North Carolina Newspapers

Smithfield Extends a Warm Welcome to the Boy Scout Troops of Johnston County "■■■.. 1 v SMITHFIELD NEEDS: —Bigger Pay Roll. —A Modem Hotel —Renovation of Opera House. —More Paved Streets. } —Chamber of Commerce. I S.---r1 J-\ JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDS: County Farm Agent Better Roads Feeding Highways Equal Opportunity for Every School Child Better Marketing System More Food and Feed Crops \. VOLUME 44—NO. 19 * * SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1926 * * $2.00 PER YEAR ii CHILD IS STRUCK BY CAR AND IS KILLED INSTANTLY MR. ALBERT ALLEN DIES HI HIS HOME Passes Aften Ten Years of Affliction With Pe culiar Malady—Funeral Yesterday. A life filled with sadness and yet one that radiated brightness came to a close Wednesday morn ing about ten o’clock when Mr. Albert Allen passed away at the home of his father, Mr. Ben Allen in Beintonville township. ' To many is known the life story I of Mr. Allen whose short span was I only 31 years, for his affliction and the wonderful manner in which he bore it have been talked of far I and wide. About twelve years ago this young man became afflicted | with what appeared to be rheu j matism and he sought relief and | healing in one hospital after an | other, consulting specialists in dis eases of this sort but without [ avail. About ten years ago he was in Hot Springs. Ark. They brought him home with no hope of re covery. His trained <jnurse, Miss Southerland, accompanied him I home, and in her devotion during [ the long years since that hoine | coming, is a story of patience and j devotion that might well have | caused Lowell, the poet, to pen the “He’s true to God who’s true to man.” I Nbt very long after he came I home, his mother passed away, and k on her death bed, Miss Southerland ^ promised to stay with the son as r long as he lived. She kept her promise faithfully. During the past ten years the ravages of disease kept making in roads upon his strength, kept tak ing a hold upon his body until when he died he could not move a ' muscle except in his shoulders. ■ Every joint was pesjf'ectly stiff, i Sometime ago it became necessary i to remove some of his teeth in or der to feed him. Three years ago he became blind. In the beginning of his illness he suffered quite a bit of pain but in recent years he ! was fairly comfortable. Through it all he has never been known to 1 murmur nor complain, and he has been heard to state that he be lieved he was fulfilling God’s pur pose for him even on a bed of af fliction. The funeral was held yesterday ' afternoon and interment made in the family burying ground. Num bers and numbers of friends will mourn his passing. New Dry Goods Store Opened In Smithfield Mr. Artie Summerfield, proprie tor of the Spot stores of South Hill. Va., and Rich Square, has secured the store building former ly occupied by the R. S. Smith & company and is opening a dry goods store there. He purchased the stock of goods owned by R. S. Smith & company and new goods are arriving daily. Lost—Book of chancfes tfor church bazaar by young lady nearly full. AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me Towns big and little have ; joltin' streak whar it jins d country jes ter loosen de buHdoj grip tight wads have on dey mon . WAKE FOREST GLEE CLl’B HERE TONIGHT The Wake Forest Glee club will give a concert at the high school auditorium tonight at 8 o’clock. The Glee club is coming under the auspices of the Holt Srenders chapter of the U. I). C. Everybody is invited to attend. Voters Vote Down School Election Uniform Tax Proposition in N. E. Special School Taxing District Defeat ed by 486 Votes. The second election to be held in the Northeastern Special School Taxing District was defeated on Tuesday, March 2, by 480 votes. 1 The election called for u^'fljiecial tax throughout the districc^f not exceeding fifty cents on the hun- 1 dred dollars worth of property, j and the voters showed emphati- j cally how the majority feel about j increased taxation. The books ! showed 3010 registered for the I election, and only 1319 votes were ; cast in favor of the uniform tax. j Only two townships gave a ma- J jority favoring the proposition. I Selma and Beulah, and Selma and I Glendale (in Beulah) districts al- ! ready have a special tax. West Smithfield township constituting Hopewell and Johnson school dis tricts rolled up the biggest per cent against the issue. Twelve votes out of a registration of 200 were cast favoring it. Next to this section, Pine Level which includ ed voters from Pomona, Creech’s