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SMITHFIELD NEEDS: Daily Meat and Mills Inspection Digger Pay Roll. A Modern Hotel Renovation of Opera House Chamber of Commerce Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 1882 JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDS: County Farm Agent Better Roads Feeding Highways Equal Opportunity for Every School Child Better Marketing System More Food and Feed Crops VOLUME 44—NO. 72 * * * SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926 * * * $2.00 PER YEAR Johnston Hits Farm Mortgages In Banner Agricultural County Mortgages In creased Fifty Per Cent In Three Years By A. S. OLIVER Benson, Sept. 12 In the first agricultural county in the State and among the first fifty in the United States; in Johnston county where there is more intensive pro duction and a higher yield, farm mortgages increased 51 per cent in three years’ time. In spite of the fact that we raise one and even two bales of cotton per acre; in spite of the fact that we have had for years the largest native poultry production and market on the A. C. L. Railroad; in spite of the faet that there has never been a crop failure in the memory of the oldest inhabitant; notwith standing the fact that there has never been a bag of corn shipped to Benson; in spite of the fact that we have more registered breeding swine an draise more pork for market than any other section in Eastern North Caro lina; with all our tobacco, soja beans, cow' peas, watermelons, dewberries, strawberries and sweet potatoes, farm mortgages increas ed 51 per cent in three years. This startling fact came to the Benson Kiwanis Club as a severe shock. Its agricultural committee was immediately instructed to study the situation thoroughly and report the causes, recommend the remedies, etc. After months of study they reported the prob lem to be “Feed and fertilizer.” The enormous money crop here was being spent for these things in the main. Feed that the Western farmer received from $11 to $1.3 per ton, but which when freight and commission were added, cost the Johnston county farmer $35 per ton. Fertilizer that ought also to be raised at home. i ni-.v gave ii inrir upmion that the dairy cow was the only solution. That a farmer now works only four to six months a year; with dairy cows he must work 12 months to. the year. With dairy cows he must prow his own feed stuff or go into bankruptcy and sell out to some one who would grow it. With dairy cows he must keep chickens and pigs to feed his skim milk to. That in skim milk he had the best pig and chicken feed possible if he added a little crack ed corn for the fat. With dairy cows he would raise the finest kind of manure, enough from each cow for one acre per year. Most im portant of all he would receive a check each 15 days on an average of $12 per cow per month which since he was growing his feed and raising his manure would’ en able him to pay his way as he goes “Make Each Day Pay Its Way.” Altogether then the dairy cow would be the ideal balancer of farm operation. He would be able to raise a money crop at a less expense, making a greater profit and be able to bank the proceeds from such a money crop. Market. There is less variation in the butter market, a more uniform re turn, less possibility of glutting the market than with any other farm commodity. Mr. Arey. of the State College, estimates there are seventy million pounds of butter shipped into North Carolina every (Turn to page four, please) AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me-— w m & Soil rbncca nt Smith field whai hits 2 cents nigher, and several cents higher. Nominee Judge Recorder’s Court W. I\ AYCOCK Selma Candidate Picked For Judge W. P. Aycocck [Was Un opposed In The Pri mary; Well Qualified For Office He Seeks Johnston county is extremely fortunate this election in having for a candidate on the Democratic ticket a man of the mental, moral and intellectual calibre of W. P. ! Aycock, of Selma. Mr. Aycock is an accomplished lawyer, a Christian gentleman and a royal good fellow. He is a good mixer, is not given to boastfulness does not feel himself better than the other fellow, is kindly, resent ful of those evil tendencies that help to disintegrade the fiber of our society and demoralize the lives of our younger people. He has all the earmarks and qualifications of an accomplished jurist and has the happy faculty of being able to look a matter from a clear and unbiased viewpoint. He is a thorough Democrat and believes that in the Democratic party will be found the opportuni ty of