FULL DOCKET IN
Violations of Automobile
Laws Numerous; Judge
Nobles Proposes to Make
Highways Safe.
NUMBER OF OTHER CASES
“The people of Johnston County
have a right to use the highways
without fear of being run over by
drunken and reckless drivers of au
tomobiles, and while I am Judge
of Recorder’s Court, I am going to
do what I can to see that they en
joy this right,” said Judge Noble,
in passing sentence on F. D. Bur
nett, J. Booker Coats, Charlie Fai
son, Orby Raynor and Floyd Banks
who were found guilty of operating
automobiles recklessly or while un
der the influence of liquor in Tues
day’s Recorder’s Court. Each was
placed under suspended judgment
requiring that they not operate a
motor vehicle on any of the roads
of North Carolina for a period of
twelve months.
The following cases were disposed
of Tuesday:
State vs. Charlie Faison, operat
ing car under influence of liquor j
and possessing intoxicating liquors.
Guilty on count charging posses
sion; judgment that defendant pay
fine of $25 and costs. On account
charging operating auto whil e in
toxicated, judgement suspended up
on condition that he not operate a
car upon the roads of North Caro
lina for twelve months.
State vs. Flora Ray, violating pro
hibition laws, Guilty on two counts,
retailing and having whiskey in
posession for purpose of sale. Fin
ed $50 on count charging possession;
on count charging retailing, two
months in jail.
State vs. Geo. Childers, violating
prohibition laws. Guilty, fined $25
and costs.
State vs. Will Addison, violating
prohibition laws. Guilty; fine $25 and
costs.
State vs.- Offie Keen, trespass.
Guilty. Judgment suspended on pay
ment of costs.
State vs. J. D. Hargis, assault.
Guilty; judgment suspended on pay
ment of cost.
State vs. Horace McCullers, as- j
sault with deadly weapon. Fine $50
and costs.
State vs F. D. Burnett, carrying con i
cealed weapon. Defendant plead
guilty. Fine $10 and costs.
State vs. F. D. Burnett, violating (
auto laws. Defendant guilty. Judg- |
ment suspended on payment of costs
during good behavior and upon con
dition that defendant do not operate .
car for one year.
State vs. Charlie Sanders, tres
pass. Not guilty.
State vs. Booker Coats, violating
auto laws. Defendant guilty. Judg
ment suspended on payment of costs
during good behavior an dupon con
dition that defendant do not operate
car for one year.
State vs. Sexton Johnson, :eck
less driving auto. Defendant guilty.
Fine $50 and costs.
State vs. Orby Raynor and Jasper
Beasley, driving auto under influ- !
ence of liquor. Defendant Jasper
Beasley not guilty. Orbey Raynor
guilty. Judgment suspended on pay
ment of costs during good behavior
and on condition that defendant do I
not operate car for one year.
State vs. Floyd Banks, operating
car under influence of liquor. Guilty i
Upon payment of costs judgment sus
pended upon condition that defen
dante not operate car for twelve
months.
State vs. Sam Penny, possessing.
Guilty. Fine $25 and sixty days on
roads. Road sentence suspended dur- ,
ing good behavior.
State vs. Joe Hall, assault wPh
deadly weapon and carrying con
cealed weapon. Guilty; fine $50 and '
costs.
State vs. Joe Hall, possessing.
Guilty. Two months on roads. Cap
ias to issue at request of solictor.
State vs. P. G. Woolard, carrying
concealed weapon. Guilty. Fined $50
and costs.
Smithfield School
To Be On Hand
at Track Meet
Saturday May 10, is the date on
which the Trinity Track Meet will be
held. A great deal of interest has been
aroused for the last two months and
a number of high schools will be re
presented. Trophies will be awarded
to teams winning first, second and
third places in the events. Medals
will also be awarded to the indivi
dual of each event (first, second and
third places.)
The Smithfield high school will
send a number of red-blooded boys
to fight for honors. Coach W. L. Rice
has worked hard with the team for
about two months and now the boys
are in fine condition and show great
hope in bringing back several honors.
The team will leave Saturday morn
ing with a determination of putting
“Old Smithfield” on the map.
The following will represent
Smithfield:
100yd. Dash—Holland, Fitzgerald,
and Stancil.
Shot Put—Parker, E. Caudill, J.
Caudill.
440yd. Run—Adams and Hill.
High Jump—E. Caudill, J. Caudidll
and Lawrence.
220 yd. Dash—Holland, Fitzger
ald, and Stancil.
Discus Throw—E. Caudill, Parker
and J. Caudill.
Pole Vault—Johnson and Hooks.
Mile Run—Stephenson and Gard
ner.
