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<r- v BMITHFIELD NEEDS: —Bigger Pay Roll. —A Modem Hotel. —Renovation of Opera House. —More Paved Streets. —Chamber of Commerce. VOLUME 44—NO. 26 Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper-Established 1882 * * tf * /——x JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDS: County Farm Agent Better Roads Feeding Highways Equal Opportunity for Every School Child Better Marketing System More Food and Feed Crops s SMITHFIELD, N. C. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1926 S2.00 PER YEAR W. F. Carter Holds First Court Here Takes Oath of Office anc Then Opens Specia Civil Term A two weeks term of Superior court for the trial of civil cases was opened here yesterday morn ing with Hon. W. F. Carter, of the Mount Airy bar presiding. This is a special term of court and Judge Carter comes to John ston under u special appointment by Governor McLean. Prior to tak ing the required oath, he stated that he had never acted in the ca pacity of a trial judge but that as a lawyer and a member of his own county bar he had had several years of active legal work. He pre dicted that by the cooperation of the Smithfield bar that his initial court would be successful. Mr. Ed. S. Abell, responding for the Smithfield bar, extended a hear ty welcome to Judge Carter. The oath of ofiice was adminis tered by Justice of the Peace C. S. Broadhurst. The calendar for the present week was called and the work of the court got under THE IMPORTANCE OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL (Prize essay in a contest in the Corinth Sunday school.) The importance of a Sunday school is to teach the people the word of God. A Sunday school will interest the children and keep them away from the Sunday gath ering places such as the filling stations, swimming pools, and gam bling stands. This country would probably be destroyed by outlaws if it were not for Sunday schools. They have made the homes of America cooperate better. They have also promoted religion and religion has been the saving salt of humanity. If it were not for Sunday schools in America it would probably be a heathen country. Sunday schools have caused many lives to be saved. There would be more lives lost than there are if it were not for Sunday schools. When we say Sunday school it doesn’t mean just a gathering place for Sunday it means people go J.o worship God. It also produces missionaries to go to other countries to teach the people the word of God. They help the orphan children too. They buy Sunday school literature for the attendants to read. They get the children interested in reading the Bible. They also send money and food to the other country to the hungry children which are per ishing to death. LEROY BAILEY. Four Oaks, Route 1, March 26. WHAT CAN YOU TAKE? Henry Longfellow could take a sheet of paper worth 1 cent, write a poem on it and make it worth $5,000- That’s genius. Henry Ford can take a similar i sheet of paper, write a few words on it and make it worth $10,000, 000. That’s capital. A workman can take 3 cents’ worth of steel, make it into watch springs and collect hundreds of dollars. That’s skill. A merchant can take an article worth 50 cents, advertise it, and sell it for $1. That's business. Almost any priter can take a job at a price without a profit. That’s damphoolishness. — Franklin As sociation Bulletin. Watch the date on your label and don’t let your subscription expire. AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me— « jjw tkJLL. *um m ■ t When Reppblikine rool po’ folks moan. Food His Hobby Dr. Harvey M. Wiley, has done | much to insure the nation’s health j by his advocation of pure lood laws. Dr. Wiley lives in Washing ton, D. C. and is hale and hearty Easter Musical Program Sunday Annual Woman’s Club Event Will Be In Bap tist Church at 4 P. M. For several years the Woman’s I club of Smithfield through its mu- j sic department has given two pub- I lie musical programs each year, j one at Christmas and one at Eas ter. The program this Easter will | be given Sunday afternoon in the j Baptist church at four o’clock. ' Miss Lallah Rookh Stephenson, : chairman of the music department! of the Woman’s club, and Mrs. C. V. Johnson, assistant chairman, have the program in charge which promises to be a musical