real and devoted' services to the people of the county. The people of Selma like W. P. Aycock, indeed all those who know him, like him. They like him so iwell that they have made him Mayor of the town which office he is filling with distinction. His rep utation there is one of fairness and judicial ability. He is a member of the church ami is almost a constant attendant upon its services. He is a man whe loves the right in preference tc I the wrong because he believes that every man, woman or child jr Johnston county loves right rath er than wrong, because according to the eternal fitness of things, il |is the right that must always pre vail. i No person having cause to re sort to Recorder’s Court need hav( any qualms about whether or noi he will receive justice at tho hand: of W. P. Aycock, for above al things, he would not for a min ute entertain an idea that woulc tend' to otherwise mistreat his fellowman. Upon the above principles he i: jmaking his candidacy and the gooc (people of Johnston county will no let such men suffer at their hands LIBRARY TO OPEN ON Till RSI)AY \FTERNOO> I The public library located in th( i Woman’s Club room will be opei jThursday afternoon from *4 to ( o’clock. We especially request ev icrybody to bring- back books whicl I they may have in their homes. I I they are brought back by’Thurs day no fines will be collected. MRS. N. M. LAWRENCE, Librarian. Dr. Ben Lacy Delivers Sermon At Davidson Davidson, Sept. 13.—Dr. Ben R. Lacy, Jr., president of Union Theo I logical Seminary, located at Rich ;mond. Va., preached the opening: 'sermon before the Davidson Col lege students at the Presbyterian Church here Sunday morning at 11:15 o’clock, and also delivered a sermon that evening. No pastor of the Davidson church has been obtained since the resignation of Dr. C. M. Richards, following his elevation to a full time professor of Bible at the Presbyterian insti Dr. Lacy recently went to Rich jmond to assume the presidency of the seminary there, having been pastor of the Central Presbyterian church at Atlanta, Ga.. for several years. He is one of the most prom inent men in the Southern Presby iterian Assembly, and is a son of Hon. Ben R. Lacy. Sr., treasurer of the state of North Carolina. A Family Reunion Pine Level, Sept. 11.—The chil dren of the late Dcmpsy Daugh try gathered at their old home to celebrate their father’s birthday, | last Thursday, Sept. 9. When all I had arrived, lemonade was serv ied. and about one o”clock a boun tiful dinner was spread on a long table under the trees. The dinner consisted of chicken, turkey, bar becue,. beef, pie, cake. pickles, sandwiches, etc. The afternoon was spent in eating ice cream and en joying music that was furnished by Floyd Woodard Durwood Daughtry, D. D. Daughtry and Fate Braswell. This occasion was ‘also the birthday of the youngest brother, Derwood, therefore he re ceived a good number of presents. About sunset they all decided to eat again, so everybody ate sup per and departed for their respec tive homes, declaring that the 9th of September was the most en joyable day of each year. There were present twelve chil dren, fifty-two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The jvisitors who were present were Mr, Herman Dixon of Goldsboro; Mr. Willie Braswell, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Braswell and children and Miss Winnie Phillips of Pine Lev el. R. F. D., 1, and Miss Burchie Stafford, of Smithfield, Route 1. A granddaughter. Too Bad Mother: Aren’t you ashamed of yourself—coming home half intox icated ? Yvonne: Yes, mother, but Tom carries such a little flask.—Life. Nina: *‘A little birdie told me what kind of a lawyer your uncle Storie:-“What did he say?” Nina: “Cheep, Cheep.” Storie: “Well a duck told me what kind of a doctor your father Local ACL Agent Makes Statement Sets Straight Reports Re garding The Personal Effects of Accident Victim Considerable comment has de veloped since the tragic accident last Monday night at the Holt Lake grade crossing, because of reports that the personal effects of Mr. E. C. Bethune, one of the victims of the accident, were missing after the wreck. After the arrival of Mrs. Bethune from Goldsboro it was learned from her that her hus band had about him a number of traveler’s checks, some cash and a gold watch and fob. A. C. L. em ployes were criticised for their manner of handling the case, and in order to set things straight Mr J. A. Campbell, the local agent makes the following statement in regard to the affair: “I desire to state that all of the valuables consisting of