Smithfield Needs:
—Bigger pay roll.
_Modem hospital.
_Renovation of Op
era house.
—More paved streets.
^Chamber Commerce
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Forty-fourth Year * * SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1925
“We Like
Smithfield—
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Number 67
STATE FISCAL YEAR
BEGAN WEDNESDAY
New Policy Also Began to Op
erate; Members State Board
Agriculture Appointed.
OTHER STATE NEWS
(By M. L. Shipman)
Raleigh, July -6—The director of
State affairs has been talking to va
rious organizations meeting in Ashe
ville during the week and has
engagements to address the News
paper Publishers Association and the
North Carolina Press Association in
th same city this week. But his ab
sence from the capital and capitol
has not hindered the progress of ad
ministration affairs. The vacation
period has taken some departmental
heads and many State employees out
of the city, but there is “no let or
hindrance” in the sale of special li
cense or the collection of special
taxes- Governor Doughton will tell
you that if you ask him.
The State s new tiscal policy began
to operate on Wednesday, July 1. The
svstem involves an executive budget
law, a budgetary accounting system
and a daily deposit law-. It gives the
Governor power to examine under
oath any officer or head of any de
partment or institution, and any
clerk or employee and requires de
partments and institutions to live
within their incomes. The law pro
vides for an assistant to the Gover
nor. or director of the budget- The
chairman of the House and Senate
committees on finance and appropri
ations and two other persons appoint
ed by the Governor, constitute the
“advisory budget commission ” The
Governor believes the new system
will be popular when it is better un
derstood
The semi-annual meeting of the
State Board of Agriculture will be
held in the office of Commissioner
Graham beginning on Wednesday of
this week The new members of the
Board appointed by Governor Mc
Lean are: E. Grover Roberson, of
Vanderbilt; T. J. F,inch, of Randolph,
ceucceeding C. C. Wright of Wilkes.
F. P. Latham and Dr. Clarenea Poa
were re-appointed- It is announced
that the principal business will be
consideration of the budget for the
new fiscal year- A number of field
agents will be appointed, but few
changes in them is expected.
B- N. Duke, tobacco magnate,
givey $15,000 to the North Carolina
Orthopedic Hospital at Gastonia for
the erection of a ward for negro
children. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson,
commissioner of public welfare,
who took the matter up with Mr.
Duke in person, says that the
amount secured is sufficieint to erect
a 10-bed ward and operate it until
the nejft General Assembly can make
provision for its maintenance. Mr.
Duke is a brother of J- B. Duke,
who recently “established” Duke
University over the remains of Trin
ity College.
Collector of Internal Revenue, Gil
iam Grissom, is authority for the
statement that North Carolina paid
$166,000,000 in Federal Taxes during
the fiscal year ended June 30th, ex
ceeding the collections for last year
around $8,000,000- Mr. Grissom says
it costs his office between 10 and 12
cents per $100 to make collections,
during the last fiscal year to be $6,
$500,000 less than total collections
for the year previous, it is said. Tax
collections reported: Income, 3,751,
349-23; Inheritance, $765.862 80;
Schedule 8, $566,283.71; Schedule C,
$1,086,344 46; Insurance (for three
months). $67,544.46; bus (for three
months), $775.48; bus permits (one
manth) $26.00; interest on balances,
$8,630.28. The author is busy in the
effort to ascertain the present size
of the “accumulating” deficit. Treas
urer Lacy is holding cn to the funds
turned in from various sources the
best he can.
Dr. Albert Anderson makes vehe
ment denial that Governor McLean
has called upon him to render an ac
count of expenditures at the State
Hospital for the Insane here, of
■*vhich he is superintendent, relative
to reducing the surplus the institu
tion was expected to turn in at the
end of the fiscal year. Doc to* Aiider
(Tirrn to page four, please)
Wants 70,000,000 Pinr^es
Doris Mercer KreFge, second
wife of the Chain Store Magnate,
has sued for $7,000,000 of stock in
the stores, which she says her hus
band pronsised her—before they
were married.
