McLean’s Friends Call
Special Meeting Here
POLITICAL POT BEGINS
TO BOIL IN JOHNSTON
Citizens Of Johnston
County Issue Call
For A Meeting In
Court House Sat.
COUNTY WIDE MOVEMENT
The political pot in Johnston Coun
ty has begun to boil—not the sim
memig of local politics but a guber
natorial bubble, practically the first
to tappear on the surface. Johnston
County gave Cameron Morrison good
support when he was a candidate for
governor, and it now looks as if
the county will show considerable in
terest in his ehoice as his successor
—Hon. A. W. McLean.
The undersigned citizens and resi
dents of Johnston County, and friends
and supporters of Hon. A. W. Mc
Lean, in his campaign for Governor,
hereby call the friends and support
ers of A. W. McLean in Johnston
County, to meet in the court house
in Smithfield, at 2 o’clock p. m. on
Saturday, March 29th, -
W. J. Wilder, Preston B. Chamblee,
Leonard Chamblee, L. A. Wilson,
Wayland Brown, J. W. O’Neal, N.
G. Wiggs, T. 0. Wiggs, T. R. Mas
sengill, Dan U. Oliver, J. G. Crock
er, D. B. Oliver, W. A. Herring, A.
F. Futrell, H. A. Massengill, S. A.
Peedin, M. G. Peedin, James L.
Peedin, J. H. Griffin, L. D. Debnam,
M. G. Futrell, J. M. Vinson, Geo. D.
Vick, C. F. Kirby, J. D. Edens, W.
L. Ellis, Sr. Elisha Grant, Geo. F.
Woodard, J. R. Holt, J. R. Holt, Jr.,
D. D. Braswell, T. D. Sasser, O. L.
Boyett, J. P. Rains, M. B. Rains, J.
B. Rowe, Ed A. Holt, V. B. Talton,
M. B. Lynch, S. G. Fail, H. A. Wat
son, J. R. Ledbetter, J. S. Edwards,
A. K. Worley, R. E. Barrett, P.
Armstrong, A. Bumetti Jesse Bass,
R. G. Gaylor, W. P. Sugg, B. L.
Aycock, H. M. Fitzgerald, W. T.
Hinton, M. T. Hinton, Jas. Smith,
J. W. Wright, Jr., Vine Edwards,
Andrew Brewer, W. J. Woodard, J.
, J. Massey, W. H. Edwards, Z. V.
Johnson, C. R. Gurley, L. K Pearce,
G. B. Perry, S. A. Wellons, W. H.
Wellons, H. B. WellonB, N. O. God
win, Millard Godwin, E. B. Godwin,
C. P. Godwin, John W. Godwin, W.
H. Godwin, and J. S. Talton. C. A.
Fitzgerald, L. M. Ausley, R. L.
Moore, T. C. Pearce, J. W. Crumpler,
G. B. Holland, W. F. Hinnant, Jake
Barefoot, J. W. Keen, P. H. Kasey,
J. W. Stephenson, A H. Rose, W. L.
Woodall, E. R. Wilson> W- C* Coates.
WT. Hinton, Mrs. R. E. Barham, J.
W. Barnes, Ruffin Richardson, R. E.
Barham W. H. Batten, Mrs. J. 1.
Whitley, W. H. Whitley, J. D. Wood
ard, H. J. Eason, G. N. Hinton, Berry
Boyette, W. M. Whitley, C. M. Wil
son, D. P. Crocker, Harry N. Wil
son, F. L. Nichols, J. V. Whitley, Dr.
J. A. Griffin, R. A. Wall. Carl K.
Parrish, C. B. Parrish, H. P. Turn
age, T. L. Page, B. A. Tumage, J.
E. Parrish, L. C. Davis, L. F. Uzzle,
D. 0. Uzzle, N. R. Wilson, J. A.
Todd, J. W. Tomlinson, J. Battle
Tomlinson, D. Henry Stephenson, P.
P. Youngblood, A. M. Johnson, Seba
R. Johnson, H. M. Barber, John O.
Ellington, J. E. Yelvington, R. A.
