SMITHFIELD NEEDS:
Daily Moat and Milk Inspection
Bigger Pay Roll.
A Modern Hotel
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 45—NO. 18
* * *
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1927
* * *
$2.00 PER YEAR
Smithfield Lies Buried
Under Biggest Snow
In Quarter Century
18 INCHES DEEP
All Business Drowses Un
der Heavy White Blan
ket; Aged Citizen Re
calls Big Snow of 1857
ROOFS GIVE AWAY
Smithfield, for two days
has been struggling under
a snow fall, the heaviest
many of its citizens ever
saw, and certainly the
heaviest since 1899. It
measured on the level a
depth of eighteen inches
and the drifts in numbers
of places were waistdeep.
A strong wind accompanied
k
W ing in earnest :-.ort!;. after
I darl
ued practically without a jbneak
until about four-thirty o’clock
Wednesday afternoon. The sir >
•was hardly a surprise, for inter-’
mittant flakes all day Tuesday
gave warning, but such a heavy
white blanket as greeted the eye
: Wrednesday morning had not been
> expected.
Practically all activities of the
•town were halted Wednesday, but
>esterday saw folks resuming
their regular routine. There was
no school either Wednesday or
! yesterday, although a few pupils
and teachers gathered at the reg
ular time. Superior court in ses
sion here was isp-mhxi both da;. .
and prayer meetings at the
the day. Stores were open but the
full force of clerks was not
; on hand. Nearly all offices declar
ed a holiday. Business, Wednes
day, consisted mainly in selling
what few groceries the purchasers
! could carry home, for no delivery
trucks and wagons were able to
run, and in selling overshoes, boots
and leggings. Some of the local
merchants were able to unload
practically their entire stock of
wet weather paraphernalia.
Not » few have enjoyed snow
fports including snowballing, and
the snowballers have been no re
specter of persons, not even ex
cepting the honorable mayor.
Coming* so late in the season
when fuel piles were depleted, it
would not have been surprising if
the cold had been felt keenly
among the poorer people of the
community, but the united Welfare
Association, according to the treas
urer, had not received a single call
for aid up to noon yesterday,
i The snow has been the occi
for reminiscences of snows of pre
^ \iou>- years and :bo g 'licral <>pin
ion is that this is the heaviest
since 1801b Mr. Christopher Ham
ilton, one of our oldest citizens, in
discussing yesterday the big snows
of his recollection, remembers only
two that were heavier than this
j one. Those fell in 1890 and in 1857.
: Mr. Hamilton says he was a small
Turn to page four, please
AUNT ROXIE SAYS—
By Me—•
WW mrm a
‘'I shore hates ter
money Rwine to pay oV
hills.”
.see new
cloctah’.v
Organ Recital
Postponed
The organ recital which was
to he given at the iMethodist
church tonight has been post.
poned. The inclement weather
has provented the practices of
this recital. However, it will
be given at a later date and an
nouncement of which will be
made in these columns.
Whole Of State
Is Under Thick
White Blanket
Heavy Snowfall Plays
Havoc With Traffic
And Business In Gene
ral
ATLANTA, March 2.—North
Carolina, Virg nia and eastern Ten
nessee tonight began digging their
way out from under the heaviest
snowfall in many years. Buildings
in North Carolina gave way under
the weight of the snow and traffic
was at a standstill in both North
Carolina and Virginia.
Industry, business and schools
shut down early in the day as pu
pils were unable to get to their
classes and workmen could not
reach their jobs. Street car service
was abandoned in practically all
cities in North Carolina and Vir
ginia, and highway travel was an
impossibility.
The snow, which began falling
yesterday morning, reached a
depth of 20 inches at High Point,
in central North Carolina, and ‘l
ranged around that depth through
out the state.
In tidewater Virginia the storm
rode in on a 60-mile wind which
paralyzed harbor traffic at Norfolk
and Newport News and flooded
many streets in Norfolk with an
unusually high tide.
Roofs of six buildings at Golds
boro, and two buildings at Salis
bury, collapsed but no one was
injured. Train service in North
Carolina was badly delayed, trains
being reported held as long as five
hours by heavy drifts.
The snow king rbached into
Kentucky, Alabama. South Caro
lina and Georgia. Flurries were
reported as far south as Birming
ham. South Carolina and North
Georgia were blanketed with from
lone to six inches of snow. Peach
,trees in full bloom were weighted
down with snow in Georgia and
South Carolina and peach growers
in middle Georgia were preparing
• for a hard freeze tonight.
