Slogan For 1928
Raise your food and feed stuff
and “Live at Home”
VOLUME 46—NO. 17
Johnston County *s Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 1882
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SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1928
CONSIDER THIS!
The Herald has the larges’- circu
lation of any newspaper publish
ed in Johnston County. That’s
something to consider, Mr. Ad
vertiser !
$2.00 PER YEAR
ACCIDENT CAUSES DOUBLE
TRAGEDY SA TURD A Y NIGH1
Lester Whitley of Wil
ders Township Dies
j as Cars Crash;Shock
' Kills His Uncle,
Robert Whitley
The death of Robert Whitley of
Wendell, which occurred from
heart failure on the way to break
the news of the death of his
nephew, Leslie Whitley who was
killed in an automobile accident in
Wilders township Saturday night,
has shocked that entire section of
the county.
Lester Whitley, age about 25,
left the home of his father, Mr.
Needham Whitley, who resides in
Wilders township, about eleven
o’clock to go to Wend'ell to carry
his brother who works in a barber
shop there, home. He was driving
a Ford coupe. In front of Clyde’s
Chapel he had a collision with Dr.
C. A. Flowers of Wendell, who was
driving a Dodge. Dr. Flowers was
answering a call to the home of
Mr. Troy Wall. The road is straight ^
Nyid wide where the crash occurred,
and those who have visited the
'scene of the accident are at a loss
to explain how it happened.
Neither car turned over, but each
car was whirled crosswise the road.
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The bumper of the Dodge car was
torn off and it is thought possible
that it struck the head of Mr. ‘
Whitley when it passed into his
car. Mr. Whitley died without re
gaining consciousness.
Accompanied by Mr. Paul Whit
ley, a brother, Mr. Robert Whitley,
the dead man’s uncle, set out from
Wendell to break the news to the
young man’s father. Also in the
car were Mr. and Mrs. H. V. An
drews and a daughter of Mr. Robert
Whitley. As they were riding along
Mr. Whitley made the statement
that he felt queer and thought he
was going to die. Then he sudden
ly slumped over the steering wheel
and was dead. Mr. Andrews seized
the wheel and averted another
crash.
Mr. Needham Whitley, father
and brother of the dead men, was
reported in a dangerous condition
from the shock of the double trag
edy.
Dr. Flowers was so badly shaken
up that he was unable to attend
an inquest started by Coroner Jas.
H. Kirkmrfh Sunday. The inquest
■will be completed tomorrow morn
ing in the commissioners room of
the courthouse. Ten witnesses have
been summoned as follows: C.
Todd, Jervis Hinton, Monroe
Barnes, Jr., Clayton Sanders, Dr.
C. A. Flowers, Grover Ferrell, A.
<3. Flowers, Mr. and Mrs. Needham
Whitley and T. C. Vaugn. The
jury is composed of the following:
G. R. Barnes, B. W. Hinnant, An
drew Johnson, Waylon O’Neal, J.
W. Boykin and W. R. Hinnant.
The funeral of Lester Whitley
was held yesterday morning from
the home of his parents near Clyde
Chapel. Funeral services for the
uncle were held yesterday after
noon at three o’clock from his res
idence in Wendell.
HERE LOOKING AFTER
REAL ESTATE INTERESTS
Mrs. George H. Brown, former
ly of Phoenix, Arizona, but more
recently of Asheville, has been
spending several day? in the city.
She is here looking after some
real estate interests in Johnston
county. Mrs. Brown states that
she owns some property in Wild
ers township and that she is plan
ning to bring there some purchas
ers from Arizona, who wish to
farm in North Carolina.
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Tantalizer
There are exactly enough let
ters in the line below to spell
the name of a person in Smith
field or Johnston county, and
if the right one deciphers his
name and will present it to the
Herald office, we will present
him with a free ticket to the
Victory Theatre. Tickets must
be called for before the follow
ing issue
Mrs. Roger Smith, Jr., fail
ed to recognize her name.
Today’s Tantalizer:
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THE FUMBLE FAMILY
WILL ARRIVE IN THIS
CITY NEXT WEEK
The Fumble Family will ar
rive in town next week. They
are the funniest family in Amer
ica.
They will amuse the grown
ups as well as the kiddies.
Watch for the funniest of
all comic strips, “The Fumble
Family” which will appear next
week, March 6, in the Smithfield
Herald.
