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J—--—V SMITHFIELD NEEDS: —Daily Meat and Milk Inspection —Bigger Pay Roll. —A Modern Hotel. —Renovation of Opera House. —Chamber of Commerce. S_ r VOLUME 44—NO. 66 Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper-Established 1882 -- JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDS: County Farm Agent Better Roada Feeding Highway a Kqual Opportunity for Every , School Child Better Marketing Syatem More Food and Feed Cropa S-f * * * SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1926 * * * $2.00 PER YEAR Superior Court Has Busy Weel Defendants In Meat Steal, ing Case Draw Three Years In State Prison; “Midnight” Blackman Gets Eight Years Superior Court adjourned Sat urday about noon after one of the busiest one week terms ever held here. One hundred nineteen cases were listed in the calendar of crim inal cases only. Good work was accomplished toward clearing the docket but a goodly number were continued. Saturday Judge Cranmer pro nounced sentence upon the young men, Wesley Wall. Talmadge Price and Luther Carr, who early in the week were found guilty of stealing a lot of mejt. Each defendant drew a sentence of three years each in the state penitentiary. The case of State vs. John Tur ner Hales was in the hands of the jury when The Herald went to press Friday but the jury soon brought in a verdict of guilty. Hales was charged with criminal assault upon a little girl. He was sentenc ed to serve 18 months on the county roads. The* trial of Fid Blackman, col ored, charged with burglary in the first degree, was started Thursday and continued until about noon on Friday. Blackman was accused of entering the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stallings on the night of July 31 and stealing a sum of money which was in the trousers of Mr. Stallings’ under Mrs. ^tailings pillow. A large number of witnesses were examined and finally the de fendant’s counsel and the solicitor agreed to ask the charge to be changed from first degree bur glary to house breaking. This was allowed and without the case go ing to the jury, the judge imposed the maximum punishment of ten years in the state prison. This sen tence was later reduced to eight years. In asking for the maximum sentence for house breaking Solic itor Williams stressed the fact that he was pleading for the pro tection of thousands of Johnston county homes. The judge in his remarks before passing sentence voiced practically the same thought stating that every citizen had the right to lie down on his bed at night and go to sleep without any fear of being molested. In view of the youth of the de fendant who is only about 17 years of age and because of the hitherto good character which he proved and also because Mr. and Mrs. Stallings themselves recommend ed mercy, the sentence was made what is considered light. If the case had one to the jury and he had been found guilty of burglary in the first degree the sentence would have been electrocution. The case of State vs John Weav er charged with criminal assault, was called Thursday but when it was found that the defendant had no counsel, the court appointe W. B. Wellons and Norman C. Shep pard, to represent him. and the case was deferred until Friday aft ernoon. Weaver was sentenced to 12-months on the roads. The case of State vs. Lester Jones Wallace and Harvey Pen dergraft resulted in the defend v ants pleading guilty to stealing an automobile and they werg given six months on the roads. Jazz was not so bad until the mosquitoes started singing it. AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me—. Hit don’t take a edicated repub lican ter read de han’tvriting on de wall. Veterans in Pittsburg Baseball Shakeup The recent shake-up on the Pirate Bali Club has given fandom cod for many weeks' gossip. “Babe” Adams (left), Carson Bigbee (right) were released from he team, and Max Carey (centre) was indefinitely suspended for ifleged insubordination by the Pittsburg management. If these penalties are inflicted it may cost the Pirates the flag. Driver Of Death Car Surrenders Willie Blaylock Charged With Murder of Bernice Johnson |With Automo bile Gives Himself Up To Officers Raleigh, Aug. 21.