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SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1925
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Number 64
SEVERE WIND AND ELECTRIC STORM DOES DAMAGE
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Interest Is Growing In Ham-Ramsay Meeting
Evangelistic Party Conducted
Six Services Sunday; Testis
mony Meeting Held
Yesterday
IN RALEIGH MON. NIGHT
Interest in the Ham-Ramsay meet
ings grows. When the hour allotted
to preaching by the evangelist, is tak
en up by persons testifying, one after
another, to blessings received in the
meeting, to confessions of sins, and
consecrations to service so that the
preacher pronounces the benediction
without having taken his text, it is
evident that souls are being stirred
in this community- This is exactly
what took place at the tabernacle yes
terday morning. Rev. Mr. Ham call
ed for one or two persons to have
a few words to say, as he often does
before preaching and the testimonies
came so fast that the hour was soon
up.
Previous to the ten o’clock service
between sixty-five and seventy-five
men had gathered in the court room
at 8:30 o’clock in a prayer meeting.
For some time before the revival
started a business men’s prayer meet
ing was held each morning at nine
o’clock, but since the revival began
it has been opened to both men and
women. It was decided Wednesday to
go back to the service for men only,
and the change has been gratifying.
The women hold a prayer meeting
service at the warehouse just before
the ten o’clock meeting.
Wednesday was a full day for the
Ham-Ramsay party. Beginning with
the prayer meeting at 8:30; a service
at ten o’clock at the tabernacle; a
sermon in the Dunn opera house in
the afternoon at three o’clock; anoth
er at Benson in the First National
Bank building at 4:30; an open air
service in Four Oaks at 5:30; and
again at the tabernacle at 7:45—the
day was filled to the brim for (these
Christian workers. By the night ser
vice one might imagine that the
preacher would be worn out, but the
large congregation could tell no dif
ference as he expounded the para
ble of “The Rich Man and Lazarus.”
In Mr. Ham’s opinion this account
of the rich man and Lazarus is not
a parable but an actual circumstance,
but rather than enter into any argu
ment on that point, he delivered his
discourse with the assumption that
it is a parable. Among the lessons
which he drew from the story was:
a conscious existence beyond this
life—a happy state for the saved, a
miserable state for the wicked. He
enumerated and commented upon the
various ideas which people have con
cerning the hereafter. Some have en
deavored to d oaway with hell. They
would believe that the grave is the
end of this life. From the Bible Mr.
Ham quoted passage after passage
showing that in the original transla
tiuii umereni/ wuru& c uo^u v«.
press “hell” and the “grave-”
Some say that salvation is for all
and that God is too good to send peo
ple to hell. The preacher answered
this by showing that God has provid
ed a way of salvation for all if they
will accept it- Hell was not made for
God’3 people, the evangelist stated,
but for the devil and his angels
Some have worried as to whether
the body shall literally burn in hell.
Whether a figure of speech or not,
it does not bother Mr. Ham. If a fig
ure of speech, then the real thing will
probably be worse. One argument for
the existence of a hell, as Mr- Ham
presented it, was that a place is
needed to put all the sinners: boot
leggers, “cussers”, those who take
women’s virtue. Put them in heaven?
No. They would turn heaven into
hell- There afe a lot of men, he said,
who get more out of a poker game
than a prayer meeting- There are
men who prefer the society of lewd
women to that of their own pure
iJves. SuclOmen would not feel at
home in heaven.
The preacher closed his sermon
with an app«|I to the (^pristian pe<>»
(Turn to page five, please)
Champ Hitch-Hiker
P / lAOTOCACTCRn
Nellie Amter, 17, lives in New
York City and studies music at the
Cleveland, (O.). Music Institute.
She has funds for study but none
for travel—so four times now she
has “hitch-hiked” home for a visit.
She gave two rules for girl “hitch
hikers.” They are, “Don’t get into
a crowded auto; and “Don’t accept
rides after dark.”
Gleaned
• -from
MR. HAM’S SERMONS
Life is a sowing and also a har
vest. If you are doing evil and don’t
know it, the harvest will be just the
same as if you did know it.
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Do not think you can prosper by
covering your sin. “Be sure your sins
will find you out.”
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You reap the havest even if you
get forgiveness for your sins.
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Drop a pebble into the ocean and
the ripples will not stop until they
have reached the other shore. The
word you speak, the thought you
think, and the act you do may never
stop this side of eternity.
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You need not expect to sow weeds
and reap flowers, neither may you
expect to sow sorrow and reap hap
piness.
