VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1923
NUMBER 83
SELMA FAIR WAS A
SPLENDID SUCCESS
A. J. Maxwell and Mrs. Palmer
Jerman Deliver Addresses
—Exhibits Fine
The fourth community fair to be
held in Johnston this fall was staged
at Selma last Friday and surpassed
even the expectations of the most
sanguine. This, Selma’s first attempt
has placed a high standard for fu
ture fairs in every detail including
the exhibits in each department, the
amusements provided, the parade, the
speaking and the crowd.
The parade which started things
off, formed at nine thirty o'clock and
wound through the principal streets
and finally disbanding in the center
of the business district which had
been roped off for the speaking.
About a dozen floats, followed by the
school marching by grades, the mar
shalls—two clowns on horseback and
a brass band contsituted the parade.
The float winning the first prize was
arranged by the school and was quite
expressive of the change which is
taking place in the school system of
Johnston County. A little red school
house wdth the tdacher and pupils
representing an old time school were
placed on a truck. At the top of the
builcjing was the inscription “The
Little Red School-house” At the
bottom were the words: “Them days
are gone forever,” and following close
behind was one of the new school
trucks now being used in the county
The truck taking the second prize
was put on by the Pine Level Oil
Mill.
When the parade ended, A. J. Max
well, of the Corporation Commis
sion, was introduced by C. P. Harper.
Mr. Maxwell, speaking from a beauti
fully decorated truck, held the at
tention of a large ci’owd throughout
his brief speech. Community pride,
and its importance even in the affairs
of State and nation, was the theme
of his talk. At the conclusion, he
spoke of the new union station which
is to be the reward of perseverence on
the part of Selma people, stating that
the contract had been let, the ma
terial ordered and that construction
would soon begin. Following Mr.
Maxwell, Mr Robt, A. Wellons, secre
tary of the Johnston County Fair
made a few remarks, and also Mr.
John A. Mitchiner.
After the speaking various athletic
stunts including a potato race, wheel
barrow race etc. amused the crowd
while the finishing touches were be
ing put to the exhibits.
A visit to the municipal building
which had been turned over for the
occasion, revealed the real interest,
v.i„ch had brought the people of Sel
ma and surrounding community to
gether. Practically every kind of
crop grown in Johnston County was
entered, and the quality was the sub
ject of frequent comment. In ad
dition to farm products were the
splendid display of fancy work, pan
try supplies, canned goods, jellies,
pickles and preserves, cut flowers and
ferns. The Junior division was quite
commendable, and the school exhibit
would be a credit to any school in
the State. About fifteen head of
fine dairy cattle were entered in the
live stock division, and several pens
of good pure bred poultry, hogs and
draft animals. Tom Abdalla exhibit
ed a fine pair of iron gray mules
weighing about 2f¥)0 pounds each
which attracted quite a bit of at
tention. They had been trained to
work together and if they were sepa
rated, would neigh and whinny until
they w?ere put back together.
A merry-go-round, eating stands,
several side shows and confetti help
ed to give the atmosphere which us
ually pervades a fair.
In the afternon, Mrs. Palmer Jer
man president, of the State Federa
tion of Women's clubs, made an ad
dress in the town hall to the women.
Her talk was along helpful and in
structive lines. She spoke of the
work men had done in a material
way for the progress of North Caro
lina calling special attention to good
roads, health work and education. She
then pictured what the women can
do and are doing in a spiritual way
for the advancement of the people of
our State. She stressed particularly
the public welfare work and mention
ed the various institutions which are
helping in this cause. “Every Coun
i
MR. BENTON PLEASANT
SEVERELY INJURED
News has reached here of the
serious injury of Mr. Benton Pleas
ant, of Pleasant Grove, which oc
curred last Thursday. Mr. Pleasant,
who owns a store, was having a set
tlement with Martin Fish, a white
man, when the latter became enraged
about some misunderstanding con
cerning the account and severely cut
Mr. Pleasant.