I -
HEAVIEST IN STATESVILLE
FOR FIFTY-FOUR YEARS
! Statesville, March 2.—States
ville today looked out on the heav
iest blanket of snow this section
lias seen in 54 years. The official
weather observer reported 18x?
inches on the level and in many
! places drifts were several feet
deep.
Older inhabitants remember that
on March 18. 1878. a total of 20
inches was reported officially.
r. N. <’. AM) CHAPEL HILL
\RE LITERALLY SNOYVBOLMl
Chapel Hill. March 2.—The Uni
versity of North Carolina and the
itown of Chapel Hill are literally
! snowbound today. The heaviest
'snow of many years fell last night
! and this morning, burying the
.countryside beneath a 20-inch blan
ket of white and cutting off all
communication with the outside
I world except by win-. Until a late
hour this afternoon there had been
(Turn to page four please)
Cotton Compress
May Be At Selma
Matter Presented By W.
M. Sanders Is Discussed
At Kiwanis Luncheon
The regular weekly luncheon of
the Smithfield Kiwanis club was
I licit! yesterday at the Coffee Cup
j' n Market street, and despite the
large snow that had fallen, the at
! tendance was more than was ex
pected. President Geo. Y. Rags
dale called the club together, but
I Secretary E\ til. Alexander was
jabsent on account of sickness,
i The topic of discussion at this
| time was agriculture, and Kiwan
ian W. M. Sanders, who was in
! harge of the program, stated
I‘hat the program would be inform
al. Kiwanian Sanders discussed
the matter of using fertilizers, go
ing into the relative merits of
high and low grade fertilize^.
'Johnston county farmers, he stat
e«, are seeking a iertinzer that is
practical. He read several letters
to the club relative to co-operation
between the farmer and business
men. Kiwanian Sanders made a
significant announcement when he
stated that a cotton compress is
likely to be located at Selma in
ihe near future. He pointed put
that Johnston county as a whole
would benefit if Selma should be
fortunate enough to secure this
enterprise, and he urged the prop
er co-operation between the local
Kiwanis club and the Selma Ki
wanis club in securing this new
industry for the county.
A motion was made and carried
jthat Chairman Sanders invite a
[chemist of some fertilizer company
to be the guest of the local club
within the next ten days to dis
cuss fertilizers, at which time it is
expected that several farmers in
this immediate community will
also be guests.
Superior Court
Snowed Under
Judge Harris Blocked
From His Court; Also
Sheriffs And Deputy
Clerk
The snow took the Superior
court which was in session here
by no less surprise than it did all
the rest of us, and since it fell all
court activities have been closed.
Judge Harris who was presiding
went to his home on Tuesday
night to find himself hopelessly
blocked off from his court on the
following morning. Of the jurors
who were sitting on a case and
ready to hear the attorneys’ ar
guments on Wednesday morning,
only two of them dared to brave
the storm in order to answer roll
call at 9:110 a. m., and one of them
lives in town. They were Messrs.
(’. V. Johnson of Smithfield, ami
J. B. Rowe of Boon Hill township
Sheriff Turley, \\<ho resides in
Clayton, and Deputy Sheriff D. O
Uzzle and Deputy Clerk A. A
Corbett, who reside in Wilson’.
Mills, were snowbound and have
not yet been able to return to the
icounty’s capital.
Husband and Wife
•you Re
Beauty is the first requisite foi
a stenographer for my husband
She can be the worst dumb bell or
earth but if she “looks Rood” she
can get by with him.—Bertha M.
WHAT DOES YOUR HUSBAND DO
Thrice On Sundays
JIMMIE JEFFRIES, Jr., 11 year
>!d son of Rev. Jeffries, Baptist
pastor of Lamar, Mo., studies ten
verses of the Bible daily and the
doctrine he expounds is so inspired
he sometimes is called on to preach
three sermons on a Sunday. He
-peaks extemporaneously.
Tourney At State
Three Local Basketball
Teams, Smithfield, Ben
son and Princeton, Are
Among 58 Teams at
State College
Fifty-eight North Carolina high
schools have been admitted to the
Second Annual Invitational Bas
ketball Tournament at State Col
lege which begins Monday and
will continue through Tuesday,
jand the finals will be played Wed
nesday. The tournament was to
have begun yesterday but on ac
count of the weather it had to be
postponed.
More than 1,400 high school play
ers representing 14G teams are
said to have applied for admis
sion to the tournament, but due
to lack of facilities for housing
' his large number, the number was
limited to the 58 teams having the
best records for the season. Three
Johnston county teams were in
I eluded in the fifty-eight teams
competing for honors—Smithfield,
Benson and Princeton.
1 hursday.
fi:00 p. m.—Jackson Springs vs.
Wendell; Rich Square vs. Far
mer.
