V
6MITHFIELD NEEDS:
—Bigger Pay Roll.
—A Modem Hotel
—Renovation of Opera House.
—More Paved Streets.
—Chamber of Commerce.
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Know Your County
Do you know that Johnston, Wil
son and Pi'jt * ountio? raised more
produce per acre in 1922 than any
/ike area in the United States?
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VOLUME 44—NO. 9
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1926
$2.00 PER YEAR
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' ROUTE HI6HH
Johnston and Sampson |
Want Road From CHn-J
ton By Newton Grove!
To Smithfield.
PASS A RESOLUTION
Clinton, Jan. 27.—A new link
of the state highway system, by
which Clinton, Newton Grove and j
Smithfield would be linked and the
distance to the Johnston capital
materially shortened, is in direct
prospect as a result of the agree
ment made by the Sampson and
Johnston road commissioners last
Friday.
Under the jftan agreed upon,
Sampson and Johnston are ready
to immediately lay the proposed
• road. It is the hope of the com
missioners, however, that the ?tate
may be prevailed to take an inter
est in the road, in the anticipation
of it eventually being made a state j
highway.
The decision to establish such a
road while it was not actually .
until a meeting here Friday, has
been under discussion in the two
counties for several months. John
ston county, however, until the
last session of the legislature, had
* no highway commission. With the
creating of such a body a short
time ago, the possibilities of bet- <
ter highways was opened to the
county, and the work of establish
ing the road was started.
State to Route Road
While the definite route of such
a road is as yet unknown it is es- ,
tablished by a resolution of the'of- .
ficials of the two counties as lead- j
ing from Clinton, through Newton
Grove to Smithfield. I’he details ,1
of the actual location of the high
way are left to the state highway
department.
The Johnston county delegation '
which met here Friday was head-1 -
ed by Mr. J. A. Wellons, a road
commissioner of that county. They
met here with Mr. Ed Clumpier,
chairman of the Sampson body and
Major Goerge E. Butler, as attor
* ney and others. After discussion ;
of the local angles of the proposed
road, it was decided by the body
■ to ask the state highway dcpart
. • ment to settle once and for all
time the location of the route. This
was done in a resolution addressed
, to the state body, which will be
sent from each of the counties.
In this resolution the counties
ask that the state delegate engi
neers to route and survey the road,
and thus designate a highway that
will be acceptable at some future
time as a state highway. Once this
is done, the two counties pledge
themselves to build a highway
along that route, and thus pre
pare the way for the road’s adop
tion by the state department.
Hope for State Road
While there is no attempt on i
I the part of the two counties at
' this time to get the state to adopt
the road, there is an inclination
to make such a move possible. It
is known in both counties that the
state body favors such a road and
the hope is expressed that it will
1 soon find a way to adopt the road
I as a part of the general system.
The advantages of the road are
generally understood. For years
■ the rich Newton Grove section of
f Sampson and the adjoining sec- !
tion of southern Johnston have
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AUNT ROXIE SAYS—
By Me
When my ole man is drinkin’
I oft'en kinder feel,
He wustes’ crank erbout dat kar
Is at de steerin’ wheel. _
Helen In Paris
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VIISS HELEN WILLS, America’s!
cnnis queen, is now in Europe to :
tudy art but friends say she will I
tattle Mile. Lenglen for the world’s
let crown before returning to h?r
lative shores.
Johnston Again
Leads In Cotton
Dver Seventy Thousand
Bales Grown in This
County Last Year.
Johnston county, with a total of
’3,280 bales, led all counties in
s'orth Carolina in the number of
•ales ginned prior to January 16.
iccording to an announcement by
he Department of Commerce. A
otal of 1,117,894 bales of the 1925
irop were ginned prior to that
late this year in the entire State
is compared with a total of 822,
>60 bales of the 1924 crop to the
;ame day last year.
Only seven counties in the en
ire State reported less cotton gin
ied than last year while the other
>7 cotton growing counties showed
>ig increases. The quantities are
n running bales, counting round
is half bales. Linters are not in
iluded.
The leading cotton growing
counties following Johnston rank
is follows:
Koueson, lvasu, xiamaA, tvciAi-.
