Forty-fourth Year
Morning. September 29.1925
Number 91
SMITHFIELD NEEDS:
—Bigger Pay Roll.
—A Modern Hotel.
—Renovation of Opera House.
—More Paved Streets.
—Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Farmer: It Will Pay You to Sell Your Tobacco in Smithfield This Season
"We Like
Smithfield
You Will Too”
Stage All Set For Trial of
IP. B. Cole At Rockingh
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Judge On Hand and News
Gathering Force* Make
Pfans For Disseminat
ing a Report of Trial.
OF STATE INTEREST
The Cole trial in Rockingham
this week will be of state wide in
terest because of the prominetice
of the persons involved and because i
of the circumstances concerning
the crime. Mr. Isaac M. London,
of Rockingham, has sent out the
following news story which was
published in leading stats dailies
yesterday:
Rockingham, Sept. 27.—The in-1
stallation of a special Associated
Press wire in the courtroom today,
and the arrival of a group of staff
men from various dailies, has
brought into an even keener real
ization the all-state interest in the
Cole-Ormond murder case that will
be called for trial tomorrow.
Judge T. B. Finley arrived at
the Rockingham hotel at seven o’
clock by bus from Worth Wilkes
boro and with Solicitor F. Don
Phillips will be ready to formally
convene court at 10 o’clock. Sher-1
iff Baldwin will keep the doors
locked until 9:30 before turning
in the crueh that will undoubtedly
pack the building to its capacity
and will overflow from lack of
standing room.
Address Grand Jury First
The decision as to a special ve
nire from this or some other coun
ty will not be made until tomor
row afternoon. Upon the convening
of court at 10 o’clock Judge Fin
ley will address the six mrtnths
grand jury for a few moments and
then that body will 1-etire with the
usual batch of bills from the So
licitor. Very probably the grand
jury will take up the Cole murder
first. Upon the reporting of a
true bill the prisoner, W. B. Cole,
will be arraigned. After this will
come the question of a special ve
nire.
Will It Be Richmond Jury?
It seems to be a foregone con
clusion that the defense will be
content with a jury from Richmond
county but rumor persists that the
State wiwll certainly ask for a jury
from some other county.
Inasmuch as the chief counsel
for the defense, James H. Pou, will
not reach here from Raleigh until
the arrival of the shoofly at 12:30
o’clock it is highly probable that
final argument upon this venire
matter’will be deferred until after
the arival of that train or perhaps
after court convenes at 2:30 o’clock
and it will require until afternoon
any way for affidavits both for and
against ha be filed. In any event
it is scarcely likely that a venire
will be ordered to report here ear
lier than Wednesday morning and
the consensus of opinion is that it
will be well into Thursday before
a Jury is finally7 selected and em
panelled. Forecasters do not see
a verdict before the last of the fol
lowing weefe probably as late as
October ldth.
Hotels Filling Up.
The hotels here are already filling
up rapidly7 with pressmen, lawyers,
friends and even onlookers mov
ed only by curiosity. The lobbies
were spotted with groups tonight
with the approaching trial the cen
ter of interest. In fact this case has
been tried many times over In al
most every home in this commun- j
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Husband and Wife
't07'
. \00 MEN^
Whenever I feel sick, all thn
sympathy I get from my husbaiu
is: "Aw, you just imagine it.”—
Mrs. A. N.
WHAT DOKS TOUR HUSBAND DO;
TOBACCO MARKET
STEADILY GAINING
Those who attended the sales
at the tobacco warehouses here
yesterday were impressed with
the marked improvement in the
price of tobacco. It sold sev
eral cents a pound higher than
it did last week, and all the
farmers appeared well pleased
with their sales. The market
seems to be steadily gaining,
the prices last week being con
siderably higher than the week
before.
CLOTHING SCHOOL
TO OPBMpnw
State Clothing Specialist,
Miss Helen EstabVook,
Will Conduct School
at Woman’s Club.
