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 thef 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 © 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. @ © 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 • * Three Boys From Selma R. F. D. ('an Food ’Thru Summer and “Bach'* It During Col lege Session. © 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. ®_ 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 ? -1_#-* 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. V 1 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) •* GAMBLING DEN IN SELMA BROKEN UP Selma .Chief Cultures Thirty Gallons of V^iiskey; Makes Arrest; Train Runs Over Negro Boy -*® OTHER NEWS ITEMS £_ 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*. * • •