and Yelvington’s Grove districts, 1 defeated the measure with only 04 votes cast for the tax out of a registration of 582. The vote in the other voting pre cincts was as follows: Selma, reg istration 054, with 376 for; Boon Hill registration 528, with 147 for; Beulah, registration 447, with 250 for; Ingrams registration 051, with 315 for; Oneals registration 334, with 47 for; Micro registration 217, with 108 for. Meeting Of Interest To Be Held In Raleigh A meeting to which Methodist ladies arc looking forward with a great deal of interest is the Wom an's Missionary Council to be held at Eden ton |Stree*t Methodist church in Raleigh March 10 to 17. This meeting will bring sonic of the finest women of the whole southern church to North Caro lina, and notable speakers will fea ture the program. Dr. J. B. Matthews, professor of Old Testament at Scarritt Col lege ill he in charge of the noon day L'iVe hour each day. Dr. Mat thcv.s has h.cen a missionary to •lava, is an author and an editor. Another speaker of note will be I)r. Daniel J- Fleming of New York City, a Presbyterian minis \r and former missionary to In dia. The subject of his address will be: “World Missions.” Other speakers are Dr. Chas. R. Zohn iister of Pittsburg, Pa., who will [talk on “The Church and the Com jmunity.” and Miss Sze Vong Pau, corresponding secretary of the China conference. Miss Sze will represent her conference at the council meeting in Raleigh, and will also be an official delegate at the General Conference in May. Mrs. Spencer Elected Vice-Pres.-General Charlotte, March 4.—Mrs. W. O. Spencer, of Winston Salem, today was elected as a vice-presider»t-Ben«ral of *he Daughters of the American Revolution by the North Car olina Society in convention 1 Sunlight Needed. Sunlight in the hog house bring? fj about dryness, warmth and sani -.tation and these are needed fo: j mere:;-ful growth of young pigs I ___ Wears Tilden Crown 1 -- - l 1 •' ' ■ .• - in V't This isn’t the French tennis ace who put our own Big Bill Tilden out of the National Indoor champ ionship play—but he did defeat his fellow countryman, Brootra, who' beat Big Bill, thereby winning the title. He is Rene Lacosve, new champion. C. L Williams At Meadow Meeting Addresses Law and Or der League of Meadow Community Club. Benson, Route 2, Mar. 4.—The Meadow Law and Order club met last Friday night in the school au ditorium. The meeting was called to order by the chairman, Rev. P. A. Pridgen, after which the sec retary, Mr. P. Parker, called the roll and read the minutes of its last meeting. The chairman made a short but interesting trflk ’in which he stated that the aim of the club is to make Meadow a better place to live and to fight against lawlessness. He urged the people to join the club. The speaker of the evening was then introduced by Mr. T. L. Hudson. Solicitor Wil liams made one of the best and most forceful speeches yet heard in the Meadow auditorium o.n the subject of “Law Enforcement.” The best way to test a law, says Mr. Williams, is to enforce it. The best way to tell whether or not it is a good law is to enforce it The best way to repeal it is to en force it. He also stated that a law must meet with public sentiment. The United States, according to Mr. Williams, is far in advance of any other country in the percent age of murders with a murder for every working day of the year. Too many of these crimes are commit ted by the young white men of the country. The remedy, as stated by Mr. Williams, lies in the organ ized efforts of the home-parental disciplines,—the school and the church. Rev. A. J. Parker Attends Meetings Rev. A. J. Parker, pastor of the Methodist church here, has Return ed home after spending a few days l this week in Raleigh and Durham. On Monday he attended a meet ing in Durham relative to the country church project which is now under consideration. This movement is planning for a sur vey of country churches of all de nominations with a view to locat ing each one on a map. Mr. Par ser will have charge in Johnston county. On Tuesday Mr. Parker attend ed a meeting of the executive com mittee of the board of trustees of jLouisburg College. Mr. Parker states that the college will under take to raise $50,000 to match $50,000 offered by Mr. R. H. Wright for a new building at jLouisburg College if the building jis begun before the one now being built by Mr. Wright is dedicated. (Jive Cow Plenty of Water Milk is about 87 per cent ol I water naturally, which meant that the cows should have plentj iof clean fresh water to drink. I SEE THE BOY SCOUTS