The Gate to Johnston County’s Biggest and Best Fair Will Swing Open Next Tuesday 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 "re Like Smithfield-•• You Will Too 99 Forty-third Year * * SIXTEEN PAGES SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1925 SIXTEEN PAGES * * Number 97 Minority Stockholders Get Dollar For Dollar Way Is Cleared For Set tlement and The Mill Is Expected To Resume Operations Hearing Is % Postponed Until Nov. 6. LOCAL DELEGATION The wny was paved Wednesday for settlement of the cotton mill case in which minority stockhold ers were asking, for the money which they had put into the mill, both common and preferred stock, i when a compromise was effected, the minority stockholders to re ceive dollar for dollar of money ac tually paid in. The compromise,! according to our information, was not unanimous, but the majority | ruled. The matter came up last week but owing to sickness in the fam ily of one of the interested par- ; ties, the hearing was deferred un til Wednesday when an arrange- j ment was made with the minority j stockholders. Quite a number of interested persons went) to Ral eigh for the hearing which w'as postponed until Nov. 6. The following report of the set- j tlement published ii.i yesterday’s j News and Observer sets forth the ' main facts of the adjustment: A seftlement«by which all of j the minority stockholders, repre senting approximately $20,000 or about 10 per cent of the total, were paid dollar for dollar what they had invested in the Ivanhoo Man ufacturing Co., of Smithfteld, was effected yesterday and the way was paved for the complete settlement of the defunct corporation, whose j affairs have greatly stirred John ston county. As a result of the pending set tlement the hearing which was scheduled to have been held yester day before Joseph B. Cheshire. Jr.. United States referee in bank ruptcy, was continued until No 5, vember G and it is anticipated by that time a satisfactory adjust ment of all the claims against the company, totalling more than $900,000, will be effected so that | the mill can resumo operations. 1 Kenneth Gnnnt, trustee for the ; company, yesterday expressed the opinion that under present con ditions the mill can be operated at a profit. The minority stockholders, who | were bought out yesterday, include about 25 or 30 persons, many of whom are widows and orphans. They were represented by R. N. Simms end their removal is con sidered as having paved the way for an adjustment with all other creditors. The claims against the company arc of three kinds. There is about: $175,000, unsecured in any way, which includes a claim of $156,000 by Ousts, Scott and Company, cot ton dealers of Charlotte. At tlhe time of entering the bankruptcy, the company sought to repudiate this claim on the ground that it was oh a gambling contract and assigned as the principal reason for the bankruptcy the fact that the cotton dealers Wad attached $120,000 in funds collected by the mill as insurance on one of the ( buildings. It is now thought that the claim will be adjusted along with the others. The second category of claims included about $350,000 secured by the endorsement of the directors of the mill on notes. These claims have bedn strong ly attacked by J. W. Bailey, attor ney for the trustee, and W. H. Austin, whose claim alone amounts t'o over $200,000, was scheduled to have been examined by Mr. Bailey at the hearing yesterday. These claims total over $400,000. The company has $120,000 in cash and its other mill, which is said to have a sale value of over $300,000 and a replacement value £ of over $400,000. If the proposed settlement goes through, the directors, who tare now the sole stockholders, will make adjustment's with the other creditors and will resume the op eration of the mill. (Turn to page five, please) CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS PASSED FREE TO FAIR The Management of the John ston County Fair requests us to state that Confederate veterans residing in Johnston county will be passed into the Fair Grounds during fair week without any charge, if they will wear their Crosses of Honor, thaj they may be identified thereby. RECORDERS COURT HAS FULL DOCKET Two Full Days Are De voted to Criminal Cas es In Court This ^Vee. The Recorder's Court went into x busy session here on October 20, xnd continued through two days on