880 yd. Run—Kirkman, Johnson
and Stephenson.
Javelin Throw—Davis, J. Caudill,
and Stephenson.
Broad Jump—Davis, E. Caudill, and
Johnson.
BUSINESS WOMEN
BOLD GOOD MEET
The Business and Professional ■
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Women's club enjoyed a supper meet- !
ing Tuesday evening served in the |
Woman’s Club room by the Worn- i
an’s club.
Plates were laid for thirty, some
of the teachers being present on
this occasion. Miss Cora Belle Ives,
president, presided over the meet
ing which was full of “pep” from
start to finish. Among the items
of business was the election of dele
gates to the State Federation which
meets in Winston-Salem at an early
date. Miss Ives and Mrs. S. S. Holt
being chosen. Alternates are Misses
Retta Martin and Ruth Wilson. It
was also decided to have the next
meeting at Holt Lake around a
camp fire, and committees on ar
rangement were appointed.
The business disposed of,
Those present were entertained by
a violin solo, “My Wild Irish Rose,”
by Miss Nora Cooper, and by a read
ing, “A Negro Dialect Sermon” by1
Mrs. Jesse Coates. Several songs in
terpersed the program.
Degree Team to Meet
All the members of the Smithfield
Council No. 102, Jr. O. U. A. M. are
requested to meet at the hall ton'ght
at eight o’clock. Any member wish
ing to try out for same is urgently
requested to be on hand.
Locals To Play in Semi
Finals of East. Champ
The Smitiifield High School Base
Ball team will meet the Rocking
ham nine in Sanforrd Friday after
noon at three o’clock in the semi
finals of the eastern North Carolina
Base Ball championship.
This should be a very fast and in
teresting game as both teams are
in excellent good condition. The lo
cals have been practicing hard and
hope to have several interesting sur
prises for Rockingham. Young Lassi
ter or Avera will prrobably twirl for
Soach Rice’s coharts. Stephenson
will receive.
Th ewinner of this game will be
entitled to play the winnerr of the
Woodland—Washington game for
eastern championship.
BURGLARS ENTER
TWO ROMES HERE
L. T. Royal Is Awakened
In Night By Man In His
Bed-room; T. S. Rags
dale Home Also Entered.
SEND FOR BLOODHOUNDS
To lie down at ight to sleep peace
fully is on thing; to lie down to be
awakened by burglars in the dead
hours of the night is another, accord
in gto Mr. L. T. Royall whose slum
bers were disturbed Wednesday
night, when he realized that a burg
lar was in the act of looting the
dresser in his bed room, and he was
without a pistol or gun as a means
o f protection. A slight cough ■'on the
part of Mr. Royall however, informed
the would-be burglar that it was time
to move on, and he hastily made his
exit whence he came, through a door
leading fro mthe front porch into the
dining room across the hall from the
bed room.
With only a flash light as a wea
pon Mr. Royall followed, reaching
the porch by the front door. He was
able to discern the figure of the rap
idly receding man enough to tell
something of his clothing but was un
able to identify him. The man ran
towards the home of Mr. S. S. Holt
across the street, in whose yard
tracks were found in the plowed
ground made soft by the rain which
fell Wednesday. Tuesday morning
revealed the fact that he lost his
socks on the porch of Mr. Will H.
Johnson, where presumably he en
tered to hide.
In the meantime Mr. Royall call
ed the night policeman who went to
the scene but all efforts to locate
the burglar were in vain.
Yesterday, it was found that rob
bers had entered the home of Mr.
T. S. Ragsdale, relieving him and
his son, Tom, of the change in their
pockets amonting to about five
dollars. No one was awakened in
the Ragsdale home.
Blood hounds were sent for from
Raeford yesterday.
Organize Sunbeam
Garden In County
The following annuoncements may
be of interest not only to the Bap
tists of Smithfield, but also to other
churches throughout the county
wherever Sunbeams and Royal Am
bassador societies are organized. Sun
beam gardens for children and sum
mer camps for the older church
groups ar enow well established in
stitutions, and are accomplisheing
great good. The Sunbeam gardens
are proving invaluable in awaking
interest among the children in culti
vating the beautiful at home and in
helping to carry sunshine and beau
ty into schools and hospitals in for
eign lands. ,
The local leaders desire to secure
the cooperation of parents in having
the numerouus children connected
with the Sunbeams to cultivate Sun
beam gardens, and hereby wish to
explain the conditions.
Junior gardens must be 60 square
feet, Primary gardens must contain
42 square feet and may be 6x7,
3x14 or 2x21 feet. If primaries and
Juniors work together in the same
garden it must contain 60 square
feet. Each garden must contain four
varities of flowers. All work must be
done by the children themselves, ex
cept such as in the judgment of the
parents too difficult.
