FORTY-THIRD YEAR
SMITHF1ELD. N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 124
NUMBER 88
SPLENDID MEETING
OF BAPTIST ASSOC.
Reports Show Gain of Several
Hundred Members for John
ton Churches Last Year
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
t Reported for The Herald)
The Johnston Association, as it will
be called in the future, has just held
with the Baptist church at Four
Oaks one of the best sessions in its
history. Heretofore it has been called
the Johnston County Association, but
owing to the fact that the borders
of the association have been extended
to take in a number of churches in
the border counties, it was decided
at the recent session to change the
name to the Johnston Association.
Two new churches were received dur
ing the session at Four Oaks, making
the present membership 47. Many of
the churches reported fruitful reviv
als, and when the figures are summed
up they will show a gain of several
hundred members for the churches
during the past year.
The association has never had a
change in its presiding officer since
its organization, R. H. Gower, of
Clayton, having served continuously
as moderator since the organization
of the body 21 years ago. He wras re
elected, the other new officers being
as follows: Rev. S. L. Morgan, of
Smithfield, Vice-Moderator; Rev. R.
M. Von Miller, of Wilson, Clerk; and
Mr. J. A. Smith. Treasurer, Mr. Mor
gan being continued as chirman of
the executive committee, Mrs. J. M
Beaty, of Smithfield, and Mrs. B. A.
Hocutt, of Clayton, who is also pres
ident of the Woman’s Missionary So
ciety of the association. The associa
tion will meet next year with the
Thanksgiving church, Rev. C. H
Cashwell, of Selma, to preach the in
troductory sermon, and Rev. J. W.
Rose the missionary sermon.
Besides the sermons and addresses
delivered by members of the body,
stirring addresses were deliveredby
Dr. T. W. O’Kelly and Mrs. J. M.
Broughton, of Raleigh. There were
notably two hours in the session
when the association was lifted out
of the commonplace and feeling
reached high tide. One was when the
address of Dr. O’Kelly on “The Stra
getic Hour in World Missions,” the
association faced the task of the
churches for 1924-5. That task pri
marily was to round up successfully
the 75 Million Campaign by Decem
ber 31, and launch the 1925 Program,
which is to raise for all objects of
beneficence ,a total of $1,000,000 in
North Carolina. Rev. O- A. Keller, of
Benson, is the director for the asso
ciation in this undertaking, and in
a telling address he made it clear that
the payment of the total pledges made
to the 75 Million Campaign, and the
raising of $1,000,000 next year, would
require no sacrifice, but merely self
denial to the extent of giving up a
portion of the useless luxuries indulg
ed in by the highly favored people in
North Carolina.
Perhaps the most memorable hour
in the session was the morning of the
first day, when all the pastors of the
association , with a number of the
laymen, spoke in rapid succession on
the “Spiritual State of the Churches.”
It was. a diagnosis of present condi
tions, touching on home religion,
church life and activities, pointing
out dangerous tendencies in our pres
ent day life, and how' we may suc
cessfully grapple with them. The out
standing fact brought out by the dis
cussion was the marvelous progress
made by the churches since the as
sociation was organised 21 years ago.
The moderator, who has closely
watched the development of the
churches during the 21 years, was
visibly moved by the discussion, and
declared that the hour had wrought
the body to the mountain top. He re
quested all who had been present 21
years before at the organization of
the body to stand, and about a dozen
stood, and one of the number, Mr.
J. F. Pool, led in a rather remarka
ble prayer, touching graphically on
God’s goodness through 21 years of
history through which the body had
come. „
A beautiful, tender incident of the
session was a memorial service in
honor of Mrs. Laura Pool Creech, re
cently deceasedd, one of the out
standing women of the association, a
pioneer member of the Four Oaks
church. Mrs. B. B. Adams, for many
TO DEDICATE NEW
PRINCETON SCHOOL
The new brick school building
at Princeton will be dedicated next
Friday, November 7, at eleven
o’clock a. m. Dr. W. L. Poteat,
president of Wake Forest College,
and Mr. M. W. Lincke, editor of
the Nashville Graphic, and state
vice-councilor Jr. O. U. A. M., will
make the principal speeches of the
occasion. This is one of the hand
somest school buildings in John
ston County and is the only one
of the new buildings that may be
seen from the highway. Prof. M.
