M. E. CONFERENCE
MOVES PREACHERS
Rev. D. H. Tuttle Only One in
Johnston County Sent
Back
When the appointments were read
Monday at the Methodist Conference |
meeting in Elizabeth City, it was seen
that quite a number of changes had
been made. The Raleigh district and
especially Johnston County were no
exceptions in this instance. Rev. D.
H. Tuttle of this city was the only
minister in the county sent back to
his former charge. Mr. Tuttle has
been here three years and his con
gregation expected him to be return
ed to round cut his four years.
The changes in the Raleigh district
are apparent from the following list
of appointments:
Raleigh District
Presiding Elder—M. T. Plyler.
Bailey Circuit—L. C. Biothers.
Benson Circuit—J. E. Blalock.
Cary Circuit—D. N. Caviness.
Clayton—Marvin Self.
Creedmore Circuit—V. A. Royal.
lour Oaks Circuit—W. J. Watson.
Franklin—E. H. Davis.
Garner Circuit—G. A. Starling.
Granville Circuit—L. H. Joyner
Kenly Circuit—W. B. North.
Louisburg.—0. W. Dowd.
Millbrook Circuit—M. G. Ervin.
Oxford—T. M. Snipes.
Oxford Circuit—N B. Strickland.
Princeton Circuit—G. B. Perry.
Raleigh—Central, H. I. Glass.
Edenton Street, W. A.
Stanbury.
Epworth, R. F. Bumpas.
Jenkins Memorial, W. H.
Brown.
Selma—0. P. Fitzgerald.
Smithfield—D. H. Tuttle.
Tar River—J. C. Williams.
Youngsville Circuit-—W. B. Hum
ble.
Zebulon Circuit—T. E. M. Hall.
Business Manager North Carolina
Christian Advocate—T. A. Sikes.
Superintendent Methodist Orphan
age—A. S. Barnes.
Superintendent Anti-Saloon Lea
gue—R. L. Davis.
Among the changes as noted in the
list was that of presiding elder, Rev.
J. C. Wooten who has had charge of
the district being transferred to the
New Bern district. Other names
from the county are as follows: Rev.
W. G. Farrar who has been at Prince
ton was assigned Rocky Mount Cir
cui; Rev. J. E. Holden, formerly at
Kenly goes to Clinton; Rev. J. A. Rus
sell, who was at Four Oaks is trans
ferred to the Snow Hill Circuit; and
Rev. J. T. Gibbs, who was at Clayton,
was superannuated and for awhile
»vi.l \* it., his st ir. Fayetteville.
Dr. Gibbs has preached for 53 years.
DOK PEACE AWARD
JUSY AT WORK
Washington, Nov. 22.—The Jury
considering the Bok peace award
plans, in the hundred thousand dol
lar competition which closed Novem
ber 15, is hard at work.
Elihu Root, chairman; James Guth
erie Harbord, Roscoe M. House, Ellen
F. Pendleton, Roscoe Pound, William
Allen White, and, Brand Whiitlock
hope to make the selection by Janu
ary 1st. ImmedSate'ly thereafter,
whatever plan is selected by the jury
will be presented to the widest pos
sible public for consideration and for
a vote. This will be done not only
through the press, but also through
the activities of eighty-eight national
organizations wrhich form the Coop
erating Council of the American
Peace. Award, and which have made
exceedingly definite arrangements
for submitting the winning plan to
every one of their members for con
sideration and a vote. The total mem
bership of organizations that have
already arranged to take a “refer
endum” among their members on the
plan reaches far into millions. They
include the most powerful industrial
professional, civic, fraternal, and re
ligious (all faiths) organizations in
the country.—Capital News Service.
Opportunity is constantly calling ’ro
you, but it won’t send the sheriff out
with a search warrant to round you
up.
GOVERNOR MORRISON ISSUES
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
Governor Morrison Friday issued
the following proclamation calling up
on the people of North Carolina to J
observe November 29 as Thanksgiv
ing day.
“North Carolina has been blessed
with a year of great prosperity in
material things. On the farm, in the
factory and in every line of business,
God has generously rewarded the
labors of our people.
“We have been led by God to make
a liberal use of our material pros
perity for the benefit of the defec
tive and for improved educational op
portunities for our children.