IN ACTION HERE TONIGHT AT THE ARMORY i Can you tie nine complicated knots in less than one minute? Can you make fire by rubbing sticks or flint and steel? Can you send a message by the Wig Wag method? Do you know what to do with a person that has fainted? Can you splint a broken arm? Do you know how to stop bleed ing and take care of a person that is weak from loss of blood? If you ever knew how to do the above, and have forgotten, see the Scouts in action at the Armory tonight at 8 o'clock. If you have never learned the above, come anyway and find out how it is done. ! The Scouts of Johnston county will be glad to have you, and you will miss a lot if you don’t see I what they have to show you to | night. ! Come out, and DON’T forget, that a little cheer from those in terested in Scouting has a lot to do with the pen and action of each Scout Troop. The troops that will be here are: Troop No. 1 Kenly, No. 1 Prince ton, No. 1 Selma, No. 1 Benson, Troops Nos. 1 and 2 Smithfield. The Scoutmasters are: Rev. A. C. Summers, Rev. A. M. Mitchell, Mr* M. P. Young, Rev. J. E. Bla loq^c, Rev. Chester Alexander and Mi*. Edgar Watson. JURY LIST FDR CRIMINAL TERM Superior Court, One Week Criminal, One Week Civil, Opens Here Mon day With Judge Sin clair Presiding A two weeks’ term of Superior Court will convene here next Mon day, March 8. The first week will be devoted to criminal cases and the second week to civil cases. Judge N. A. Sinclair of Fayette ville, will preside over the crimi nal term. Judge Sinclair has just held a two weeks’ special civil term of court here. The following is the jury list: FIRST WEEK Charles Wood, Ingrams Town ship; J. V. Whitley, Wilders; M. R. Peedin, Boon Hill; W. A. Lee, Ingrams; J. A. Jones, Selma; W. G. Creech, Pine Level; H. L. Skin ner, Smithfield; G. R. Jernigan, Ingrams; Joshua I. Pope, Banner; D. W. Peterson, Smithfield; A. L. Massey, Boon Hill; W. C. Flow ers, Banner; Fred Batten, Micro; Robt. A. Sanders, Smithfield; Dave T. Overbee, Boon Hill; Ivan Crab tree, Wilders; L. S. Penny, Ban ner; W. Arthur Batten, Boon Hill; J. M. Ogburn, Smithfield; J. W. Hamilton, Smithfield; Jerry M. Lee, Bentonville; Robert Parrish, Smithfield; Carson V. Creech^ Ele Turn to I'tfgc eight, please GO. FARM AGENT NO! APPOINTED Commissioners Will Wait Until Convinced Ma jority Want Agent— Numerous Items of Business The board of county commission- j ers at their regular session held here Monday and Tuesday of this week, decided not to put on a Farm Demonstration Agent in Johnston county until they are convinced that a majority of the people of the county want one. Tfhere has been some demand for an agent at the past two meetings. Other items of business trans acted by the board include the fol lowing: Ordered that J. W. Stephenson, be released of $3000 valuation on his gin plant in Smithfield town ship listed by error. Ordered that Jimmie Young be released of poll tax on account of disability. Ordered that A. M. C. Davis be , released of $5055 in the form of a note listed to him in 1925, same having been listed by error. Ordered that Luther Radford be released of poll tax in Smithfield township. Ordered that G. R. Stancil be paid $56 for bridge work in Wild ers township. (Turn to page eight, please) Wake Sheriff Is Fined For Affray Sheriff D. B. Harrison and His Deputies Receive Fines For Assaulting Negroes Something: new in the court an- j nals was tried here in Recorder’s Court on Thursday of this week, the innovation being trying a sheriff and his staff on criminal charges by which they stand in dicted for an assault with a dead ly weapon upon the person of a negro of Wilders towinship by the name of David Adams. The sheriff in this very unusual case is Sher iff D. Bryant Harrison, of Wake county, and the other defendants are his deputies: Bud Stell, Mallie Poole, Joe Partin, Pete Denton and Joe Lowe. I This trial had its origin in an [assault upon a negro of Wilders township, and it occurred on the [night of July 20, 1925. David Ad I ams was the state’s prosecuting witness, and it was largely upon | his testimony and the corroborat ing testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Todd of Wendell, that the state re lied for a conviction. David Ad ams was the first witness to take ■ the stand, and his testimony was I substantially as follows: He tated that he lives in Joh'ns , ton county about three-fourths of a mile this side of the Wake coun .ty line; that on the night of July ' 20 he came in from his work about 'dark and found at his homo Mr, Marvin Todd, an automobile me chanic of Wendell, who