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Make Your Plans TO SELL YOUR TOBACCO —IN— SMITMFIELD THIS SEASON “It's just a little highcrc here” Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 1882 volume’ 45—NO. 63 * * * SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 9, 1927 * * * IF IT’S FOR THE GOOD OF, JOHNSTON COUNTY, THE HERALD’S FOR IT. $2.00 PER YEAR Blow-Out Causes Tragic Accident Five Tourists Arc Se verely Injured When Car Turns Over On Highway Near Here A tragic accident occurred on highway in front of the home of M. C. Hooks between here and Clayton yesterday morning- about 11:30 o’clock when a rear tire on a large White automobile driven by tourists, blew out, turning the car over twice and strowing the occu pants along the road. I. S. Wil liamson, driver, was thrown sev eral feet from the car, which was said to have been traveling at a rapid rate of speed. There were three cars in the party, and they were en route from Jacksonville, Fla., to Hot Springs, I Ark. Mr. Williamson and four j children were riding in the White car when the accident occurred, and 1 all were painfully injured. They ' were brought immediately to the , Johnston County Hospital for ex amination and treatment. Mr. Williamson's back was bad ly bruised, and deep bruises were ' found about his right groin. Billy Williamson, fourteen years old, suffered a fracture of the left leg below the knee. He was 1 also badly bruised. , The entire back of Joe William son, age 12, was covered with bruises and abrasions. Jesse Williamson, age 8, sus tained a fractured bone and bruises ’ of the body. The body of Sally Williamson, age 6, was severely bruised. A ; laceration of the skalp six inches long made stitches necessary. A fracture of the skull is feared. Mrs. Williamson and another daughter were riding in a Pack ard, while John Williamson was driving the third car, a Jordan. The party was returning to Hot Springs after spending some time in Florida. The cars were loaded with camping paraphernalia, a radio, musical instruments and baggage. A dog riding with the children in the White was killed, i Parrots in a cage and two or I three other dogs escaped injury. | Mrs. Broughton 'Entertains. Kenly, Aug. 8.—Mrs. A. J. Broughton delightfully entertain- 1 ed the members of the Priscilla i club on the lawn in front of her! home on Friday afternoon from 1 5 to 7 o’clock. The guests were greeted by the hostess. A delightful hour was1 spent in .sowing and talking, after ■which the hostess assisted by Mrs. • W* A. Stallings, Misses Beatrice and Boris Hooks served a lovely salad course which was followed by ice cream, angel cake and mints. A lovely color scheme of yel low and white was carried out in I decoration and refreshments. The young ladies who served were at- 1 tractively dressed in yellow and white. Invited guests besides the club members were: Mrs. (i. E. Wals- j ton and Mrs. G. B. Woodard, of W ilson. jack NORMAN HERE The Jack Norman Players will aPpear under canvas here in this city every night during the week "f August 15. High class vaude V|lle and drama will be presented evefy n‘ght during the week. A feature of the entertainment fur niahed by the Norman Players is a *azz orchestra. Mr. Joe Mahler, Son Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mahler this city, is being featured in this orchestra. Tantalizer Thsrc are exactly cnouch let |rs in the lino below to spell “" name of a person in Smith c'“> nnd if the right one de ciphers his name and wilt pre ^nt it to The Herald office, <* will present him with a complimentary ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the fol lowing issue. (Miss) Kdna Langdon recognized her name. Toffuy-a Tantalizer: hxneodioinjs COTTON ADVANCES TWO CENTS A POUND The local cotton market jump- j ed from seventeen to nineteen cents per pound for strict mid dling cotton yesterday afternoon soon after the August cotton report was made public by the Department of Agriculture. The drop from 16,267,800 to 13,192, 000 bales came as a surprise to everyone. The report placed the indi cated yield at 166.8 per acre, , and the crop condition at 69.5 of normal. Before the report i was announced, the New York \ market was paying seventeen cents for good cotton, but be- j fore it closed yesterday the j price had advanced to 18.95. j Ginners Annual