PHARMACY JOURNAL
FEMES]. B. HOOD
Dedicates May Issue To Mr.
Hood Who is a Charter
Member of The N. C.
Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
WAS PRESIDENT IN 1905-’06
The Carolina Journal of Pharmacy
published monthly by the N C. Phar
maceutical Association dedicates its I
May issue to one of the few living (
charter members of the Association,
Mr. T. R. Hood, of this city. His pic
ture forms the front piece and a
brief sketch of his life appears which
we reprint below. The editors of the
Journal comment as follows: “As a
former president of the organization
and as a faithful member since its
inception forty-four years ago, the
man in question has by precept, ex
ample, and long continued effort
played a prominent part in making
more cooperative the activities of
North Carolina druggist.He
can look back with justifiable pride
upon a career made honorable by
straightforward dealings and upon a
record rich in sincere service to the
people of his community.”
A Sketch of His Life
Thomas Ruffin Hood was born in
Wake County, N. C., about twelve
miles southwtst of Raleigh, on Sep
tember 29, 1857. His father, John
Cogdell Hood, was a prominent drug
gist, while his mother, Martha Hood,
nee Young, belonged to a well known
family of Wake County. The elder
Hood moved his family to Smithfield
in 1871 and it was here that Thomas
Ruffin, the subject of this sketch,
received his early education, being
a student in the Academy from 1871
to 187C.
In 1873 Mr. Hood’s father (John
C. ) formed a partnership with Dr.
L. E. Kirkman and under the firm
name of Hood an 1 Kirkman conduct
ed a retail drug store in Smithfield
It was in this stoie that Thomas
Ruffin, a boy of sixteen, began his
Ion g experience as a pharmacist,
working at first as an apprentice be
tween the hours of school, and by
1877 as a full fledged prescription
ist, having in the interim studied
pharmacy under the supervision of
Dr. Kirkman. On Jan. 1, 1879, Mr.
Hood purchased Dr. Kirkman’s inter
est in the store and the firm name
was changed to T. R. Hood and Co. j
On Nov. 29, 1877, he joined with his
brother, B R. Hood, and bought the
drug store of Sasser, Woodall and
Co., a competing firm, and changed
the store name to Hood Brothers.
Since this purchase the business has
continued under the same name and
at the same stand, having in 1891
absorbed the T. R. Hood and Co.
drug store. However, the store now
belongs to Mr. Hood’s two sons, W.
D. and H. C.
In 1880, Mr. Hood joined with
other progressive druggist and as
sisted in the establishment of the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical As
sociation. Knowing the necessity for
unity of effort among pharmacists
he has , since its chartering, been an
enthusiastic member of the Associa
tion. In recognition of his loyal ser
vices, Mr. Hood was elected to the
presidency of the Association in 1905
06, having just previously held the
offices of third, second, and first
vice-presidencies in the order named.
Mr. Hood was married on Febru-!
ary 9, 1881, to Miss Lucy Woodall,
of Smithfield. The following chil
dren have been bom of this union:
William D., Hal C., Eula, and Lucy.
As was stated before, the two sons
are owners now of the drug business
established by their father.
Mr. Hood belongs to the Masonic
and Knights of Pythias .fraternal or
ders, and to the Kiwanis Club. He
is a member of the Methodist Church,
having been superintendent of the
Sunday School for 32 years.
Singing School at Carter's Chapel
Prof. E. N. Cullom will conduct a
singing school at Carter’s Chapel
from June 2 to 8. Everybody is urged
to attend.
His Bid Rejected
HENRY FORD
Washington, May 27.—Govern
ment ownership and operation of
Muscle Shoals was endorsed today by
the senate agriculture committee af
ter Henry Ford’s bid had pen re
jected.
DR. HUBERT ROYSTER
TO SPEAK TO-NIGHT
The graduating exercises of the
high school will be held at the high
school auditorium tonight. Dr. Hu
bert Royster of Raleigh being sche
duled for the literary address. There
are 37 graduates and the program
will be worth attending. The public
is invited.
MR. L. D. DEBNAM MOVES
AGENCY HERE FROM SELMA
Smithfield extends a welcome to
Mr. L. D. Debnam, who is moving
his business here this week from Sel
ma, where he has lived for a number
of years. He has been connected for
some time with the firm, Debnam &
Futrell, dealer in Buick cars. Since
Mr. FutrelPs death, Mr. Debnam has
the exclusive agency for Buick cars
in Johnston county and will not only
sell cars but will carry a full line of
Buick parts. He is located at the old
J. H. Kirkman stand which he has
purchased.
