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KM1THFIELD NEEDS:
—Bigger Pay Roll.
—A Modern Hotel.
—Renovation of Opera House.
—More Paved Streets.
—Chamber of Commerce.
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VOLUME 44—NO. 48
S. . V
JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDS:
County Farm Agent
Better Roads Feeding Highways
Equal Opportunity for Every
School Child
Better Marketing System
More Food and Feed Crops
$2.00 PER YEAR
MEEK1NS NAMl
FOR TOBACC
M. L. Corey, J. H. Pou and
Hallett S. Ward Are
Named Receivers
Elizabeth City, June 19.—Fed
eral Judge I. M. Meekins late to
day announced the appointment (^f
M. L. Corey, of New York City,
James H. Pou, of Raleigh, and
Hallett S. Ward, of Washington,
N. C., as receivers for the Tri
State Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Marketing Association.
Counsel for the association and
for the Federal Intermediate Cred
it Bank of Baltimore, a co-defend
ant in the suit, gave notice that
an appeal would be filed in the
circuit court of appeals for this
district.
imiiit oiunt naiiMifu.
Attorneys? for both sides ex
pressed themselves as entirely sat
isfied with the personnel of the re
ceivership.
The receivership order cites as
reasons for the receivership that,
from the facts presented, it ap
peared to the court that the direc
tors and officers of the Associa
tion have so managed its affairs
that it is either insolvent or in
imminent danger of insolvency.
It, the order, further sets out
that the organization’s director’s,
“high salaried officials,” and other
agents and empoyees entered into
contracts with themselves or with
firms in which they were financial
ly interested for redrying much
tobacco, and made large profits;
that such acts were approved by
the directors; that certain of the
directors and officers bought ware
house properties at exhorbitant
prices; that salaries were paid in
excess of the value of the services
rendered, and sometimes for un
necessary services, in disregard
of the rights of the members.
As a result of the actions of
the board of directors, the order
declares, the Association is being
liquidated by a joint committee of
three directors and two represen
tatives of large creditors.
The Association “has failed of
its purpose, and such purpose has
been rendered impossible,” due to
the fact that the management has
lost the confidence of the mem
bership, it is asserted. As a fur
ther result of the way the affairs
of the Association have been hand
led, the members have sustained
heavy losses, and the Association s
assets have fallen far below an
amount sufficient to pay a fair
market value for the tobacco de
livered by the members.
Large Rond Required.
The court did not fix the amount
of compensation to be received by
the receivers, Judge Meekins stat
ing that he would have to consider
that further. The receivers were
directed to give bond of $250,000
M. L. Corey makes it his bus
iness to act as financial and bus
iness adviser to Co-operative mar
keting associations, and was re
cently appointed to that capacity
by the directors of the organiza
tion, at the suggestion of the
Baltimore Credit Bank, the As
sociation’s largest creditor. The
other two receivers are widely
known.
Mr. Pou is credited with being
one of the outstanding lawyers in
North Carolina, and Mr. Ward,
who formerly represented the first
North Carolina district in Con
gress, is a prominent eastern
North Carolina lawyer and bus
iness man.—Associated Press.
IMOVE OFFICES
The remodeling of the T. C.
Jordan’s building, formerly known
as the Jones-Cotter building on
Market street, for the use of the
Hudson-Belk company has made it
necessary for those ocupying of
fices on the second floor of this
building to move to new quarters.
* Mr. J. A. Narron has moved to the
Davis building over the Jordan
Jewelry company. Mr. Charles II
Grady has moved his office <to
the hotel building, to the rooms
formerly occupied by the May-San
Tea room, and the State Highway
Commission offices have been mov
ed to the Hood building.
Watch the date on your label.
■S RECEIVERS
0 ASSOCIATION
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BASEBALL LEAGUE
IS NOW COMPLETED
Pine Level has entered the
Johnston County Baseball
League and will meet Four
Oaks at Four Oaks today.
Sniithfield plays Clayton
here Friday at 4 o’clock on
the high school diamond., A
battle royal is expected between
the local nine and Clayton, the
visiting team being one of the
strongest in the State. The lo
cal club won two games from
Four Oaks last week.