P. Young is principal of the school,
fourteen teachers constituting the
entire faculty. Friday will be a
red letter day in the Princeton
community and a large crowd will
be expected to participate in the
exercises of the day.
Smithfield Defeats
Dunn, 13-12 Score'
—
The Smithfield football team won
its second decisive victory within
three days at Dunn Friday. The game
was the hardest fought of the season,
being the first championship game
the locals have played, and the score j
at the end was 12 to 13 in favor of
Smithfield.
The game opened with a 15 yard
kick-off by Captain Kirkman, and
, Dunn was tackled on the spot.
Dunn drew first blood with a touch
down in the first quarter, but failed
extra point. About three minutes aft
er Dunn’s kick-off, Honeycutt broke }
loose around end with a 50-yard run,
but was unable to get into full speed j
on account of the slow sandy field. I
He was downed off Smithfield’s 12
yard line. By continuous line bucks
Honeycutt took the ball over for a
touchdown, but failed extra point on
an attempt pass.
Dunn again scored in the third
quarter on a pass to Baggert, but
failed extra point by an incomplete
kick. It was late in the fourth quar
ter when Kirkman caught a pass
over the goal line for the final touch
down. The extra point was a pass,
Kirkman to Lawrence and Lawrrence
was interfered with by a Dunn man,
and the point was counted.
Dunn the/i kicked to their 25-yard
line and Smithfield ran it back 20
yards. Smithfield marched steadily
down to Dunn’s 20-yard line by con
tinuous passing and end runs until
the final whistle blew'.
The features of the game were the
50-yard run of Honeycutt, the punt
ing of Kirkman, the way he handled
the team, and the playing of Baggert
of Dunn.
THREE TAR HEELS
GIVEN MEDALS FOR
ACTS OF HEROISM
Carnegie Hero Fund commission, at
its fall meeting here today, recog
nized 48 acts of heroism by award
ing three silver and 45 bronze med
als. Three North Carolinians were in
: eluded in the awards..
Otis R. Whitehead, Ramseur, N. C.,
died attempting to save a fellow
work man from drowning at Ram
seur, May 31, 1922. A silver medal
was awarded to his father.
' A bronze medal was awarded to
Charles S. Foster, of Honda, N. C.,
who saved an engineer from suffoca
tion at Benham, N. C., June 2, 1923.
Edward Ashby Pipkin, route 2,
Morven, N.. C. was also awarded a
bronze medal. He saved a negress
from drowning at Andersonville,
N. C., January 13, 1923.
years an intimate friend of the de
ceased, in an address of rare beauty
and tenderness, paid tribute to her
high worth as neighbor, mother and
| Christian. „
The distinctly forward step taken
by the Woman’s Missionary Union of
given to the proposition presented
by the Woman’s Missioary Union of
, the association to employ a woman
for all her time, if found possible,
who shall devote herself to organiz
ing and developing in all the churches
the work among the women and chil
dren. Hearty cooperation was voted
by the body, and the executive com
mittee was instructed to work out in
i consultation with the women’s organ
ization a plan by which the enter
' prise can be financed.
TEACHERS OF FOUR
CO. SCHOOLS MEET
Seven-Months Schools Include
Brogden, Archer, Corbett
Hatcher, Corinth-Holder
The second teachers meeting of this
season was held here Saturday in
the commissioners room of the court
house when the teachers of the seven
months schools of the county assem
bled for a discussion of the year’s
work. There are only four seven
months schools in the county as fol
lows: Brogden, Corbett-Hatcher, Cor
inth-Holders and Archer Lodge. The
“Outline Course of Study,’’ the
Teachers Assembly, and other phases
of school work were taken up at the
meeting which was conducted by Miss
Mary E. Wells, rural supervisor.
County Superintendent Marrow was
present and made a talk to the teach
ers. These schools opened yesterday,
The teachers present were as fol
November 3.
lows: Archer Lodge school: J. C..
