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I Boost the Chautauqua Festival Program—Thursday, Friday and Saturday SMITIiFIELD 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 Forty-third Year * # SMITHF1ELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1925 Know Your County Do You Know that Johnston coun ty ranks first in North Carolina in the production of cotton, 52,000 bales in 1924? (Nine-tenths of a bale for every acre planted). * * Number t02 New Highway For O’Neals Township Citizens Discuss Proposed Link in i ;r.uerson Clinton Road Through O’Neals. (Reported for The Herald) Nearly 250 citizens of O’Neals township met together last Thurs day night iit Antioch church for the purpose of discussing the pro posed link in the Henderson-Clin ton highway which will pass through O’Neals township. At this meeting the following gentlemen were elected as officers: president, W. F. Price; secretary-treasurer, L. M. Price. A committee of five citizens was appointed by the or ganization and delegated the pow er and authority to present the Hamon road route to the officials of the Henderson-Clillton highway association with the end in view of having the Hamon road desig nated as (he official route con necting Henderson and Clinton be tween Zebulon and Selma. The committe appointed will give this matter their undivided attention at once. The Ilamon road route has al ways been considered the custo mary route of travel from Zebulon to Selma. The people living along this road are zealous of having this route named as the official one and arc standing shoulder to shoulder, both in number of peo ple and from a financial 'stand point, to put this project across. There is no hostility on the part of these citizens in locating this road but they believe if the road is lo cated along this route that it will serve the interests of a big major ity-of the people not only in O’Neals township but up and down the route from Zebulon to Selma. The road will proceed from Selma to Smlthfield and then on to Clin ton. There will be another meeting of the local organization at An tioch church on Wednesday night, November 11, at seven o’clock. All citizens of O’Neals township and any other citizens in an adjacent township who will be affected by this route are urged to be pres ent. J’RAYKRMEETING AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Prayermeeting will be held at the Presbyterian church Wednes day inght at 7:30 o’clock. In the absence of the pastor who has been conducting a revival in Dan ville, Va., the services will be con ducted by the officers of the church. The public is cordially in vited to attend. FLORIDA MAN BUYS IN NORTH CAROLINA Winston-Salem. Nov. 7.—The biggest real estate deal made in Stokes county in a number of years was closed today when M. J. Hulsey, of Hillsboro county, Florida, became the owner of 3,09G acres of fine territory in the neighborhood of Hanging Rock and Moore’s Knob at the purchase price of $47,500. Blameless “How come you left Flicker's boarding house?” “Well, the first week an old cow died, and we had nothing but beef, beef, beef. The next week an old pig died and we were fed on pork, pork, pork. Monday Mr. Par ker’s grandfather died, so I left.” —Boll Weevil. AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me Homin’ Mistah Hambone. Frun> <lis time on us winnnin’ people ffwine ter talk some and try to felicitate our reputashuns. COLORED FAIR WAS SPLENDID SUCCESS Agricultural Exhibit- Make Fine Flowing; Three Coramu unity Displays. The Negro Fair Association in Johnston county held one of the most successful fairs in its his tory' here last week just following the white fair, there being three h:g days and nights. On Wednesday a home-com ing' reunion was staged and free lunch was served to all. Free acts, novelty mule race, horse racing, speaking, singing contests and other features were provided for , the amusement for those who at- • tended the three days besides the j shows on mid-way and the agri- j cultural exhibits. The exhibits were very credit- ; able, both so. far as quality and quantity were concerned. Johnston county has a negro county farm demonstration agent, and the ex hibits showed marked improve- I ment in farm products and live- : stock. The display of canned goods and sewing in the women’s de- ! partment showed the same im provement- Three community ex hibits, one from Wilson’s Mills, one from Short Journey, and one from j Roxhoro evinced a co-operative spirit with fine results. The corn club boys had good displays. The j poultry department also made a fine showing. The white people showed their j co-operation by furnishing judges for the exhibits- Mrs. Lee Sanders. Mrs. R. C. Gillett, Mrs. H. D. El lington and Miss Ruth Jones judg ed the exhibits in Floral Hall. State Is Ready For Trial of Je33e Wyatt; “The State is ready and will ! press for the trial of Jesse Wy att',” said Solicitor W. F. Evans | when asked if the case of the for- | mcr chief of detectives of the j Raleigh police force, who shot and ; killed S. S. Holt. S&ith field law- | yer, on June 1, will be tried. The trial of Wyatt, twice con tinued, has been set for Tuesday, and will probably be reached about noon of that day. The term of Su perior court this week is a regu lar term, that last week having been a special term.