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You will reap exactly what you
thief you will reap theft; if you are a
liar you will reap thert; if you are a
liar you will reap deception; if you
wreck some one’s home your own
home will be wrecked.
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There is a higher law that will al
ways reach you if the civil law does
not get you.
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Cleaning whiskey out of a town
does not hurt the town any more
than cleaning the fleas off a dog
hurts the dog.
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No man ever had anything to do
with liquor that has not reaped a
calamity in his own home. Every
man who is making money by whis
key will pay for it in his own home
-o
It is not work that is ruining your
children; it’s lack of work.
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There are more curses coming on
the people today because they are
not obeying the great commission to
go and preach the gospel in all lands
than for any other reason. God will
not let your loved ones be lost if you
obey that great commission.
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You can be sure that divorce is on
ly reaping what you have sowed.
Look at what you are' reading—sex
stuff; at what you are amused with,
at the movies—sex stuff; creations of
distorted minds.
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Don’t expect to raise great sons
in a card-playing home- Most gam
blers when interviewed have said
That th^y begin at cardd tables In
%omes. _
County Commissioners Are
Upheld By Supreme Court
RECORDERS COURT
HAS FULL DOCKET
Three Fined For Dynamiting
River; Three Convicted of
Violating Prohibition
Laws
FOURTEEN CASES TRIED
Tuesday was a busy day in Re
corder’s Court here, fourteen cases
being tried and one continued until
next week. The following cases were
disposed of:
State vs. Roger Raynor, dynamiting
river- Guilty; $100 fine and costs.
State vs. Alex Wadsworth, dyna
miting river. Guilty; $100 fine and
costs.
State vs. Bythan Artis and John
Blackstone, violating the prohibition
laws. Artis guilty; $25 fine and costs
John Blackstone not guilty.
State vs. Amos Brinson, assault
with deadly weapon. Guilty. Eighteen
months in jail to be worked on roads
and costs. Appealed to Superior court.
State vs. Amos Brinson, disturbing
religious services. Guilty. Ninety days
in jail to be worked on roads. Appeal
to Superior Court.
State vs. Buck Lewis, carrying con
cealed weapon. Guilty. Four months
on road and pay costs. Sentence was
suspended. Fined $50 and costs,
j State vs. J. T. Starling, carrying
j concealed weapon. Guilty. Fined $50
land costs.
State vs. J. T. Starling, violating
prohibition laws. Guilty. Continue
prayer for judgment upon payment
of costs
State vs. Turner Johnson, stealing
, chickens and receiving. Not guilty.
State vs. Fred Allen, forcible tres
pass. Not guilty.
State vs. Earl Matthews and Lu
ther Strickland, attempt to rob, at
tempt to deceive and fraud; Not
guilty.
State vs. Harry Purvis, violating
prohibition laws. Guilty. Fined $150
or four months in jail and costs.
State vs. Mitchiner Smith, assault
with deadly weapon. Guilty. Continue
prayer for judgment upon payment of
costs.
State vs. Whalen Snead, dynamit
ing in river. Guilty. $100 fine and the
costs.
Asks For Old Clothe s
The Herald is in receipt of a letter
from Mrs. Mary M- Sloop, business
manager of the Crossniore School, in
western North Carolina, asking that
all who are interested in the work
there send all their old clothes to
her. The Crossnore School is being
financed with the proceeds derived
from the sale of old clothes and any
that can be sent will be appreciated.
A pamphlet enclosed in Mrs. Sloop's
letter says: “We can sel lanything
(except old text booRs) of any age,
sex, size, style, or condition; and not
clothes only, but anything ever used
by mortal man.”
If packages are sent by freight or
express, address them to Mrs- Mary
M. Sloop, Spruce Pine, N. C., but if
sent by parcel post address them to
Mrs. Sloop at Crossnore, N. C.
This school has proved a wonderful
opportunity for the children of that
mountain section and hundreds have
been benefited by it. Mrs. Sloop and
all the others connected with the
schol will be deeply grateful for
any old clothes that may be sent.
To Preach at Four Oaks
Elder Jesse Barnes will preach at
Four Oaks Prin^ive Baptist church
on the fourth Sunday afternoon, June
28, at four o’clock. Everybody is cor
dially invited to attend.
Decisions of Attorney General
Bruramitt and Judge Daniels
Reversed; Will Proceed
With No. 22 Through
Johnston County
ROAD BUILDING PROCEEDS
Counties may continue to
make loans to the State High
way Commission for the con
struction of highways the Su
preme Court held in an opinion
handed down Wednesday.
