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, \\!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.