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BMITHFIELD NEEDS: —Daily Meat and Milk Inspection —Bigger Pay Roll. —A Modem Hotel. —Renovation of Opera House. —Chamber of Commerce. Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper-Established 1882 JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDS! Connty Farm Agent Better Roada Feeding Highvaye j Equal Opportunity for Every ' School Child Better Marketing Syetem | | More Food and Feed Crop* S- A VOLUME 44—NO. 60 * * * SMITH FIELD, N. C. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1926 * * * $2.00 PER YEAR ! This Week By Donnell Wharton The world's poorest paid news paper correspondent (With Apologies to Brisbane) Eugene, Ore., July 26.—This thriving little city of 18,000 pop ulation is of interest to North Carolinians in that it was at this place that President Chase of the University of North Carolina spent a month investigating the offer of the University of Oregon, which wished that Tar Heel to take the presidency of the university. Dr. Chase is to be congratulated in not accepting, while North Car olina is to be more congratulated in retaining such a man in its own borders. The university here has an enrollment of approximately 2500, fifty per cent of whom are of the fairer sex. It is apparently a school of sudden growth, but it has nothing of the wealth of the Uni versity of Washington at Seattle, nor nothing in the class of the wonderful buildings at that school. On our trip we have passed through the Washington and Lee University, Virginia Military Acad emy, University of Missouri West minister College, University of Kansas, Kansas State College, Montano State College Montano School of the Mines, University of Montano, University of Washing ton. Washington Normal School and the University of Oregon. West of the Mississippi co-educa tion is universal, with the student body usually about half divided be tween the sexes. The Universities of Missouri at Columbia and of Washington at Seattle, with stu dent bodies of three and five thous and respectively were the most beautiful, with their massive halls, splendid fraternity houses, great stadiums. None were so old or any with such a scholarly air as that around Chapel Hill. Nor have any of the seven state capitals we passed equalled the much criticised one at Raleigh in * stately architectural beauty. The capitol buildings at Columbus in Ohio and Indianapolis in Indiana were great towering structures; the one at Topeka in Kansas was “of the late nineties”; that at Den ver had its dome covered with gold plate, costing thousands and thous ands of dollars; that at Salt Lake City overlooked the entire city a hill, being: visible from* Saltair 15 miles away; that at Salem is an old. second-rate structure. At. Olymphia, the capital of Washington, they are construct ing a great plant, with a central building surrounded by five other marble temples, housing the va rious departments of the govern ment. Two of these department houses are completed, the central building with its wonderful dome rising into the air almost as high as the Federal Capitol at Wash ington is almost finished. None however have that stately air that surrounds the buildings in Raleigh and Richmond, nor are any of the capital cities laid off so nicely as Raleigh and Washington. Two of our most interesting (Turn to page four, please) AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me— Jii tr i£ilit : * “Ah sho enjoys tollin’ my olo man his faults when ah gits mad wid him.” V With His Father " The body of Robert Todd Lincoln 33, last of President Abraham Lin coln’s immediate family, will soon be placed in the Lincoln tomb, near that of his illustrious father, at Springfield, 111. He passed away ‘vhile asleep in his summer hotne at Manchester, Vt., last week. Border Markets Open Next Week Fairmont Preparing For Tobacco Opening; Rob eson Tobacco Crop Re ported Good By R. W. iMcFARLAND. Fairmont, July 31.