Picnic Is Held VV. M. Sanders Is Chosen President and J. W. Steph enson Secretary .Treasurer The annual meeting of the gin lcrs of Johnston county was held Friday afternoon at Holt Lake. ■V delicious barbecue menu with tccessoraes was served. During* the business session Mr. iV. M. Sanders was elected pres dent of the ginners association, *nd Mr. J. W. Stephenson was hosen secretary-treasurer. The arice for ginning this season was liscussed at length, and it was de cided that the old price of $4.50 i bale would be charged when standard bagging is used. The dinners agreed to have on hand a supply of cotton bagging to be jsed when requested by the )wner of the cotton. There will be \ small difference in the price of standard and cotton bagging. Mr. Lawrence Stancil, of the firm Skinner and Stancil, was pre sent and displayed sample-s of cot :on bagging. All the ginners ap peared to be favoi'ably impressed >vith this new type of bagging. About seventy-five per cent of :he ginners of Johnston county were present Friday, exactly forty seven being in attendance. KENLY DEFEATS STRONG ZEBULON CLUB KENLY, Aug. 8.—The hard hit ling local club of the Central Car olina league defeated the strong Zebulon outfit Friday on the lat ter’s lot by the score of 7 to 5. Neighbors, }:>cal star right hander, was in great form, letting the Zebulon nine down with five well scattered blows and sending four back to the bench via the strike-out route. Bunn, Zebulon ace, started the contest for the home club but was soon routed and the Kenly club chalked up its third straight over their oppon ents. The local club easily won the first half of the Central Carolina League and are now in a dead lock with Bailey for top honors in the second half race. Club: R. H. E. Kenly 7 11 1 Zebulon 5 5 2 Batteries: Neighbors and Sim mons; Bunn and Broughton. CUTTING SCRAPE SATURDAY NIGHT A cutting scrape took place here Saturday night about ten o’clock when Rowland Headin stabbed Johnnie Scott in the neck. Scott was seriously wounded and is not expected to live. Both men are ne groes. Headin was arrested and carried to jail. They were said to be intoxicated. Swimming Party at Holt Lake. On Friday afternoon Miss Mary Lee Hooks entertained a number of her friends at a swimming party at Holt Lake in hono** of her house guests, Misses Blanche and Olive Clarke, of Greenville. Boating and bathing were en joyed after which a delightful pic hic supper was served. About thirty guests enjoyed the hospitality of Miss Hooks. !/' -- thicken Thief Is Lodged In Jail Princeton Mecthodist and Baptist Sunday Schools En joy Picnic at Crescent Lake PRINCETON, Aug1. 5.—Several 'armors in this section have been missing chickens in the past two weeks. Two farmers lost as many as twenty each. The young- coon was caught last Saturday night when he brought four chickens to town to sell. Next Tuesday morning this young coon, in the person of George Green, will face Judge Ay cock on the charge of stealing chickens. He is now at the county hotel awaiting his turn. The Methodist Sunday school children with their relatives and friends went to the Goldsboro City Park Thursday morning on their annual picnic. They enjoyed their iinner at the park and a large number of them went to Crescent Lake in the evening. 1 hursday evening the Baptist Sunday school children with their relatives and friends went on their annual picnic to Crescent Lake, ar riving 'there about 2:30. In a few minutes the water was full r>f boys and girls from the cradle roll size up to middle age. About f>:30, they gathered around the long table which was well filled with many good things to eat. After thanks were offered by Mr. W. I. jPcarce, superintendent of :he school, all proceeded to feast jpon the bountiful supply. Miss Margaret LeMay, from Smithfield, is spending a few days ihis.week with Mrs. Ed Holt. Mr. W. P. Rose, from Kenly, ?pent the day Sunday with Mr. md Mrs. J. H. Edwards. Messrs. H. A. j Watson, G. W. Howell and Earl Watson went to Wilmington Sunday. Mr. W. H. Massey, from Raleigh, was a visitor here Monday. Mrs. G. B. Aycock. from Micro, Ylr. and Mrs. Will Crocker, from Selma, Mr. Charlie Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. Barnie Hamilton, from Smithfield, were visitors in :own Sunday. While contractors are building the last section of the concrete Jam