Medical aid was summoned and it
was found that the injuries were
serious. At last reports Mr Pleas
ant was not expected to live.
Fish was brought here to jail Fri
day to await trial. He is about fifty
years old.
REMOVES VATERMELON
SEED LODGED IN LUNG
Charlotte, Oet. 9.—A watermelon
seed swallowed by Herron Gay, elev
en months old, of Allen, N. C., a
week ago, and which had completely
shut off the functioning of the right
lung, was removed Tuesday morning
by Dr. C. N. Peeler, at the Char
lottee Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
hospital.
TRINITY ALUMNI MEET
A T S E L M A
On Tuesday evening, October 9th,
a meetingof the Trinity College
Alumni Association of Johnston
County was held in the Methodist
church at Selma. Mr. Richard E.
Thigpen, Alumni Secretary, who was
present, stated that the enrollment
at Trinity College has reached 1050
He also stated that the Alumni Gym
nasium would soon be ready for gen
eral use. In order that the building
may be turned over to the college
free of debt, it is necessary that all
pledges to the building fund be taken
care of.
Help These Old People
We have just learned of the mis
fortune that Mr. Sanders L. Lynch
of Bentonville Township had about
one week ago when late at night by
some unknown cause fire broke out
in the kitchen part of his home-house
and destroyed the house and all of
the household and kitchen furniture
except one bed, one trunk and maybe
two or three other minor articles. Mr.
Lynch’s loss was great, and the sad
part of it is that he and his wife are
not able to work much and are people
of small means. These old people will
appreciate any help from any ones
that feel that they can contribute
any amount to them. If it is not
convenient for you to see them you
may leave your contribution at The
Herald office in Smithfield.
We thank you in advance for any
and all contributions.
WOMAN EVANGELIST AT
LIVE OAK BAPTIST CHURCH
Mi's. Willis Lourel Olive, Woman
evangelist, from Alabama who has
been conducting a revival in Wilson,
whore the lame have been made to
walk, the blind to see and the deaf
to hear, is to be at Live Oak Baptist
church, Selma, Boute 1, Wednesday
night at 7:30 o’clock Bring the sick
and afflicted to be prayed for.
ty needs its public health nurse,
home demonstration agent, and pub
lic welfare officer,” she said, and
every woman must be a watch tower
to see that these things which lie
close to the hearts of woman are ac
complished Mrs. F. H. Brooks, presi
dent of the Sixth District of Federat
ed Clubs, presented Mrs. Jerman.
It was singularly gratifying to the
Selma people and all the club women .
present that the success of the fair
was due in a large measure to a wo
man—Mrs. L. D. Debnam, who was
president of the community fair. In
her modest way she disclaims the
credit and asserts that the success
was due to the splendid cooperation
of the whole community. And in
deed the spirit of cooperation was a
noticeable feature of the event.
The program for the day was com
pleted with a football game between
Cary high school and Selma, Selma
again carrying off the honors.
A Lyceum attraction sponsored by
the Woman’s club was given at the
opera house in the evening
REVIVAL MEETING
BEING HELD HERE
Rev. C. H. Matthews of Raleigli
Is Conducting Tent Meeting
—Mr. J. J. White, Singer
Evangelist C. H. Matthews, of Ra
leigh, who J.as conducted success
ful revivals in numbers of towns in
North Carolina, is now conducting
a meeting here. A large tent has
been erected on the vacant lot next
to the Observer building, and the
first service was held Sunday after
noon.
Mr. Matthews will be assisted by
business men who were converted in
his meetings in the various towns
where he has gone. Among those
who wil< make talks are: Engineer
A. R. Brothers, of Raleigh, Mr. Ed
die C. Ruffin, who runs a printing
establishment in Raleigh, Messrs.
Loomis Godwin and Joe Weathers.
REV. CHARLES H. MATTHEWS
of Raleigh, and Mr. Fish, a merchant
of Fuquay Springs.
Mr. J. J. White will have charge
of the singing during this meeting.