—In this lit tle “burp,” which is the biggest i tobacco market in the world to the size of the town, everything is petting cocked and primed for the opening of the tobacco market Tuesday week, and the hotel is commencing to “fill up” with guests. A new sales warehouse has just been completed, another en- j Harped by adding to it the co-op j | warehouse, making in all this sea- J json four, instead of the three of j last season. The factories are also ! adding to their capacities. They I are expecting big things in Rob- i [eson county this season, for there ! are splendid tobacco crops in many j sections of the county, and from i the looks of the curings, it is go- ! ing to be the kind that sells high. Its cotton crop too is' looking Last season the tobacco produc tion, </• rather s^les. upon the Fair Bluff, Clarkton, Chadbourne and Tabor, were in round numbers 2(1,500,000 pounds. In their terri tory this season around 20 per i cent less tobacco will be produced. The seven markets mentioned open their sales annually with the South I Carolina tobacco markets, which will all open this season Tuesday, August 10. The correspondent estimates that this season the South Carolina crop of tobacco will be about 72 p*er I cent of last year’s production, or : around 51,000,000 pounds. Last iyear South Carolina produced 70, 863,812 pounds of tobacco, of which 10,721,074 pounds were |“pooled.” As the “pool is out” this ' scasort the auction houses notwith standing the crop is shorter than last season, will probably do as much business as last year and the farmers receive fully as much as if the pool were functioning. The South Carolina markets, 10 in all, scheduled to open Tuesday week are alphabetically as follows: Andrews, Conway, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Johnsonville, Kingstree, Lake City, Lamar. Lo ris. Lake View, Manning, Marion, Mullins, Nichols, Olanta. Pamlico, Sumter and Timmonsville. The annual pilgrimage to the Georgia markets commenced sev eral days ago as the markets of that state open this coming Tues day. The correspondent has seen but little of the Georgia crops this season and bases therefore what he is going to say about crop condi tions down there only upon infor mation and belief. Georgia’s tobacco crop last year was in round numbers 49,000,000 pounds. The crop as a whole, was of very low quality and sold for a low price accordingly. The whole of the crop probably did not av erage as much as the first prim ings sold for, which was around 14 Ms cents. This season Georgia will pro duce about 4fi,000,000 pounds, but with quality a great deal better than last season. They planted Farm Convention! A Great Success _ Around 1700 Farmers and | Their Wives Registered —Others Attended Dif-, ferent Sessions Raleigh, August 2.—Filled with | messages of optimism and help- j fulness from some of the leading farmers, agricultural leaders and civic workers of the state and country, the twenty-fourth annual session of the State Farmers Con vention held at State College last week closed Thursday, July 29, after a most successful meeting. There were approximately 1700 farmers and their wives registered at the convention. Other hundreds drove in for a day to attend some special session without registering for rooms at the college. The convention took up many outstand ing problems of political affairs, rural schools, home building, and crop and livestock growing. Each afteroon was devoted to lectures on important farm and home prob lems while the forenoons were given over to special addresses. The evenings were devoted to in spirational talks and social af fairs. Mrs. J. S. Turner of Rocking ham county was elected as the npyt nrOsiftonf nf +Vin «stntP foHpr. i ation of home demonstration clubs. The other officers elected are: j vice-president, Mrs. R. A. McCul- ' len of Sampson county; secretary, ; Miss Belva Bennett of Beaufort | county; recording secretary, Mrs. | C- E. Carter of Buncombe county; J treasurer, Mrs. Cornelia C. Mor- ! ris of State College. The new officers for the Far mers Convention are: president, C. j F. Cates of Mebane; first vice president, F. D. Bagley of Moy ock; second vice-president, James j C. K. McClure of Asheville and j secretary-treasurer. James M. j Gray of State College. Before adjournment on Thurs day morning the assembled far mers passed resolutions advocating many of the important matters brought before the convention. REVIVAL AT WILSON’S MILLS Wilson’s Mills, Aug. 2.