the criminal docket. Gaston Norris, white, was tried rn a charge of trespass for fish ing in Hull's Lake. He was found guilty and the court continued prayer for judgment. Ned Barber, of Four Oaks, was tried on a similar charge and was also found guilty. He was fined 525 and taxed with the cost' from which judgment he t/jok an ap peal to the Supexior Court. Other defendants tried for tres pass for fishing in Holt’s Lake were: Bossie Barber, Emmett Ad ams, and S. W. Brown. Tiuq court found each defendant guilty and continued prayer for judgment upon the payment of cost in each case. Allen Bennett, a white man of Sampson county, was in court and entered a plea of violating the prohibition laws. He vV>U fined |25 and cost and dismissed. L. Y. and Herman Creech, white men of Benson, were charged with operation of a car while under the influence of whiskey. They were found guilty and dismissed upon the payment of costs. James Lochlier, a Princeton ne gro, was found guilty of public disturbance and carrying a con cealed weapon. Guilty on both counts. For carrying the weapon he was fined $50 and a sentence of four months on the roads was sus. pended during good behavior. Edgar Artist, a negro from In grams township, had two counts against him—public disturbance and carrying a concealed weapon. He was found guilty on both counts and given a fine of $50 and sentenced to the road for four months from which judgment he appealed. Wednesday's court resumed the trial of state vs. Eddie Parrish, a white man from the Parrish Me morial section. This case was be gun on Tuesday but owing to the large number of witnesses for both the state and the defendant the case was not terminated until Wednesday noon. The defendant was charged with abandonment and found not guilty and discharg ed. R. L. Ray of Selma, aided So licitor Massey in the prosecution and James Raynor and Judge A. M. Noble represented the defend ant. John K. Hartley and Ernest Murphy, white men of Boon Hill township, were found not guilty and were discharged upon a charge of assault. The state took a nol pros with leave against J. D. Stephenson on a charge of fraud. S. B. Stephelnson was found guilty of possessing whiskey in violation of the prohibition laws. He was given a fine of $25 and taxed with the cost. On a charge of fransportation this defendant was found guilty but discharged upon the payment of cost. Tom Oakley was tried and found guilty of violating the prohibition laws. Continued prayer for judg ment upon payment of costs. Kelly Peedin had also been hand ling booze, so the court found, and was taxed with a $25 fine and the cosfls of the action. (Turn to page five, please) Miss Nora Cooper MISS COOPER’S photo will he entered in a state wide contest among Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, as a representa tive of the Sinithfield club. Six of the best looking members in North Carolina will have their pictures in state papers, as soon as the State Publicity Chairman, Miss Jeanette Biggs of Oxford can make the selection. Miss Cooper was chosen by ballot at a recent meeting of the local club. She is the efficient secretary of Mr. ( has. Davis. MRS. VANDERBILT WEDS IN LONDON Marriage to Senator Gerry of Rhode Island Joins Two (treat Fortunes. London. Oct. 21.—Friends of U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island, and Mrs. Edith Van derbilt, widow of George Washing ton Vanderbilt, today ckmfirmed rep'rtfts ThaT’Shdy were td*lTe“m'ar ried asr.d added that the couple would be wed tomorrow morning in the Princess ;^ root register’s office. Only a few intimate friends have been invited. Senator Gerry was divorced in an action brought by his wife in Paris several months ago. The Rhode Island Senator is socially ; prominent, member of a family famous in American history since j early colonial times and is known ] as a lawyer, scientist and philan ! thropist. He is 46 years of age. 1 wo of America’s most promi nent families and portions of two | of America’s largest fortunes will I be united in the marriage of Mrs jVanderblt and Senator Gerry which ' will take place tomorrow in Lon don. Although the bulk of the es tate of George W. Vanderbilt, who I died in 1914, went to his daugh I ter, Cornelia, now the wife of the 'Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil, former secretary of the British I embassy at Washington. Mrs. j