RALEIGH DISTRICT
HAS FINE MEETING
Four Oaks Furnishes Royal
Entertainment For the
Methodist Body of Men
and Women.
A NUMBER IN ATTENDANCE
Twenty-four Methodist pasors rep
resenting seventy churches and a
goodly number of lay delegates of
the Raleigh District of the North
Carolina Conference held their an
nual meeting in Four Oaks last week,
the program starting Thursday morn
ing at ten o'clock.
Rev. M. T. Plyler, presiding elder
of the Raleigh District, was in the
chair and the first work of the ses
sion was to select Rev. H. I. Glass,
of Central church, Raleigh, as secre
tary. The roll call of the pastors
showed that only two in the District
were absent.
The work of Thursday included the
appoinment of committees and the
reports from the various charges.
The reports were declared to be su
perior to those of a year ago which
shows that the work of the district
is prospering. Two points were stress
ed especially in the reports—the im
provements going forward in Sunday
schools and the enlarging of equip
ment for Sunday school work. Rev.
Mr. Plyler introduced a new feature
in the reports. When bodies from the
churches of the district were pres
ent, they were called upon to give the
report on the Women’s work. The re
port from Smithfield was outstanding
because of the amount raised for mis
sions and the super-annuated preach
ers fund.
During the day two men were giv
en license as local preachers: Mr.
Ervine of Selma and Mr. Hardee of
Stem. Mr. Ervine already conducts
services at one place and he will
probably take on additional work in
the county. Mr. Hardee is at present
a student at the State University.
No business was transacted at the
evening session, Rev. D. N. Covin
ness, of Cary preaching an excellent
sermon. The sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper was administered at this ser
vice.
Friday, representatives from Trin
ity College, Louisburg College and
Carolina College at Maxton were
heard from, the needs and the good
being accomplished by these insti
tutions being presented. Rev. J. M.
Ormond was present from Trinity
College, Mr. Mohn from Louisburg,
and Rev. T. A. Sikes represented
Carolina. Rev. Mr. Sikes also rep
resented the North Carolina Chris
tian Advocate. In speaking of the
Advocate Mr. Sikes said that that
paper now has more than 25,000 sub
scribers, the largest circulation of
any Advocate in Southern Metho
dism. The property valuation of the
paper is $110,000 with no indebted
T1PKR.
Before the meeting adjourned,
Creedmore was selected as the next
meeting place, and the following
were elected as delegates to the an
nual Conference. The regular dele
gates are as follows: B. B. Adams of
Four Oaks, Chas. A. Creech of this
city, Dr. Albert Anderson of Raleigh,
Dr. E. T. White of Oxford, R. W.
Sanders of Clayton, A. H. Vann, of
Franklinton and Mr. Weaver of Ra
leigh.
The alternates were: Mrs. Jenkins
of the Methodist Orphanage, Mrs. F.
A. White of Kenly and Mr. F. B.
McKinne of Louisburg.
The conference was delighted with
the royal entertainment provided by
the Four Oaks people. The new
church which was dedicated last fall
is well adapted to conference pur
poses as this meeting demonstrated.
Committee rooms were available and
the basement is admirably arranged
for serving lunch which wa sprovid
ed at the church both Thursday and
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee E. Sanders who
have been living on Johnson street,
have recently moved to Second street
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Dixon have mov
ed to the residence they vacated.
COTTON GROWERS
OF COUNTY MEET
Elect Delegates To The
District Meeting Compris
ing Johnston and Wilson
Counties To Be Held Here
REPRESENTATIVE CROWD
The Johnston County unit of the
North Carolina Coton Growers As
sociation met in this city Friday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock, Chairman J. B.
Parker, presiding.
The meeting was opened by a talk
by Field Agen tJ. G. Lawton, on the
duties of members of the association
and the importanc eof securing new
members. Then Mr. N. B. Stevens,
County Farm Agent, presented a Pig
Club Project sponsored by he Smith
field Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Parker, the chairman, then
made a few remarks concerning the
importance of local organization and
reporting to headquarters.
The meeting was quite a represen
tative gathering, delegates from the
following sections being present:
Sandy Ridge, Benson, Rehobeth, Po
lenta, Carter’s, Corinth, Kenly, Glen
dale, Sandy Grove, M eadow, and
Smithfield. One colored group, Green
School, was represented. Besides
the delegates, the following mem
bers at large were in attendance: W.
