VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 28,1923
NUMBER 69
DR. HERMAN HORNE
WILL SPEAK HERE
Fitting That A Son of Johns
ton Speak At County
Thankseivincr Service
The final touches were yesterday
put on the programme for the
Thanksgiving Service to be held here
on Monday, September 3rd, 1923, by
the Committee which met yesterday
afternoon in Judge Brooks’ office.
The committee was exceedingly for
tunate in securing Dr. Herman H.
Horne, of New York and son of the
late Mr. Hardy H. Horne of Clayton,
to make the principal address. Dr.
Horne happened to be in the Coun
ty having come to Clayton to see his
father, who died last week. Dr. Horne
is another Johnston County “boy”
who has made good in a foreign
state. He is a highly polished and
pleasing speaker, and there is a great
treat in store for the throng of North
Carolinians who happen to the good
fortune to be present next Monday.
The full programme is as follows:
Thanksgiving Service At Smithfield
Monday, September 3rd, 1923
11 o’clock, A. M.
F. H. Brooks, Chairman, Mrs. Chas.
G. Gulley Chairman Music Commit
tee.
Song by the audience: “Come Thou
Almighty King” (No. 302 Victory
Songs).
Invocation by Rev. N. H. Shepherd,
Kenly, N. C.
Awakening Chorus by special choir.
Scripture by Rev. J. A. Ruessell,
Four Oaks.
Prayer by Rev. D. H. Tuttle.
“Holy! Holy! Holy!” sung by
special choir.
Prayer by Rev. A. T. Lassite”,
Benson.
Escort for speaker: Hon. Chas. M.
Wilson, Rev. Neil Mclnnis, Dr. J. J.
Young.
Introduction by speaker—by George
D- Vick, of Selma.
Address: Dr. Herman H. Horne of
New York and Clayton.
“All Hail, Immanuel!’’ sung by
special choir.
At this point the presentation and
acceptance of the beautiful fount
rii presented to the people of the
c i" .fy by Hon. William Marsh Sand
ers will be made.
Song by audience: “All hail the
power of Jesus Name” during which
a free-will offering will be taken for
the poor of the County, to be dis
tributed through the County Wel
fare Agent, Mr. H. V. Rose.
Doxology.
Benediction by Rev. Jesse Barnes,
Smithfield.
William Wei Ions Gets License
Among the eighty-two successful
applicants for license to practice law
in North Carolina who took the Su
preme Court examination Monday,
was Mr. William B. Wellons, of this
city. Mr. Wellons is a son of Mr.
James A. Wellons, who has practiced
law here for a number of years. He
graduated at Turlington Graded
school and later went to the Univer
sity of North Carolina. He took his
law course at Wake Forest College.
Mr. Wellons will locate here.
Revival At Pisgah
Revival services are being conduct
ed at Pisgah Baptist church this
week, Rev. J. W. Suttle of Shelby be
ing the preacher. The day service is
held at eleven o’clock and the ni&ht
at tight.
Seeks Medical Advice
First Time in 50 Years
BET McClean better known
perhaps as “Black Bet,” a
sixty year old negro woman of
this city went to the doctor last
week for the first time in forty
years.. Affiieted with boils she
was forced after half a century
to seek medical advice. “Black
Bet” was for a long number of
years in service with Mrs. Dal
Smith who recently moved to
this city from her farm near
town. Aunt Bet is now with
Mrs. B. R. Jones of this city,
where she is employed as cook.
CO-OPS VICTORIOUS
pm COUNTY TRIAL
Notice of Appeal To Su
preme Court Is Given by
Pittman’s Counsel
Greenville, Aug. 25.—The Tobacco
Growers’ Co-operative Association
today won a sweeping and somewhat
unexpected victory when a Pitt coun
ty jury declared that Henry G. Pitt
man, of Falkland, was not induced
t/> sign his contract by fraud. Judge
J. Ufoyd Horton ^hereupon signed
a judgment holding that Pittman is
bound by his contract and the plain
I tiff gave notice of appeal to the Su
preme Court, where the case will
come up next February.