0:45 p. m-—Garner vs. Prospect;
Green Level vs. Jonesboro.
7:30 p. m.—Spring Hope vs.
|West Durham; Smithfield vs. Lum
bermen.
8:15 p. m.—Sanford vs. Haw
j River; Benson vs. Mebane.
I 9;00 p. m.—Princeton vs. Dunn;
I Oxford vs. Enfield.
■ 9:45 p. m.—Goldston vs. Cary;
jRcd Oak vs. Friendship.
| 10:30 p. m. — Landis vs. Erwin;
Liberty vs. Woodland.
j 8:00 a. m.—Jamesville vs. Ar
cadia; Philadelphus vs. Troutman
8:45 a. m.—Parkton vs. Everetts:
Pineville vs. Candor.
0:30 a. m.—Mocksvilie vs. Lin
colnton; Spencer vs. Chapel Hill
10:45 a. m.—Gastonia vs. Wil
ron; Greensboro vs. Greenville.
11:30 a. m.—Raleigh vs. Fay
ctteville; Leaksville vs. Charlotte
12:15 p. m.—Roanoke Rapids
vs. Monroe; Newton vs. Weldon.
2:00 p. m.—Wilmington vs
Fremont; New Bern vs. Lexing
ton.
2:45 p. m.—Mount Holly vs
winner of Dunn-Princeton game
Farmville vs. winner of Oxford
Enfield game.
1 . G. Hobbs Locates at Selina.
j Mr. E. 'G. Hobbs, who for th<
past three or four years has beei
actively engaged in the practice o
law at Clinton, has located ii
Johnston county at Selma, wher<
lie will continue his legal worl
; nd buy and sell cotton. While j
member of the Clinton bar, Mr
Hobbs acquired a good practice
ond he comes to Johnston wel
recommended. Ho is well know
"ere and in Selma, where he wa
engaged in the cotton business ii
PJ20 prior Ii* his admission to th
‘bar.
Holleman Motor
Co. Gives Dinner
Local Chevrolet Dealer
Celebrates First Anni
versary In Smithfield
The Holleman Motor company,
local Chevrolet dealer, entertained
its employees at a two course din
ner at the Coffee Cui' Monday eve
ning, celebrating the first anni
versary of this firm here. Mr. B.
J. Holleman, the manager, was
the toastmaster on this occasion.
After dinner the business for the
past year and the prospect for
future sales were discussed. Last
year this firm sold 145 new cars
and eighty-one used cars. During
ifie past month eighteen new and
twelve used cars were sold. The
amount of business done last year
was not what was expected, but
Mr. Holleman thinks prospects are
bright for almost doubling it this
year.
1 he employees present were:
Miss A rah Lee Keen, Messrs. Kyle
V. Stephenson, L. H. Johnson,
Chester L. Stephenson, W. A
Wiggs, C. E. Higgins, and C. N.
Melton. Mr. A. J. Melton was un
able to attend on account of ill
jness, and several other employes
I were absent. Mr. W. M. Gaskin
! was a special guest.
Chevrolet had the best January
jin all Chevrolet history, according
| to Mr. Holleman. Chevrolet cars
Mere built to the number of 73,
G00 in January a total of 3,600 in
advance of the nearest competitor.
Even with this great increase
in production, according to Mr.
Holleman, the factory was unable
to supply the demand. Even now
all Chevrolet dealers are oversold
on certain models. In a great
many of the large cities Chevrolet
is leading in the sales by a wide
margin. The most beautiful Chev
rolet in all Chevrolet history has
created a nation-wide demand.
The production in February calls
for 84,000 cars and trucks which
marks the largest month in all
Chevrolet history. The factory ex
pects to sell more than a million
cars during 1927 against 732,245
sold during 1926, and 504.000 in
1925.
Erysipelas Takes
Young Benson Boy
| Passing of Russell John
son Saddens The Town;
Boy Scouts To Attend
Funeral In a Body.
Mr. Russell Johnson, lG-year
oltl son of Mr. C. T. Johnson of
Henson died at Rex Hospital in
Raleigh, at noon on Wednesday,
death resulting from erysipelas
which devoleped from a small pim
ple on the lip. The inflamation set
in on Friday of last week. It be
came serious by Sunday; and by
Tuesday hospital treatment was
adviced. The spread of the poison
was rapid and death came almost
suddenly.
The passing of this young fellow
was quite a shock to Benson where
he and his parents are prominent
and well known. He was a member
of the Benson high school and was
a Boy Scout. He was a member
of the Methodist church and the
funeral will be held in the church
this afternoon at three o’clock.