H. Sasser, J. R. Oliver, G. B. Smith,
I. V. Pittman, J. M. Peele, W. A. T.
Durham, J. C. Woodall, J. W. Odum.
L. F. McLamb and C. G. Call.
The following were chosen as del
egates from Johnston County to at
tend the District Convention to be
held here in the Court house on May
9 at 2 P. M.: J. P. Parker, S. P.
Honeycutt, W. H. Flowers, N. H. Lu
cas, W. V. Blackman, P. H. Joyner,
W. M. Woodall, J. M. Peele, P. A.
Boyette and I. V. Pittman.
This district, which is Number 5,
is composed of Johnston and Wilson
Counties. An important feature of
the meeting to be held here May 9
will be the nomination of candidates
for director of the Fifth District.
The annual meeting of the Board
of Directors will be held in Raleigh
the third Monday in June at 11 a. m.
Large Turtle Caught
Dave Wood, colored, caught r. 21
pound turtle from Neuse River on
the farm of Dr. R. A. Smith near
Brogden school, on Friday, April 18.
The turtle measured two feet from
the end of his tail to his nose and
was said to be a regular sea turtle.
LITTLE FOLKS GIVE ENTER
TAINMENT AT COUNTY HOME
Eighteen primary pupils of the
Yelvington’s Grove school went to
the County Home with their teacher,
Mrs. Harry Roberts, Wednesday of
last week and gave a concert for the
inmates there. The program, which
consisted of character songs and folk
dances, was much appreciated by the
old peopl ein the county home.
Whiskey Captured
Two half gallon fruit jars of whis
key were captured Saturday after
noon on the Ford car of Mr. John
Kennedy, who lives near Wilson
Mills. The car and whiskey were
seized and Mr. Kennedy was released
by Mayor J. A. Narron under bond
to appear in Recorder’s Court on
May 6. It is said that he had been
under suspicion for some time and
was being watched by officers.
Concert Violiniste and Soprano
A “concert Violiniste and soprano
will be given at the High School aud
itorium Friday evening under the
auspices of the Woman’s Missionary
Society of the Methodist church.
Mrs. Mabelle New Williams is the
artist who will present this program
and she comes with high recommen
dations. She has been connected
with the Fayetteville School of Music
since last September and has been
well received in a number of con
certs. She is a master violinists and
possesses a fine voice as well.
The New Consolidated School Building at Brogden
NINE SCHOOLS MEET
HI PLEASANT GROVE
Rev. A. T. Lassiter and Supt- H.
B. Marrow Speakers On
This Occasion.
The fourth group commencement in
the county was held Saturday at
Pleasant Grove when Elevation, Pi
ney Grove, Wildwood, High-Tower,
Rehoboth, Piney Forest, Pleasant
Grove, Ogburn’s Grove, and Shiloh,
the nine schools in this group, met
for their final exercise. Fully 500
| school children were expected to be
present and take part in the exercise
; of the day, but the steady rain Sat
urday morning kept many away.
However, a good crowd was present
and most of the schools were well
represented in the parade. Pleasant
Grove having no auditorium to ac
commodate a large crowd a stage was
built outside the house and seats were
arranged in the grove.
The first thing on the program af
ter the parade was a song, “Hail to
Johnston County,” by Pleasant Grove
and Rehoboth schools. That was fol
lowed by “Vacation Song,” by the
smaller children from Pleasant Grove
and High-Tower schools. After a
yell from Elevation and a song by
Wildwood school, the seventh grade
graduates took their places upon the
stage, eighteen of the graduates be
: ing present.
In the absence of Col. Fred A Olds,
of Raleigh, and Rev. J. A. Campbell,
of Buie’s Creek, who were to make
addresses, Rev. A. T. Lassiter, of
Benson, was pressed into service. Al
though not expecting to be called up
on and saying that he felt like the
boy who forgot his speech in school,
he made a good talk. He urged the
boys and girls to take advantage of
: every opportunity that presents it
self. He mentioned the motto of the
Boy Scouts of America, “Be Pre
! pared,” and urged the boys and girls
to strive to be prepared for their fu
ture and to strive for an education.