—The se ries of meetings that commenced on Monday of last week with the j Christian church of Wilson’s Mills (•continues with increasing inter est. Rev. John Barclay, minister of the First Christian church of Wilson is preaching the gospel with great power and conviction. It has been a long time since the church people of this community have heard better sermons, indeed it is doubtful whether they have ever heard before a preacher of Mr. Barclay’s type. He is a young man of great experience and has a most unusual understanding of present day life and problems. The manner in which he relates the Bible and Christ to the needs of men today is absolutely unique and compelling. All who have heard him express the greatest joy and profit from his messages. Services are held each evening at 8 o’clock and will continue all this week. The public is cordially invited to avail themselves of the opportunity to hear this man of God. TENT MEETING BEGINS AT PRINCETON A tent meeting began at Prince- | ton last night, August 2. This meeting is a part of the evange listic program undertaken by the Raleigh district. A three weeks’ revival has just been held under this tent in Selma, Rev. A. J. Parker, pastor of the Smithfield | church, having done most of the preaching. Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald, of Selma, will do the preaching at Princeton. Attends Meeting of Chiropractors ' Dr. W. H. Goodwin went to | Raleigh Saturday afternoon to at tend a business meeting of the Chiropractors Association of the third district of North Carolina I held at the Sir Walter Hotel. Dr. | Goodwin was recently appointed one of the state board of chiro practic examiners. about the same acreage but it grew in spots. Hog Calling Is Not A Lost Art Contest During Farmers Convention Created Considerable Interest— J. C. Nichols Winner Raleigh, August 2.—Musical and effective hog calling is not a lost art among the farm folks of the state if the performance of the 52 contestants in this feature event at the State Farmers’ Convention last week is a real indication. Great volumes of sound, punc tuated by appealing lower tones and convincing facial expression were used by each of the contest ants. So realistic did the callers make their efforts that the 1500 observers gathered in front of Pullen Hall began to look around apprehensively fearing that per haps a great herd of swine would come rushing over the campus and sweep them from their feet. It was impossible for the judges to select the three prize winenrs at the first trial held at mid-day on Wednesday, July 28, so a sec ond contest was held for the ten selected in the first occasion. At the second contest, a greater crowd had gathered. The news had gone abroad over Raleigh that there were some real hog callers of fV.o /.oil oo-o oo/J tUo ..loJflo mers were joined by a great num ber of town people. The final so- ’ lection was announced at the eve- I ning meeting and J. C. Nichols of I Durham was awarded first prize of $25 as the champion caller of the j convention. Second prize of $15 was won by J. H. Sprinkle of route 7, WinstonSalem, and third przize of $10 was awarded to H. G. Bundy of Elizabeth City. The officials of the convention stated that this convention brought a new note of informality and fun j into the convention proceedings and the farmers themselves vot ed that it must become an annual event. The ladies, not to be neg lected in such fun, made a re quest that, next year, prizes be offered for successful chicken call ers. The fund of $50 used as prizes for the contest was donated by the American Limestone Conipany of Knoxville, Tennessee. Preaches at Presbyterian Church Rev. J. Alston Boyd, of Town ville. who has been conducting re vival services at Oakland church for the past two weeks, exchang ed pulpits with the pastor, Rev. Chester Alexander, Sunday morn ing and preached a beautiful ser mon here from the text: “All thy garments smell of myrrh, and j aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they made thee glad.” Psalms 45:8. He pictuifed the great love in the heart of Jesus Christ which caused him to leave the ivory palaces of heavens and come down to the level of mankind. By his sacrificial death He lifeted man back to the ivory palaces from which he had been banished since sin entered the word. In graphic words he explain ed the way of salvation in a way that made a definite appeal to the hearts of those who heard him. Rev. Mr. Boyd rendered two solos which were much enjoyed by thp congregation. Visiting Preachers at M. E. Church Visiting preachers occupied the