Mr. Chas. Wellons
is Fatally Injured
Succumbs to Injuries Re
ceived at Railroad
Crossing Friday
Selma, June 21.—News has
reached negatives herte of the
death of Mr. Charles Wellons, a
well-known farmer of Micro town
ship. Mr. Wellons had purchased
some property in Micro and had
driven over in his car early Fri
day morning to have some repair
ing done on the buildings. As he
was crossing the Coast Line rail
road the fast Northbound Train
No. 34 struck him, demolishing
his car, while he miraculously es
caped instant death. He was taken
on board the train and carried to
a Rocky Mount hospital, where his
injuries were found to be of a very
serious nature. He succumbed to
his injuries Saturday morning at
5 o’clock. No one was with him
at the time of the accident and
why he did not see or hear the on
coming train will always remain
a mystery as there was no ob
struction on the tracks and no
nearby curves.
Mr. Wellons is survived by his
widow and five children. Ht was
about 70 years of age.
Funeral servicer were conduct
ed Sunday at 1. o’clock at the Mi
cro Free Will Baptist Church. Rev.
S. H. Styron, officiating.
MRS. SARAH BALLARD
PASSES AT HOME OF SISTER
Selma, June 21.—Mrs. Sarah
Ballard, widow of the late James
Ballard, died at the home of her
sister, Mrs. John H. Parker. Fri
day- Interment was made in the
family burial ground near San
ders Chapel Saturday evening. She
is survived by two sisters, Mrs. J.
H. Parker of Selma, and Mrs. H.
A. Peterson of Smithfield. Funeral
services were conducted by Elder
Jesse Barnes, of Smithfield. She
was a member of the Primitive
Baptist church and held her mem
bership in Smithfield. She was 80
year old.
COMMUNITY MEETING AT
CARTER’S SCHOOL HOUSE
A meeting of very great impor
tance to the farmers and their
wives will be held in the Carter
school house, Boon Hill township,
on Friday evening, June 25, at
7:30 p. m. A prominent speaker
of the state will be on hand to
! make a short talk that will inter
est all who come out.
Herald ads are business get
ters. Try one.
AUNT ROXIE SAYS—
By Me—
I sees in de Literary Digest de
doctahs is gwine ter fly high. I
irally tho’t dey wuz high ‘nuf.
An Old Landmark
Is Being Removed
The Removal of “The
White Rock” On Fourth
Street Is Proving A
Big Task
One of the landmarks of Smith
field—the Old White Rock—is be
ing removed on Fourth street to
make way for the ^street paving
now in progress. This natural
formation on Fourth street show
ing a circular area above ground
thirty or forty feet in circumfer
ence has been a favorite play
ground for children for many
years. A companion rock about
the same size though oblong in
shape still remains in the yard of
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Henry.
It has been an almost Hercu
lean task to remove this huge rock
which weighs thousands and thous
ands of pounds, and numerous
blastings with dynamite have not
yet served to break it up sufficic
iently to be removed. The remov
al is entailing patient, hard work
and the cost has been estimated
at perhaps a thousand dollars.
Those who have grown familiar
with it through the years rather
regret to see it removed and
would like to see its pieces pre
served in some sort of memento—
for instance a rock wall or seat
similar to the rock seat recently
built at Chapel Hill out of the
The removal of this /Familiar
object has caused some little com
ment as well as much hard labor.
The other day an old colored
woman passed by the workmen,
and, stopping to pay tribute to the
passing of the old rock, she told
them that when she was a small
girl she used to chop cotton along
there and she was always glad
when she got a row across which
this rock lay, as it helped her to
finish her row ahead of the others.
Another very able discussion
which the old rock has called
forth came from two of the negro
laborers whose task it has been
to remove it from its ancient bed.
The question they were heard to
discuss was: Do rocks grow? This
discussion took place while they
were delving around it with pick
and hoe. Needless to say they were
both on the affirmative.