Vanderbilt received $250,000 in 'cash, life interest in a $1,000,000 trust! fund, homes in Washington clod Bar Harbor, Maine, and 80,- I 000 acres in the Pisgah Forest of North Carolina, together with j contracts for the sale of timber j estimated to produce about $50,000 a year. The vast estate. Biltmore, North Carolina, was left to the executors, Mrs. Vanderbilt and William K. Vanderbilt, 'to hold in trust for the daughter until her twenty-fifth year. In 1910 Mrs. Vanderbilt sold 50,000 acres of her Carolina holdings to the Unit ed States government for forest reserve at a price reported to be $5 an acre. In 1920 she sold por tions of the Biltmore estate, in cluding the village of Biltmore, for approximately $1,000,000. The Gerry Fortune Senator Gerry has a one-fourth interest in property valued at $14, 800,000 left by his mother, and. with his brother and two sisters will divide the Gerry millions upon the death of their father, Commo dore Eldridge T. Gerry. “ROSETIME” AT SCHOOL Al DITORIl M TONIGHT Miss Mary Ben Wright is de lighted at the way rehearsals for “Rosetime” to be given by Ki wanians tonight, have been go-( ing, and she expects a splendid performance. New costumes will add greaSly to the presentation The vaudeville act between scenes will bring down the house. The entertainment will be given at the high school auditorium instead of at the opera house as was previously announced. Associational Meeting Of Baptist In The County Forty-seven Churches Ex pected To Have Rep resentatives at Thanks giving Church Oct. 28 and 29—Program. REPORTS OF PASTORS Next Wednesday the Johnston Baptist association will meet at 10 a. m. at Thanksgiving church, eight miles north of Selma. Bap tists look forward to this session with unusual interest, and it is ex pected that the attendance will be unusually large. The churches, ac cording to our information, will report the best year in all their history, at least in the number of conversions and additions to the churches. The body is composed of 17 churches, which reported a year ago a membership of 5644. It is -‘bought the reports this yeaWvill show an increase over last year of from 600 to 800. Speakers of more than state wide reputation will be on the pro gram, among them Dr. Chas. E. Maddry, Corresponding Secretary of the Baptist State Convention, and Mr. Gilbert T. Stephenson, of Raleigh. Both of these will appear on the program Wednesday. Del egates to this body are elected on the basis of membership, each church being entitled to a mini mum of three delegates, and an additional one for each 25 mem bers above 50, no church being entitled to more than eight. The program for the two days is as follows: W EDNESDAY MORN INU^. 10:00 Devotional Service, P. A. Pridgen. 10:15 Organization. Report of Program Committee. 10:30 Introductory Sermon, C. H. Cashwell. 11:15 Spiritual State of the Churches, J. W. Rose. Each pastor to make a 2-minute report. 12:00 General Discussion. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 Devotional Service, W. T. Evans. 1:45 Missions: Report, R. C White. 2:00 Missions in the Johnston, S. L. Morgan. 2:15 Woman’s Work, Mrs. B. A. Hocutt. 2:30 The Callengc of a World Task. Dr. C. E. Maddry. 3:10 Trusteeship for God. Gil bert T. Stephenson. WEDNESDAY EVENING 7:15 Devotional Service, S. S. McGregor. (Turn to page four, please) TOBACCO GROWERS TO HEAR W. J. HOOKS TODAY Three hundred tobacco grow ers of Johnston county are ex pected to be present this after noon at a get-to-gether meet ing at the arm.:; r ored by citizens interested in the devel opment of a home tobacco mar ket. Mr. W. J. Hooks, tobacco farmer of Kenly, will be the chief speaker on this occasion. Brunswick /stew, fried fish, and appetizing relishes will form the menu. VALUABLE CIRCUS HORSE IS KILLED Animal Kails In Street After lleing Frightened by Automobile. One of the large iron gray draft horses used by the Walter L. Main circus that' showed in Smith field Tuesday, had to be shot and killed before the circus left' town Wednesday morning, due to an in jury which the animal suffered when it fell while rounding the corner of Market and Third streets Tuesday night after the show. The animal was put out of its misery by Dr. Rosser Lane, veterinarian. This horse, which was one of a six-horse team, was engaged in hauling one of the large wagons to the railroad yards preparatory