The decision reversed Attorney j
General Dennis Brummitt and Judge
Frank Daniels and upheld the conten
tion of the State Highway Commis
sion. The question was brought to
the front by State Highway Commis
sion John Sprunt Hill, of Durhaq),
who considers the policy of making
loans in advance of legislative ap
propriation a wrong one.
With the decision of the Attorney
General that it couldn’t be done.
Chairman Frank Page made quick
work in getting the matter into the
courts for adjudication. T. C. Young
of Johnston county, precipitated
court action by asking for an in
junction restraining the board o f
commissioners from entering into a
contract with the Highway Commis
sion by which a half million dollars
would be advanced by that county
for the construction of a highway
being a portion of Route 22, clear
aersa Johnston from Harnett) to
Wilson counties.
Decided in Record Time
Argued before Judge Frank Dan
iels in Raleigh the first of the
month, the case was in Supreme
Court before the end of the week
in which it was decided, and now
it is out of the way. A world’s rec
ord is claimed by those directly
concerned in the litigation and it) is
put forth as proof positive that
North Carolina is going to keep on
building roads until all of the 5,100
miles that was laid out upon maps
by the legislature of 1921 have been
completed and that the construction
will be done as rapidly as the |
money can be provided and the'
contracts awarded.
The total contracts involved in
similar transactions at the present
time is said to be more than ten
million dollars, and the amount is j
being rapidly increased. Halifax
county has asked for the privilege
of loaning one and one-half million
dollars, and other counties are asking
for the opportunity of making large
loans.
Justice W. J. Adams, of Carthage,
wrote the opinion, which upholds
the contentions of Asssistant Attor
ney General Charles Ross, who ar
gued the case for t'he Highway Com
mission. Attorney General Dennis
Brummitt and Assistant Attorney
General Frank Nash also filed a
brief in which they argued that
making the contract was ultra vires
because no appropriations had been
provided by the legislature. A. M.
Noble, of Smithfield, appeared for
the plaintiff in the case, and James
D. Parker, also of Smithfield, for
the county commissioners, but did
not file briefs in Supreme Court.
Holds Contract Legal
The State Highway Commission
contended that the legislative in
tent) to carry on the road work un
til the highways outlined in the,
act of 1921 are completed indicated
a purpose to provide all the neces
sary funds from year to year by
issuing bonds and levying taxes to
retire them, but Justice Adams does
not base his decision on this con
tention. He agrees with the gener
al tenor of the argument, but says
the contract that was entered into
between the State Highway Com-j
(Turn to page four, please)
Solicitor General
Wm. D. Mitchell, prominent
lawyer of St. Paul, Minn., is the
new Solicitor General of the U. S.,
succeeding James M. Beck, re
signed.
HEAVY HAIL DAMAGE
IN KINSTON SECTION
Kinston, June 23.—Not less than
five or six farming communities here
have been subjected to heavy hail
damage during the past two weeks. |
Areas stricken were comparatively
small in each instance, but the loses
aggregate many thousand dollars.
Heaviest damages were sustained in
the Trenton, Deep Run, Snow Hill
and Contentnea Neck districts. Parts
of Jones, Lenoir, Greene, and Pitt
counties were in the paths bf storms.
Crops are recuperating rapidly but
permanent losses are reported in
nearly all instances- A Greene
county official is said to have sus
tained a loss of $3,000. The precip
itation in the vicinity of his farm was
local, and adjacent plantations re
ported 'no damage.
“JUICE’’ GOES OFF AND THE
HERALD MISSES THE MAIL
He HCrJl tt> press kite
tils morning because the «lec
tric current in the city, due to
the storm, was off a good part
of yesterday afternoon and all
night except for about two
hours. Our machinery is all run
by electricity and when the juice
fails to flow, our machines are
still. TThose on the city routes
and Smithfield R. F. D.’s are the
only ones who will get their pa
pers late. The others will go on
schedule time.
MRS. SALLE ROSE DEAD
Friends here and in the county ,
will regret to learn of the death of
Mrs. Sallie Rose which occurred yes
terday afternoon at 5:15 o’clock at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. B.
Lee, in Bentonville township follow
ing a brief illness. Mrs- Rose was |
in her usual health when she retired j
on Tuesday night/- About two o’clock
Wednesday morning she was awake
and got up. In a short time she was
stricken with paralysis and by the
time her daughter could get her to
bed she had relapsed into uncon
sciousness from which she never ral
lied.