Yelvington, M. W. Booker, Mrs. R.
A. Yelvington, Mrs. John 0. Elling
ton, Mrs. F. T. Jlooker, J T. Elling
ton, John O. Ellington Jr., W. H.
Stephenson, Pou Coats Delno Coats,
Ed S Coates, Mrs. Lida Ooates,
Nannie E. Coates, Mrs. B. I. Steph
enson, John P. Stephenson, F. Y.
Stephenson, Mrs. Ella Stephenson,
rs. Vallie Stephenson, J. J. Massen
gill, J. Clarence Hardee, Mrs. J.
Clarence Hardee, J. B. Hardee, J.
E. Gilbert, Mrs. J. E. Gilbert, R. C.
Pleasant, C. T. Pleasant, C. K. Pleas
ant, D. A. Holland, R. M. Pleasant,
L. T. Ogburn, Claude Stephenson,
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MEREDITH HEAD
MAKES ADDRESS
Dr. Brewer Tells Large
Crowd At Baptist
Church About His
Church School.
FINE MUSICAL PROGRAM
Dr. Chas. E. Brewer, president of
Meredith College, Raleigh, address
ed a large crowd at the Baptist
hurch here Sunday evening in he
half of Meredith College. Dr. Brew
er was thoroughly interested in his
subject and held the attention of his
his hearers from start to finish.
He first gave a brief history of the
college, starting at its beginning in
1891 and told of its progress during
the twenty-five years its doors have
been open to young women. Although
it was founded in 1891 it was not
opened until 1899. Since its first
year it has averaged 150 new stu
dents each year, and for some time
numbers have been turned away ev
1 ery year on account of lack of room.
I In speaking of the influence Mer
eedith College has had in the state
* and nation, Dr. Brewer said that
! 3,445 girls had received training there
and of this number 535 had gradu
ated. These young women have gone
into homes and offices, many have
taken post graduate courses in high
er institutions while fifteen have
gone into foreign fields as mission
aries. He said that the influence for
good that these young women have
! had in the wrold is incalcuable.
He told of the need of more room
to accomodate the ever increasing
number that seek admission every
year, and said that those who were
turned away meant a great loss to
the Baptist denomination. With only
four acres of land and rooming ca
pacity for only 368, Dr. Brewer said
that the trustees of the college had
been particularly fortunate in se
curing the splendid location for the
new buildings just two miles from
Raleigh, where the college will have
130 acres of land instead of four.
At the last meeting of the State
Baptist Convention bonds were au
thorized to the amount of $750,000
for the new site and buildings for
the college. l?r. Brewer closed with
an appeal for all the members of the
Baptist denomination to lend their
support in this undertaking, to stand
back of their church school and to
buy as many of the bonds as possi
ble during “Meredith Week” which
will be observed in April.
Special music by the choir and so
los by Miss Frances White and Miss
Patten, students of Meredith College,
were enjoyed byt he entire congre
gation.
Miss Pou Chairman of Floor Com.
The Hon. Josephus I|aniels and
Mrs. Daniels will be the guests of
honor at a ball to be given in Wash
ington, D. C., Friday evening March
28th, by the North Carolina Society
of Washington. Mr. E. F.. Hartley
is president of the society.
Miss Margaret Pou, daughter of
Congressman Edward Pou and Mrs.
j Pou, of this city, has been appointed
! chairman of the Young Ladies’ Floor
j committee by Mr. Hartley.
Miss Pou has chosen the following
young girls from the congressional
circle as her assistants: Misses Vir
ginia Garrett, Reba Doughton, Fan
ny May Trimble, Harriett Mitchell,
(Mary Smithwick, Millicent Bailey,
Pauline Coleman, Katherine McLane
and Betty Bryant.
Mrs. Pou will be a patroness at
the ball.
Mrs. Claude Stephenson, W. E. God
win, Bentonville, T. S., Kirby Rose,
J. H. Mashbum, L. Langston.
Get 12 Stills
In a Week
Mr. Monroe Tart, of the southern
part of the county near the Sampson
county line, was arrested at his
home last week by revenue officers
when they found about four gallons
of whiskey in a tobacco barn on his
|
premises. The officers also found
two stills of forty and sixty gallons
capacity, near his house in the woods.