had come to his house to make some repairs on his automobile; that in conse quence of a conversation which he had with Todd he went some five hundred yards down the road where he had a watermelon patch. He had been missing melons from his patch and his motive for going to the patch at this time was to frighten away some trespassers who might be there bothering his melons. He had his gun with him. Upon drawing near to the melon patch he saw some men in the road whom he suspected as being Ku Klux, one of whom commanded him to halt, and at the same time flashed a light upon him. This struck him with fright and he turn ed around and began running back toward his house, firing his gun in the meantime in the direction where the melons were. The offi cers followed after him in hot pur suit, firing many shots at him as they came nearer his house. He made an attempt to conceal him self in the woods below his house but the officers had flanked him | on both sides and he was forced .into his house. They entered 1 Turn to page eight, please) Makes Million At seventeen Miss Gene Goldman left her parent's farm in Calgary, Canada, and tool; a salesgirl’s po sition in Chicago, selling real es tate on the side. Today she has her own company and has made a million for herself. Clayton To Have Mail Delivery New Mail Service Begins May 1—Woman’s Club Has Trees Set Out. Clayton, Mar. 4.—About a year ago our postmaster, Mr. A. R. Duncan, began work for village mail delivery for Clayton, and the town has cooperated in every way possible, making all the improve ments recommended by the post office department in order to come up to the requirements necessary to obtain this service. Mr. Duncan has recently been advised by the postoffice department that begin ning May the first Clayton, will have mail delivery and beginning with this date patrons of the Clay ton postoffice, living within the city limits and adjacent houses, will have their mail delivered to their homes or places of business twice each day and this without additional cost to the people serv ed. The Woman’s Club here has re cently bought several hundred dol lars worth of trees which they have had set along some of the principal streets, which will add very much to the beauty of the town in a few years to come. One of the outstanding meet ings from both a social and bus iness viewpoint was the regular bi-monthly meeting of the Wom an’s Club Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 17, with Mrs. J. Dwight Bar bour as hostess. The beauty of this handsome home was enhanc ed by the effective use of lovely spring flowers, jonquils and gol den bell, as decorations. During Turn to page two, please Mrs. Joe Davis Is Elected Treasurer Mrs. Joe Davis, who has been attending a meeting of the North Carolina Association of Jewish Women at Durham this week, was honored at this meeting by being elected treasurer of the associa tion. She succeeds Mrs. Eli Ep stein of Rocky Mount. $20,000,000 Worth Of Buildings Will Be Erected At Duke Durham, March 4.—With blue prints and drawings for 820.000, 000 worth of buildings to be erect 'ed on the new campus of Quke University in their possession, Prof. R: L. Flowers, secretary treasurer of Duke University, and Dr. Frank C. Brown, comptroller and chairman of the building com jmittee, left the city Wednesday j night for New York. The purpose of their visit is to confer with the trustees of the Duke Foundation ! regarding the plans for the new educational plant. Following their return to the city, definite an 'nouncement is expected to be nfadc |regarding the new plant. Dr. Giase Will Remain At U. NX Turns Down Oregon Of fer and Tells Trustees Recent Events Have Touched Him Deeply Raleigh, Mar. 2.—Liberalism and orthodoxy played no apparent part in the decision today of President Harry W. Chase, of the university, to remain at the head of the insti tution and thereby to decline the call to Oregon university as its executive. The action of Dr. Chase was pre cisely the same spirit as that of the executive committee of the board of trustees several weeks ago when it urged the president not to leave North Carolina, but raised no issue whatever. In all the dis cussions yesterday and today not a word which smacked of a relig ious controversy was uttered and the ability of the tritsttfes^who'' are both fundamentalists and mod emists, Doth radicals and middle of the roaders, to negotiate this action today without even think ing in partisan terms is the best prophecy that could have been made of a peaceful time this year. There were 53 