one watch one pistol, and one purse contain ing only cancelled checks and re ceipts, were turned over to Mrs j Bethune by me before she depart od for her home at Lakeland. Fla j After this lady had left, Dr. Ori 'from the hospital turned over t< I me $350.00 in travelers check which I at once sent to Mrs. Be thune by registered mail. I alsc (wired Mrs. Bethune just as soor as Dr. Orr ’phoned me that he came across the checks in his med icine case. Our railroad has stood for $200 for casket and $25 un dertaker’s service in addition to .giving the remains of Mr. Bethune free transportation back to Lake land, Fla.” I Mrs. Bethune was without money for traveling expenses, but before leaving she retained local attor neys who endorsed her check for (the amount she needed. Citizens • here, however, were ready to ren |der any assistance if this arrange ment had not been made. The King Did Wrong The king and queen of Belgium .were motoring from Brussels to a seaside resort near Boulogne. He was driving and she was sitting beside him. Just outside Calais, they turned out to pass another machine. The car swerved against jthe railing of a small bridge, stav |ing in the wheels and bending the fenders. Luckily, the railing held | and the king and queen escaped without injury. Since the two were alone in the car, no one knows exactly what really caused the accident. As a matter of conjecture, however, one may surmise that the queen was saying: “Albert, do be careful now, You missed that last car by half an inch.” And Albert was saying: “I’m driving this car. I‘ve driver it thousands of miles without ar accident ” And just then, being a little upset by the conversation the crash occurred. Perhaps this is all wrong anti they were not talking at all. Ther one can imagine Albert’s mind was elsewhere. The king business ha? not been doing so well lately. There doesn’t seem to be of a future ir it. So perhaps Albert was driving along and thinking about taking up some other line of work. The point, however, is that ar auto is a mechanical thing. It does not share your triumphs or youi troubles. It has no idea of what ar important personage you maj happen to be. When a king pull; the steering wheel wrong the cai goes into the ditch just the sam< as when a beggar pulls the steer ing wheel wrong. You might remember this. Nc matter who you are. keep youi mind on what you are doing wher you are driving an auto.—Twir City Sentinel. Still Captured In Ingrains Mr. Rowland Hayes, deputj sheriff of Ingrams township brought a large whiskey still her< Saturday which he captured in In grams township Saturday m))rn ing. A quantity of beer was fount at the still and destroyed. Jazz wasn’t so bad until th< | mosquitoes started singing it. I Bale Of Cotton Brings 20 Cents First Ginned by Smithficld Gin Company; is First New Cotton Marketed Here On Sept. 4 The tobacco market in Smith field seems to have overshadowed for a time the cotton market so far as publicity is concerned. Nevertheless Smithficld has been keeping pace with its cotton mar ket both as to early purchases and as to prices the product brought. The first new bale of cotton was sold here on Saturday, Sept. 4th, ten days ago. Both W. M. San ders and Austin bought a bale on that date. Mr. Jim Byrd who lives on Mr. Eugene Massey’s place near the county home, sold a bale to W. M. Sanders and was paid 17.85 cents per pound. On the same day Mr. J. P. Alford also of Smithfield, route one. sold a bale to Austin receiving 17 and three quarters. 1 ' t The highest price paid for any cotton on this market was paid by Austin to R. L. Hill of Smithfield, route 2, on last Wednesday, who received 20-cents per pound. This was the first bale ginned by the Smithfield Gin company, the grade being strict middling. Since Sept- 4th, the cotton buy ers here have bought new cotton every day. W. M. Sanders bought around twenty-five bales Saturday. CAREFUL HADLING MEANS BIGGER POTATO PROFITS Raleigh, Sept. 13.