His pastor, Rev. J. E. Blalock, who
is also scoutmaster, will conduct
the funeral service after which
interment will be made in the
Benson cemetery. The Boy Scouts
will attend in a body, and act as
pallbearers.
The young man is survived by
his parents and seven brothers.
Thieves Visit Filling Station
Robbers attempted to break into
i the Riverside Filling station late
Monday night. Mr. J. N. Rhodes,
: who rooms there, heard someone
i trying to remove the bar from one
. of the windows. He shot but failed
, to hit the thief, who made his es
[ cape through the swamp. The bar
i over the window was about half
. off.
i Someone entered this filling sta
tion some time ago and took a
number of articles.
Compromise
The School
Tax Fight
State Equalizing Fund To
Be $3,250,000; Little
Counties Get More than
They Seem To Get
__
A compromise agreement reach
ed Tuesday will bring about a
$3,250,000 equalization fund in
stead of the State-wide tax for
public schools or an equalization
fund of $4,000,000 for which the
House has been contending- or the
administration measure providing
an equalization fund of $2,500,000
for which the Senate has been con
tending.
The compromise was carried
out Tuesday night in the House
by amending- the maintenance ap
propriation bill so as to carry $3,
250.000 each year and to increase
the tptals to $15,350,000 and $15,
850.000 for the two years. The per
manent improvement appropriation
bill, which the small county peo
ple held up last week after $90,
000 for a radio had been stricken
out was also passed last Tues
day. The bill now carries $5,247,
000.
The Senate Tuesday had under
consideration the Revenue bill but
did not reach the income tax sec
tion which will be amended so as
to place the tax upon incomes of
corporations per cent instead
of 4 per cent. Individual income
taxes will not be changed under
the agreement.
The victory of the small county
adherents is somewhat larger than
it looks on its face. In the first
place they will have the privilege
of writing the bill for the distri
bution of the fund.
Moreover, the larger the equali
zation fund the more counties there
will be to share in it. So the 7G
counties now sharing will get al
most as much under a $3,250,000
fund as under a $4,000,000 fund, as
there would be 85 more counties
sharing in the larger fund.
The fund is now §1,500,000, the
$1,000,000 increase granted by the
budget having been the largest
recommended, or an increase for
that item of 60 2-3 per cent as
compared with an average of 13
per cent.—News and Observer.
CUT ICE ON JOHNSTON
COUNTY POND IN 1893
In speaking- of former big
snows. Mr. W. D. Avera, who lives
near town, tells a very interesting
experience in the snow of 1893.
That snow fell in January and was
on an average from 28 to 30 inches
deep. He tells of tramping to
Middle creek with a companion,
Mr. Mann Johnson, brother of Mr,
Buck Johnson who lives just
across Buffalo, and tells of going
down the creek which was frozen
over as far as Avera’s mill. There
they borrowed an axe and cut
through the ice in order to meas
ure it. It measured 12 inches. Lat
er, ice was cut from a nearby pond
and stored in an ice house on hi?
place for use the next summer
These young men came to Neust
liver above Turner's bridge am
walked up the river on the ice tc
Smithfield.
young men came to Xeuse rivei
above Turner’s bridge and walkec
up the river on the ice to Smith
field.
ROAD TO RALEIGH
IS NOW OPE>
Snow plows have been busy
here and elsewhere cleaning
the streets and highways. An
nouncement was made Sn Ral
eigh by Frank Page, State
Highway Cdmmissfijoner, that
the principal state highways
would be cleared of snow by
noon yesterday. Telegrams
from district engineers carried
the news to Mr. Page that con
siderable difficulty was being
experienced in removing it.
The road to Raleigh was open
ed yesterday afternoon.
Tom Tarheel says there is n
reason for growing somethin]
that folk.; art* nut using, and h
expects to let up on cotton.
Aimee and Tex
Doing Their Stuff
AIMEE SEMPLE McPherson,
"horn New Yoflrk termed “The
'amp in vestments,” went, saw
and conquered the Great White
May in her swing around the
country, preaching the gospel
" hich she served up at Los An
geles so successfully. Her first
night in Gotham, she paid an early
morning visit to the famed “Texas”
Guinan night club. Saw wicked
ness, made a speech, got a round
of applause, then invited “Tex’’
and her gang to come out to the
meeting the next evening. “Tex”
said “Sure,” and she went (as
shown in insert below) and both
of them held news spaces on the
first page of every metropolitan
paper for four days. That’s ad
vertising.
Drier Session Of
Recorder’s Court
Only Emergency Cases
Were Tried Owing to
1 he Fact Superior Court
Was Also Meeting
Owing to a term of the Superior
court which is in session here,
there was only a limited number
of cases tried in the Recorder’s
coifrt here on Tuesday of this
week. Only cases of an emergency
were tried.