—With a war rant charging him with murder out for his arrest, Willie Blaylock, a young white man of Panther Branch township, walked into the office of Coroner L. M. Waring yesterday afternoon and surrender ed. He had been sought by depu ties ever since August 12th on a charge of murder as the result of the death of his brother-in-law, Bernice Johnson, who was killed in an automobile accident on the night of August 11th. Blaylock was accompanied to Raleigh yesterday by his brother. Snow Blaylock, and John Q. Ad ams, both of Panther Branch township. He was released on $1000 bail pending a hearing. >He is charged with manslaughter. Mr. Adams put up the bond. Blaylock disappeared from the scene of the wreck on the night of August 11th, and, despite the ef forts of officers to apprehend him »n the following day. he was never found until he voluntarily surren dered to Mr. Waring. Coroner Waring, who made, a personal investigation at the scene of the fatal wreck, isued a war rant for Blaylock on the following day. Blaylock was driving the car in which Johnson was riding when it side-swiped a negro’s machine on the Old Stage road, and plunged into a telephone post. Mr. John son was thrown from the car. His chest was crushed and also his left shoulder. He died as he was being brought to a hospital in Raleigh. Two daughters of Mr. Johnson were also injured. The date for the hearing has not yet been fixed, said Coroner War ing. A number of witnesses are to be subpoenaed and he explain that this would take some time. He thought the hearing might be held early next week. DR. ELIOT DIES AT 92 Dr. Charles W. Eliot for forty !years president of Harvard Uni versity, died at his summer home at Northeast Harbor. Maine, Sun day at the advanced age of 92. Dr |Eliot was one of the foremost 'men of the United States. He was fearless in the stand which he took on various public questions, and wrote articles and made speeches that often made him the center of storms of controversy. He was a strong believer in the League of Nations and in Boston on Oct. 19, 1920, though 87 years of age, he vigorously defended the League against the criticism of 31 emi nent Republicans. JOHNSTONIAN OPENS NEW HOTEL IN TEXAS Friends of Mr. G. M. Holt, a na tive Johnstonian, will learn with interest that he has recently erect ed a hotel in Wichita Falls, Texas, which will be opened-to the public on August 30. It is called the Holt Hotel. To Address .Men’s Class Next Sunday, Aug. 29, Mr. Gil bert T. Stephenson of Raleigh will speak to the Baptist Baraca class at the Victory theatre. All the mer of the town are cordially invited tc hear Mr. Stephenson at 9:45 nexl Sunday morning. Sixteen Pieces Meat Are Stolen I Mr. Duncan Hamilton Loses $150 Worth of Meat From His Crib On Saturday Night. The court convicts and gives meat thieves a penitentiary sen tence, but before folks have stopped talking about these cases which consumed a considerbale part of ! superior court here last week, an other meat stealing case* is in the making. Saturday night between ten o’clock and day. the crib of Mr. Duncan Hamilton, who lives near Smithfield on the Goldsboro road, was entered and about $150 worth of meat was stolen. Mr. Hamilton was away from home and a bright moon furnished plenty of light for the removal of the meat. The weather-boarding was prid off the crib and pre sumably through this opening. About sixteen pieces of meat, most ly shoulders, were taken out. When the theft was discovered Sunday morning about 8:30 o’clock, Mr. Charley Hamilton sent for W. II. Stevens with his bloodhounds, and a trail was followed to the home of Sam Penny, colored. No meat was found there however, but the trail was not continued fur ther. There were signs in the woods nearby of meat having been piled on straw, which was left greasy. MR. PAUL OLIVE DEAD A sad death occurred at the hospital here Saturday morning when Mr. Paul Olive passed away, just one week after he had under gone an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Olive was doing well until the latter part of last week when com plications set in and a second oper ation became necessary. ’ The deceased was a young man only 23 years of age, but he leaves a wife and two children. His wife ,was Miss Rosa Myers of Lumber ton. Also surviving him are his mother, five brothers, Messrs. Eli. Howard, and George Olive of this 'city, Albert Olive of Panama, and •Butler Olive of Benson, and one sister. Mrs. O. J. West, of this city. The young man held a position with the City Market at the time of his death. He was steady and dependable and held in high esteem by those who knew him. He was a member of the local lodge of the Junior Order. ; The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at Hopewell Freewill Baptist church, conducted by the pastor of the deceased, Rev. H. •R. Faircloth, and Rev. D. C. John son. The service was participated in by the Junior Order. A very large crowd was present. The pall bearers were Messrs. W. T. Hol land, Wilbur Blackman, Arthur Bradlye, George Langston, David Barbour and Carl Parker. BALE OF 1926 COTTON IS MARKETED AT DUNN i Dunn, Aug. 20.—The first bale ■of 1926 cotton offered here was brought in today by A. W. Lee who lives three miles from Dunn in Harnett county. The bale weigh ed 554 pounds, graded middling and brought 17Ms cents the pound. This was perhaps, the first new crop bale sold in Nbrth Carolina. Watch the date on your Herald and don’t let your subscription ex j pire. I This Week By Donnell Wharton The world’s poorest paid news paper correspondent (With Apologies to Brisbane) Salinas, Calif., Aug. 15.