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VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBR 11, 1923
NUMBER 73
YOUNG MAN KILLED
NEAR HERE SUNDAY
Mr. Norfleet Nicholson Fat
ally Injured While Learn
ing to Drive Motorcycle
Sunday morning about 10:30 o'clock
a tragic accident occurred about a
mile and a quarter from here on the
Goldsboro road when Mr. Norfleet
Nicholson of Littleton, who was learn
ing to ride a motorcycle, was thrown
from the machine and fatally injured.
He had never ridden a motorcycle be
fore and he was followed by the own
er and a friend in a car to see how
he succeeded in driving . It is said
by those who witnessed the accident
that he was driving at the rate of
thirty-five miles an hour when ap
parently he decided to stop. Apply
ing the brakes, the rear wheel skid
ded about 100 yards and finally turn
ed over, falling upon the young man
and dragging him several feet. He
received deep bruises about his head
and was rendered unconscious.
The accident occurred near the
home of Mr. B. R. Hamilton, who, as
sisted by Mr. George Williamson,
took Mr. Nicholson to his porch, and
Dr. L. D. Warton was called to
render medical aid . In about an hour
he was brought to the hospital here
wrhere it was found that he was fa
tally injured. He died about 5t30
Sunday afternoon without having re
gained consciousness.
Mr. Nicholson was eighteen years
old. He -was employed by the state
highway commission, and has been
in this city for the past two weeks.
He is a son of Rev. and Mrs. W.
E. Nicholson, of Littleton, who arriv
ed soon after he died. His father is
pastor of the Methodist church of
Littleton. The body was taken to
Littleton yesterday morning for
burial.
The family has friends here who
extend sympathy in this hour of be
reavement.
C'OOLIDGE’S FATHER
TALKS OF HIS SON
Shortly after the election follow
ing the Boston police strike, when
Calvin Coolidge was re-elected Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, I interview
t d him in the State House on Beacon
Foil. Among other questions, I ask
ed:
“What was the most formative in
fluence in your life?”
“I never considered the matter ”
About an hour after the interview
wes over a telephone call came for
me \at the hotel: "The Governor
wants to see you.”
When I was again ushered into his
office, he said
“I’ve been thinking of that ques
tion that you asked.”
“Just which question wTas that,
Governor?”
“What was the most formative in
fluence in my life?”
“Yes," said I, producing pencil and
note paper.
“My father”
That was all, no elaboration, just
those two w'ords.—McAdam, in New'
York Times.
Poverty
Who walks beside a rosebud
And does not sense its bloom,
Its lovely form and color,
Its delicate perfume;
Who walks beneath the heavens
And does not see the sky,
The sunrise and the sunset,
The tints that glow and die;
Who treads a rural pathway,
And never hears a bird,
Nor notes the trembling grasses
A passing breeze has stirred;
Who dwells among his fellows,
And sees them pass his door,
Nor even hears their heartbeats
Is pitifully poor.
—Kind Words.
Sun In Eclipse
The eclipse of the sun which was
total in California .and along the
western coast was partically visible
hr re yesterday afternoon from fou"
to five o’clock. Apparently about
one-third of the sun was darkened. It
has been several years since an
eclipse of the sun was visible here.
FALL ACTIVITIES OF
THE KIWANIS CLUB
Hotel, Creamery and Hatch
ery Are Some of the En
terprises on Foot
The first indoor Kiwanian banquet
of the fall season held at the Wo
man’s club room Thursday evening
was marked by the discussion of a
number of enterprises of vital im
portance to the business life of this
community.
The hotel proposition, which had
somewhat faded from public thought
since the carrying of the election
sometime ago, was again revived and
a committee appointed to proceed
with the undertaking. According to
the plan which has been adopted,
fifty thousand dollars must be sub
scribed before the bonds voted can
be issued and sold to build a hotel.
The Kiwanis club named the follow
ing men on the committee to raise
this stock: Messrs. R. C. Gillett, N.