Iarnctt and Sampson. The only
:ounties showing decreases were: j
Cleveland, Gaston, Pamlico, Pas-1
luotank, Rutherford. Tyrell and
Washington. Robeson county led
n the gain over last year with a
jump in production of 32,000
lales.
The totals for each of the cot
;on growing counties, as given in;
:he report, are as follows:
Alamance, 1,877; Anson, 23,
LG7; Beaufort. 8,278; Bertie, 14,
)87; Bladen, 8,135; Cabarrus, 13,
270; Camden, 4,403; Cartaret, 307;
Catawba. 11,279; Chatham, 19,739;
Chowan, 0,149; Cleveland, 36,808;
Craven, 2,903; Cumberland, 29.263;
Davidson 2,241; Davie, 4,767; Du
plin 13,124; Durham, 2,269; Edge
combe, 39,369; Franklin, 3b,393;
Gaston 8,524; Gates, 7,039; Gran
ville 4,339; Greene, 11,979; Hali
fax, 53.730; Harnett, 47.897; Hert
ford 8,989; Hoke, 18,661; Iredell
16,257; Johnston, 73,280; Jones, 2,
009; Lee, 12,147; Lenoir, 13,751
Lincoln, 11.962; Martin, 8,68
Mecklenburg 21,481; Montgomery
6,041; Moore, 8.227; Nash, 57,171
Northampton, 35,850; Onslow, 2,
152; Orange, 1,892; Pamlico, 1,
950; Pasquotank, 3,296; Pender, 1,
369; Perquimans, 7,998; Pitt, 25,996
Polk, 3,527; Randolph, 2,146; Rich
mond, 18,946; Robeson, 60,721;
Rowan, 15,261; Rutherford, 12,
893; Sampson, 40,856; Scotland,
30,784; Stanly, 9,449; TTyrell, 365;
Union, 29,113; Vance. 9,360; Wake,
49,948; Warren, 20,874; Washing
ton. 1,653; Wayne, 38.016; Wilson,
30,788, and all others, 6,191.
Methodist Ohivtch
There will be regular preaching
at the Methodist church Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock by the pas
tor followed by the reception oi
new members. There will be nc
j service at the evening hour. Thi
pastor, Rev. A. J. Parker, wil
! preach at the union service to be
^held at the Baptist church at 7:15
Charlotte Scene
Tragic Accident
Sister of Mrs. H. L. Skin*
ner and N. M. Lawrence
Struck By Car Is Dead.*
_
i Mrs. H. L. Skiner received a
j message Tuesday evening while
helping to serve the Kiwanis sup-;
per that her sister, Miss Lizzie
Lawrence, had been seriously in
jured by an automobile. Mrs. Skin
ner left about ten o’clock for her
bedside, but a message soon after
her departure announced the death
of Miss Lawrence which occurred
at the Charlotte Sanatorium at
10:45 o’clock. Miss Lawrence has
visited in this city, her sister, Mrs.
H. L. Skinner, and brother, Mr.
N. M. Lawrence. She was here dur
ing the Christmas holidays. The
funeral was held in Charlotte
Thursday afternoon.
Yveunesaays tjnarioite Uoserv
er in reporting the accident said:
“Miss Lizzie Lawrence, 122
East Morehead Street, is dead,
John L. James, white, former gro
cery store and pool room proprie
tor, is in the city prison and po
lice officers are searching for a
negro driver of an automobile in
which James was riding, as the re
sult of Miss Lawrence being run
down by the car at Stonewall and
Tryon streets early last night.
“James and the driver are said
to have deserted the car when
they saw it had run over Miss
Lawrence, but police officers took
James into custody after the acci
dent had been reported to head
quarters by J. A. Clanton, white
youth, the third member of the
party.
“Clanton joined the officers in
their search for the negro driver,
volunteering to identify him for
the authorities.
“Early this morning Clanton and
the police were making a careful
search of the negro sections in an
effort to capture him.
“Reports to the police were to
the effect that Miss Lawrence was
in the act of crossing the street
and while attempting to move out
r^f the way of an approaching
truck was struck by the car driven
by the negro in which James was
riding. Her side was crushed and
one lung was punctured. She re
ceived bruises and cuts about the
body and was injured otherwise.
She was placed in a passing auto
mobile and carried to the Char
lotte Snatorium where she died, at
10:45 o’clock.