—News and Observer. PECAN NETS TO FEATURE MEETING N. C. GROWERS The exhibit of pecan nuts will be one of the most important fea tures of the annual meeting of the N. C. Pecan Growers Society to be held in Raleigh, November 13th and 14th, in the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. at State Col lege. While the programme, with its practical demonstrations in ■lidding, grafting and transplant ing and its illustrated addresses will interest every grower, and all persons concerned with pecan eul ure are invited to attend, chief in terest is expected to center in the exhibit which will be the largest display of state grown pecans ever collected. The substantial cash premiums offered for both named varieties and seedlings nuts should encourage parsons in all parts of North Carolina bo send in collec tions. The prizes are as follow's, each lot to consist of one pound: Stuart, 1st prize $5, 2nd prize 5>o. Schley, 1st prize $5, 2nd prize Alley anti Success, prize §5 each. Any other commercial variety, prize $ii. Seedling pecans, 1st prize $5, 2nd prize S?>. Collection of 4 named varieties, prize $5. A certificate of Merit will bo e:iven for the best display of pe can nut' at the meeting. All pecans for this competition should be sent to W. N. Roper, | Secretary, N. C. Pecan Growers. Society, Raleigh, N. C., to arrive by the afternoon of November 12. The seedling pecans should be ac companied by a brief description of the tree on which they grew, including age, location, regularity of bearing and average date on which the nuts mature in the fall. For any other information, write to the Secretary. -The first step up the Inddei of folly is to believe oneself wise. : Asked To Raise Community Chest Local Welfare Associa tion Asks Town to Raise Charity Fund. In a meeting i the United Wel fare Association of Smithfield last Thursday it was decided to ask Smithfield and the community to raise a community chest for the support of its charity work, in ac cordance with the plans which are so generally followed by towns and cities in this and other states. It is understood that the effort will be defii iteiy launched in a mass meet, ir.g on fifth Sunday night in No vember, probably to be held in the court h nice, the pastors having ex pres r ed themselves as favorable to giving over the regular fifth Sun il iv union service of the churches to this purpose. Due publicity will be given to the matter through the local -paper and the pulpits during tlu month, all the details of the proposed movement being explain ed fully. Mr. Hi V. Rose, formerly the county welfare officer, and now secretary of the local wel fare association, was asked by that body to prepare for the paper one or more articles setting forth from his accurate knowledge the local needs based on his experience in r. lief work in the community. This will show the community in some detail just the budget needed to meet) all ordinary needs for relief work, then laying an intelligent basis for the appeal that is to be made. It is expected that the town council will make a liberal ap propriation to the proposed budget, and that t)he community in general will readily subscribe at one time enough to take care in a worthy business-like way of all such needs ,n the community. Lloyd George On America’s Prosperity “The people of the United States arc the most prosperous people under the sun, not because they have the gold but because they have no drink,” was the di rect and unqualified assertion re cently made bv David Lloyd George Prime Minister of England during . n.i following the World War and accepted on both sides of the Atlan tic as one of the most astute prne> tical politicians of this age. And as a politician he adds that- “no political party in America now would dare propose abolition of prohibition." As quoted in an Associated Press dispatch from London. Lloyd George said: “It is no use indulging in slap dash condemnation of America. Not only have Americans carried Pro hibition, but no political party in America now dare propose aboli tion of Prohibition. As politicians, the Americans beat us at every turn.” The Associated Press dispatch containing that quotation then con tinued: "It has been suggested mat rro hibition in America was the craze of cranks, but when he went to America he found this entirely un true; he never met a man who would vote for the re-establish ment of the saloon, and so far as public opinion