North Carolina Newspapers

Mr. Farmer: It Will Pay You to Sell Your Tobacco in Smithfield This Season SMITHFIELD NEEDS: —Bigger Pay Roll. —A Modern Hotel. —Renovation of Opera House. —More Paved Streets. —Chamber of Commerce. Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper — — Established 1882 "We Like Smithfield-— You Will Too” Forty-fourth Year * * SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1925 Number 90 Miss Frances Green The Bride of Mr. Herndon Alexander of Charlotte; Brillant Wedding. RECEPTION GIVEN The wedding of Miss Frances Green of Smithfield and Mr. Ed ward Herndon Alexander of Dunn took place Wednesday night at 9 o'clock at the Church of the Good Shepherd. The rector, Rev. Henry G. Lane, performed the ceremony and Mr. William H. Jones, organist, play ed the wedding music. The altar was decorated with lilies and Ca thedral candles and the channel was banked with palms and ferns. Tall standards of pink and white flowers surrounding a Cathedral candle marked the pews reserved for the members of the immediate family. The bride was escorted and given in marriage by her father. Her wedding gown was of white satin embroidered in pearls and rhine stones- Her court train of satin and tulle fell from the shoulders. This was heavily beaded with rhinestones and pearls. Her tulle veil was worn cap fashion and caught on the left side with a shower bouquet of orange blos soms which fell over the left shoul der. Her slippers were of white satin with orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley and sweetheart roses. The bride had as her matron of honor, Mrs. McAlister Carson of Charlotte, sister of the bridegroom, and as her maid of honor, Miss Virginia Storr of this city. They wore gowns of french pink geor gette heavily beaded in rhinestones and pearls and wuTh lace godets. Their satin slippers and hose were pink and they wore pearl coro nets. They carried arm bouquets of Butterfly roses and delphiniums. I He DflUcaUiaiua -- Jean Abell and Margaret Lee Aus tin, both of Smithfield; Elizabeth Cooper and Martha Everett of Henderson; Margaret Garrett of Washington and Ruth Alexander of Charlotte. They wore gowns of peach georgette beaded in rhine stones and pearls with godets of lace. They wore satin slippers and hose to match their gowns, and pearl coronets. They carried pas tel arm bouquets. The flower girls were little Misses Anne Cheshire Cox of Raleigh; Martha Alexander, Beverly Hemby and Mary Herndon Thompson, all of Charlotte. They wore ruffled frocks of French pink georgette with satin slippers and hose to match. They wore shirred bandeaux of lace and carried small pastel arm bouquets. The bridegroom was attended by Mr. Robert Alexander of Palm Beach, Florida, as best man. The groomsmen were: Messrs McAlister Carson of Charlotte; N E. Edgerton and Simmons Busbee of Raleigh; Frank Skinner ot Smithfield; Robert Young of Dunn; Wm. Sanders of Smithfield anc Sam Tolar of Rocky Mount. The mother of the bride wore s black gown beaded in jet with sil ver headdress and silver slippers She wore a corsage of valley lil ies and Butterfly roses. The mother of the bridegroom wore black lace over flesh satir with black satin slippers wit! corsage of violets and a violet ornament in her hair. After a bridal tour north, Mr and Mrs. Alexander will be at hoihi in Dunn. For traveling Mrs. Alex ander wore sport costume of tai and red with a red felt hat t< match. The bride is the daughter o! Mr. and Mrs. William Alexande Green, formerly of Raleigh am now of Smithfield. She attendee St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, th Martha Washington Seminary ii Washington and Mrs. Semple’s School in New York. Since the an nouncement of her engagement shi has been a much feted bride elect. The bridegroom is the eldest sol of Mr. and Mrs. R- 0. Alexander of Charlotte and Black Mountain (Turn to page five, please) Paris to New York T.HESE TWO Frenchmen, Carol aire and Toraseon, are all ready for a trial at a non-stop flight from Paris to New York. There will be no lane of ships to pick them up should their plane fail lh(m- They are expected to hop off any day now. I I ; Student Is Victim Of Heart Disease Chapel Hill, Sept. 22—Frank Gamble, Jr., of Lincolnton, a fresh man in the University, died here early today of heart disease from which he had been suffering for many months. He passed away peacefully some time during the early morning hours. His roommate, R- C. Goode, also of Lincolnton, discovered the death when he tried to arouse Gam ble for classes. Dr. K. A. Aber nethy, University physician, who