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Smithfield Needs: —Bigger pay roll. —Modern hospital. _Renovation of Op era house. —More paved streets. ^Chamber Commerce m Johnston —:— ■ ---X— Forty-fourth Year County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper-Established 1882 SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1925 “We Like Smithfield— You will too” Number 61 NEWS OF WEEK IN RALEIGH LETTER B a r a c a-Philathea Convention Celebrates Silver Jubilee; Rev M. F. Ham One of Speakers CONVICT IS REWARDED (By M. L. Shipman) Raleigh, N. C., June 15—The cap ital city of the State has the past week been the Mecca of the Baraca and Philathea Bible classes of North Carolina, while in administration cir cles the debit balance in the State’s general fund has advanced a step higher and “ways and means” have been provided to handle the situation temporarily. The Attorney General i rules on the question of flogging con victs, the State Highway Commission received bids for the construction of a number of road projects, the Gov- j ernor rewards the heroism of • *ol-1 ored prisoner and other events of interest make up a weekly period with little of outstanding signifi cance to relate. The annual convention of the Ba raca—philathea Bible classes of the State was in session here from Thursday until Sunday night. It was the organization’s Silver Jubilee and the delegates were pronounced in the conclusion that no previous conven tion afforded more interest or plea sure- The local committee under the direction of John D. Berry, had plan ned well and found no difficulty in providing for the comfort of all who came either as guests of the conven tion or representatives of the hun dreds of Bible classes throughout the State. The convention was honored by the presence of Marshall A. Hud son, of Syracuse, New York, founder of the first Baraca Class in 1898. Other notable speakers were: Robert N. Simms, founder and teacher of the first Baraca Class in North Car olina twenty-five years ago; W. N. Everett, Secretary of State, who de livered an address of welcome; Evan gelist M. F- Ham, of Kentucky; Dr. T. A. Robertson, of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lou isville. The visitors were given a sight-seeing trip over the city on Friday afternoon and banqueted the same evening. All business sessions of the convention were held in the auditorium of the Tabernacle Bap tst church. The Council of State has author ized the State Treasurer to borrow around $19,000,000 from the First National Batik of New York $9,000, 000 of which is to be borrowed against the general fund on long; term notes bearing 414 percent in terest to take care of the deficit. Two short term notes of $5,000,000 bearing interest of 316 percent are to pay notes perviously issued in an ticipation o fschool building bonds to be issued as a part of the $20,000,000 provided by acts of the General As sembly. These notes mature in Jan uary, 1926. The Attorney General’s office de cides that county copvict camps are not subject to the regulations of the | State Prison Board, one of which forbids the flogging of prisoners This opinion was prompted by a charge of Judge Sinclair in the Nash Superior Court to the effect that flogging in county convict camps is forbidden by an order of the State Prison Board. Two guards of the Rocky Mount convict were convicted of beating a prisoner to death and sentenced to twenty years each, and “extenuating” circumstances brought out in the evidence resulted in the legal interpretation by the State De partment of justice. The State Highway Commission received 103 bids on twelve road pro jects during the week. Approximately $2,000,000 is to be expeihieU *7. *.'17' thing like 100 miles of r7' * around fifty miles of hard-surfaced. This is only about f one-tenth of the mileage the commis sion expects to complete this year.^ This is conditioned on the decision of the Supreme Court relativSHo the ac ceptance of loans from counties to the State to be refunded out of coun ty quotas following future alloca tions. This decision is expected be fore the Court begins its summer va cation on June 24. L. C. Brogden supervisor of ru-; ral education of the State Depart Selma Kiwanians Play Here Today The Selma Kiwanis Club will play the local team of the same organization here on the (school diamond a return baseball game this afternoon. It w|ill be remem bered that last week the local Ki wanis .team defeated .Selma on their grounds 18 to 9, and in the first game of the season for the Smithfield team. There were plenty of laughs then, and they are to be expected this afternoon, too. NEW PASTOR IS INSTALLED HERE Rev. Chester Alexander Installed As Pastor of The Presbyter iaa Church Sunday Evening An installation service was held at ;he Presbyterian church here Sunday evening, Rev. Chester Alexander, of Chester, S. C., who recently gradu ateed from Union Theological Semi nary, Richmond, Va-, being installed as pastor. Rev. W. B. Sullivan, of Raleigh, presided. A very appropriate sermon was preached by Rev. P. C. Adams, of