in America was con cerned the beer house was a thing of the past. “Detailing various advantages, which he attributed to America’s becoming dry, Mr. Lloyd George said: “It. is an experiment we ought to investigate. Do not condemn it haphazardly. One hundred and ten millions of people do not continue to make fools of themselves for long. They are the most prosperous oeople under the sun, not because they have the gold, but because they do not have the drink.” “The former Premier pointed to Canada, where, he remarked, it was suggested Prohibition had been less successful, and concluded by recalling Lincoln’s looking forward to the time when there would be no slavery and no drink. “ ‘He got rid of slavery,’ ex ■laimed Lloyd George, ‘and 60 years later the people were on the high road to accomplish the sec >nd of his ideals.’ ” All of which may be described as I disinterested testimony from a ; Negro Is Killed As He Hops Truck Driver Frank Morris, Un aware of It Till Sheriff Notifies Him. ; A negro, who was said to be Reuben Pollard of Alabama, was apparently instantly killed jtust acres Neuse river here Friday morning, presumably after he en deavored to jump on a log wagon. About ten o’clock Friday morn ing Mr. A. C. Langdon found tfye negro lying in the road between truck tracks. He reported the mat 'tcr to the sheriff, and immediate ly an investigation was started. The tracks were followed to the mill of York and Blackman just on the edge of town beyond Her ring's. lumber yard, and the driv er of the truck, Frank Morris, was questioned concerning '.he occur rence. Morris did not know the ne gro had been run over and killed. He stated however, that the negro made an effort to catch hold of his truck as he passed that morn ing with a load of black gum logit which he carried to the mill- The negro, a few days before had don® the same thing but caught the’ coupling pole and crawled over j the logs to the cab. Friday morn- 1 ing Morris did not look back to see if the fellow got on and never thought of the occurrence again until the sheriff reported that; the negro was dead. It is thought that the trailer ran over the negro j who probably fell in his effort to 1 get on the wagon. The coroner, Mr. Charlie Steph enson, summoned a jury, and a j hearing was held in the commis- i sioners jroom of the court house.# No blame, however, was attached : to Frank Morris, who drove the ; truck, and the verdict was to the j iffect that Pollard came to hi; | death accidentally as he tried to ! hop, the truck. Colored Woman Minus $76,00 At Negro Fair: Maggie Coley, a colored woman j living at Wilson’s Mills, had the j misfortune to lose or have stolen i from her $76 in cash during the j negro fair hold here last week. The ; woman ran an eating place at the j f'air, and Thursday afternoon took j her pocket book and drove up town j 'n her car for more supplies. When ! he got back to her stand, she j ruisscd the money. Whether the j money was stolen or whether it i was lost is uncertain. Says Women Will Have To Work, Too: Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 7.—Within i half century every able-bodied woman will be at work, helping her husband to make a living for the family. Economic pressure on he men of the household will make it necessary for wives to enter em ployment and it will take the com bined efforts of all to make both nds meet.” And electricity wdll be 'house maid”- of the future. These are some of the observa tions of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Qatt, suffragist leader, who is in Milwaukee to address the conven tion of school teachers today.—As sociated Press. lones-Caiter Hardware Goes Into Receivership Our present issue caWies an ad vertisement of the sale of the stock >f goods carried by the Jones-Cot ter Hardware company, which has i-econtly gone into voluntary re ceivership. The entire stock is be ing advertised to sell for cost. We mderstand that the concern will be solvent, provided all outstand ing indebtedness can be recovered mil that the sale of the stock can be realized in thirty days. It is for the purpose of a complete liq uidation of outstanding accounts hat this step has been taken. Mr. H. V. Rose has been appointed re ceiver and Mr. Hugh Cotter will have charge of the sale of the stock. shrewd observer and a practical man not generally regarded as an imeteur in politics.—Manufactur ers Record. ARMISTICE DAY 19 2 5 1918 Peace 1925 fAvn-ocACrc^r County f o Honor Ex-5erace Men Celebration To Be Held In Clayton; Good Din ner; Fine Speaking. Arrangements are complete for Hip Armistice Day celebration to bc njven to ex-service men of the World War in Clayton tomorrow. Johnston eountj' will pause for a brief space of time and do honor to the men who were ready to lay down their lives for America’s safety, and for the safety of other nations. Judge Brooks is the chairman of the committee to arrange the program for the day. Speaking and a barbecue dinner will fea ture the occasion, and a string band is expected to be on hand to stir the blood of the soldiers once more with national anthems and martial airs. The speaking will be near Horne’s store at 11 o’clock. The dinner will be for the sol diers only, although everybody is cordially invited to take part in the other events of the day Let Some Sunshine In Raleigh, Nov. 5.