CONGRESSMAN POU
WILL NOT RETIRE
State Daily Says Ambitious
Ones In Fourth District
Have Not A Chance.
DEAN OF THE HOUSE
The Raleigh correspondent to the
Greensboro Daily News blasts the
hopes of would-be congressmen from
the fourth district in a statement
made in the issue of July 5 to the
effect that Congressman Edward W.
Pou will not retire next year as some
of the politicians have hoped.
The statement concerning Mr. Pou
is as follows:
Congressman Edward W. Pou,
against whom many races have been
run, will not retire from the fourth
district next year as has been so
often predicted and his presence in
Wake county yesterday showed him
to be the young Ed Pou that he has
been 20 years.
The fourth s representative is now
ithe Democratic dean. When Finis J
Garrett was here last fall he declared
Mr. Pou the greatest of all the Dem
! oerats in the lower house. Charley
Abernethy, of the third district, with
out the slightest hesitation places
j him at the top of Congress on either
side. As for personal influence, it is
not seriously contended that anybo
dy competes with him- That is what
' all the North Carolina representa
tives say, and when Pou loses a little
weight or takes his. bed for a day or
I two everybody begins to count the
loss that such a retirement would
mean to North Carolina.
The woods reek with representa
i tive Democrats willing to be fourth
1 district congressmen next year, but
there is the smallest prospect of a
i Pou retirement now and his health
[ improves. He was Woodrow Wilson’s
right arm during the war. President
j Wilson drafted Pou. The fourth re
presetative carries on the Wilson pro
j gram even to this day.
The Pou path has often been beset
I by ambition, but it never has been
1 obstructed by anybody- The three
races which he had to run against
men in his own party have been hard
ly serious enough to make him come
up for an hour or two. He has work
ed so much in Washington that he
has been called a cliff dweller. The
district is willing for him to live
| where he will. Yesterday’s visit here
1 showed that the cliff residence
agrees with him and that in the rari
jfied atmosphere about the nest he is
'doing some sound thinking.
I _ .
, BENTONVILLE TOWNSHIP FAIR
I
The regular meeting of the Oak
Grove Home Demoinstration Club
will be held at Oak Grove school next
! Friday afternoon, July 10, at three
i o’clock The Bentonville Township
jFair officers are requested to be pres
ent at this meeting to discuss plans
■ for the fair this fall. At this meet
ing it will be decided where to hold
ithe Fair
\ MRS. KIRBY ROSE. Pres.
J. H. MASHBURN, Sec.-Treas.
t Tom Tarheel says he is getting
ready to exhibit at the fair this fall.
I
COUNTY COM, MEET
REGULAR SESSION
Fixing of Tax Rate Deferred
Until Joint Meeting With
Board of Education
On July 13.
TO REVISE JURY LIST
The County Commissioners met in '
regular session here yesterday, the
first Monday in July. It has been the
custom to fix the tax rate in the
county at the July meeting, but this
time the fixing of the rate will be '
deferred until July 13, when the
Board of Commissioners will meet
jointly with the Board of Education.
The Commissioners will meet again
this morning, one of the items to be
attended to being the revision of the
jury list. Routine business was trans
acted yesterday as follows:
Ordered that County Treasurer be
allowed to use the Jury room on sec
ond floor for his office until other
arrangements can be made.
Report of J. Ira Lee, clerk Super
ior Court approved for record, show
ing fees collected during June to
amount of §696.62.
report oi in- otaiicn, rtgitaei ux
deeds, month of June 1925, showing
fees and marriage licenses collected
to the amount of $468.10
Report of G. T. Scott, county
Treasurer, approved for record.
Report of arbitrary committee on
road between Selma and Micro town
treasurer, approved for record.
Ordered that Mrs. Nancy Wil
liams be released of taxes on a cer
tain piece of land which is located on
Johnston county line, only a small
part of which is in Johnston county,
and that she be allowed to list same
'in Sampson County.