The clothing school which has
been arranged for Johnston coun
ty through the efforts of the coun
ty home agent, Miss Minnie I.ee
Garison, and the county council,
will open here next Monday morn
ing and will continue through two
days. The school will include rep
resentatives from each of the nine
teen organized communities of the
county. Miss Helen Westbrook, the
state clothing specialist, will con
duct the school- She will be as
sisted by officers of the County
Council, Mrs. T. W. Ives and Miss
Sarah Wellons, chairman home
economics Smithfield Woman's
Club. Mrs. Kirby Rose and by the
county home agent, Miss Minnie
Lee Garrison.
The Woman’s Club has tendered
the use of the club room for this
school, and the Singer Sewing Ma
chine company will furnish sew- j
ing machines for the use of the j
pupils. The hours will be from I
nine in the morning until four in |
the afternoon.
Those who have enrolled for the
school up to date are as follows^:
Archer Lodge, Mrs. Jesse Wil
liams, Mrs. S. T. Liles; Oak Grove,
Mrs. J. n. Marshburn; Polenta,
Miss Mina Johnson, Mrs. R- A.
Yelvingtan; Selma, Mrs. O. V.
Booker, Mrs. T. M. Benoy; Car
ter’s, Mrs. J. W. Boyette, Mrs. G.
G. Edgerton; Pisgah, Mrs. A. J.
Whitley, Mrs. Jesse Whitley; Cor
bett-IIateher, Mrs. W. H. Brown,
Mrs. Bailey; Massey, Mrs. R. L.
Barden, Mrs. W. H. Creech; Pop
lar Grove, Mrs. Hobart Lee, Miss
Hattie Tart; Micro, Mrs. Myrtle
Snipes Wall; Pomona, Mrs. Char
lie Hill, Miss, Nellie Hill.
Donnel Wharton Is
Member Golden Quill
Davidson, Sept. 28—Seven stu
dents of Davidson College have
been honored with election to the
Order of the Golden Quill. This is
an honor limited to a few of the
students and is given in recogni
tion of proficient work on The
Davidson, the college weekly pub
lication. The members of the order
are Selected by the quality as well
as quantity of their work.
The honor is conferred by the
Reporters’ Club which is limited
to five per cent of the student
body. It is the highest honor giv
en by the club.
The newly elected men include
G. M. Eddington, of Franklin,
'Rinnessee, president of the club;
A. H. Hollingsworth, of Atlanta;
R. B. Parker of Parmville; W. H.
Branch of Atlanta; W. T. Coving
ton of Raeford; ;L. D. Wharton of
! Smithfield; and P. F. Jones of St.
Petersburg Florida.
Present members of the order
who were taken in at a former date
W. E. Milton, of Thomasville. Ga.,
lure C. F. Smith of Trenton, Tenn;
C. F. Monk of Moultrie, Ga., and
A. Y. Bowie, Jr-, of Talladega,
' Ala.
This summer, like all other sum
mers, is the most remarkable sum
mer we ever experienced.—Kansas
City Star.
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Forty-nine Marriage Li
censes Were Issued In
September Compared
With 23 In June.
FEW DAYS RECORD
June is called the month of
brides, but in Johnston county
September is by far the more pop
ular month for wedings according
to statistics obtained from the reg
ister of deeds. Forty-nine marriage
licenses have been issued in Sep
tember by Register of Deeds Stan
cii, up to the time we go to press.
Only twenty-three was the record
for the entire month of Juno.
June may be all right in some
sections, but apparently the Season
when the frost is on the pumpkin
and the “tater” vines arc sere
suite better in old Johnston. No
doubt the jingling of more pocket
change has something to do with
it. Below is the record for the
past few days:
O'Brien-Rutherford
Cupid is no respecter of hours,
so two o’clock on Sunday morning
was just as good a wedding hour
as any for Miss Patricia Ruther
for and Mr. John O'Brien, both
of Louisville, Ky., who aroused
Mr. D. T. Lunceford, justice of the
peace, from his slumbers Sunday
morning to make them man and
wife. The ceremony was witnessed
by R. E. Holt and Dr. Thel Hooks.