—Sunshine is the best disinfectant on the farm. It is a great destroyer of germs. “Where one has the capital, win ter is a good time to add some windows to the barns and cattle -hods. If new ones are being built, be sure to make provision for win dows,” advises Prof. D. S. Weav er, farm engineer at State Col-i lege. “These windows permit of the free use of Nature’s disin fectant. Horses and cattle should have at least three square feet, of glass per animal and hogs not less than two square feet. These windows should be place so that the sunshine falls directly on the floor as most of the gernf, in barns and outhouses are found in the litter on the floor.” Every Man His Just Deserts The orator eats tongue, we hear, The Sultan, turkey lunch, The undertaker drinks his bier. The pugilist his punch. The acrobats spring water drink, The banquet man eats toast, Surveyors eat' their stakes, we think, And editors a roast. Shoemakers have fillet of sole, The printer pie and sweets. The hungry actor eats his role, Policemen munch their beats. —Gargoyle. — If you are vexed or angry you have two troubles instead of on<‘. •—To change one’s mind is rath, or a sign of prudence than ignor ance. Los Angeles real estate man took his son out of school because he wasn't taught subdivision.— California Graphic. i TRIBUTE TO .America's world war dead in solemn ceremonies will mark Armistice Day—November 11 throughout the land. Upper flowers the perfect tribute; center. Scc'y of War, Davis; Pres. Cool idge and Sec'y of Navy Webber at grave of unknown soldier at Arlington. W. Va. cemetery. Low er-Guard at flower-bank crypt of War-President Wilson at St. Al bans Cathedral. Washington. Missionary Society Elects Its Officers AO the last regular missionary meeting of the Baptist church elec tion of officers for the coming year took place. Mrs. L. Brown was chosen president; Mrs. Ches ter Stephenson, vice-president; Mrs. R. L. Fleming!, secretary; Mrs. W. N. Holt, treasurer; Mrs J. M. Beaty, honorary president and superintendent of missions; Mrs. H. H. Johnson, G. A. and Sunbeam leader; Mrs. Paul V. Brown, Y. W. A. leader, and Mrs. N. L. Perkins, Junior Royal Am bassador leader. The time of meeting was chang ed to Thursday after the second Sunday in each month, and all the circle will meet at the same time. The society is divided into three circles, the Lottie Moone, Yates and Judson circles. The member ship is divided as follows: Lottie Moon t lrcle Mrs. P. V. Brown, leader; Mes dames .1. M. Beaty, A. M. Calais, W. N. Holt, T. C. Henry. G. W. Hicks. S. L. Morgan, T. S. Rags dale, J. E Lassiter, Clyde Pearce. 51. A. Wallace, L. H. Hanes, Miss Annie Lassiter and Miss Lallah Rookh Stephenson. Yates Circle Mrs. N. L. Perkins, leader; Mes dames J. D. Dickens, E. C. Narron, J. L. Woody, W. H. Lassiter, R. S. Fleming, N. L. Perkins, T. C Jordan, Thomas Jordan, O. C. Caw ley, H. H. Johnson, C. M. John son, J. C. Standi. O. E. Matthews, Layton McGugan, John Ennis, ,T W. Daughtry, Robert Sanders and Milton Coates and Miss Annie My att. Judsoa Circle Mrs. H. G. Gray, leader; Mes dames V. V. Hunter, E. H. Dixon, D. H. Creech, H. P. Johnson, Ches ter Stephenson, S. II. Massey, C. M. Hamilton, D. W. Peterson, J. Convicts Escape From O’Neals Two Prisoners Make Com plete Get-Away; Trail ed Until Past Midnight. Mr. Lee Hocutt was in the city Saturday and told us that two con victs, Clyde Strickland and Fair cloth, made their escape from the O’Neals convict camp Friday after noon about four o’clock. Mr. Hoc uit was among the forty or fifty persons who followed the trail of the Hoeing prisoners until past midnight. They went into Nash county, and the trail was lost when apparently the escaping men got on an automobile. Strickland was serving an eighteen months term on the roads, and Faircloth was serving a two year term. About twenty-five convicts have been in O'Neals township for the past five weeks, and according to Mr. Hocutt, have been doing some good road work. They began yes terday to work on the highway from Henderson to Smithfield and oil to Clinton. This road lies in O’Neals township for 12.8 miles. The convicts are scheduled to go to Boon Hill township when the work is done in O’Neals. Biscuits With Sweet Milk or Sour When a housekeeper finds her self with a tried and trusted rec ipe for biscuits, or cakes, or cook ies, that calls for sour milk and soda and she has only sweet milk and baking