was summoned, said the young man had been dead several hours. The family arrived this afternoon to care for the body, which will be accompanied to Lincolnton by a special escort of University stu dents. The seriousness of the young man’s condition was brought to the attention of University officials when he registered last week. He was given the physical examination required of all freshmen, and Dr. R. B. Lawson, director of the gym nasium, found him suffering from a serious case of heart disease. Dr. Lawson advised his family im mediately suggesting his withdraw al from the University. The stu dent and his family felt however, that he would be just as well off here as at home. BUILDING ANI) LOAN AS INVESTMENT NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD Greensboro, Sept. 20.—The build ing and loan association s in North Carolina show a gain last year of $14,000,000.00 in assets. They loan ed $25,000,000.00 to build 8000 homes to house 40,000 of our citi zens. In the past five years these asso ciations show a gain in assets from $2,000,000.00 to $70,000,000. This is a splendid record, and one in which we should feel much pride. However, when we compare North Carolina with other states in this particular, we find she falls far short of the position she should occupy. We find there are fifteen other states with a greater is vest ment in building and loan stock, 1 Twelve of these show a greater gain in assets in 1924, and three 1 states each show a gain greater ' than the total investment in build ing and loan in North Carolina We find also that' twenty state? have a larger investment per cap I ita than does North Carolina, am * I the per capita investment of ter ’ of these is more than double tha1 1 of North Carolina. Of the more than two and a hall ■ million population in this state onh ' 81,474 of this number were pat rons of these great agencies ol thrift and home building. Of this 1 number probably 80 per cent ar< i either borrowers or anticipate bor ■ rowing in the future for the pur pose of paying for homes. It is evident therefore that thi HUE IN MOTION P1CTURETHEATRE Clarence Brady, Operator, Painfully Burned; Ma chines and 7000 Feet Film Lost. Heroic work on the part of the ! focal fire department Tuesday 'night prevented what might have | been a disastrous fire in the bus ! iness section of the city when the Victory Theatre on the corner of | Third and Johnson Streets caught frre. The fire originated in the operator’s room and trtie operator, j Clarence Brady, was painfully j burned on the arm and face. He was taken to a physician’s office where his burns were given medi cal attention at once. He is now confined to his bed at his home here, and is resting as comfortably as can be expected. When the alarm was given about eight-thirty o’clock, about a hun dred people were in the theatre to see the picture: “Are Parents People?” No time was lost in emptying the building though there was no panic. The damage was confined to the operator’s room, the two machines and 7C00 feet of film being ruin ed. The damage will probably total S5000, which is partly covered by insurance. The theatre had just been renovated, the interior and front having been treated to a coat of fresh paint. Little damage was clone, however, to any part of the theatre except the operator’s room. For the past several months the theatre has been under new management, Mr. H. P. Howell i of Severn, who owns a chain of shows, having bought out Mr- and ; Mrs. John Medlin. Several widely I advertised pictures including “The | Ten Commandments” had been j scheduled at tire Victory. It will probably be ten days, according to information from the manager be fore the shows can be resumed. A 150Y AND HIS MOTHER My mother she’s so good to me, Ef I wuz as good as I could be, I couldn’t be as good—no, sir! Can't any boy be as good to her! She loves me when I'm glad er sad; She loves me when I’m good er bad; An’ what’s funniest thing, she says She loves me when she punishes I don’t like her to punish me— That don’t hurt—but it hurts to see Her cryin’—nen I cry; an’ nen We both cry an’ be good again. She loves me when she cuts an’ sews My little cloak an’ Sunday clothes; And when my Pa comes home to tea, She loves him most as much as me. She laughs an’ tells him all I said, An’ grabs me up an’ pats my head; An’ I hug her, an’ hug my Pa, An’ love him purt’-night as much as Ma. —James Whitcomb Riley. building and loan associations in North Carolina so far have failed to properly inform the public at large of the splendid advantages of building and loan