Mr. O’Brien holds a position with
the highway commission and is lo
cated here for the present. He sent'
for his bride to meet him here,
and the marriage took place im
mediately upon her arrival.
Jackson-Boyett
On Saturday, September 26,
.Miss Mattie Boyett, aged .18, and
Mr. Paul Jackson, aged 2l, both
of Bentonville township, were
quietly married at the Methodist
parsonage. Rev. A. J. Parker per
formed the ceremony.
J ohnson-Benson
On Saturday, September 19, a
quiet mariage took place at the
Methodist parsonage when Miss
Ethel A. Benson, of Benson, be
came the bride of Mr. Almond
Johnson, of Four Oaks. Rev. A.
J. Parker, pastor of the Methodist
church, performed the ceremony.
Austin-Whitted
A quiet but impressive ceremony
was solemnized at the Methodist
parsonage here Saturday at 12:30
o’clock when Miss Bessie Whitted,
of La Grange, became the bride
of Mr. Clifford Austin, of Clayton.
Immediately after the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Austin boarded the
north bound train for a wedding
trip to Washington, D. C., and
other points north.
Felton-Tynor
On Thursday, September 17, a
quiet marriage took place at the
Methodist parsbftage, the contract
ing parties being Miss Rachel Ty
ner and Mr. Charles Felton, both
of Wilson. Rev. A. J. Parker per
formed the ceremony.
Taylor-Ellis
Yesterday morning Justice-of the
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Raleigh Ku Klux Klan
Parade Disappoints
Advanced statements had led the
people of the Capital City to ex
pect a tremendous crowd of klans
men in the parade which was soli—
duled there Friday night. As a
matter of fact, the parade was
disappointing in point of numbers,
only a fraction of the thousands
predicted by klan officials being on
hand. The state-wide parade Fri
day night is said by some to have
mustered less than 600 marchers,
by others to be exact only 263.
The crowds that watched the hood
ed figures along Fayetteville
street included various types, some
sympathetic with the Klan, some
critical and some attracted solely
by idle curiosity. The parade was
supposed to reveal the strength of
the secret organization in North
Carolina.
AUTO nOERT
AT R. R. GROSSING
Car Hits Moving Freight
Train and Occupants
Ate Cut By Shattered
Glfiss.
NEAR FOUR OAKS
An automobile accident that
came near being a tragedy occur
red late Thursday afternoon at
third railroad crossing between
here and Four Oaks. Mr. and Mrs.
Willard A. Mafsengill and two
daughters, Bessie and Mary, and
Mrs. J. E. Lassiter and son, Earl,
all of Four Oaks, had spent the
day in Goldsboro, and were re
turning home. They reached this
crossing about seven o’clock. As
they approached the crossing Mr.
Massengill, who was driving the
car, a Maxwell sedan, stopped but
did not see or hear a train. As
he got on the track he saw the
light of an engine close at hand.
The freight train which was an ex
tra, No. 16629, going south, was
unable to stop. The engine did not
strike the automobile which was
just off the track, but it is thought
that in his excitement the driver
put on the reverse gears and buck -
ed in to the train. The automobile
was varied some distance, the
torn off, and practically all thh
glass about the car broken. Mjrs.
Lassiter who suffered a severe cut
on the arm, was the most severe
ly injured. Others received minor
cuts and bruises. The injured were
hurried to Four Oaks at once and
medical aid was rendered. Later
the automobile was found in suffic
ient condition to he driven on to
town.
A number of Smithfield citizens
of the laymen’s federation who
had start’d to Antioch rejirch,
arrived upon the -eene just^ft—r
the accident occurred- The freight
stopped at the crossing, delaying
the traffic for thirty or forty min
utes.
