VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923
NUMBER 100
MRS. VANDERBILT
HEADS FAIR AGAIN
Location of State Fair Will Not
Be Moved; Authorize
Bond Issue.
Tuesday, the annual meeting of
the North Carorlina Agricultural So
ciety at which the election of officers
takes place, was held in Raleigh, and
more than the usual interest was
manifested. We reprint from the ac
count in Wednesday’s News and Ob
server the following extracts:
“Striking a medium somewhere be
tween the deadly routine of pre
Vanderblit days and the turbulent
discord that has peppered many of
its meetings since, the North Caro
lina Agricultural Society yesterday
reelected Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt, of
Baltimore, president for the fourth
term, substituted rfnry M. London
for Col. Joseph E. Pogue for secre
tary, committed itself definitely
against the removal of the State Fair
grounds or the projection of a street
through the property and finally au
thorized a bond issue of $150,000 to
finance the old debt of the society
and to erect a grandstand.
“With the troublesome question to
move or not to move out of the way,
the society re-dedicated to the princi
ple of State operation of the State
Fair, the group hat came into lead
ership within the society with the
advent of Mrs. Vanderbilt clearly
and indisputably in control, the so
ciety is promising itself unimpeded
progress.
“For its other officers, the Society
re-elected Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt,
of Chapel Hill, first vice-president;
Major W. A. Graham and Josephus
Daniels of Raleigh, to sit with Col
onel Pogue as honorary vice-presi
dent, and the Raleigh Savings Bank
and Trust Company to act as trea
urer.
“The surprise of the day’s meeting
was not the election of Mrs. Vander
bilt and it was not the authorization
of bonds. It was the final deft pass
relieving Col. Joseph E. Pogue, for
23 years secretary of the Fair, from
any executive share in its manage
ment by the simple process of ele
vating him to the post of honorary
vice-president, and the election of
the State’s Legislative Librarian as
his successor. Two years ag<5, the
year following Mrs. Vandcbilt’s ac
cession to the presidency, Colonel
Pogue’s duties were largely taken
over by E. V. Walborn who was
brought from Ohio to serve as busi
ness manager. Last year, at the
time C. B. Denson resigned as treas
urer, Colonel Pogue’s salary was cut.
Now he is lifted into the seat of
honor and inactivity.
4fThe elections furnished the only
thrill and all the thrill. With Mrs.
Vanderbilt in the chair the routine
of reports moved along smoothly,
and the largest attendance the so
ciety probably has ever had on the
occasion of an annual meeting,
waited in the crowded Federal court
room for the expected opening of
hostilities. General Julian S. Carr had
virtually announced that he expected
to put W. M. Sanders, of Smithfield,
in nomination for the presidency. -The
friends of Mrs. Vanderbilt had even
more definitely made it knorwn that
they expected to seat her for another
ill.
"This was the situation when Mrs.
Vanderbilt quietly announced that
the next matter of business before
the society was the election of offi
cers.”
After some discussion, however,
only Mrs. Vanderbilt’s name was
placed before the meeting and other
business was taken up. Among the
items of business was the adoption
of the following resolution:
"Resolved by the North Carolina
Agricultural Society that the society
is opposed to selling or removing its
present location; and further, in the
opinion of the society, the opening of
a street through its present grounds
would make the site unavailable for
Fair purposes and therefore, the so
ciety should go on record as being
opposed to the opening of any street
or streets whatsoever through its
present grounds.
"But nothing in this resolution
should be construed as inconsistent
with former resolutions of this soci
ety agreeing to turn t]> property of
Baptist In Session
In Gastonia This Week
Gastonia, Dec. 12.—Gains in church
membership, collections for all pur
poses, new pastors and new churches
were shown in the annual report of
the statistical secretary, E. L. Middle
ton, of the North Carolina Baptist
convention, prepared for presentation
to the convention today. The report
covers the period since the last con
vention a year ago.
The repot shows total collections
of $4,086,,196.93 during the last four
years for the $75,000,000 campaign.
The report shows that there are
now 2,263 churches with a member
ship of 337,258 in 65 associations dur
ing the last year. This is a gain of
13 churches and 12,708 members . A !
number of churches failed to report
memberships, the report said, but the
average membership of the individu- \
al churches is now 150.