There are 110 similar suits pend
ing in this county and in 108 of them
the association has already secured
restraining orders from Judge T. II.
i Calvert forbidding the plaintiffs from
| delivering their 1923 crop outside of
j the association. However, no appli
j cation for such an order was made
! in the case of Pittman and his part
| ner, S. M. Crisp, and Judge Horton
j tonight signed orders permitting both
I men to give bond to protect the as
! soc’ation for damages in the event
I of ultimate victory and to sell their
19.'° crops outside of the association
; Pittman's bond pending his appeal
\vas fixed at $1,500, while Crisp, who
has a larger crop, was required to
| give a bond of $2,000 pending trial
of his case.
It is thought here that the moral
! effect of this week’s trial will be
disconcerting upon the other mem
bers who have suits, but Judge Hor
ton stated at the hearing tonight that
! he was convinced by a talk with ju
! rors that the jury did not release
’ the legal effect of their verdict and
! intimated that he would set the
: whole verdict aside and order a new
trial unless the bond was agreed to,
no injunction having been sought by
the association. Attorneys 101 tru.
association then consented to the
judgment, which up to that time had
been opposed by Laurence L. Levy,
of San Francisco.
The jury surprised by its verdict
as to fraud, but an even greater sur
prise was sprung in the answer to
the other, the triers of fact holding
that under the evidence the plain
tiff had proved that the association
did not secure the necessary sign up
of 50 per cent of the 1920 crop.
The jury’s verdict looked like a
dogfall, but Judge Horton set aside
the verdict as to the sign-up issue
and made the victory for the Co-ops
complete. Judge Horton denied the
motion of James H. Pou to set aside
the verdict as against the greater
weight of the evidence and then im
mediately granted a motion to set
aside the verdict as a matter of
law, holding that the verdict in the
other issue made Pittman a member
of the association and bound him to
the association of the contract which
provided that the decision of the or
ganization committee should be final
and conclusive as to the sign-up.
The rulings of the judge were ex
tremely puzzling and confusing tj
the large crowd which had remained
throughout the week of the trial and
•which was still there when the jury
returned at six o’clock after two
hours of deliberation. However, there
was no opposition from the opposing
lawyers, as Judge Horton had at first
intimated that he would not submit
the issue at all and did so only on the
distinct understanding that he would
take the course he did in the event
of a split verdict.—R. E. Williamson,
in News and Observer.
PRAYER MEETING AT
BAPTIST CHURCH
Regular prayer-meeting will be
held at 8 o’clock. Rev. J. R. Woods,
night at 8o’cloek. Rev. J. L. Woods,
pastor of the Presbyterian church,
has kindly consented to conduct- the
service. All Baptists, as well as the
people of the town generally, are
urgently invited to attend this ser
vice. Mr. Woods is an attractive
speaker and talks on humanely in
teresting subjects at these services.
Dr. C. V. Tyner, Messrs G. A. Mar
tin, H. P- Johnson and L. G. Stevens
attended a ball game in Raleigh yes
terday afternoon.
JOHNSTON COUNTY
MAN MAKES GOOD
i
Prof. Samuel B. Lee Says
“No Honorable Work
Is Undignified.”
Chapel Hill, Aug. 22.—Samuel B.
Lee, formerly of Four Oaks, a uni
versity graduate of the ealss of ’20,
and for the last two years professor
of geology at Iowa State college, is
: earning money this summer to help
him along toward a doctor’s degree
by serving food in Swain ,Hall the
university’s dining palace, now pa
tronized by 300 summer school stu
dents most of them women.
Being a waiter has a peculiar
charm for Professor Lee, or Mr. Lee,
"s he prefers to be called, and when
some of his friends suggested it
might be beneath his dignity he only
laughed and said: “No honorable
work is undignified.”
As a student in the university,
where he received his M. A. degree
in 1921, Mr. Lee not only worked his
way through college while starring
in Prof. Collier Cobb's geology but
saved $2,000 of his earnings. The war
interrupted his college course and he
went to France as a mess sergeant.
There he saved most of his pay en
velope and sent it home to his mother
Mrs. W. F. Lee.
