FORTY-FOURTH YEAR
• SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1925
NUMBER 7
Steering Committee Last Week
At Benson Decide Upon Ex
tensive Advertising C&m
® paign
WILL CATER TO TOURISTS
Thursday night of last week the
Storing Committee of the Eastern
Carolina Exposition, slated for Smith
field, April 13th to 18th, met at the
North State Hotel in Benson. There
were many matters incident to the
program of the big Exposition passed
on.
The committee decided to wage a I
very extensive advertising campaign
especially planned to reach the tour
ist trade, that will be coming back
from Florida about this time of the
year. Special Tourist literature is be
ing prepared, which will be carried to
Florida in automobiles and distributed
among the tourists there this winter.
The advertising matter will call at
tention to the fact that Smithfield is
on one of the main highways leading
North and that it is on the main line
of the Atlantic Coast Line from North
to South, both of which will l^jake it
easy to arrange stop-overs at ^rnith
field that week. Signs will be posted
0 all along the highways leading into
Florida, with arrows pointing this
way with a suitable inscription calling
the attention of the road man to the
big Exposition. This advertising mat
ter will be started about six weeks
before the big show opens, or about
February fifteenth or twentieth.
Home-Seekers Will Be Sought
Another method of advertising will
be, a special folder which will be di- j
rected to the Home Seeker, with a '
view of getting him to arrange to
visit Eastern North Carolina during
the week of the Exposition. Plans are
being worked out to furnish side
trips for any prospects who may come.
Home-Seekers’ rates will be in effect
then and it is quite certain th«£ many
new comers will take advantage of
this big occasion to visit Eastern
North Carolina. The fares from the
gate way points in the middle west
will be worked out to member towns
in Eastern North Carolina and the
homeseekers will be furnished with
this list. It looks as if this will cer
tainly get results. Even though the
Exposition is three months off, the
interest in Johnston County is very
encouraging and from all indications,
the Third Exposition will be all that
is exneeted.
Ladies Committee Meets
The initial meeting of the Ladies’
Committee of Johnston County in re
gard to the Eastern Carolina Expo
0 sition to be held in Smithfield on Ap
ril 33th-18th, took place in the court
house in that city on January 15th.
Secretary Bartlett presided/gand ex
pressed himself as being much pleased
at the response of the women at this
first meeting. He outlined the wo®
of the committees and aroused keen
interest aim enthusiasms among those
present in th0event which is to be of
such magnitude that it will bring
thousands to the county.
Johnston secured the exposition in
the face of competition from counties
containing the cities of Rocky Mount,
and Washington, and as hostess on
this occasion, the ten towns of the
County—Clayton, Benson, Four Oaks,
Selma, Princeton, Pine Level, Kenly,
Mciro, Wilson’s Mills and Smithfield
—have a distinct '‘responsibility.
It is expected and believed what the
women of these communities will re
spond •\ftiole-heartedly in meeting this
responsibility. The list of chairmen
of committees was published in a re
cent issue, and at an early date these ;
committees will be completed and the ,
® rea) work of preparing for the Expo
sinon on the pWt of the women will
have begun. The next 1
held in Kenly upon no
Secretary Bartlett. ®
W1 A father took his son of four years
to the inc^SWtor in the ce^r to #ee
the<j“ggslhatt:h.
Said dad, impressively: “Isn't it
£ queer how the little chicks get out of
the shell?’®
“Huh,” replied the youngster, “w#at
gets me Is %ow they® get in there.”—
neeting wilL
location frV
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Vine Clad Bachelor’s Hall at Wake Forest
The home during their college days of Elmore Earp, Cronje Earp and Carr Whitley, of Selma, Route 1. From
left to right in the picture: Mrs. W. S. Earp, stepmother of the Earp boys; Elmore Earp, now taking a medical
course; Cronje Earp, a Junior, and Carr Whitley, Freshman
Woman’s Club Meets With Mrs.
Garner Smith; Halycon Club
Entertained By Mrs. B. A.
Hocutt
SPLENDID PROGRAM GIVEN
Mr. L. F. Sasser visited relatives
at Durham last Sunday.
Miss Naomi Vinson spent several
days last week with her sister, Mrs.
Ivan Smith, in Bethesda section.
Miss Mildred Branham, of Raleigh,
visited relatives here last Sunday.
Mrs. Garner Smith was hostess to
the Woman’s Club on Tuesday after
noon. The spacious home was very
inviting with its Christmas decora
tions. The club had an interesting
business session, after which Mrs. C.
W. Carter gave an instructive and an
enjoyable program on Bermuda and
New Zealand. She was assisted by
Mrs. Paul Wallace, Miss Genie
Thomas and Mrs. C. H. Beddingfield
furnished a beautiful piano duet. The
hostess served a delicious salad course
followed with coffee and salted nuts.