“Miss Lawrence was the daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
M. Lawrence, and had been a res
ident of this city for about twen
ty years. She was widely known in
Charlotte among a host of friends
and was connected with the Ma-.
sonic widows’ fund, being employ
ed at the Masonic temple.”
SERVICES AT PRINCETON
AND TINE LEVEL
Next Sunday, January 31st, be
ing a fifth Sunday, the pastor will
hold special services as follows:
at the Princeton Baptist church at
11 a. m. Subject of sermon, “Chris
tian Melodies.” Text, Ephesians
5:19. Sunday night at the Pine
Level Baptist church, subject of
sermon, “The Doctrines of the
Rainbow.”
JAS. W. ROSE, Pastor.
Kenly Defeats Black Creek
Last Friday night Kenly Highs
defeated the Black Creek Highs
to a margin of one point with a
final score of 13 to 14. The game
was exciting all the way through.
It was hard for either team, to
stay in the lead. Both teams play
ed good basketball, but K. Wat
son was the outstanding player
for Kenly, scoring a field goal
about one minute before the game
was over, which brought victory
to Kenly.
Kenly Defeats Benson
Kenly, Jan. 2G.—The Kenly
high school basketball team won an
exciting game from Benson Tues
day night by the score of 28 to
17. Both teams were rather er
ratic in their shooting, the Kenly
team especially missing many good
chances. Watson, Kannan and IIol
lowell featured in the scoring for
Kenly, while Woodard played an
excellent defensive game at guard.
The outstanding player for Benson
was Roy Medlin.
FLIES FROM NEW YORK
TO DINNER INVITATION
Truly this old world grows
smaller when one can take off
a half holiday, tecive hfs
home in New York, and take
dinner with a friend in Smith
field. This is just exactly
what happened last week. Last
Friday evening Messrs. Gray
Staples and Willis Glass were
entertaining at a dinner party
at San-Gla-Sta Lodge honoring
several tobacconists from Wil
son. About leleven o’clock Mr.
Staples wired his friend, R. J.
Reynolds Jr., in New York to
come down for the party. About
six o’clock Mr. Reynolds step
ped from his airplane having
left New' York between twelve
and one o’clock and was ready to
participate in the evening’s en
tertainment.
The other guests on this oc
casion w'ere Troy Myatt, Cecil
Hutchinson, Coley Paxton, Dick
j Butler, Frank Harison, John
McAddert from Wilson; Robert
Wellons from Charlotte; Ran
som Sanders, William Sanders,
E. E. Wright, Earnest Gordon
and Dan Jones.
Legion Post Has
Meeting In Selma
Guests of Selma Member
ship at Smoker; Mr.
Capps of Raleigh Prin
cipal Speaker.
On Wednesday night January
17, the Selma membership of the
?ou-Parrish Post of the American
Region was host to the Four Oaks,
Micro and Smithfield membership
)f the Post at a delightful smoker.
Dr. Mayerberg was acting toast
naster and he filled that bill as
.veil as SanCa Claus fills the
Christmas stockings for the chil
iren.
I’he Post was honored by a visit
>f the Raleigh Post commander
md the Raleigh Post adjutant. Mr.
[sley, the commander, made a de
ightful short talk and Mr. Capps,
;he adjutant, made the main ad
iress of the evening. All the
nembership enjoyed the visitors’
talks very much, especially Mr.
Dapps as he made several sug
gestions as to how to build up
Pou-Parrish Post.
