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LOCAL ITEMS IN
TOMiyF SELMA
Kiwanians Enjoy Grapefruit
From, Florida Grove ®f
Their President
SERVICE AT COUNTY HOME
Selma, Jan. 20.—Mrs. I. W. Massey
has returned from a visit to her
daughter in Raleigh.
Mr. T. H. Atkinson, who has re
cently been in Florida looking after
his orange and grape-fruit groves,
sent the Selma Kiwanis club several
crates of fruit which was a part of
the menu at their weekly dinner on
Thursday of last week. This courtesy
was highly appreciated by the mem
bers. Mr. Atkinson is president of
the local club.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Atkinson and
children returned to Selma Sunday
after a visit to relatives in Bartow.
Fla. Mr. Atkinson says they were
compelled to go 1,500 miles out of
their way on account of the recent
high water and washouts.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Pike, of Ra
leigh, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
Wiggs Sunday.
Miss Margaret Etheredge has re
turned from a visit to relatives in Ra
leigh.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woodard spent
Sunday with relatives in Benson.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Biggs, of Wil
son, spent last wreek end with Mrs.
T. R. Fulghum. Sr.
Born on Saturday, January 24. to
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Jernigan, a son.
Mrs. T. H. Whitley returned from
a Norfolk hospital Saturday. Her
friends note a marked improvement
in her condition.
Mrs. Lettie Peterson has returned
to her home in Wilmington after a
visit to her brother, Mr. R. J. Smith.
Mrs. W. A. Nordan, who has been
quite ill at her home on Anderson
street is able to be out again.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Blackburn spent
last week end in Dunn with Dr. and
Mrs. Highsmith.
Mr. J. C. Kutz has been on a visit
to his mother in Sisne, illinois. On
the return trip he stopped in Atlan
ta to bpy a carload of mules which
will arrive in Selma Wednesday or
Thursday of this week.
Mrs. O. C. Hendricks, of Chapel
Hill, spent last week end at the home
of Mrs. Junius Peedin.
Mrs. J. C. Kutz has received cable
grams announcing the safe arrival of
the U. S. S. Denham in Barcelona,
Spain. Her son, Mr. Estill Kutz, was
a passenger.
L>r. I. W. Mayerberg attended the
Kiwanis convention in Greensboro
last week. He was a delegate from
the Eastern Carolina division.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Peedin. of Wil
son, were the guests of Mrs .1. W.
Mayerberg Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. Short and Mrs. John
Jeffries shopped in Raleigh Tuesday.
Mr. Royster Richardson left Mon
day for Petersburg, Va„ where he’
has accepted a position as clerk in
the Petersburg hotel.
Miss Edith Matthews spent last
week end in Benson.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Richardson,
Jr., returned to their home in Raleigh
Friday after avisit to their parents
here. They were accompanied home
by Miss Eva Richardson for a week
end visit.
I)r. George D. Vick and Dr. Alex
ander Martin are on a hunting trip at
Monack’s Corner, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Woodard shop
ped in Goldsboro Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Richardson mo
tored to Raleigh Sunday to spend tfie
day.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mozingo spent
Sanday with relatives in Goldsboro. |
Mr. J. H. Fleming,of Raleigh, and
Mr. R. C. Mozingo made a business
trip to Four Oaks Tuesday.
Dr. and Mrs.R. J. Noble spent Tues
day in Raleigh.
Misses Anne Noble, Poteart and
Royster, of Meredith Colege, spent
•'■^inday here with Dr. and Mrs. R. J.
Nobel.
Mrs. B. B. Reaves, of Oxford, is
visiting Mrs. W. R. Smith.
Mrs. L. D. Debnam spent Tuesday
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Rev. W. C. Cumming
Writes From China
Rev. W. C. Gumming:, who was
pastor of the Presbyterian church
here, before going: as a missionary to
China, has written interestingly to
friends here of some of his experi
ences which we believe will be of in
terest to a large number of our read
ers. His letter follows:
Dear Friends:
Since writing to you last I have
moved to Kiangyin, which is on the
South bank of the Yangste River some
108 miles above Shanghai, and it is
here that I expect to be permanent
ly located.
As you may very well imagine I
was considerably chagrined to find
that the dialect is so different from
the Nankingese that I studied last
year that I was not able to under
stand anything at all at first, but the
characters are the same and the great
bulk of the differences follow a reg
ular order, so that after two months
hard work, I am getting so that I can
talk some and can at least get an idea
of what the preacher is talking about
in church.
I am reading the Gospel of Mark
in Chinese and then will take half of
Acts and perhaps Pilgrim’s Progress
and then some of the modern Chi
nese in the school readers and other
things. At the same time there is con
siderable practice in trying to learn
the new words and in learning to
write the characters. It is all much
more interesting than you might
imagine, and translating a page has
very much the fascination of work
ing out a puzzle.
