Smithfield Needs:®
_—Bigger pay roil.
.—Modern hospital.
_Renovation of Op
era house.
_More paved streets.
^Chamber Commerce
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SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1925 * *
“We Like
Smithfield—
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Number 69
Republicans Oust
Welfare Supt. Rose
- i-——
Two County Board In Joint
Session; Mrs. D. J. Thurston
Elected To Succeed Rose.
VOTE THREE TO FOUR
That the Republican party means
to run this county government while
they are in power strictly along par
ty lines, without fear or favor, or
without consideration for efficiency,
was more clearly demonstrated here
yesterday morning than has been
since they assumed control of affairs
last December. The test came when
the election of County Superinten
dent of Public Welfare was brought
before the joint boards of County
Commissioners and Education. The
candidacy of three people was before
the boards for consideration, viz.:
H- V. Rose, who has served in this
office for the past six years, Mr. W.
ۥ Massey of Princeton, Mrs. D. J.
Thurston of Clayton. There was lit
tle speech-making connected with the
decision. Mrs. Thurston was repre
sented by several of her Clayton
friends, a few of whom strongly en
dorsed her for the position. Mr. Rose
stated in regard to his own candida
cy that he had requested all of his
interested friends to refrain from ap
pearing before the board in his be
half. thinking that the boards would
not care to devote a great deal of
time to hearing endorsements.
The question went before the
boards and the voting was strictly
partisan, the Board of Education vot
ing solidly to retain Mr. Rose and the
Board of Commissioners casting four
votes (Mr. J. W. Jones, chairman of
the board, was absent due to illness)
for Mrs. Thurston. Mr. Massey did
not receive a vote
On the face of things, it would ap
pear that nothing of a political nature
actuated in their stand for Mrs. Thur
ton, both she and Mr. Rose being
Democrats and Mrs. Thurston’s hus
band having been prominent i* th*
last primary for a seat in the House
of Representatives. But facts of re
cent date have come to light which
discredits Thurston’s democracy as
of the “Simon Pure” variety, and
there is little doubt that the disgrun
tled stand he took in the last election
and ouspoken criticism of the Demo
cratic party since then, have strongly
recommended the candidacy of Mrs
of Mrs. Thurston for political remu
neration from this Republican board,
and that is how it became expedient,
from the Republican standpoint that
a change in this office should be
made..
Mr. Rose stated that he would need
some two weeks in which to complete
his files and close the office. In the
meantime, Mrs. Thurston will famil
iarize herself with the legal require
ments preparatory to assuming the
duties of the office by August 1.
Mrs. Thurston’s election still
awaits the sanction of Mrs. Kate
Burr Johnson, State Commissioner of
Public Welfare, before she can take
legal charge of the office. The law
requires the holding of a certificate
from the State University for pub
lic welfare superintendents. There 1
are other legal provisions as to age
and former training and it is thought
that Mrs. 'Thurston can qualify under
the. requirements.
The news of Mr. Rose’s discharge
from this office will be regret in ma
ny sections of the county. During
his six years of office he has applied
himself to the requirements and has
initiated a very thorough and effici
ent work in all lines pertaining to so
cial service in the county- He is a
licensed lawyer and will probably
open an office here for the practice of
his profession in the early fall.
P. L. Wood Captures
A Home-Made Still
Mr. P. L. Wood, Deputy Sheriff of
< leveland towlnship. captured a first
elass home-made still last Friday on
Mrs. A. Gower's land near Swift’
f reek. A tin tub was used in the
still’s make-up, but the copper tvorm
was without a seam in it, and was de
clared by authorities to be the finest
Boards Work on
School Budget
The County Board of Educa
tion and the County Board of
Commissioners met in joint ses
sion here yesterday to consider the
school budget and to fix the tax
rate for schools in the county.
With the exception of Mr. J. W.
Jones, chairman of the board of
commissioners, who is ill, there
was a full representation of the
two boards. The budget as pre
pared in the office of the county
superintendent of schools calls
for approximately $441,000, and
the two boards are re-checking in
detail the budget to find some pos
set? wey of reduucing this
amount- Yesterday only two or
three townships were checked and
it will probably be several days
before the two boards are ready
to fix the rate.
BILL HOLT WINS
ATTENDANCE PRIZE
The Smithfield Kiwanis Club held
its first regular July meeting here
last Thursday evening at 7 o’clock in
the May San Tea Room, president E.
J. Wellons officiating.
Opening with the song “America”,
the meeting got away to a lively
start. While the members were eat
ing the first course, several letters
were read, and the financial state
ment for the first half of the year
was made by the Treasurer.