Week before last revenue officers
captured seven stills in Brunswick
county and three in New Hanover
county, making a total of twelve
stills in three counties during the
past two weeks.
UNION in AT
CARTER’S CHAPEL
The Little River Baptist union
meeting will be held with Carter’s
Chapel Baptist church on Saturday
and Sunday, March 29 and 30.
All the churches in this union are
urged to be well represented. Several
able speakers will be on the program
so come and gain more information
from this meeting. “Come thou with
us and we will do thee good.”
Carter’s Chapel doors are wide op
en to the people. Come. We are
prepared to care for you during the
meeting. Do not disappoint us, come
and spend the night. You’re wel
come—do not forget this.
Curtis-Turner
A wedding of interest to a large
circle of friends was solemnized last
Thursday evening in the parlors of
the Hotel Franklin, when Miss Grad
abelle Turner, the attractive daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Turner, of
Hartsville, S. C., became the bride of
Mr. Gaston Curtis, a well known
young man of Franklin, the oldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Curtis.
The ceremony was performed in the
presence of a few intimate friends
of the contracting parties.
Mrs. Curtis has made many frends
since coming to this county a few
months ago to teach at the Higdon ■
; ville High school. She has been a
frequent visitor in Franklin, and her
| friends here are glad that she decid
ed to remain, instead of returning to
her former home when the •chool
term was finished.
Mr. Curtis is one of our own
Franklin boys, who numbers his
friends by his acquaintance. He
holds a responsible position in the
i store of Mr. C. W. Hames.
The young couple are at present
I making their home at the Hotel
j Franklin, where they are receiving
the congratulations of their many
friends.—Franklin Press.
Mrs. Curtis is well-known here
where she lived for a number of
years. She is a graduate of Turling
ton Graded Bchool of this city and
taught school in the county after her
graduation. She has a number of
I friends in the county who wish her
all success and happiness.
Attned Birthday Dinner
Mr. W. T. Adams and sons, Fred
erick and Jesse, and daughter, Miss
Sarah, spent Sunday in the Polenta
section the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Yelvington. A number of
other guests were present the occa
sion being the celebration of the
sixty-third birthday of Mrs. F. T.
Booker, Mrs. Yelvington’s mother.
A turkey dinner was served, the
birthday cake with 63 candles being
a prominent feature.
Prayer Meeting At M. E. Church
There will be prayer-meeting at
the Methodist church Wednesday ev
ening at 7:30 o'clock. The service
i will be evangelistic in nature. The
pastor will speak on “The Early
Training of Samuel” or the Power
of a mother’s influence. The attend
ance of parents, and officers and
teachers of the Sunday school is re
quested.
TUMBLE PROPERTY
OF COUNTY SHOWS
LARGE INCREASE
County Auditor J. A.
Keene Gives Figures
For Johnston Coun
ty.
INCREASE OF $2,000,000 j
A recent report from the State De
partment of Revenue shows that the
increase in the valuation of taxable
property in North Carolina last year
over the previous year was only six
ty millions of dollars. Sixty-two of
the 98 counties showed an increase
while 36 reported a slight decrease.
The larger counties in the state re
ported the largest increase.
The taxable property in Johnston
County has advanced over two mil
lion dollars during the past year, the
increase in valuation of real estate
being $639,090 and that of personal
property reaching the amount of $1,
618.177.
The following figures complied by
Mr. J. A. Keen, Auditor of Johnston
County, show the lines along which
taxation in the county has increased
during the past year and gives the
comparison with the previous year.
Real estate listed (1922) $28,156,
170; (1923) $28,795,260.
Personal property listed 1922,
! $7,158,286; 1923, $8,776,463.
Railroad, telegraph, telephone, ex
! press, etc., excess valuation as as
sessed by State Dept, of Revenue
1 1922, $5,742,451; 1923, $5,747,502.
Bank excess valuations as assess
ed by State Dept, of Revenue 1922,
$458,351; 1923, $436,203.
