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Make Your Plans TO SELL YOUR TOBACCO —IN— SMITHF1ELD THIS SEASON “It’s just a little highere here” Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper — Established 1882 IF IT'S FOR THE GOOD OF JOHNSTON COUNTY, THE HERALD’S FOR IT. \ 0,,1’ME 45—NO. 71 ¥ ¥ * SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER (>, 1927 * * * $2.00 PER YEAR County Boards Meet Tomorrow Effort Is Being Made To Have Taxable Property Listed Equitably and In the Correct School Districts On account of Labor Day, which s a national holiday, the county joard of education and the county ward of commissioners did not ,old their regular meetings here resterday. Both of these boards vill meet tomorrow, and will take ip again the school budget. The cunty budget, which includes the chool budget, tax-listing, and re aluation of property in the coun-! y. have kept county officials busy luring the summer months. An 1 ffort is being made to g*et all axable property on tjie books in s equitable a manner as possible. Ln advertisement in the paper in- | ites the tax payers to inspect ieir tax abstracts, and if any ad lstment is necessary, to come to ie auditor’s office before Septem- i er 15 to discuss the matter. i Supt. H. B. Marrow has issued ii appeal to the committeemen of \e local tax districts in Johnston j junty also, to come to the audi- ! ir’s office for the purpose of ver ying the property in the local tax strict. Mr. Marrow writes his unmitteemen as follows: “Mr. H. A. Watson within the ixt ten days will have to complete le list for each local tax dis •icts in Johnston county. From tperience we have found that the st taker never gets anything like 11 of the property in a local tax istrict on their list. When a man was property in a local tax dis rict and he doesn’t get it on the ax list it simply means that he ays no special tax and yet en )ys the benefits of the special tax aid by his neighbor. We had two stricts last year that only sue eded in getting on the special x list half of their property, r. Watson, or no one in the urthouse, knows where all the operty in any local tax district , and therefore, cannot without lp from someone in the district :ike a proper list. “I am, therefore, writing each the committeemen of the local x district in the county and •king them to come, or send ane one who will come, and go er the township list and indi-! ite to Mr. Watson each taxpay • in his local tax district. In or- j r to get this in time it will have i he done within the next ten ays or by the 13th of September. “In the smaller districts I think ne of the committeemen who is amilinr with the property of the istrict can usually give the de iied information but in the lar ;er and more recently consoli ated districts I think it would be dvisable to ask interested citizens i'<im different parts of the dis iet (o come and aid the commit ?enien in checking this list. “I wish it were possible to of ar to pay the ones who do this ork but there is no fund provid d for this. Therefore, I shall have 0 appeal to the good citizenship f the county to render this aid 3 the end that our tax system may e as equitable as possible.” Reassuring. I’m terribly sorry, doctor,” said Irs. Hopkins, ‘‘to bring you ‘way ut here in the country to see my iusband, it must be at least five mles from your office.” Oh, that’s all right,” replied the loctor. “I have another patient in lie neighborhood, so you see I’m tilling two birds with one stone.” ^-Judge E. H. Tantalizer There are exactly enough let .frH in the line below to spell J. , name of a person in Smith . £• and if the right one de nphers his name and will pre fPnt it to The Herald office, we will present him with a ™mphmentary ticket to the > ictory Theatre. Tickets must he called for before the fol lowing issue. Joseph Grimes recognized his name last issue. Toflay-s -tantallzer: nijiehojtnosnaror^ GARDEN ON THE FARM Mrs. James L. Peedin who lives on the old Princeton road near Pine Level, has a wonderful success garden ing. The picture below shows a few of her growing veg etables. Two Automobiles Crash To-gether Only One of the Sixteen In Wreck Sustains Injury Which Proves Not Serious An automobile accident oc curred late Sunday afternoon about six o'clock on highway 22 between this city and Neuse River when a Star sedan driv en by Mr. Adcock, of near Wendell, and a Ford touring car driven by Mr. Claude Beas ley, of Bentonville township, had a head-on collision. There were eight passengers in each car, but only one of the six teen in the smash-up, sustain ed injury. A child of Mr. Ad cock was badly bruised and was taken to the Johnston County Hospital for examina tion. The injuries Mere not of a very serious nature, and the child Mas able to return home later in the evening. Both au tomobiles were badly torn up and the occupants had to se cure other means of returning to their homes. MOVE TO PREVENT PERILOUS FLIGHTS Bar Association Adopts Resolu tion: Silas H. Strawn Is New President. BUFFALO. N. Y.. Sept. 3.