to loading it on a car and when near the school house ah automo bile driven by a negro, cut in on the team, the operator driving the car between the lead and second team. The lead team, a strapping big pair, cut loose from hitch, became frightened and ran at full speed up Third Street. When it reached the corner of Market and Third streets, one of the animals lost its footing and fell to the roadway, breaking one of its legs. Dr. Lane was summoned by one of the circus officials and after making an examination of the in jury to the animal, recommended that it be shot. After hitting the homes, the operator of the automobile con tinued on bis way, not even stop ping to learn if he had caused any damage, according to eye witnesses ; o the accident. Services At Oakland Rev. Chester Alexander will preach at Oakland church Sunday morning at eleven o’clock. The public is cordially invited to at tend. Armistice Day Plans Taking Definite Shape In County Letters are being mailed out to day to five or six men and women in each township in the county ask ing them to act as a committee in their respective townships to help raise funds and get. alt the World war veterans in the county U) attend the Armistice celebration to be held at Clayton on November 11th, when there will be speaking, and possibly a band concert and a free barbecue dinner for all the ex-service men. The Chairman in the respective townships are asked to call their committees together at once and solicit funds and pigs in preparation of this occasion. This first county wide Armistice Day celebration is hoped to be pulled off in grand style and the “boys” given a good time. Upon the declaring of the Armistice Day on November 11, 1918, every mother and father who had a boy at the front sent up a prayer of gratitude to Almighty God for the ending of the struggle, and men and women declared their everlast. ing gratitude for the boys who had gone to the front and made the sacrifice in that great struggle. It has only been seven years since that date, and we are testing their gratitude by putting on a County I Wide Armistice Day eelebratiejn in behalf of the boys who made this sacrifice, and we are hoping [hat the spirit of gratitude still remains in the hearth of th? peo ple and that they W)TT respond to the call and see that the money and pigs are provided to make this an enjoyable occasion. Committees appointed are as fol lows : Clayton township: W. A. Barnes Chairman; A. R. Duncan, W. S. Penn, John T. Talton, Mrs. B. A. HocuX. Cleveland township: Fletcher Austin, Chairman; H. M. Barbour, A. M. Johlnson, Claude Sanders, Mrs. E. N. Booker. Pleasant Grove township: W. T. Whittington, Chairman; Leonard Johnson, C. C. Young, Mrs. Ed. S. Coats. J. E. Gilbert. Elevation township: D. D. Med lin, Chairman; Rev. Ruffin John son, Delma Hardee. J- F. Batts, W. H. Flowers. Banner township: Dr. A. S. Ol iver, Chairman; Ezra Parker, Bob McLamb, Chas. F. Neighbors, Mrs. W. T. Martin. Meadow township: J. Lib Lee, Chairman; A. H. Morgan, J. Mang Wood, W. Troy Lee, Dr. M. I,. Barefooi). Bentonville township: LaFay ette Langston, Chairman; Remus Dunn, Seth W. Lassiter, A. G. Adams, R. K. Britt. (Turn to page four, please) THEL HOOKS IS CHIEF MARSHALL bulletin Board In Fair Grounds Will Show Standing In Popularity Contest. — EXPECT A BIG FAIR If the plans of Secretary Nat ron are executed with the dawn I ing of the day Monday there will | be a bustle and stir around the local fair grounds that will recall to mind Johnston county fairs in the past which were better and better than they have been of late years. The shows will come in Sunday; Lhc concession men will begin their puffing away in blowing up their balloons; the camera men will be gin asking pedestrians for the price of a picture, marie while they wait; the hobby horses will be gin to neigh; the forris wheel will be ferreted out; the exhibits will begin to come in; the race horses will be eating local hay; the fair, in a word, will be starting. Fair officials have appointed Thel Hooks, local young man, as chief Marshall. Mr. Hooks has al ready appointed several marshalls and is now making every effort to get at least two assistant mar shalls from each town in Johnston | county, further carrying out the ! efforts of all the officials to make this essentially a county-wide oc- | casion. Facts are not available as 1k> the