treat. The program follows: Hymn, Hark Ten Thousand Harps, Mason, Choir and Congre gation. Anthem, Praise the Lord, Mere dith, Choir. Scripture lesson and prayer, Rev. Chester Alexander. Response, God So Lo\'ed the World, Wilson, Choir. Solo, Consider the Lilies, Scott, A. M. Calais. Anthem, Christ Is Risen, Mor rison. Choir. Duet, The Light of Easter Morning, Creswell, Mrs. Dart and Miss Johnson. Anthem, Be Thou Exalted, Mer edith, Choir. Male quintet, Fainting Under the Crown, Wilson, Messrs. Pet erson, Johnson, Eason, Morgan and Coates. I Anthem, Rejoice, the Lord Is Risen, Judson, Choir. Duet, When I Survey the Won drous Cross, Wilson, Miss Barbour and Mr. Calais. Male quartet, He Arose, Adams, Messrs. Peterson, Johnson, Mor gan and C.rates. Anthem, The Lord Is Risen Again, Adams, Choir. Hymn, Now the Day Is Over, Barnby, Choir and Congregation. Benediction, Rev. A. J. Parker. Those taking part in the pro gram are: sopranos, Mesdames W. J. B. Orr, N. T. Holland, M. A. Wallace, C. E. Oakley, O. C. Caul ey, John W. Ives, Chester Steph enson, H. C. Hood, Misses Glenn Ward, Dora Barbour and Mary Barbour; altos, Mesdames R. H. Alford, C. V. Johnson, W. T. Dart, R. (J. Sanders, I). Carlton Steph enson and Miss Lucile Johnson; tenors. Rev. S .L. Morgan, Messrs. W. C. Coates, Paul Eason, James Davis and Marvin W 'oda’.l; bass, Rev. A. J. Parker, Messrs. A. M. Calais. Tfher,n John: a and D. W. Peterson. Sleep It Off “Why is it, Sam, that one never hears of a darky committing sui cide?” “Well, you see, it’s disaway, boss. When a white pusson has iany trouble he sets down and gits a studying an’ a-worryin.’ Then fir’ thing, bang! he’s done killed his se’f. But when a nigger sets down to think about his troubles, why, he jes’ nacherly goes to sleep.”— Everybody’s Magazine for April. Joint Meeting Of 3 Kiwanis Clubs Benson, Selma and Smith field Hear Governor Fe lix Harvey, Jr., at Selma Joining hands in an Inter-Club meeting in Selma last Thursday night, the three Johnston county Kiwanis clubs met in the Kiwanis hall to hear Governor Felix Har vey Jr., of Kinston. Mr. Harvey is at the head of the Carolinas Kiwanis District. The Smithfield club had perhaps the largest num ber present at the meeting, there being around thirty local Kiwan ians present for the occasion. Governor Harvey delivered his address following some very good singing ajid several stunts. Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald of Selma, was chairman of the program com mittee, and he produced a good many laughs when he quizzed the three club presidents, Leon G. Stevens, Dr. Adlai S. Oliver, and Star Harper, of Smithfield, Ben son and Selma, respectively. The quiz was conducted at the head table, and was made up of ques tions concerning Kiwanis history. Dr. Oliver won the prize for an swering the most questions. Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald then intro duced Governor Harvey, paying him a glowing tribute in that he was essentially a leader of men of Kiwanis type, that he was a man of sterling worth, and that Ki wanis in this district has grown by leaps and bounds under his leauersmp. Governor Harvey, thanking Mr. Fitzgerald for his remarks, said that he was glad to be with the clubs, that he considered it an honor to address three such clubs in one meeting. He dwelt at length on the service that Kiwanis clubs are doing in their respective commun ities, especially as regards the un der privileged child. He also stress ed the almost limitless possibili ties of Kiwanis clubs when they line up with other civic organiza tions in their towns, these organ izations including other luncheon clubs, town aldermen, boards of charities, parent-teachers associa tions and like bodies, all of which would go forth from one central unit, jthat unit being Kiwanis. This is brought about, he said, by simply having some one from these organizations appear before the clubs at regular intervals telling Kiwanis what it could do for them. Towards the conclusion of his address Governor Harvey told sev eral jokes on Kiwanians present at the meeting. President Harper brought the meeting to a close by having all present stand and sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” The Boy Who Knew How An American boy nineteen years of age once found himself in Lon don, where he was under