He spoke of the good they could do |
m the world and of the influence for
good they could be. He said there
was not a boy or girl in the audience 1
who, under normal conditions, could
not get an education. He compared
Lthe salaries of the men who leave'
; school upon finishing the grammar
grades and high school, and those
who go through college. According
! to statistics, he said, every day in
school is worth about ten dollars to
a pupil. “Trained minds help us to
take advantage of the opportunities
that come to us,” he said. And not
only does it make a difference in the
salary one receives but it gives one
greater influence and a better po
sition in life.
Mr. H. B. Marrow, county superin
tendent, then explained the county
unit system of schools and said that
Pleasant Grove was the only one of
the seventeen townships in the coun
ty that did not have a high school.
He pointed out the fact that many
of the men who had achieved some
thing for themselves and been of ser
vice to the county had come from
that township, and mentioned several
of them by name. He said that some
of the best stock of people in the
county were found in that township.
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\v. Bailey Speaks to Large
Crowd Here on Political Issues
Renews His Challenge To
McLean To Meet Him
For Discussion of The
Taxation Question.
INTRODUCED BY MR HORNE
The people of this community had
opportunity to hear Hon. Josiah Wil
liam Bailey upon the political issues
of the day, at the court house here
Friday evening. Below we give the
report of his speech as published in
Sunday’s News and Abserver with a
date line of April 26th.
Speaking in Johnston county’s new
| courthouse last night, Josiah W. Bai
j ley, candidate for the Democratic
j nomination for Governor, renewed his
challenge for a joint discussion of tax
! ation with Angus McLean, his op
, ponent, and declared, “If he won't
I meet me face to face in a forum like
| this, I appeal to him, for God's sake,
not to let his strikers go around hit
ting me in the dark with letters like
the Surles thing, the Mull thing, and
the Barnes thing, which are not true
and which do not give me a chance
to defend myself.”
Mr. Bailey used the speech of Sec
retary of State Everett to the recent
Democratic Convention as his text
in discussing taxation. Bailey sup
porters are confidently claiming
Johnston county but Smithfield,
where tonight’s speech was made, is
admittedly McLean territory and is
the home town of George Ross Pou,
Superintendent of the State Prison,
who was quoted by Mr. Bailey in a
Raleigh speech as having boasted of
carrying “Johnston county in his
pocket.” Mr. Bailey was expected in
some quarters to repeat the satire
which he heaped upon Superintendent
Pou in his Raleigh speech. However
there was only one thrust, which
though indirect was vitriolic and
which drew appreciative laughter and
applause from the crowd.
The candidate had been talking a
bout office holders.
“I called them a bull frog chorus,”
he said, “but there are some toad
frogs in the crowd and when you hear
a squeak ‘Bailey is beat’ from the
direction where they electrocute peo
ple, you can know that is the toad
fSPg.”
James H. Pou, of Raleigh, father
in-law of the candidate and who has
been reported in Johnston county as
being opposed to Mr. Bailey was
prominent among those present to
night.
Mr. Bailey was greeted by a sym
pathetic but not vociferous crowd
numbering about 400 people. He was
introduced by Charles W. Horne,
widely known citizen of Clayton. Con
siderable enthusiasm was shown at
times during the speech.
Referring to three letters circu
lated against him, Mr. Bailey took
up in detail a circular entitled “The
Inconsistency of Bailey,” which was
signed by R. T. Surles, of Banner
township, Johnston county.
“Of course I change my mind,” he
said. "Mr. Surles hadn’t much to
start with and it isn’t much yet.”
Taking up some of the items in
the circular he denied a charge that
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t
SUCCESSFUL EFWORIH
LEAGUE INSTITUTE HELD
More Than 150 Delegates In At
tendance; Unique Social at
School Opening Night
Worship, prayer, work and play
was the thought which permeated the
meeing of the second annual Raleigh
District Epworth League Institute
held here Friday night and Saturday
of last week.
The program opened Friday even
ing, Rev. W. A. Stanbury, pastor of
Edenton Street church, Raleigh,
preaching a splendid sermon appro
priate to the occasion, “Youth and
Using It” was his subject and his ap
peal to the young people was strong.
After the service, which was held in
the Methodist church, a social hour
was enjoyed at the high school au
ditorium at which time the Metho
dist Orphanage put on a minstrel
show. The entertainment was enjoy
ed by a large crowd. At the close the
local chapter served Eskimo pies.