Last spring he decided to go to
Cornell this fall to work for a doc
tor’s (iegree. He came to the second
session of the Summer school to do
graduate work. There was no urgent
need to earn money, for out in Iowa
he had continued his habit of thrift
begun here, but he felt the old urge
to get into somebody’s kitchen. Swain
Hall is where he made his living as
a student and to Swain Hall as a col
I lege professor who “would rather
wait on a table than spend the sum
mer teaching" he has returned.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF STATE MEET
Move To Amend N. C. Stop Law Was
Discussed; School Law Also
Called Forth A Resolution
Asheville, Aug. 24.—Move against
the North Carolina Stop Law, re
quiring automobiles to come to a
dead stop at railway crossings, was
made at the closing session of the
annual meeting of the State Asso
ciation of County Commissioners
yesterday when a resolution was
adopted recommending that the leg
islative committee take steps to have
the General Assembly amend the
law to eliminate stopping at cross
ings, where there are no obstruction
or factory or stations switches.
F. P. Spruill, Nash county, was
elected president; E. L. Fronnerger,
Gaston county, vice-president, and
J. L. Skinner, Warren county, sec
retary-treasurer.
Governor Cameron Morrison spoke
in the morning on the theme of im
proved relations between county
and State governments. He sa’.d, in
the course of his talk, that if the
charges of a deficit in the county
are there, it will also mean a defic
it in the county revenue. W. M. Pey
ton, Asheville, former highway en
gineer for the Ninth N. C- District,
addressed the commissioners on
roads and maintenance.
Resolution was also adopted ask
ing the legislative committee to take
some steps to relieve the counties
from the school law passed by the
last session of the General Assem
bly, providing that any deficit in
curred by the county school board
must be paid by the county commis
sioners.
At least 75 of the 100 commission
ers here yesterday, representing
about 50 counties, are expected to
make the sight-seeing trip to Fry
ing Pan Gap, near Mount Pisgah,
w'here lunch will be served and Mrs.
Edith Vanderbilt is scheduled to de
liver an address.
Tragedy Recipe
Take one reckless, natural-born
fool; two or three big drinks of bad
liquor; a fast, high-powered motor
car.
Soak the fool in the liquor, place in
the car and let him go. After due
time, remove from wreckage, place m
black satin-lined box and garnish
with flowers.—Walton, Ga., Newrs.
NEW SCHOOL BLOWN
UP BY DYNAMITE
I Corinth - Holders District
Suffers Loss of $40,000
Brick Building
Wendell, Aug. 27.—The inner walls
of the forty thousand dollar school
building at Corinth, five miles south
of this city, are in a heap of debris
and the outer walls are disjointed and
wrecked, caused from three explo
sions of dynamite Sunday morning
at one o‘clock by some unknown party
Messrs. Davie Price and Lee Hocutt
were curing tobacco at a tobacco barn
one hundred yards from the school
building when the explosion wTent off.
They say they saw a person enter
the building and in a few minutes
come out. A moment later the ex
plosion went off and the clash of
brick walls came tumbling down. The
damage to the building was variously
estimated by the several thousand
spectators that witnessed the ruins
but a fair estimation would be at
least ten thousand dollars.
The people of that community were
not very much surprised at the ex
plosion of the building as many
threatening remarks had been made
that the building would never be
completed. Much animosity has ex
isted for some time over a controv
ersy between the patrons of Hold
ers school district, in O’Neal’s town
ship and the patrons of Corinth’
school district in Wilders township
as to the proper location of the new
school building. An election was
held in these twTo townships last
spring to consolidate Holders school
and Corinth, and twelve thousand five
hundred dollar bond issue was pass
ed. Both Holders and Corinth want
ed the school and after much con
sultation by the Johnston County
board of education, was decided to
I place it in tne upper eage oi wiiueis.
i township with the expectation of
getting a number of smaller schools
to come in the district. This location
did not suit the Holders people at
all and threats immediately were
rumored that the new building would
never do the Corinth people any good
The contractor got wise to these
* hrfats and used a good head by hav
ing the building insured until the job
was finished. The last brick was
laid late Saturday afternoon and the
explosion took place that night.