the ne cessity of earning his bread. He went straight to the printing of fice and inquired whether help was needed. “Where are you from?” inquir ed the foreman. “America,” was the answer. “Ah,” said the foreman, “from America. Can you set type? The young man stepped to one of the cases, and in brief space set up this passage from the first John: “Nathaniel said unto Him, Can there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Phillip said un to him, come and see.” It was done so quickly, so accu rately, and administered a delicate reproof so appropriate and pow erful, that it at once gave him in fluence and standing with all the office. He worked diligently at his trade, refused to drink beer or any kind of strong drink, saved' his money, returned to America, be came a printer, publisher, author, postmaster general, member of Congress, signer of the Declara tion of Independence, ambassador to royal courts, and finally died in Philadelphia at the age of eighty four. There are more than one hundred and fifty counties, towns, and villages in America named af ter this same printer boy.—Benja min Franklin. Seventy farm women of Nash county have enrolled their kitch ens in a contest being put on by the home demonstration agent. Young Boy Tries To End His Life Attempts Suicide Because He Did Not Want to Go to School Just because he did not want to go to school, it is said, James Barbour, twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barbour of Bentonville township, attempted suicide Wednesday by tying a rope around his neck and jumping from a tree which he had climbed. “I ain’t going to school,” he is said to have declared, and when his parents asserted that he would go, he went out and endeavored to end his life. He climbed the tree, according to our information, and swung off, but missed calculation and was only somewhat strangled. He swung back and though pale and weak from the effort jumped again. This time his mother watch ed him helplessly as he dangled from a rope fifteen feet above un til he was black in the face. He swung from the limb until, Miss Pauline George, a school teacher, climbed the tree, grasped the tree with one arm and held the boy with the other until some one climbed up and cut the rope. Medical aid was summoned im mediately, but for twenty-four hours he lay unconscious. He has, however, recovered sufficiently to be up now. LIEUT. L. A. OXLEY TO ADDRESS NEGROES APRIL 2 The last group commencement of the negro schools of Johnston county will be held in Princeton on Friday, April 2. It will be held at the school building and prominent speakers will be present. The out standing address will be made by Lieut. Laurence A. Oxley, of Ral eigh, state director of welfare work among negroes, at 12:30 o’ clock. W. S. King, principal of the Morehead City graded schools will also make an address. The pro gram for the day is as follows: 9:30 Grande Parade: School “Boost Song,” Each school group ed around its banner. 10:00—Opening Song, America. Invocation—Rev. J. W. Brown, pastor of A. M. E. Church, Prince ton. Chorus—“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” (Negro National Anthem) ; Word Recognition Contest— j Grades, Primer and First Reader. One contestant from each school. Spelling Contest (Written pri vately)—3, 4, 5, and 6 grades, win ning contestants to appear in the auditorium. Story Tilling Contest—First and Second grades. One contestant from each school. Arithmetic Contest—4, 5, 6, grades, one grade selection from ;ach school. commencement Address— \V. h>. King, principal of Morehead City Graded School. Address by Lieutenant Laurence A. Oxley, state director of welfare ivork among negroes. Speaking Contest—One contest ant from each school. Oral Language Contest—One contestant from each school se lected from grades 4, 6, and 6. Exhibits examined. Remarks by Mr. M. P. Young and others. Report of the Judges, Presenta tion of prizes. Dinner at 2:45 P. M. Note—All perfect attendance certificates to be given at the County Commencement on April 3, 1926. Schools and Teachers In Group Princeton—Mrs. Florence Whit ley, Misses M. Jeffrys, M. Robin son, L. Hamilton. Kenly—Mr. J. II. Skinner, Mrs. M. L. Jeffrys, Miss Adamson. Southern Grove—Mrs. Joyce Mc Neeley. Pine Level—Mrs. Rosa B. Vin son, Miss C. B. Whitaker. Micro—Misses