stock as a medium for the investment of the savings 6f the people. No group of financial institu tions in the state can boast of a cleaner record of stability than can our building and loan associations, and the average yield on money in vested in these associations Iasi year was .05928, or nearly 6 per cent. Yret millions of dollars went out of the state in various forms of securities, paying not any bet ter return, and no doubt many ol them of doubtful value. It is. safe to assume that 90 pel cent of our people do not under stand the functions of these in st'itutions, and this can be over come only by concentrated effovl and judicious advertising on th< part of the building and loan as sociations. Theatrical baggagemen in New York won their strike for $9 pei day for chauffers and $8 for help ers. Much Interest In Rose Liquor Case _ _' . W. M. Rose Indicted On Three Counts Charged With Volation Prohibi tion Laws. GUILTY TWO COUNTS Perhaps no case which has been heard and settled in the Record er’s Court of Johnston since it be gan to do business here a dozen years ago has been persistently prosecuted and more stubbornly I resisted than that of state vs. W. M. Rose, which was germinated I here at candlelight on Tuesday, ! September 21. The trial in a sense was more than a judicial hearing—it was a battle between the wets and dfys of the southern part of Boon ffill, and it had precipitation enough to draw upon like factions from oth er parts of the county. The defendant in this case gas long been suspected by the prohi bition enforcement officers as„ a dealer in beverages and during the month of August and again on Sep tember 4 his house was searched and both times a quantity of whis key or brandy has been captured. Arrests followed the two raids upon his home, and the twro war rants under which the defendant was brought into court contained three counts against: him—manu facturing, possessing and trans porting. The trial of this case started at the beginning of the the afternoon recess of court on Tuesday, Stp .amber 15. and at the close of Ihe day the state rested. When court opened here again on Tuesday, the 22, the defense began to put on I evidence, and the rest of the dty war, devoted to the examination and cross-examination of witness es and to contentions over points of law and rules of evidence. The heavy guns of the defend ant’s counsellors were reserved for the Rev. John K. Hartley, who is r.ow a deputy sheriff, and one of the officers who assisted in raid ing the Rose home. To all their im I peaching questions and inuendos j about his preaching and his work [ as a deputy sheriff, he gave only t the calmest and coolest answers, keeping himself in perfect control to the end. Mr. Rose took the stand in ms own defense. He stated that he was 68 years old, a member of the Baptist church and a member of both the Masonic and Woodma/n fraternities, that he had been a justice of the peace for nine years, and postmaster at Princeton for several years, and that in none of these connections was there a blem ish against him. He further stat ed that the whiskey he had at the time of the raid was some he had had for three years. As to the whiskey contained in the ten-gal lon keg, he knew nothing. His wife later went on the stand and stated that it was left there the day be fore the raid by Tom Massengill of Ingrams township with the statement that it was for Roger Raynor, a negro, and that he would call for it on the day following. She was corroborated in this by John Pollard, a young man in Rose’s employment. As oscular evidence of much whiskey being handled by the de fendant, several fruit jars and other vessels were exhibited, most of which contained a spirited bev erage which had been sweetened and had peaches or plums sunk in it. Mr. Rose stated that this was whiskey which he had prepared for his own use and that he was un der the impression that there was no violation of the law in his hav ing some for his personal use. It was generally admitted by the by standers that the exhibit offered a very appetizing relic of the ole days before 1908. A bad gap was made in the line of the defendant’s evidence wlier it was abundantly proved to the court that Tiom Massengill not onlj did not own a car but could not drive one. It was also proven that Tom was at home at the time of his alleged leaving of the keg a Mills Rose’s home. Every inch of the ground upor (Turn to page four, please) Fleeing “Stillers” Leave Their Hats Federal revenue officers captur !sd a fifty gallon t... ..cRy whiskey skill in Boon Hill township Wed j