“Now, therefore:
“I, Cameron Morrison, governor of
North Carolina, following the pre
vious action of the President of the
United States, in his proclamation of
November 6, 1923, do hereby proclaim
and set apart Thursday, November
20, 1923, as
“Thanksgiving Day,”
“and call upon our people to ob
serve the day by assembling in their
respective places, of worship and giv
ing thanks to Almighty God for His
many mercies and blessings to the
people of the United States, and of
this state, and pray for Divine guid
ance in the future. May I implore the
people of strength on Thanksgiving
day to remember the orphan, and the
defective of every class by some act
of generosity and helpfulness.
“Done in the city of Raleigh on
this fifteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-eight year of
our American independence.”
BOX PARTY FOR THANKS
GIVING S. S. A SUCCESS
Last Saturday night the people of
Thanksgiving Sunday school and com
munitv enjoyed a very successful box
party, realizing the neat sum of
$45.60. There were several exercises.
Cake walking seemed to be enjoyed
by all. Mr. Charles C. Perry and
Miss Thelma Cwensby were the lucky
couple to win the prize. Guessing the
number of seed in a gourd was also
among the contests engaged in. There
were several high and low guesses
but only one lucky one. Miss Alma
Jenkins being the winner of the
prize.
Then with Mr. W. A. Parrish as
auctioner, the boxes were sold, rang
ing in price from one dollar to four
dollars. There was one party or
parties so hungry or who did not
have the cash to pay for what they
wanted to eat that they acted so
brave as to take one of the boxes
from a window before the sale start
ed. The Philathea class is offering
a nice Turkey dinner to the one tak
ing the box if he will send his name
to the Sunday school superintendent,
Mr. W. S. Earp
After the boxes were sold the con
test came for the prettiest girl. Aft
er a time of close voting Miss Sallie
Pittman was declared the winner and
received a nice prize. Then for the
ugliest boy came a close and long
continuous voting between Mr. Crock
et Allen and Mr. Lester Whitley, both
of near Wendell. Mr. WThitley was
the winner.
The proceeds of this entertainment
will be used in paying for the piano
for the Sunday school.
With Mr. W. S. Earp as superin
tendent, vee ha\Te a very progressive
Sunday school with more than one
hundred and fifty enrolled. We cor
dially 'nvite the peonle of the com
munity out every Sunday morning at
ten o’clock sharp. Church services
are held each second Sunday at elev
en o’clock and Saturday before at
2:30. Come and see what is going
on.—Reporter, Zebulon, Route 1, No
vember 21,
Mrs. E. S. Abell Hostess
Mrs. E. S Abell delightfully enter
tained the members of the Round
Dozen Book Club and a number of
other friends at her home on Church
street Wednesday afternoon. Rook
was played at eight tables. At the
close of the game a chicken salad
course with iced drink was sei’ved.
The interchange of books then took
place, and the guests departed hav
ing spent a most pleasant afternoon.
ROSEMONT SELLS
FOR OVER $16,000
New Residential Section Just
Opened Attracts A Large
Number of Buyers
One of the biggest events for the
development of Smithfield took place ‘
yesterday, when Rosemont, a valu- j
able residential property located near
the school house, was offered for
sale, bringing $16,410. Smithfield
will necessarily grow in this direc
tion and for that reason quite a
number of prospective home owner*
were among the bidders. This sec
tion formerly owned by Rev. W. R
Coates has been laid off in six blocks
with a winding avenue dividing the
pi’operty in half, and no finer resi
detial locations can be found any
where in the town.
The prices of the forty-eight lots
ranged from $50 for one down on the
hillside to $3,275, the amount paid
for the lot on which an attractive
bungalow is situated. The pur
chasers, twenty-four in number, are
as follows: S. C. Turnage, R. C. Gil
lett, W. J. Eason, W. C. Ryals, J. W.
Myatt, E. H. Dixon, Joe Stephenson.
A M. Noble, M. B. Williams, J. L.
Rackley, F. H. Brooks, W. G. Gray,
J. C. Lassiter, J. H. Abell, J. T.
Matthews, L. T. Royall, J. W.
Daughtry, J. A. Keen, V. V. Hunter,
C. J. Thomas, D. T. Stephenson.
Frank O. Ray, J. L. Woody and W.