Mr. White is a good singer and an
experienced leader, having been in
this work for the past thirty years.
He is very anxious to have all those
who sing in the choirs of the dif
ferent churches here to assist in this
revival.
With the help of the good people
of this town and surrounding country,
it is believed that many people who
do r' go to church will be reached
with the Gospel at this time. Mr.
Matthews is especially anxious to
have the business men take an in
terest in this work. He has held re
vivals in Goldston, Sanford, Silver
City, Clayton, /and several other
towns where many converts have
been reported. Last spring Mr. Mat
thews held a meeting
thews held a successful meeting in
Selma.
The meeting here Will 'continue
several weeks, and the public is cor
dially invited to attend.
Vocal Union At Tec’s Chapel
The Lower Johnston Vocal Union
met with the church at Tee’s chapel
on Sunday, September 30th. At this
time a collection which amounted to
S17.88 was taken for the Easom Me
morial fund The following persons
form the committees from the va
rious choirs: Mrs. G. D. Phillips,
Corinth choir; Mr. S. C. Turnage,
Johnson’s Union; Mrs. Lillie Mitchell,
Velvington’s Grove; Mr. George
Strickland, Tee’s Chapel.
After the song Jesus Lover f
My Soul,” by all the choir, the twelfth
chapter of Romans was read for the
Scripture lesson. This was followed
by the welcome address by Rev. J.
K. Hartley. All the choirs then join
ed in singing “All Hail the Power of
Jesus’ Name,” after which each choir
^ang two songs each. Mr. J. A. Wel
lons, of Smithfield. made a very in
teresting address. Dinner was serv
ed on the grounds about one o’clock.
A large crowd was present to en
joy the day.
Narron-Davis
Mr. Dewey Narron, aged 21, and
Miss Hcttie Davis, aged 16, both of
O’Neal’s township, were married
here Saturday afternoon, Mr. D. T.
Lunceford, J. P., officiating.
MARKET REPORTS
ARE ENCOURAGING
Corn Highest in the Last Three
Years—Cotton Prices Also
Hold Their Own
New York, Oct. 14.—Considerable
encouragement was found in business
circles during the past week in the
continued firmness in the grain mar
kets.
Corn remained the center of in
terest, new high prices for the last
three years being realized despite
the fact that the Department of Ag
riculture predicted a crop of 3,021,
000,000 bushels. Such a large yield
and at prices considered remarkably
good, should, it was thought, improve
the position of the farmer consider
ably.
Wheat prices also held close to the
season's highs while the Department
of Agriculture announced that the
prices which farmers now are re
ceiving for their principal crops were
27 per cent above those of a year
ago.
Cotton prices also continued to hold
up well although additional curtail
ments were reported in certain of
the New England textile mills. Mills
in the south were stated, however,
to be operating at about 90 per cent
of capacity and the government con
sumption report which was publish
ed Saturday was rather better than
had been expected. This report
| showed 484,000 bales of lint were used
in September, which was a short
month, as far as working days are
concerned as compared with 492,000
bales in August which was a long
month.
Railroad car loadings reports,
meanwhile, showed that the extra
ordinary large distribution of goods
was being maintained. A new high
record was, in fact, set by the week
endftig September 29, some 1,097,000
cars being loaded with revenue
freight. Notwithstanding this per
formance the roads were able to re
port a surplus of 41,000 cars in good
repair as compared with an aggre
gate shortage of cars in certain parts
of the country which amounted to
15.000.
Signs of a further slight slacken
ing were apparent in the steel in
dustry, though buying during Octo
ber was reported to be somewhat
better than that during September.
The latter month’s decline in pro
duction was smaller than had been
anticipated and the Steel orporation
decline in unfilled orders, which
amounted to 379,000 tons, was less
than that which occurred during
August, and was considered moderate
in view of the fact that corporation
is still running at about 90 per cent
of capacity Nevertheless, pig iron
prices remained weak and .the steel
market yas thought to still incline
in the buyers’ favor.
