VOLUME 43
NUMBER 29
Sixth District of The North
Carolina Federation of Clubs
To Meet Here Next Friday
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MORE TRAN 100
DELEGATESEXPECTED
All-Day Program Will
Be Held In Court
House; Twenty-Two
Clubs.
MRS. JERMAN TO SPEAK
With nineteen Federated Clubs and
three Home Bureaus in the Sixth Dis
trict of the North Carolina Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs, the local Wo
man’s club is expecting more than
a hundred delegates here next Friday,
the occasion being the annual meet
ingof the Sixth District. Mrs. F. H.
Brooks of this city is president of
this District and Mrs. H. B. Marrow
secretary. A splendid program has
been arranged for an all-day meet
ing which will be held at the court
house, Mrs. Palmer Jerman, presi
dent of the State Federation being
the principal speaker. A box lunch
will be served at the Woman's Club
room at noon.
The following clubs are in the
Sixth District: Woman’s Club of
Apex, Woman’s Club Entre Nous,
John Charles McNeil Clubs of Ben
son; Community Club of Chapel Hill;
Halcyon and Woman’s Clubs of Clay
ton; Reviews and Woman’s Clubs of
Durham; Woman’s Club of Kenly;
Association of University Women,
Thursday afternoon, Woman’s Club,
Council of Jewish Women, and Wake
County Betterment Clubs of Raleigh;
Research Club of Roxboro; Woman’s
Club of Selma; Woman's Club of
Smithfield. The home bureaus are
located in Johnston, Wake and Dur
ham counties. A club has been re
cently organized at Wilson’s Mlils,
which may federat eat an early date.
The following program for the
meeting is as follows:
Morning Session
10:30 A. M.—1:00 P. M.
Lord s Prayer.
Federation Song.
Greetings-- Mrs. J. J. Broadhurst
Smithfield
Response_Mrs. J. M. Woolard
Kenly
Minutes_Mrs. H. B. Marrow
Smithfield
Appointment of Committees.
Report of District President_
Mrs. F. H. Brooks, Smithfield
Report of clubs By the Presidents
Luncheon
Afternoon Session
2:00 P. M.—4:00 P. M.
Song “America The Beautiful.”
Address_Mrs. Palmer Jerman
Raleigh, N. C.
Round Table Discussion.
Report of committees.
Election of Officers.
Adjournment.
Mr. Creech Buys Big Fish
Last Saturday Mr. Graham Smith,
proprietor of Smith’s Market, has
several large fish on display. A
few of the largest which were sus
pended over a truck and carried
through the town called forth a good
bit of comment. One of them weigh
ed 44 pounds and was bought by Mr.
Rufus Creech, of Pine Level, Route
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Play At Brogden
A four act play, “Valley Farm,”
will be given at Brogden school
house Saturday night, April 11, at
eight o’clock. The proceeds will be
used for the benefit of White Oak
Baptist church. Admission 25 and
15 cents.
“What we want to do,” he cried,
“is to get rid of socialism, radicalism,
bolshevism, communism, anarchism
and sovietism.”
“And while we’re about it,” chimed
in a weather-beaten old man, “can
you throw in rheumatism?”—Ex.
Elect Delegates
to The County
Convention
The Smithfield township primary
was held Saturday, April 5, and elect
ed the following delegates to the
County Convention to be held at the
court house in Smithfield next Sat
urday, April 12, at twelve o’clock:
W. D. Avera, D. J. Wellons, Claude
Hill, J. E. Woodall, R. E. Daughtry,
D. C. Johnson, J. W. Alford, J. G.
Hamilton, T. D. Creech, C. T. Hill,
J. H. B. Tomlinson, rs. T. J. Lassi
ter, Mrs. F. H. Brooks, Mrs. G. B.
Smith, Mrs. H. L. Skinner, and Miss
Cora Belle Ives.
All other Democrats who attend
said County Convention are hereby
constituted delegates also.
J. W. STEPHENSON,
Chairman.
Co. Board of Health
Met Here Yesterday
The County Board of Health, com
posed of D. B. Oliver of Pine Level,
Chairman, Dr. B. A. Hocutt of Clay
ton, Dr. J. C. Grady of Kenly and H.
B. Marrow and Jno. A. Narron of
this city met in this city yesterday
and considered two items of business
which if put into execution will havflr
a far reaching effect in the coun
ty.
Supt. Thos. H. Franks of the city
school system, went before the board
and asked that steps be taken to pro
vide physical examination of the
school children, wit hthe idea of hold
ing clinics to remedy the defects. The
Board received the suggestion favor
ably and the examinations will be
made in all of the schools of the coun
ty provided the Johnston County
Medical Society approves. This work
will be done by the State Board of
Health and will not call for any lo
cal appropriation.