Beatrice Wolfe and Francis E. Grissom. Cedar Grove—Miss Lunada Clarke. If farmers of North Carolina would plant early corn for hogging down, they would make many dol lars of extra profit on the corn, says W. W. Shay, swine extension specialist. PROF. VERMONT TO DELIVER ADDRESS HERE Prof. A. Vermont, former su perintendent of the schools of this city, now professor of the Romance languages at Converse college, Spartanburg, S. C., will deliver a lecture, on a “Trip to Paris" in the courthouse here Friday night at eight o’clock which will be illustrated by col ored slides of Paris and other places in France. An admission fee within the reach of all will •be charged, for the benefit oof the hospital. Mr. Vermont gave a lecture at Kenly last night; he will be in Selma tonight and at Princeton tomorrow nigjh}*:. He comes to Smithfield under the auspices of the Business and Professional Woman’s club. B.Y.P.U. Meeting In Sanford April 9 Smithfield Orchestra Will Help Furnish Music— Prominent Speakers Sanford, March 30.—Some four or five hundred delegates and vis itors are expected to attend the Central Regional B. Y. P. U. con vention, which will be held in the First Baptist church of this city beginning Friday evening, April 9, and continuing through Sunday noon April 11. This is the third of a series of five such regional con ventions Secretary Perry Morgan, of Raleigh, is holding in different sections of the State this spring. This convention will include as many delegates as will come from the following associations: Sandy Creek, Montgomery, Piedmont, Beulah, Mount Zion, Flat River. Tar River, Central, Raleigh, John ston and Little River. Entertain ment will be on the Harvard plan, bed and breakfast furnished. The personnel of the speakers on the program is very attractive, most of the speakers being young people. The following is a partial list of speakers aind those who will conduct conferences: President C. S. Green. Durham; Dr. Hubert Poteat, Wake Forest; Dr. Collier Cobb, Chapel Hill, stereopticon; Rev. Eugene Olive, Chapel Hill; M. L. Skaggs, Chapel Hill; Perry Morgan and Miss Winnie Rickett, Raleigh; Prof. E. L. Middleton, Raleigh; Miss Gladys Beck, Four Oaks; Miss Marguerite .Harrison, Meredith college; Miss Mary Ken nedy, Durham; Rev. O. E. Lee, Greensboro; Rev. L. B Moseley, Wake Forest; Rev. Sankey L. Blanton, Franklinton. Prof. A. E. Lynch, Buie’s Creek, will lead the music, assisted at the piano by Miss Clarion Poole, Raleigh, and the young people’s orchestra from Smithfield and a quartet from Wake Forest. CAMPAIGN TO ADVERTISE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA The Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce has awarded contract to the Greensboro Advertising Company of Greensboro, N. C. for the advertising of the entire Eas tern section of the State, compris ing forty-six counties. This advertising will be in the nature of newspapers, trade jour nals and booklets for follow-up work. Representatives of the Greens boro company will soon be in this vicinity gathering industrial and agricultural data to be used in this campaign. Weekly bulletins will be issued all newspapers dur ing the whole time of the cam paign. SELMA GIRLS IN MEAT STORY CONTEST Among the sixteen North Car olina high schools that have en tered contestants in the Third Na tional Meat Story contest sponsor ed by the National Livestock and Meat Board, is the high school at Selma. Contestants are required to write a story or theme on some phase of the meat subject and sub mit with it three tested recipes. The young lady chosen as National champion will receive a university scholarship and $150 in cash. Oth er prizes total more than $2,000. Mrs. Sam Hogwood spent yes terday in Raleigh. Presiding Elder Preaches Here Holds Second Quarterly Conference of Metho dist Church Immediate ly After Sunday Even ing Service Sunday services at the Metho dist church were characterized by unusually good sermons, Rev. A. J. Parker, the pastor, preaching at the morning hour and Rev. M. T. Plyler, presiding elder of the Raleigh district, preaching at the evening service. “How Ho Supply Smithfield’s Greatest Need,” was the subject discussed by Mr. Par ker, and it was quite a coincidence that the theme of the evening ser mon was practically the same, al though Mr. Plyler did not