S. Peterson.
The sale, which was put on by the
Union Auction Company of this city,
characteristic of all land sales—brass j
band, money given away, and gold
watches for those drawing the lucky
tickets. Two watches were given
away, Miss Juanita Woody and Mr.
Joe Stephenson being the lucky per
sons. Those receiving cash prizes
of a dollar each were Joe Mike
Grantham, J. D. Stephenson, W. A. 1
Bizzell, Mrs. W. R. Coates, G. A.
Martin, W. A. Braswell, J. T. Mat
thews, Mrs. Carson Adams, Omar
Adams, Mrs. W. W. Jordan and Mrs.
D. W. Adams. The two little girls
who drew the tickets were also the
recipients of a dollar each.
A big crowd attended the sale from
start to finish.
WEATHER BUREAU WAS
ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS AGO
The United States was not the
first country to establish a national
weather forecasting service, although
the earliest experiments in forecast
ing by means of telegraphic reports
were probably those of Prof. Joseph
Henry of the Smithsonian Institu
tion, 1849. The first national
forecasting service was established
in France in 1855, as the result of
an episode of the Crimean War. In
November, 1854, a severe storm did
much damage to the French and
British warships in the Black Sea.
The French astronomer, Le Verne?,
director of the Observatory of Paris,
made a study of this storm and came
to the conclusion that, with the aid
of telegraphic reports, its eastward
progress across Europe might have
been predicted so that the disaster
to the ships could have been averted.
This idea led to the foundation of
the French meteorological service. In
this country the establishment of a
similar service was frequently rec
ommended by scientific authorities |
and finally, in 1839, an experimental
service was established in the Cin
cinnati Observatory. These experi- ;
ments in weather forecasting were
so successful that Congress was in
duced to establish a national service, ]
one of the principal duties of which
was forecasting the weather. This
service was originally attached to
the Signal Corps of the Army, but ;
since the year 1890 it has been a
branch of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
TEACHER ON PROBATION
BECAUSE SHE SMOKED
Secaucus. N. J., Nov. 21.—Miss
Helen Clark, a primary school teach- j
er, is on probation for smoking. The
Board of Education notified her last
night at a hearing that unless she 1
“reformed’ she would lose her job j
Her landlady testified as lo the
smck ing.
i
A SCHOOL TRUCK
TOPPLES OVER
Clarence Underwood Who Was
Riding on the Fender Gets
Broken Leg
An unfortunate accident occurred
Wednesday afternoon on the road be
tween Wilson’s Mills and the Bur- ]
kett Jones place about four miles of
here when a Ford school truck car
rying about forty-four children turn
ed over. One fifteen year old boy,
Clarence Underwood who was riding
on the fender, sustained a broken
leg. No other persons were injured.
The accident happened on a level
piece of road, and the car, we are
informed, was running at a moder
ate rate. The heavy load, according
to report, caused the fender brace
and the front wheel to come to
gether and lock, this causing the
accident. One glass in the truck was
broken and the steering rod bent,
but outside this the truck was prac
tically unhurt.
The truck carries the children from
the Pimple Hill school, which has
been discontinued, to the Wilson’s
Mills school.
TENT MEETING STILL
GROWS IS INTEREST
(Reported for The Herald)
The weather conditions have been
favorable for the tent meeting during
the past few days. Having good
weather the people who live some
distance from here, many of them
having large families, have attend
ed the services during the week| The
people who live in Smithfield are
interested in the meeting and many
of them have been converted since
it has been in progress. The new
converts have been taking an active
part in the prayer meeting which is
being conducted every night under
.the tent from seven to 7:30. Those
who have attended these lervV.ces
can see that there has been a change
in those who have been converted.
Prayer service was conducted in
the jail yesterday afternoon for the
benefit of the prisoners. In this
service eight white and three colored
men heard the singing of two old
hymns, “W at a riend We Have in
Jesus,’ and “Amazing Grace, How
Sweet the Sound.” A father with
his three boys were there in jail and
he seemed to be deeply touched by
what was said. This service was
enjoyed by them and they promised
to live a life after this that will
please the Lord. Sunday afternoon
immei!a dy after the three o'clock
service Mr. Matthews and Mr. Fair
cloth w th other Christian workns
are going to conduct services for the
convicts at the Camp.