—A movement aimed at the regulation of trans-oceanie flights to prevent loss of lives in unairworthy planes was launched today at the final business meeting of the American Bar Association’s fifteenth annual convention. The movement took the form of a resolution, unanimously adopted, that pledged the association’s mem bers to urge Congress to pass leg islation extending the powers of the Secretary of Commerce to in clude regulation of such flig-hts. he resolution was introduced by Chester R. Cuthell, New York, chairman of the association’s air law committee and general coun sel of the National Air Transport Company and the Curtiss Aero plane Company. In an explanation of the air law committee’s report, Mr. Cuthell said: “During the recent trans-oceanic flights,, 25 lives have been lost, if all reported missing are dead. Most <>f these flights were not of a strictly commercial nature; the profession calls them ‘stunt flights.’ Our commercial aviation law was passed to regulate com mercial enterprises, and therefore, is not broad enough to g-ive the Secretary of Commerce the right of regulating, and in some cases of preventing such flights.” * William P. MaeOrackcn, Jr., chairman of the bar association’s air law committee and of the aero nautical bureau of the Department of Commerce, commenting on the resoutlion in an interview, said the “Department of Commerce would be glad to assume regulatory pow er if Congress saw fit to confer it.” Silas H. Srawn, Chicago attor ney, was elected president of the association, succeeding Charles S. Whitman, former governor of New York.—Associated Press. The man who is alwrays hunt ing trouble neved has need to bor row any. Special Term Of Court Next Week Judge Grady Will Preside; Miss Britt’s Case Is Not On Calendar For Special Term Solicitor Clawson L. Williams, of Sanford, was hero Saturday con ferring; with the clerk of the court in arranging the docket for the special term of Superiolr court which will convene here next Mon day, September 12. This will be a criminal term of court, and there are several important cases listed The case of Miss Evelyn Britt, of Durham, however, is not on the calendar. Miss Britt, it will be re called, was under indictment with Robert Separk and Robert Steph enson for the murder of “Mighty” Forsythe. In the last term of court, Separk and Stephenson plead guil ty to the charge and are now ser ving their terms in the state pris on. The charge against Miss Britt was then chang-ed, and she will be brought to trial only for aiding and abetting in the illegal trans portation of whiskey. She is now under a thousand dollar bond. Her case will probably be tried in the December term of court. Judge Henry A. Grady, of Clin ton. will preside over the term which begins here Monday. W. M. SANDERS & SONS OPERATE SIX GINS Johnston county has g-inned its first bale of 1027 cotton, which sig nifies that the ginning season is on. Ginning facilities in this sec tion are the best, and among the gins operating this year none will give any better service than the six gins of W. M. Sanders and Son. This firm has been in the ginning business for forty years and knows exactly how to please the farmer. Last season, these six gins took the seed out of approx imately 10,000 bales. They are equipped with new bagging, either jute or cotton, and with new ties, and are now ready to run. Each gin has a competent man agre, who will extend courteous treatment to those who patronize it. The men in charge of the gins are as follows: Smithfield plant, L. C. Baker; Crantock plant, J. Y. Baker; Frost Place, L. E. Adams; Four Oaks, Nathan Keen; Ben tonville, C. C. Beasley;/ Liles plant, Tom Eason. LOCAL SCHOOL BEGINS ! TOMORROW AT 9 O’CLOCK i Tomorrow at nine o’clock the 1927-28 session of the local school will begin. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be devoted to reg* istration of pupils, classification, [and the arranging of schedules. On |Monday morning, September 12, the public is invited to a formal [opening of the school in the school auditorium. Ministers of the town and others will be present to take part in the exercises at this time. MRS. BEASLEY NOW WITH W. M. SANDERS & SON Mrs. Clifton Beasley has ac cepted a position with W. M. San ders & Son. This firm is enlarging its dry goods department, Mrs. Lillie Johnson just having return ed from northern markets where she bought a line of fall goods. Mrs. Beasley will be in the dry goods department. Believes Farmers Can Recoup Loss Well Known Cotton Man Thinks South Has Golden Opportunity To Recover Last Year's Losses “The cotton producers of the South have a golden opportunity i to recoup some of their losses sus- j tained last year in marketing an j eighteen million bale crop of cot- I ton below the cost of production.” This is the opinion of U. B. Bla lock, General Manager of the N. C. Cotton Growers Cooperative Asso ciation. “The cotton spinners of the world had their opportunity last I year and statistics as issued by Colonel Hester of the New Or leans Cotton Exchange and by the U. S. Department of Commerce, show how well they took advan tage of their great opportunity. “With exports around eleven mil lion bales and domestic consump tion over seven million bales, the total of