Mrs. W. R. Brannan Dead
Mrs. Malinda Brannan, wife of
Mr. W. R. Brannan, of O’Neals
township, died at her home on
Tuesday, June 15, after a linger
ing illness. The deceased was tak
en sick on last December and on
February 3 underwent an opera
tion at Rex hospital, Raleigh. She
returned to her home and was able
to be up around the house, but
never finally recovered from the
operation, passing away at her
home last week.
Mrs. Brannan was born Decem
ber 5, 1860, this being her sixty
sixth year. After a long, busy and
useful life she died as she had
lived-*-honored, trusted and loved.
She reared her own monument as
she lived in the hearts of all in
her community. Her life was com
pleted if work all done and well
done constitutes completion. She
was the daughter of the late Jesse
and Elizabeth Brown, and lived
all her days in O’Neals township,
j On Wednesday afternoon Elder
I Jesse Barnes conducted the funer
al services and interment was made
at the Price burying ground. The
flowers were 'many and beautiful,
emblems of love and sympathy
from the friends of the family. At
the funeral a favorite song was
sung: “Come My Deal Friends
and Mourn With Me.” A large
crowd of friends and relatives
were present to pay a last tribute
of respect.
The deceased is survived by her
husband and seven children as
follows: Mrs. Lula Hatcher, Mrs.
Ella Wilder, Mrs. Paul Whitley,
Mrs. Jonah Parrish, Jesse Bran
nan, Eddie Brannan, all of O’Neals
township, and B. M. Brannan, who
holds a position at the post office
in this city.
Top dress cotton and corn with
quick acting nitrogen fertilizers
before it is too late and win back
the growth lost during the drouth,
say agronomy workers at State
College.
Bryan Luck?
Despite the 'fief that'^arfyre
turns showed Ruth Bryan Owen,
daughter of the famous late Wm.
J., a winner of the Democratic
nomination for Congress from the
Fourth Florida district, it would
peem she lost as the final officia
count is being tabulated.
Mail Bag Found
In Well Bottom
Lost From Station Here
Last Fall: Confined
Over 1000 Pieces First
Class Mail
The cleaning out of a well last
Saturday in Belmont, a negro sec
tion just east of the railroad, clear
ed up a mystery that has gone un
solved since last fall. Last fall, a
mail bag was stolen at the sta
tion here, and all efforts to lo
cate it had proved futile until W.
L. McMillan, a well-known, reli
able colored man, found the miss
ing sack Saturday in the bottom
of his well.
For some time, McMillan states,
the water in his well had been
bad. It had caused his family to
be sick, and they stopped drink
ing it. Last Saturday he decided
to clean the well out in an effort
to find out what was causing the
water to be bad, and found the
mail pouch. It had been weighted
down with several brick, and when
McMillan saw the sack sticking
up in the mud at the bottom of
the well he thought it was a man’s
sLirt. He fully expected to find a
dead man.
The sack was carried to the
postmaster, Mrs. Sarah A. Lunce
ford, and over a thousand pieces
of first class mail^ were brought
to light. The writing is legible,
and as soon as the mail has time
to dry, it will be sent on to its
destination.
NORTH CAROLINA
By BERTON BRALEY
As soon as you get to No’th Ca’
lina
The roads and the towns get
newah and finah,
The people walk with a brisker
step,
And even your motor has more
pep.
The hookworm’s banished, Jthe
country ha^
A lot more energy, pep and jazz,
The livest Northerner couldn’t de
sign a
Livlier State than No’th Ca’lina.
The farms look fatter, the ham
lets ain’t
Quite ignorant of the sight of
paint,
They’re building roads, and they
are not content
With sand and clay, but they use
cement.
And the schools look good, and the
mills are busy
And each inhabitant owns a Liz
zie,
Or a big twin six or something
finah,
As soon as you get to No’th
Ca’lina!
This State’s not dreaming of go
ing by
And the village belles and village
beaux
Are as.,smartly dressed asj the
crowd which flows
On Goitham’s streets. Yrou must
give 'em credit,
These folks are fully awake, you
said it!
You meet the “boostah”; you lose
the “whinah.”
