Mr. Farmer: Sell Your Tobacco In Smithfield This Season
Smithfield Needs:
_Bigger pay roll.
_New Hotel.
_Renovation of Op
era house.
_More paved streets.
^Chamber Commerce
tnithfirUi Metnlit
“We Like
Smithfield—
You zvill too”
Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper-Established 1882
Forty-fourth Year
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SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST II, 1925
Number 77
bentonville has
COMMUNITY PICNIC
About Five Hundred Gather to
Enjoy All-Day Picnic at Oak
Grove School House
^001} PROGRAM GIVEN
The people of Bentonville township
are* much interested in' the .develop
[ ment of their splendid rural commun
ity, and each year they meet togeth
er in a community fair or public picnic
to ioin business and pleasure togeth
er with aim of first having a good
social gathering and at the same time
to bring before the public some un
developed phase of their comunity
On Friday, August 7, they had such
a day. Miss Minnie Lee Garrison,
home demonstration agent for the
county, has effected a strong organ
ization among the women of the Oak
Grove school community, and a little
while ago it was decided that they
wanted a picnic, the primary intent
of which was to renew their efforts
in behalf of improving the school ad
vantages for their children.
Mrs. C. I. Beasley, the chairman of
the women’s organization, called the
meeting to order at ten a. m- The
forenoon was devoted to a musical
program rendered by the Riverside
Serenaders of Smithfield led by Mr.
William Lassiter. The children of the
comunity were represented on the pro
gram by litlte Lena Rose Britt, who
gave a reading on the subject, A
Comfortable Home.”
Dinner was served on the grounds
at one o’clock. At two p. m. the meet
ing was resumed, the band again ren
dering a selection which was follow
ed by a thirty-minute address by Mr.
H. B. Marrow- His address was a
discussion of the ways and means of
consolidation and building in reach
of their children a high school.
Mr- W. V. Blackman, of Meadow
township, was present and following
Supt. Marrow’s address, he spoke on
community organization and the in
terest the people of his township
are taking in their school, the build
ing of which is now under way of
construction.
In the afternoon the children were
again represented on the program.
Little Miss Carrie Lee Beasley, daugh
isuaa -v D ‘SJW PUB
letly si • =»1° “Wtot W1U We
if Mother Leaves Us?” The en
> event was much enlivened by the
Sic of the band. Some demonstra
i work in chair-bottoming was done
Miss Garrison. The attendance was
,d, something like five hundred
ng present.
NATIONAL BANK RESOURCES
SHOW GAIN OF $1,784,944,000
Washington, Aug. 7—National bank
resources showed an increase of $1,
784.944.000 during the year ended las
June 30, including an advance of
$518,400,000 in the last three months
of that period.
A statement issued today by the
office of the comptroller of the cur
rency, based on reports from the last
national bank call, placed the total
resources of the 8072 banks at $24,
350,863,399, the largest of record ex
cept for the period ended December
31, 1924.
Eighty two and eighty seven hun
dredths per cent of the increase in
resources from April to June was
shown by the banks in central re
serve cities. New York City banks
alone showed an advance of $353,
440,000; Chicago banks $24,901,000
and Detroit banks $42,953,000.
The increase in the reserves of
the country banks, or those outside
of reserve cities was $88,787,000. New
Jersey banks showed the largest
amount of increase, $38,435,000.
Loans and discounts totalled $12,
674.067.000 on June 30, compared with
$12,468,836,000 on April 6 and $11,
978.728.000 on June 30, 1924
Paid m capital of the banks in
creased $35,424,000 during the year
and $7,991,000 from April 6 to June
30. Surplus and undivided profits ad
vanced $18,405,000 as compared with
June a year ago and $3,638,000 from
April 6.
There’s one thing you can’t keep
down and that’s the rising generation.
No Legal Killing
ifAi'TocArrcwi
Vivian Pierce, executive sec
retary of the league which is
campaigning to abolish the death
penalty in every state. National
Headquarters are now open in
New York and many national
leaders have lined up in favor of
the move.
THE CAPITAL CITY
SPENDS QUIET WEEK
Governor McLean Takes Vaca
tion at Camp In Minnessota;
Freight Rate Victory For,
North Carolina
OTHER NEWSY ITEMS
Raleigh, Aug. 10-—Governor Mc
Lean, after seven strenuous months
as Chief Executive, left last week for
a three weeks stay in the woods of
Minnesota. The State Prison answer
ed some of its critics with a state
ment reviewing the past four years,
Corporation Commissioner Maxwell
stated the rate decreases ordered for
freight moving from the Southeast
was a great victory for North Caro
lina. The State Department of Labor
and Printing came to the fore again
with charges against Commissioner
Grist of favoritism in placing print
ing, and former governor Morrison
from Charlotte issued a statement in
which he declared he would go into
the deficit issue with Governor Mc
Lean when the latter returns from
his vacation and announced he would
have some facts for the people. These
were the outstanding events in a ra
ther quiet week at the Capital City.