Gibbs, Mrs. J. C. Gibbs, Bertha Wood
ard, Mae Belk, Mary Saunders, Ler
ma Godwin. Cornelia Clark and Sal
lie Herring; Corinth-Holders: Harry
Keller, Hazel Lewis, Rachel Moore,
Chesson Van Landingham, Jessie
Hines, Elgie Hocutt, and Marfra Hig
gins; Brogden: Melvin Robinson, An
nie Mann, Susan Rice, Mae Dorsett,
Elie Glascock and Vonnie West; Cor
bett-Hatcher: Albert J. Dixon, Mary
Pipkin, Myrtle Bailey, Leone H. San
ders, Sarah WelJons and Anna Pip
kin.
PETRIFIED HUMAN BODY
FOUND IN OLD CEMETERY
Ahoskie, Oct.31.—A petrified hu
man body was unearthed from a dis
carded family burying ground in Mur
freesboro a few days ago. The old
graveyard was being prepared for an
auction sale, the bodies being re
moved to the town cemetery. Work
men engaged in the business of re
moving the bodies were unable to
lift the petrified body from the grave
and it was necessary to commandeer
the services of a horse to lift it. It
was the body of a woman, being the
dead wife of the former owner of the
property.
FOUR OAKS NEWS
Four Oaks, Nov. 2.—Miss Euna
Brogden spent the week end in Ben
son with friends.
Miss Nancy Moose, a member of the
high school faculty here, is spending
a few days in Stedman with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hatcher were
business visitors in Chapel Hill Sat
urday.
Miss Luna Lewis, Oma Adams, and
Mr. Hoyette Massengill visited Miss
Beatrice Honeycutt in Linden Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lewis spent
Sunday in Goldsboro with relatives.
Mrs. Fab Brown, of Raleigh,
spent severa 1 days last week with
her sister, Mrs. J. A. Canaday, here.
Messrs. Carl Lewis and Ervin Bar
bour are spending a few days in
Southern Pines with friends.
Mr. A. T. Sater, who has been
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Hollowed,
in Rocky Mount, has returned home.
Mrs. Carson Adams is spending
several days with Mrs. Fab Brown
in Raleigh.
Miss Anna Nichols, of Smithfield,
spent the week end with Miss Han
cock here.
Methodist Prayer Meeting
Prayer meeting will be held at the
Methodist church Wednesday even
ing at seven o’clock. The pastor, Rev.
D. H. Tuttle, will make the last of
a series of talks on the twenty-third
Psalm. .
Bible Class
The New Testament Bible Class
heretofore meeting at the Episcopal
church, will meet at the residence of
Mr. N. M. Lawrence, Tuesday even
ing at 7 o’clock.
GEO. M. MANLEY.
D. B. Batten of Anson County re
fused to lay by his cotton when
others did about the last of July. He
kept plowing and indications are
now that he will make 50 per cent
more cotton as a result, reports coun
SELMA ITEMS ARE
FULL OF INTEREST
Salad Demonstration Given by
Woman’s Club; Leaguers
Have Hallowe’en Party
Selma, Oct. 30.—Messrs. Leonard
Short, Jack Wilkins and Edgar Stan
cil spent Sunday in Greensboro. While
there they visited the Selma girls
who are in college there.
Miss Elizabeth Earp, who is teach
ing at Rock Ridge, spent last week
end here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Earp.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. II. Atkinson
and Mrs. T. M. Waters shopped in
Raleigh Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Brown and
daughters, Miss Velma and Hazel, and
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Herring and
daughters, Misses Sallie and Bernice,
attended the Primitive Baptist asso
,ciation near Fremont Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Mitchell and
■ Mr. Melvin Whitley, of Durham,
were week end visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. A. K. Eason.
Prof. W. G. Woodlief has returned
from a visit to his mother at Cary.
Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Quick and chil
dren and Mrs. W. H. Moore, of Rocky
Mount, stopped over for a short visit
to Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Raiford on
Friday. They were en route to Clio,
S. C.
We regret to chronicle the illness
of little Ida May Raiford.
Mrs. J. W. Short has returned from
a visit to relatives in Fayetteville.
Dr. and Mrs. Bennett B. Poole
of Winston-Salem, spent last Satur
day with Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Debnam.
Mrs. W. B. Johnson and Mrs. W. J.
Short attended the Wilson County
fair last wek.
Mrs. J. B. Person went to Rex Hos
pital Friday for a slight operation..
She returned Sunday.
Friends in the city are delighted
to have Mrs. T. II. Whitley at home
: again after several weeks treatment
! at Mary Elizabeth hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Covington, Jr.,
of Laurinburg, S. C., spent last week
end here with Mr. John A. Mitchiner.