During the year the import says,
there were 17,787 baptisms in the
state and during the last four years
74,804. Six hundred and twenty-two
churches failed to report any bap
tisms.
Jr. O. U. A..M.
Has Fine Meeting
Smithfield Council, No. 102, Jr. 0.
U. A. M., met last Tuesday night at
7:30 o’clock with perhaps the larg
est numbers of Juniors present in
six months. There were about forty
five members present.
An invitation from the Goldsboro
Council to attend a meeting Thurs
day night of this week was read and
about a dozen signified their willing
ness to attend. The meeting is for
the purpose of influencing the Na
tional Committee to select Goldsboro
’as the site for the Junior Order
Orphanage to be established in North |
Carolina as a branch of the main
Orphanage which is located in Ohio. 1
The degrees of Virtue, Liberty and
| Patriotism was conferred upon Mr.
: V. A. Merrit.
Several applications for member
ship in order were voted on and re
ferred to the Committee on Member
ship.
A special collection of $20 was
' raised for a brother who is now in
the Sanatorium.
IMPORATANT NOTICE MEMBERS
TOBACCO GROWERS COOP ASS’N.
—
Our warehouse will close Thurs
| day Decemebr 20th, 1923, receiving
: tobacco through Thursday, and will
I re-open Tuesday, January 8th, 1924.
j We will distribute third payment
check's on the 1922 crop tobacco de
I livered to us on Friday Dec. 21. It
| is very necessary that members bring
their participation receipts, in order
i for us to deliver their checks.
Wishing you all a Merry Christ
mas and a prosperous New Year, and
all of the blessings of cooperation.
A. G. JOHNSON,
Waehouse Manager,
Smithfield, N. C.
Sunday At Baptist Church
Dr. Charles E. Maddy, correspond
ing secretary of the Baptist State
Convention, will speak next Sunday
morning at the Baptist Church. He
is one of the greatest men in the
State and one of the ablest speakers
and all Baptists especially, for miles
around should hear him at 11 o’clock,
and possibly also at night. He spent
sometime in Europe recently, and has
a stirring message on the world to
day as an opportunity for the King
dom of God.
I am in the midst of the great
program of our State Convention,
and wish all my people could be here
with m-'< to feel the thrill of our great
meeting.
S. L. MORGAN.
the society over to the State of North
Carolina to be used in connection
with the State College of Agriculture
and Engineering which we now fa
vor if it can be done.”
The society adopted the recom
mendation of the Executive Commit
tee authorizing a bond issue of $150,
000 to fund the present indebtedness
of the Fair and to build a grandstand
The report of Manager Walbom gave
the total receipts of the organizat'on
$03,055.86, total expenditures, $02,
897.27, and a balance of $158.29,
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RECORD RECEIPTS
AT COOP HOUSES
Markets Will Be Closed From
December 20 To January 8
For Christmas Holidays
Raleigh, Dec. 12.—More tobacco :
of the 1923 crop reached the ware-I
houses of the Tobacco Growers Co
operative Association last week than
at any time this season. Steadily
increasing deliveries by the organiz- j
ed tobacco farmers brought the
marketing association exactly 8, 948,- i
973 pounds of tobacco last week,
according to the reports of the ware
house department.
Members of the marketing associa
tion in Eastern North Carolina who
will be the first to receive cash pay
ments from the three million dollar
distribution of the association which 1
begins its third advance on the 1922
crop next week, are increasing their
deliveries, the association having re
ceived up to within one and a half
million pounds as much of the 1923
crop in the East as the total deliver- '
ies of 1922 from that section.
Old belt co-ops who will receive
a third advance on their 1922 de
liveries on'> January 10th, last week
delivered close to six and a half mil
lion pounds of bright tobacco to the
cooperative houses, this with a mil
lion and a quarter pounds of dark
fired and sun-cured tobaccos deliver
ed in Virginia brought the total of
the Virginia and Western Carolina
growers for last week to over 7,
500,000 pounds.
All bright markets of the associa
tion in North Carolina and Virginia
will close on December ,20th and re
open on January 8th. All markets of
the association for dark and sun
cured tobacco will close December 20
and open January 2nd, according to
the latest announcement from head
quarters.