Firmness in the foreign exchanges
was attributed to encouragement over
the French agreement with the Ruhr
industrialists and to greater optimism
over the possibility of a reparations
settlement. Little change was ap
parent in the money market condi
tions being described as relatively
; comfortable. Bonds displayed a
slightly better tone.—Associated
Press.
LARGEST EDITION OF
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times printed Sun
day the largest edition in its history
—probably the largest regular
- edition ever published by any New
York newspaper. It consisted of
twelve sections, comprising a total
of 192 pages (17(5 full-size news
paper pages). The total weight of
paper in the edition of 565,000 copies
was 877 tons, or 1,754,000 pounds.
There were 501 columns of news,
special features and pictures, and
862 columns of advertising—the
largest volume of spontaneous ad
vertisements ever printed iri a single
day in a regular edition of a New
York newspaper.
Alien-Wilder
Mr. Clarence Allen, aged 23, and
Miss Viola Wilder, 19, both of Middle
sex, Route 3, were married at the
courthouse here Saturday afternoon.
Mr. D. T. Lunceford, J. P., perform
ed the ceremony.
THE NEW YORK YANKS
1923 WORLD CHAMPIONS
The Yanks took the title of the
world series today by a score of 6
to 4. The Giants have put up a good
fight all through the series but the
powerful American League aggrega
tion were too strong for them. The
Giants took 2 games, the Y’ankees
took 4.
WALTON WILL RESIGN IF HIS
ANTI-KLAN RILL IS ENACTED
Oklahoma City, Oct 9.—Governor
J. C. Walton tonight offered to re
sign to prove his good faith in his
fight against the Ku Klux Klan in
Oklahoma, if the legislature at its
forthcoming special session, will en
act anti-klan law which he will sub
mit to the lawmakers.
Prayer Meeting
The service on Wednesday even
ing at the Methodist church will be
in the interest of Sunday school work
next Sunday. All officer sand teach
ers with working committees are ex
pected to attend.
Gurley-Morris
Kenly, CM x'2.— A wedding charac
terized by dignity, beauty and charm
ing simplicity was that of Miss Sudye
Reid Morris and Charles Harvey
.hir’ey solemnized at the home of the
bHde’s pa vn‘ \ Mi. and Mrs G M
Morris, on Wednesday evening ’at
8:30 o’clock in the presence of rela
tives and a few intimate friends of
the families.
The living room where the vows
were taken presented a most artistic
setting for the ceremony with its dec
orations of long leaf pine, potted
plants and cut flowers, pink dahlias
being used in great profusion with
pink candles in silver candelabra,
carrying out the color scheme of pink
and green The arch under which the
vows were taken was made very at
tractive by being entwined with ivy
and interspersed with candles.
Just prior to the ceremony' a de
lightful musical program was render
ed. Mrs. H. M. Grizzard charmingly
sang, “All for You” by Ball and “The
Sweetest Story Fiver Told” by Stults.
Mr. K. E. Hurst rendered on the vio
lin “O Thou Sublime Sweet Evening
Star” from Tanhauser and “Angel’s
Serenade” by Braga. Mrs. J. J.
Edgerton presided at the piano.
Promptly to the strains of Lo
hengrin's wedding march the bridal
party entered. First to enter was the
lovely little flower girl, little Miss
Jane Hall Yelvington of Wilson, a
cousin of the groom. She was a
vision of loveliness in white tulle. She
carried a silver basket of pink dah
lias. She was followed bv the ling
bearer, Herbert Grizz^nd Jr. very
handsome in his black velvet suit
ca. l ying' the ring in the heart of a
lily. Next th,e bride, never more
charming and beautiful than on this
occasion in her gown of nut brown
flat back crepe with fur chocker and
hat, shoes and glvoes of darker brown
to match, entered leaning on the
arm of the groom and proceeded to
the improvised altar where the cere
mony was performed by Rev. J. E.