B. Grantham, and J. H. Abell. We
understand that proffers of two sub
scriptions of $25,000, and $15,000 have
been made, but whether these sub
scriptions will be accepted is not
known.
The movement for a creamery to
be located here, which has been under
consideration for some time, was dis
cussed and a committee appointed to
help the committee already appoint
ed in soliciting cows which will sup
ply milk for the creamery. Messrs.
T. C. Young, W. L. Fuller and H. C.
Woodall form this committee
It will be recalled that Governor
Morrison in his address at Holt Lake
in the spring promised to do what he
could toward establishing a fish
hatchery at Holt Lake. It has de
veloped, according to information giv
en us, that the State Fisheries Com
mission is willing to place a hatch
ery at the lake, which we believe
will be the only inland hatchery in
eastern North Caroina, provided five
acres of land be devoted to the state
for this purpose. Kiwanians T. C.
Young, D. H. Creech and L. G. Stev
ens were appointed as a committee
to raise funds for this enterprise.
A number of tobacco buyers on the
local market were guests of the Ki
wanians Thursday evening, and in
brief talks, most encouraging reports
of the market here were made.
Before the banquet was concluded
plans were made to entertain the
teachers of the graded school at an
early date. It has been the custom
for the Woman’s club to entertain
the teachers each fall, but this year
the Woman's Club and the Kiwanis
club will entertain jointly. A barbe
cue and picnic supper at Holt Lake
on the afternoon of Sept 20th is be
ing planned.
Altogether the Kiwanis meeting of
Thursday evening was full of interest
If the program of fall activities be
carried out things will soon be hum
ming in and around Smithfield
Don’t Neglect The Child
A mother writes to the Progressive
Farmer as follows:
“The greatest mistake of my life
and the one that cost me the great
est price was failing to see that our
little girl was regularly examined
and weighed by a physician. She
had a good appetite and ate heartily
and, while she was frail and thin, we
thought it was because her father
was frail and thin and she w'as like
him). We did not know she w'as suf
fering from malnutrition until she
was taken with a serious illness, and
we lost her.”
"When a child does not increase in
weight and in size there is some
physical defect and every parent owes
it to his child to have the defect re
moved if possible.
FARMERS BANK & TRUST
COMPANY GIVE TABLES
Through the generosity of the
Farmers Bank and Trust Company j
af this city, the Curb market will be
equipped with tables suitable to dis- j
play the produce brought to market
each Friday morning. Those who
patronize the market will appreciate
this court* 5 on jthe part of the
hank.
AN ALL DAY CLUB
MEETING OAK GROVE
Wayne County Agents As
sist Agents of Johnston
In Demonstration
Last Thursday was a red letter day
in the brief history of the Oak Grove
(Bentonville township) Home Dem
onstration Club. Organized a few
months ago with twenty-two mem
bers, Thursday brought fourteen new
members, when the club had an all
day picnic devoted to club work. Men,
women, boys and girls, fully a hun
dred enjoyed the program |of Hhe
day. Mrs. Kirby Rose is president of
the club but at the beginning she
turned things over to Miss Minnie
Lee Garrison, County Home Agent.
After the singing of a number of pa
triotic songs, Mr. Gaither, District
farm agent, talked on “Poultry As
sociations.” He emphasized the good
such associations are accomplishing
telling of their success in Robeson
and New Hanover Counties. By co
operative buying of flocks, equipment
etc. and by selling the products co
operatively, an association proves
of great help.
Following Mr. Gaithers’ talk, Miss
Janie Roberts, Home Demonstration
Agent of Wayne county, gave a cul
ling demonstration. Miss Roberts
showed how to tell which of the
flock were simply “boarding” and
which were paying for their keep
and more.
The morning program was follow
ed by a sumptuous picnic dinner en
joyed by all present.
In the afternoon, Mr. A. K. Rob
ertson, Wayne County Farm Agent,
and Mr. N. B. Stevens, Johnston Coun
ty Farm Agent gave demonstrations
to the farmers present in seed selec
tion and other phases of farm work
The women and girls saw Misses
Garrison and Roberts make a dress
form.