powder on hand, or vice versa, the following rule may be used for substituting says the United States Department of Ag riculture: When proportions are given in terms of sweet milk and baking powder, an equal quantity of sour milk may be substituted and enough soda used approximately to neutralize the acid, or a scant half teaspoon for each cup of sour milk. In the case of thin batters the soda and sour milk generally furnish enough leavening, but for thick batters or doughs baking powder is usually needed in ad dition. When sweet milk is to be used in place of sour, baking powder is substituted for all of the soda in the proportion of 4 teaspoons of baking powder for 1 teaspoon of soda if no other acid ingredient such as molasses is used. If such an acid ingredient is used, as vn gingerbread, some soda is requir ed. Rare Bargain “That bracelet, madame, is un ique, It was given to the Empress Josephine by Napoleon Bonaparte, We are selling a great number of them this year.”—Royal Gaboon. H. Wiggs, Lawrence Brown, Buck Gurley, S. T. Price, S. B. Jones. J. E. Mahler, H. H. Radford, Carl Little, L. E. Perry, Francis Mor gan, Will Davis and Miss Dora Barbour. J Forceful Speaker On Timely Topic Hon. Oliver Stewart Offi cial Head The Ely in $ Squadron Talks On Prohibition. “The history of this nation ca-> never be written properly, without reference to three epochs: Franc*, ?s Willard, the Anti-Saloon League, and the Flying Squatlron,” deoio* ed Rev. A. J. Parker, pastor of the Methodist church here, as ho introduced Hon. Oliver Stewart Chicago, representative of the F ing Squadron, who spoke at t eleven o’clock hour. A large congregation greeted 1 he speaker of the hour, who after thv> opening devotions characterized b; special music, proceeded to deli" or a most forceful argument fo the cause of prohibtion. Civilization rests upon the horn* the church and the school, state' Mr. Stewart, and these agencies require an orderly condition o’ society, to produce the best re suits. It is the business of the state to provide this condition, bu' if the wets succeed in doing wha they propose to do, protection t" life and property will f*l. Ac cording t*o Mr. Stewart,who alonj with other observant citizen’s, i conversant with the avowed pur poses of the wets, the wets pro pose to restore the liquor traffic Not by abolishing the eighteen:1 amendment, do they expert to d, this. It would be a hard thing Vs get the necessary vote to repeal the measure. But by getting ri< of the penalties is their plan. They propose to pull the teeth out o the law. They propose to capture the government, and when they do this, it means the wreck and ruin of that representative constitution al government of which we have been so proud. “What are we going to do?" asked Mr. Stewart, and he ai svvered the question as the ol’iici head of The Flying Squadron. Th squadron proposes to cowntern the efforts of the wets to pull t. teeth of the 18th amendment b: putting sharper- tefth in it, Thei program coils for a legislative bu reau Washington which shal: work primarily for three objec tives. In the first place, this bu reau will work to have prohibition agents put under civil service. Wet persons need not be expected to enforce dry laws. In the second place the bureau will work for a law making a prison sentence for offenders of the prohibition law. mandatory. ‘Fines will not stop bootley#cers,” declared tire speak er, “when they can make mor* than enough to pay out of trou ble.” In the third place, the bu reau will work for a law- requir ing aliens or foreigners who eeme to this country and break the pr« hibition law, to be sent back to their homes. The speaker dosed his discourse with an appeal for financial back ing in this undertaking, and e velop'es were distributed throug out the audience, and an offeri made in an incredibly shdrt time Mr. Stewart went to Benson the afternoon where he deliver** an address in the Baptist chur* in the evening. entertains high SCHOOL FACTL'H * Kenly, Nov. 6.—Complimenting the teachers of the Kenly higl school, Mrs. J. M. Woolard « hostess to the Priscilla Embroid cry club on Friday afternoon. Shi was assisted in receivkig by her mother, Mrs. W. T. Bailey. Bas kets of fall flowers were effectively used in the hallway and parlors The Hallowe’en idea was effective ly carried out in the refreshment. of congealed fruit salad, saltines, sandwiches, pickles, and tea, fol lowed by cream and cake. Favor were unique Hallowe’en basket candies suggestive of the •cession Those besides club members e* joying Mrs. Woolard’s hispitalHs were: Misses Matt h. Cochran, Fa cie Cox, Mary E. DuRant, tlrac» Dixon, Martha Lee North, Debbi. Bailey, Bess Wroton, Christin. Johnston, Frances Hales, Bess Mc Intyre, Mable Haynes, Hanm Pearlstine, Pa trie Hunter, at' Me:,dames W. II. Mitchell, of Hous ton, Texas, J. C. Richardson ana ,G. I- Whitley.