nesday. Three boys who were at j the still when the officers ap | prached fled from the still before | they could be arrested. Their hats, dinner buckets and other articles ■ were taken. The still had just been fired up when the officers arrived on the scene. Hospital Drive Delayed Until After October 15 The hospital drive which was announced to begin this week has been delayed until after October 15. At that time workers in this movement will put on ar. intensive campaign to raise the necessary funds to complete the new hos pital now in course of erection. Enrol*ment Expected To Reach 2500 Mark The State University opened last week with the largest enrollment in the history of the institution ifor the corresponding time of year. Registrar T. J. Wilson, Jr., an nounced Saturday that the enroll ! ment had passed the 2,200 and oth ! ers wore still arriving. It is expect ed that before the end of the year the total for the nine months will reach 2,500. Including the exten , sion and correspondence courses and the summer school enrollment, ithe University is now giving in s+ructiSn to more than 0,500 stu dents. Eight hundred or more new’ men have registered this year. The enrollment this fall is tak en to reflect steady progress in the growth of the university. Ten years ago the enrollment was bare ly 1,000. THE HOME TOWN PAPER When the evenin’ meal is over an’ the dishes put away, An' you settle down to store your mind with happdnin's of the day, Comes a peaceful feelin’ o’er you, brushin’ from your face a frown, As you scan the weekly paper from your ol’ home town. It tells you all about who’s sick and those who come and go, Likewise the cornin’ vendue at the farm of Jabez Stowe. The burnin’ of the Cider mill be longin’ to “Hub” Brown, Gets a write-up in the paper from your oT home town. There ain’t an entertainment or a meetin’ where they pray, But what I know about it though I’m livin’ far away. If the chicken-pox is ragin’ or the mumps is goin roun’ I peruse it in the paper from my ol’ home town. I read the mornin’ papers and the evenin’ papers, too, An’ I sometimes pick a novel up a'n’ sort of skip it through; But when I want some pabulum, which nowhere else is foun’ I unwrap the little paper from my ol’ home town. Tlhey say our good an’ bad deeds are recorded up on high, i So that God can classify us when it comes our time to die, If that be true, I know a man who’s going to wear a crown— He’s the gent who runs the pap er in my oT home town. —John Kelly. Meadow Club Postponed. The Meadow Community Clul postponed its regular meeting t( Thursday night, October 1. It wil meet at 7:30 o’clock. Besides th< regular work of the club the super intendent of Meadow high schoo will be introduced and Miss Susai Landon, of Raleigh, will speak. Ev I erybody is invited to attend. W. V. BLACKMAN, Chairman Meadow Club POUPARRISH POST ELECTS fM Rev. J. S. Irvine Waa Elected Chaplain at Meeting Tuesday Night. Several Speeches. The Pou-Parish Post of the | American Legion is now well or ! ganized and is making rapid strides toward the distinction of the livest post in the county. Such were the aspects of the organization at its meeting held here in the court house on Tuesday night. Messrs. J. W. Barnes and Siah Barnes, of Archer Lodge, and Mr. A. R. Duncan, of Cljayton, and •Judge F. H. Brooks, of Smithfield, were very welcome guests of the post. The only business affecting the post in a local way was the election of Rev. J. S. Irvine as chaplain of the post. Mr. A. K. Duncan, responding to a call for a speceh, stated among other things that Clayton formed a custom in 1919 of giving the service men of his township a bar becue dinner on each Armistice Day anniversary, the first one be ing attended by only eighteen of the boys while the one of the last year was attended by 120 of the former service men. He wants to see the custom assume county-wide proportions, which struck a re sponsive chord. Mr. Barnes was then asked to say something. He was introduced to the post as being the father of more soldiers than any other man in the county, he having sent four of his sons to the front during the emergency. Judge Brooks greeted Mr. Barnes’ introduction by say ing that he was “father of four .soldiers and daddy to every one who wore the khaki” In a brief speech, Mr. Barnes declared he was for the American Legion from head to liked'the county wide Armistice Day dinner and gave his word that he would do all that he could to give the boys a rousing welcome this year judge Brooks was asked to say something and he made a very highly appreciated talk. He