Roxboro. After reading a portion of the eighteenth chapter of Mat thew, he announced his text: “Jesus Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost.” During the course of his sermon, he urged the young pas tor to study to show himself “ap proved unto God,” and not unto his congregation. He dwelt particular ly upon the duty of the members of the church in witnessing for Jesus Christ, and on their responsibility to seek the lost and not wait for the pastor to do it all. “Many of you”, he said, “ca nreach some whom your pastor cannot reach, and he can reach some whom you cannot. Work with him and help him.” Rev. Mr. Carson, of Durham, deliv ered the charge to the pastor and Hon. E. B. Crow, of Raleigh, charged the congregation. Rev. Mr. Alexander has been preaching here since the Seminary closed in May and has very favora bly impressed all who have heard him. He is also pastor of Oakland church. The installation service was held at Oakland Sunday afternoon. merit of Education presided over the annual conference of school supervi sors and county superintendents in the Hall of the House of Represen tatives during the week. Addresses were delivered by Superintendent Allen, Mr. Brogden and others in terested especially in the develop ment of rural schools. Tlhe reaction to this meeting is expected to be im proved class room instruction, scien tific tests and measurements and proper administration and adapta tion of a general course of study. Greater efficiency all along the line is anticipated. Sawyer Mclver, serving a term on the roads of Lee county, was allowed to leave the camp to aid in rescue work at Coal Glen following the re cent mine disaster, showed conspic uous bravery in risking his life to aid others, and is now a free man. He had been convicted for driving an automobile while intoxicated, had served a good portion of his term, and Governor McLean decided to re ward his bravery with freedom. Mc lver was an experienced miner and did not have to be told what to do on his arrival at the scene of the disaster. - -9ri CORRECTED ^-tSWS and Powers of Wilmington it should have been Rogers and Rogers, law firm, that has offered its services to the Holt family , in helping to prosecute Jesse Wyatt who shot and killed S. S. Holt mi June 1. 0 Miss Ruth Brooks returned from N> C. C. W., Greensbgyo, Saturday. She was accompanied by Misses Eliz abeth Walters, of Greensboro, and Emily Markham, of Durham,'wl^ are spending a few days with her. “ KENLY GRADUATES EIGHTEEN PUPILS Rev. J. M. Daniels Preaches Commencement Sermon; Dr. Brewer Delivers Literary; Address EDGERTON MEDAL GIVEN ! Kenly June 13.—Kenly High School commencement marked the [closing of the most successful year in the history of the school, when 18 seniors were graduated. Commencement opened on Sunday morning with the baccalaureate ser mon by the Rev. J. M. Daniels of the St. Pauls Church of Goldsboro. On Wednesday evening the music recital under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Gunn was given. The ease with which the pupils perform ed revealed the careful training and untiring effort which marked the work of that department during the year. Thursday evening ushered in the crowning event of the entire com mencement. The class play written and directed by Mrs. Beulah Bailey Woolard surpassed all preceding ex ercises in style, in originality, and in presentation. For several years Mrs. Woolard has dramatized the class day exercises in unique form with local touches, which has pre served many historical facts and ex periences of each class through its entire career. The Junior Class carried the tra ditional daisy chain through which the seniors stately marched, led by their mascot, little Wallace Reid Watson, to the platform, beautifully decorated in their class colors, or chid and pink. Uhe class motto, “Launched but not Anchored”, was the keynote of the play. Act I found the Senior class on the campus making final preparation for their departure on life’s sea, when an old historian appeared and present ed them with a life-sized book from which he read their class history and portrayed the different periods of their life. Act II found the class ready to sail : on their Class Ship out on the Sea of Life. This scene depicted very clearly the trials each must face up on Life’s Storm-Tossed Sea. With the aid of the class spirit of cour age and perseverance, there loomed up before the class of 1925 a bright and glorious future. Act III revealed the class on an island where they met the witches of prophecy who revealed the future of each member of the class. The Last Will and Testament was read, and in reality a set of maps, the parting gift- of the class ofl925, was presented to the school and accepted by Mr. G. T. Whitley, the superin : tendent. Friday morning at ten o’clock, the graduation exercises were held, a , splendid address was delivered by Dr. Charles E. Brewer, president of i Meredith College, in which there was a persistent effort on the part of the speaker to encourage the seniors to use their native endowed personali ties for service in