Tiny desk calendars were favors of
the occasion. The hostess was assist
ed in serving by her daughters, Es
telle and Grace, and Mrs. Bessie Fer
guson. A number of guests enjoyed
Mrs. Smith’s cordial hospitality.
The Halcyon Club was most delight
fully entertained Wednesday after
noon, January 14, with Mrs: B. A.
Hocutt as the charming hostess. Aft
er a brief business session, the meet
ing was in the capable hands of Mrs.
Swade Barbour, program leader, with
Alfred Tennyson, the eminent Eng
lish writer, as the topic of dirfSission.
The opening number was a piano du
et: Overture from “Tancred” by Ros
sini, skillfully rendered by MesdanWs
H. G. Pope and E. W. McCullers. An
interesting and instructive sketch of
the life and writings of Alfred Tenny
son, was given by Mrs. Swade Bar
bour. Mrs. W. P. Creech read Tenny
son’s “Locksley Hall” in a most pleas
ing manner. “Sweet and Lojy” was
beautifully sung by Mesdamtfs Rob
bie Sanders and R. C. White, with
Mrs. C. H. Beddingfield, accompanist.
Little Miss Alice Barbour gave as a
reading Tennyson’s “Cradle Song.”
Mrs. Swade Barbour gave a story of
rennyson’s last and best known poem,
Catherin Ellis, Alice Barbour, Mildred
written when the author was 81 years
:>f age. Miss Bessie Lee Poole in a
• w«et appealing voice, sang “Shine !
fhrough Youx® Tears” and “Keep On
Hofnng” (Maxwell), with Mrs. H. E.
‘Crossing the Bar.” This poem was i
Beddingfield at the piano. At the
• inclusion of th% program little Miss
Brooks, violin accompanist, and Mrs.
Port and Pattie "IVnn passed attrac
:ive .handpainted place cards and in
Ote^the guests to find places at the
lour taoles artistically arranged in ,
I he dining room. These little girls
were dressed to represent the four
seasons of the year: Catherine*El^,
(Continued on page five)
Home Demonstration U ork
Aids Three College Boys
$200 000 Fire Loss In
Raleigh Yesterday
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One of the most spectacular
blazes in recent years occurred in
Raleigh yesterday morning when
the quarters of the Raleigh Trans
fer Company was destroyed by
fire together with 130 automobiles,
and eleven horses. The fire was dis
covered about four o’clock by Ed
Leathers, night man at the Motor
Service Company. Summoning help
about forty cars were rolled from
the place. Many of the automobiles
stored in the garage were the prop
erties of visitors in Raleigh, in
cluding delegates attending the
meeting of the Grand Lodge of the
Masons and legislators and others
engaged in legislative business.
The loss is only partly covered by
insurance.
STA^E LABORATORY HYGIENE
(N. C. State Board of Health)
ANALYSIS OF WAFER
Serial No. F 4795
Sent by H. N. Morgan,
Water Works.
Location, Smithfield, N. C.
Marked Town of Smithfield.
Supt.
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Received 1-14-25.
Reported 1-16-25
Sediment—0
Color—0
Turbidity—0
Odor, cold—0
Odor, hot—u
Alkalinity—7.5 Parts per Million.
Alum—0.9®Parts per Million.
Chlorides—6j-xParts per Million.
N itrites—0 *'
pH—6.0
B. coli in 1 c.c.—0
B. coli in 10 c.c.—0
B. coli in 50 c.c.—O
Total bacterial count per c.c. at
38 degrees C.—11
Count on lactose
per c.c.—1
Acid-producing bacteria per c.c.-O
another sample. (?)
J. W. K„ Analyst.
C. A. SHORE, M. D., Director.
a
litmus agar
/cj3end
Sisters Have Rouble Wedding
Pine Level, N. C., January 20,—
A quiet®wedding which came as a
distince surprise to many fffend.- was
that of Misses Annie and Flossie
Stallings, of Pine Level, to Milton R.
O’Neal, of Selma, and William N.
Hare, ®f Wilson, which took place
last Saturday evening at eight o'clock
at the parsonage of the Baptist
church. Rev. C. H. Cashwell offici
ated.
i> The brides are tffe daughters cf Mr.
and Mrs. J. I. Stallings. They are
very beautiful young girls, a^id have
a large circle of admiring friends.
The ceremony was verifwsimple and
was witnessed by ,gmly a few friends
and relatives.
Immediately following the ceremony
they^left for an extended trip to $li
ami, Fla., after which Mr, and Mrs.
O’Neal will make their frome in Sel- .
ma, where Mr. O’Neal holds ^ post- i
tion with the American Railway J^x
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Three Boys From Selma R. F.
