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Smithfield Needs:
—Bigger pay roll.
—Modem hospital.
_Renovation of Op
era house.
_More paved streets.
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SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING,- JULY 17, 1925
“We Like
Smithfield—
You will too”
Number 70
recorders court
TAKES THREE DAYS
—
A Score of Cases Disposed of
By Yesterday Afternoon;
Heavy Sentences.
NUMBER sent to roads
Recorder’s Court has consumed
three days this week, and more than
a score of cases have been disposed
of. Several cases were nol prossed.
The following had been tried and sen
. tence passed up to yesterday after
noon about two o’clock, whein the
Court recessed for lunch.
State v$ Herman Capps charged
with violating prohibition law. Guil
ty. $100 fine and costs
State vs Leon Raynor charged with
cursing on the public highway. Guil
ty. Continued prayer for judgment
upon payment of costs.
State vs James Webb charged with
assault with deadly weapon. Guilty.
90 days in jail to be worked on eons
ty roads.
State vs Willie Peacock charged
with violating the prohibition law.
Guilty- 60 days in jail to be worked
on roads and pay costs.
State vs D. Carter charged with
theft. Guilty. Four months in jail to
be worked on the roads and pay cost.
State vs Jno. Willie Stallings
charged with abandonment. Guilty.
Judgment continued for four months
upon payment of cost
State vs Charlie Baker charged
with trespass. Guilty. Judgment sus
pended upon payemnt of cost.
State vs Edwin Batten and Clifton
Cooper charged with violation of pro
hibition law. Not guilty.
State vs Dave Gower, Zo Coats,
Larice Coats and Seba Johnson,
charged with the violation of the pro
hibition law. Zo Coats was found
guilty of manufacturing; Dave Gow
er, Larice Coats and Seba Johnson
were found guilty of aiding and abet
ting in the manufacture of whiskey
Zo Coats was sentenced to jail for
12 months to be worked on the roads;
the other three men were fined $150
each and costs.
State vs Bill Parrish charged with
trespass. Guilty. Continue prayer for
judgment upon payment of cost.
State vs John Jones charged with
trespass. Guilty. Continue prayer for
judgment upon payment of costs.
State vs M. P. Parrish charged
with cruelty to animals. Guilty. Con
tinued judgment until August 11,
125.
State vs M- P. Parrish charged
with trespass. Guilty. Continue praye*
for judgment until August 11, 125.
State vs Allen Cox charged with
violating the prohibition law. Guilty.
Six months in jail to be worked on
the roads and pay costs- Appealed to
Superior Court and placed under a
$200 bond
State vs Hubert Hall charged with
larceny. Not guilty.
State vs Walter Boyd charged with
larceny. Guilty. Sixty days in jail to
be worked on roads
State vs Ernest Langston and Hay
wood Williamson charged with lar
ceny. Guilty. 60 days in jail to be
worked on the roads. Appealed to Su
perior Court. $200 bond.
State vs Cleo Kornegay, charged
with assault with deadly weapon. Not
guilty.
State against Primo Webb and Na
than Beasley charged with violating
the prohibition law. Web was found
guilty and was fined a $100 and cost;
4 months jail sentence suspended
during good behavior. Beasley not
guilty.
TWO BABIES KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Dunn, Route 2., July 15.—Two ba
bies have been killed in automobile
accidents in this section in the last
few days. On Thursday evening, July
the ninth, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Mc
Lamb had the misfortune to have
their little two and a half year old
girl, Rosetta, thrown from a running
car and instantly killed. Then on
Sunday, Jv4y the twelfth, My. and
Mrs- LutKo- Jernigan lost’ th^ir
small baby when the car in which
they were riding turned over, killing
the ehildt
Had Wife Shot 1
r.
i^P°oAfc Tof
C. B. Davis, of Concordia, Kan
sas, confesses that he paid gunmen
$2,000 to shoot his wife in a pre
tended holdup. Seven Kansas City
gunmen are under arrest—two ad
mitting they were implicated. Da^
vis is a retired merchant.
