FORTY- THIRD YEAR
HIGHWAY BOOSTERS
STOP IN TOE CUT
Galaxy of Speakers Urge
Importance of Proposed
Short Cut Route To This
Section; Save 100 Miles
LUNCH WITH KIWANIANS
Twenty-five men representing towns
all the way from Wilson to Dillon,
S. C\, composed the special booster
delegation which is advocating the1
shortening of the route from New
York City to Miami, Fla., and which
stopped in Smithfield Wednesday from
one to two-thirty o’clock in the inter
est oi this route. The delegation
started Wednesday morning from Wil
son on a t .vo-day special booster trip
stopping for a short time at every
town between Wilson and Dillon lo
cated on the proposed route.
Smithfield Kiwanians were hosts to
the boosters at a barbecue luncheon
served in the farmers room of the;
court house, more than a hundred be
ing present at the luncheon.
Immediately afterwards, a short
meeting was held in the commission
ers room, and several enthusiastic
speeches were made in the interest of
the route. Mr. John A. Oates, of
Fayetteville, who is in charge of the
booster trip, made the first talk. Mr.
Oates stated that the proposed short
cut route has been the logical l’oute
all the time but our people have not i
pushed it and in the meantime travel
has been diverted at Petersburg, Va.,
or by Pinehurst and other routes.
“But show a Y’ankee,” he said, “how
he can save hundreds of miles in go
ing from North to South, and he will
go that route.” And that is what
this Carolinas-Florida Short Route
will do. Between New York and
Miami it will save three hundred
miles and the route in North and
South Carolina alone saves one hun
dred miles.
Mr. Oates stated further that it
wms the old Indian train from North
to South; it follows the main line
of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad
all the way; and located between the
coastal plains and the hill country, it
is nature’s route. He pointed out that
it is an historic route, and he men
tioned a number of interesting places
that would be properly marked for
the benefit of tourists as they ride
along. A conservative estimate, he
thought, of the number of tourists
who would pass this way would be at'
least thirty thousand a year and the
advantages to be derived by this
travel are too important to let slip.
Not only will the tourists spend mon
ey along the way, but they will see,
especially in this section of the route
some of the finest land anywhere.
Capitalists will see the best place to
build factories, and permanent set
tlers will be the result.
Hon. Hannibal L. Godwin, of Dunn,
was the next speaker. He spoke of
how Florida had become rich through
the tourists; how highways are a civ
ilizing agency; and how the highways
of North Carolina have attracted at
tention all over the nation and even
in other countries. He spoke of the
climatic conditions and the fertile soil
which will attract those coming
through this section. He urged that
the folks of this section stand shoul
der to shoulder with all others inter
ested in the route and go before the
State Highway Commission at the
proper time a hundred per cent
strong.
Mr. J. W. McKay, who lives in
Dillon County, South Carolina, but
who nails his mail box on the line
dividing North and South Carolina,
then made a few remarks, pledging
South Carolina to do her part even
though she did not have the amount
of money to spend on roads that
North Carolina has.
Col. H. O. Pond president of the
Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce,
was called upon for a few words, af
ter which Mr. T. C. Young, president
of the Carolinas—Florida Short Route
Highway Association, spoke briefly
stating that the proposed route
covers 186 miles in North Carolina,
touches twenty-one towns, connects
five county seats and passes through
upon Messrs. R. C.. Gillette and L. G.
Stevens, who both endorsed the
route. It was announced that with- ^
President Thanks
World Airmen
Washington, Sept. 9.—A statement
formally welcoming and congratulat
ing the world fliers was issued by
President Coolidge today after his re
turn to the White House from Boll
ing Field, where he greeted them per
sonally upon their arrival from New
York.
“It is with a renewed faith in
America,” the President said, “that
I welcome you. A new record of
achievement has been made in the
past -ix months by you in the domain
of aviation. It has been made by
men who wear the American uniform.
It has been your skill, your presever
ance, your courage that has brought
this great honor to our country. In
what is probably the greatest oppor- '
tunity for future scientific develop
ment of transportation your enter
prise has made America first. I trust
the appreciation of your countrymen j
will be sufficient so that in this field
America always will keep first.”