at Baker’s Mill, the flour and :-orn mills will not be in opera tion, all the water in the pond having been turned out for this work. The dam will be completed in a few days. It will not require many hours to fill the pond as Little river has had good rains up stream. Messrs. Waverly Martin, Need ham Fair sr„ and Jim Mitchell went to Oriental on a fishing trip Thursday. STATE MEETING FOR NEGRO FARMERS The State Negro Farmers’ Con vention will be held at the Agri cultural and Technical College at Greensboro on Wednesday and Thursday, August 10 and 11. The sessions during the day will be given over to a discussion of ag ricultural problems among the col ored race and the evening sessions to inspirational address »s along ed ucation line*. The Negro farm women of North Carolina have also perfected an organization that will hold its first meeting at Fayetteville Tuesday and Wednes day, August 30 and 31. The pro gram will consist largely of dem onstrations and lectures on house hold matters. WHY IS IT? A man wakes up in the morning after sleeping under an advertis ed mattress and pulls off adver tised pajamas; takes a bath in ar advertised tub; shaves with an advertised razor, washes with ar advertised soap, powders his face with advertised powder; dons ad vertised underwear, hose, shirt collar, shoes, suit, handkerchief sits down to a breakfast of adver tised cereal, drinks a cup of ad vertised coffee; puts on an adver tised cigar; rides to his office ir an advertised auto on advertisec tires; then refuses to advertise or the grounds that advertising doesn’t pay? If your business isn’t gooc enough to advertise, advertise ii for sale. 1 Silver Jubilee for McOnw of the Giants John J. ‘Muggsy” Napoleon Mc Graw, leader of New York Giants | for 25 years, as he looks today when i i>ascbaJl paid its highest tribute in a silver jubilee,—gifts, bronze tablet* statue, and evcr’thintr. Farmers Forms New Organization Will Carry Out Resolution Adopted at Recent Farm ers’ and Farm Women's Convention RALEIGH, Aug. 8.—One repre sentative from every local or county farmers’ or farm women’s organization will meet at State College, Raleigh, on Friday morn ing, August 26, to form a state wide farm organization. James M. Gray, assistant director at the State College has been asked to act as temporary chairman of the proposed organization and all com munications should be sent to him at the above address. According to Mr. Gray, there arc a number of local and county associations that are contributing much to the success of the com munities and it is hoped that each of these will have a represetativc at the meeting on the 26th. A resolution tending* toward forming this statewide body was adopted at the recent meeting of Convention and it is the idea of; the Farmers’ and Farm Women’s those in charge of the movement to affiliate with national farm or ganizations in order to better rep resent the farming interests of the state. A committee consisting of three j men and three women from mem-! bers of the convention have al ready been appointed and these to gether with representatives from the local or county associations will form the organization com mittee. The committee thus form ed will take up the study of farm organizations now operating in this state as well as the national organizations. In order to have all parts of the state represented it is asked that all local or county associa tions send the name of their rep resentative to James M. Gray, State College Station, Raleigh, as soon as possible. New (Sweet Potato. Last Saturday Mr. C. Q. Steph enson presented1 the Herald with four large new sweet potatoes. They are of the Porto^Rico variety and are very fine potatoes. Mrs. Whitehurst’s Flat her Dead. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Whitehurst were called to Plymouth last week on account of the death of Mrs. Whitehurst’s father', Mr. J. S. Allen. Mr. Allen was seventy seven years of age. Mrs. White hurst has many friends who sym pathize with her in her bereave ment. Advertise in the Herald Negro Tries To Enter Home Mrs. W. H. Stevens Is Awak ened By Night Prowler; Attempts to Raise Window About three o’clock Saturday morning', Mrs. Will H. Stevens of this city was awakened by the loud barking of the bloodhounds in the back yard, and when she arose to investigate she heard someone on the back porch. In a few minutes the intruder went to the front porch and tried to open the door. When Mrs. Stev ens called to find out who was at the door a man’s voice answered, “It’s me. Open the door.” She told him that she did not know him and that he was at the wrong door. The man said, “It’s Willie, open the door. I'm not going to do any harm.” Mrs. Stevens called to him to leave, but he left the porch, went around to her bedroom, and tried to raise the window. She ran to it and held it down for a while from the inside. It was then that she saw the prowler was a ne gro. A nail above the window kept the negro from raising it enough to get in. and Mrs. Stev ens told him that if he did not leave she would shoot. He then left the window and ran. Mr. Stevens was out of town when the incident took place, and Mrs. Stevens was alone with the children except for a neighbor who spent the night with her. She could not get telephone service and was forced to spend the remainder of the night in fear and uneasi ness. The negro has not been appre hended. RURAL CARRIERS MEET Several rural letter carriers of -Johnston and adjoining counties met in Selma last Thursday night, August *1, to organize a Rural Let ter Carriers Association. Officers elected were: J. R. Oliver, pres ident; B. B. Lee, vice-president; W. J. Stevenson, secretary-treas urer. The next ^meeting will be held with the rural letter carriers of Clayton on Thursday evening, August 11, at seven o’clock. Kiwanians At Holt Lake. The weekly luncheon of the Smithfield Kiwanis club, which is customarily held at the Woman’s club room in this town, was held at Holt Lake on Thursday evening of last week at six o’clock. A boun tiful spread had been prepared and the event was very enjoyable. The meal consisted of Brunswick stew and iced drinks. Mr. H. V. Rose, clerk of the court, was the invited guest on this occasion. Presents Flowers To Herald. 'Some of the prettiest flowers seen this season were presented to the Herald Saturday by Mrs. J. A. Batten, of near Wilson’s Mills. They were bright rolored double zinnias attractively arranged with fern in a huge vase. The Herald deeply appreciates this lovely gift. Sunday School Picnic Friday The Pisgah Sunday school picnic will be held at Crantock Mill, bet ter known as the McCullers Mill, Friday afternoon, August 12, from three until seven o’clock. The pub lic is cordially invited to attend and carry well filled baskets.— Jno. A. Smith, Supt. Orthopaedic Clinic. The orthopaedic clinic held each month in the offices of the countj health department in the court house and sponsored by the Lions club of Wilson will meet again or Friday, August 13. All the indig ent cripples of Johnston countj are urged to avail themselves o: this excellent opportunity of re ceiving free treatment. Two More Large Tomatoes. Two more large tomatoes hav< been brought to the Herald office They weigh a pound and a quar ter, and were presented by Mrs C. A. Utley. They are of tlv Wonder variety. .. .. , L County Boards Discuss Schools White and Colored Commit teemen Meet With Join! Session of Hoard Ed oral ion J and County Commissioners the Hoard of Commissioners and the Board of Education of Johnston county spent last last Thursday and Friday in working out sonic of the details of the school budget for the coming year. Meeting with the two boards were the white and col ored committeemen of the schools of the county. Owing to the fact that the law requires that the school budget for every school be made out in such complete detail it was impossible for every detail to be discussed. However, the number of teachers allowed tn nonli items, and other major items in each budget were gone over. Also the general policy of operating the schools was taken up and passed upon as individual cases arose that affected the policies of the oper ation of the schools. The Board of Education appoint ed Mr. C. W. Pender and Mr. Claud Sanders additional members of the commtitee of the Cleveland school, and ordered that the Old Moore’s white school be turned over to the colored children of that district and a school operated there for them. Plans were discussed toward the adoption of a policy by the county looking the keeping of the per capita cost of instruction in the smaller school at least as low as it now is in the larger