Mrs. A. J. Pearce left Monday to
spend this week with relatives in
, Wilmington.
Messrs. Henry Barnes and Howard
Quick, of Rocky Mount, were the
guests of friends in the city Sunday.
Miss Lelia Straughn of the Prince
ton graded school faculty spent last
week end here with her parents, Capt.
and Mrs. J. R. Straughn.
Miss Frances Moore and Edith
Matthews spent last week end with
friends in Wilson.
Miss Cammilla Pitard, of Raleigh,
was the guest of Miss Frances Pit
ard Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Lillian Britt has returned
from a visit to her brother in Wen
dell.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Stroud, of
Saulston, have moved to Selma. They
have rooms with Mr. W. B. Driver.
Mr. Stroud will be connected with the
Driver Grovery Company. We ex
tend to them a welcome.
Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Noble were the
guests of Judge and Mrs. A. M. No
ble in Smithfield Sunday.
Mesdames J. C. Kutz, L. D. Deb
nam, Gordon Whitaker, J. R. Baker,
and Miss Mabel Oliver attended the
gold medal cooking class at the city
auditorium, Raleigh, Tuesday after
noon.
Mrs. L. D. Debnam and son, Hec
tor, spent Sunday in Clayton with
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Griffin.
After the regular weekly program
which was led by Miss Rosa Waddell
in the Methodist church, the members
of the League were invited to the
Sunday school rooms where they were
delightfully intertained for about an
hour in good Hallowe’en fashion
| with Miss Mildred Perkins to lead the
1 festivities. Mrs. J. W. Short was
j dressed as a witch and told fortunes
also a ghost story. Dr. Fitzgerald
told a ghost story also. A contest
followed, in which Miss Mildred
Creech wras winner. Cream was
served decorated with a Hallowe’en
favor. The young people thoroughly
enjoyed the evening.
Wednesday afternoon, October 29
the Selma Woman’s Club held its
regular meeting in the Kiwanis Clut
rooms, after which a salad demon
stration was conducted with Mrs. J
C. Kutz in charge. Assisting Mrs
Kutz were Miss Minnie Lee Garri
Replaces Wallace
' I
f 1 ca c-r e t
Asst Secy of Agriculture How
•u'd M. Gore. He gave up caro
laigning for his election as Gov
■rnor of West Virginia, to take
>ver the full duties of the late
Secy Wallace.
G. H. Ferguson to Speak to Colored
Teachers
There will be a conference with the
colored teachers and school commit
teemen held at the County Training
School Friday and Saturday, Nove.m
| her 7 and 8. A special effort has been
made to secure teachers with normal
school trailing for the rural schools,
and to take care of all non-standards
teachers of the county by making it
possible for them to get on the stan
dard list.
Quite an interesting program is
being worked out for the conference.
There will be a minute discussion on,
“Rural School Problems anti How. to
Solve Them”; and “What the Teach
er Means to the Community.”
Superintendent H. B. Marrow will
speak on Saturday. Mr. H. V. Rose
and other county workers will be
present.
Mr. G. H. Ferguson, assistant di
rector of Negro Education in North
Carolina, will speak at 11:30 o’clock
a. m. Saturday morning. He will also
speak on the Extension Study Course.
All persons interested in the county
educational work are invited to be
present on Saturday and hear these
speakers.
LAURA J. A. KING,
Supervisor of Negro Schools of
Johnston County.
“I was reading in the paper last
night,” says old Ork Oddways, “that
a caterpillar will in a month eat about
six hundred times its own weight.”
“Looky here!” demanded Gap John
son, of Rumpus Ridge, who had enter
ed the crossroads store in the midst
of the statement. “Which one of my
kids are you talking about?”
son, county home agent, and Miss
Clell Branham, Domestic Science
teacher in the Selma schools. Mrs.
J. R. Barker was among those who
had attended the Gold Medal Cook
ing School in Raleigh, and she was
called upon to tell about new salads
and sandwiches she had learned to
make. Mrs. Debnam read a paper on
“Salads, Their Use and Value in the
Daily Menus.” Mrs. Kutz showed
some very pretty salads made by
Miss Branham, Mrs. J. W. Short, Mis.