In Memory of Mrs. W. K. Hobbs
On Sunday night, August 17, as the
day had passed and the night shades
had fallen, about eight-thirty o’clock
the angels came and bore the spirit ;
of Mrs. W. B. Hobbs back to the God
who gave it. She was taken sick
Thursday, July 10, but gradually grew >
worse until August 14 when it was j
decided to take her to the Smithfield
Memorial Hospital where physicians
rendered every aid possible but none '
could stay the icy hand of death. God
called and she calmly obeyed and is
now sleeping the sleep of the righte
ous.
She was the daughter of the late
Alfred and Dinah Lassiter and was
born October 2, 1863. Louie Jane
Lassiter was married to W. B. Hobbs
December 22, 1880, and unto this
union were born seven children, two
having preceded her to the grave
many years ago. The children are
as follows: Messrs. Junius A., Walter
M., and John W. Hobbs, Mrs. J. C.
Byrd, of Bunn’s Level, Harnett Coun
ty, and Miss Pearl M. Hobbs, who so
patiently stood by the bedside both
day and night and did all she could
for her mother’s comfort. She also
leaves two brothers, Messrs. John and
W. A. Lassiter and three sisters, Mrs.
Mary Massengill, of Four Oaks, Airs.
L. R. Moore, of Durham and Mrs.
Evelyn Hall, of near Benson.
Mrs. Hobbs united with the Prim
itive Baptist church at Clement on
the second Saturday in May, 1897, and
was a faithful member for twenty
seven years. She was a good Chris
tian-hearted woman, a devoted wife,
a good mother, greatly beloved by her
children and the brothers and sisters
of the church. She was always will
ing and ready to lend a helping hand
to those in need, trouble and distress.
Being a devoted member of the
church, her doors were always open
cordially inviting ministers, brethren
and sisters, relatives, friends and es
pecially her neighbors. She will he
sadly missed in her home, her church
and her community for she was dearly
beloved by all, for those who knew
her best loved her most.
She possessed such a meek and
humble disposition that the beloved
husband, five children and nineteen
grandchildren realize their loss can
not be estimated, but we can only
point them to the great I Am who
never makes a mistake and doeth all
things well. We feel that it was His
will to take her to Himself away from
this troubled and sinful world. Her
memory will still be an example for
those who are left behind to follow.
On August 18 her remains were
taken to Clement church where the
funeral was conducted by Elders
Leonard Stephenson and Xure Lee.
A large crowd had gathered to pay
their last tribute of respect to this
noble woman. The pall bearers were:
Messrs. W. D. Johnson, Adam Whit
ley, Jr., Needham Stevens, Tom John
son, Robert Higgins, Walton Alford,
Jesse Whitley and J. O. Stephenson.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful.
in the next forty-five clays a meeting
with the State Highway Commission
will be called in Raleigh, and a big
delegation is desired.
The booster party left promptly at
two-thirty and spent the night in
Fayetteville, continuing the trip yes
terday.
FILL ENGAGEMENT
Will Speak Here Nexi
Monday; W. D, Briggs,
cf Raleigh, Here Ne:d
Wednesday.
OTHER SPEECHES MADE
Quite a number of Republicans both
men and women were disappointed
here Wednesday when they found that
rdr. I. M. Meekins, Republican candi
date for governor, would not speak
as scheduled. A death in his family
and the serious illness of his daugh
ter necessitated the foregoing of this
engagement. He will, however, speak
in Smithfield next Monday afternoon
at 1:30 o’clock.
Those present, however, assembled
in the courthouse and several speech
es were made by prominent Republi
cans. Mr. J. C. Stancil presided over
the meeting. He stated in his open
ing remarks that they hoped and ex
pected to elect a Republican ticket
this year from President down to
constable. He introduced Mr. James
Raynor, of Benson, who confined him
self for a few minutes to the situa
tion in Johnston County. “Conditions
in Johnston,” he said, “are disturb
ing.” He laid this state of affairs to
the laxity of law enforcement and
proceeded to attack the various offices
of the county.