Members of the local school board
and the county board of education
were present during the day Sunday
and were asked as to what disposi
tion they would attempt. They were
baited between two opinions. First,
they were not sure that the walls
could be safely rebuilt and even if
they could the next question would
be, wouldn’t they be blown up again ?
Immediately after the wreck Coun
ty Supt. H. B. Marrow was notified
and early Sunday morning blood
hounds were put on the trail, but
a trace was of no avail and there yet
remains no clue or idea as to the
guilty person or persons.
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—Bloodhounds,
men-hounds and all other smelleis
could get rio track today of the dyna
miters who early this morning blew
up a $35,000 consolidated school
building in Johnston county about
four miles from the Wendell neigh
borhood.
The explosives were three charges
of dynamite placed in three sections
of the new building which had gone
almost high enough for the roow and
was being sent up for the the fall
term if possible. The loss now is es
timated from $12,000 to $15,000 in ad
dition to the delay.
The diabolism expi-essing itself in
this wTork was not wholly unexpected
The school community had come to
gether with little difficulty on the
consolidation scheme, but when the
house wTas palced on a certain site
the troubles began. Threats of blow
ing it up had come to Superintend- i
ent H. B. Marrow', but nobody could
identify the makers. The district had
voted $12,500 for bonds and the re- ;
mainder had been raised through
state funds. The site chosen seemed
to have suited the larger majority j
and notwithstanding the bad temper
shown, the authorities hardly expect- :
ed the criminals to carry out their
resolves.
Bloodhounds taken to the school
building this morning followed tracks
MR. HARDEE HORNE
PASSES SUDDENLY
Funeral of Clayton Citizen
Held Saturday; Was a
Confederate Veteran
Just after we had gone to press
Friday, news reached us of the death
of Mr. Hardee Horne of Clayton,
which occurred at his home rather
suddenly Thursday afternoon about
5:30 o’clock. Mr. Horne had been in
bad health for two or three years. He
was not in bed, however, and had
been walking around the tennis court
Thursday afternoon. Soon after he
returned to the house, he passed
away. He is survived by his wife and
one son, Dr. Herman K. Horne, of
New York. Dr. Horne was at home
when his father died having been
there for about ten days.
Mr. Horne was 77 years old, and
hacl spent all of his life in Clayton.
He was a brother of the late Ashley
Horne.
Mr. Horne is the last survivor of
six brothers who entered the Con
federate Army. His war record
briefly told, is as fellows: Entered
the 12th Batallion Calvary in 1863,
remaining several months. Assist
ed in the capture of Plymouth, N.
C. Colonel Daring, the commander
of this batallion, was promoted to
brigadier general, after which Mr.
Horne joined the Fourth N. C. Cav
alry, under Colonel Fcrrebee, Fitz
hugh Lee’s division, belonging to
General R. E. Lee’s army. Mr.
Horne had three horses killed un
der him, received a minnie ball
through his jacket, and was on the
wrong side of the river to be in the
surrender.
Since the war he has successfully
followed farming as a chosen occu
pation.
The funeral was held Saturday aft
ernoon at the Clayton Baptist church
of which he was a member. Rev. C.
A. Jenkins conducted the service. In
terment was made in the Horne ceme
tery in the presence of a large con
course of relatives and friends.
WOULD BORROW N. C’S.
COLORED HEALTH WORKER
Health work among the (colored
people of North Carolina has attract
ed outside attention for a number of
years. Particularly noteworthy has
been the progress in recent years
made by negroes themselves in the
fight against tuberculosis. The work
of Mrs. Florence C. Williams, who
has labored among the people of her
race in North Carolina for three
years u)ider the extens(on depart
ment of the State Sanatorium, is a
single feature that has become well
known.
Recently, Dr. W. T. Henshaw,
State Health Officer of West Virgin
ia, made the request of Dr. L. B.
McBrayer, Superintendent of the
State Sanatorium, for the loan of
Florence Williams for one year, that
she might help organize and set to
work along health lines the colored
people of that State, as she had been
able to do in this State.
For the past year and during the
summer months, Florence Williams
has been a student at Teacher’s Col
lege, Columbia University. At a
public meeting of the summer ses
sion, where rural achievement was
the subject discussed, Florence Wil
liams told of the work that was be
ing done' in this State by the color
ed people themselves for the im
provement of health conditions.