—Sweet pota toes are a money crop. They are easily and inexpensive to grow and properly housed and graded will usually yield a handsome profit. “One farmer of Nash county re ports that he made $300 from one acre of sweet potatoes last year,” says Robert Schmidt, vegetable specialist at State college. “Of course good prices cannot always be had in the fall at digging time and some arrangement mjust be made to keep the potatoes until mid-winter or spring. The old fashioned method of storing sweet potatoes in earth banks is all right for home use but is not suitable for commercial purposes.” Mr .Schmidt states that the av erage loss from decay in earth banks will eat up any profits that should be made. A properly built sweet potato curing and storage house will keep the crop in good condition and will soon pay for it self. But even a storage house will not keep the potatoes if they are not properly harvested, he states. Sweet potatoes should be harvest ed before frost if possible, and by all means before the cold rains which generally come early in No vember. Last year the North Car olina growers lost thousands of dollars because they did not dig their crop soon enough. A cold hurt potato means a rotten potato. Handle the potatoes with care so as not to bruise them. They will keep better and have a better ap pearance when sold. Mr. Schmidt states that his of fice will be glad to answer all questions about growing, harvest ing. curing and storing the sweet potato crop. Any grower wishing to build a modern storage house may obtain plans and specifica tions on request. WHO IS THE MOST POPULAR GIRL IN THREE COUNTIES? Who is the most popular girl in Wayne, Sampson and Lenoir counties? That is the question that the Merit Shoe Company, of Golds boro, is attempting to answer. They propose to settle the question in a popularity contest. The young lady who is selected as the most popular in the three counties will be awarded a costly twelve-inch loving cup. The Merit company announces that nominations in the contest will close Thursday, September 30. jThose who desire to nominate lady friends should call at the Merit store for full information, and make nominations before Septem ber 30. For results advertise in the Smithficlld Herald. * „ SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT SELMA BAPTIST CHURCH Prominent Speakers Ex pected To Make Ad dresses On S. S. Work Beginning Tuesday night, Sep- ' tember 21, and continuing through) Wednesday night, September 22, | the Johnston County Sunday School Convention will be held at the Baptist Church, Selma. Pas tors, superintendents, teachers, and officers of all Sunday schools of all denominations in the county have been invited to attend the sessions of the convention. The officers in charge of arrange ments for the convention are ex pecting a large attendance of workers from all parts of the county. The convention is open to the public and all who are inter ested in the Sunday school, wheth er they arc actively engaged in the work or not, are invited to at The convention is being held un der the auspices of the Johnston j MR. D. W. SIMS One of the principal speakers at this Convention. County and the North Carolina Sunday School Associations, and Turn to page six, please Negro Killed On Railroad At Micro In Dempsey’s Cabinet f/^:oc>.VTCRl Jack Dempsey’s new •‘secretary if the interior," Pauline LaBudde, tvho is now in charge of the Kitchen at the champion’s training ramp. She was formerly cook for .’resident Wilson. KNOW NORTH CAROLINA; OUR TAXABLE WEALTH The following tabic, based on the recent annual report of the State Commissioner of Revenue, shows the total value of the dif ferent classes of wealth as assess ed for taxation in North Carolina for the tax year 1924. Real and personal property, including cor porations, totals $2,400,398,075. and forms the great bulk of wealth listed for taxation. Item Tax Value Farm land _<-.$964,515,849 Town real estate __ 726,852,361 Mfg. property outside incorporated towns 90,734,419 Mineral, timber, water power property, inc. 13,224,909 Personal property, inc., corporations _ .605,070.537 Value, and excess, pub lic service com. _.242,216,605 Value, and excess, bank stock _<_• 32,670,069 Excess corporation val 36,426,^07 Excess B & L_ 72,963 _ Aggregate value of all property -$2,711,783,919 In Lcflcr’s blacksmith shop, on Reading Road, a long horse-tail fly-brush is used in fly time. One day the little daughter of the black smith was brushing the flies from a horse when a smart young man said: “Oh, Edna! are you shoeing horses, too?” “No; can’t you see? I’m shooing flies.”—Exchange. Lime the land for legumes, say icover crop experts in North Car olina. Struck By Train While Driving Spikes — Body Mangled Willie Reeves, a negro employed by the Atlantic Coast Line Rail way Company, was instantly kill ed near Micro Saturday morning about 8 o’clock when a train struck him while working on the track. Reeves was driving spikes as the train approached and those work ing with him called and warned him to get out of the way but just as he started to leave the track the train struck him. The blow on his head split it entirely open and his brains were strown along the track. Death was instant. The coroner, Mr. C. Q. Stephenson, was called to the scene, but an inquest was deemed unnecessary. Reeves was a stranger in this county. Only a few days ago he was employed by the railroad com pany, but apparently no one in this section knew anything of his his tory. The body was turned over to the railroad company for burial. 