As soon as you get to No’th
Ca’lina!
| Officer Arrests
Deputy Sheriff
Pittman Pleads Guilty To
Violating Prohibition
Laws in Mayor’s Court
The second officer within ten
'lays was arrested in Smithfield
j Sunday night when J. F. Johnson,
I plain clothes officer, served a war
rant on Forest L. Pittman, depu
j ty sheriff, the warrant charging
|the operation of an automobile
while under the influence of liquor.
I The car belonging to Mr. Pittman
was found between eight and nine
o’clock ditched on North Third
street. He had before this happen
ed, run into a car driven by Mr.
Horace Smith who lives on the
edge of town, somewhat damag
ing Smith’s car. This wreck took
place near the new cemetery.
Pittman was tried in the mayor’s
court yesterday and the defendant
plead guilty to the charge. Two
witnesses, R. E. Holt and Horace
Smith, were put on the stand be
sides Mr. Johnson. Mayor Nar
ron deferred sentence until today.
Laundry To Open
At An Early Date
Roxboro Citizen Coming
Here To Operate Lau *
dry; Machinery Has
Been Shipped
Smithfield is to have a fully
equipped up-to-date laundry. For
some time the Oak City Laundry
of Raleigh, has operated a damp
wash here, but for complete laun
dering, citizens here have had to
send to neighboring towns or de
pend on local wash-women- Ar
rangements have been made to
turn the brick building on John
son street next to H. C. Hood’s
residence into a laundry that will
do a complete job.
Mr. Bennie Clayton, of Roxboro,
has secured from the city a per
mit to open up this establishment
and machinery which represents a
value of about $11,000 has al
ready been shipped. The laundry
will give employment to about
twenty negro women and about
ten men.
The proprietors state that the
equipment is thoroughly modern,
and they expect to serve not only
Smithfield but the surrounding
towns and country. The venture
is not an experiment .with Mr.
Clayton. He is experienced in the
business, and expects to make the
Smithfield laundry fill the needs
of this section.
A GOOD RECIPE FOR
USING WHITEWASH
Raleigh, N. C-, June 18.—Nu
merous inquiries are received by
the extension division of State col
lege about the best whitewash to
use for the hen house or other
outbuildings. The requests are par-1
ticularly numerous during the
early spring and summer. The fol
lowing directions used with suc
cess in another state may give an
effective whitewash for use in
North Carolina:
“Slack a half bushel of quick
lime or lump lime with boiling
water, keeping it covered during
the process. Strain this and add a
peck of salt dissolved in warm wa
ter, three pounds of ground rice
boiled in water until it is a thin
paste, a half pound of Spanish
whiting and a pound of clear blue
dissolved in warm water. Mix to
gether well and let the mixture
stand for several days. Heat it
and apply as quickly as possible
with the whitewash brush.
“Alum added to whitewash will
make it stick better. Use an ounce
to a gallon. Molasses makes the
lime more soluble and makes it
penetrate the wood or plaster more
deeply. Use a pint of molasses to
a gallon of whitewash. A pound of
cheap bar soap dissolved in a gal
lon of boiling water and added to
five gallons of thick whitewash
will impart a gloss like that of
oil paint.”
Renew your subscription.
Threats Against
Elevation Citizer
Anonymous Note Tell:
Ruffin Barbour His Daj
Is Near At Hand
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Mr. J. Ruffin Barbour, who live?
in the Smith’s school section in
Elevation township a few mile?
from town, found in his yard Sat
urday a sheet of tablet paper on
which was printed with a pencil
the following note:
“June 6.
“Mr. Barbour:
“It seems as if you can’t let
other folks business alone. Are
you ready to meet thy God?
Your day is near at hand and you
sure will get what we have in
store for you.
“Z. Z. & Y.”
Mr. Barbour has been active
in helping to rid his community of
whiskey and he thinks that ex
plains the note which was placed
in his yard. Mr. Barbour states,
however, that he is not afraid.
It will be recalled that in April,
an attempt was made to dynamite
the house of Mr. E. N. Jones, a
neighbor of Mr. Barbour, and this
occurrence was thought to have
been caused from the fact that a
whiskey still had been captured
in the neighborhood.