WOMEN ORGANIZE^
IN FEDERATION
Groups Are Arranged For Cort
venience of Work; Miss Hor
ton Talks to Women
The Women’s Federation, organ
ized as an out-growth of the Ham
Ramsay revival, met Tuesday eve
ning in the Presbyterian church and
listened to Miss Horton of Raleigh as
she talked to the women of the won
derful opportunity for service that
is before them, Sne stressed soul-win
,ning as the primary object of the or
ganization and told of some of her
experiences along this line. Miss
Horton is president of the Raleigh
Federation.
The women who were present were
earnest, and already the Federation
is at work- Some of the women have
been going with the laymen to vari
ous points in the County and report
ed splendid results at almost every
place.
Hack Wednesday aftenoon a group
,'ied by Mrs- D. H. Jones, goes to the
jail for a service, and the one held
last Wednesday was one to be re
membered. The presence of a little
ten-year-old boy, sent there through
the Juvenile Court for stealing a
watch, went to the heart of every
one present. The County Welfare
superintendent has secured a place
for him in the Stonewall Jackson
Training School and he awaits in the
jail his removal there.
The Federation has been divided
into groups, which were announced
Tuesday night. Other women will be
welcomed in these groups.
The arrangement of the groups is
as follows:
RESCUE WORK
Mrs. W. S- Ragsdale, Mrs. Willis
Sanders, Mrs- J D. Underwood, Mrs.
J. D. Spiers, Mr^ J- L. Scotton, Miss
Alma Smith, Mrs. S- B. Jones, Miss
Mary McDonald, Mrs- W. W- Cole,
Mrs. Bettie Jones, Miss Mattie Pou,
Mrs. E. C. Narron, Mrs. Pearl Perk
ins, Mrs. A- S. Johnston. Mrs. D. H
Creech, Mrs. Rackley, Mrs. T. R.
Hood, Mrs. Carl S. Pugh, Mrs. L. E.
Watson, Mrs. J- H. Kirkman, Mrs.
Rob Sanders, Miss Vara L- Smith,
Mrs. E. P. Lore, Mrs- Kate Strowd,
Mrs. Jennie Wallace, Mrs. Lawrence
Brown, Mrs. S. T- Fitzgerald, Mrs
S. T. Price.
YOUNG PEOPLE
Miss Dora Barbour, Miss Ruth Wil
son, Miss Ruth Brown, Miss Helene
Ives, Miss Cherry Gurley, Miss Addie
Talton, Mrs. Chester Stephenson,
Mrs. Jesse Coats, Miss Mary Rags
dale, Mrs. J. W. Keen, Mrs. T. J. '
Lassiter, Miss Melda Fitzgerald
Miss Flossie Lassiter.
SHUT INS
Mrs. J- E. Mahler, Mrs- Dura Kirk
man, Mrs- Sallie Sanders, Mrs. 0- V. \
Booker, Mrs. S- D. Broadwell, Mrs- j
Flora Hyman, Miss Annie Myatt,
Miss Corinna Sanders, Mrs. Helen!
Beasley, Mrs- C. V. Johnson, Mrs
Clyde Smith, Mrs- W. S- Stevens,
Mrs. E. F- Crump, Mrs. Alonzo Pe
terson, Mrs. W. H- Stevens, Mrs. Joe
Gordon, Mrs- Paul Brown. Mrs. W- H.
Puckett. Mrs. VC. T- Dantz, Mrs. Thel
Hooks, Miss Elizabeth Hooks, Miss
Elizabeth Young, Miss Mary Gattes
Holland.
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NEAR EAST RELIEF j
IN JOHNSTON CO.!
Field Director From Charlotte
Confers With Judge Brooks,
Chairman For County.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
Rev. H- Conrad Blackwell, the per
sonal representative of Mr. J. B. Ivey,
state chairman-ef the N*ear East Re
lief, Field Director of Near East Re
lief in North Carolina, was in the
city Wednesday interviewing Judge
F. H .Brooks, chairman of the Near
East Relief for Johnston County.