The matter of reinstating in the
county a bureau of aternity and In
fant Hygiene, was also discussed and
this move was also approved if it
shall be endorsed by the County Med
ical Society. Dr. K. P. B. Bonner of
the State Board of Health, will ad
dress the Medical Association in Sel
ma to day upon this subject, and
action will probably be taken by that
body.
It will be recalled that a nurse,
I Miss Sarah Mulberry, did work in
Johnston County some months ago,
but after four months it was dis
continued . The medical members of
the County - Board of Health com
mend her work very highly, and it is
probable that this bureau will again
function in Johnston.
School’s Dramatic Club
Mrs. Alfred R. Wilson, Expres
sion Teacher, and five of her pupils,
Messrs. Lawrence Wallace, Thel
Hooks, isses Carrie Young, Pauline
Broadhurst and Odessa Massey, went
to Chapel Hill last week to attend
the Carolina Dramatic Institute held
there Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Wil
son’s class here is a member of the
State Dramatic organization, and ex
pects to give its first entertainment
on April 29.
Representatives from the class will
go to Trinity and Guilford College on
April 22 and 25 respectively to en
ter the state wide recitation and dec
lamation contests at these institu
tions. The preliminary contest will
be held here on April 17th to which
the public is invited.
Miss Pou Appointed Maid-of-Honor
Miss Margaret Pou, who is spend
ing the time during Congress, in
Washington, D. C. has again been
honored in the appointment by Gen
eral A. H. Boyden, Brigadier of the
First Brigade of the North Carolina
Confederate Veterans, as maid-of
honor for his official staff for the
Confederate Reunion in Memphis,
Tenn. the first week in June.
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FOREST FIRE IN
BENTON VILLE
One of our reporters sends us
information of a disastrous forest
fire in Bentonville Township. The
fire started about April first and
burned for three or four consecu
tive days covering over some three
or four hundred of acres of land
and doing great, damage to tim
ber and fuel. It had its origin
from a fire that was started in
a farmer’s field, the farmer doing
some hedying— The main part of
the old battlefield was swept over
by this fire, which at the last of
the week was reported to be un
der control having run its course.
COL. OLDS IN COUNTY
SEARCHING DATA ON
JOHNSTON’S HISTORY
Col. Fred A. Olds of Raleigh, gave
our county a visit last week. While
here he spent a day searching old
records in the court house for data
relating to the early history of John
ston County. He also spent an aft
ernoon in Bentonville Township visit
ing the old battlefield. He purposes
to give Johnston and especially the
battlefield a writeup in the near
future. His articles appear in The
Orphan’s Friend published at Ox
ford Orphanage. Col. Olds is also
interested in a highway between
Smithfield and Clinton leading by the
Bentonville battlefield.
England’s Poet Laureate In U. S.
Responding to repeated invitations
to visit the United States, Dr. Rob
ert Bridges, poet laureate of Eng
land, arrived here on the Celtic for
a visit of three months. Dr. Bridges
was accompanied by his wife. Tall
and slender, the poet laureate seemed
to waver as he walked down the gang
plank. His hair is long and gray and
his whiskers white.
The poet will be entertained by
friends in this city for a few days
before going to Ann Arbor, where
he will be the guest of President M.
Leroy Burton of the University of
Michigan. Dr. Bridges will lecture
before educational institutions, par
ticipate in conferences and exchange
opinions with men of letters in the
United States.—N. Y. World.
HONOR ROLL FOR
CORINTH-HOLDERS SCHOOL
Low first grade—Magdaline Davis,
Mary Lou Whitaker.
High first grade: Luna Mae Batten
Lucile Smith, Maragret Price, Clin
ton Boyett and Bernice Eason.
Second grade: Gladys Davis,
Myrtle Whitaker, and Elijah Bass.
Third grade: Alice Pope and Kath
leen Whitley.
Fourth grade: Grace Richardson,
Rochelle O’Neal, Nicy Davis and Da
get Richardson.
Fifth grade: Dalton Batten, Neva
Smith, Sadie Hocutt, Kemit Boyette
and Eula Hocutt.
Sixth grade: Ruth Smith, Haze!
Richardson and Regina Boyette.
Seventh grade: Lydia Smith, Min
nie Thompson and Luna Boyette.
Woolworth Building Sold
Control of the Woolworth Building
passed from the heirs of F. W. Wool
worth, 5 and 10-cent store merchant,
last week when the world’s tallest
office building was sold for $11,000,- j
000 cash by the Broadway-Park Place
Realty Company to the Woolco Real
ty Company. The $11,000,000 ulti
mately will be distributed among the
heirs. The transfer was forecast sev
eral weeks ago.