In addition to my own study I am
coaching Basket-Ball and Volley-Ball
in the Boys’ School and am teaching
a class in English. In these ways I
am having a good deal of contact with
the School and am getting to know the
boys. After my experience with Chi
nese I can sympathize with their
struggles with English and realize
how hard it must be for them.
In a recent composition on “How
the War (in China) Will End”, one
of the boys began by making the re
markable remark: “The war between
Kiangsu and Chekiang (provinces)
has been spent much of time in fight.”
We have all been rejoicing that it
is over, but already complications
have arisen that make it seem almost
certain that it is not over. You are
getting the news through the papers
about as quickly as we do, so I will
not try to tell you about it.
Charlie Worth went down to help
in relief work near yuinsan ana re
ports that the whole country there
has been pillaged and burned by the
Kiangsu troops, after the war was
over, just like it had been an enemy's
country. Nothing is left intact, and
bands have committed every kind of
violence upon the people.
One depressing thing about a non
Christian country like this is that
even when sympathetic people con
tribute money or clothing for the re
lief of the destitute a large part of it
is embezzled or stolen by those who
have it in charge. The Civil Governor
of this Province has tried to do some
thing to relieve the situation and has
had so many experiences of this sort
that he finally said tliat if he ever
had any more relief work to do that
he was going to commit it to the
Christian church—that they were the
only people whom he could trust.
During last week an annual Bible
Conference was held here for the
women of the country churches
around Kanagyin and some 70 came
up for the ten days. They had daily
Bible study and then on Friday night
Dr. Worth showed them stereoptican
pictures and then a few reels on a
little moving picture machine he has
here. Many of them had never seen
a moving pictupe before (there is of
course nothing of the kind in our city)
and they just went wild over it, shout
ing so w!hen they saw the figures
move around that they couldn’t hear
the explanations that Mr. Little was
trying to make to them.
On Sunday we had a fine Commu
nion service with over 300 people tak
ing part, and twelve babies were bap
tized. On the previous Sunday some
twenty people had been admitted to
the church out* of a total of neanly
180 thart had applied for churc’h mem
bership. Usually a person has to some
before the session three or four times
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Gives Rules and Regulations
Governing Queen’s Contest
Women’s Committees
To Meet In Kenly
A very important meeting: of the
Women’s Division of the Eastern
Carolina Exposition, will be held at
Kenly, Wednesday February 4th,
at 3 p. m. Every member of all
the committees is urged to be pres
ent.
CLAYTON LETTER
FULL OMNTEREST
Girls' Basketball Team Defeats
Selma Girls 17-18 In Game
Friday Afternoon
PERSONAL MENTION
Clayton, Jan. 29.—Mr. and Mrs.
Bennett B. Poole, of Winston-Salem,
spent several days in Clayton last
week with relatives.
Mr. H. A. Brown, assistant cashier
of the Farmers Bank, spent the past
week at his old home at Wilson.
Mrs. L. T. Rose, who has been jquite
ill the past week is very much un
proved.
Mrs. Martha Spence and mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Wiggs, returned, Sun
day from a week’s visit to relatives
at Durham.
Mr. Ed Blalock, of the Blalock Con
struction Company, has returned to
j Clayton, after spending sometime
| at his home at iCihston. 'r ' ‘
Mr. D. O. McCullers has been con
fined to his bed for some time past,
but is recovering nicely.
Messrs. R. WT. Sanders, E. T. Bed
dingfield and L. G. Sanders attended
the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Masons at Raleigh Tuesday after
noon.
Mrs. J. D. Pridgen, ot Durham,
spent Sunday with the Children at
the Pythian Home.
Dr. W. M. Faneher returned Tues
day from Binghamton, N. Y., where
he spent a month with relatives. He
has gone to Smithfield, where he will
be for the next few months while
finishing up his work of testing the
cattle of the county for tuberculosis.
Mr. Wilifred Whitley, of the Clay
ton Department Store is keeping
store at the Farmer’s Mercantile
Company stand, the business having
recently been bought by his father,
Mr. W. I. Whitley and Mr. A. R.
Duncan. He will continue this position
until his sucessor is secured.
The Girls’ basketball team of Clay
ton high school motored to Selma last
Friday afternoon and challenged the
Selma team in a game of basketball.
The teams played four eight-minute
periods and at the end of the fourth
quarter the score was 17 to 13 in
Selma’s favor. The players from Clay
ton were:
Forwards: Gladys Branham (man
ager), Bernice Turley and Annabelle
Barbour.
Center: Pauline Smith.
Guards: Lucille Young (Captain),
and Ruby Ellis.