Concluding his speech, Mr. Raynor
introduced the chief speaker of the
day, Hon. Willis D. Briggs, of Raleigh,
who without any formal opening, cut
loose upon the Democratic adminis
tration, charging against it many acts
of abuses of public offices, and de
clared that the time was at hand when
the people of North Carolina were
seeking for ? change. He cited that
once Catawba County, far up in the
mountains, was the banner Demo
cratic county in the state hut was now
solidly Republican. Later Johnston
held the coveted banner and that now
it is wavering upon the border line
and is almost ready to join the ranks
of Republican counties, and that Hali
fax is now in possession of the Demo
cratic banner, showing that the Re
publican party started with gains in
the mountains and has never stopped
until it has reached the sea coast.
Try as he could Mr. Briggs could
never assert any charge against the
Dc mocratic party more specific than
that in the old days Democratic cam
paigners had a heap to say about the
flag and the glorious things for which
it stands. Even this sort of campaign,
declared the speaker, is now on the
wane and the record of the Demo
cratic party is no longer the party
bi.ast that it once was. He charged
the Democrats with gross discrimina
tion against the Republican party in
having a hill introduced and passed
in the recent special session of the
Legislature which virtually put every
Republican county in the state under
the Australian ballot at the same time
leaving the Democratic counties free
to conduct the elections under the old
system.
The speaker paid high tribute to the
late Chas. B. Aycock, declaring that
he had the honor of being a cTose and
intimate friend of Governor Aycock,
and that to him he had contended for
the adoption of the Australian ballot.
He said that Aycock also favored it
but did not believe that the people
were ready for it. The closing of his
speech was an arraignment of the
Democratic party in a series of charg
es to the effect that the Democratic
party was anything else but Demo
cratic. He declared that 46 per cent
cf the voters of North Carolina vote
the Republican ticket. But by the
cateful arrangement of our Congres
sional Districts not a solitary Repub
lican could be sent to Congress as a
Representative. He further declared
that in the face of the fact that 46
per cent of the voters are Republicans
that not a Republican judge can be
found on the map of North Carolina.
His speech throughout was a strain
ed effort to find something of a seri
ous nature to charge against the
Democratic party. Being unable to
do this it was a sort of compromise
between a friendly criticism of the
party’s records and occasional ac
knowledgements ol' the progress the
i ML CLINIC IS
I QUITE A SUCCESS
A Hundred Boys and Girls
Are Served by The Clinic
' Here This Week.
DR. FITZGERALD OPERA 1 ES
| The r.in-il-adenoid clinic being held
at the high school this week has been
entirely successful and although twen
ty live operations have been perform
ed ii iia>\ for four days, we were
in fm mi d that there were enough more
ape: dmis to run another week. The
start' if nurses and equipment, how
ever, are required in another county
next \w-k and numbers of children
will no doubt be denied this operation
un!< s it shall be done privately. Only
the 1 school age have been admit
ted to the clinic.
Dr. J. II. Fitzgerald, who at the
conclusion of the clinic will go to
Raleigh and be associated with Dr.
Louis N. West, has performed the
operations with his usual skill, and
while he will be in his office here every
Saturday, many in the town and coun
ty will regret to learn that he will
after September 15, spend most of
his time in the capitol city.
The basement of the high school
has proved an almost ideal place for
the temporary hospital, the arrange
ments being quite an improvement
over the clinie held here several years
ago in r.he Turlington building.
A corps of ten trained nurses has
been on duty during the clinic which
.together with relatives of the patients
have given them every attention.
The Woman’s Club has rendered
thoughtful service in serving sand
wiches and hot cffoee to the attend
ants each evening and also by provid
; ing for a midnight lunch for those on
night duty.
Entertains Book Club
Benson, Aug. 27.—Mrs. W. H. Roy
all was hostess to the John Charles
McNeill Book Club and several ether
friends Tuesday afternoon at four
thirty. Mrs. O. A. Barbour, vice-presi
dent, presided over the meeting. Chap
lain’s service was conducted by Mrs.
Whittenton.
It was decided that the books of the
past year, after having been censored
by a committee, be donated to the
school library. The subject of the long
talked of rest room for Benson was
brought up for discussion again and it
is hoped that through the united ef
forts of all persons interested we may
this fall have open to the public a well
equipped rest room.