the world. Miss Mary E. Wells then present ed certificates to the 33 pupils of Kenly High School out of the 35 sev enth grade pupils who took the coun ty examinations. Irene Edgerton and i Sylvester Bass made an average of 94 2-5 percent, the highest average made in the county examination. Sixty percent of the Kenly pupils were on the county scholarship honor roll. Seventy-five pupils were awarded a certificate for being neither absent nor tardy during the school year. A reading certificate was presented to I each pupil in the grammar grades Jwho read four books and to each jhigh school pupil who had read six books in addition to supplementary reading. Eighty-three pupils received this award. A new feature of commencement was the awarding of the Edgerton Memorial Medal for the best all round student, emphasizing scholar ship, during the four-year high school course. This medal is given by the children of the late Charles j William Edgerton in the nmniory of his leadership in educationa1®work in ^4.Turn to page four, please) Amundsen I i Ml—i MU 'll I | tttemnNHHawMnwii ® Captain Roald Amundsen, veter«i an Norwegian explorer, thrilled the world May 21, when he "hopped*' off" in an airplane from King# Bay, Spitsbergen, for the North Pole—a distance of 700 riffles or 8 hours flying time. Two planes were in the expedition. NEWS ITEMS FROM CITY OF BENSON Rev. M. F. Ham To Speak at Tri-County Singing Conven tion on Fourth Sunday Benson, June 12.—Mr. Harold Gra ham, of LaGrange has opened a new cash and ^arry store on Main street, opposite the moving picture show. We welcome Mr. and Mrs- Graham to our town. At present they are living in the Dixie apartments Misses Alma Wilson, Mabel John son and Chellie Royal gave a picnic supper Monday evening at Stewart’s Pond in honor of Miss Gladys Benton who celebrated her 17th birthday. Those present were Misses Louise Parker, Sarah Duncan, Annie Lee Denning, Mabel Johnson, Chellie Royal, Alma Wilson, and Messrs. Joe Dunn, Emery Southerland, Hi ram Rose, Glenn Brady, Dalton Stew art, Roy Allen, Laurie Cavenaugh, Vaden Williams, William Boone and Bradley Denning. A big day is planned for Benson on the fourth Sunday in this month. Rev. Mr. Ham, who is conducting a revival in Smithfield, will deliver the address at the annual meeting of the Tri-County Singing Society. The convention will be held at the usual place on ISast Main St. The program committee consists of Henry Shaw, Henry Slocum and Alonzo Parrish. The town of Benson is proud of its orchestra. It is composed of the fol lowing young men: DeLeon Britt, Marshall Woodall, Robie Porter, Marshall Whittenton, Edgar Wall, Mack Barbour and William Boone. These young men are very much in demand. The town already feels that it could not get along without its or chestra. Tlhey are asked to play on every occasion. At the Kiwanis luncheon Tuesday evening, Rev. Jack Ellis, of Raleigh, was the ^principal speaker. The club had as its guest, also, Mr. Jeter, president of the Raleigh Club. Hen ry Shaw was in charge of the after dinner program, which was a most interesting and enjoyable one. At torney L. L .Levinson and Jessie M. Britt were welcomed into the club as new members. Mr. Andrew Slocum of Fayetteville was here Sunday. Friends of Mr. John Turlington will be glad to know that he is im proving at the Cumberland General Hospital in Fayetteville. Mr. Myriel James of Asheville has been spending several days with Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Alton Hall of Raleigh spent Sunday with their parents,. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hall. Mrs. Russel Bryant has returned after a week’s visit in Wilson. Mrs- A. Parrish and Mrs. Jessie T- Morgan spent Saturday in Ra leigh. Mrs. W. R. Strickland left Tuesday night for Asheville and Old Fort to vlSlt relatives and friends. Mr. Kejjpeth Cavenaugh of Sto vaW, is spending a couple of days in the city with his parents. Miss Margaret Peacock spent sev (Turn to page four, please) Sunday Great Day In Ham-Ramsey Revival Gleaned • -from MR. HAM’S SERMONS It takes afflictions to make most people religious or spiritual. The people try to resist the truth ; by imittating it. -o If you live for this world you will j lose the next one. -o Men of this world may be careless , of their conduct, but God’s people, never. The persons the devil is after are God’s people, that they may bring reproach on God and his grace -o Abraham lived by faith, Lot by sight. That is the difference in a Christian and a man of the world.: -o If you serve the Lord because you j expect a reward, you are serving for hire. The most dangerous man in the world is the man who professes to be ta Christian when he is not -o The only power that ean deliver you from the love of this world is 'the love of God. -o You put your preacher in an ice box and then cuss him because he doesn’t sweat. -o The devil was never more skillful in imitating and counterfeiting than today. -o The hardest thing in the world to do is to try to serve the Lord when you don’t enjoy it. Nine times out of ten, your eases of trouble can