PINE LEVEL BAPTIST CHURCH
Regular monthly preaching servic
es next Sunday morning and evening
at the Pine Level Baptist Church,
conducted by the pastor. There will
also be preaching at Hepzibah on
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock.
The Pine Level church starts off
well with the new year. There were
four additions to its membership dur
ing January, three of which were for
baptism. The Sunday school gives a
collection one Sunday in each month
to the Baptist Orphanage. In addi
tion to its other regular contributions.
It made a liberal offering during Jan
uary to the Near East Relief fund.
The pastor is gratified to note a good
attendance fsorn the country to all
our services. We ace glad to have
them come and worship with us; we
want them to feel at home and to be
one of us in all our services.
@ JAS. W. ROSE, Pastor.
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Two Queens Will Be Crowned
On Last Evening of Expo
sition, April 17th.
ONE FROM JOHNSTON CO.
The Queen’s contest has been quite
an interesting feature of the two ex
positions put on by the Eastern Caro
lina Chatnber of Commerce. This
year will be no exception to the rule.
Two queens will be chosen to be
crowned on the last evening of the
exposition April 17, and will inciden
tally be awarded diamond rings. One
of itne queens will be selected from
Johnston County, every town in the
eounty having the privilege of se
lecting a queen. The other queen will
be chosen from some town outside of
Johnston County.
The rules and regulations govern
ing the Queen’s Contest , are as fol
lows :
Eligibility Regulations:
1. Must be single.
2. Cannot be under 18 years of
age.
3. Must be formally and official
ly entered and name sent in to
the Secretary Manager at Kin
ston, by March 15th, 1925.
4. Only one from each town in
Johnston County can be entered,
who will compete with Johnston
County candidate, entered from
towns only, for a diamond ring.
5. Only one can be entered from
each town out side of Johnston
County, who will compete with the
County for a diamond ring.
6. Each party will vote for two.
Method of Voting:
7. All Queens will be required to
report for the parade Monday
afternoon, April 13th, at 2 p.m.
8. Each admission ticket will have
a coupon which will entitle the
purchaser to 10 votes for each
queen for adult’s ticket and 5
votes for children’s tickets, or
half tickets. A person may vote
as many times as he purchases
tickets.
9. The baHot box for receiving vote
will be open on the inside of the
Exposition building Monday aft
ernoon at 2 p. m. with a compe
tent man in charge to see that
voting is done fairly. Each cou
pon will have two blank spaces
for two Queens. The names of
the two towns, one in Johnston
County and one outside of John
ston County, to be voted for.
You will write the names of the
two tow'-ns whose representatives
you wush to vote for in the
blank spaces.
10. The ballot box will be closed
Thursday night, April 16th, at
11 o’clock and no more votes will
be accepted.
11. The ballot box will then be
turned over to the tellers who
will consolidate the votes and
report the winners as early Fri
day morning as posible.
12. The two queens will be crvwned i
Friday night, April 17th, at j
8:IS o’clock.
13. Trade tickets will be given out
to the merchants in towms that
have Queens entered, who are
members of the Eastern Caroli
na Chamber of Commerce, March
15th. With each Dollar’s pur
chase in cash or paid on account,
the merchants will give to the
purchaser 10 votes. These votes
are to be held until the ballet box
opens on the opening day of the
Exposition.
14. These trade tickets will have
two blank spaces for the names
of two towns sending Queens to
be inserted. These votes are to
be treated just as the regular
admission votes. All of these
trade votes must be in the ballot
box by 11 p. m., April 16th.
15. Eveny local Queen, if she will
hustle will go into the Exposi
sifcion with a large following,
because she will h#ve had a
monA to get local trade votes.
It will be to her* advantage to
see that her friends call for these
votes when buying and to buy
from the merchants who are giv
ing votes for Exposition Queens.
16. The Queens wHl be®entertained
Wilson Award
Viscount Cecil, of England, now in
the United States, last week received
the first award made by the Woodrow
M^ilson Foundation in the cause of
world peace. With the bronze medal,
10 inches in diameter and shown
above, went a check for ,$25,000.
Fair Tossers To Play
Goldsboro Here Tonite
The Smilhfield high school
basketball team will play the
strong sextett from Goldsboro
here tonight on the Banner
warehouse court. All basketball
fans are urged to come out and
give the fair sex a strong sup
port in this, their initial game
STATE LABORATORY HYGIENE
(N. C. State Board of Health)
ANALYSIS OF WATER
Serial No. F 4893
Sent by H. N. Morgan, Supt. Wa
ter Works.
Location—Smithfield, N. C.