Another subject of importance
which was discussed at this meeting
was the Bentonville Community Fair
to be held in October.
The day combined business with
pleasure and was quite a success.
Hospital Notes
Mrs. Lena Talton of Selma was op
erated on Friday. Her condition is
very good at this time.
Henry B. Marrow and William
Pope Lyon, little boys of Mr. H. B.
Marrow and Mr. W. H. Lyon, re
spectively, underwent minor opera
tions Thursday morning. They have
both gone home, and are doing nice
ly.
Mr. Walter Myatt, who was injur
ed in an automobile accident ten days
ago, has been discharged from the
hospital. Although he is not yet well,
his condition is much improved
Mr. W. C. Massengill of Four Oaks,
who underwent an operation for
ruptured appendix and peritonitis,
three weeks ago, was discharged Sat
urday.
Mr. Chester West, of Benson, who
was operated on some weeks ago
was discharged Friday.
The condition of Mrs. Anna Stan
ley of Four Oaks, wrho underwent an
operation last week, is much improv
ed.
Miss Hooks Eentertains
Miss Arab Hooks charmingly en
tertained a number of the young peo
ple of this city Friday evening at
the home of her parents Dr. and Mrs.
Thel Hooks, in honor of the boys and
girls who go away to college this fall.
As soon as the guests arrived they
matched partners for a guessing con
test. Names of various lamous per
sons were pinned on the backs of
each guest and by conversation with
their partners, each was requested to
guess the person they were repre
senting. Other contests followed dur
ing the evening. Music on the piano
and saxaphone added to the pleasure
of the occasion.
Paryer-Service
The regular mid-week prayer ser
vice will be held in the Presbyterian,
church Wednesday at eight p. m. All
are cordially invited to be present.
SM1THFIFLD RAISES
MORE THAN QUOTA
Drive For Japanese Relief
Successful Here; Suffer
ing in Japan Appalling
a • citizens of this city have re
sponded generously to the call of the
American Red Cross for funds to al
ienate the suffering of t' > ttricken
Jap; usc people. The quota for this
town was $200.00, but much more
than this amount was raised Sunday
by the various churches of the town,
the Methodist leading with a contri
bution $244.50. The total amount
raised was $323.50.
More than two-thirds of the $5,
000,000 asked of the American people
has bun raised. Donations are still
pouring into headquarters in Wash
ington and supplies, are being rushd
to Japan. On account of the appal
ling human suffering it may be
necess'.;y to continue the relief work
for several weeks to come.
John Barton Payne, National
chairman of the Red Cross and Socie
tal y of Commerce Hoover, who has
devoted the major portion of his time
to the earthquake relief fund actvi
ties since the first news of the cal
amity reached America, issued a joint
statement Sunday surveying the situ
ation to date and appealing urgently
for increased efforts on the part of
all local Red Cross chapters.
The statement makes a strong dis
tinction between the economic loss,
which Secretary Hoover has said
he believes were exaggrated in first
reports, and the appalling human
suffering that each new report en
lu ’ ces. The statement says in part:
“It is now possible, from the re
ports of the different government de
partments and the Red Cross, to
form a more comprehensive idea of
the extent of the Japanese disaster.
The area affected supports a popu
lation of approximately 10,000,000
persons. Between two and three
hundred thousand are estimated to
have been killed from three to five
hundred thousand injured. In the
Yokohama and Tokio district alone a
million and a half have been rend
ered homeless, and in addition, it is
estimated that one million more are
homeless in the outside districts.
Many millions more have been cut
off from their occupations.
“The supplies of food, clothing,
medicines, hospital service and ma
terial for construction of shelter have
been destroyed in the larger cen
ters. Supplies of milk for children
are no longer available. Great masses
of children have been orphaned. Hun
dreds of thousands of bread winners
have been lost.