Governor McLean stated when
leaving he would be gone not less
than two nor more than three weeks,
and announced he would be at a
camp to replenish his physical vigor.
It is known about the capital he went
to Minnesota, though no announce
ment was made from the Executive
Office. Constitutionally, J. Elmer
Long, of Durham, is now Governor,
though the functions are being ex
ercised as heretofore when the Gov
ernor leaves the State by those in
charge of the Governor’s office.
In an effort to discount some of its
critics charges, chiefly those made by
the News and Observer in a crusade
against* Superintendent George Ross
Pou, a statement was issued from the
prison in which the increase in pris
on population, decrease in physically
able prisoners, decrease in revenue
and increase in maintenance and va
rious health and social reforms made
during the past four years were cit
ed as reasons why there was an in
ability to run the prison without
drawing on the State Treasury.
Against any possible deficit, Mr.
Pou set the various improvements
cited as being worthwhile.
Corporation Commissioner Max
well, probably the leading freight
rate expert of the State, issued a
statement after the Interstate Com
merce Commission had ordered rates
for this section reduced, in which he
said the decrease was a great victory
for North Carolina. Mr. Maxwell
was asked some time ago to sit with
the Commission in determining these
rates, but when he saw the trend of
affairs he got off and appeared for
North Carolina. He declared shippers
of North Carolina, which was special
ly favored in the reductions, vWl find
the new rates of inestimahle value.
Commissioner of Labor and Print
ing Grist was charged during the week
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HENRY FORD WILL
MAKE AIRPLANES
Pays One Million Dollars For
Airplane Manufacturing Con
cern In Detroit
HAS NO URGE TO FLY
Detroit, August 7-—Henry Ford,
millionaire manufacturer of automo
biles, today became an independent
manufacturer of all-metal airplanes,
for the purpose of accelerating air
plane development.
Official announcement was made last
night at the Ford offices that the mo
tor company had purchased the Stout
Metal Ampiane Company, of Detroit,
which will be operated as the Stout
Metal Division of the Ford Company.
The amount involved was not given
out but was estimated to approimate
$1,000,000 and credit for negotiating
the transaction was given by Mr.
Ford to his son, Edsel.
“Airplanes belong to another gener
ation," Mr. Ford senior, said in com
menting on the sale. “I shall do ev
erything possible in their development
but there is too much to be done to
permit of premature enthusiasm.
“We are interested in airplane de
velopment and the best place for us
to carry on experimental work is our
plant. There we can study and learn,
and there is much that w*e must study
and a great deal for us to learn.
“Of course, the first thing that must
be done with the aerial navigation is
to make it fool-proof. Just now its
ninety per cent man alnd ten per
cent plane. That percentage must be
turned around
“We are not going into the racing
business. Speed is incidental, safety
and service are paramount. What the
Ford Motor Company means to do is
,to prove whether commercial flying
can be done safely and profitably.”
A formal statement issued by the
Ford company reviewed the history of
association between the Stout and
Ford companies showing how Mr.
Stout after fifteen years of experi
mental work had invented the all
metal plane
Manufacture of the present type of
planes no wemployed in ain inter
iFord factory air freight service be
tween Detroit and Chicago will con
tinue on a larger scale.
Mr. Ford’s chief interest lies in the
engineering problems involved in avi
ation. He has never been in the air
and said yesterday that he still felt |
Ino urge to fly.—Associated Press.
DUNN ARRIVES WITH
FIRST OPEN COTTON
Dunn, Aug. 1.—Cotton is begin
ning to open in the Dunn district.
Open bolls were brought in today by
Ellis Goldstein and H. W. Jernigan,
these being the first to report open
cotton here.
FUNERAL J. W. JONES
LARGELY ATTENDED
Chairman County Board of Com
missioners Will Be Greatly
Missed; Was Substantial
Citizen
LEAVES LARGE FAMILY
When Mr. J. W. Jones, chairman
of the county board of commission
ers, passed away at his home between
here and Selma Friday morning, the
county lost one of its most substan
tial citizens. His is the story of hard
ships and struggles Jrat though re
verses came he was possessed of con
siderable property at the time of his
death, and leaves behind not only a
heritage of lands but a good name.
He was born in Elevation township
on June 3, 1856, making his stay on
earth a little more than sixty-nine
years. His parents were John and
Susan Jones. He grew to manhood
in Elevation township leaving there
when he was about thirty years old.