D. ('an Food ’Thru Summer
and “Bach'* It During Col
lege Session.
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MAKE GOOD RECORDS
Not all the reward of school teach
ers and home demonstration workers
is the salary they receive at the end
of the month. What money could buy
the joy and satisfaction of having
helped some boy and girl to a better
life ? Surely the county home demon
stration agent of Johnston county,
Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, has the
consciousness of having served at
least one cummunity well when she
sees the results of her efforts enabling
three young men to take a college
course.
W hen the oldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Earp, of Selma, Route
One, Elmore Earp, finished high
school in Selma five years ago, he
went to Wake Forest College. He
boarded like the most of the boys at
one of the clubs. He found, however,
that this would prove more expense
than he liked to shoulder and he con
ceived a more inexpensive wray. He
rented the vineclad cottage shown in
the accompanying picture at the
rear of a professor’s home, which
had formerly been used as a music
teacher's room, and planned to keep
bachelor’s hall. It was during the
summer chat the county home affnt
came to his rescue in showing him
and his mother how to can food for
use when he got back to school. (
Fruits, vegetables, beef, pork, sau
sage, soup, and other produce from
the farm were canned, thus making
it possible to prepare a nourishing
meal in a short time. For three ,^?ars ;
this young man took care of his'own
expeses in this way. Three years ago
his brother, Cronje, finished high
school at Selma and joined him in his
house-keeping project. Last year the
older brother graduated and is now
taking a medical course. He has left
the “cottage” but his place has been
taken by Carr Whitley, neighborhood
friend of the Earp boys, who likewise I
completed his high school course at
Selma.
These boys have got a good deal of
fun as well as profit jgpt of their house
keeping experience at college and it
has in no way interfwed with their
taking part in the regular college life.
Cronje Earp, who is a junior this
year, has just been chosen as one of
:he representatives of the Phi Society
m the inter-collegiate debating con
X'stsSiuring the spring.
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Boy Scout (small but polite)—May
[ accompany you across the street
Old Lady- -Certainly^ How long
lave you been waiting for somebody
,o take you across ?
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iress, and Mr. and Mrs. Hare will re
side in Wilson, where Mr. Hare is
;ieket agent for the A. C. L. passen
ger station. Both coupled have a host
>f friend# whose good wishe® go with
hem to their homes.
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CURRENT NEWS OE
STATE JID NATION
Sftatt0Deficit Is Estimated At
Between Eight and Nine
Millions; Woman Gover
® nor of Texas @
TWO SHERIFF’S IN LENOIR
Notwithstanding the i'aet that a de
ficit in the treasury of North Caro
lina has been denied, figures in the
hands of the Budget Commission an®
Governor Angus W. McLean place the
state deficit at between $8,000,000
and $9,000,000. Definite figures on
the state deficit have not been an
nouced and will not be announced un
til the state departments shall agree
upon an exact figure. It is generally
understood that a program of econ
omy will characterize appropriations
of the present legislature. It is re
ported that all the deficit with the ex
ception of around one million dollars
was incurred during the administra
tion of Governor Cameron Morrison.
The first woman governor of Tex
was sworn in Tuesday when Mrs.
Miriam Amanda Ferguson toohe
*r and the second in the United States
oath of office. Her husband was
sworn in as governor of Texas just
ten years ago and three years later
was impeached. The retiring gover
nor, Pat M. Neff, told Mrs. Ferguson
he had left a photograph of Woodrow
Wilson over his desk as an inspiration
for her administration. He also left
a white rose as a symbol of purity and
the open Bible as a guide to h<^ path.
He marked the 105th verse of 119th
Psalm: “Thy word is light unto my
feet and a lamp unto my path.”
An authorized biography of Wood
row Wilson is to be written by Ray
Stannard Baker, of Amherst, Mass.
The work will begin immediately but
it will be several years before it will
be completed. Mrs. Wilson selected
Mr. Baker because she felt that Mr.
Wilson would have chosen him. In
fact, a letter was found written to
Mr. Baker, practically promising him
access to the papers which comprise
the inside story of the great war, and j
the peace conference at Paris.
Lenoir County has a unique situa
tion in that it has two sheriffs. Arden
Taylor was ousted by the county
board of c ommissioners some time
ago, who insfjted that there was a
shortage in his accounts, but Taylor
maintains that there is no shortage
and has held to his office in defiance
to the board. Heber Worthington was
named by Ahe commissioners to take
Taylor’s pface. Judge Midyette who
is presiding over Superior Court in
Lenoir this week recognized Worth
ington as the sheriff stating that he
would go by the records of the board.