Ordered that J. W. Wood be paid
! $27.60 as part payment of the burial
' expenses of Littleton H. Hayes.
Ordered that Dillie Hayes of Ben
tonville, Route 2, be paid $5.00 per
quarter as outside pauper list.
Ordered that there be allowed $25
i on the burial expenses of William
Overbee, outside pauper. Voucher is
sued to J. Z. WTiggs, Pine Level.
Ordered that the Horne bridge be
rebuilt across Little River.
Ordered that A. Ward be paid $86
85 for lumber for Cat-tail Bridge in
Wilders township.
Ordered that G. R. Stancil be paid
$69.65 for Bridge work in Wilders
township.
Ordered that Mary Norris be paid
$4.50 per quarter as outside pauper,
voucher to be mailed to J. C. Woolard,
Benson, Route 1.
Ordered that F. L. Pittman be al
lowed $5.00 for summoning the road
commissioners before the Finance
committee.
Ordered that a bridge be built
across a swamp below Staneil’s Chap
el church, on Reilly, Route 2, in
O’Neals township. Approximate
length of bridge 16 feet.
Ordered that E. W. Holland be
paid $49.42 for taking the tax list in
Micro township in 1925.
Ordered that Luners Strickland be
paid $55-75 for bridge work in Oneals
township.
Ordered that Lee Hocutt be paid
$11.41 for bridge timber in Oneals
towinship.
Ordered that J. O. Hinnant be paid
$84 00 for bridge lumber Oneals
township .
Ordered that Sarah Sanders (col
ored) of Clayton, be allowed $4.50
per quarter as out side pauper begin
ning as of April 1, 1925.
Ordered that Lee Hocutt be paid
$8.50 for listing taxes in Oneals
township.
TO HOLD SERVICE AT
SMITH'S CHAPEL
The men’s federation will go to
Smith’s Chapel next Sunday after
noon to hold a service there at three
o’clock. Tlhis service is to be held to
encourage the Sunday school work at
that church and everybody in the
community is urged to be present.
Rev. J. S. Irvine is pastor of this
church and he will appreciate your
co-operation
Mrs. W. H. Austin and daughter,
Miss Margaret Lee, spent a few
days last week with relatives in Rich
mond, Va.
Evangelist
Rev. Roy E. York, evangelist of
Missouri, will begin a series of re
vival services at the Baptist church
of Wilson’s Mills, Wednesday night
at 8 o’clock. All the people of the
town, community and county are
invited. Come and hear a great
preacher proclaim the old Gospel
Story. The meeting will continue
for ten days, both day and night
services being held.
MEN’S FEDERATION
DOING GREAT WORK
Burlington Laymen Undertake
To Rescue the Perishing;
Many are Being Saved
In view of the fact that a men”s
federation has been organized here
since the close of the Ham-Ramsay ;
revival, it will be of interest to ma
ny in the county to know something
of what an organization of this kind
has meant to Burlington and Ala
mance county. The following article
was taken from the Burlington News
and gives an account of only one of
the many splendid things that feder
ation is accomplishing there:
What if you had lived fifteen years
with but one thought, and it a ter
rorizing thought for another shot, the
life of a doper? It is like fiction to
imagine that any one lives that way,
pulled down by the insatiable crav
ing until every moral fibre is twist
ed out of reason—until every bit of
courage is gone. Human beings sink
to that level.
I' letcher Frederick, 603 Ireland
street, this city, is one.
And what if at the end of so ma
ny years, with their pain and agony,
there came to pass a miracle, a ray
of hope, another chance! Such has
come to this man.
Fletcher Frederick went in the
Foster Shoe store on Main street
yesterday afternoon. His nerves
were beginning to ache from a slum
ber of opiates. He was restless. He
was scheming for another shot.
Two members of the Federation
approached him, asked him to try a
new cure, to put his faith in God, to
keep it there until he broke away
from his prison. He was converted.