standing of the contestants in the popularity contest, due to the fact that only -about, five of the entrants have turned in their tick ets. As a result of this delay, there will be a big bulletin placed in I the fair grounds on which will be kept posted all the latest returns from the contestants. Everything is moving along nicely in the pa rade department’. The parade is scheduled to start from Second Street at the hospital at eleven o’clock Tuesday. In the parade there will be all the fair officials, the speaker of the day, one or more bands and everything that goes to make up this part of the opening day. It will be of interest to know that the Fair boasts this year a new judges’ stand and grand stand. REQUEST FOR ROOMS DURING FAIR WEEK There 'will be a great- influx of visitors here during Fair week. There will be around 400 people with the great Brown and Dyer shows, also a great number of people will be here with the Free A(J . The people of Smithfield should rally to the suport of the fair officials and help out the housing situation. The Fair Asso ciation requests all people in Smithfield to leave their names j with J. C. Donahoe and also the j number of rooms to let during fair week. WOMAN’S CLUB OFFERS FRIZES TO HIGH SCHOOL The Woman’s Club, a local or ganization. that is very much in terested in Smithfield, has offered a prize to the high school pupil writing the best paper on: “Needs I of Smithfield.” The matter was presented at a recent .meeting by Mrs. J. It- Kirkman and the idea received unanimous approval. The details of awarding the prize were left to Supt. N. C. Shuford. Mr. Shuford worked out the fol lowing plan: In order that every high school pupil may be induced to study the needs of Smithfield, the contest is made open to the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh grades. There will be a winner in each grade. The four best papers will be judged by a committee ap pointed by the Woman’s Club, and the best of the four will be award ed a five dollar gold piece. The next best will receive three dollars, the next best, two dollars and the fourth best, one dollar. The pap ers must be written according to rules laid down in English com position, and must not exceed 600 words The prizes will be given at com mencement. Selma Raises $2,000 For New Highway fEX DOLLAR HAT TO UGLIEST MAX Who is the ugliest man in Johnston county? The judges cn Thursday of Fair Week will tell you. The winner in this wonderful contest will be. pre sented with a nice ten dollar hat, his nw’n selection at any store in Johnston county. En trants are expected to come in fast. POU INAUGURATES HONOR SYSTEM ExperimanA If Success ful Will Save Money In Employment Guards. 'Jwenty selected prisoners from 1 He >JCaledonia farm in Halifax county, will go to a road con struction camp near Tarboro Wed nesday, to inaugurate new honor system which was approved by the Prison Board at its last meeting. The men are to work for the Spar lin Construction company on bridge and culvert jobs by the State High way Commission. According to Superintendent Geo. Ross Pou. who announced the new policy, the men will be under a single camp supervisor. Captain J. R. Barham, and there will be no guards employed So watch over them dthfr day Of night. A feature of the r.ew plan is that the contracting company agres to pay to Capt. Barham fifty cents per day for each of the twenty men, in addition to the compensa tion paid to the prison. The pris oners all of whom are white men, will be permitted to draw a part of this each week end for spending money. Part of it will be held back for the “escape fund,” so that in the event of the system is violated the cost of recapture be borne by the prisoners instead of by the State. Among the men who have been designated by Superintendent Pou for this first group of twenty are Claro Heath, Kinston lad, who was convicted in fhe Martin county mu tilation trial and sentenced to serve from eighteen months to two years in prison. Alberti and John nie Guirkin, who were in the sains mob, have also been designated, but it is not certain they will be se lected by Captain Barham. The new system is in line with the policy of the prison manage ment to extend honor privileges as fast as the prisoners prove de serving. Much of the expense at tached to the operation of the prison is m the employf.nent ol guards. The