The original cost of the building, .
completed in 1912, was $13,500,000
and its assessed value is $11,250,000.
—New York World.
THREE STATES OF
THE MID-WEST TO
HAVEJMK
William G. McAdoo
Through His Man
ager Makes Fight
For Illinois Vote.
VOTE IN MICH. AND NEB
Chicago, April 6.—The Mid West
enters its most portentious week of
political activity Monday with 113
National convention delegates at
stake in the Republican primary
contests of Michigan, Illinois and j
Nebraska.
Michigan leads off Monday with a
presidential preference primary. |
There as in Illinois and Nebraska,
where voters will express their pref
erence Tuesday, Senator Hiram
Johnson and President Coolidge are
opposing candidates.
In the Democratic column, Wil
liam G. cAdoo is entered only in
Illinois, while his opponents have an
“uninstructed delegate” slate entered.
Nebraska and Michigan have “fa
vorite son” Democrats, unopposed.
The Republican contests in the
Mid West between Jafhnson and
Coolidge largely head up with the
coming week’s vote. Most of the
states in which the California Sena
tor held his greatest strength four
years ago will then have expressed
themselves.
With President Coolidge’s mana
; gers already claiming 377 convent:on
| delegates, victory in Michigan with
| her 33 delegates in Illinois with her
61 and in Nebraska with 19, would
give him a total of 490 or but 65
short of a convention majority. They
assert that the next 10 days will give
i the President clear control of the
National convention.
Senator Johnson has made an ac
tive campaign in the three states and
his managers express themselves as
confident of a decisive victory in
each of them. Particular attention
has been directed to Illinois a con
’ ter of Johnson strength in former
years.
On the Democratic side, McAdoo
has made an active fight through his
manager for the Illinois vote. In
| Michigan, Senator Ferris is on the
ballot with Henry Ford, who has r.ot
withdrawn his name.
Nebraska Democrats have Gover
nor Charles W. Bryan, brother of
William Jennings Bryan, as their
'favorite son” candidate.
Membership Drive On April 18
Raleigh, April 7.—With a mem
bership of almost 250,000 cotton
growers in the Southern states, the
cooperative cotton associations have
made their plans for a one day mem
bership drive. The plan provides
that every local organization in the
twelve Southern states will do in
tensive work on Friday, April 18.
A prepartory meeting of
the members of the associa
tion will be held on Wednesday, April
16, when every local organization in
twelve Southern states will plan their
work for the following Friday. The
same plan will be followed every
where. A list of non-members will
be prepared and studied and divided
up and the members of the associa
tion will go out in their several
neighborhoods two and two and make
a determined effort to secure the
signed contract of every non-member
cotton grower in one day.
North Carolina cotton growers, to
the number of 35,000 are enthusiastic
according to the reports received by
the Field Service Department at Ra
leigh, and these 35,000 members can
do big things on Friday, April 18, if
they make the effort.
Harry Daugherty finally bowed to
the inevitable but he kicked its cat
as he did so. He could be arrested
for saying in church what he thinks
for calling upon him to resign.
MISS KENLY AT
THE EXPOSITION
Johnston County will have at
least one representative in the
Beauty Queen’s Contest at the
Eastern Carolina Exposition to be
held in Kinston, April 7 to 12.
Miss Maye Wilkinson of Kenly
having been selected to represent
that city. Miss Wilkinson, who
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Wilkinson, is a young wo
man of rare charms.. She is a de
cided blond, of the Colonial type
of beauty, and as modest and
graceful as the girls in the day
of our grandmothers. She was
educated at St. ary’s school, Ra
leigh and at Greensboro College
For Women. She has many
friends in Eastern Carolina who
will watch with interest her part
in the Beauty Contest.
GOUTY COMMISSIONERS
NAME JJS T TAKERS
W. J. Lambert Appoint
ed As Co Surveyor
To Succeed His
Father.
A new county surveyor, r. W. J.
Lambert, was appointed by the coun
ty commissioners in regular session
here yesterday, to succeed Mr. Rom
Lambert who died a few weeks ago.
The new surveyor is a son of the late
Mr. Lambert, and was appointed to
fill out the term until election.
The commissioners had a busy day.
Among the items of business attend
ed to was the renewal of the appro
priation of $200 to be used by the
Children’s Home Society in Greens
boro in caring for needy chi\ren i«
Johnston County. Quite a number of
children from this county has been
placed in good homes through thi«
appropriation, this wor kbeing handl
ed through the County Public Wel
fare Department.