—Who would have dreamed that here in California, at an elevation of only one hundred feet, at noon on a sunny day, one would have to leave the shade for a place warm enough to write? And that in spite of a vest and a heavy sweater. The winds sweep in here from the Pactific twenty miles away, and make the place colder than anywhere I have been yet save the summit of Pikes Peak, where at an altitude of over 14,000 feet I found the thermometer at 32 dgerees. — : Here one can see the fogs com i *n£ in from the ocean. They are even more pronounced than at San j f rancisco, a city noted the world over for its heavy fogs. At times the fog looks like a great cloud of .dust as it sweeps across the field jor road ahead of you. Even more strange than the clouds below you on Pikes Peak was a sight day before yesterday from the summit of a pass across the Coast Range. The altitude was only 2-100, yet down below toward the ocean as far as one could see, there was a blanket of fog white in con- ! trast to the flaming red sun sink ing beyond. ,We have been into five of the ■ National parks. The Rocky Moun- | tain Park in Colorado was the \ first with its towering snow-clad peaks, and the Fall River Parks, one of the highest automobile roads | in America. The Yellowstone Park was the J most varied with its geysers, hot; springs, mud springs, petrified tree,! natural bridge, waterfalls. and 1 grander than all, the Yelowstone Canyon Here also we found wild iife more, varied. Several times I wild deer crossed our road as we were approaching. The bears visit- 1 ed our camp daily. In fact one camped all day in the bank of a high pine fifty feet from my tent. Mammoth woodchucks, ground squirrels, several kinds of rabbits and a queer, fox-like animal call ed a rockchuck, were also seen. The next park was at Mount Raines, a single peak covering 100 square miles. On it are 28 glaciers. It was probably the most stupen duous sight we have sen. We came in late in the afternoon and camp ed a mile from its bore. A hazy mist shut off all view of this moun tain. On the morning the mist was gone and the peak towered before us, with the glaciers gisftening in the sun. The strangest and most remark able park is that of Crater Lake, a circular sheet of water six miles in 'diameter and over six thousand jfeet above the level of the sea. There is probably no lake in the j world like Crater Lake. Here once stood the volcanic Mount Kalama, j 15,000 feet above the ;,ea. As time after time, for thousands and [thousands of years this volcano i poured out its lava its interior be came hollow and finally some 20, ;000 years ago. its summit collaps ed and the crater was formed. From the rim of the crater tc the level of the water is from 90C to 1900 feet. The water varies in depth, the deepest part being 2.00C feet. It is actually the color of in digo. There is only one path, anc no road from the rim to the wa ter’s level. The cliffs are all steep some covered with trees and some almost perpendicular rock walls* From Lake Tahoe a larger lake over a mill above the sea, we pass ed to Yosemite National Park ovei a part of Nevada and through the most wonderful Tioga Pass anc: Lewining Canyon, and Yosemite is truly the grandest park yet. its floor 4,000 feet above the sea anc its cliffs rising from 2,000 to 3,00( feet above the valley. The Yose (Turn to page eight, please) Cotton Report Sends Price Up Pest* Hace Been Active In Texas During The Past Three Weeks; Weather Conditions Reassuring news concerning the cotton crop in the United States came over the wires yesterday re porting the general condition to be 63.5 per cent of normal as com pared with 69.8 per cent on Aug. 1. Some think the crop outlook is nearly a half million bales lfess than on the date when the govern ment report was compiled. Cotton has gone up one cent since Satur day. The market closed Saturday at 16.70 and closed yesterday at 17..70. This new percentage of 63.5 indi cates a cotton crop of 15,248,000 bales. The report of the government crop reporting board on August 1 estimated the crop at 15,621,000 bales. The reason for this change in . the cotton situation is explained partly by weather conditions and partly by numerous pests which have been active in Texas during the past three weeks. ! Jtive Johnstonian now living in [Texas, writes that excessive rains until late in the summer followed by extreme hot and dry weather have caused considerable damage to cotton in the Lone Star State. Yesterday a storm reported near Yucatan Inlet was said to be en tering the gulf and bad weather for Texas and Louisana was pre dicted. In regard to the crop in Texas which to a very large extent, af fects the entire United States con dition, Mr. Edmundson stated fur ther: “Blooie goes the Texas cotton crop. Every cotton pest known to 'Bugology’ and many unheard of until this year have wrought havoc with the crop the last three weeks. In .fact the damage cannot be es timatecj. Have been over the big ger part of the cotton section and from personal observation would say the damage is variously esti mated by what I consider some of the best authorities from 25 to 50 per cent. Am sure that it can be placed at 33 1-3 per cent. “This deterioration has been brought about by three causes: 1st. Every known cotton pest, some of these unheard of until the present season. 