After talking with Judge Brooks, it
was decided to put on the campaign
this fall from November 8 through
the 15th. The quota for this county is
forty-eight orphans, or $2,880 00.
Judge Brooks expressed the belief
yesterday that the county would do
its share ,inasmuch as there was no
intensive campaign in this _ county
last year.
Judge Brooks has appointed the
following to serve with him as an
Executive Committee for Smithfield:
W. H. Austin, T. R. Hood, Mrs. T.
J. Lassiter, E. S. Edmundson, H. L.
Skinner, Rev Chester Alexander, Rev.
S. L. Morgan, Rev. A. J. Parker and
Mrs. P. H. Kasey.
Tlhe following sub-chairmen have
been named by Judge Brooks: Mrs.
j M. T. Britt, Benson; Mrs. W. T. Mar
tin, Benson; P. B. Johnson, Benson;
Alonzo Parrish, Benson; Dr. A. S
Oliver, Benson; Geor. F. Brietz, Sel
ma; Rev. 0. P- Fitzgerald, Selma;
Dr. George D. Vick, Selma; Mrs. W.
T. Woodard, Selma; Rev. W. B.
North, Kenly; Rev. W. T. Evans,
Kenly; Paul D. Grady, Kenly; John
T. Edgertpn, Kenly;Mrs. J. W. Dar
den, Kenly; J. W. Stancil, Kenly;
Rev. A. C. Summers, Kenly; E. A.
Holt, Princeton; J. R. Ledbetter,
Princeton; Mrs. R. S- Stevens,
Princeton; Mrs. W. P. Suggs, Prince
ton; C. W. Horne, Clayton; J. Dwight
Barbour, Clayton; J. M. Turley,
Clayton; Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, Mrs. K.
J. Hunter, Dr. J. J. Young, Rev. Mar
vin Self, and Rev. Russell C- White,
I all of Clayton; Dan U. Oliver, Pine
(Turn to page four, please)
COLORED PICNICKERS
HAVE AN ACCIDENT
A picnic that did not end disas
i trously but which began disastrously
for some of the party, was held in
Wilson Monday by the colored Bap
tist Sunday school of this city. Two
truck loads left here Monday morn
ing and when between Kenly and
Wilson, one of the trucks had an ac
cident which resulted in a broken
leg for one, and a sprained leg for
another of the picnickers. As the
truck, which carried about fifty, was
climbing a hill, the driver, Harvey
Williams, lost control of the truck
and it ran back down the hill, turn
ing against the side of an embank
ment- The truck did not turn over but
several were thrown out, among
whom w'ere Susie Smith, wife of Jim
Smith, well-known drayman of this
city, whose leg was broken and her
face and arm cut and bruised, and
Sallie May Sanders, who suffered a
sprained limb.
The injured ones were brought
back to Smithfield and given treat
ment in the hospital here.
The others in the party proceeded |
to Wilson and enjoyed the picnic- |
Commissioners Slash Proposed
School Budget Over $100,000
I
Choir Director
Mr. Thomas E. Bush who is
directing the music in the Re
vival Meeting now going on in
Four Oaks.
DR. JOYNER OFFERS
HIS RESIGNATION
Leader of Tobacco Growers
Association Offers His Ser
vices Without Pay.
(By S. D. Frissell)
Raleigh, July 14—Dr. J. Y. Joy
ner, former superintendent of schools
in North Carolina, foremost leader
in building up this state’s public
school system and later the leading
figure in the movement of tobacco
farmers to organize the orderly mar
keting of their crops, this week ten
dered his resignation as an employ
ee of the Tobacco Growers Coopera
tive Association of which he was at
one time president, of whose organ
ization committee he was chairman
and for the success of which he has
labored unceasingly for the past four
years, much of the time without pay.
With my resignation, I tender to
you and through you to the associa
tion, my services without compensa
tion for all the time that I can possi
bly spare from my farming interests.
Command me in the future as free
ly as heretofore, for any service that
I can render anywhere,” declared
Dr. Joyner in resigning his post as
an official of the Tobacco Growers
Cooperative Association, which he
was largely instrumental in found
ing.