How Government
Will Spend Money
Washington, Dec. 10.—Here’s how
the government’s dollars will come
and go in the fiscal year of 1925 as
estimated by the experts of the
bureau of the budget.
Each average dollar of the $3,693,
762,078 estimated receipts, it is ex
pected, will come from the following
sources in the proportions stated:
Internal revenue, including income
taxes, 73.84 cents. Customs duties,
from imports, 13.35 cents.
Miscellaneous sources, including in
terest and discount, sale of govern
ment property, public-domain re
ceipts, fees, fines, penalties and for
feitures, gifts and contributions, re
payments of investments, District of
Columbia receipts, and trust fund
receipts, 12.81 cents.
Total, 100.00 cents.
The estimated expenditurers of
53,298,080,444 would be divided in
the following proportion for each
average dollar:
General functions of government,
including legislative, executive, judi
cial and general administration, 3.28
cents.
Military functions (36.54 cents) in
cluding:
General defense , incuding army
and navy, 16.64 cents.
Military pensions, retirement pay, j
annuities, World War allowances;
and life insurance claims, 19.9$ cents.
Civil functions (12.59 cents) in-;
cludhrg:
Promotion, regulation and opera
tion of marine transportation, 1.48
cents.
Public works, including rivers and
harbors, S.05 cents.
Other civil functions, 6.06 cents.
Non-functional operations (47.59
cents) including:
Refunds and drawbacks, 3.39 cents
Fixed debt charges (41.61 cents)
including:
Public debt retirements from ordi
nary receipts, 14.62 cents.
Interest on the public debt, 26.99
cents.
Disbursement of trust funds, 2.47
cents.
Investments, 0.12 cents.
Total, 100.00 cents.
The foregoing estimates of receipts
and expenditures do not include op
erations of the Postal system except
for deficineey in Postal revenues.
CLAYTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Miss Lewis, Wake County Treas
urer Speaks To Women on
County Government.
Clayton, Dec. 13.—Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Whitley and children, visit
ed relatives ir Clayton the past weei.
Miss Limit- Wilder who teach
ing school near Bailey, was at home
■'or the 1 hi-ntsgiving holidays.
Miss Beatrice Lewallen, of Ashe- ;
horo, visited her sister, Mrs. W. D.
McCullers during Thanksgiving.
Mr. Buck Jones, of near Smithfield
is spending a few days here with his
sister, Mrs. Herman Vinson.
Mrs. J. W. Massey and Mrs. F. G. |
Gower left Tuesday night for a trip
to New York and other esatern cities.
Mr. Cecil Barbour, of Enfield, spent
Sunday here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. L. Barbour.
Mrs. M. M. Gulley returned to her
home at Nashville Sunday after
spending some time here with rela
tives.
Miss Sarah Louise Nixon, of the
Clayton school faculty, spent the
past week end with relatives at Bur
lington
Dr. William Yeung, of Snow Hill,
spent a few days here last week with
his brother Dr. J. J. Young.
Miss Helen Atkinson, student at
Meredith College, spent Thanksgiv
ing with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Atkinson.
Mr. Kemp Nixon, of Lincolnton,
and Mr. Joe Nixon, of Cheeryville,
returned home Saturday after spend
ing a few drys cere, the g icst. of
the1’1" -ister, Mrs. T. M. Turley.
Miss Jessie Tiorston, of Zebulon
school faculty spent some lime bee
recently with •er parent4.. Mr. ano
Mrs. D. J. Thurston.
Mrs. S. G. I‘n‘ bps and children e
; irned home Sunday from Wnslvig
tor. where they have been spending
c few days wi h Mr. Ph;1iij..’.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett H. Steger
returned home Tuesday from a ten
days trip to points In the eastern
part of the State.
Mrs. J. J. Young was hostess at
the meeting of the Woman’s Club
at her lovely home on Friday after
noon, November 30. Mrs. Young
and her daughter, Miss Dorothy
Young, received a large number of
club members and guests, among the
latter, Miss Myers, State Supervis
ing Nurse for the Red Cross, and
Miss Lottie Lewis, treasurer of Wake
county. The business program was
given especial attention and accentu
ated by the earnest appeal by Miss
Meyers for a support in furthering
the Red Cross work in this communi
ty. An entertainment program was
given by Mrs. D. J. Thurston, and
assisted by Mrs. Charles Gulley, as
follows:
Instrumental duet, by Mrs. R. C.