Mr. Barbour is a reliable man
who lives on the farm of Mr. W.
S. Smith. He bears the reputa
tion of attending to his own busi
ness, but is fearless when a prin
ciple is involved. He does not
seem to be greatly disturbed over
the threat which has been anonoy
mously made concerning him.
WOMAN NEARLY CHOKED
BY LARGE BLACKSNAKE
York. Pa-, June 21.—'Attacked
by a big blacksnake at her home
yesterday, Mrs. Cynthia Chance
ford ran a mile over the hills for
aid with the snake girdled around
her neck and almost choking her.
She was near collapse from pain
and shock when the reptile was
killed by men who went to her
assistance. The snake was seven
feet, four inches long. Mrs.
Chanceford had gone to the chick
en house and reached into a nest
above her head. The snake darted
out and entwined itself about her
neck and arms.
BETTER NOT SAY IT
Bad news travels faster than
good news. There is an old saying,
“No news is good news.” Let a
man be converted at a church serv
ice and there is not much of a
stir, but let a resident be convicted
of crime and the news leaps by
word of mouth from one end of
the community to the other.
How thoughtlessly unkind we
sometimes are when acquaintances
of ours suffer misfortune! Troubles
are bound to come to us all in
some shape of form, and what we
say about others today may ap
ply to us tomorrow. News is no
respector of persons.
We are prone to consider the
ways of others not our ways when
we should be watching our own
step. What folks say of one an
other sometimes hurts more than
anything they could have done.
News, either good or bad, grows
and becomes exaggerated and dis
torted with peddling. When the
news is good it makes no mater
ial difference how it is exaggerat
ed or distorted—it can never do
anyone any positive harm. But bad
news given wings, may bring sor
row and ruin upon people who
certainly are not deserving of a
punishment beyond the penalty of
their mistake.
Metre charity for others will
mean charity for ourselves and
we will gradually come to take a
keener delight in reporting some
thing good of some person than
something bad. Good is construc
tive, bad is destructive. Just be
fore you are about to let out a
bit of “bad news,” stop and think
for a moment. See if you can’t
think of something good to say in
place of it. The chances are ten
to one that you can and that you
will.—Red Springs Citizen.
Club boys and girls will gather
at State College for their annual
short course on July 5 to 10.
Papal Legate
f Latest photo of Cardinal Bon
zano, Papal Legate to the Interna
tional Eucharistic Congress, being
held in Chicago. The Congress is
attended by high church dignitaries
from all over the world.
Good Program
Farm Convention
Dr. Soule ,To Speak On
Community Building;
Hog Calling Contest A
Feature
Raleigh, June 21.—A feature of
the State Farmers’ Convention to
be held at State College July 27*
28 and 20 will be an address by
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, President
of the State College of Agricul
ture at Athens, Georgia, on. “Com
munity Building.” Dr. Soule is one
of the well known educators of
the South and is an unusually
forceful speaker. His address will
probably be set for the general
meeting on Wednesday night.
July 28.
Dr A. G. Glover, editor of
Hoard’s Dairyman, will use as the
subject for his address, “Dairying
as a Supplement to a Cash Crop.”
Dr. Glover is well acquainted with
the dairy industry of the United
States and is editor of the leading
dairy publication in the world.
His talk, according to Secretary
J. M. Gray, will be one of the
leading features of the convention.
The hog calling contest will be
held from the porch of Pullen
Hall at 12:30, Wednesday, July
28, according to Mr. Gray arH will
be judged by the following score:
volume, 50 points; variety, 25
points; enticement. 10 points; mu
sical quality, 10 points and facial
expression, 5 points. The judges,
as announced by Mr. Gray, are
Earl Hostetler, swine investiga
tor W. W. Shay, swine. extension
specialist and F. II. Jeter, agri
cultural editor.
The workers in the school of
Agriculture are now making plans
for a number of exhibits which
will show how the college is work
ing with the farmers of the state
and is trying to solve some of
the more perplexing problems of
the day.