2nd. Root rot and alkali, from 5 to 10 per cent cotton killed in this way. 3rd. Excessive rains until late in the summer, followed by etreme hot and dry weather. “I feel confident from the three causes mentioned we have lost at least one and one-half million bales. | “While on the other hand please bear in mind the statement ■made to you while in North Car olina, it is impossible to estimate a Texas cotton crop in midsummer. “At present writing it just ‘ain't’ here. We have had scattered rains over the cotton belt (not gen eral) and it is a question as to whether or not it will be benefiicial. t‘Car loads of poison have been used with poor results. “I feel confident that the Sep tember report will smash all rec ords for low percentage of Texas crops.” The report of the condition of the cotton crop by states as re ceived here yesterday is as follows: Virginia, G5 per cent of normal; North Carolina. 73 per cent; South Carolina, 53 er cent; Georgia, 56 per cent; Tennessee, 70 per cent; Florida, 70 per cent; Alabama, 65 per cent; Mississippi. 67 per cent; Louisana. 64 per cent; Texas 61 per cent; Oklahoma, 66 per cent; Arkansas, 67 per cent. NEVER IN COURTHOUSE BEFORE THURSDAY Mr. Harper who lives between Benson and Peacock’s Cross Roads was in the city Thursday attend ing court. Mr. Harper is 48 years old and Thursday was the first time he was ever in a courthouse He is also a “tee-totler” nevei having taken a drink of whiskej in his life. “What is a golf ball?” “A golf ball is what a man chases when be gets too old to chase any thing else.” Democratic Nominee For Clerk of Court HEKSCHELL V. ROSE Democrats Choose Rose Unanimously Office Seeks The Man; Among Candidates Un opposed in Primary Among the four candidates for office at the hands of the Democrat ic party in the last primary who were unopposed; was Herschell V. , Rose, candidate for Clerk of the i Superior Court. Mr. Rose was a candidate for this position against I Hon. E(j F. Ward in the Democratic ! primary of 1924, but was defeated by some 400 votes. But character istic of the man despite his defeat he went into the fall campaign and worked for the ticket until sunset of election day. Mr. Rose has been a resident of Smithfield for the ^past seven years, but he is a native of Ben tonville township. He is the son of the late “Squire” Bill Rose, of Ben tonville, and spent most of his life there until he located in Smithfield. after the World War. From his boyhood days until he answered his country’s call in 1917 he followed farming what time he was not teaching in the public schools of Johnston county. He devoted ten years to the teaching profession. vvnen American took her place [With the allied nations of Europe against Germany, Mr. Rose was one of those first called to enter service. He left the farm and his jaged mother and went into train ing. He was nearly two years in the army, fourteen mont/s of which were spent overseas, before the armstice was signed. Returning to Johnston county in 1919 he was immediately made the county superintendent of public welfare, being the first to hold this position in Johnston. For six years he worked unceasingly organizing the welfare work and rendering in valuable service as he discharged faithfully the duties of his office. The Republican board of county commissioners dismissed him about a year ago and a month later he opened a law office in Smithfield. During the summers of 1921 and 1922 he studied law at Wake For est and was admitted to the bar in 1922. Since closing his office as county superintendent of public welfare he has actively practiced law. He is a member of the Masonic order and also a member of the Pou-Parish post of the American Legion. The Democrats have chosen well in selecting Mr. Rose as their nom inee for Clerk of the Superior Court. He is well-known all over the county and has the confidence of al who know him. Ku Klux Present Gift To Preacher Rev. J. Ruffin Johnson, At the Closing Service of a Revival at Johnson Me morial, Invites Ku Klux To Enter Church The closing service of the reviv al which Rev. J. Ruffin Johnson has been