Judges will grade th egardens, rat
ing size at 25 per cent, variteies of
flower 25 per cent, cultivation 25
per cent, and the general beauty of
the garden at 25 per cent. Each child
competing is required to bring flow
ers to church at least once, must car
ry them to some sick at least once,
and must in the fall bring a package
of flowers seed from his garden to be
sent to some foreign school or hospi
tal. Those gardens passed on by the
judges as being the best will win
first, second, and third rewards.
Besides this awards will be given to
all making a grade of 57 per cent.
FATAL SHOOTING OCCURS
NEAR FOUR OAKS TUESDAY
Elbert Strickland Is Dead
and Frank Pope In Jail
Awaits Trial at August
Term of Superior Court.
GIVES IP TO OFFICERS
Frank Pope, a young white man,
18 years old, who lived near Four
Oaks, shot and killed Elbert Strick
land, at his home In Elevation
township Tuesday evening about
7 o’clock.
According to report there had been
some trouble between Strickland and
a neighbor in which young Pope
was involved in a minor way. The
matter was about to be carried to
court and when Strickland asked
Pope on Monday afternoon what his
testimony would be should he be
called as a witness, they had some
words. Pope was an employe of
Strickland and Tuesday afternoon
when he went to the barn to feed
he and Strickland had more words
in regard to the matter. Strickland,
it seems attempted to use a knife,
when Pope drew a 32 Colt automa
tic from his pocket and fired twice,
the bullets lodging in the chest and
head of Strickland, killing him in
stantly.
Pope went immediately to tell his
wife and then proceeded to Four
Oaks where he gave himself up to
officer R. A. Keen. He was brought
to Smithfield and placed in jail
where he awaits trial in the August
term of Superior Court.
Strickland, who was killed, leaves
a wife and three children who were
away from home when the tragedy
occured.
BULLETINS
GO UNINSTRUCTED
New Haven, Conn., May 8.—The
effort of Delegate P. Fitch to se
cure adoption of a resolution in
structing delegates named by the
Democratic state convention here
today for Governor Alfred E. Smith,
of New York, failed just before ad
journment. A substitute resolution
permitting the delegates to vote as
their judgment dictates “for the best
interest of the Democratic Party.”
was adopted amid cheers.
DRUGGED AND ROBBED
Baltimore, May 8.—Drugged
and robbed by chance acquaintances
she met on a steamer en route to
Baltimore from Miami, Fla., Loretta
Smith, 27, of Jersey City Heights,
N. J., is in a critical condition at
University Hospital. Police are
searching for two men and a wo
man who disappeared when the
steamer reached her wharf.
Miss Smith was found unconscious
in her stateroom early this morn
ing.
SCHOONER ASHORE
Norfolk, Va., May 8.—The four
mast schooner R. R. Govin, of New
York, went ashore, during a thick
fog early today about 14 miles
north of Bodies Island, N. C., coast
guard headquarters here was no
tified by the Kill Devil Hill Station,
which rescued the crew.
THIRTY INDICTED
New York, May 8.—A federal
grand jury .before Judge -Goddard
today handed up an indictment
charging thirty-one individuals and
a corporation with conspiracy to
violate the prohibition act and de
fraud the government out of liquor
taxes in the West and Middle West,
said to have aggregated more than
$500,000.
WHEAT FORECAST
Washington, May 8.—Produc
tion of winter wheat this year will
be 553,013,000 bushels, or 3.4 per
cent less than last year’s crop, the
Department of Agriculture fore
cast today.
Production of rye was forecast at
61,739,000 bushels.
Champions In
Biscuit Contest
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Reading from right: Sophia Wel
lons, winner of firs< Girl’s prize;
Mrs. Victor Penny, winner of first
women’s prize; Mrs. Kirby Rose,
winner of second women’s prize;
Betty Creech, of Creech’s Club, win
ner of second Girl’s prize.
REP. RAMMER TOSSES
Washington, May 8.—Represen
tative Hammer, Democrat, North
Carolina, objected to being called a
“garrulous old grandmother” by
Representativ Blanton, Democrat,
, Texas, at today’s meeting of the
House District of Columbia commit
tee and it took a good deal of ef
fort by ohtre committee members to
keep them apart.
Mr. Hammer first let fly a fold
ing chair at his antagonist and when
that did not hit the mark grabbed
the bulks District of Columbia ap
propriation bill. Thereafter the two
members made several lunges at each
other across the table, but the meet
ing ended with handshakes.
A disagreement over the calling
of the meeting caused the out
breaks.
Jr. O. U. A. M. To
Hold Class Initiation
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A good time is in store for all
members of Smithfield Council No.