export and domestic con sumption was in excess of produc tion by 168,000 bales. kast season at the beginning of the annual “Autumnal dip” in the cotton market Mr. Eugene Myer came South with his proposed plan to take off the market four mil lion bales of surplus cotton. It now develops that there was a hid den demand for every bale of our . eighteen million bale crop that we ( had produced. “It is almost inconceivable that any sensible man would now ar- ( gue that the removal of this four million bales of cotton would not have had a very stabilizing* affect upon the market and that the pro ducer would not have received a substantial part of the almost fif ty per cent increase in the value . of cotton inside a period six months. But Mr. Myer’s plan did not work, as no hastily organized plan for the handling of four mil- . lion bales of cotton will ever work. . It was an impossible task to so hastily take off the market and handle four million bales of suv- • plus cotton, and besides, the far mer was too dead broke to borrow , nine or ten cents per pound on his cotton and meet his obligations. “But a different situaton con- ] fronts the cotton producers this fall from that of 1926. Acting on , the advice of those who believe ' that the salvation of the farmer is always in a curtailment of ac reage, and with the aid of the Mississippi floods, we were able to reduce our acreage one-half of the suggested twenty-five per cent reduction. With the further aid of ' the boll weevil and adverse weath er conditions, we are now con fronted according to the Govern ment’s last estimate, with less . than a 13,500,000 bale crop and our prediction is that the next Government report issued on Sep tember 8 will be several hundred thousand bales less than this es timate. i ne cotton consuming* wolrd needs every bale of this thirteen million bale crop, and more. New uses for cotton are being develop ed and will continue to be devel oped. The all-absorbing question is, jwill the cotton producers take ad vantage of the present situation co :market this crop orderly or will the follow the usual “dumping” I process and rush it on the mar* | ket as fast as harvested and thus cause the “Autumnal dip” in cot ton prices that usually follows the heavy dumping of cotton on the market during the fall months. 1 he history of the cotton market ing business shows that regardless of the size of the crop that there is almost invariably a rush move ment of cotton during the fall months that always causes what has become known among* cotton men far and wide as the “Au tumnal dip” or a very low sag in prices. “There is no real necessity for the “grand rush” to market. Our Nor^h Carolina warehouses, prac tically all of them, are bonded and operated under very low rates of • insurance and reasonable rates of storage. Seventy-five per cent of the value of the cotton can be bor rowed from Federal Intermediate Credit Banks and other sources at four and one-half per cent inter est and the seventy-five per cent Please turn to page three Health Officials Rate Local Cafes Southern and A. C. L. Cafe in Selma and Capital Cafe in' Smithfield Score Highest An inspection of the cafes of Smithfield and Selma by state and county authorities show the South ern and A. C. L. cafe in Selma to be rated t! e hijrhc t of seven thai were visited. This cafe received a grade of 89. The Capitol cafe of Smithfield was only one point be hind with a grade of 88. The check up wa \ made by L 0. Whitley, State Inspector, and C. C. Massey, Johnston County Health Officer, who make the fol lowing report: The State Board of Health and Johnston County Health Depart ment working in conjunction have made a sanitary rating under the authority of Chapter 18G, Public haws of 1921, of the following *afes which recorded sanitary score in Selma and Smithfield: Smithfield (White) Capital Cafe, _ 88 Coffee Cup Cafe__ 83.5 Johnson Cafe__ 30.5 Smithfield (Colored) Jones’ Cafe __ 39 Selma (White) Sou. & A. C. L. Cafe_89 Merchants Hotel & Cafe 80.5 White Owl Cafe _ 81. To maintain a cafe or hotel with l rating of less than 70 is a mis lemeanor under the provisions of he statue. j. (I. WHITLEY, State Inspector, v. C. MASSEY, Johnston County Health Officer. 5MITH FI ELD M ERCH A NTS (JIVE PREMIUMS FOR FAIR President A. J. Whitley, Jr., and |is co-workers are lining; things ip right along for the Smithfield ownship fair, which will be held lere Friday an dSaturday, Oeto >er 21 and 22. The premium list vill be ready for the printers this veek, and in a short time it will >e in the hands of all those who ire interested in making an cx libit at the fair. J. H. Abell, chairman of the oniimittee to solicit premiums, tates that the response has been ’ery fine, not only as to the num >er who have donated prizes, but is to the quality of the prizes hemselves. The fair management lecided upon a new way of con lucting this township fair. Instead >f giving cash premiums of per laps fifty cents, seventy-five, a lollar, or a little more, articles of nerchandise have been solicited as >remiums. These articles range rom a box of candy to six tons >f fertilizer. The six tons of fer ilizer