Domestic Corporations excess as
assessed by State Dept, of Revenue
1922, $173,991; 1923, 58,106.
Total for 1922 $41,689,249; 1923,
$43,813,534.
In Memory Of Delia Pittman
Mrs. Delia Pittman died at her
home near Yelvington Grove Friday
night, February 29. She had been in
failing health for several months
with a complication of diseases but
was confined to her bed just a short
while before her death. All was
done for her that kind friends, rela
tives, and physician could do but none
could stay the icy hand of death. But
God knew best. We know that He
doeth all things well. She bore her
suffering patiently until tVie end as
if she was ready to go any time the
Lord called her. She was sixty
years old.
In 1885 she was married to Joel
Pittman, who preceded her to the
grave last April. Before her mar
riage she was Miss Delia Hughes, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Hughes. She leaves to mourn their
loss eight children, Walter, Paul,
Claud, Lonnie, Charlie, and Arthur
Pittman, Mrs. Lillie Sellers and Mrs.
Laura Capps. Besides her children
she leaves three sisters and three
brothers.
The funeral was held at the home
Saturday afternoon at two o’clock
conducted by Elder J. T. Collier, of
Micro, assisted by Elder Jesse Barnes
of Smithfield. The pall bearers
were: Messrs. Droudie Holt, Jim
Radford, Percy Sellers, Adie Rad
ford, Richard Sellers, and Ed Gen
nett. Interment was made in the
Creech cemetery in the presence cf
a large crowd of sorrowing friends.
The bereaved children have the sym
pathy of a large circle of friends in
J their loss.
One by one the Lord will ciul us,
As our labor here it done;
And as then we cross the river,
May we meet her cue by one.
By a daughter in law.
MAMIE PITTMAN.
Some people are so ingenious in
making explanations that they don’t
try to avoid making mistakes.
.Played a Dirty Trick On Himself
Land Lubber—Must be a deuced
lonely job keeping that lighthouse
over there?
FARMERS OF TWENTY
COUNTIES COMPETE IN
LIVE-AT-HOME CAMPAIGN
Democratic Women
To Meet and Talk
Over Tariff Rates
Washington, March 23.—The
Democratic National Commit
tee announced tonight it has
organized a series of meetings
for women to be held through
out the country in the next two
weeks at which the question of
the tariff will be discussed.
It is the purpose to employ
exhibitions of articles the wo
men buy, each article being
tagged with the selling price
and the amount of tariff it
bears.
MB. C. I. PIERGE
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Mr. Chas. I. Pierce, deputy sheriff
of Johnston County, died at his home
here Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock,
after an illness of about ten days
with pneumonia. He leaves a wife
and five children. The deceased was
38 years of age. The funeral ser
vices will be held from the home
Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock.
Rev. Mr. Murry, a former pastor of
the Presbyterian church here, of
which the deceased was a member,
will conduct the services. The burial
will take place in the Smithfield
cemetery.
| M. E. Barara Class Elects Officers
The Baraea Class of the Smith
field Centenary M. E. church elected
the following officers on last Sun
day morning: Lee E. Sanders, presi
dent; L. C. Powell, vice president;
Robert W. Sanders, secretary and
treasurer; Leon G. Stevens and W.
H. Lyons, teachers. Installation of
officers will follow soon.
In addition to the weekly study of
the Bible, the class always endeavors
to be an uplifting factor in the com
munity along religious and civic lines
Every member is a recruiting officer
and the class room each Sunday
morning is a recruiting office. Every
young man in the community who is
not affiliated with the Sunday school
is invited to take membership with
the class.
1,000,000 More Hens IN South
During the ten months ending Oc
tober, 1923, the United States import
ed from China 15,000,000 pounds of
dried and frozen eggs. In 1922 the
imports were 18,000,000 pounds. It
is evident that the American hen is
not getting a square deal, else she
would be supplying our domestic mar
kets. Those of us who live on farms
are not using enough eggs in uur
homes, nor are we taking as many
to our friends in town as they need
and should have. A million more lay
ing hens should be added to the
South’s “poultry plant this year.