system now being in troduced cuts quite a bit and brings the prison safely within the ad ministration program of economy. “If it works out satisfactorily,” Superintendent Pou laid to the Raleigh Times Tuesday. “It will mean that the prison will even tually be able to supply the con tracting State highways with most of the labor they need. I have con fidence in the plan and shall urge it as rapidly as the prisoners indi cate they are ready* for the test. “The fifty cents per day which the contractor agrees to pay to Captain Barham, to be turned over in part* to the men each Saturday, will not interfere with the com pensation which is 'fixed by law. This extra money and the pro rata part of it which the prisoner may have for spending will be de termined by the degree in which they respect the trust! we put in them.”—Raleigh Times. Mother of J. Ira l.ee Dead Mrs. Daivd Lee, died at her home near Four Oaks yesterday morning about six o’clock. Mrs. Lee had suffered several sfrokes of paralysis. She was the mother of Mr. J. Ira Lee, clerk of the court. A more d j ailed account of her death will apear in a later issue. Let everybody be a booster for the fair. Citizens of City Pledge Additional $500 At Meeting Held Wed nesday Night. HARPER PRESIDES Including S500 which was raised it a meeting of Selma citizens held Wednesday night in the interest >f the building the proposed Earps boro road, which will connect at Selma with highway No. 22, the •itizens of that town have con tributed more than $2,000 as their share to construct this new road The meeting which was held in ‘ho auditorium of the city build ing and which was called by May or Aycock, who i:; one of the prime pioneers of this proposed high way, was attended by practically every business and professional man of the city. The meeting was an enthusias tic one, and was presided over by C. P. Harper. Many of the repre sentative citizens present, spoke in favor of the establishment of 'his new road, telling among other things, the many advantages that will be derived by Selma and Johnston county, when this new highway is a certainty. "ROSETIME” PLEASES BENSON AUDIENCE Benson. 6et. 22.—The musical comedy, “Rosetime” staged by the Dainty "Dames Club Tuesday might under the direction of Miss Inez Edgerton of Kenly, was a great success as an entertainment and in a financial way. Mrs. A. S. Oliver made a hit as “Rose.” “Ma and Pa Perkins were well interpreted by Miss Clara Woodall and Mr. Tarry Wood. Mr. Roy Smith as “Jerry” showed up well as a bashful lover. Miss Mary Lee as “Mile. Daux ville” played her part Unusually well. Mrs. Talmadgc Lucas as “Babe Burnette” was another hit in the play. Bruce Creech as “Percy Peabody” and Dr. F: L. Perkins as “Prof. O'Reilly” kept the audience in a roar of laughter from beginning !lo end. The music was catchy, the costumes very at tractive and a well filled house enjoyed this delightful play. Presbyterian Church Sunday school Sunday morning at 9:60 o'clock. Preaching service Sunday eve n'.ng at 7:30. There will be no morning service. A cordial invi tation is extended the public to attend all services. Returned From Northern Markets Mr. Joe Dai vs has just returned from the northern markets where he purchased one of the most complete lines of men and young men’s and boys clothing for the Quality Clothing store. Attend the county fair and make the Quality Clothing store your headquarters. •Toe welcomes you. DELAWARE TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS ARE ACTIVE Thirty parent- teacher associa tions in Delaware report a 100 per cent enrollment; that is, every tax-paying family in these com munities is represented in the membership. In 203 school dis tricts of the State 301 associations have been organized. Of the rural districts 81 per cent have local associations. White associations t« the number of lltf, and 45 color ed associations, have rounded out four years of contiuuous activity. These associations have assist ed materially in making school health work a success, in beautify ing school grounds, promoting mu sical education, adding to school li braries, providing school handies, find in encouraging community in terest and cooperation in the work of the schools-—School Life. President MacCracken of Vas sal1 says woman is 50 years ahead of man. Well the villian still pursues her.—Seattle Post Intelli gencer. _