When the tobacco business sprang up
in Johnston County, Mr. Jones oper
ated a tobacco warehouse in Benson.
The venture proved a failure and he
lost all he had accumulated. One of
his friends, in commenting upon his
life yesterday, said, “He was one of
the few men I have known who,
when they failed in business, paid
back every dollar they owed.”
After his experience in Benson, he
came to Smithfield and operated the
Riverside warehouse which was for
merly located whe're the Sanders Mo
tor Company now stands. After sev
eral years he quit the tobacco busi
ness, moved to the country between
here and Selma in Selma Township,
and there he spent the last eleven
years of his life as a farmer. He
was active in all phases of life in his
community. He was staunch Republi
can, and was elected as a county
commissioner at the last election.
When the board met and organized,
he was chosen chairman, and up un
til the end came he was deeply inter
ested in the public affairs of John
ston County. He was a conscientious
county official, and his passing will
cause widespread regret.
Five or six years ago his health
began somewhat to fail, but he was
able to attend to the duties of life
until five weeks ago. During the past
five weeks he suffered with rheuma
tism which finally affected his heart
and early Friday morning he passed
away. Physicians and trained nurses
did all possible for his comfort and
relief.
The deceased was thrice married,
the first time to Miss Olivia Creech,
on September 10, 1885. To this union
were born eleven children, ten of
whom survive him. The second time
he was married to Miss Isabella
Johnson, and two children blessed
this union. His last marriage was to
Miss Louie Smith, who survives him.
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Johnston Again
To Give Thanks
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Sunday, August 23, Has Been
Designated As Special Day of
Thanksgiving For Bounti
ful Crops
COUNTY-WIDE CELEBKATl’N
In the same spirit that the Pil
grim Fathers in New Egnland more
than three hundred years ago, set
aside a special day of thanksgiving
for the crops which the Giver of all
gifts had caused to grow in such
bountiful abundance, Johnston county
for the third time calls its citizens to
gether to render thanks to the Heav
enly Father for perhaps the best
crops that have ever been grown in
the county<§)
Such a Thanksgiving Day for
Johnston County was first suggest
ed and worked out in 1922,-Jiy Mr. C.
W. Horne of Clayton ana the late
Judge W. S. Stevens, and the cele
bration caused wide-spread comment
©
because it was the first of the kind
to be held in the State. The follow
ing year was also a good crop year
and a day was set apart again. Last
year crops were poor and the cele
bration was omitted. But again full
ears of corn, broad fields of cotton,
many of them unharmed from boll
weevil, wide expanses of tobacco,
food crops in plenty, have caused the
people bo remember the One who has
made these blessings possible, and
they want again to give public recog
nition for all these mercies
Therefore Sunday ^afternoon, Aug
ust 23, has been designated as a spe
cial Thanksgiving Day for Johnston
County and the entire population is
cordially invited to come to Smith
field on that day arf§i participate in
the exercises.
A committee representing every
sectioi ®f the County has been called
to meet in the Methodist church here
tonight to arrange details of the oc
casion, which when completed will
be annuonced bhrought the papers.
Cancer Fame
1 ^1^CA9T£t()
J. E. Barnard) (WMifthy London
hatter, whose hobby » microscopic
lenses, has won great fa*ne in
financing and making it possible
for Dr. Gve to at last isolate the ,
cance^germ—the first step toward |
finding a vure._ _
NAME PRISON FARM
CHAPEL HONOR POU
Pou Chapel For State’s Convicts
Dedicated; John A. Park
Chief Speaker at Cere
monies
SPEAKER COMMENDS POU
Raleigh, Aug. 9.—Pou chapel on
the state prison farm, between Ra
leigh and Cary, was dedicated this
afternoon and John A. Park, publish
er of the Raleigh Evening Times,
commended it to the prisoners as an
institution for making good men out
of erring ones rather than an insti
tution to make money for the state of
North Carolina.
Mr. Park’s references to the eco
nomics of prison affairs were purely
incidental. He was not replying to
the charges of mismanagement which
the opposition Raleigh paper has
made against Superintendent Pou.
But he stressed the opportunity af
forded by a prison chapel, a welfare
officer and a human superintendent
to men who, in a great many in
stances, he believes to be better oft
than when they came to prison.
Mr. Park tdok a text but he was
quick to leave it for a story which
proved timely. “God saw everything
he had made,” Mr. Park read from
Genesis, “and it was good.”
“This building was provided for
you by the state of North Carolina,”
he said to the prisoners. “It was
bought with my money and the mo
ney of every taxpayer in the state.
It is a building that we could do with
out. But I do not beli eve the citizen
ship of North Carolina wants you to
do without it.”