The prayer service every night
from 7 to 7:30 at the tent has grown
in interest. At this time all Chris
tians have an opportunity to say
something. On Wednesday night the
young people conducted the service.
Miss Nannie Phillips led. This be
ing her first time to conduct public
service, she deserves a word of en
couragement. Mr. Matthews is es
pecially anxious to have the young
folks take part in these services and
in this way receive some good train
ing in Christian work.
Quite a number of the good women
of the town who are active Christian
workers in the different churches are
attending the prayer meetings held
in the different parts of the com
munity every afternoon at three
o'clock. These meetings are becom
ing very interesting and helpful. If
Christians want to grow and flourish,
the afternoon prayer meetings are
good places to go to get some spirit
ual food.
Mrs. N. T Holland Hostess
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. N. T. Hol
land was hostess to the Sans Souci
Book Club and a number of other
friends at her home in Brooklyn.
Tables were arranged in the living
room, dining-room and hall for rook,
the feature entertainment. Toward
the close of the afternoon refresh
ments consisting of a chicken salad
course with hot coffee, were served.
Chrysanthemums and ferns were
used effectively in the rooms thrown
open to the forty guests present on
this occasion.
OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR
IS IMPEACHED
Oklahoma City, Nov. 19.—J. C.
WaPon fifth governor of Oklahoma,
was removed from off;ce tonight by
unanimous vote of the State Senat"1
Court of Imp achment after his tria1
on chu;vts of o riu' or in offic\
negleet >.!' .lutv, moral uipitude and
general i:.. >:.,t • t*n y
A fornal verdict was nturned aft
ej the b ir, olive had l- ■ \ found guil
ty of 11 of the 16 charges presented.
The vote was 41 to 0.
i ix of the original 22 charges con
stituting the impeachment bill were
dismissed by order of the court.
Denied New Trial
The court, by a standing vote, de
nied a motion for a new trial, which
Governor Walton’s counsel filed im
mediately after the verdict was an
nounced.
The Governor’s removal, although
not formally ordered until after a
verdict had been returned on each
charge, was made certain this after
noon when the court found him guil
ty of abusing his pardon and parole
authority, the first charge to be voted
upon.
Forty-one senators, lacking only
one of the total membership of the
body, voted for conviction. Sena
tor Jack Barker, who has consistent
ly voted in the Governor’s favor
throughout the 16 days of the trial,
was absent.
The articles of impeachment were
filed by the lower House of the State
Legislature, which less than two
months ago the executive had dis
persed by military force.
Trapp Successor
By the removal of Governor Wal
ton, Lieut. Gov. M. E. Trapp became
governor. Trapp has been lieuten
ant-governor during two four- year
administrations and has been acting
governor since October 23, when the
Senate suspended Governor Walton
after the filing of the impeachment
charges.
The vote followed with surprising
suddenness after the examination f
the last witness, E. M. Marland, pres
ident of the Marland Refining Com
pany, had barely left the stand when
W. E. Disney, chairman of the House
Board of Managers, which conducted
the prosecution, announced that the
evidence was concluded.
A few preliminary maneuvers and
then a motion was made to vote first
on Article 19, the clemency charge.
The court sustained the motion and
the prosecution summed up briefly
the testimony introduced in support
of the charge.—Associated Press.
Baptist Church Next Sunday
Sunday school at 9:45, with organ
ized classes for men and women. Be
ginning with next Sunday the hour i
will be 7 o’clock for all evening ser
vices. The pastor, Rev. S. L. Morgan,
will preach at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m.,
the morning topic being, “ The Re
sponsibility of God’s Steward.” Pray
er meeting Wednesday evening at
7 o'clock, the subject being, “The
Stewardship of Time.” Next Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 the Johnston Coun
ty B. Y. P. U. association will meet
with the Baptist church here, and
a very interesting program is prom
ised, a leading feature being a dem
onstration program given by the
Clayton B. Y. P. U. Everybody is
cordially invited to all the services.
Special attention is called to a
service at our church next Thursday,
Thanksgiving day, at 10:30. It is
understood that no other church in
town will have a service that day.