thought that the people still very kindly remembers the days of ’17, and he does not want to wait till old age and descrepitude overtakes them to do them honor. He plead for a county-wide Armistice Day dinner and offered as his plan that the dinner be given this year in Clayton since it had its beginning there back in 1919 when many of the boys were still in the muddy fields of France. Just at this instance of the meeting the fire siren sounded and the meeting took a recess until the fire was extinguished. Upon returning Judge Brooks was elect ed county chairman of the move ment for a county wide Armistice Day dinner which will be held in Clayton on November 11. It should be understood that this dinner is the people’s gift to the ex-service men and all men who participated in the World War whether they are members of the American Leg ion or not, are the invited guests of the people. Take Long Breaths An old man, a man who has reached the 87th milestone, who works from early morning until 12 o'clock at night has done so for a long number of years, writes a'n interesting article to the press telling how he has kept his health. Long, deep breaths are the secret of his keeping well- It all came about in 1880 or thereabouts when he applied for insurance and could not get it because, being frail of body, he was considered too great a risk. But he says, he couldn’t afford to die because he had tc keep up two families. His lungs were weak, this being probably his worst physical defect, so ht began to sleep in the open anc has done so ever since. He helpec the improvement' of his lungs bj taking as often as possible long deep breaths. He says these Ions . breaths also help him to contro 1 his temper. When angry or exqitec he advises a person to stop ant l take a number of long, deei i breaths. While taking this exer ■ cise the excited feeling and angr; mood will pass He is weak in the legs, accord . ing to his statement, because ii Missionary Society Elects Its Officers “Condition and Result ^of An swered Prayer,” was the topic of a paper read Monday afttemoon at the meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Baptist church by Mrs. J. M. Beaty. The subject was the regular theme scheduled for September and was followed by an interesting round table discussion. This was the annual business meeting of the Society and the fol lowing officers were elected: Mrs. J. M. Beaty, honorary president; Mrs. Lawrence Brown, president. Mrs. Chester Stephenson, vice president; Mrs. R. S. Fleming, sec retary; Mrs. W. N. Holt, treasur er; leader .Judson Circle, Mrs. H. G. Gray; leader Lottie Moone Circle, Mrs. Paul V. Brown; leader Yates Circle, Mrs. N. L Perkins; superintendent Sunbeams anl Girls Auxiliary, Mrs. H. H. Johnson; Young Woman’s Auxiliary, Mrs. Paul V. Brown; Junior Royal Am bassadors, Mrs. N. L. Perkins. Promotion Day At Methodist Church Annual Promotion Day will be observed at Centenary Methodist Sunday school next Sunday morn ing at the regular Sunday school hour. Appropriate exercises will be given by the various depart ments of the Sunday school. All parents and friends are cordially invited to be present. The children of the Junior De partment are requested to be at the church Saturday afternoon at four o’clock for a drill in prepara tion of the exercises on Sunday. The Danish School “Education is almost a passion with the Danes. Enlightened farm men and women, not miachines, have perfected this nfhrvelous or ganization and efficiency in Dan ish agriculture. No ignorant peo ple con Intake the bleak, sandy plains of Denmark and make fer tile garden farms supporting a splendid, progressive prosperous race. The Danes possess a correct outlook on life. They have learn ed that agricultural life is com plete in itself, and rural folk in Denmark look upon farming as a scientific profession “The schools have pointed the way. The Danish boy is compelled to attend school until he has reach ed the age of fifteen, between fif teen and eighteen he works on the farm serving a systematic appren ticeship. At eighteen he may enter one of the famous Peoples’ High Schools. These high schools are privately owned and partly endow ed by the government. They give a 5 months* course in the winter for boys and a 3 months’ course in the summer for girls. The courses are cultural and design ed to acquaint the young people with a knowledge of the history of their native land and to build in them a love of Danish institu tions and Danish literature. “In Denmrak the rural school master is truly a leader of the community- Many of the outstand