will be donated by W. M. Sanders & Son, four tons to be he prize for the best individual 'arm exhibit shown by any far ner in Johnston county, and two ;ons for the second best exhibit. lated prizes to date are as fol lows: N. B. Grantham, Sundry ■Shoppe, Jordan-Edmundson, Hood Brothers, Sam T. Honeycutt Co., W. M. Sanders & Son, Hudson Belk Co., First and Citizens Na tional Bank, Young- Motor Co., Turnage and Talton, Austin and Hamilton, City Market, City Dry Cleaning Co., John O. Jones Furni ture Co., J. D. Spiers, Red Star Service Station, Holleman Motor 3o., Woodall’s Vulcanizing & Bat tery Shop, W. J. Huntley, Creech Drug Co., J. E. Gregory, D. B. Drug Co., Jordan Jewelry Co., C. W. Beasley & Son, Pcedin & Pet erson, Stevens & Ogburn, Roger A. Smith, Shamrock Filling Sta- j tion, Charles Davis, Banner Ware- | house, Skinner & Stancil, Thorn ton Music House, Crumpler-Jones Furniture Co., A. M. Calais, Vic tory Theatre, Battery Service Co., Holt Oil Co., Farmers Bank and Trust Co., W. T. Holland, Guy C. Lee Mfg. Co., Vara & Alma C. Smith, Abell & Gray, Smithfield Herald, Mrs. N. H. Yahnke, Mrs. C. V. Johnson & Co., florists. Out of town firms offering prem iums are: Dan Valley Mills (three prizes), Tetley Tea Co., Rumford Baking Powder, Kellogg's, Lever Bros Co. Tenderfoot: “Say, Bill are you a musician?” * Patrol Leader: “Well, judge for yourself; I played on the linoleum when I was a year and a half old.”-—Boy’s Life. Now Flying - - - - Round the World I'd win F. Schlcc and l*i I* »t Wiiliam Itroelc, who hopped front Newfoundland to London in 23"'hours, in their start to fly the “Fridc of Detroit” around the world in 22 d»w« Local People Are Showing Interest Uentonville Township Club j Will Entertain Speakers1 and Old Veterans at Un-1 veiling Celebration on Sept. 15th The nearer Thursday September he fifteenth approaches, the more j omplete are the plans for the un- 1 veiling of the memorial marker to 1 >e placed on the Bentonville Bat- ■ leground. News comes from Ben onville that the local people are aking an active interest in the oc :asion and that the home demom itration club of that section is ■ planning to have as its guests for; linner on that day the speakers and Lhe old soldiers who may be pres-' ?nt. Two government airplanes have ! oeen secured which will circle over) ho battleground sometime short- j y after the noon hour. A sham oattle will be staged that after-,] loon in the trenches occupied oy; he Confederate troops during the. >attle, March li> to 21, 18G5. These! :renches are wonderfully well pre served and no doubt the battle will >e quite realistic. National Guard companies from Smithfield, Golds- j >oro, Wilson and Raleigh will take . )art in the sham engagement. ! The principal address will be nade by Governor McLean. The speaking will follow the unveiling >f the marker which will be in the norning at eleven o’clock. The ' marker is to be placed at the in- 1 ;ersection of the Goldsboro and Smithfield-Fayetteville roads, on :he location formally known as General Hoke’s headquarters. An article in a recent issue of :he Charlotte Observer states that Charlotte survivors of the Battle }f Bentonville will take prominent parts in the unveiling of the marker. D. H. Hill IV, of Char lotte, a great grandson of General L). H. Hill who led the North Car olina troops in the battle, will be one of the unveilers. NEW COTTON PICKER NOW BEING TRIED OCT CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—(AP)—The machine age has contrived an ap paratus that promises to replace the picturesque plodding cotton picker of Dixie with machines that pick, strip and clean the bolls. The International Harvester Company stated today that after many years of experimentation, it has built three machines: A picker of a spindle type for use in the Old South; a stripper for use in the Southwest, and a cleaner for general use. The company regards the picker as still being an experiment, but the stripper and cleaner already have proved their adaptability. A number of pickers have been plac ed in Dixie where their perform ance will be carefully noted. Two men operate the machine, one guiding- the tractor and the other controlling the picker, the International statement says. The machine can pick from two to five bales a day, equivalent to wh\t two men could do' in from eight to 15 days, it continued. A hero must die at the right time in order to acquire a monu ment. First Bale Brings Twenty Five Cents John L. Myatt of Cleveland Township Sells New Cotton to High Bidder at Clayton CLAYTON, Sept. 3.