This morning the man was at the
Municipal theatre for prayer meet
ing, struggling in the grip of pain
and anguish. He had spent the night
praying, for no sleep would come, j
He got up and testified that he had
reached the depth into which every
doper descends, where it was dope,
dope, dope—dope at any cost, at any ,
sacrifice.
Although his physical body suf- -
fered, he declared his mental being |
felt better, with the reservation |
“that he hadn’t a friend in the
world ” That is where his new life
began. At the end of fifteen years
he realized that love is still in the
hearts of men, ready to go where
ever it will be admitted. It was an
other of many great things the Men's
Federation has done.
At the close of the prayer service j
a special service was held for the j
man. Twenty-five men stood by and j
prayed for him, that he might be lift- !
ed by the grace of God from slavery j
to drugs and redeemed, saved to him- ,
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(Turn t« •nee four, pfcase)
Ham-Ramsay Meetings Close
Here At Height Of Interest
I
JULY 1st COTTON! REPORT
FOR JOHNSTON COUNTY
According to the report released
by the Cooperative Crop Report
ing .Service, in connection .with
that from the U. S. Department of
Agriculture at 11 a. m., July 2nd,
Johnston county cotton crop was
87 percent of normal, with the
acreage now under cultivation
103 percent compared with last
year.
DARING AUTOIST
PERFORMS HERE
Famous Psychologist and Hyp
notist Drives Chrysler 30
Miles While Blindfolded.
(By E. B. Pittman)
Dr. D. Keystone, world-famous
blind-folded driver of automoblies,
performed another of his mysterious
drives in Johnston and Harnett
counties today, sponsored by W. Jes
se Stanley, Four Oaks dealer in the
Chrystler motor cars, and driving one
of the famous Chrystler (Six)
coaches.
Dr. Keystone and his party left
Four Oaks at 3:42 p.m. Despite the
numerous folds of heavy black cloth
which had been tightly bound over
his eyes, obscuring all light, the driv
er headed the “car with the human
eye” toward Smithfield, arriving
there without mishap. Thence the
party proceeded back to Four Oaks,
Benson, and Dunn, where the trip
ended at 4:52, taking the trip in one
hour and ten minutes.
W. Jesse Stanley and H. C. Stan
ley, of Four Oaks, and E. B. Pittman,
of Smithfield, accompanied the driv
er. Great throngs heralded by the
auto horn greeted the approach of
the precarious journeyers in every
town. All were greatly astonished at
the careful precision with which Dr
Keystone drove while blindfolded,
and many voiced their admiration of
the wonderful performance of the
car he drove. The car was a stock
car, and was absolutely devoid of any
freak devices that could have served
to explain the phenomenon of a blind
folded man driving it with such pre
cision, stopping at railroad crossings
and maneuvering very skilfully in
seems beyond comprehension.
Throughout the whole journey, not
a word was spoken by any member of
the party to the driver, or to one an
other.
Dr- Keystone modestly attributes
his ability to certain great teachers
under whom he studied in Bombay
and Calcutta, India, years ago. He was
born in Newport. K,y., but it was an
aunt with whom he was living in
South Australia who saw his unus
ual mental capacity and sent him on
to these mental alchemists, but whom
we would call psychologists, to stu
dy. After taking certain degrees in
India, Dr. Keystone with some fun
seeking pals, joined the English
troops in Australia. Transferred to
the Canadian troops and subsequently
to France in 1915, soon took the fun
out of being in the army. In August,
1918 a “Jack Johnson” busted too
near, causing Dr. Keystone to be
come shell-shocked, “gassed,” and a
blood-clot to form on the brain- He
was blind for six monhts.. However,
his knowedge of the ocular science
and Indian philosophy still remain
ed, and these were practiced to self
restoration through believing, as he
says, that “man’s extremity is God’s
opportunity.”