localize I his topic. “Gold and silver have I none, but such as I have give I unto thee,” was the text taken by Mr. Parker, and he drove home the thought that Smithfield citizens need to give according to their ability— not particularly in a material way, but give to others hope, faith and love. Not all are five talent peo ple, not all have the money of a J. B. Duke, but all have something which they can give, and a pecul iarity of giving is that enriches the giver as much as the recipi ent. Mr. Plyler used the story of feeding the five thousand with the small boy’s loaves and fishes, as the basis of his remarks and also emphasized the idea of giving what we have. Miss Frances White sang a love ly solo and Messrs. W. C. Coates, I. W. Medlin, Paul Eason and A. J. Parker rendered a beautiful quartette at the evening service. The second quarterly conference was held immediately after the eve ning service, and Mr. Plyler was gratified at the reports of the va rious phases of church work. ! SERENADERS PRESENT ENJOYABLE CONCERT ! Kenly, March 24.—The Riverside ! Serenaders of Smithfield gave a I concert in the Kenly high school ‘auditorium Thursday night, March 118, under the auspices of the jun ior class. The orchestra was direct ed by William C. Lassiter and con sisted of nine players: W. C. Las siter, W. G. Lassiter, L. V. Hun ter, Bill Joe Austin, Bill Norton, T. J. Lassiter, P. D. Pittman, Carl Ennis and John Phillips. The pro gram which was as follows was very much enjoyed by all: Success—March, Bennett. Joyful Greeting—March, Little ton. Gibraltar, Overture—Hayes. El Capitan, March—Sousa. Over The Waves, Waltz. Cornet and Baritone Duet, (Se lected)—by Lassiter and and Las iter. Alabama Bound, Fox Trot. Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Waltz. Meet The Serenaders. Indian Boy, Indian Novelty— Bennett. INTERMISSION. Seminola, Fox Trot Novelty— King and Warren. Washing Post, March—Sousa. Headway, March—Bennett. Ambition, Overture—H. Bennett. Project March—Bennett. Show Me The Way To Go Home, Pittman with band. R. S. (Dedicated to Riverside Serenaders)—Wm. C. Lassiter. Let It Rain, Let It Four, Fox Trot. Mister Joe One Step—H. Ben nett. Necoid March—Hayes. An Excellent Way To Train Vines When I put up strings on which porch climbers are to run, instead of attaching the lower ends of the strings to sticks stuck up in the ground I take narrow boards and drive small nails part way in. I lay the boards down flat and tie the strings to the nails. This looks neater, is more easily worked around and prevents weeds from coming up between the vines. The plants are less likely to be dis turbed by strong winds which oft en pull the single sticks up.—Farm and Fireside. Was Labor’s Friend j Aino cae rctCl • ^ This is the newly sculptured bust of the late Samuel Gompers. Amer ican Federation of Labor will place this marble likeness of iti former friend and leader in th< [National, Museum. The Two Banks Kenly Merge Merged Institution To Be Known As Bank ol Kenly—Better Banking Facilities The town of Kenly now has one bank, known as the Bank of Kenly. , Recently the Farmers Bank of that city has been merged into the Bank of Kenly, thereby making a stronger institution. The officers of the merged institutions are as fol lows: president, G. W. Watson; vice-president, J. T. Edgerton; cashier, E. V. Neighbors. This is the second merging to take place in Johnston county in the last few months, the two Clayton banks having consolidated some time ago. The officials of both Kenly banks, said a Kenly citizen, had but one object in view in the merging of the two banks and that was to afford better banking facilities for the town and community. The re sources of both together make it one of the strongest banks in that section. The Bank of Kenly was the first established in that town and has been serving that community for about twenty years. It has made a fine reputation among the peo ple of that vicinity and its depos itors are numbered by the hun dreds. DONNELL WHARTON ON EVERY STAFF.AT DAVIDSON Davidson, March 24.