White and Mrs. Charles Gulley.
Mrs. Thurston then introduced
Miss Lewis who very ably discussed
the subject for the afternoon, j
"County Government in North Caro
lina.”
Vocal solo, “Goodnight, Little i
Girl,” by Miss Dorothy Young, ac
companied by Mrs. Gulley, pianist.
At the conclusion of the delightful
program, the hostess assisted by
Misses Mary Ellington and Dorothy
Young, served delicious refreshments
Liberty Bell To Be
Visible At All Hours
Washington, I>ec. 13.—Of all the
national shrines of patriotism and
pride in history rn which this Nation
abounds, the Liberty Bell is easily
first, symbolizing, as it does, the ]
very foundation of the Nation, and
having clustered around it so much
of romance and of pride.
Hitherto the Liberty Bell, in Inde
pendence Hall, Philadelphia, has only
been on view during a part of the
day. Now, however, it is announced
that the Bell is to be further pro
tected by a wrought-lron grill, and
illuminated at nllght, so that the
visitor who wants to see the historic
old relic, and imagine for himself
what it sounded like before it was
cracked and when its voice sent the
call of Liberty echoing around the
world and down the centuries, may
never be disappointed.—Captia! News
Service.
Wm. A. Pinkerton,
Detective Is Dead
I
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 11.—Wil- 1
liam A. Pinkerton, world-famous de
tective, died here this morning at the
Hotel Biltmore.
Sketch of Life
One of the first noted American
criminologists to advocate and prac
tice humanitarian methods in deal
ing with felons, William Allan Pink
erton, head of the Pinkerton Na
tiona Detective Agency, was credited
with having reformed more safe
blowers and hank robbers than any
other man in fbe ifurtry.
Primarily a thief-taker, Mr. Pink
. rton spent more than 50 years of
his lh*V» running down criminals of !
a.’ classes, yet he always stood repdy !
to proffer a helping hand to the un
fortunate malefactor whose repent
ance was genuine and whose desire
to reform was sincere.
William Allan Pinkerton and his
brother, Robert A., succeeded to the
business of their father, Allan Pink
erton, when the latter died in 1884
after founding the detective agency
which bears his name. • This was
before the powerful- armor-plated
vaults, electrically operated and pro
tected, were heard of, and safe blow
ers were in their hey-dey. Determ
ined to specialize in bank protection,
William Pinkerton enlisted the sup
port of the leading financial institu
tions of the country and then made
a detailed study of the men who
were preying upon them. He warned
noted bank robbers as they were
arrested.
“You leave my people alone and
I’ll leave you alone. If you don’t
I’ll follow you to the end of the
earth.”
William A. Pinkerton was born in
Dundee, Illinois, April 7, 1846. He
was educated in public and private
schools and when ready for college
entered Notre Dame University.’
The Boll Weevil Fight
Planned for^fext Year
Raleigh, Dec. 10.—-Farmers and
county agents are beginning to look
forward to the 1924 fight against the
Boll-weevil, and investigation and ex
tension workers are preparing for the
fray. During the past week C. A.
Whittle, on behalf of the Association
of Southern Agricultural Workers,
has been in Raleigh securing data
and results on the work of the year
from the workers in the Division of
Entomology and Agronomy of the
State College and Department of Ag
riculture. Similar data is to be se
cured from other southern states
with the object of issuing a general
statement of findings and recom
mendations when the Association
meets in January at Birmingham,
Alabama.
During the autumn, farmers were
encouraged by College workers to
make an effort to pick the cotton
promptly, and to kill Wie stalks be
fore frost, as this is known to lessen
the multiplication of the weevil in
the late fall The presence of the
cotton leaf-worm in many fields help
ed in the work by destroying the
late-season food of the weevils.
These things would tend to reduce
the number of weevils to survive the
winter; but, on the other hand, the
mildness of the winter thus far is
in the weevil’s favor.