be traced back to booze. -o The only man who will have eter nal glory is the one who will give up this world and temporal glory for God. -o You can’t just sit down and get the love of this world out of your heart If you iove the Father, you will not love the world. The man who loves God will not fall in love with this world. -o The man who has seen the new Jerusalem can’t fall in love with this world. The best city on earth will not compare with God’s city. -o The man who can be fooled and deceived by the riches of this world has not seen the riches of the next world. ' There is but one thing that can fill your soul with satisfaction and peace and that is the indwelling of the Lord Jesus. -o Some of you people give a bundle of old clothes to a missionary and then live in exaltation of righteous ness for a whole year -o If all the money spent in Johnston County by you folks’ even you church members, for liquor and booze were put into the Lord’s treasury, there isn’t a church in the county that would be behind. -o More money is being spent in this country for sports and pleasure than has been spent in any country since the downfall of Rome. -o If the money spent in this country for booze and tobacco in one year were stacked up in one dollar bills *St would reach forty-five miles be yond the moon -o How do I know you drink bootleg liquor? I have a nose. Your breath is saturated with it. Hang some of you | old soaks up by the heels and you (Turn to page four, please) , fS', Three Thousand Hear Sermon Sunday Night On “Why I Be lieve There Is a God”, TESTIMONIALS ARE GIVEN The climax of the Ham-Ramsey revival so far was reached Sunday night, in point of numbers in attend ance, and in the message of the hour delivered by Mr. Ham to fully three thousand persons upon the subject: “Why I Believe There Is a God-” The preacher characterized this ser mon as his “infidel” sermon, and his words were aimed at those who might not believe in the existence of God or who were skeptical. A won derful exposition of his subject was packed into a usual length sermon, but he spoke very rapidly, using more words to the minute than the average listener had been privileged to hear before. “We may be just as certain that there is a God,” said Mr. Ham, “as the disciples and apostles were cer tain,” and he proceeded to show that the fact of God is established by the material universe, the Bible, the his tory of the Jewish race, and the mir acle man, Jesus. He scoffed at the idea of teaching in our schools the theory that the world was once a nebulous mass which “somehow” got to whirling in space, little particles flying off and also whirling in space until the en tire solar system was formed. He said if he were teaching geography when he came to that part he would laugh and tell his pupils some fool had been writing. Material evidences on an siuea prove the existence of a God who created this wonderful world. “I do not have to see an auto-maker,"’ said the preacher, “to know that there was one. The auto itself is ev idence enough. I do not have to see a watchmaker to know that he exist ed- The watch itself speaks for him Niobody but an infinite God could have made such a wonderful world, with everything arranged with such mathematical accuracy. The snow flakes, intricate but every one dif ferent, the leaves on the trees made with mathematical precision, yet no two.alike, the planets moving on such schedule time that the coming of a comet may be foretold to the hour and minute, are all evidences that a Supreme Being created the Earth. The Bible itself is another proof to anyone not already prejudiced, that God is God. “Man would not have written the Bible if he could, and could not if he would, stated Mr. Ham. He then recited facts about the Bible that prove its inspi ration from God. Men in different ages, covering a period from 1400 B. C. to 96 A. D., men in different places, in different stages of life wrote the books of the Bible, and yet each is the complement of the other Continuity of theme is expressed from Genesis to Revelation, and of all the thousands of manuscripts dis covered since the King James ver sion, not one has discredited a single truth in the Bible. Not a single sci entific blunder has been discovered in this wonderful library; not a sin gle historical mistake can be cited In proving this last point, he read prophecy after prophecy from the Bi ble, and then from Meyers General History, a text book used in the schools, he read where the prophecy had been fulfilled. “The man that knows anything about the Bible never criticizes it,” said Mr. Ham. “I’ve been trying for twenty-five years to find one reason for not being a Christian, but have , failed” The preacher then reviewed briefly the history of the Jewish race, show : ing how prophecies concerning it have been and are being fulfilled “All these predictions and prophecies could not have been an accident,” he said. He closed his discourse with the fact of Jesus Chri^ The birth of : Christ, his death and resurrection foretold three hundred years before (Turn to page four, please)