Promotion Day At
M. E. Sunday School
Promotion Lj'ay exercises took
place at the Methodist Sunday
school Sunday morning, with ev
ery department taking part. The
program began with the little tot;
on the Cradle Roll. Six of these
three year olds graduated, going
into the Beginners department.
Room was made in the Beginners
department by a class of seven
teen going to the Primary room.
Fifteen primary boys and girls
received diplomas and were pro
moted to the Junior ranks, while
fourteen juniors entered the In
termediate department. As many
intermediates became Seniors.
There was no graduating class in
the senior department, because on
account of lack of room, it has
not been possible to do the last
year senior work in the depart
ment. However, new arrangements
have been made and next year
there will be a graduating class
from the senior department. A un
ique change in the requirements
that entitle a pupil to a diploma,
is that a pupil must make an av
erage of TO per cent just as ho
does in the day school.
As the various promotions took
place, songs and words of wel
come were extended to those go
ing up.
Interesting records made by th~
Juniors included perfect attend
ance records for Sam Honeycutt,
Jr., Virginia Sanders, Erie Cotter
and Charles Richard Royali.
Charles Richard Royali has the
added distinction of not having
been tardy. Those pupils who miss
ed only one Sunday in the year
were Clifton Ragsdale, Mary Eliz
abeth Wellons, Dorothy Hooks,
Elizabeth Coates and Julia Ziady.
Thirty out of 45 completed work
books.
CIVIL COURT OPENED
HERE YESTERDAY
The September term of Super
ior court convened here yesterday
with Judge W. A. Devin, of Ox
ford, presiding. Court opened on
schedule time at ten o’clock and
will continue for two weeks. This
is the regular civil term and a full
docket of civil cases is to be dis
posed of.
Kenly Family Makes Remarkable Record
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I'tlE FAMILY of I,. X. Woodard of Kenl.v mat s nr. usual records in attendance both at day school and
Sunday School. • Names of persons in picture. I.eft to right: Sarah May Woodard, Dorothy I.ee Wood
aid, John Itevcll Woodard, Jessie F.oaise Woodard. Mary Elizabeth Woodard.
None In Family Ever Been
Tardy at School; A
Remarkable Sunday
School Record.
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Kcnly. Sept. 26.—That Mr. and
Mr:-;. L. Z. Woodard of this city
believe that punctuality and reg
ular attendance in school count for
much is evidenced by the records
that their children have made since
■ entering'. Not one of the entire
group above has ever been tardy
Dorothy Louise and Sarah May,
who will enter the third and fifth
grades respectively next pear, have
a perfect attendance record also.
Elizabeth will enter the eleventh
grade, and with the exception of
sight days missed on account of
illness, has a perfect record. John,
who graduated from Kcnly High
Schoool this spring, has a perfect
record excepting seven days miss
ed on account of measles when in
the fourth grade. Jessie Louise,
aged four, has not yet begun her
school career; buJ judging from
her perfect attendance at Sunday
school, she will probably follow
in the footsteps of her brothers
and sisters.
Mr. L. Z. Woodard, who is sup
erintendent of the Sunday school
of the Holden Memorial Methodist
church, is a live wire and is on
the job promoting the efficiency of
the Sunday school. He has missed
only one Sunday in eleven years.
Below is a record of the entire
family, showing the number of
times they have been on the hon
or roll for perfect attendance;
L. Z. Woodard, seven years.
Mrs. I,. Z. Woodard, two years.
Jessie Louise Woodard, aged
four, two and one-half years.
Dorothy Lee Woodard, aged sev
en, three years.
Sarah May Woodard, aged nine
and a half, three years. (Dorothy
and Sarah May have missed only
one Sunday each since they started
at the age of three.)
Mary Elizabeth Woodard, one
year. (Missed only one Sunday in
eleven years )
John Re veil Woodard, two
years. (Missed only one time in
eleven years.)