For the remainder of the winter
some good may be accomplished oj
a general clean-up along hedge-rows,
rock-piles, ditch-banks, or terra::.-,
which are near to the 1923 cotton
fields. This may help the appear
ance of the farm also. Farmers are
advised to look forward studiously to
Ine use of the best po'dblc cultural
a e4h'<1 •• for cottor as a.'vised from
the Dr^sion of Agron »ny
Preparations are now being made
by Prof. Franklin Sherman of the
Division of Entomology for a series
of meetings throughout the north
eastern section of the state early in
1924. At these meetings it is intend
ed to present the best proven meth
ods for avoiding or preventing wee
vil damage, as well as direct means
of control by the use of poisons. The
rather light dafnage by weevil in
1923, combined with a favorable crop
and a satisfactory range of prices,
gives reason for encouragement, yet
should not lull us into a false of se
curity.
NEWS ITEM IN
CITY OF PRINC’TON
Community League Holds Inter
esting Meeting; Thief
Scared Off.
Princeton, Dec. 13.—Misses Eula
and Eunice Baker, Ethel Winstead
and Ethel Royster visited relatives
in Goldsboro Saturday.
Miss Elizabeth Uzzle visited her
parents in Wilson’s Mills for the week
end.
Misses Gulie and Beulah Toler
spent Saturday in Smithfield.
Misses Bessie and Jessie Massey,
Mrs. Henry Fitzgerald and Mrs. WT.
P. Suggs visited friends in Goldsboro
Wednesday.
Misses Nell Kirkpatick and Celia
Satterfield and Mr. Alston Worley
spent Saturday in Goldsboro.
Mr. Ed Jones, from Goldsboro,
spent the week end with Miss Gladys
Worley.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Miller and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lewis
from Goldsboro visited Mrs. J. W.
Baker Sunday.
Their many friends will be very
glad to learn that Mr. James Rowe
and Miss Ettie Creech were happily
married last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed A. Holt and fami
ly spent Sunday in Smithfield with
Mrs. Holt’s parents.
An effort was made to steal a bale
of cotton from the yard of Mr. Frank
Summerlin Monday night. The par
ties were driving a truck and were
making ready to load a bale when a
member of the family awakened and
made a noise which scared them a
way Mr. Summelin had six bales in
his yard all within fifteen feet of
his house. After being discovered
these parties drove the truck about
150 feet up the road and tuned
around and then went back by the
house toward Neuse river. Although
they did not get the cotton two good
barrels were missing from the yard
next morning.
As a result of a meetnig at Tee’s
Chapel by the Free V^Uli Baptist
forty people were baptized last Sun
day in the creek near the church.
Miss Allie Snipes has been spend
ing several days with relatives in
Goldsboro.
Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Woodard from
Goldsboro, were in town a short
while Wednesday evening on their
way to attend the marriage of Miss
Sallie Woodard, to Mr. Lonnie Lynch,
the ceremony to be solemnized at
the home of Mr. Monroe Woodard.
The Community League met last
Friday evening, December 7th, at
the City Hall. The following program
was rendered and was enjoyed by all:
Song, “Battle Hymn of the Repub
lic,” by the League.
Vocal solo, “Absent” by Miss Vir
ginia Woodard.
| Piano solo, “When the Lights are
Low” by Miss Lelia Straughan.
Address, “How we can Train for
Good Citizenship” by Mr. J. I, Lee.
Vocal duet, “My Heart Breathes
a Welcome” by Misses Alma Pearce
and Evelyn Edwards.
Recitation, Miss Evelyn Edwards.
Song, “America” by the League.
It was decided to change the time
for this League meeting from the
first Tuesday in each month to the
first Friday.
I -
| Preaching at Court
House Sunday Night
There will be preaching at the
court house Sunday night, commenc
ing at seven o’clock. Mr. C. Eddie
! Ruffin of Raleigh has been secured
to do the speaking.
The brass band that has just been
organized in Smithfield in connec
tion with the Mission work, is ex
pected to play several pieces of sa
j cred music in the service Sunday
; night.
A MISTAKE IN
W. L. WOODALL’S SONS Al)
—
There was a mistake in the adver
tisement of W. L. Woodall’s Sons
published in out last issue. The
price of forty cent Devonshire should
have been 29 cents instead of 25
cents. This enterprising f:rni is con
du*-t»ng a pro i Inlay sale, mo their
saV- is full of bargain'.
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