Mr. Gray states also that the
r/ew animal husbandry building,
Polk Hall, will be dedicated to the
service of the farmers during this
convention. Dr. Clarence Poe, ed
itor of the Progressive Farmer,
wiQ deliver the dedication ad
dress.
,MR. MARROW TO BE AT
OAK GROVE SATURDAY
Mr. R. W. Smith, of the Oak
Grove section in Bentonville town
ship. was in the city Thursday.
He asked that the announcement
be made that County Superintend
ent H. B. Marrow will speak at
Oak prove Saturday afternoon,
June 26, at four o’clock. Mr. Mar
row will discuss a special tax for
this district. Massey and Mill
Creek districts are also given an
invitation to be present.
PLEASED AT NEWS OF
PROSPECTIVE HIGHWAY
Dunn, June 21.—Many Harnett
people are pleased at the an
nouncement that the county is to
build a new highway from Erwin
via Coats and Angier, connecting
with State highway No. 21, near
the Wake county line. The new
road will traverse one of the best
agricultural sec'tions of Hernett,
as well as touch two of its best
Benson Expects
15000 Visitors
: Tri-County Singing So
ciety to Give Annual
Program on Fourth
Sunday
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i Benson, June 18.—The Tri-Coun
t' Singing Society will meet here
in annual session on the fourth
Sunday and will have a better
program than it has ever had dur
ing the five or six years the sing
ers have lieen pT.eetfnghe.ret -i } ,
Word comes from, Greensboro,
Henderson and from different
towns in the eastern part of the
state that choirs will .be here that
have never been on hand before.
All the choirs in Johnston and
surrounding counties will be on
hand and many new choirs from
the same counties will be here also.
Many of the old choirs have new
music and some of them new lead
ers all of which points to a bet
ter grade of singing than has ever
marked the annual meeting of the
society.
A choir under the direction of
Mr. S. P. Honeycutt is being or
ganized in Benson. This choir will
not compete for the prizes but
will open the contest for the lov
ing cup which will take place just
after the noon intermission.
The singers will meet at ten
#o'clock and’ Hon.. John A. Oates,
well-known orator of Fayetteville,
has been invited to be here and
deliver the annual address but ifc
is not certain now that he can
be secured.
Plans are being made to rebuild
the band stand to accommodate
larger choirs' With less'" ti'oiffrle.
The Benson Concert Band has
been secured to furnish a few se
lections consisting of quartetts,
choirs and probably solos will fea
ture the program for the day.
The drug stores in town will be
requested to remain open on that
day for the convenience of the
enormous crowd expected on that
day.
Last year it is conservatively
estimated that there were 10.000
people here. This year wtyh the
added attractions at least 15,000
are expected.
PROLONGED DROUGHT
IS BROKEN IN STATE
Relief from a prolonged drought
came Saturday night when light
showers to drenching rains fell in
practically every section of North
Carolina. Parched vegetation has
been revived and possibly millions
of dollars have been saved to the
farmers of the state.
More than an inch of rain fell
Saturday night and Sunday and it
was a steady, gentle rain that
soaked into the ground. The rain
was accompanied by a drop in the
temperature unusual for this sec
tion at this time of the year. Peo
ple sat by the fire and found it
comfortable.
The rain was general for the
entire state, and crops in every
section have been benefited. Cot
ton stands in the dry areas are
reported to be about three-fourths
of normal. The peach growers of
the Sandhills say the rain came
just in time to save their crop.
In many places people were
praying for rain. The Durham Ku
Klux Klan claim that their pray
ers may have been answered. Fol
lowing the regular weekly meet
ing of the Klan Friday evening
more than three hundred of those
present remained in jthe lodge
rooms and conducted a prayer ser
vice for rain to touch the parched
land of the country.
A Tantalizer
There is exactly enough let
ters in the line below to spell
the name of a person in Smith
field, and if the right one de
ciphers their name and will pre
sent it to The Herald office, we
will present them with a com
plimentary ticket to the Vic
tory Theatre. You must bring
copy of this paper in order to
secure ticket.
lilhbksoo
Chester Stephenson recogniz
ed his name in last issue.