Jimmy Lane was found guilty
of resisting an officer and given
a road sentence of 30 days to be
suspended upon the payment of
cost.
William Whitaker was bound
over to the Superior court upon a
warrant charging assault with in
tent to kill.
D. D. Carlyle. S. B. Bunn, and
BHa Bunn were arrested by Depu
tes Jno. O. Ellington and Tom
Talton on Saturday night, Febru
ary 26. The warrant was replete
with charges against the trio cov
' ring assault, drunkness, disorder
ly conduct, operating a car while
under the influence of whiskey, ant
transporting and what not. Al
though the court could not fine
sufficient evidence to convict or
the assault charge, “the woman ir
he case” exhibited a black eye a
he trial. Carlyle was found guil
ty of transporting whiskey and op
orating car while intoxicated foi
which he was fined $50 and givei
a 3-months road sentence. Bum
got out by paying a fine of $50 am
the cost of the action against him
Mia Bunn was sentence to Samar
cand for a term of two years.
' Henry Sanders, a negro firon
: Granville county, was in cour
(Turn to page four please)
Micro Man Puts
His Town On Ma,
- - >
Goes to Atlanta, Surretv!
ers His Pocket Book
Supposed Friend Ami
Thereby Loses $300
MICRO, March 1.—The year
jubilee has come, the wonderf.
has happened, Micro has produe
a sensation for the entire countr
got itself in black box type on t
front page of 1600 Associat*
Press newspapers over the Unit* •
States. Has produced a sev
days wonder.
Has done all this on top of it
record of never previously havi):
had a story concerning itself
the daily press of North Carolir.
A drowsy, sleepy, slow movint,
country village which sleeps
twelve hours a day and dozes th
other twelve, it is a village whic
quite becomes its title “Micro
from the Greek, meaning “small.
And now the name has humme
over the telegraph wires, peopl
have stumbled over the term bv
the millions and all because R. D
Foster orje of the 125 Micro citi
zens went to the huge city of At
lanta and fell among thieves. To
day Mr. Foster is a sadder bu^
wiser man, and none of the othe'
Micro citizens are likely to falT
into Foster’ experience.
Mr. Foster got off the train ir
Atlanta, and stood in awe at th*
immensity of the station; his eye
bulged in amazement at the hur
rying pushing throngs in the sta
tion; the trucks that ran hithe
and yon about the cement way
without anyone pushing them. Th
red caps trying to get one’s grij
the bells, the cries of it all.
Ai.d as he stood and gaped V
likely looking fellows approache*
“Big place, this, eh,” one of the’
remarked.
| iou bet, replied Mr. Foster,
tnd a conversation was struck u,
Presently the Micro citizen h d
heard that there were many pick
pockets about the place and on:*
had to keep his hand on his purse
to make it safe.
“They are all light fingered crew,
and can go into your pocket, flich
your pocketbooks or roll, and yo
can’t feel them.” the confidin
strangers related to Mr. Foster
He believed them, for back i
Micro where they had sat before
■the general store on long summc
afternoons and talked about th
wickedness of the great cities the
had sometimes referred *o tb
subject.
The firiendship between *h*» tv
strangers and the Micro man grt
in a remarkably short time. Prc
ently one of the strangers ask
if Mr. Foster didn’t care to go i
town and look over the sights <
the city.
“I’ll show you around,” he wet
on. Mr. Foster accepted.
“Out friend here will take cat
of nur pocketbooks for us whi
we are gone,” he remarked, an
and again warned of pickpocket
The Micro man, all unsuspecting
handed his purse over.
They went for the walk, and M
Foster was astounded more at t
more at the rush and the roar « f
everything.
“It’s not like Micro, ’ he remark
jea.
In an hour or so they returned
to the station. The friend, wh
! had agreed to hold the poeketbool
"as gone. With it was Mr. Foster
I $300. Presently Mr. Foster looks
land the man who had escorted bit
over the city had disappeared in th
crowd.
And the story was spread broad
cast over the Associated Pre1
wires of the United States an.
that is the way Micro won it
fame.—The Goldsboro Newa.
A Tantalizer
There are exactly enough let
ters in the line below to epell
1 the name of a person in Smith
I field, and if the right one le
! ciphers his name and will pre
j sent It to The Herald office, w, •
will present him with a con '
i limentary ticket to the Vie ]
tory Theatre. Ticket must b- j
called for before the following t
j issue.
aclrfnarkilngrodno
Paul Brown, jt„ decipherer! j
j ho, name last issue.