The program Saturday was featur
ed by several addresses notable for
the ideas advanced which will be of
help to the seventeen leagues repre
sented here. Miss Blanche Barringer
of Raleigh spoke on “Intermediate
Leaguers,” Rev. Thomas McGrant,
President spoke with special refer
ence to “The Conference League;”
Mr. P. B. Magruder insurance man of
Raleigh, gave the business mans’
standpoint of “Business Methods In
The League;” and Rev. W. H. Browm
Ex-president Conference Epworth
League, talked on “Reverence In
Our Devotional Meetings.”
An interesting number on the morn
ing program was “Poster Making”
by Rev. Philip Schwartz, Raleigh Dis
trict Secretary. Mr. Schwartz had a
number of posers on exhibition and
explained how they were made.
Just before adjournment for din
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PROGRAM BISCUIT CONTEST
TO BE HELD THURSDAY
Prayer, by Rev .D. H. Tuttle.
Community Sing, led by Mrs.
Estelle T. Smith, district home
demonstration agent.
County Girls’ Creed.
Club Women’s Creed.
Song.
Story telling, Miss Mary E.
Wells.
Talk, Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon,
State home demonstration agent.
Picture of contesants made on
court house seps at 12:30.
Lunch and social hour. Women
and girls are asked to bring lunch
which will be served picnic style
at 1 o’clock. All men who bring
women, girls and boys will be wel
come at the exercises and are in
vited to lunch.
Prize winners to be announced
at 2:00 p. m.
Special music.
Games.
J. W. Bailey Makes Address
At Group Commencement
—Probably 2,000 People
In Attendance.
A REAL BARBECUE DINNER
Group Commencements have been
held in various parts of Johnston
County during the past week, but
perhaps no section pulled off a more
successful one than the Brodgen sec
tion last Friday, when around two
thousand people gathered at the new
consolidated school at Brodgen to
listen to the representatives of the
schools in that group in contests, and
to hear Hon. Josiah W. Bailey, of Ra
leigh, deliver a most forceful speech
upon “Human Progress.”
The program opened with the sing
ing of America, and invocation by
Rev. S. H. Styron, of Pine Level. The
Pine Level school then sang a song,
after which Mr. H. V. Rose introduc
ed the speaker for the morning, Mr.
Bailey.
Seldom has a finer educational
speech been delivered in Johnston
county than on this occasion. Before
beginning upon the real theme of hi3
address, he congratulated the peo
ple of that section upon the splendid
structure at Brodgen. He sopke of
the fine farming section which sur
rounded that community center. But
the finest thing he had seen, he said,
was the audience before him with
hearts and minds centered on little
j children. Mr. Bailey declared he had
j always liked Johnston County, but
: after he married a native of John
ston his interest had naturally in
creased.
With these pleasantries as a pre
liminary, he launched into his sub
ject—Human Progress. He called
attention to the words df his subject,
emphasizing the difference between
human progress as distinguished
from material progress. The gradu
ates of the seventh grade made pro
gress. Parents work and struggle
j that the children around their fire
j sides may make progress. Their
hearts are centered in their children’s
welfare. The object of their existence
is progress—human progress.
The way to progress, declared Mr.
Bailey, is first of all to have an ob
jective. The average man or woman
starts out in life with no definite des
tination but the young man or young
woman who succeds must have some
object in view. In the second place,
it often takes something to start
boys and girls on their way to pro
gress. Many young people have ad
vantages but never get started to
ward a special objective. A third item
in progress, is to keep going after
once a start has been made. Some
start to progress but make a mag
nificent stop. Mr. Bailey made an
appeal to the boys and girls to let
nothing divert them from their pur
pose, to let nothing discourage them
in their efforts. He told the story
of Columbus and his difficulties in
making the voyage across the Eeas
which resulted in the discovery of
America. He quoted effectively the
poet’s lives on Columbus which em
body the idea he was presenting.
Passing from this earnest appeal,
the speaker undertook to define hu
man progress. Only in the last 150
years, he said, has the woyld made
progress. Before that time the*
modes of travel had been the same
as in Bible times; now the world is
on wheels. Before that time, people
built fires just as they had since the
days of the ancients; now electrici
ty furnishes heat as well as the oid
fashioned methods. Before that tine*
weapons, were still primitive whe^
as now a projectile can be hurled for
miles with terrific force. By means
of the telescope astronomers may now
look beyond the sun itself, and by
means of the radio, the human voice
may be heard thousands of miles
away. But these, said Mr. Bailey,
are evidences of material progress.
They represent physical comforts and
luxuries. The last hundred and fifty
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