Our egg-laying hens for next fall,
winter and spring must be hatched
this spring, the earlier the better. Be
sides there never will be a better
chance than now to get rid of all
scrubs and have nothing but pure
bred fowls. Now is the time to lay
plans for the increase of the flock.
Twenty-five percent is a good in
crease to make at one time, we as
sume. This increase may be made
in three ways: (1) By the purchase of
a pen of purebred fowls; (2) by the
purchase of day old chicks; and (3)
by the purchase of pure-bred eggs
for setting.
The increase of the flock is not a
matter that confines itself to the in
dividual farm. It is even more than
a community problem, and may easi
ly be more than a county matter, for
the profitable egg shipments from
Southern points to Northern cities
are carlot shipments. When the prod
ucts of cattle, hogs, and poultry are
made “money crops” in the South
| along with cotton and tobacco, “ther
I shall be the breaking of the fulness
j of our day,” as Henry Grady prophe
: sied long ago.—The Progressive
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Johnston Among Coun
ties To Share In
Prizes To Be Given
By Raleigh Bank.
IS SPLENDID MOVEMENT
Raleigh, March 24.—According to
an announcement made by Gilbert
Stephenson, vice president in charge
of the Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company branch at this city, his
bank will donate $500 in prizes to
further the purpose of the “Live-at
Home” campaign in the twenty coun
ties in which his bank operates. The
bank offers a prize of $25 to the
farmer in each of the following
twenty counties who shows the Most
progress towards living at home dur
ing 1924, as told in an article of
not over 500 words in length. The
counties in which the farmers may
enter the contest for this prize are
Buncombe, Madison, Haywood, For
syth, Yadkin, Surry, Stokes, Rock
ingham, Guilford, Davidson, Rand
olph, Rowan, Iredell, Cabarrus,
Wake, Durham, Johnston, Franklin,
Granville and Harnett.
Mr. Stephenson states that the
prize is not necessarily awarded to
I the farmer who makes the highest
grade in the ten things which he is
asked to do by the Agricultural Ex
tension Service of the State College
and Department of Agriculture, but
is to the one who makes the most
progress towards “living at home.”
The story may be written by the
farmer or by some one else for him.
It will be submitted to three judges
on or before December first, 1924.
The winning story will be given to
the local county paper for publica
tion. Following this the twenty best
stories (one from each county) will
be submitted to a committee com
posed of Dr. Clarence Poe of the
Progressive Fanner. Dean B. W.
Kilgore of the State College, and
Hon. W. A. Graham, Commissioner
of Agriculture. The best story se
lected by this committee will be pub
lished by the Progressive Farmer.
The twenty prizes of $25 each will
be mailed to the winners on or be
fore December 20 and will make a
nice little Christmas present.
The purpose of this is to help pro
mote the work done by the extension
[ workers of the State College in mak
ing North Carolina a happier an<>
more prosperous State.
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CARRYING SCHOOLS TO
SHUT-IN CHILDREN
To enable children temporarily
confined to their homes by reason of
accident or illness to keep pace with
their regular classroom work, and to
enable children permanently remov
ed from school to receive instruction
notwithstanding crippled limbs o*
bodies, the school superintendent of
Pasadenia, Calif., has worked out a
plan for sending school to shut-in*
children, according to School Life, a*
publication of the Bureau of Educa
tion. The work follows closely the
subjects of the curriculum, but hand*
work is stressed in most of the spe
cial cases. This method gives oppor
tunity for corrective work and the de
velopment of such muscles as neecfc
exercise. This part of the work is
under the direction of the physician
who . has examined the case before
the pupil’s enrollment.
Children considered hopelessly
crippled find under the special tu
toring that they may contirbute To
the work of family and community
in spite of their handicap.
Every school day the home teach
er is busy from six to eight hours,
visiting the homes of the smallest
children daily, the others every oth
ers every other day, outlining lessons
for the latter during the intervSflng
time.
Banks of Nash County will pay the
expenses of a club girl from each of
the fifteen townships to the short
course for chib girls.