“The problem, therefore, of Amer
ican charity is to provide with the
utmost expedition supplies of food,
medicines and clothing, and to ship
material for temporary shelter to pro |
vide solution for the destitution
which follows from such a great dis
aster and dislocation.
“The amount of the contribution
we can make, the supplies and sup
port we can mobilize within the next
ten days, are not only the mark of
American generosity, but have a di
rect quotient of human suffering
mitigated and human life saved.”
A Sumptuous Barbecue
Johnston County is famous for her
barbecue, and the sumptuous barbe
cue supper given by Messrs. Bernice
and Daniel Jones and Henry Steph
enson at the old Jones home place
near Wilson’s Mills Friday evening,
was quite up to the county’s repu
tation. By six-thirty o’clock the
grove was full of automobiles which
had brought from sixty to seventy
five guests to enjoy the occasion. A
table had been arranged, which was
piled up with the most appetizing!
barbecue, which Mr. Stephenson
knows how to make, fried chicken,
corn bread, light bread, cold slaw and
picklesi Lemonade wasi served in
abundance.
The supper was a veritable feast
and those present were profuse in
their expressions of enjoyment
Winter is coming. Keep only
those farm animals which pay their
way.
YOKOHAMA IS MADE
A VERITABLE HELL
Great Oil Tanks Explode;
Harbor is Turned Into a
Mass of Flames
Tokio, Sept. 9.—Twenty-three thou- i
sand persons were killed and injur
ed at Yokohama in the earthquake
disaster, according to an official an
nouncement.
Seventy-one percent of the city of
Tokio was destroyed.
In the Hakone district ten thou
sand are dead.
Public markets will be opened in ■
Tokio shortly, it was announced, and 1
distribution to refugees will tempo
rarily be carried on by the numerous
relief centers. Housing problems, it
was announced, will be solved by
temporary barracks. landmarks and
points along the Japanese coast have
entirely disappeared, and the shore
line of Kamakura Bay has been rais
ed, it was stated here today.
Shanghai, Sept. 9.—At the first
shock of the earthquake the groat oil
tanks on the hillside above the Yoko
suda cable station exploded and mil
lions of tons of oil swept down upon
the city, turning the harbor into a 1
mass of flames. The walls of the !
Negeshi pi'ison collapsed and 5,000
convicts were released.
The most desperate of these sought
to profit by looting and murdering
the disabled. Hastily formed bodies
of citizens, however, hunted out the t
miscreants and exacted a summary
death penalty The American hos- |
pital is reported to have been hurled
from the bluff to the cemetery below
tearing open the earth and exhuming
the bodies of many of those interred
there.
The stories of the earthquake as
narrated by eye-witnesses depict
scenes rivalling in horror the pop
ular representations of the Buddhist
hell. Business men were about to
leave their offices in Yokohama at
the close of Saturday morning’s
work, when without warning and
with a tremendous roar, the ground
heaved up four or five feet and then
dropped back again, houses on the
bluff were precipitated headlong into
the city. The ground rocked, heaved
and swayed like the waves of the
sea. Fugitives fleeing from the fall
ing buildings found their way block
ed by huge gaing holes some of them
large enough to admit a horse and
wagon.
Peril was added by the rising water
from the water mains which burst
everywhere; this, with fire blocked
all exits from the city. Hundreds
sought to escape from a fiery death •
by rushing toward the Moto Maehi
canal, w’hile some, who endeavored to i
cross on wooden lighters, were over- j
taken by blazing oil, which flowed i
from the exploded tanks, and met j
horrible death. Still others, panic j
stricken, flung themselves into the I
water and met an equally dreadful
fate. The canal was soon choked with j
floating bodies.
People leaped into the sea in their
frenzy to escape the deluge of hot
cinders from the blazing ruins.
INQUEST HELD OVER
32,564 BODIES IN TOKIO
Tokio, via. Osaka, Ahahi, Sept. 7—
The Tokio police have announced that
up to Thursday morning the coroner
had directed inquests over 32,564
corpses in the Honjo military cloth
ing warehouse and yards alone.