Mrs. W ilson To Teach Expression
Mrs. Alfred R. Wilson, of Selma,
will teach expression or public
speaking in the graded school here
this year. Mrs. Wilson formerly in
structed such a class in this school
and the character of her work is
already known. She studied at
Chapel Hill this summer and won
the Carolina Playmaker’s emblem
for outstanding acting in the pro
duction, “The Poor Little Rich
Girl,” put on at the close of the
summer school.
Mrs. Wilson will be in this school
all day on Mondays and Thurs
days and Wednesday mornings,
other days of the week she con
ducts a similar class in the Clay
ton school.
Sunday School (Convention
To tie Largely Attended
Many Sunday School
Workers Expected To
Attend Meeting at Four
Oaks Saturday ana
Sunday.
SPLENDID PROGRAM
Beginning at 7:110 o’clock Sat
urday night, October '1, arid con
tinuing through Sunday, the John
ston County Sunday School Con
vention will he held at the Baptist
church, Four Oaks.
Participating in the singing con
vention program will be Prof. D.
W. Donaldson. Washington Colleg
iate Institute. Washington, N. C.,
and Miss Flora Davis, Associate
Superintendent' North Carolina
Sunday School Association, Ral
eigh. Among the local county wor- (
kers taking part on the program ;
will be the following: Revs. W. J. i
Watson, O. A. Keller, J. A. Ivey,
and Mr. S. M. Brown.
One feature of the convention
will be the presentation of a beau
tiful pennant to the Sunday school
having in the convention the larg
est number of representatives 1(5
years of age ;md over, according
to the number of miles traveled
The contest is open to all Sunday
schools in the county. The pen
naqt will be (presented at the
close of the session on Sunday
afternoon.
An unusually large attendance
of workers from 'he entire county
is expected to attend. All ses
sions of the convention are open
to the public, and all who are in
terested in the advancement of
the Sunday school, whether they
are active workers or not, are in
vited to aCend.
The full convention program is
as follows:
SATURDAY NSGHT, OCT 3.
7:30—Song.
Scripture reading and Pray
er. Rev. W. J. Watson, pas
tor Methodist church, Four
Oaks.
Song.
7:45—How to Get and Train
Teachers and Officers. Prof.
D. W. Donaldson, Washing
ton Collegiate Institute, Wash
ington.
8:15—Song.
8:20—The Wide-Awake Sunday
School. Miss Flora Davis,
Raleigh, Associate Superinten
dent. North Carolina Sunday
School Association.
8:50—Record of attendance.
Announcements.
0:00—Adjourn.
SUNDAY MORNING
10:30—Song.
Scripture Reading and Pray
er. Rev. O. A Keller, pastor
Baptist church, Benson.
Song.
10:4.7—The Young People—How
to Hold Them in the Sunday
School. Prof. D. W. Donald
son.
11:15—Business Period:
Reports of Officers.
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TO 01 Lt'lME
IT COURT HOUSE
Evangelist W. F. LaRowe,
Former Convict, Will
Speak Friday Evening
On Prison Life.
“Behind Prison Baris” will be
the unique subject of a lecture to
be given at the court house Friday
evening at o’clock by W. F.
LaRowe, world traveler and lec
turer.
Mr. l.nRowo was at one time
incarcerated in the Illinois peni
tentiary. the second largest prison
in the l' ailed States, and he will
speak from personal experience
when he lectures on prison life.
Pathos, humor, drama and tragedy
will be interwoven in this human
story of life as it is lived’ within
prison walls.
Mr. LaRowe has traveled all
over the United States and Mexi
co and wherever he has spoken he
has been highly praised and rec
ommended for the work he is try
ing to do in bringing before the
eyes of the public the tragedy of
the lives of lost citizens.
No admittance charge for the
lecture will be made and the pub
lic is cordially invited to attend.
WILSON FREIGHT
DEPOT IS BURNED
Is Estimated at Between $73,000
and $100,000; Good Work
By Firemen
Wilson, Sept. 25.—Fire destroy
ed the Atlantic Coast Line freight
depot number two here early to
night, a loss estimated at between
$75,000 and $100,000 being sus
tained. The fire was discovered a
few ini lutes before 7 o’clock and
was at' its height a few minutes
later and was still raging at 0 o’
clock, though it was well under
control.