Holden, pastor of the bride. The
beautiful and impressive ring cere
mony of the Methodist church was
used The bride wore a corsage
bouquet of valley lillies and bride
roses and her only ornament was a
string of pearls, a gift of the groom.
Immediately after the ceremony
the couple left for a trip to New
York and other northern cities and
will be at home after the 20th of
October, at Goldsboro.
The bride is the youngest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Morris and is
a charming and talented young lady,
being an accomplished musician. Mr.
Gurley is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Gurley of Princeton and is a
very promising young business man,
being the assistant cashier of The
Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Golds
boro.
The cooperative kraut factory in
M atauga County has already manu
factured about 80 tons of kraut to
date. County Agent John B. Steele
says the industry will bring from
$30,000 to $50,000 of new money into
the county..
FAIR AT POLENTA
PROVES A SUCCESS
Dr. J. O. Taylor, Of State College,
Makes Interesting Address—
Flans For Next Year
Polenta’s first community fair was
held last Thursday, October 11th, in
the Masonic Hall. The large crowd
present and the number of splendid
exhibits showed that the fair had the
backing of the community. Poultry,
live stock, farm products, canned
goods, pantry supplies, folwers, and
garden products were there in abund
ance.
In the afternoon Dr. J. O. Taylor,
of the State College, Raleigh made
an interesting address
Theurday night the grounds were
open and a large crowd enjoyed the
moving pictures, sevral agricultural
rels being shown. Through the
courtesy of the Delco Light Com
pany the grounds were well lighted
for this occasion.
While this was the first fair held
at Polenta, it was a decided success
and a fair will probably be held there
again next year.
Brooklyn Vs. Oakland Heights
The Brooklyn and Oakland Heights
i teams no t Saturday morning at nine
i o'clock at the high school gridiron.
Coach Walter L. Rice refereed the
game.
The stars for Oakland Heights
were Dan Kirkman and Irving- Gil
1 left while Donnie Ward played a
| m editable game.
The stars for Brooklyn were Henry
Johnston and Herman Lawrence.
Raymond Woodall and Winfield Jor
dan j !: . od exceptionally well. Jones
Kirkn-r.n coached for Oakland
Heights and Charles R. Alford for
Brooklyn.
The score was Oakland Heights, 26;
Brooklyn 0.
These teams will meet again on
Saturday, October 20.
Large Crowd Hears Mrs. Olive
Mrs. Willis Lourell Olive, woman
evangelist of Alabama, held two ser
vices at the court house here Sunday
one at three o’clock in the afternoon
and the other at night. A large
crowd was present to hear her. All
the seats were taken and many of
the hearers had to stand
Mrs. Olive preached a sermon on
“Divine Healing.” It is said that on
different occasions where she has
preached the lame have been made to
walk, the blind to see and the deaf
to hear.
Tobacco Sells Well
Mr. Herman Johnson, who lives
near town sold a load of tobacco at
the Banner Warehouse yesterday
which averaged 51 cents. The prices
ranged from 48 to 84 cents.
Church Announcement
We are officially informed that it
is highly probable that Prof. Orien
R. Jenks, president of the Second Ad
vent Christian College, of Aurora,
111., will be at the Advent Chapel
church on Thursday, October 18th, at
ten o'clock a. m. It will be* a great
opportunity to hear a man of such
marked ability as Elder Jenks. Also
Elder C. P. Thornton, of St. Peters
burg, Fla. will be present.
Of course you will want to hear
these and others that will be there,
including Elders J. P. King, of Wil
mington, and N. W. Harrison, of
Unionville.
J. Q. BAKER,
Four Oaks, October 15.
A Birthday Dinner
On last Wednesday, October 10th,
the children of Mr. R. L. Hill met at
his home in the Sanders Chapel sec
tion to celebrate his sixtieth birth
day. About one o’clock a sumptuous
dinner was spread in the yard, and
nine children, seventeen grandchil
dren and a few friends enjoyed this
feast.
Among those present were Mr. Jim
Woodall, aged 85, and his wife who
is 81 years old, both of whom were
enjoying good health.