Marked—Town of Smithfield. i
Collected 1-23-25
Received 1-24-25
Reported 1-26-25
Sediment—0
Color—0
Turbidity—0
Odor, cold—0
Reaction—Alkaline
Alum—0.1 Parts Per Million.
pH—6.0
B. coli in 1 c.c.—0
B. coli in 10 c.c.—0
Total bacterial count per c.c.
at 38 degrees C.—1
Count on lactose litmus agar
per c.c.—0
Acid-producing bacteria per c.c.-O
J. W. K., Analyst.
Avoid the Odor From Onions or Fish
Often the container in which
strongly flavored food has been
cooked has the odor of the food after
the dish is washed. This may be re
moved by heatng a small quantity of
vinegar in the covered kettle, leting
the vinegar boil for a few minutes.
All traces of fish or onion flavor
will be removed very quickly.—From
The Delineator for February.
In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bass
Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Smith, Jr.,
will entertain at bridge tonight in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. L. 1. Bass.
free by the good ladies of John
ston County.
17. All Queens wW be the guests
of the Eastern Carolina Cham
ber of Commerae, at the annual 1
dinner, April 16th, at hd o’clock
noon.
18. The sooner you select your
Queen the better it will be. You
will be advised what menchants
in your tow* are offering votes
for Queers. Ask us if you don’t
know.
©For further wiftawnatioin, write to
‘N. G. Bartlett, Secretary - Manager,
Eastern Carolina Exposition, Kinston,
N. C. NOTICE: Please address ail
communications to Kinston, N. I
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RECORDER'S COURT
TAKESIO DAIS
Criminal Cases Evoke Interest;
Wallace Found Not Guilty of
Cutting Mill Dam.
OTHER CASES TRIED
Recorder’s Court Tuesday was con
fined was confined to civil cases, the
court reassembling: on Wednesday for
a criminal session.. A case that
evenced considerable interest in the
ciriminal session was that of the
state against Lola Wallace, who lives
near the county home, charged with
cutting the mill dam of Alex Beasley.
When the mill dam was cut Beasley
reported the occurence to the sheriff
and blodhounds were sent for. The
hounds trailed to the home of Lola
Wallace. The witnesses for the state
were: Mr. McQuay, of Fayetteville,
owner of the blodhounds, nad Mr. For
est Pittman, deputy sheriff, who ac
companied Mr. McQuay on the trail.
The defendant put on no evidence and
the evidence presented by the state
was not sufficient to convict. The de
fendant was declared not guilty.
State vs. Lola Wallace, charged
with deadly weapon. He was found
guilty and sentenced to four months
on the roads. An appeal was taken
to the county roads. A nappeal was
taken to the Superior Court, z
State vs T. C. Johnson, charged
with possession and transporting
whiskey. Guilty. Sentence of four
months on roads. Appeal taken to
Superior Court.
sentenced to sixhm asHfcmf cmfwf
State vs. Alec Beasley, assault with
deadly weapon. Guilty: sentenced to
six months on the roads. Defendant
took an appeal.
State vs. Jasper Godwin, charged
with disposal of crop without paying
rent. Guilty: given thirty days in
jail.
GROWTH OF BUIE’S CREEK
ACADEMY
Buie’s Creek Academy opened its
doors first January, 5, 1887. There
were 16 children present on the day
of opening. The humble school-room,
including home-made desks, cost $350.
Today the enrollment for the year is
722, breaking all former records by
one hundred. The campus, consisting
of more than thirty acres, has nine
buildings with total value of nearly
$200,000. No report of work at Buie’s
Creek would be complete that did not
mention the pretty Library building,
including its magnificent furnishing,
the gift of Mr. D. Rich of Winston
Salem. Plans are now being made for
the erection of a new administration
building which, it is hoped, will be
ready for use next year.
The student body is remarkable in
its mature age, the average for the
high school students being nineteen
years and seven months. They range
from thirteen to forty-one. There are
thirty-four ministerial students. The
patronage comes from seventy-one
counties, six states, with one from
China.
Boys Who Do Not Watch the Clock.
From errand boy to millionaire is
a fairly familiar story, but a new turn
is given to it by Almerindo Portfolio,
who has handed his business over to
six of his employees. As if to assure
them that it is theirs, he has sailed
for a trip around the world, leaving
them to act on their own responsi
bility. With the business he bestowed
a piece of advice—“Don’t watch the
clock, boys.” It is safe to say that
the six fortunate employees would not
have shared in the success won by
their chief if they had not already
been following the advice he gave. In
fact, he said as much wren he de
clared that the*? were receiving onky
what they had earned by enthusias
tic work and loyal service. He add
ed that chances for success are more
numerous now than ever. America
is still a synonum for qppoctimity.—
From The New York Post.
C(HIPER IS CONFIRMED
Washington, Jan. 28.—Hie senate
today confirmed the nomination m(
Robert A. Q>eper, former govetno
of Seuth Carolina, to be a membci
ifl the farm loan hoard.