Kiwanian Rill Holt won the attend
ance prize, given by Louis Cohen,
sheriff of the Club- Joe Davis was
lucky on the first draw, but being ac
cused cf Cutcriug into a frame-up
with Cohen, Davis laughingly refused
me prize. It was after this that Miss
Irene Myatt drew the number which
Mr. Holt held. The prize was a fash
ionable neck-tie, taken from the stock
of the Davis Stores, of which Mr.
Cohen is manager.
Following this Kiwanian Geo. Y.
Ragsdale, who was the official dele
gate at the St- Paul Kiwanis Inter
national Convention held June 22
25, made his report to the Club. He
briefly outlined the trip the party
took, some of the things they saw
and did. and touched on the high
spots of the Convention. Following
this he made several suggestions and
recommendations as to the Club’s fu
ture work, in terms of what he learn
ed at the Convention.
The next meeting of the Club will
be held July 23.
Charlotte To Have
20-Story Building
Charlotte, July 9-—A 20-story of
fice building will be erected here by
the First National Bank of Charlotte,
instead of the modest building origi- !
nally planned, according to an an
nouncement today by officials of the
institution. The cost of the structure
will exceed $1,000,000, it was said.
When completed the • structure will
be the tallest in the Carolines, ac- j
cording to tentative, plans drawn by
the architect. The Jefferson Stan
dard Life Insurance building in
Greensboro, is 17 stories high, as is
the Woodside National bank building
in Greenville, S- C.
The stockholders of the bank yes
terday voted unanimously to author- ■
ize the directors and building com
mittee of the bank to proceed with
any type of modern building their
judgement dictated. They reached a
decision to erect a building that
w'ould meet increasing demands for
uptown office space for years to come.
specimen they ever inspected- Two
gallons of whisky and six barrels
beer were destroyed by those making
the raid and the outfit itself was
brought to the sheriff’s office here.
The operators were not “at home’’
and No arrests were made that night.
BUDGET ALLOWANCE
FOR INSTITUTIONS
Education To Receive Biggest
Share; Compare Cost of Edu
cating City and Rural
School Children
OTHER STATE NEWS
Raleigh, July 13.—Raleigh swelter
ed during the past week with aver
age temperature which ranged close
to 95 degrees and official circles were
unusually quiet. Governor McLean
in order to speak and perhaps to get
cool went to Asheville where he en
countered temperatures which were
not much lower than those of the
capital.
The first day of the week, Gover
nor McLean issued a statement
showing to what extent the institu
tions and departments would be al
lowed to go in the matter of expen
ditures during the first fiscal year.
1925-26, under the Executive Budget
Act- The Department of Public In
struction announced the costs of ed
ucating its rural population as
compared with city children; the
first move toward a decent Union
Station for Raleigh was made, farm
college editors of the nation met at
State College; the national guard
encampments opened and various oth
er matters of lesser interest took
place.
Governor McLean’s figures for the
coming year show that $10,070,518
will be allowed for general expendi
tures while bond issues for perma
nent improvements will amount to
$5,125,000. Educational institutions
will receive the largest individual
shares of the funds as $2,288,162 will
be spent for support of the institu
tions and $2,000,250 for the public
school system. In addition, the insti
tutions—meaning tlie colleges—will
receive bond issue funds for im
provements amounting to $3,619,000.
The charitable institutions—hospitals
etc-,—will receive $1,669,600 for
maintenance and $767,500 for ' per
manent improvements. The reform
atories will receive 821,000 for main
tenance and $688,500 for permanent
improvements.
An exclamation of relief tinged
with unbelief went up from the popu
lation of Raleigh last week when it
became known a survey wTas being
made of a union station site by the
city administration which will lake
the matter to the railroads and ask
for their cooperation. This means
little—Greensboro has been waiting
for years on a decent station—but it
is a start and the people are hopeful.
It is believed that the capital city
should be able to do better by its
visitors than with present equipment.
There are six times as many chil
dren attending the rural schools, the
Department of Public Instruction
says, than are attending the city
schools but the amount spent for
their education Is only about three
times as much- In other words,
about two dollars is being spent on
each' city child for one dollar on
each country child. North Carolina
has done a great deal in education
but it still lags far enough behind
other states for the populace to go
ahead and act rather than to talk
of what has been done. The average
spent for education of a school child
throughout the nation in 1920 was
$64.15 and this has constantly in
creased. The average spent in
North Carolina last year was less
than half that amount.
The capture of the members of the
mob which mutilated Joseph Needle
man in Martin county was to have
cost the state a large sum in rewards,
about $25,000. However, the Gover
nor stipulated the men were to be
delivered to State Prison when he
offered the rewards of $400 each.
They were delivered to county autho
rities and it is not known yet wheth
er the State under the “economy”
administration will take advantage
of the technicality to refuse to pay
the rewards. The matter has been
the subject of a conference.