pulpit of the Methodist church on both Sunday morning and evening. Rev. 0. P. Fitzgerald, pastor of the Selma Methodist church, preached at the morning hour. “The Saintly Life” was the topic of his discourse and he used this text: i “Keep yourself unspotted from the world.” At the evening hour Rev. E. D. Dodd, pastor of the Four Oaks church, preached an in teresting sermon. The pastor, Rev. A. J. Parker, was in a revival at Selma which accounts for his ab sence from his pulpit. PRESENTS HERALD FORCE A LARGE WATERMELON LeRoy Coley, colored, of Smith- j field route 2, presented The Herald a large watermelon yesterday. Lc Roy says he has plenty of melons and that he enjoyed The Herald : so much that he wanted to show i his appreciation. The Herald likes j that kind of appreciation. Peace in Texas Mrs. M. A. Ferguson, first worn an governor of Texas, is going to j pay her bet with Dan Moody—per- ; haps late in October—by resign- ! ing. Moody, her principal oppon- j ent in the Democratic primaries, i agreed to resign as Attorney Gen- ' ;ral if defeated. Moody polled tin i larger vote. Congressman Pou Is Among Leaders In Review of Rey.iews Write-Up of Personali ties and Activities of House of Representa tives An article by William Hard en- ; titled “Leadership In the House,” , published in the August issue of i “The Review of Reviews,” discuss- j es the House of Representatives, j its activities and personalities dur- j ing the last congressional session- j Among the personalities sketch- j ed is that of Hon. Edward W. Pou ; of this city, congressman from the j Fourth District. It being imprac- j tical to comment on all of the rep- j resentatives only outstanding men j are included in the write-ups which | are accompanied by pictures of j those selected. Mr. Pou who is a ranking Democratic member of one j of the three stellar committees of the House, was described as fol “Pou, Edward William: Of North Carolina. A Democrat. Ranking Democratic member of Mr Snell’s Rules Committee His district does not like him- The voters it it, ia order to get rid of him again, have just renominated him for his four teenth term in Congress at Wash ington. That is the sort of man he is. People have confidence in him. They go to him and seek his counsel. They trust his judgment. He is not as brilliant as the rain bow. He is more inclined toward imitating Gibraltor.” Back From Philadelphia Mr. O. L. Peedin, of Princeton, was in the city yesterday. He and Mrs. Peedin have just returned from a trip to Philadelphia and Washington. In Philadelphia they visited Mrs. Peedin’s brother. Mr. Harvey Wallace, who she had not seen in ten years. While there they spent one day visiting the Sesqui-Centennial. One of the in teresting events of the trip to Mr. Peedin was riding on the subway. He noticed five railroads in tiers under the main street and was interested to learn that railroads ran under the rivers. In Washington, D. C-, they visit ed their son, Mr. Gurney Peedin, who is married and lives there. They especially enjoyed a visit to the zoo where animals from every part of the United States are kept. Revival at Live Oak Baptist Rev. W. B. Yates, of Sharps burg, will conduct a series of re vival meetings at the Live Oak Baptist church beginning August 8. The public is cordially invited to attend these meetings. ^ A Busy Night For The Blood Hounds Three Calls When Thefts Are Discovered, And One For Grabbing A Young White Girl Off Porch Saturday night was a busy night for the bloodhounds. Mr. W. H Stevens, who owns the blood hounds. received four calls, an swering three and tracking two persons. About eleven o’clock a man from the old cotton mill went for him to trail a negro who had grabbed his twelve or thirteen year-old daughter from off his porch. This occurrence took place about eleven o’clock. The mother followed the child and pulled her away from the negro who fled. The bloodhounds followed the scent to the Sanders Chapel section and to the home of a negro who lived on Mr. Connie Lassiter’s place. When the negro saw the twenty five or thirty who accompanied the hounds, he lost no time in making his escape. The next call came about two o’clock after a thief had entered the residence of Mr. Sam, Stal lings in Brooklyn. About ihree o'clock Sunday morning Mrs- Stal lings was awakened by a feeling that something