ing figures in the cooperative move ment were of this profession. Ap proximately 90 per cent of the stu dent.', who attend these high schools go back to the land. ’—C. L. Christensen, Bureau of Agri cultural Economics, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. his occupation he has to use them a lot and he has slowed up a bit at 87, but he is still going strong and attributes it mostly to taking care of his lungs and his system by the long, deep breaths which he started back in the eighties. While long, deep breaths are not a panacea for all ills, one can’t help but agree with this 87-year old man in his belief in and en thusiasm for keeping the system toned up with plenty of fresh air Most people don’t exercise theii lungs enough, don’t use all the aii space that the lungs provide Sometimes, since air is free, oni is led to believe that the reason foi it lies in laziness.—Ashebort Courier. Henry Ford has taken a sad den interest in dancing. Well i would make him more of a bene factor to the human race than ev er if he would do something b . standardise the steps.—New Yorl i Sun. H t. HEADS LIST js inn Has More Farmer-Owned Autofrtobles Than Any Other State In the South Atlantic Seaboard States VIRGINIA IS SECOND,, Chicago, Sept. M.—Automobile* owned on farms in the South At lantic states number 367,536, ac cording to automotive statistic* is sued here by the American I?# seareh Foundation. North Carolina ranks first among the states in this section in the number of farmer-owned auto mobiles, the figures show, with 89,293 cars. Virginia is second with 73,677. Then come Georgia with 69,159, South Carolina with 62,179, Maryland with 51,413, and Florida with 31 $05. Total automobiles owned on nil farms in the United Sttates num ber 3,821,085 of which 3,454,159 are passenger cars and 367,926 are motor trucks. In the proportion of automobiles to farm population, it is shown, the average is one farm car to every 8.1 farm people in America. Farmers according to statistics, are the greatest buyers of automo bile equipment. They purchased 9.260.000 tires and 10,000,000 tubes last year. Mail order hous es supplied a big percent of these. Montgomery WJard & Company, largest retail tire dealers in the world, sell close to 3,000,000 tires a year. Other items of automo bile equipment bought by farmers last year were: 1,250,000 storage batteries; 8,000,000 spark plugs; 7.500.000 feet of brake lining; 45, j 700,000 gallons of oil,, and 18,000, '000 piston rings. Use of automobiles on the firm !is increasing rapidly. It is esti ! mated that farmers will buy 1.119, 500 automobiles in 1925 at a cost of $864,760,245. Celebrates 80th Birthday Do you find many people that live to get 80 years old? Mrs. C. E. Parker, of near Smithfield, cel ebrated her 80th birthday or Fri day, September the 4th. Probably some of you will wonder if she is able to get around. Why, yes, and can get around most anywhere she wants to. Getting near her hun dred years of life doesn’t keep her from being spry and jolly. Mrs. Parker’s home is about five miles from Smithfield. It is a | great pleasure for her and the ! children to meet at the old home i stead once a year and enjoy a day j together. Ihere are a number of things to look forward to besides meeting relatives and friends who do not meet often. There is the dinner which has to be kept in mind, es pecially for a few hours after wards. Just about one o’clock the feast was spread oil the table that had been built out in the yard for that occasion. One does not see so many good things to eat very often but all who will be present at the next family reunion will see the table out in the yard heavily load ed with everything good to eat. All the living children were pres ent. They are as follows: Mrs. Parker Barbour, Wilson's Mills; Mrs. W. M. Johnson, Coats; Mrs. J. L. Langdon, Benson; Mrs. J- L. Dupree, Mrs. J. O. Stephenson and Mrs. Rufus Johnson, Smithfield, and Mr. J. W. Parker, Wendell Besides the seven living children Mrs. Parker has forty-one grand children and thirty-three great grandchildren living. In addition to these there were other relatives and a number of friends present. Everybody enjoyed the day and when the hour came to depart, all wished for a speedy return of another September the fourth. ONE PRESENT. Presbyterian Services. Smithfield Sunday morning It o’clock. Preaching by the pastor. 1 Subject: “Spiritual Growth.” Preachipg at Oakland Sunday night at 7:45. Oakland congrega tion will please note change of • service from morning to night. t —Even in Hell one finds panionship. #om