102 next Tuesday night, May 13. At
this meeting there will be a class
iniation. About twenty candidates
will be iniated. A good speaker has
been secured and refreshments will
>be served. ,
j All members of Smithfield Coun
cil No. 102, Jr. 0. U. A. M., are urg
! ently requested to be present. All
(insisting Juniors are cordially invit
ed.
' Chldren Hang A May Basket
On The White House Door
Washington May 1.—The old cus
tom of hanging May baskets in the
early morning on May Day was re
vived at the White House today when
(three small children hung a basket
for Mrs. Coolidge on the north door
of the Executive Mansion.
Rotarians in Wilson
Debate Bobbed Hair
Wilson, lifay 7.—Bobbed hair—
whether it is a good fashion or wheth
er it should be discouraged—formed
the subject of a thrilling and stir
ring debate between Frank Miller
and John D. Gold last night at the
regular meeting of the Wilson Rot
ary Club, held in the Chamber of
I Commerce banquet hall. So evenly
divided were the members in voting
for the winner that it finally was
decided to call it a draw. A discus
sion of today’s road meeting at Wel
don and a decision to aid crippled
children recently examined at the
clinic here, were among the other bus
iness matters taken up at the con
clusion of the excellently served sup
per.
STATE FEDERATION
MEETSjN RALEIGH
The Report of Sixth Dis
trict Was Presented by
Mrs. F. H. Brooks, Dis
trict President.
SMITHFIELD REPRESENTED
The State Federation of Women’s
Clubs has been in session in Raleigh
this week with more than 400 women
representing practically every coun
ty in Nor.h Carolina, present. Mrs.
Palmer Jcvman, presiimt, formally
oy ened thi convention ic the Sir
Walter no^l Tuesday evening, af
ter which tl.e convention was enter
ta’ned by Gov and Mrs Morrison
at the ex cut ve mansion.'
Smithfie’d '.ad a goo ’ly represen
tation at the Federation and a good
report. Mrs. F. H. Brooks, presi
dent of the Sixth District which in
cludes among others all federated
clubs of Johnston County, present
ed the following report for the past
year:
The Sixth District is now compos
posed of twenty-one clubs, namely:
Woman’s Club of Apex; Woman’s
Club, Entre Nous and John Charles
McNeil Clubs, of Benson; Com
munity Club, of Chapel Hill; Halycon
and Woman’s Clubs, of Clayton; Re
viewers and Woman’s clubs of Dur
ham; Woman’s Club of Kenly; As
sociation of University Women,
Thursday Afternoon, Womans Club,
Council of Jewish Women and Wake
County Betterment Clubs of Raleigh;
Research Club of Roxboro; Worn
ans Club of Selma and the Womans
Club of Smlthfield. The home
bureaus are loted in Johnston,
Wake and Durham counties. Four
of these Clubs, Durham Woman’s
Club, Wakelon Woman’s Club, Dur
ham Study Club and Wilson’s Mills
Woman’s Club, being added since
the last meeting of the Federation.
In the Year Book of 1923-24 this
district has recorded 1706 club wom
en and 950 members of the county
bureaus, and during the past year
this membership has been increased
by the addition of new members to
the already federated clubs and ad
dition of new clubs.
Many of these clubs are cooperat
ing with the schools in promoting
good health, watching out for and
assisting the undernourished child,
sanitation, good books in library and
i the one work that stands out most
prominently in club work in the
Sixth District is the effort to make
and mold of our children a future,
strong citizenship.
The Clayton Woman’s Club beauti
fied school grounds, furnished
clothes to children to enable contin
uation of studies in school, donated
books to school libraries. The Com
munity Club of Chapel Hill has form
ed Bird Clubs in schools for color
ed children. The Durham Woman’s
Club has arranged a special program
for boys and girls elaah Saturday
morning at one of the picture shows;
the Kenly Woman’s Club added
books to school in library, including
an American Encyclopedia, thereby
making the graded school a standard
high school, also improved school
grounds; the Selma Woman’s Club
1 sponsored a community fair, which
the school children, with their splen
did exhibits, helped to make a
success; the Woman’s Club of
Smithfield operates a public library
where the school children have are
opportunity once a week to get books.
The Raleigh Woman’s Club gave a
victrola to the children’s library,
helped in the music memory contest
for school children and through the
social service department had Dr.
Valeria S. Parker, to talk to High
School and College girls. The John
I Charles McNeil Book Club, of Ben
son, donated books to library, and
gave a medal for the best short
story written by a high school
pupil.
Through the departments of Edu
cation, these clubs are arranging for
their people to hear lecturers of note
in and out of the state. Thr Raleigh
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