August 24, 1923.
Plow up the cotton stalks this fall
as soon as possible after the crop is
picked. This will send the boll weevil
into winter quarters early and hun
gry- __
with great difficulty. The dynamite
tore up things so badly that shoe
prints were not visible for some dis
tance away from the house. The
authorities kept the people back to
give the dogs a chance, but the
hounds could not make a start. The
officers went to work on the threats
heard, but there was a very vague
thing at best. The insurance depart
ment which supervises the construc
tion of the State’s buildings will
probably help in the salvage and the
new start.—Greensboro News.
SOUTHERN TRAIN
KILLS HARRY BARNES
Automobile Struck By Train
at Powhatan Crossing;
Observed Stop Law
That the North Carolina Stop Law
j is not always effective even when
1 observed, was proven yesterday when
: the train from Raleigh to Goldsboro
due in Wilson’s Mills about twelve
! o’clock struck the automobile driv
en by Mr. Harry Barnes completely
demolishing it and killing instantly
Mi. Barnes.
According to witnesses to the
tragedy, Mr. Barnes who was driving
a Studebaker stopped when he reach
ed the crossing and not seeing any
train drove on the track. At that
moment he evidently saw the train
coming through the cut, and in his
excitement stalled on the track. He
started his machine but it stalled the
second time. He then trie-1 to jump
out but his clothes caught in the
j steering wheel and he was hit by
j the on coming train. Mr. Dick Tal
ley. one of the section gang at work
close by, made an effort to go to his
| assistance, but was too late. A piece
of the automobile struck him injur
ing him though not seriously.
Mr. Barnes, who was about fifty
years of age, leaves a wife. He was
a good farmer of the Powhatan sec
tion, owning his ow-n farm. He was
a member of the Freewill Baptist
church and was helping to build a
new church in that community. His
tragic death has cast a gloom over
that neighborhood.
BILLIONS OF BOTTLES STOP
THIRST FOR SOFT DRINKS
Cvc-y Year Thirsty Americans
Empty 400.000.0i)2 Ib.L'cs Of
Soft Drinks
History omits the description of
many of the interesting things about
MChusaleh, among them his liquid
canaeity. But, says the Department
j of Agriculture, if he had been given
the task of disposing of all the “pop”
consumed in this country 'ast jeu*,
he would have had to start at birth
and down eight bottles every minute
of his 969-year span of life
Each year, the department’s sta
tist Hans declare, thirsty America
empties four billion bottles of soft
drinke, exclusive of such beverages
as near beers made of cereals. The
sparkling flood comes from ten thou
sand bottling establishments and
pours a<'.'\ ss 110,000 counters.
The enormous thirs tquer.'hing i -
dustry is a relatively new .level-o
n «nt, a comn ercializing m the dis
coveries of the chemist, an.I one that
necessitates v atchful care by the de
pnrlncnt chemists to prevent fi ac
tive of the pure food and drug laws.
The ’“pop” of ioday, a department ’ r.
' per snjs, is ,v.>l the same as that clear
liqui 3 formerly sold only at ball
I gyrus, fairs and carnivals, reminis
i cent of over-ripe bananas, and with
1 iitt'.e delectation for the palate. Had
| rot great changes occurred in the
industry it is hardly possible tbr+ i*
coul 1 have reached its present pro
I por’jcns.
Fruit juices are sometimes found in
the beverages, it is said, but the
enrsl has supplied many substi
..utts which have a marvelous simu
lation of nature’s flavors and per
fumes.
While Wifey Sleeps
Hubby Steals Teeth
THERE is no telling what may
be the bone of contention
when folks have a disposition to
quarrel. A set of false teeth has
landed Rumley Johnson, colored,
of this city in the courts, he hav
ing stolen them from his wife
while she was asleep. Johnson
was mad when his spouse got a
set of false teeth and for sever
al weeks they had been fussing.
Yesterday after she found what
had become of her teeth, his
wife issued papers to recover
them. Magistrate D- T. Lunce
ford tried the case and the de
fendant was bound over to Rec
order’s Court this morning.