A call meeting was planned to meet
two weeks prior to the September
meeting for the purpose of electing of_
ficers, deciding on new books and other
business, be hostess had arranged two
contests to be worked out. These were
exceptionally interesting. Every one
present listened with pleasure to vo
cal selections rendered by Miss Mary
Bagley Overton with Miss Wilhelmina
Utley at the piano.
Mrs. Royall assisted by Miss Chel
lie Royuil and Alma Wilson, served de
licious refreshments consisting of nea
pofitan cream, Angel food cake, salt
ed nuts and mints. The color scheme
of pink and white was effectively coi
ned out in the refreshments.
Members enjoying Mrs. Royall’s
hospitality were: Mesdames O. A. Bar
hour, W. D. Boone, A. S. Oliver, J. H.
Rose, J. W. Whittenton and M. T. Brit1
Invited guests were: Mesdames E. R.
Canndy, C. C. Cannady, Ed. Parker.
H. C. Flowers, Preston Johnson, Paul
Johnson, W. T. Martin, Chas. Johnson,
Misses Mary Bagley Overton and Wil
helmina Utley'.
Reporter
If that needle in the haystack is
ever found it will be through a ad
in the Herald.
Democratic party has made.
Mr. Briggs’ speech was followed by
a short address by Mr. Zoby Parker,
; of Middlesex, candidate for Congress
against Hon. E. W. Pou. In a brief
speech he urged concerted action up
on the part of every Republican, tell
ing them that no day passes that he
does not slap some good fellow upon
the back and urge him to vote the Re
, publican ticket.
I
Yellow Jackets
Hurt Litttle Boy,
i Gastonia, Sept. 1).—Little Billy
| Johnson, the son of Rev. and Mi’s.
J. W. Cantey Johnson, rector of St. '
Marks Episcopal church, is a sick
young: man and his billy goat is a
dead animal, as the result of a clash
the two staged with a swarm of yel- !
| low jackets in the back yard of the 1
Johnson home.
| It seems that Billy and his goat
1 were enjoying the day all to them
; selves while other members of the
■ family were hi the hou e. Sudden
I screams from the child brought the
father on the run, who found that
the insects had stung the boy in sev
eral spots about his head and that
j the animal was dead.
In the fight the goat staged with
the yellow jackets, the insects got
the best of him when they ent red
his mouth and their stingers of poison
; instantly killed the animal.
Instant death is caused when a
yellow jacket stings either man or
beast in the mouth, say physicians.
Men have been known to die instant
j ly when stung on the tongue. The
goat, mentioned above, died five min- ;
utes after being attacked by the yel- |
! low jackets. The poison reaches the
heart more quickly through the ton- ;
gue than through any other part of
j the body.
j MR. KING TO TEACH IN ROCK
INGH \M
Four Oaks, Sept. 9. Mr. John W. j
I King, of the Spilona section, who
graduated at Wake Forest College in !
June left home Sunday for Rocking
( ham to take up his work as teacher
i of English in Rockingham High
1 School.
Miss Vivian Case, of Farmville, re
j turned home Tuesday after spending j
i the past week with Misses Louie and
Martha King.
BOOM IN DRY GOODS
A boom spirit growing in leading
markets, woolen mills running night
shifts, and commodity prices strength
cning as demand grows are noted in
the weekly market review of The
Dry Goods Economist, which finds
that within and without the dry goods
trade favorable symptoms continue !
to multiply. For example, the De- !
partment of Agriculture reports the
index of purchasing power of farm j
products as 10 per cent higher than
at any time in the last four years, j
The average price of 50 representa
tive stocks, half of them railroads
and the other half industrials, a few
days ago passed the boom levels of
the early months in 1920, and reach
ed the highest average for any year
since 1910.
In dry goods linos there is con
■ siderably more activity. The cotton
goods situation is favorably or ad
! versely affected by the wide fluctu
ations which now are a feature of
I the raw cotton markets. The general
j tendency in these lines, however, is
j toward greater stability of prices. It
I is recognized that even with a crop
i of $13,000,000 bales, if such an event
]with a crop of 13,000,000 bales, if
i such an event were to take place, the
j carry-over this year wi'l be so small
that raw cotton prices will continue
at a high figure.