It has been learned that many refu
gees riding on the roofs of trains
were knocked off and killed in the
Usui Tunnel near Karuizawa.
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE
FELT IN WASHINGTON
Washington, Sept. 9.—An earth
quake of moderate intensity was rec
orded between 5:23 and 6:40 p. m.
today, on the seismograph at George
town University Father Tondorf said
it was very difficult from the record
to determine the distance of the dis
turbance, but he estimated it center
ed 2,300 or 2,400 miles from Wash
ington. It had two periods of maxi
mum intensity, at 6 and at 6:15
o'clock.
THE COTTON COOPS
ADVANCE $60 BALE
Ail Short Staple Cotton Of
Last Season Sold; Final
Settlement Soon
Raleigh, Sept 8.—Our Board of Di
rectors held its regular meeting yes
terday. Realizing the special need
of money by cotton growers at this
season of the year, the Board au
thorized the management to make a
first advance of $60 per hale, instead
of $50.00 as announced heretofore.
This will take effect immediately and
a flat advance of $00.00 per bale will
be paid for all bales we:ghing 400
pounds or over. An advance of 12
cents per pound will be made on all
bales weighing less than 400 pounds.
Those members who had delivered
cotton prior to this announcement and
have received only $50.00 per bale,
will be mailed checks covering this
increase in first advance probably
within the next ten days.
This increase in first advance has
been made possible by the excellent
arrangements made by Secretary
Treasurer, A. E. Bing, for financing
the 1923 crop.
Mr. Wilbert Ward, Assistant vice
president of the National City Bank
of New York City, met with the Di
rectors and discussed with them the
arrangements recently made with
bis institution—the largest bank in
the United States—by Secretary
Treasurer, A. E. Bing, and Mr. John
H. Boushall, of the Citizens Bank
of Raleigh, for a line of credit of
$6,000,000.
The arrangements which had been
made were approved by the Direc
tors which action assures ample
funds for making the advance pay
ment to the Association members on
all cotton which they will deliver the
season now beginning.
This amount is in addition to the
$2,000,000 revolving fund which the
Secretary-Treasurer has arranged for
with the North Carolina Banks.
This was Mr. Ward’s first visit
to the Old North State and he ap
peared to be favorably impressed.
He had not previously had the op
portunity of seeing the inside work
ings of a Cotton Growers’ Coopera
tive Association and he appeared to
be glad to render material assist
ance toward making the movement a
success.
All short staple cotton for the sea
son 1922-1923 has been sold and the
final audit of the accounts is be
ing made preparatory to making final
settlement ,with members . The
Auditors reported to the Directors to
day that they are bending every ef
fort to get a final distribution to the
members but it will be several days
yet before checks for the final settle
ment can be mailed.
RED CROSS TO RAISE
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
officia s
The AneC an Red Cross
have decided to begin a tempaign
immediately for the purpose of rais
five million dollars for Japanese
iv’lcf It is believed tout ’he amount
wi'l he quickly subscrib -!. but to ere
is pressing need fo” cash c oitrihu
ii*Ois, the distance to the earthquake
area precluding the collection and
i. • T) tnl there of clo hing and ether
sut plies.
LEGACY TO TRINITY AND
M. E. ORPHANAGE
Ar.gier B. Duke, millionaire tobac
co merchant, who was drowned La
bor Day at Greenwich, Conn., left in
his will bequests to Trinity College,.
Durham, and to the Methodist Or
phanage at Raleigh. He left $10,000
to the orphanage and $250,000 to
Trinity College. Conservative esti
mates of his estate places the value
near $5,000,000.
Rev. Mr. M oods to Speak on China
By request Rev. J. R. Woods will
deliver an address on China in the
high school auditorium next Friday
evening at eight o’clock. No admit
tance fee will be charged and no of
fering will be taken. All are welcome
to hear Mr. Woods tell of what ho
has seen and experienced in China.