T. H. Atkinson, Mrs. G. A. Tuck and
Mrs. R. J. Noble. Each club member
give recipe for same. Miss Garrison
for her assistance. Every lady present
of thanks was given Miss Garrison
ers in a palatable salad. A rising vote
salads, explaining how to use luftov
was asked to give her favorite salad,
and demonstrated several attractive
was given typewritten recipes of the
five salads Miss Branham had pre
pared. Waldorf Salad, saltines and
hot coffee were served by Mesdames
J. C. Kutz, W. H. Poole, T. H. At
kinson, J. W. Short, J. R. Barker and
R. W. Etheredge.
CO. COTTON COOPS
TO HEADQUARTERS
A Trip To Raleigh Office and
State College of Agricul
ture Is Planned.
NOVEMBER 11 THE DAY
Mr. J. G. Lawton, field representa
tive of the Cotton Association, is
sending a letter to community lead
ers in Johnston County inviting them
to take a trip to the Raleigh office of
the Cotton Association and the State
College of Agriculture. The letter
sent out by Mr. Lawton is as follows:
“Arrangements are being made for
a visit to the Raleigh office of the
Cotton Association and the State Col
lege of Agriculture by our group
leaders and their wives on Tuesday,
November 11.
“This" invitation is being extended
to a few of the leading men and wo
men of Johnston and Wilson Counties
and you are urged to make your ar
rangements so that you can be pres
sent and represent your community.
We are asking the ladies to bring
lunch with them as arrangments have
been made to serve it on the top floor
of the Cotton Association Building.
“We will leave Smithfield by auto
mobile in a body at 9 o’clock Tuesday
morning, November 11, and will be
joined by other parties on the way to
Raleigh. We want you both to urge
any of your friends who may be in
terested in the work we are doing to
come along with you for I can assure
you that your visit will be well worth
while and will be long remembered
by all who attend. This is a national
holiday and I can think of no better
way to spend it than to see for your
self just what progress has been
made by your Association in the
fight for Economic Freedom. A pro
gram of the conference is enclosed.”
The schedule for the day has been
arranged as follows:
9:00 a. m. Leave Smithfield in a
body, to be joined by other par
ties enroute.
10:30 a. m. Arrive Raleigh Cotton
Association Bldg.
10:30 to 12M. Inspection Cotton
Association office.
12 M to 1 p. m. Lunch Grading
Room.
1 p. m. to 2 p. m. Discussion of
Community Problems, Gener
al Manager U. B. Blalock, H.
H. B. Mask, Miss Susan Lan
don, Miss Elizabeth Kelly, and
others.
2 p. m. to 3 p. m. Trip of inspection
State College.
3:30 p. m. Leave Raleigh, Cotton
Association Bldg.
4:30 p. m. Arrive Smithfield.
Turn to page six. You’ll find that
it will be worth your while.
Mr. E. E. Parker Dead.
Friends and acquaintances of Mr.
E. E. Parker will regret to learn c-f
his death which occurred at his home
! been about six miles from here in the
l Hopewell section Sunday morning
about two o’clock. Mr. .Parker had
been in hM»»usual health and was in
town on Friday. Late Saturday aft
ernoon about six o’clock while at his
S store near his home, Mr. Parker com
plained to his son of being sick. They
i closed up the store and went home
and sent for the doctor. About eleven
I o’clock he seemed better and he in
sisted upon the family retiring. At
two o’clock he had a sudden attack
and passed away almost without a
moment’s warning.
J he tunerai was held yesterday
morning at eleven o’clock conducted
by Rev. H. R. Faircloth and inter
ment was made in the Hopewell cem
etrey. Mr. Parker was about sixty
eight years old. He was a prominent
man in his commuaity, and was a di
rector of the Farmers Bank and Trust
i Company of this city. He leaves a
wife and several children, among
whom are Messrs. Willis and David
Parker, of this city.
Those attending the funeral yes
terday from this city were: Mr. and
Mrs. Willis Parker, Mr. and Mrs.
David Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Will H.
Lassiter, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wallace,
Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Wallace, Mrs. Rae
ford Oliver, Miss Sarah Parrish, Mr.
W. D. Parrish, Mr. R. C. Gillett, Mr.
C. F. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Alford.
Be sure to read page six of this issue
-it will be worth your while.. _