After the address of Mr. Capps
Lhe meeting was informally con
certed into a business meeting of
;he Post. Practically every mem
Der present had something to say
for the encouragement and edifi
cation of the Post. Several sug
^estions were made and adopted
t>y the Post. Among those sug
gestions Dr. Mayerberg suggested
that it might probably be better
to have only the Pou-Parrish Post
in this section of the county. That
one large, active post would be
of greater benefit than several
weak posts It was decided by those
present that since there has al
ready been established a post at
Benson and Clayton that the Pou
Parrish Post would cover Johnston
county with exception of the juris
diction of the already established
posts above named. A membership
drive will be launched by the Pou
Parrish Post to cover Four Oaks
Smithfield, Selma, Micro, Kenly
Wilson’s Mills, Pine Level, Prince
ton, and all adjacent territory
Every ex-service man living in this
territory is urged to affiliate him
self with this post for the time
being. Later when it is deemed ad
visable and membership sufficienl
is secured separate post will be es
tablished in the several towns nam
ed;
It was suggested by Mr. Capps
that the Pou-Parrish Post shoulc
have affiliated with it a Woman’s
organization. Mr. Capps says thai
practically every man seeks th<
support and companionship of i
woman in his life and that it jusi
simply takes the ladies to do th<
work and called to our attentior
that old familiar song “Let thi
Ladies Do the Work While thi
Men Sit Around,” and asked thi
question how we expected them ti
do our work in this organizatioi
unless we offered them a part ii
our organization. The idea seemei
to impress every member. It wa
decided by the meeting that an ef
fort would be made to organize th
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TOBACCO CO-OPS
ANSWERS REPORT
Board Director Make:
Statement In View ol
Suit Brought By \Vile>
M. Person.
RECORD DELIVERIES
By S. D. FRISELL
Raleigh, Jan. 27.—Members ol
the Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association made the largest de
liveries of the entire season to
their warehouses in North Caro
lina and Virginia last week, amoun
ting to a total of more than 4,500,
000 pounds of tobacco, according
to the statement of General Man
ager Richard R. Patterson.
This is considered a remarkable
showing of loyalty on the. part of
the membership particularly in
view of the recent report of the
Federal Trade Commission and the
suit of Wiley M. Person of Frankr
lin County, North Carolina, against
the association.
*** view ui Liio lact mat me n
nancial affairs of the association
were reported by Oliver J. Sand9,
chairman of the executive com
mittee, as being in the best con
dition since its organization at last
week’s meeting of the board of
directors, the suit of Person who
has repeatedly busied himself in
making speeches and calling meet
ings against the association, is re
garded as an extravagant play
for publicity.
The attitude of the directors to
wards the report of the Federal
Trade Commission which largely
ignored the charges of tobacco far
mers from various parts of the
two, Carolinas and Virginia made
against the Imperial and American
.Toltoeco Companies and1 severely
attacked the methods by which the
organized growers have protected
their own business and maintained
higher prices for all tobacco far
mers of this section in the past
three years, was expressed in the
following statement at last week’s
meeting of the association’s gov
erning board:
“The board of directors of the
Tobacco Growers Cooperative As-1
sociation has spent a day hearing;
detailed statements on the redry
ing situation writh particular ref
erence to the activities of General
Manager Patterson and Warehouse
Manager Watkins as co-partners in
the Edmundson Tobacco Company,
said statements covering items
brought out in the report of the
Federal Trade Commission; and it
has been made dear that the mem
bers of this board would have been
in general approval of the prior
policies of this board in permitting
and encouraging our directors or
officers or managers to engage in
redrying activities in preference
to piacmg sucn business with the
enemies of cooperative marketing;
and it has been made evident that
the members of the board of di
rectors with a few exceptions were
not aware to prior to June 1923,
that managers Patterson and Wat
kins had an interest in the Ed
mundson redrying ctivities for the
1922 crop; and that most of the
directors did have general knowl
edge of such activities for the
1923 and 1924 crops; and this
board here expresses it approval
of such activities and reiterates
the resolution adopted August 18,
1925; and here states that' it
would have approved the said ac
tivities of 1922 had it known of
them, as being in accord with its
general policies at that time, and
that other employes and directors
such as Mr. Williams and others
were redrying tobacco for the as.
sociation under standard contracts
with the knowledge and approva
of the board generally, including
all of the actual facts about the
policy of not selling green tobac
co to dealers and expressly includ
ing all the actual facts and evi
dence to show that the executive
committee had good reasons to be
lieve that there was, in the spring
1 of 1923 a real attempt to raise the
' cost of redrying against this as
i sociation, with full knowledge ol
i all these facts the board approve
I of all such activities; states lha
i the contract price and profits havi
been in line with similar compet
! ing companies and were proper ir
view of the hazard and the par
ticular service; and further state:
Will Lecture Here February 5
COI,. HENRY D. STER
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Col. H. D. Styer
To Talk On Siberia
.