He called the prison a man factory
—a training camp. He had seen
worse prisons by far. In Haiti he had
seen homes of one branch of the
dark race which suffered by compar
ison with the cleanliness of North
Carolina prisons. And he thought
that a great many of the prisoners
were really getting along better than
they were before they were sent here
for corrective treatment. He empha
sized the new thought in the treat
ment of prisoners an dtold the men
they were not under lock and key for
punitive reasons.
There were other speakers, includ
ing Rev. D. O. Walker, pastor of the
A. M. E. church for negroes, Raleigh,
and Rev. P. D. DeBerry, who has
been the faithful minister to the pris
oners for years. DeBerry was over
joyed at the building of the chapel.
He has labored in meetings for the
prisoners beneath the burning sun
and on top of the frozen snow. He
rpronounced Mr. Pou a great human
itarian and added his testimonial to
a previous statement that the pris
oners had fjysked that the chapel be
named in honor of the superintend
ent.
They sang—the negroes. Discipline
showed itself in the res^nse of the
prisoners. Th^’ followed DeBerry’s
lead in “I ain’t gonna study war no
more,” and in “There ain’t but one
tryjp on this track.”
Chaplain Shacklette spoke also tc
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DUKE STAGES BIG
FOUR COUNTY SING
Johnston County Choirs Will Be
Represented; Other Counties:
Harnett, Sampson and Cum
berland
AUGUST 15TH. AND 16TH.
By WADE H. LUCAS
Duke, Aug. 7.—Wbat is expected
to be the biggest community sing
ever staged in Harnett, Johnston,
Cumberland or Sampson counties is
the mammoth sing to be staged in
Duke, August 15 and 16th, when at
least twelve and probably more class
es will meet) here to “sing out” the
old-fashioned songs that are so 3weet
to the ear.
Joseph McCore, who needs no in
troduction to singers of either of the
four counties where he has often lead
his class to victory, is doing more than
any one man to put the big affair
over. Mr. Core says he expects at
least tien thousand people here for
the two days, and judging from past
sings held here, he is not likely to
;over estimate the attendance.
Local civic enterprises, headed by
the management of the Erwin Cotton
Mills, Co., are cooperating to make
the two days full of enjoyment) for
all who attend. Nothing in the way
of good amusement is to be left un
done. Baseball games, band concerts,
every attraction in Duks’s famous
park, together with innumerable other
recreation activities are to be provid
ed for the visitors, who will find a
cordial welcome awaiting them in
Duke.
Each class, and eleven have already
signified their intentions of being
here, will sing separately Saturday,
while Sunday will be devoted to quae
tette and other forms of singing. W.
A. Erwin, Sr., head of the Erwin
chain of mills, will make the address
of welcome on Saturday, and W. B,
Malloy, of Fayetteville, will respond
for the visitors. Both gentlemen are
good speakers and it will be worth
anyone’s time to hear them,
i An added attraction to the Four
j County Sing will be the presence here
of Chris Core, 70-year-old singer of
Henderson, who has led singing class
es for 50 years. Mr- Core is a brother
of J. M. Core; for that matter all the
Duke Cores are splendid singers. Mr.
Core will show the throngs how class
es were led back in grandfather’s
days.
Another event that promises to
evoke more than the usual amount
of interest is the sermon to be preach
ed here on Sunday to the thousands
of people by the Rev. G. T. Adams,
pastor of Divine Street Methodist
church of Dunn- A chior of 1000
voices, under the direction of Bob
Thomas, Johnston county’s well
known singing leader, will sing for
the services. This service is expected
to be held Sunday afternoon.
Two classes are coming from Hen
derson and a quartette from West
Hickory. These are the North Hen
derson Baptist choir, led by Hooper
Hight, and the North Henderson
Methodist choir, led by W. M. Holmes
and Chris Core. The Person Street
Baptist choir, of Fayetteville, ■will
take part in the sing.
Classes and the respective leaders
follow; Tees’ Chapel and Johnston
Union, both of Johnston county, led
by the Thomas brothers; Antioch, of
Harnett county, led by Hector Creech;
Clement choir, of Sampson county, led
by Julius Matthews; Corinth choir,
of Sampson county, led by John War
ren; Banner’s Chapel choir, of Johns
ton county, led by Matthew Raynor;
Collier’s Chapel, of Cumberland coun
ty, led by Joseph M. Core; Pelasant
Grove choir, of Harnett county, led
'by Marion Ennis.
Duke and all its people bids you
welcome these two days and any other
time, but the town confidently ex
pects to entertain the largest number
of its friends on these two days than
ever before- All of the exercises will
take place in the Erwin Park.
Figuratively
!® Figures that have attracted men:
Venus de Milo, Ruth St. Dennis, An
nette Keller man.
Figures that have attracted
women: $3.98.