Explaining his reasons for wish
ing to serve the association without
pay, Dr. Joyner stated in his letter
of resignaion: “I believe that I can
render more effective service by re
signing and thereby freeing myself
of the accusation or suspicion of any
other motive in advocating coopera
tive marketing but an honest desire
to promote a cause which I sincerely
believe to be the only hope for the
tion of our farmers through organi
zation for the protection of the pric
es of their products by orderly and
intelligent marketing.
Meeting the carping attacks of op
ponents of cooperative marketing
who have sought to ascribe his re
cent efforts for cooperative market
(Tum to page four, please)
Defense Succeeds In
Delaying W y att T rial
The state, being whipped for the
third time, agreed Wednesday eve
ning to the continuance of the Wyatt
murder case until the regular Sep
tember term of court- Errors in the
organization of the Grand Juries are
responsible for the delay of the trial.
No further attacks will be, .made by
the defense, therefore guaranteeing
a trial when the case is called next.
At the close of Wednesday’*..' ses
sion of court it was evident that the
state and defense were not on the
best of terms. But it had been a bat
tle of-^its in which the defense won
every point. The weak places were
supplied by the statg. In the case of
a trial in September it is believed
that the public will be much less hos
tile toward Wyatt than it hitherto
has been—an evident reason for de
laying the case.
NUMBER TEACHERS
REDUCED BY 31
Twenty-Eight Schools Are Af
fected By The Cut in The
School Budget.
When the school budget was cut at
a joint meting of the Board of Edu
cation and Board of Commissioners
in session here this week, the follow
ing teachers, a total of thirty-one,
were cut out from the 1025-26 budg
et:
Beulah No. 3, Kenly, 1 teacher.
Beulah No. 4. Niagara, 1 teacher
Beulah No. 12, Watson, 1 teacher.
Boon Hill No6. Brogden, 1 teacher
Clayton No- 2, Powhatan, 1 teach
er.
Elevation No. 5, Spilona, 1 teacher
Elevation No. 7, Rehoboth, 1 teach
er.
Ingram No. 1, Corinth, 1 teacher.
Ingram No- 6, Stanley, 1 teacher.
Ingram No. 7, Parkers, 1 teacher.
Ingram No. 8, Four Oaks, 1 teach
i er.
Meadow No 2, Meadow, 3 teachers.
Micro No. 3, Micro, 1 teacher.
Micro No. 4, Pearce, 1 teacher.
Oneals No. 2, Corbett-Hatcher, 1
teacher.
Oneals No. 4, Moore’s, 1 teacher.
Pine Level No. 1, Pine Level, 1
teacher.
Pine Level No. 3, Massey, 1 teach
|er.
Selma No. 1, Brown’s, 1 teacher
Selma No. 6, Plainview, 1 teacher.
Smithfield No. 2, Yelverton’s
Grove. 1 teacher.
Smithfield No. 3, Pomona, 1 teach
er
Wilders No. 3, Corinth-Holders, 1
teacher.
Negro Schools
Clayton No. 3, Piney Grove, 1
teacher.
Cleveland No. 2, Ransom’s Acade
my, 1 teacher.
Meadow No 1, Long Branch, 1
teacher.
Micro No.^ 1, Micro, 1 teacher.
Smithfield No. 5, Short Journey, 1
teacher.
TO ADDRESS WOMEN
ON KU KLUX KLAN
Mrs. Amanda Rose Wilson, imper
ial representative of the Womans
Ku Klux Klan, will address a mass
meeting of women at the court house
tonight at 8:00 p. m. All ladies are
cordially invited.
STATE HAS DEFICIT
OF $9,438,531-61
Raeigh, July 14.—Subtraction* of
unexpected institutional balances to
day placed the deficit finally at $9,
438,531-61 and this is the amount that
the state will borrow and pay off on
the amortization plan. The state has
borrowed from the First National of
New York $7,000,000 of this at $4.25.
The other two and a half million or
thereabouts will be borrowed from the
state’s sinking fund which now is
something above $4,000,000. The state
will pay the regular $4.25 for this
Thus is the deficit a closed incident.
