appearance at the December
term of court.
The situation has more than the
usual intei’est. On Thursday of last
week a special venire of 100 men was
summoned here from which to draw
a jury for the murder trial. By din
ner the jury had been drawn, but for
some reason, the docket was changed
so that another case which consumed
a day and a half, was tried before the
State vs. Pennell. Saturday morning
this trial was begun. All day Sat
urday witnesses were examined, but
not nearly all. Court adjourned until
Monday morning. Monday the entire
day was spent hearing evidence in the
case. Thirty or more witnesses in
all were put on the stand. Monday
night found all the evidence in hand
and it only remained for the lawyers
to review the evidence and for the
judge to charge the jury before the
jury would be allowed to take the
case for a decision. Monday after
noon, one of the jurors, Mr. Aurelius
Jones, showed signs of mental de
rangement, but not until Tuesday
morning was anything done about it.
Tuesday morning Dr. Thel ^fooks, the
county health officer, was called, who
stated that Mr. Jones’ mind was men
tally incompetent to participate in
the deliberations of a jury. Whether
his condition is temporary or not re
mains to be seen. It appears from
those who know Mr. Jones, that he
became worried, during his confine
ment with the jury a period of five
days, over the whereabouts of his lit
tle son. His wife died several years
ago leaving a small boy. The father
has had entire charge of the child
since then, the two living together
alone. The devotion between the two
has caused comment from time to
time, they never being separated un
less by necessity. The enforced ab
sence of Mr. Jones from home and
from his boy, from the trend of h’s
wondering remarks, in all probability
preyed on his mind to the extent that
he became unbalanced.
DISCUSS CREAMERY
FOR SMITHFIELD
N. G. Bartlett, Secretary of Eastern
Chamber of Commerce Confers
With Business Men of City
Mr. N. G. Bartlette, secretary of
the Eastern Chamber of Commerce
with headquarters now at Kinston
was in the city Wednesday and con
ferred with a number of business men
relative to the establishment of a
creamery in this city. The real ob
ject of his visit at this time was to
arrange for representatives of this
city to join a party of men from
Eastern North Carolina who propose
going on a special c&r to Selma, Ala
bama, to investigate first hand the
operations of a creamery. This sec
tion in Alabama has turned its at
tention to milk products since the
advent of the boll weevil and has
made a success of it.
The establishment of a creamery
in this city has been discussed and
very likely some one from Smithfiell
will join the party going to Aalbama.
Furthermore, it has been decided to
call a meeting of any citizens in
Johnston County interested in the
establishment of a creamery to to
held Saturday, Sept. 1, at the couit
house to further discuss the matter.
Mr. Bartlett will be present at th's
meeting and explain how to go about
getting a creamery started.