Apprpriation was als omade for
several cases under the Mothers’ Aid
plan.
The following were placed on the
outside pauper list: John Bail, Sax-ah
Dail, Ashley Whitley and Julia Ward.
Tax listing time approaches and i
the following list takers for each j
township' were appointed: Wilson’s!
Mills, D. E. Easom; Clayton, V. R.
Turley; Cleveland, F. M. Weeks;
Pleasant Grove, E. S. Coats; Eleva
tion, W. L. Massengill; Banner, J.
M. Lawhon; Meadow, L. P. Johnson;
Bentonsville, W. H. Upchurch; In
grams, N. H. Barbour; Boon Hill,
Harry Watson; Micro, Joe D. Creech;
Beulah, Claud Darden; Oneals, P. B.
Chamblee; Wilders, W. C. Whitley;
Selma, H. E. Suber; Pine Level, N.
G. Wiggs; Smithfield, R. E. Smith.
RICE’S CREW WILL PLAY
STRONG SANFORD 9 TODAY
Smithfield plays its opening game
here this afternoon with Sanford.
The game will be called at 3:30
on the school diamond. The locals
will meet the strong Selma team
here tomorrow (Wednesday) after
noon at 3:30 o’clock. All fans are
urged to come out and enjoy a good
game.
Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Old Lady (to druggist): “I want
a box of canine pills.”
Druggist: “What’s the matter with
the dog?”
Old Lady (indignantly): “I want
you to know, sir, that my husband
is a gentleman.”
The druggist put up some quinine
pills in profound silence.—Ex.
Mr. Chas. S. Nicholson, of Cleve
land, Ohio, who has been spending
the winter in Florida, is in the city
for several days the guest of his sis
ter, Mrs. R. H. Alford, en route to
his home.
BETTER BUSINESS
III UNITED STATES
IS MED FOR
Spectacular Gains Are
Scored By Cotton;
High Rate Of Auto
mobile Production.
MONEY COMEWHAT EASIER
New York, April 6.—A more cheer
ful sentiment developed in business
and financial circles during the past
week. Considerable optimism was ex
pressed with regard to the report of
the Dawes committee. Attention al
so was given to reports of better
prospects for tax reduction.
Securities and commodities rallied
briskly, apparently because the mar
ket was oversold. Foreign exchange
rates also displayed considerable
strength.
Spectacular Recovery
One of the most spectacular recov
eries of the week occurred in cotton.
Liverpool led the advance, apparent
ly impressed with the prospects for
better business in Europe and with
the added European purchasing pow
er implied in the advancing exchange
rates. Short covering was heavy here
and its effect was augmented by for
eign and domestic trade buying. May
rose above 3 cents, a gain of four
cents from the low of less than two
weeks ago.
Car loading figures for the week
ended March 22 disclosed another
slight decrease compared with the
previous week. For the first time
since early in the year the total was
smaller than for the corresponding
week of 1923. These decreases were
attributed to a sharp slackening in
car loadings, for stocks of coal were
built up against the possibility of a
strike on April 1. Production and
loadings of coal have decreased rap
idly since the middle of February,
when it became apparent there would
be no strike.
Good Movement
Meanwhile, there was no reduction
in the movement of general mechan
diso and less than carload freight
which continued to run ahead of the
movement at this time last year.
Reports from the steel industry
indicated that production during
March equaled the high records made
in April, 1923. Buying during the
first two-thirds of the month main
tained the large volume of February,
but a slackening came during the last
ten days. The market was slightly
easier and there was a disposition to
expect some reduction in output. The
best judges did not anticipate a sud
den or large decrease in operations,
pointing to the large volume of build
ing construction under contract and
to the big roalroad orders for materil
to be used in improving rights of way
Slight Reduction
Preliminary figures placed automo
bile production during March at 356,
000 passenger vehicles and trucks. Al
lowing about 10 per cent for trucks,
this means approximately 320,000
passenger cars. These figures con
firmed the reports that production
schedul eswere reduced about 15 per
cent during the month. It was
pointed out in the trade, however,
that an unusual number of cars were
1 made during January and February
as the manufacturers wished to an
ticipate the spring demand. The trade
continued to be satisfied that the
curtailments ha dplaced the situation
in proper balance. If the rate of
the first quarter is continued during
the rest of the year the output of
motor vehicles will be approximately
four million.
A somewhat easier tone came into
the money market with the call rate
on the stock exchange dropping back
to four per cent and the bid on short
maturities of time money at New
York going to 1 1-4 per cent. Mp'st
bankers expect an easy market dur
in gthe next several weeks but anti
cipate no sudden or striking change.
—Associated Press.