In some lines of cotton goods an
advancing price tendency is apparent
Narrow brown and rleached cottons
have been advanced about five per
| cent. On several lines of wide sheet
ing the discounts have been shorten
’ ed. American prints have been ad
| vanced one-half to three-quarter cent,
and a fair business is being done at
the new quotations. Agents of mills
I that feature voiles in the unfinished
I
state report a marked increase in de
mand.
I The silk fabric business shows a
i steady improvement, due in large
measure to the maintenance of the
recent rise in raw silk, amounting to
$1 a pound since July 1.
Some speculative buying of the fin
er grades of raw wool is reported.
Based on expectations of higher
prices for wool there has been a stiff
ening of prices for wool and v> orsted
fabrics. Both cutters and retailers
ere waking up to the extent o" the
curtailment in wool output and,
while they are still proeeedmg with
caution, they are actuated by the
realization that the Fall season is
REVIVAL SERVICES
GROW IN INTEREST
Junior Booster Chorus To
Give Program Saturday
Evening; Service Fcr
Women Sunday.
SPECIAL Ml SIC ATTRACTS
The revival services now in prog
ress at the Methodist church are be
ing well attended and the interest
grows. The pastor, Rev. D. H. Tuttle,
never preached more earnestly, and
the music under the supervision of
Miss Hosford is spiritual and uplift
ing. Two pianos presided over by
Mrs. O. V. Johnson and Miss Sadie
Puckett, and a large adult chorus
combine to make the music inspiring.
Miss Hosford, who plays a saxaphone,
is a gifted leader and her vocal solos
are from the depth of her heart and
soul. Services are held each evening
at 7:30 o’clock and in the morning
from 9:15 to 10.15.
The Junior Booster Chorus com
posed of 100 voices will give an
evening of sermon and song Satur
day evening, and the service is being
looked forward to by both children
and adults. Press comments of Miss
llosford’s work with boys and girls
in other places, are in terms of praise,
and the amount of work she accom
plishes in four brief rehersals, is con
sidered marvelous.
Sunday morning will be observed as
Decision Day in the Sunday school
and Miss Hosford will speak to the
young people sometime during the
Sunday school hour.
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
Miss Hosford will talk to women and
girls. Her subject will be, “The
New Woman” and a capacity house
should greet Miss Hosford Sunday
afternoon. Every woman and girl
in the community is urged to be
present.
TWO BALES GINNED IN PINE
LEVEL
Pine Level, Sept. 0.—The first two
bales of cotton at Pine Level ginned
by Floyd C. Price’s modern gin plant
were owned by N. C. Massengiil,
and Joda Watson, the Murscrgill
bale weighed 540 pounds and was
put in to the N. C. Cotton Growers
Association by their agent here. The
other bale owned by Joda Watson,
weighed 472 pounds and was sold to
Floyd Price at 23 1-2 cents. These
bales were ginned .Friday, Sept. 5th.
Mr. Price’s ginnery each year for
some time has ginned the first bal9
on Sept. 4th, therefore the cotton
today was done one day later than
several years past by just one day.
TOBACCO CO-OPS MAKE FAST
START
Raleigh, Sept. 10.—Seven times as
much tobacco was delivered to the
35 warehouses of the Tobacco Grow
ers Co-operative Association which
opened last week in Eastern North
Carolina and several old belt markets
as was received by the Association
in the entire Eastern Belt during its
first week of operation last year; the
1024 deliveries of the tobacco co-ops
in the east having already passed
seven hundred thousand pounds.
The satisfaction of association
farmers over the highest advances
ever paid by their organization is re
sulting in large deliveries to the co
operative floors where increased pay
ments on a great majority of the
grades have brought larger returns
to the farmers on practically every
i load this year. In addition to this,
the tobacco co-ops have nqw attained
their goal of 75 per cent cash return
for the tobacco of every member who
desires it, by means of loans to the
members who wish to borrow half as
I much money as they receive from
1 their deliveries.
now upon them. On wanted goods,
i such as flannels and coatings .some
I of the mills are running night shifts.
Bolivias, which were being .-old at
; cut prices and in a rather limited
' way, are now bringing full price
' because the market is ill supplied to
meet the demand which, as prev
iously reported, has recently d vel
oped.— Charlotte Observer.