He need.Not Have W'orried
A revival was raging in a Virginia
colored church. The fruits had been
considerable. One obdurate soul, how
ever, resisted the efforts of the lead
er. Called to account for his reluc
tance. he replied:
“Yo’ see how it is, Elder. I'se got
a problem. I don’t see how I’se gwine
git mah shirt o® ovah mah wings
when I gits to Glory ”
“Dat aint yo’ problem,” retorted
the exhorter promptly. “Yo’ problem
is how is you gw’ine git yo’ hat
ovah yo’ horns.”—Everybody’s.
What I® a JKfttf
Bill: Say, Henry, do''you . know
what a joke is?
-Henry: No. What?
Bill: Wake County Superior Court
Ihe Four Special Chartered
Schools Fare Badly When
Cut Is Made.
RATE NOT YET FIXED
The Board of County Commission
ers and the Board of Education of
Johnston County in a joint session
here this week have spent the great
er part of three days going over the
school budget, preparatory to making
a tax levy to take care of this, the
most important part of County expert •
ditures. There was present a full
representation of the Board of Edu
cation as follows: W. G. Wilson of
Wilson’s Mills, J. W Woodard of the
Gendale section and P. B. Johnson of
Jenson. The members of the Board
of County Commissioners present
were: A. H. Morgan. L E. Barbour
W. T. Lee and A. B Hocutt- Mr. J.
W. Jones, chairman of the board, was.
absent on account of illness
The budget as prepared by the
county superintendent of schools and
the Board of Education called for an
appropriation of approximately $441,
000, but when the detailed survey of
the budget was over, the commission
ers had slashed the amount asked for
to $308,463.06. The first appropri
ation for schools last year was $300,
817-50, but later the commissioners
approved the spending of $368,385 04
the amount required to complete a
six months term.
Before going into the matter of the
school budget the Board of Educa
tion presented a petition to fhe Board
of Commissioners requesting an elec -
tion in the Princeton Special School
Taxing District.
Mr. W. G. Wilson was elected
chairman for the purpose of disenss
ing the school budget.
Both boards then entered into a
detailed study and discussion of the
school budget, the same being taken
up school by school and item by item
From the amount of the salary
fund requested, $271,171-11, the fol
lowing cuts were made: From the
white schools $16,388-70; from the.
negro schools $1,770. and from the
special chartered schools $11,220.35
making a total cut of $29,379.05
leaving in the salary fund the amount,
of $241,792.06.
From the operating and equipment
fund of $146,199.10, the following
i cuts were made: From the white
‘schools $57,937.24; from the colored
schools $39,050 00; from the special
chartered schools $6,750-86 ;or a to
tal of $103,738 10, leaving the op
erating and equipment fund $42,
461.00. The special chartered schools
were cut as follows:
Selma: Salary $4-594.80; Operat
ing and Equipment $900-00.
Clayton: Salary $2,958-90; Operat
nig an dEquipment $2,200-00
Benson: Salary $1,133.32; Operat
ing and Equipment $2,200 00.
Smithfield: Salary $2,333-33; Opel *
ating an-i Equipment $1,400.00
The amount of the budget for ro
payment of loans $24,210-00 was ap
proved.
The Board of Commissioners in
structed the Board of Education te
take the approved amount as speci
fied above in the sum of $308,463 06
and operate the schools, using every
possible means of economy, and if for
any reason the full six months of
school could not be operated to repor'
the same back to them before exceed
ing the budget.
The Board of Commissioners ap
proved the amount of $14,031.75 re
quested for the operation of fifty
three trucks and also approved $525
for the operation of two trucks in ad
dition to this amount for the Niagara
School.
The commissioners are rt>t yet
ready to fix the tax rate for echoolr
A slump of about five and a half nf1
lion dollars in the property vataafl«r
in the county presents a serious sftu
ation. Last year Johnstuffii County
property was value^at approximate
ly $43,000,000. This year, according
to figures available from the Cdinty
Auditor, the valuation h* dropped
to around $37,500,000. The county
attorney says an investig^ion *» h
ortter