was being removed from under her pillow. Mr. Stal lings’ trousers in which were be tween $160 and $200 in cash, $300 worth of bad checks, and a fifty dolar watch had been placed un der her pillow for safe-keeping. Not being thoroughly awake jsh<x. dicTnot realize that the trousers were being stolen until the theif was about out of the room. She called to her husband who awoke in time to hear the screen door slam. They also turned on the light, saw the trousers were gone but by that time the thief was out of sight. The bloodhounds were on the scene in a short while and they fol lowed the trail directly to the home of Ed Blackman, whose nick name is “Midnight” and who lives a little beyond Mr. J. A. John son’s just outside of town. This young negro who gives his age as eighteen years^ had worked for Mr. Stallings for the past nine months. Sunday morning about ten o’clock Mr. Stallings’ trousers were found in the hedge around Mr. Norton's yard. The $300 worth of bad checks were intact, but the cash and watch were missing. Blackman was arrested and now About seven o’c\ock two calls came to Mr. Stevens for the use of his hounds. One was from a Mr. Parrish, lately moved to this city to keep the cemetery and who lives at the new mill. Thirty seven dollars in money were said to have been stolen from him. The other call was from D. J. Aery, a colored man who lives in Belmont. According to the story told by Aery himself, about one o’clock he was suddenly awakened by the slamming of the screen door. Not knowing whether or not it was his wife who sept in an other room, he went in to inves tigate. He found her sound asleep. He then reached for his pistol which he kept by his bed, but his pistol had been taken. Then he looked for his trousers, but they too were gone. Going to the front door he saw the trousers on the porch. Upon investigating he found that about $25 in money had been taken from his pocket, a bunch of keys had been laid on the flo»r and a watch was left undisturbed in his pocket. A rope string was used as a watch chain which prob ably accounts for their not finding the watch. Bloodhounds followed a trail about a half a mile from his house to the road where all trail was lost, and the presump tion is that the thief boarded an automobile. In addition to the robberies that took place Saturday night, a negro woman by the name of Ina Birt spll was arrested Saturday after noon for shop lifting and is now in jail awaiting trial. She and her sister were suspicioned while in the store of Vara L. & and Alma C. Smith and twelve yards of dress material were found conceal ed on the person of Ina’s sister. The chief of police was called and Tex's Bride-to-Be A ^AjLfTQC. ID Dan Cupid knocks out Tex Rick ard with blow to heart, will be the news headlines shortly after Sept llthf when the premiere fight pro motor will wed Miss Maxine Hodges of New York City, shown here in photo. Woman Tries To Shoot Officers Draws Pistol on Them As They Search House For Whiskey Saturday morning Deputy D. U rhompson and Deputy S. T. ‘Price >ecame entangled in a scramble at :he home of Ezra Rains about seven miles north of Selma when :hey accompanied Deputy Marshall W\ H. Honeycutt and Mr. J. J. Horton, revenue agent of Raleigh, to search the house for illicit whis key. While the search was being made it is said that Rains' wife irew a .38 calibre Smith and Wheeler pistol on the officers, dorton succeeded in grabbing the vfiapon from the hands of the voman but just at that time E a. Castlebury, of Apex, a friend >f the Rains family, snatched it ‘rom the officer. Horton called for lelp and a scramble followed. After )eating Castlebury over the head tnd choking him down, the officers •ecovered the pistol. About a gallon of whiskey was ’ound in the house, according to nformation received here yester iay. Empty containers with the •dor of whiskey about them were Rains, who was charged with he possession of whiskey, was >laccd under a $200 band. His vife and Castlebury were charged vith resisting officers and pos ession. Their bonds wfere fixed at >500 each. Mr. Chas. F. Kirby of Selma, stood their bonds. This case will be tried in Fc|^« ral court in Raleigh. )R. C. C. MASSEY SPEAKS AT {THE BAPTIST CHURCH In the absence of the pastor, Rev. 5. L. Morgan, Dr. C. C. Massey, ounty health officer, made a talk it the Baptist