The court room was said'4b have been
packed to witness the decision of the
board. *'
A raid was conducted Saturday,
night on the “red light district” of |
Wilson and almost thirty women were I
arraigned in Mayor’s court Monday
morning. All were charged with va
grancy by being an inmate of a house
:>f prostitution and others for run
ning a house of prostitution, and oth
ers for having whiskey in their pos- '
sesison for sale. Fines and jail sen
:enees?-were imposed by the mayor or
:hey were given the privilege of
leaving town within twenty-four
nours not to return for two years,
rhe defendants, however, appealed
heir cases and gave bond for ap
pearance in Superior Court.
The County Farm Agent of Bun
combe County is urging his people
.o sow soy beans and red clover and
s stressing better feeding and dairy
cattle. He is recommending the elinvi
lation of community fairs with the
dea that the farmers exhibit at the ,
iistrict exposition. •
^5tate Departments that had to pay
'or their printing out of^.heir appro
priates, according to the last bieij-#
lial report of l$ie Commissioner of
(Continued on page four)
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GAMBLING DEN IN
SELMA BROKEN UP
Selma .Chief Cultures Thirty
Gallons of V^iiskey; Makes
Arrest; Train Runs Over
Negro Boy
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OTHER NEWS ITEMS
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w Selma, Jan. 22.—Robert Richard
son, a 17-year-old nego youth, was
knocked down and seriously injured
by' Southern train No.^7 which ar
rives in Selma about 2:30 p. m., on
Tuesday afternoon. The boy had start
ed to the brick yard to seek employ
ment and was walking on the rail
road tracks \vhen@overtaken by a
freight train. He stepped over on
another fr'ack and was run over by
incoming mail. His skull was frac
tured and his right leg broken in three
places. He was ordered sent to St.
Agnes Hospital, Raleigh, where at the
last report he was still living. His
mother is a widow living on Mr. C.
F. Kirby’s plantation near town and
this boy was her eldest child and
main support.
Selma tovm officials are to be com
mended for their vigilance in break
ing up :: notorious fljftmbling den. The
offenders were carried to court and
given -m. h sentences as will make
them sit up and take notice. Mayor
Wade Brown is on the alert and they
need not expect further clemency.
This has been a pitfall for our young
men and boys for several years and
the citizens of Selma are grateful to
the City Fathers for ferreting out
this menace and putting a stop to
it.
Saturday night Chief J. H. Griffin
found a car ditched, apparently aban
doned on Railroad Street. In it were
three kegs each containing ten gal
lons of whiskey. He patiently await
ed the return of the owner who proved
Smithfield jail to await trial.
Miss Mildred Perkins attended the
shower given in Raleigh Saturday by
Miss Clell Branham complimentary
to Miss S. M. Moneyham.
Dr. O. P. Fitzgerald was a business
visitor to Raleigh Monday.
Miss Margaret Etheredge is in Ra
leigh to attend the reception on Thurs
day which will be given her sister,
Mrs. Samuel E. Leonard and Mrs. J.
Elmer Long, wife of the Lieutenant
Governor. The reception will be given
by Mrs. Charles H. Q^lvin.
Miss Pearl Raiford, who teaches
in the Princeton graded school spent
last week end here with her parents
Mr. Mose Godwin, a student at the
State University, visited relatives in
Selma Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Leonard and
little daughter, Margaret, of Raleigh,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Etheredge Sunday .
Mrs. B. Law Hoge and daughter,
Miss Nettie, of Berkley, West Va., ar
rived in the city Saturday to visit
Mrs. George D. Vick.
Mrs. Walter Grant has returned
from a visit to her parents in Wilson.
Little Miss Jean Edgerton, of
Goldsboro, is visiting her grandmo
:her, Mrs. S. E. Edgerton.
Mrs. J. W. Short has returned from
i visit to relatives in Fremont.
Dr. Wade H. Atkinson, of Wash
ngton City was the gu^t of Dr. and
Mrs. George D. Vick Monday and
md Tuesday. Dr. Atkinson gave his
famous illustrated lecture on “Trav
els in Europe” at the graded school
ruiilding Monday evening to an appre
.•iative audience. The propels were
graciously donated to the library fund.
Dr. Atkinson was formerly of Selma
ind this donation w'as highly appre
ciated by his old friends and Selma
people geaerally.
Miss Ruth Dewar of Calybeate
Springs is visiting Mr. and Mrs. ft.
r. Dewar.
BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY
Sunday school: 9:30. Preaching by
the pastor 11 a.m. ai^d 7 p m. It is
expected that a deacon wi^l be elect
ed at the morning service, the elec
tion having been postpefhed on ac
count of bad weather. It is desired
that all ^ members will take part. A
cordial invita&on to all the service*.
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