—.Johnston county’s first bale of 1927 cotton £•1*0wn by John L. Myatt of Cleve land township came to Clayton’s cotton market Saturday and was bought by Henry Price who rep resents Barbee & Co. The bale weighed 490 pounds and was sold to the high bidder at twenty-five rents per pound netting $122.60. Mr, Myatt expects to have twelve more bales ginned within a fewr days. The local market is ready with a corps of buyers to take care of the farmers and is prepared to handle a larger amount of cotton than ever in the past. It was grat ifying to the local people to have the first bale of Johnston cdunly cotton on market here and they bid lively for it. Clayton is expecting to see a good fall sale of cotton and like wise a big business in other lines. WOULD HAVE ALL ALIEN AXARCH1STS DEPORTED WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—(AP) —The government was called on today by Senator Trammell, Dem ocrat, Florida, to deport all alien anarchists and all enemies of the American government. “The recent demonstration inci dent to the Sacco-Vanzetti case,” the Florida senator said, “empha sizes the necessity for this coun try barring- from its shores all al ien anarchists and all others who are enemies to the American gov ernment and for the deportation of such of these as may now be in the United States. “I have nothing but the most kindly feeling towards the foreign born who have come to America and have made good citizens and been loyal to the land of their adoption, but as for the alien an archists and ail other reds who do not believe in our government and who are in constant rebellion and warfare against our American in stitutions, they should be deported one and all * * * ” DEAF' AND DUMB FOLKS HAVE PICNIC AT LAKE An interesting group of people passed through this city yesterday en route to Holt Lake for an all day picnic. Members of deaf and dumb Sunday schools in Raleigh and Goldsboro constituted the party. They evinced an interest in all they saw, silently expressing themselves in sig*n language. They seemed particularly impressed with Johnston county’s handsome court house. Change Date of Orthopaedic Clinu The orthopaedic clinic, whicl was to have been held in Wilsoi on Friday September Z was postponed until Friday, Sep tember 9. This monthly clinic, wil be held on the second Friday here after instead of on the first Fri day as heretofore. It is sponsore< by the Lion’s club and is held ii the offices of the county health de partment in the courthouse a\ Wilson. Fix Schedule For Cooking Schools Four Points in Rural Sections Have Been Selected For Demonstration by Miss Myrtle Floyd As announced in a recent issue, Miss Myrtle Floyd of the Soft Wheat Millers’ Association, will spend two weeks in Johnston coun ty beginning Sept. 12, conducting cooking' schools. Miss Floyd comes through the efforts of Miss Min nie I^e Garrison, county home demonstration agent and the schools are absolutely free. Miss Floyd spent a week here last year and the women were so pleased with her school, that her return to the county will be welcomed. The first week beginning Sept. 12, will be devoted to the work in the rural sections, the County Council having decided upon the following schedule: Monday, Sept. 12, Cleveland school. Tuesday, Sept. 13, Meadow school. Wednesday, Sept. 14, Corinth Holders. Friday, Sept. 16, Glendale. Thursday has been omitted be cause of the celebration to be held at the Bentonville battleground on that day. The above points' were selected rather than the regular club meeting places, because of their convenience for a larger group. The schools will begin at 1:30 o’clock each afternoon, and the women and girls of the county are invited to attend the one closest to them. Miss Floyd will spend the fol lowing week, September 19-23, in Smithfield, and more than a hun dred are expected to be in attend ance during the week. The home economics department of the local Woman’s club will have charge of the school here. Miss Ruth Jones is chairman of this department. FARM RELIEF WILL BE BIG CAMPAIGN FACTOR WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Farm relief will be an outstanding issue in the 1028 presidential campaign, in the event that Congress fails to do something for the farmers this winter, is the warning brought to Washington by Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, on his return from a vacation spent in his heme state. The Idaho senator declared •* that despite fair prices for agri cultural products, and pretty good crops, the farm situation is more acute than ever. He predicted that any man who could solve the problem w’ould be successful in attaining the presi dency of the United States “with out regard to party affiliation.” “I do not think that the good crops and fair prices will prevent the agitation for farm relief,” he said. “The farmers want some thing done. There is by no means unanimous support of the McNary Haugen bill in the west, although jthe wheat growers want it. But I there is a general desire for what the farmers regard as relief, whether it comes through the Mo Xary-Haugen bill or not.” Senator Borah stated that there is involved the question of how to reduce the cost of gettingj^he prod ucts of the farm to the markets, and also of correcting the disparity in the amounts of money received by the farmer and paid by the consumer. He explained that the farmer gets about 30 cents out of the dollar which the consumer pays—in 1022, out of $22,500,000, 000 spent for farm products, the farmers of the country received only about $7,500,000,000. AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By K«— “Lots uv folks iz good mu Ishioners at Mowin’ de own hawa."
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