schools. Whatever plans are worked out will not be effective for the com ing1 school year but "are intended to go into effect in the beginning* of the school year 3928-‘29. The Long Pine School was or dered discounted and trucked to Meadow school because this could be done more cheaply than main taining a separate school. DO YOU MAKE YOUR MISTAKES COUNT? Most of us make mistakes. To do so is rather natural and en tirely human. But it is not either profitable or sensible to keep on making the same mistake again and again. Neither is it sufficient just to correct a mistake, although many times we think that we have done all that is required of us when we do that. Only the other day a stenog rapher who had taken some work home to do on her own machine returned it to her patron with this explanation: “I should have been here with this work last night only I had such bad luck with it. You asked me to duplicate this copy fifteen times and I did twelve of the cop ies and g*ot them all neatly finish ed to find that I had omitted two lines in every one of them. I had to discard them all and spend the whole morning doing those twelve sets over. My, but it was provok ing!” The business woman to whom the typewritten copies were hand ed smiled and said: “That was really too bad. It looks as though you had wasted a lot of time, doesn’t it? Let me tell you about a mistake I made “It was this way. A friend tele phoned me that one of our club members had just been plunged into deep grief by the sudden death of her mother who was vis iting her. Knowing that the club always sent flowers in such a case, I tried to get in touch with the Flower Comittee. But I could get no answer to the telephone and so took it for granted that the chairman was out of the city on her vacation, as so many other people are just now. As I did not want our friend in the club to feel neglected, I consulted with one or two of the members; they said: “Let’s order a nice wreath. It will be the best thing to do, as we would not omit an attention of this kind at this time for any thing.’ “So a nice wreath was ordered and sent, whereupon we discov ered that the chairman of the Flower Committee was not out of the city, but had been merely out in her garden picking cucumbers, CRIMINAL COURT ! HERE NEXT WEEK Mrs. Clayson L. Williams, of Sanford, solicitor of the fourth judicial district, was in Smithfield Saturday for the purpose of setting the calen dar for the August term of criminal court. The term will be for a week and opens on Monday, the 15th. The calen dar set here last Saturday calls for the trial of about 75 cases, which is an unusually heavy docket. But many of the cases will be stricken from th cdocket by submissions and Pol prosses. There are no cases of outstanding importance on the docket. The court will be presided over by Hon. Henry A. Grady, of Clinton. Else where in these columns will appear the calendar as set by Mr. Williams. New Store Opens HereNextMonday John O. Jones Furniture Co., Is Moving Here eF r o m Rocky Mount The John O. Jones Furniture Company, Inc., is a new store vhich will open here next Monday, \ugust 15. This firm is being noved from Rocky Mount, and vill be located in the former gro •ery department of the Austin >uilding. The John O. Jones Furniture :ompany will carry a complete line }f high class furniture, all kinds ~>f floor covering, and stoves and anges. Mr. John A. Johnson is he president of this firm, and VIr. C. W. Bone, who was former y with the Austin Department ‘tore, is the manager. Mr. Jones, he proprietor of the store, is a >rother of Mr. Burlon G. Jones, >f the Crumpler-Jones Furniture company. Mr. Bone left yesterday for Jigh Point where he will pur chase a new line of furniture for his store. McFail-Tart Reunion. The McFail-Tart family reunion vill be held Sunday, August 14, at he home of Winslow Tart near Ftosen Hill, in Sanjison county. Fhis reunion is an annual affair ind rotates from Johnston te Sampson county and from Sampson ;o Johnston. Last year it was held it the the home of Mr. B. I. Tart n Four Oaks. All family connec ;ions are urged to attend. An mjoyable occasion is expected at ;his time. The attendance last year >vas estimated at about 300 people. Prayer Meeting at Methodist The pastor has returned from the revival at Louisburg and will conduct prayer meeting at eight >’clock Wednesday night. The sub ject for the meeting will be “What must a Christian believe about the divinity of Jesus Christ?” Just after this prayer meeting the board of stewards will hold their monthly meeting. This stew ard’s meeting will be of special importance because of its connec tion with the building of the Sun day school annex. of the telephone, moreover, she had attended promptly to the sending of a handsome floral piece as it was her duty to do. So there was a strange duplication of two pieces from our little club which has a treasury of almost nothing at all. The only thing I could do was to say pleasantly: “It was my mistake, I will pay for the wreath.’' | “But I am going to tell you this, the lesson I learned will not be wholly lost, for in the future I shall not presume to assume such responsibilities of any kind until I am positive that the one to whom the responsibility belongs has neg lected them. “By the way,” said the business woman turning shrewdly to the waiting stenographer, “what’s your mistake going to teach you?” The girl blushed. Selects Site For Proposed Marker -. "V- »*►«£' Mrs. John H. Anderson, Chin., Bentonville Battlefield Im, provcment Committee, Vis its Grounds -— During the early weeks of Sep tember the attention of the si ate will bo focused once more on the Bentonvillc battleground. An event of state-wide interest is now about to take place in connection with this historic spot. The event is being sponsored by the Unit 'd Daughters of the Confederacv. and what they have in mind is the establishing; of a marker of a historical nature for the battle ground. The erection of this marker wi!! ?ntail considerable work on the. part of the promoters of the 2vent, and local agencies, including ndividuals and from the county con (missioners, is being called for. The details of the work incident -o the erecting of this marker are mder the direction of Mrs. John II. \nderson, of Fayetteville. Mrs. \nderson is chairman of the Ben tonvillet battlefield improvement committee, and was here on Fri iay of last week in the interest of his project. With her were Col. rred A. Olds, of Raleigh, Gen. A. \. Boyden, of Salisbury, and Mr?. Mex Webb, of Raleigh. The party, iccompanied by Mr. Geo E. Thorn on, of Smithfield, visited the bat leground, and a place was locat ed for the marker. The place se ected by Mrs. Anderson is near the home of Mr. J. E. Powell at ;he point where the Smithfield road intersects the Goldsboro and Fay-: ?tteville road. The marker will be placed about one mile east of the cemetery where the monument now stands. The tablet will be unveiled about he tenth of September, according ;o a statemnet made here by Mr?.. \nderson last Friday. It is expec' ?d that the exercises will be held ibout the noon hour. A speaker will he on hand, a military band las been secured, and an enjoyable lay is being prepared for as many is mya be interested in attending. It is the opinion of General Bov len, Colonel Olds and Mrs. Ander son that the breastworks on the battlegrounds near Bentonville are the best preserved of any in the state, and Mrs. Anderson advanc 2d the idea that the state mny some time purchase some of the best preserved of the breastworks and set them apart for parmanent preservation and a shrine of the Confederacy. Bentonville and the battlefield is in one of the most secluded rur al sections of Johnston county, and at the same time it is one of the best section of the county for agri cultural purposes .With the state directing attention to this section opening of the hard surfaced high way through this section, the com munity will come to be more fully appreciated than it has been here tofore, and the new road will g o the farmers immediate outlet for their produce which will be of great value to them. Not only will the erection of the historical mur ker be of county interest, but lots of people at other points of the Bentonville township on the .day state will visit Johnston county and of the unveiling of the marker, and this is an opportunity for Johnston county to take part in an event that will reflect its interest in the most historical location within itc. borders. AUNT ROXIE SAYS - By Me— Mrs. Coolidge wouldn't run, u if she wuz t« and git elected—what would Mr, Coolidge be?.”
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