The President and the Governor of
our State have issued proclamations
calling on all the people to observe
the day with religious services and
it is to be hoped that people of all
denominations will turn out in large
numbers to this service. Make no
engagements to conflict with this
hour of the day to real thanksgiving.
The country people are cordially in
vited to the service.
S. L. MORGAN.
TOBACCO CO-OPS CLnSE
FOR THANKSGIVING
I v.ish to not’fy the members of
the Tobacco Growers Cooperative A s
sociation, that the Warehouse in
Smithfield will be closed Wednesday
night Nov. 28th for Thanksgiving,
and will be re-opened Monday, Dec.
3rd.
A. G. JOHNSON, Mgr.
ARCTIC EXPLORER
DRAWS 14 YEARS
Dr. Cook and Many Others Are
Convicted In Federal Court
Heavy Sentences
Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 21.— Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, oil operator, who
was found guilty in Federal court
here this afternoon of fraud in con
nection with the operations of the
Petroleum Producers’ Association,
of which he was sole trustee, was
sentenced to serve fourteen years
and nine months in the Federal pris
on and assessed a fine of $12,000 by
Federal Judge John M. Killits. Fred
K. Smith, treasurer of the company,
was sentenced to serve seven years
in prison and was fined $12,000. S.
E. J. Cox was sentenced to eight
years and fined $8,000. Other co
defendants of Cook who were found
guilty were given the following:
A. K. Echman, seven years and
$12,000 fine; W. L. Braddish and
W. P. Welty, two years each and
$1,000; J. S. Rooks, C. W. Sleete,
S. L. Hess, T. O. Turner, B. S. Hen
ninger, E. J. Bowen and R. L. Max
well, each one year and a day and
fines of $1,000 L. A. McKercher
was given six years and a fine of
$1,000.
Judge Killits passed sentence on
Dr. Cook after a scathing denuncia
tion of the methods said to have
been practiced by the former Arctic
explorer. Cook made no statement.
Cook’s bond was placed at $75,000,
which he will not be permitted to
make until a complete record of the
case has been drawn.
The jury was out twenty hours.
After it had delivered its verdict,
Judge Killits launched into an ar
raignment of Dr. Cook.
r. Cook, made an international
character because of sheer effront
ery, was conducting a school of
crime and operating a cold-blooded,
deliberate confidence game, dis
guised as the Pretroleum Producers’
Association, Judge Killits asserted.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook first be
came internationally known in April
1980 when, upo arriving in Copen
hagen from a trip into the Far
North, he announced that he had dis
covered the North Pole. His story
was accepted as true and he was re
ceived there with high honors.
Upon returning to this country
Dr. Cook published reports of his
journey and wide credence was given
his narrations for some months.
Since then his claims have been dis
puted, and he ultimately was brand
ed as a faker, but'in the meantime
he was the recipient of many honors.
He was made president of the Ex
plorers’ Club, New York, and a mem
ber of the Kings County Medical
Society, the American and National
Georgrahpical Societies, the Ameri
can Ethnological Society, the Ameri
can Alpine Club and lesser organi
ations.
Dr. Cook has written voluminous
ly for magazines along the lines of
enthology, anthropology, geography
and other sciences from his obser
vations in the Artie and Antartic.
He was the author of several books,
including “Through the First Ant
artic Night.” In 1913 and 1914 he
lectured in this country and in Eng
land but led a life of comparative
retirement until he came to Fort
Worth in 1919 and went into the oil
business.—Associated Press.
BLEW OUT THE GAS;
TWO PREACHERS DEAD
Wilmington, Nov. 16.—Rev. C. V.
Richardson, of Rocky Mount, and Rev.
R. C. Merritt, of Magnolia, negro
preachers here attending a negro re
ligious convention, were found dead
early today in the same bed at the
home of Rev. G. D. Carnes, negro on
South Seventh street Death, it was
said, was caused by asphyxiation.
Indications in the room in which
they were found were that they blew
out the gas light upon retiring last
ni^ht and during ttye n>'ght were
overcome by the escaping fumes.
Coroner Allen, of New Hanover coun
ty, has summoned a jury and will hold
an inquest late today.
A blockhead never sees things as
you do. Therefore he is a blockhead.