church Sunday eve ling. His remarks were along the ine of health problems, and par icularly concerned immoral dis ;ases. A lovely duet was rendered >y Mr. A. M. Calais and Miss Mary Barbour. HOAD CONTRACTS TO BE LET AT EARLY DATE On August 24 in one of the larg est single levies in the history of he state, bids will be received on ,wenty-one highway construction Drojects. Among the twfenty-one *oad jobs to be let is a small pro ject- in Johnston county, the grad ng and construction of .35 miles on •oute No. 91. Uhis is a part of the 'oad to Zebulon and the Wake rounty part of route 91 will also >e let on this date. ;he woman dashed out the back ioor and made her escape. Chief ^able searched Ina Birtsell’s hand bag and found numerous articles hat apparently belonged to Hud >on-Belk. They w-ere later identi fied as goods belonging to Hud *on-Belk. When Chief Cable went to the Birtsell home in an effort to apprehend the other woman, he discovered another lot of goods which had been taken from Hud 5on-Belk. Officers as yet have fail ed to find Ina Birtsell’s sister. Members Of N.gJ Go To Fort Bragg About Sixty From Local t Company Leave For | Two Weeks Training f At Camp _ ’ “ I Yesterday the local company of j National Guards went to Fayette. 1 ville where they will enter ca:nt» i at Fort Bragg for a couple off weeks. This company has more j than sixty members, according to ■ Horace L. Johnson, captain. Other J officers are: Luby F. Royal, first J lieutenant and D. T. Gilliken, sec- | ond lieutenant. The company was I accompanied by J. Wilford Las si. J ter, the young son of Mr. M. P. ,| Lassiter who lives near town, as J mascot. The local company of National Guards is composed of some of the f finest young men of the town and county and no doubt they will \ make a splendid record while in camp this year. T'Vio fnllnwino" nrn tVi n momknr l of the company and all went to { Fort Bragg with few exception-: First sergeant, Frank Wallace; staff sergeants, Jonathan Hook- j and John Wood; sergeants, Lewi* Brown and James Davis; corpor als, John Ennis, Willis Parker, Ned Johnson, Thad Young, Wil lard Lawrence, James Hill, Nelson \ Hathaway, Henry Benson; pri - vates Bennus Boyett, Thel Child ers, Thel Eason, Mossen Outland, : Edward Parrish, Edward Pittman, William Peterson, Fred Pilkinton, Junius Stephenson, Horace Smith, Ralph Talton, John Upchurch, Wi - * liam Woodall, Garland Worrell--, William Anderson, Lawrence AI ford, William Barbour, Harry Biggs, Wilbert Blackman, Ear' Bradley, Andy Champion, John Bandy. Blake Bandy, James Col* lier, Roy Coats, Theo. Ellis, Wil lie Grady, Thomas Fuller, Nor- . wood Holland, William Johnson. David Lee, Lewis Lee, Patrick Massey, Charles Pittman, Elmer Stephenson, Clarence Stephenson. Orice Smith, Charley Smith, Fred Sanders, Robert Uzzle, Lemuel. Watson, Herman Watson, Sherwood Jones, John Strickland, Frank Rny, Charles Beasley, Abe Rose Brr ham, and Willie Parker. Methodist Preacher On Vacation Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Parker left yesterday for Little River, S. C., where they will spend about two weeks. They were accompanied by Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Parker, of Rose Hill, and Mr. Edwin Lytch. of Scotland County. During Mr. Parker’s absence Rev. H. R. Ash more will look after his pastoral duties. He may be found at the parsonage. Next Sunday morning Dr. Al bert Anderson, of Raleigh, \iy leader for the Raleigh district, will occupy the Methodist pulpit. He is said to be a forceful speak, r and the public is given a cordial invitation to hear him. RALEIGH ATTORNEY M. Luther Gordon, a native of Nashville but who moved from Selma to Raleigh eighteen months ago to practice law, was found dead Thursday morning with a bul let hole through his right temple. It is the theory of a number of intimate friends that he-commit ted suicide while in a fit of de spondency. His landlady found him dead in bed when she went to ar range the room Thursay morning. He was only twenty-eight years old but friends stated that he w..s subject to attacks of \nelanchol 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 mast bring copy of this paper in order to secure ticket. Theodore Boyett recognized his name last issue. COMMITS SUICIDl’ Tantalizer henilepdadi A
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