The 13th annual conference of ag
ricultural college editors of the na
tion was held at State college dur
ing the week. F. H. Jeter, editor for
State college and the extension di
vision, had charge of arrangements
for the convention which wras re
ported as entirely successful.
A Good “Devil”
Lewis Henry Martin bet
ter known to his friends as
“Lulie.” His co-workers in
The Herald office declare
that lie’s a genuine “good
devi:.” and that’s a high
conn.'i’me'nt in printer par
lance.
JESSEWYATTTR1AL
SCHEDULED TUESDAY
Raleigh, N. C.—The ease of State
against Jesse Wyatt is scheduled to
be called for trial in Wake County
Superior Court on next Tuesday and
'the people of North Carolina will
have a legal battle on which they can
focus their attention at closer range
than is possible in the case of the
Scopes trial at Dayton, Tenn.
The case has attracted tremendous
interest since June 1, when Wyatt,
then captain of the plainclothes squad
of the Raleigh police force, and Chief
of Police Winder Bryan thought the
car in which Stephen S- Holt, promi- j
nent Smithfield lawyer was riding
was a rum runner. Wyatt fired and
the bullet killed Holt instantly.
An indictment charging Wyatt
with murder,, on which Solicitor W.
F. Evans had stated he would not ask
for a verdict greater than murder in
the seqond degree, was quashed at
the special June term by Judge
Frank A. Daniels
At that term an array of defense
attorneys after battling three days for
a continuance hit upon the expedient
of moving to quash the indictment on
the ground that the grand jury in
dicing Wyatt was drawn last Decem
ber by a child over ten years of age,
contrary to the statute- The motion
was allowed and it will be necessary
for the Solicior to send a new indict
ment at the term which begins on
Monday.
it is regaruea as a ioregorie con
clusion that Judge W. A. Devin, who
was commissioned by the Governor
to hold the term in the place of Judge
Garland E. Midyette, who is ill, will
have to pass on numerous motions >
by counsel for the defense- At the
time the indictment was quashed de
fense attorneys thought they had
succeeded in carrying the case over
until the September term as the
grand jury for July had been already ;
drawn by the same boy who drew the
preceding grand jury. However, it
was discovered that the jury had been
ordered to report on July 6 instead
of on July 13 and a new venire of
36 men from whom will come the 18
grand jurors, was drawn under a
special statute by Sheriff D- Bryant
Harrison, Register of Deeds W. H. j
Penny and Justices of the Peace E.
Lloyd Tilley and J- E. Owens.
Defense attorneys have already in
timated they will attack the validity
of the drawing on the ground that
Mr. Tilley is also assistant clerk of j
the Wake County Superior Court. In
quiry has also been hade as to whe
ther Mr. Owens, one of the oldi*t
juustices in the state, is duly quali
fied.
Chief Bryan has refused to deny j
that he is a member of the Ku Klux j
Klan and the same charge has been
made against Wyatt and this element I
Young Man’s Death
_Caused By Storm
CHURCHES REAPING
REVIVAL HARVEST
Additions Are Made To Local
Churches and Also Churches
In the Country.
LAYMEN ARE BUSY
The first Sunday following the
•losing of the Ham-Ramsay meeting (
’ound a number of additions made to
:he various churches not only in this
•ity but other churches in the coun
ty. Forty members were received in
to the Methodist church at the morn
ing service, there being no regular
sermon but the hour being given over
to the baptismal service and the tak
ing of the church vows- Eight or ten
others are expected to join by letter
at an early date- In the afternoon,
Rev. A- J. Parker, the pastor, im
mersed eleven candidates for mem
bership in the Methodist church at
Holt Lake. This bathing resort wit
nessed an unusual scene as this ser
vice was conducted- Bathers were nu
merous but perfect order prevailed
when they were asked to come out of
the water until the religious rite
should be performed.
Unusual interest characterized the
church services at the other church
es in town, eight members being re
ceived into the Presbyterian church
and four giving their names for
church membership and being bap
tized at the evening hour. Sixteen
were baptized at the Baptist church
on Wednesday night of last week
The work of the Laymen’s Federa
tion goes on apace and reports yes
terday from the services held on Sun
day and during the past week, are
graifying. A total of fifty have unit
ed with the Pisgah Baptist church,
five miles from town, to date, and
approximately the same number has
been added to the Pine Level Free
Will Baptist church. Groups of lay
men held services Sunday at Smith’s
Chapel, Johnson’s Chapel, Sardis,
Baptist Center and Pisgah. Nineteen
Center to date- Delegations also at
Cener to date. Delegations also at
ended services at Wilson’ sMills and
Pine Level.