trustees here. That was a big representation considering the difficulty of get ting them notified and their en gagements changed for this sitting today. The trustees of the univer sity are made up of the state’s busiest men and they are wlell scattered over the state. But rare ly is there a better attended meet ing even on long notice. Governor McLean presided. There was little horse play on the part of the trustees or of the president. Tfhe whole 'thing was Turn to page eight, please) Gov. McLean Names Education Commission Governor A. W. McLean has an nounced the appointment of twelve North Carolinians who \yill form the Educational Commission au thorized by the last general as sembly. This commission will make a complete survey and investiga tion of educational problems and methods of administration in the state. The members of the com mission, which include both men and women, will serve without 'compensation except for a travel and expense of not exceeding six dollars per day. Clinic For Cripples To Be Held At Louisburg ' On March 18th thre will be a linic for cripple children at Louis burg. This clinic will be under the auspices of the State Orthopaedic Hospital and the State Department ] of Welfare. Dr. Miller will he jthere and Dr. Hugh Thompson I will assist him in making the ex laminations. Adults will be admitted | for examination. | The Negro ward at the Ortho jpaedie hospital is ready for pa tients, and the welfare officer is glad to serve the colored cripples, i Bring your cases to her. MRS. D. J. THURSTON, Supt. Public Welfare. A Good Idea. I The Cumberland Presbj tcrinn, of | Nashville, suggests mat in this j time of attack on the Bible by ug .nostics it is goo-t policy for Chris jtian congregations o place few copies in th£> pews, and |bfi< rs (good ones at half a dollar each.— 1 Dearborn Indepemloiit. ! t CROSS Three and Half Year Old Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Johnson Darts In Front of Automobile on East Market Street DRIVER EXONERATED The fourth fatality from auto mobile accidents in and near Smith - field within ten days occurred hero Tuesday afternoon when little Jo seph Edwin Johnson, three and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Johnson, was run over by an auto driven by Mr. J. W. Floars of Burlington, and was killed instantly. The accident happened about four o’clock in the afternoon on Market Street at the crossing at ‘the Jo-Tex Filling station. Mrs. Johnson accompanied by the little boy had been up town shopping ami was returning to her home on North Fourth Street. They start - ed across the street, but seeing a car, Mrs. .Johnson and the boy stopped. The child however, after hesitating an instant darted across the street in the front of the car, Mr. Floars in an effort to dodge tTie'''cTiTld”’ran upon the curb, but? struck the child, fracturing hi sKuii. i na mother picked the nctm one up, but he was dead in » few minutes. Eyewitnesses to the trag ic occurrence were Mr. Vassie Jor dan, who lives near Shiloh, and who was passing in a truck, and Mr. J. N. Rhodes, who holds a position in the Capital Cafe. Messrs. Edward Woodall and Charles Springs, who were at the filling station, reached the scene just after *it happened and assist - cd in getting the body to the un dertaker's shlop. Mrs. Johnson was prostrated with grief and has been confined to her bed under :i doctor’s care. Mr. Johnson, who is superintendent of the SmithrieltL Township convict camp, was not in town when the accident hap pened but was summoned immed iately. Mr. Floars was considerably wrought lip and sent for Sherifi! Parker at once. He was placed un der a S1000 bond for his appear* ance in Recorder’s Court Thu; - day. but special hearing on Wed nesday afternon, obviated an ap pearance in Recorder’s Court. T ■ following jury heard the case: Chas. A. Creech, D. U. Thompson, Britton Smith, J. H. Wiggs, W. H. Upchurch and J. J. Batten. TV jury exonerated Mr. Floars of any criminal intent, the witnesses showing that he tried, to avoid running over the child. An exam ination of the ear. however, shov - ed that there were no brakes on the car. The car was damag-d from running into a telephone pc’o when the driver endeavored to dodge the child. Mr. Floars v. formerly from Fremont and \va*. Turn to page eight, please) if * 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 wore blue flannel suit., hite shirt with collar attached, ou also wore tan slippers, gray overcoat and gray hat. You vis ited The Herald Thursday eve ning. Mr. Irwin Hill recognized himself in Tuesday’s Mirror.