—W. H. Branch, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., has been elected editor-in-chief of The Davidsonian, weekly newspaper of Davidson college, winning over L. D. Wharton, Jr., of Smithfield Of all the elections held this spring at Davidson the one for this position was the most keenly [•on tested. Branch and Wharton both served on the staff of the Davidsonian for two years. Both are members of the Delta Pi Kap pa honorary journalistic fraternity sit Davidson. In addition to this Branch was on the staff of the junior class magazine for Easter. Wharton is on the staff of ev ery publication at Davidson, be ing the only member of the stu dent body to have that distinction. He was athletic editor of Quips and Cranks, exchange editor of the now defunct Davidson College Magazine, and one of the editors of the “Y” Handbook. The Davidsonian is one of the most prominent college papers in the state and in the south. For the past two years it has been vot ed the best college newspaper at meetings of the North Carolina Collegiate Press Association. Branch is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity while Whar ton is a member of [the Delta Theta Chi. It will pay this year'jtb use good seed and heavily fertilize a small acreage of cotton to make the best yields per acre. Only in this way can the cost of produc tion be held to where a profit can bo made. Cleveland Starts Progressive Move .-• * t Township Farm Bureau Organized (With A. M. Johnson President The building of a new high school in Cleveland township is just the beginning of progressive moves for that section if the meeting held at Shiloh school ho'use last Thurs day evening is any indication. The meeting was called for the purpose of organizing a Township Farm Bureau, which organization was effected with the following officers elected: president, A. M. Johnson, vice-president, C. W. Pender; sec retary-treasure, Frank Wood. Mr. Pender was chosen to represent Cleveland township in the County Farm Bureau. Standing commit tees on roads, education and en tertainment will be appointed at an early date. Coming together to study the needs and resources of the com munity has already resulted in finds that may mean a great deal to Cleveland township. It has been brought out that the township has water power in Little Creek and Swift Creek sufficient to furnish lights to all that section. Already Mr. Percy Barbour from Swift Creek furnishes power for the lighting of a half dozen or more houses. ( One of the projects to be pro moted by the Entertainment com mittee of the fhrm bureau, is the placing of a radio in the high school building when it shall ,be completed. An outstanding feature of the meeting Thursday evening was a talk on “Friendship” by Mr. C. W. Pender. The bureau will meet again Thursday evening. April 8, at which time the ladies of that com munity are invited to be present. All Cleveland township seems wide-awake since the carrying of the school election, according to a citizen of Cleveland, and enthus iasm for other enterprises prevail ed at the farm bureau meeting ©n Thursday night. Carolina State Highways Our state highway system now includes 4,448 miles of completed road, on which there has been ex pended in four years a total of $82,200,953. During the year 1925 there was new road construction | of 1.554 miles at a cost, with bridges, of $27,327,066. There is at present under construction an ad ditional mileage of 816, to cost $14,659,572, and this will be great ly increased during the year 1926 by the expenditure of from 10 to 12 million dollars loaned by va rious ocunties to the Highway Commission.—Governor McLean. Getting Posted The telephone girl in a New York hotel answered a queer call over the house exchange the other morning about eleven o’^Jock. When she “plugged in,” a man’s voice said: “Hello. Is that the So and-So hotel?” “Why, no,” answered the girl, “this is the Such-and-Such hotel.” “Oh, all right,” said the man. “Just woke up and didn’t know where I was.” “Exactly,” retorted the lectur er; “and if one lies a great deal, bne’s standing is lost complete ly.”—Christian Guardian. The Mirror IS THIS YOU? If the person who answers this description will call at The Herald office they will receive a free ticket v to the Victory Theatre. You were seen at corner of Farmers Bank and Trust com pany at 3:25 p. m. Monday. March 29. You wore dark blue dress with white trimmings, dark tan coat, fur around col lar, light tan hose and slippers. Had long hair. Looked very at tractive. Henry Johnston recognized himself in Friday’s Mirror.