Local Legion Post Spon
sors Illustrated Lecture
Here Next Friday Eve
ning at Courthouse.
The local Poii-Parrish Post of
the American Legion is sponsoring
a lecture by Co. H. D. Styer, which
will be illustrated with steropti- :
con views of scenes in Siberia.,
Colonel Styer will talk on his ex- \
periences in Siberia, having been i
the commander of the first Ameri
can troops to enter that country.
He is particularly qualified to de
scribe the economic, climatic and
living conditions in Siberia, and
all who attend his lecture at the
courthouse next Friday evening,
February 5, will certainly be re
paid for their time. Colonel Styer
has an enviable record as follows:
Graduated from the United j
States Military Academy, West
Point, 1884; served as Lieutenant i
in the 21st and 13th Regiments of
Infantry for fourteen years in1
Wyoming, Utah, Indian territory, I
and at Fort Niagara, New York, j
As Captain in the Phillipine Is
lands, 1899-1902, ^wns mentioned j
in orders for the capture of Vi- j
cente Prada, a notorious guerilla j
leader; as Major 29th Infantry,'
commanded the Post of Fort Ni- i
agara 1909 to 1912; on duty.with .
the Second Division in Texas in
1913, on the Border at Eagle Pass
in 1914; graduated from the War
College, Washington, in 1914. Pro
moted Colonel 1916 and Brigadier
General, National Army 1917; la't
er commanded the American Zone
of Advance in Eastern Siberia.
The Clay tonBanks
Now Consolidated
The Clayton Banking Co.,
Takes Over Business of
The Farmers Bank.
I At a joint meeting of the di
rectors of the two banks in Clay
ton Tuesday night, a decision was
reached to consolidate these two
institutions. The Clayton Banking
Company taking over the business
of the Farmers Bank. The propo
sition for consolidation can^e from
the Farmers Bank and the amounts
on deposit to the credit of the va
rious customers will at once be
transferred to their credit on the
books of th£ Clayton Banking
Company.
Mr. C. W. Horne is president of
the Clayton Banking company and
Mr. John T. Talton is cashier. The
Farmers Bank which will lose its
identity in the consolidation was
headed by Mr. J. A. Griffin as
president, and Mr; J. M. Turley as
cashier;
Each of the banks made state
ments concerning the change which
are published elsewhere in this is
sue.
Mrs. J. M. Goodman returned tc
her home in Scotland County yes
terdaay after a visit here to Mrs
A. J. Parker.
that it does not see any grounc
whatsoever for any claim of anj
kind against the persons involvec
in these transactions.”
Col. Elmore Here
At Kiwanis Club
Field Organizer For Car
olinas District Honor
Guest at Dinner Meet
ing Tuesday Evening.
At the second-regular meeting
of the Smithfield Kiwanis Club j
held Tuesday night in in the!
Woman’s Club room, Colonel El-!
tinge Elmore, field organizer for I
the Carolinas district of Kiwanis |
International, had complete charge
of the program following the open- j
ing song and invocation.
Col. Elmore’s visit here was dis
tinctly advantageous and very
unusual in that it is seldom that
a club of Kiwanis 13 visited by a
representative of International fol
lowing the time their charter i£
granted. But Colonel Elmore was
in this section of the state and at
the instigation <$f District Gov- j
ernor Felix Harvey Jr., of Kins
ton, he made Smithfield his first
stop on a visit of five clubs*
“Kiwanis is not the public
purse,” he said, and added “that it
is neither the public pack horse ”
He said that it was rather the ad
junct to all local (organizations,
including the church, the school,
the city council, the scout move
ment, charity organizations, the
Chamber of Commerce and simi- j
lar groups. He suggested the for-1
mation of a group composed of |
two representatives from each of J
the above organizations, the pur
pose of which would be the initiat
ing and suggesting improvements
for Smithfield and adjoining terri
tory. This plan is working wonders
in civic improvements in other
places, and he saw no reason why
the same would not be true in
Smithfield.
The theme running through his
entire talk was that of boosting
everything good, the forgetting of
self in moves for public improve
ments, and enthusiasm and jovial
ity in the meetings. One of the
chief faults of this club last year,
he said, was the fact that real en
thusiasm was lacking, nd that
committees were not functioning
to the best degree of efficiency.
On Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’
clock in the county commissioners
room he met the chairman of all
Kiwanis committees and the board
of directors. With them he briefly
discussed plans for the coming
year, objectives of the club Inter
national, and instructed commit
teemen in their duties.
Brief Recorder’s Court
The Recorder’s Court in session
here on Tuesday the 26th, dispos
ed of only two cases, and that was
I done during the recess hour of
■ the Superior court.
Elmo Holder, a negro from
| Wilder’s township, was found guil
ty of ‘toting’ a forbiden piece oi
I hardware and was given, his pref
erence between a $75 fine or r
term of six mont:.s on the John
I ton county roads. He went bad
to jail to consider the merits oJ
the two alternatives before mak
ing his wishes known.
Lawrence Hudson, white of Ben
! son, was found guilty of larceny
| In his case judgment was suspend
ed upon payment of cosL
Both of the above cases wen
; jail cases.
band home when you go oirt ii
| to leave the baby , with him,
Sale Of Ivanhoe] f
Mill Confirmer!
Another Snag Struck In
Huge Tax Lien Filedl By'
U. S. Governnment. I
In reporting the confirmation
of the sale of the Ivanhoe mill
sold here at public auction on Jan.
j 16th, the News and Observer of
! yesterday had the following:
“Sale of the property of the
| Ivanhoe Mills, of Smithfield, which
; have been the subject of involved *
bankruptcy proceedings for sev
eral months was yesterday con
firmed by Joseph B. Cheshire Jr.,
United States Referee in bank
ruptcy but another snag has been
struck in the nature of a tax lien
for $308,000 filed by the United
States government since the sale
of the property on January 16
and Referee Cheshire yesterday or- V
dered title to the property retain
ed by Kenneth Gant, the trustee,
until the new tangle can be
straightened out'. ' '*
• ADout ot the hen rep- £
resented penalties and the romain
dre is excess profits taxes alleged
to be due. J. W. Bailey attorney
for the trustee, stated yesterday
that the lien represents a “jeop
ardy assessment” made because the
property was involved and that
the matter is now being investigat
ed by representatives of the Unit
ed States Bureau of Internal Rev
enue, who were present at the
hearing yesterday. The trustee
contends that no tax whatever is
due.
“The mills, which were apprais
ed at $350,000 in estimating total
assets of $500,000 against liabili- t
ties of $900,000 at the time of
the bankruptcy were brought in
for $250,000 on January 16 by J. f *
J. Broadhurst, W. H. Austin, B. B.
Adams and the Tomlinson estate,
in behalf of the old directors of
the company. These same men pur
chased the interest of all other
stockholders some time ago and
have also acquired all claims again
st the property.
“The bankruptcy will come to an
end and the mills are expected to
resume operations as soon as the
matter of the federal tax can be
adjusted.”
Field Representative Coops Here
The North Carolina Cotton
Growers Association has a field
representative now in Smithfield in
the person of Mr. Paul W. Mack.
Mr. Mack says he is going to bend
every energy to double next year
the amount of cotton in Johnstorv
county delivered to the association.
The association now has a sales
department that sells cotton direct
to the mills, and is now selling 40
pgr cent of its cotton direct to the
mills.
DEATH OF LITTLE CHARLES
FREDERICK JOHNSON
Selma, Jan. 28.—The infant son
>f Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Johnson
passed away Monday evening at
:heir home on Railroad street. Dr.
Bugg, child specialist of Raleigh,
vas called Monday in consultation
with local physicians, funeral
services were conducted at the
home Tuesday afternoon by Dr.
0. P. Fitzgerald of the Edgerton
Memorial Church. Interment was
made in the Selma cemetery. The
loral offerings were beautiful. Dr
and Mrs. Johnson have hosts of
friends who sympathize with them
n this dark hour.
The Mirror
IS THIS YOU?
If the person who answers this
description will call at The
Herald office they will
receive a free ticket ■»
to the Victory
Theatre.
You were seen Thursday
morning about eight o’clock in
front of Smithfield hotel. You
wore tan slippers, flesh-colored
hose, tan dress, black coat, your
hair is long and was done up in
a most attractive manner. Look
to be about 18 but—?
Miss Leo Ennis recognized
herself in Tuesday’s mirror.