conducting at Johnson Memorial was held Wednesday night, and this service was char acterized by a visit from mem bers of the K K. K., who entered the church in their robes and white caps and presented a gift to the preacher. Acompanying the gift was the following statement: “We take this grand opportunity of thanking you, and assuring you that we are standing behind the great work you have been and are now doing for your community and fallen mankind. In furthering Prot estant Religion in our great Coun try, we endorse every effort you and your co-workers have and are now putting forth. May you ever stand pat for the Protestants of our Country and help us to make this American soil a fit place for the Women and Children to live, an<j your influence to help stamp out crime is earnestly requested. Accept what we offer as a token of thanks from us for what your efforts mean. “K. K. K." The pastor wishes to thank the K. K. K.’s for the gift and the interest they manifested in the welfare of the country. The pastor states that he had a quiet congregation before the robed figures made their entrance into the church but afterwards it was most quiet. Rev. Mr. Johnson saw the gures outside at the front door and gave them an invitation to enter the church, which they did quietly and reverently passing down the aisle almost to the pul pit. They bowed politely to the preacher, and handed him the let ter. They then bowed to the con gregation and without a word made their exit. This was the first time the preacher had seen any K. K K’s. The revival at Johnson Memoria hail been going on for ten day: and considerable interest had beei manifested. The singing was gooi and the crowds were unusuall; large many people not being abl to get into the house. Eight per sons joined the church, and oth ers have shown an interest. ■ The mosaic disease of tobacco i jcausing heavy damage in some o (the fields in Eastern Carolina, re port many leading tobacco grow Grand Jury Makes Report To Court Finishes Work Thursday; Recommends That Spit ting On Steps of Court House Be Stopped Thr Grand Jury finished its work in Superior Court here Thursday and made its report to the court through the foreman, Mr. E. N. Clifton. The work of this body included action on bills of indictment and inspection of all county offices and institutions. The report is as fol VVe the Grand Jury beg to leave to report that we have carefully considered and acted on all bills of indictment presented four our con ■ideration. and made return of “We visited the County Home in :l body and find it in extra good condition, and all the inmates say that they are treated well and are well cared for. “A committee of our body vis ited each of the convict camps and find them in good condition. All the prisoners say that they are tieated as well as could be expect ed. “We visited the jail in a body and find the jail in very good con dition considering the burdened condition for the past several months. “We have inspected Register of Deeds, Sheriff’s, Clerk and Audi tor’s offices and find them in good condition. “We, jurors as a body, do earnestly request that spitting on the steps of the courthouse be pro hibited and that notices of a fine if it is not stopped be posted in and around the building.” I) KM OCR ATS NOMINATE ► TOWNSHIP OFFICERS In rsponse to a call from J. B. Benton, chairman of the Demo cratic Executive Committee of Johnston, Democrats of Smithfield township met in the courthouse on Saturday afternoon and nominated township officers. The chairman for this township, Mr. W. F. Grimes, presided over the meeting. The following officers were nomi nated: Justices of the Peace. R. E. Daughtry, W. D. Avera, D. T. Lunceford, and Z. L. LeMay; Con stable, J. F. Johnson; members of the Road Board, G. B. Smith, K. K. Rose, Z. B. Hill. D. B. Hamil ton and John C. Lassiter. BALE OF NEW COTTON IS SOLD AT BENSON Benson, Aug. 21—The first bale of new cotton sold on the Benson market was raised by Jason M. Lee on W. R. Denning’s farm. It weighed 564 pounds, graded mid dling and brought 18 cents per poun. It was bought by A. B. Hud^** son and Son, local cotton buyers. Benson is in the heart of one of the best cotton sections in the state. Lightning Strikes Home Thursday evening during the electric storm that seemed to be general in this section, lightning struck the home of Mr. J. A. Smith in Elevation township but lid little damage. It struck the back screen door, scorched the door facing and knocked of the door •step. It cracked the plastering in he kitchen and knocked down sev eral pans. Mrs. Smith and baby who were in the front part of the house were slightly shocked. 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. tetlislsrawa Ed Peterson recognized his j name last issue.
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