Mr. Debnam expects to move his
family here.
Successful Farmers Are
The Well Educated Ones
Education and money-saving by
farmers are shown to be related in
a study conducted by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The best
money-savers -were found to have
the most schooling . The poorest ac
cumulators had the least schooling.
Owner farmers, generally speaking
had attained a higher grade in
school than tenants, and tenants had
attained a higher grade than crop
pers. School advantages of the wives
of members of the various groups
studied paralleled those of their hus
bands. It was also found that the
children over 21 years of owner
farmers had attained a higher grade
in school than the children of cor
responding groups of tenants. A
similar advantage on the side of the
children of tenant farmers appear
ed when they were compared with
the children of croppers.
The relationship between education
and money-saving is on that fre
quently spans two or more genera
tions, as when a father’s large
money-saving ability means that his
children receive not only bettar
schooling, but larger financial back
ing and endowment.—California Cul
tivator.
J. F. Medlin Passes Away
After A Long Illn^si
J j. 812 Harp st*eet died
at Hex Hospital, Saturday at the
age of sixty-four, leaving a widow
and seven children. Mr. Medlin had
been in the hospital since May 1.—
News and Observer.
Mr. Medlin was the father of our
townsman, Mr. John Medlin, proprie
tor of the Victory Theatre.
SCHOOL FINALS AT
SELMA IS WEEK
Dr. Poteat To Deliver Ad
dress Tonight; Mrs. Donia
Hood Driver Dies In Ral
eigh Hospital.
CHATTER BOX CLUB MEETS
Selma, May 29.—The- commence
ment progra mof the Selma graded
school was begun last Friday evening
when the pupils of Miss Mildred Per
kins gave a splendid music recital.
“The Gipsy Trail,” by the Glee Club
added much to the program. On Sun
day evening the baccalaureate sermon
was preached by Rev. C. K. Proc
tor, pastor of Queen Street Methodist,
church, Kinston. Mr. Proctor was for
merly pastor of Edgerton Memorial
Methodist church here and his many
friends were glad of an opportunity
to hear him again. This evening
(Thursday) the oratorical, essay and
reading contests will be held, Friday
afternoon the class day exercises and
Friday evening the literary address
will be delivered by Dr. W. L. Po
teat, president of Wake Forest Col
lege.
The many friends of Mrs. Donia
Hood Driver will regret to hear of
her death which occurred Tuesday
at a hospital in Raleigh. Mrs. Driver
was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hen
ry D. Hood, and spent the gretaer
part of her life in Selma. The fun
eral services were conducted Wednes
day afternoon at three o’clock by
Rev. J. G. Johnson, a former pastor
of Selma Methodist church. -
Mesdames E. O. Woodand W. T
Woodard were hostesses to the mem
bers of the Chatterbox Club at the
attractive home of Mrs. Wood on
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Enrolls 6-Months-Old Son
In Class of ’41 at Colgate
Hamilton, N. Y., May 24.—D
Bernard C. Clausen, pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Syracuse
has entered his six-month-old son in
Colgate in the class of 1941.
Dr. Clausen, who was graduated
from Colgate in 1915, is determined
to have his son on the enrolment
list despite the rapidly mounting
number of applications received
Hundreds ne refused admittance
each year and this is expected to
be true in future years, with the
total enrolment set at 1,00 as a
maximum
SCHOOL AT KENLY
GOMESTO CLOSE
Dr. Lawrence Delivers Com
mencement Address; Dr.
Binford the Sermon; The
Class Play Is a Success.
NUMBER PRIZES GIVEN
(Special to The Herald)
Kenly, May 28.—Another school;
year for Kenly High school passedj
into history on Friday morning when
before an audience that filled every
available seat, the members f the
largest graduating class in the his
tory of the school receivvl their lip
lornas. The large gathering was led
in prayer by Dr. W. B. North anJ
Dr. W. P. Lawrence, professor of
English at Elon College, uade the
annual address, He spoke on the
greatest assets of Johnston County—
her soil the brains of her people—
and showed how by a process of ed
ucation and development, vhe ”alue
of these might be doubl ;d. He urged
the members of the graduating class
to continue their duties, carrying with
them on their Journey through life
those ideals so forcibly brought cut
i.i their class play given on the pre
vious evening. Mr, P»nl 1\ G. • dy,
.1 airman ol the board of trustees
awarded the din emus.