The funeral will be held at Hood’s ,
Grove Baptist church this afternoon
at three o’clock conducted by Rev. J.
J. Langston, pastor of the Disciple
church of Augusta, Ga.
The deceased, who was seventy-two
years old, leaves four sons: Rev. E. E.
Rose, of Reynolds, Go.; Mr. Fred
Rose, of Wilmington; Mr- Andrew
Rose, of St. Petersburg, Fla.; Mr. H
V. Rose, of this city; and four daugh
ters: Mrs. W- 0. Hocutt, of O’Neals
township; Mrs. J. B. Lee and Mrs.
R. D. Mahler, of Bentonsville town
ship, and Mrs. Alice Hood, of
this city. Her children were all at
her bedside when she passed away.
COTTON BLOOM
Another cotton bloom has reached
this office, this one picked from the
field of Mr. John R. Denning, Prince
ton, Route 3. The cotton bloom was
pulled Tuesday, June 23, and had
been open several days when pulled
Blows Down Out Buildings;
Wrecks Garage, Trees Up
rooted and Houses Tops
Are Blown Off
HEAVY ELECTRICAL STORM
Yesterday afternoon one of the
worst storms that has visited
Smithfield recently, did quite a
bit of damage particularly in the
southeastern part of town. Cloud
after cloud came up, but between
three and four o’clock a wind
storm blew with considerable
force taking on the nature of a
tornado in a path that seemed to
reach from Mr. John A. John
son’s farm near here through the
southeastern part of the city
past the depot and on as far as
Mr. D. 15. Hamilton's place.
Trees were uprooted at the old
Heath place; a garage on the premi
ses- of Mr. J. A. Myatt was blown
down; tin roofing was scattered from
the Myatt place to the Red Star Fill
ing station at the forks of the roads;
tirees in the yard of Mr. R. E. Smith
were blown up by the roots; a garage
at a house on Fifth Street owned by
Mr. W. J. Huntley was blown
against a nearby house and smashed
and also the garage at the home of
Miss Mary E. Wells was carried for
a distance of fifty feet or more.
Flowers and ferns on several
porches were upset, and about ten
dollars worth of flower pots at one
place were broken up.
Ragsdale’s storage house was dam
aged, a thirty foot hole being tom
in the side of the building. Evidences
of the wind storm around the sta
tion were the unroofing of W. M.
Sanders’ gin and storage house, bams
and out houses blown down and oth
er small damages. The back door to
J. W. Daughtry’s store was blown
off the hinges, a box of Ford parts
weighing about a hundred pounds,
and which was being unloaded from
a box car was said to have been
blown away and late yesterday aft
ernoon had not been located.
Two large windows at the Armory
were blown out, and other windows
were reported to have been broken.
The wind was attended with a
heavy rain, and thunder and light
ning- Electric light poles and wires
were down and for awhile last night
the city was in darkness.
The current was off when church
time arrived, but it did not keep
people from wen^ng their way to
the tabernacle, and although an au
tomobile light was all that was avail
able at first in the cavernous build
ing, it was not long before lanterns,
kerosene lamps and finally a Delco
light system, were installed in the
building thus insuring the services
as usual.
TUSCARORA CAMP AT HOLT
LAKE OPENS NEXT WEEK
The Camp is being made ready for
the Scouts of Tuscarora Council, at
Holt Lake.
There is an advance party there
now composing the following: W. W.
Rivers, Scout Executive; Eagle Scout
Thomas Griffin, Camp Adjutant;
Eagle Scout David Lilies, Group
Leader, Group 2; and Louis Ferguson,
Group Leader, Group 1.
The following Troops will be rep
resented at the Camp beginning Mon
day morning: No. 1, Goldsboro. No.
6, Goldsboro; No. 1, Warsaw, No. 6,
Goldsboro; No. 1, Kenly.
The Camp will officially open at 9
o’clock Monday morning.
House Burned in Belmont
About four o’clock Wednesday
morning the fire siren called out the
fire department but too late to save
a two room house in Belmont which
was burning briskly when the alarm
was sounded. John Henry Sanders, a
colored man, lived in the house and
woke up just in time to save his fam
ily. No furniture nor clothing was
saved. The house belonged to Miss
Alice Grantham. There was no in
surance.
When a mfik gambles, he hides it;
when women gamble, they announce
it, publish it in the newspaper—
they glory in it.