'NEW TYPES OF COTTON IN SOUTH AMERICA The discovery of several new types of cotton is reported by mem 'bers of the United States Departs ment of Agriculture, who return ed from a three months’ explora tion trip in the West Indies and South America. Some of these cot ton plants have characters that may be of value in practical cot ton breeding work in the United !States. One of the new types has bracts that are open or turned back from the buds and young bolls so that |little protection is afforded for boll weevils or other pests and dis eases. Such cotton could also be picked with less “trash” and the grades would be improved.—Pro gressive Farmer. No Funds A group of men were sitting about the big air-tight heater in the general merchandise store of Grandpa Hibbs. Haze Lynn ele vated his feet and spat into the coal scuttle as he volunteered this bit of information: “Guess Si Slater’s bank is in pretty bad con dition—‘bout to fail.’” “How so?” inquired Grandpa, pausing in the distribution of the mail. “Wall,” said Haze, “I seen a check Frank Bovee writ for $2 It was returned, marked ‘No Funds.’ Now a bank that aren’t able to cash a check for $2 must be pretty nigh busted.” “That’s so,” agreed the rest of the loafers. Building Catches Fire Third Time Flames Extinguished In Short Time; Damage Estimated At Abou $400 Saturday a little past midnight before the town had hardly settles down for its nightly slumber the fire company was aroused and call ed to the business district. A blaze had been discovered in the Ash ley Smith buildings on Market street. The fire was burning in the second story in a room used by Isaac Woodard, Smithfield’s colored undertaker. Indication? are that the fire caught in a bar rel of old trash. This room is over the store formerly occupied by the Vara L. Smith company. This was the third fire discovered in this building within two years. The fire company had littb' trouble in extinguishing the blaze, and in ten minutes the excitemen" was practically all over. The store under the room where the fire caught being vacant, there was lit tle damage on account of water. The Ideal Pharmacy and the mil linery shops of Mrs. A. W. Smith were slightly damaged. The en tire loss has been estimated at about S400. MAKES SHORTHAND ACCURACY RECORD Martin J. Dupraw, world’s short hand champion, won permanent possession of the Toledo Bar As sociation Lovinp Cup, displaying remarkable accuracy in the recent shorthand contest, held under the auspices of the Ohio State Short hand Reporters’ Association in To ledo. Two perfect papers and one with only one error was the rec ord established by young Dupraw, a graduate of the high school of commerce, where he learned Gregg shor|hand. His nearest competitor made a total of twenty-one er rors. The dictations were of three kinds—175 literary matter, or which Mr. Dupraw made no er rors; 200 Jury charge, which again this young man turned in with nr errors, and 240 words a minuL testimony, on which he made b one error. It was last year that young Dt praw won his junior doubles ten nis championship in the metropol itan district, and the following week secured the title world’s shorthand champion. The same year he also won the New York State Shorthand Reporters’ cham pionship. Mr. Dupraw is now a student at New York University, where he is studying law. —New York Evening World. NEGROES RAISE $101.50 DURING REVIVAL MEETING Galilee Baptist church, a negr church which has just closed a re vival. raised $101.50 during th< week end for the work of th« church. Galilee is said to be one of the best negro churches in the county, and its members wish to thank all who helped in the reviv al. Ten were added to the church. Rev. N. S. Harris of Concord ant*. A. C. Tillery, pastor of the church conducted the meeting. Lots of Solace Moral Gent: And is the bottk the only comfort you have in you' bereavement ? Widower: Oh. no! I have half - dozen bottles in the cupboard.— Berlin Nagels Lustige Welt. 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 mast bring copy of this paper in order to secure ticket. jhcamaklinot Norman D. Hall recognized his name last issue.
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