Since regaining his health, he hap
traveled over this country and Eng
land performing publicity stunts and
driving automobiles while blind-fold
ed in every principal city in America
Dr. Keystone was very f^uch pleas
tu with Smithfield and the cSbrtesies
extended him by the officials.
Some farmers in North Carolina
are att^cting song birds t» their
homes by building bird houses. Many
species of birds will gather on the
farm when supplied these boxes and
other nesting facilities.
Unusual Crowd at Farewell Ser
vice Sunday Night; 1000 Con
versions and Reclamations,
FEDERATION ORGANIZED
Seldom has a revival in Johnston
County closed at the height of such
I interest as was manifested in the
^Ham-Ramsay meeting here Sunday
night. The crowd was larger than at
any time except the night when Mr.
Ham preached to the colored people,
and fully a hundred people went to
the inquiry room when the invitation
was given. Mr. Ham”s farewell mes
sage was from the text: “How shall
we escape if we neglect so great a
'salvation?”, the stress being made
upon the latter part of the text—“so
| great a salvation.”
It was a great service. Several of
the ministers of the town made talks
'telling of their appreciation and
thankfulness for the work done in
'this community. Rev. S. J. Betts, of
Raleigh, who has been a regular at
tendant during the entire four weeks,
sang a solo that was appropriate to
the occasion. At the close of the
| service, Mr. Ham and Mr. Ramsay
bade a number of their new friends
goodbye, for they left on a imght
train for Anchorage, Ky., the home
of the Evangelist, where they will
i begin another revival Wednesday
I night. Mr. Sheets, who has been the
1 faithful pianist since Mr. Rodgers
i went to Anchorage to prepare for
j the meeting there, returned to his
home in Fayetteville.
The revival has been well attended
from start to finish, and when the
meetings closed every financial obli
gation had been met, and a worthy
| free will offering was given to the
! preacher. The expense of the four
: weeks evangelistic campaign was
around $1,800 and about $1,400 was
presented Mr. Ham. Contributions
varying from one penny to a check
for $300, the largest individual con
tribution that has been given Mr.
Ham in North Carolina, paid the
bills. The choir gave Mr. Ramsay, the
singer, a check for $50, as a token of
appreciation. Mr. Ham carries on an
extensive work besides his preach
ing, the expenses of which totals
something like $30,000. He uses all
above his living expenses for the
work of educating worthy young men
for the ministry, missionaries in the
foreign field and other similar caus
es.
The contributions made were free
will offerings aind the donors feel
amply repaid in the good done in this
community. At least a thousand per
sons reconsecrated their lives to
God or trusted Him for the first
time during the campaign. There
were about 500 new converts. Plans
are being made to carry on the evan
gelistic work. Federations among
both men and women have been form
ed. The men expect to perfect their
organization at an early date, prob
ably this morning at the men’s pray
er meeting.
A large number of women, repre
senting almost every church in
Smithfield met Monday morning
and made partial organization of an
interdenominational federation, sim
ilar to the federation of men which
has done such good work during the
i past several months. The object is
to assist in carrying on the work
which was so strikingly begun by
■ Mr. Ham. A meeting was called for
tonight, in the Prebsyterian church,
which the promoters hope will be at
tended by the women members of all
I the churches in Smithfield and the
surrouinding country. It was decided
; that the federation will do its work
! with as little organization as possi
1 ble, that its efforts will be sponta
i neous under the direction of the Holy
; Spirit. No money will be handled by
' the organization at all. and its work
; will be wholly of a spiritual nature,
i The following officers were elected:
i president, Mrs. D. H. Janes; Secre
tary, Miss Mattie Pou; vice-presi
I dents, Mrs. R. H- Alford. Mrs. N. L
I Perkins, Mrs. H L. Skinner, Mrs
| Ralph Talton and Mrs Clifton Beas
i ley. The meeting will come to order
-tonight at 7:45, in the Presbyterian
church, and will close bn time for the
meeting which has been called at the
Bajftist church