The storage depot, a brick buil
ding about 150 feet in length, val
ued at 825,000 and well covered by
insurance, was completely destroy
ed. Nothing but' the brick walls re
mained standing. The building was
filled with hogsheads of tobacco, it
being estimated that arounyl 250
of those were in the building. Hun
dreds of bales of straw and cotton
were also stored' in the building.
These were also totally destroyed
Congressman Pou to Washington
Congressman K. W. Pou. after
spending the summer at his home
here left Sunday morning for
Washington, D. 0., where he will
spend the intervening weeks be
fore Congress convenes in prepa
ration of that event- His secretary,
Mr. Fulton Holmes, went to Wash
ington several days ago.
BOARD EOUGATIDN
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HaVe Recasted Complete
ly Details of Organiza
tion In Practically Ev
ery School In County.
RESULT OP MEETING
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J hat all of those interested and
concerned with the operation of
the county schools may have a
clear understanding of the policy
>f this hoard, the following state
ment by the County Board of Ed
ucation is deemed necessary:
For the past several years the
consolidated schools have been, at
the request of the Board of Edu
cai'ea, admitting students from
other districts to their schools free
of tuition. At first this was not a
burden to the larger schools, but
when large numbers from other
districts came in. it did become a
burden. The net result of this pol
icy was as follows:
J=t. The operating cost to tho
county for the six months term
was greatly reduced.
2nd. Those children, most of
whom were in upper grades and
high school, received much more
efficient instruction in the larger
schools.
.ird. The consolidated districts
besides bearing the bond tax for
their buildings, found it necessary
to increase their local tax rate
more than was necessary to pro
vide only for the children of their
district.
The consolidated districts, while
glad to accommodate the children
from neighboring districts, had
! come to recognize the inequity of
■ this policy, and at a meeting of
these schools on May 23rd, 1925,
they decided among themselves
not to take in pupils residing out
I side of their districts, except upon
! payment of tuition, land at the
same time requested the Board of
Education nob to direct students
from outside their districts to at
tend their Schools.
Confronted with this situation,
the Board of Education was forced
to prepare its May budget on the
assumption that each district must
provide the school facilities for all
of the children of that idstrict.
This necessarily made the May
budget much larger than the bud
get of the preceeding year, for
the reason that it is much more
expensive to provide instruction in
each of the several districts than
it is to provide the same instruc
on in consolidated districts when
the consolidated districts aid the
county by taking care of the over
flow and high school grades from
adjoining districts.
\\ hi!e the May budget as nxed
by the County Commissioners ap
proved for the use of the schools
an amount of $8000 more than the
budget for the proceeding year,
yet this budget provided for thir
ty-nine teachers less than we em
ployed the preceeding year. This
.• mount, under the changed condi
! tions of operation made necessary
by the return to the district sys
1 tei^i, was clearly inadequate to pro
I vide under these changed condi
tions of operation anything like
as efficient school system as had
been maintained the previous year.
At a joint meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners and the
Board of Education held on Sep
tember 11th with a mass meeting
of those in the county interested
in securing adequate school facil
ities and high school instruction,
the Board of Commissioners au
■ thoriaed the Board of Education to
take over for the present school
year one-half of the cost of car
rying the school building bonds
and after this year alt the costs
of said bonds in the following con
solidated districts, which consti
tutes all of the consolidated schools
operating under the county sys
tem: Kenly, Four Oaks, Archer
Lodge. Corinth-Holders, Brogden,
Glendale, Princeton, Meadoww, Mi
cro, Pine Level, and Wilson’s Mills,
when the committeemen from these
schools should agree that any pu
pils in the eoiinty directed by the
Board of Education to attend their
several schools should be admitted
for the six months term free of
all tuition charges.
The net result of this action is
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