Mr. G. T. Whitley, superinten
dent, briefly reviewed some of the
outstanding features of the school
year, stating among other things
that books amounting to more than
$400 had been added to the school
library, and expressed to the teach
ers, the board of trustees, and the
patrons of the school his appreciation
of their support. He read the names
of seventy-one pupils who were given
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N. C.’s Second Fig Farm
Started In Onslow County
Kinston, May 26.—The second fig
farm in North Carolina, recently re
ported to have been established in ihe
coastal section is located on an island
in Onslow County waters, it had been
learned here. Kinston men, whose
identies have not been disclosed, are
the owners. They expect a big fu
ture for fig culture in North Caro
lina. Seedlings secured in Califor
nia, Texas and Florida have been
planted, on three and one-half acres
of land. Others will be br > i ht from
Smyrna.
Politics and Religion
By S. L. Morgan
“Dirty politics” is a phrase heard with painful frequency. A
tradition has come down to me that politics in Johnston county
has sometimes justified the phrase. Politics and religion have
been married by God himself; let not man put them asunder. For
some years I have preached a sermon on politics on the eve of
each election, as I expect to do next Sunday. If it pleases the edi
tor I shall give two or three brief articles piior to the election.
It is my modest, earnest effort to help our good people to a clear
er appreciation of the dignity and glory of politics in the better
sense of the word, and to rut religion into their politics and to
take the dirt out of it.
Politics is a noble word. It is properly the science of good gov
ernment, or it is the conduct qf a good citizen in his relation to
the State. As scientists in the field of politics James Bryce and
Woodrow Wilson ha%re surely von the right to class politics
among the sciences.
But there is also a gospel of politics—the good news that God is
back of politics and in it, even amid the dirt that often creeps in,
just as he is back of Christianity and in it in spite of the sad im
perfections of Christians. Paul clearly sets forth this gospel of
politic. He even uses the word politics, when he urges the Phil
lipians (1:27) to conduct themselves as citizens (a single word
word meaning to act out their politics) in a manner “becoming
the gospel of Christ.” Every citizen before the elestion should
study sarefully the 13th dhapter of Romans. It is about to politics,
or about the Christian citizen’s attitude to the civil government
and its officers. “The powers that be” (the civil government)
“are ordained of God,” he declared. He calls the civil government
an “ordinance of God.” He calls the civil officers (Governor,,
sheriff, etc.) ‘God's ministers” (Rom. 13.6)’ even choosing the
priestly word. Which is to say that Paul would have us to take
our religion into our citizenship, and to treat the ‘ordinance” of
the civil government as religiohsly as we treat the ordinance in
the church, baptism or the Lord’s Shpper. We are to go into po
litics as reverently and prayerfully as we go into the work or
worship of the church. We are to go to the ballot box to choose
“God’s minister” in the civic sphere as- religiously and prayer
fully as we choose God’s minister to preach in the pulpit.
Owns Black Gold
a_l.
Mrs, R, M. Hoots of Oklahom®
owner of the two year old “Black
Gold”—the first western-bred hors >
to win the Historic Kentucky derby
in four years.
UFOLIETTE MAY RUN
INDEPENDENT TICKET
Senator Robert M. Lafollette has
intimated t> a* he would run bs inde
pendent candidate for President, if
thf Republican and Dcmocr' tic nar
ties did not purge themselves at the
coming conventions of the evil in
iluenees which he declared domina'
ed them
SCHOOL ELECTION
IN MEADOW DEFEATED
The first school election to be de
feated in Johnston County was held
Tuesday, May 27, in Meadow town
ship Six school districts voted on a
$70,000 bond issue to provide a school
building. Five hundred forty-one reg- j
istered for the election, making it
necessary to have 271 votes cast for '
the bond issue in order to carry it. ^
One hundred ninety-three votes were (
cast for the election, failing to carry (
by 78 votes.
Part of the districts are already
making school plans for another
year, and information received [
from the office of the County Super
intendent of schools is to the effect
that three districts, Glenwood, Mea
dow, and Hood’s Grove will operate
as a unit next year, these all having
a uniform special tax rate of 30
cents.
Deputy Sheriff Is Taken
When Dog Off Guard
New Bern, May 23.—“Bob Ross,
former deputy sheriff, who was con
victed of assaulting an aged negro
here several months ago, was cap- 1
tured at a whiskey still which was in
full operation at a point three miles
this side of Havelock by federal and
county officers yesterday afternoon. !