A group of eight or ten, including
W. H. Austin and F. H. Brooks, went
to Dunn Sunday afternoon in re
sponse to an invitation and report a
splendid meeting. A revival has been
in progress at the Methodist church
there for a week, and the service
Sunday afternoon was for men only.
The laymen were urged to go back
each evening this week.
The laymen continue to get calls to
go to various places in the county
and the revival begun in the Ham
Ramsay meetings keeps spreading.
The Women’s Federation has been re
presented in a number of the appoint
ments and the women are no less in
earnest in carrying forward the work
than the men.
A baptizing has been announced at
Middle Creek near Mr. N. G. Rand’s
for next Sunday morning at 9:30
o’clock, when candidates for member
ship in Pisgah Baptist church will be
baptized.
First Watermelons
and Green Peas
Mr. Thos. W. Johnson, of Four
Daks, Route 4, carried the first load
of watermelons and green peas to
Four Oaks that that town had seen
this year, of the home-grown variety
Mr. Johnson had ripe watermelons
on the Fourth of July, and green
peas were on his table a week earlier,
but he took his first load to town for
sale on Tuesday, July 7th.
is also expected to enter into the
trial.
Solicitor Evans will be assisted by
E. S. Abel, of Smithfield, and Brant
ley Womble, of Raleigh, while Wyatt
will be represented by J- Wflbur
Bunn, Pou & Pou and Jones, Jones
& Horton.
The case is expected to consume
at least three days.
Hubert Allen Drives Car Into
Tree Blown Across Road and
Is Killed Instantly.
BURIED ON WEDDING DAY
As indirect result of a tornado
which swept an area 350 yards wide
and two miles long near Four Oaks
Saturday afternoon, Hubert A. Allen,
eighteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs
E. G. Allen of Banner Township, died
instantly at 11:30 o’clock Saturday
night, with a broken neck and crush
ed chest.
The storm, which arose about three
o’clock Saturday afternoon, wrought
havoc in the woods, blowing a huge
long leaf pine across the road about
a mile of Blackman’s Cross Roads and
21/2 miles from Four Oaks. Travelers
who passed that way in the late aft
ernoon and early evening drove
around the obstruction, but young
Hubert Allen, returning home about
11:30 that night, failed to see it un
til too late. Persons in the road sig
naled the boy to go around, but mis
understanding them, and thinking,
perhaps, that they were hold-up men,
the young man increased his speed,
heading straight down the road. Wal
ter Dunn, a friend who was accompa
nying Mr. Allen home, says the driv
er saw the log just before the car
struck it. and cried out, but the next
instant the crash came, the impact
hurling the two young men backward.
Mr. Dunn was only slightly injured,
but Mr. Allen died instantly with a
broken neck and crushed chest
Mr. Allen had been to call on a
young lady, Miss Moore, whom he
expected to marry on the following
day.
The funeral was held from the
home of the parents of the deceased,
at 3:30 Sunday afternoon and was
conducted by Rev. Mr. Lee, of the
Baptist church. There were about
750 people present.
Young Mr. Allen was well-liked
and respected as one of the finest
young men in hjs community. Mr. J.
R. Allen, who gave The Herald the
particulars of the unfortunate acci
dent declared there was much sorrow
among his friends and relatives at
his passing- *
REPORT IS MADE FOR
N. C. CHILDREN’S Hf>ME
A good start has been made to
wards making 1925 the greatest year
in the history of the Children's Home
Society of North Carolina, according
to report which has been issued for
the first six months. During the first
half-year 188 homeless children were
given places to live. And during the
first six months 266 foster homes
were under the supervision of the
representatives of the society.
The budget, has covered the oper
ations and there is a small cash bal
ance left Donations in June fell off
but :n spite of that fact it was said
to have been the most satisfactory
month of the year. Fourteen children
were placed in homes during that
month and five legal adoptions were’
executed, i-.t preset:, theie are 33
children in the receiving home here
wVch is six less than there were at
the first of the month. Twrelve chii
d er were found and taken into the
In me because they needed a place to
To date the organ v. A.on has placed
over 2,Out) children, chi'dren that
were tori unate, unwanted, home
less and alandonei; children that
would not have had km*-, if this
-<c' ty lad not f>: I home- for
them. l » y have . from every
section of rhe state and they ha .a
been placed carefully, always " th
a- eye t< htirdevelo. ~ent
Jilin I 1 hoenix, staii superintend
ent, ha.- an abiding f*i'h in the bene
fa. • -rs of *be society and from the
encouraging show which has bct«
made for the first six i Hubs is o. n
fid-nt that this year will 1* one of
the greatest periods in the history
of the institution and than the 33
children now at the home and the
I countless others who are yet to be
picked up, will not be forgotten
’Greensboro News.