Ross was sitting by the still watch- .
ing the whiskey drip from the coil j
into a container when Prohibition t
Agon Horton slipped up on him and i
took him under arrest. It was re- ,
ported. A b*ll dog, presumably a |
guard for the outfit, had “laid down !
on the job” and was caught.
On information received Agents
Horton, Adams and J. J, Batten and
Deputy Sheriff W. H. Whitford and
others left here early in the after
noon and taking the old county road
this side of Havelock went to the
Marshal Place. There they left their
machine and entered the woods. It
was at a point -oire *,vc mile from the
county road that the rum plant was
cited.
Ross was released after it was
found impossible to give him a hear
ing, being bonded for his appear
ance before the commissioner on
Monday.—Goldsboro News.
Three Stills Captured In
Clayton Township Monday
Monday afternoon Federal officers
captured three whiskey stills and
implicated several men in Clayton
township, this county, near the Wake
county line. The stills ranged from
35 to 60-gallon capacity. A small
quantity of whiskey was seized.
DEMOGRATIGTIOKET
READY ME 7
Saturday Was Last Day For
Filing Candidacies With
The County Board of
Elections.
SEVERAL NOT OPPOSED
With Saturday as the last day for
filing candidacies with the (ounty
board of elections, the political situa
tion in the county so far as the De
mocrats are concerned has become
more definite and voters are no longer
wondering who else will come out be
fore they make up their mends for
whom to vote. Men have shown them
selves as variable as woman is alleged
to be, candidates having announced
themselves and then withdrawn kefoie
their names were fairly before the pub
lie. Saturday saw would-be candidates
file their intentions and before the
sinking of the sun, their minds had
changed, and their names were with
drawn. Probably the incident that fur
nished a last moment flare of interest
was the announcement of the candi
dacy on the Republican ticket of Miss
Luna Pearson for county treasurer.
Democratic brethren and sistren got
busy and the names of Miss lone Abell
and Mr. R. C. Gillett and Mr. R. P.
Holding were filed with the board of
elections as candidates for county trea
surer on the Democratic ticket, but
before night their names were with
drawn.
For several years now the First and
Citizens National Bank of this city
has acted as treasurer of the county
without compensation, we are told, but
the county business is handled in the
same way a personal account is handl
ed thus saving the county the salary
of a treasurer. Representative D. J.
Thurston introduced a Pill in the last
legislature providing that the county
commissioners appoint a county trea
surer. The commissioners appointed
the bank in question and status of
things was as it was before Mr. Thurs
ton. introduced his bill. The Rcpubl
licans however, decided to nominate
a treasurer, and if it is deemed nec
essary for the Democrats to place an
opponent in the race before the next
general election, a mass meeting of
Democrats will be called to meet with
the executive committee and a nominee
will be supplied.
The candidates to be voted on >n
the primary June 7 run in pairs witn
the exception of those seeking the nom
ination for county commissioners and
for the House of Representatives.
There are nine out for county com
missioners, from whom five must be
selected. There are six out for the
House from whom two must be chos
en.
The Democratic county primary
ticket is as follows:
Clerk Superior Court—Ed F. Ward
and Herschell V. Rose.
Register of Deeds—W. T. Adams
and D. M. Hall.
Sheriff—W. J. Massey and W. L.
Fuller.
Judge Recorder’s Court—A. M.
Noble and G. A. Martin,
Solicitor Recorder’s Court—Harry
P. Johnson and N. R. Bass.
County Commissioners—Claude Ste
phenson, of Pleasant Grove township;
John W. Wood, of Meadow; Chas. A.
Corbett, of Selma; Perry E. Johnson,
of Ingrams; J. W. Woodard, of Beu
lah; D. B. Oliver of Pine Level; N. B.
Grntham, of Smithfield; E. R. Gulley,
of Clayton and Chas A. Fitzgerald, of
Micro.
House of Representatives—Chas F
Kirby, E. W. McCullers, D. J. Thurs
ton, W. M. Sanders, S. P. Honeycutt
and P. B. Chamblee.
There being no opposition to J. A.
Keen for auditor, Paul D. Grady for
the Senate, J. H. Kirkman for cor
j ner, and the Board of Education, these
| candidates will be certified by the
'board of elections, v
Pageant at Bethany
The pageant, “What God Would
Have Happen,” will he given at Beth
any by the B. Y. P. U. of (barter’s
Chapel on Saturady evening, May
31. Everybody is urged to be present.
Where the pageant has been given it
has been a great success.