Essay Contest For
N. C. Boys And Girls
Free Trip To Memphis, Tenn.,
For Winner; Other Prizes
Offered For Best Essay on
Cooperative Marketing
Two free trips to Raleigh, a
free trip to Memphis, Tenn., a
beautiful medal and a total of
$325.00 in cash are some of the
awards which are to be contested
for by farm girls and boys of
North Carolina during the next
eight weeks. These awards have
been offered jointly by the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Coopera
tive Association and the Ameri
can Cotton Growers Exchange to
the girls and boys of school age
who write the best essays on the
subject, “Cooperative Marketing
As It Affects the Cotton Far
mer.”
The contest in North Carolina is
a part of the southr-wide essay
contest begun by the American
Cotton Growers Exchange which is
the parent organization of the
cotton cooperatives in fourteen
states. The Exchange will give an
educational trip to Memphis, Tenn.,
to the writer of the prize essay in
each of the fourteen stat<% in
cluding North Carolina.
In addition to this trip to Mem
phis and the beautiful medal to
be awarded the champion in each
state, the American Cotton Grow
ers Exchange will also give first,
second and third prizes of $75.00,
$50.00 and $25.00 to the winners
in the south-wide contest. The
champions from each state will
contest for these three cash prizes.
In order to select the represen
tative from North Carolina, the
N. C. Cotton Growers Cooperative
Association offers two sets of
prizes of $50.00, $25.00 and $12.50
each. One set of prizes will be
awarded to the three highest scor
ing members of North Carolina
Boys’ and Girls’ 4-H clubs; the
other set will be awarded to the
three highest scoring students of
agriculture in vocational classes.
The winners of first prizes in these
two groups will be taken to Ral
eigh where they will compete for
the state championship, the trip
to Memphis and the right to enter
the south-wide contest.
April 20, 1928, has been desig
nated as “Essay Day” in North
Carolina. On that day the boys and
girls entering the conteset will as
semble at points named1 by their
teachers, county agents or home
demonstration agents and write
their essays.
Requests for information con
cerning the essay contest are al
ready pouring into the Raleigh of
fice of the Cotton Growers Asso
ciation even before the contst has
been officially announced and it
; is expected that thousands of boys
and girls will enter the contest.
It is announced by the Cotton Grow
ers Association that rules govern
ing the contest are bring prepar
ed and will be distributed during
the next few days.
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
| AT WILSON’S MILLS SCHOOL
I The teachers and pupils of Wil
son’s Mills school will present a
musical entertainment in the schoo!
; auditorium Friday night at 7:3C
o’clock.
Popular songs, jokes, pantomimes
and black face acts will be giver
by a cast of more than fifteer
characters. The proceeds will bt
used for the benefit of the school
py /TOUT Dm bane
LABOR SAVING MACHINES— I
EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL
EDISON A YOUNG MAN
17,000 YEARS FROM STONE
AGE—
[ “If a drop of salt water could
• talk it would tell the whole story
jof the Pacific.”
j One Santa Fe freight train go
■ing through the Kansas City yards
I to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas
! grain fields told the story of prog
ress and prosperity in the cimmun
ity and promised a solution of its
labor problem, aggravated by im
migration restrictions.
That train of thirty-one cars
carried $250,000 worth of “Com
bine Harvesters” and will soon be
followed by a thousand carloads
of those labor-saving machines.
They cut grain, thresh it, pile up
the straw, delivering the grain in
sacks or by spout to miniature
grain elevators. In Kansas last
year they saved the work of 40,
000 men.
Employment conditions are not
satisfactory in New York State
and Governor Smith instructs pub
lic officials to help him “take up
the slack” by putting men to work
on public enterprises.
That should be, automatically, i
part of National and State pro
grammes.
A farmers finds something for
his farm hands and his own hands
to do in winter, when crops are •
in. A good farmer keeps his horses
at work, earning their keep in the
winter, hauling wood or otherwise.,
National and State governments, '
all needing roads, canals, drain- j
age, all sorts of improvements,
should find work for everybody
to work, and at decent pay.
Thomas A. Edison says he is
really 162 years old, because he has
done two days’ work every day of
his eighty-one years.
He did ten thousand years' work
when he changed man’s lighting
system from kerosene to electrici
ty. His habit of working two days
in one accounts for the fact that
mentally he is forty, not eighty
one.
An active mind stays young in
man or woman.
Women grow old prematurely
because badly organized civiliza
tion gives them nothing to do ex
cept talk and dress when their
children are grown.
Eskimos, within reach of civili
zation, sell their valuable furs to
white traders and wear coats of
leather and cheap, ready-made
suits. They can sympathize with
some farmers that sell cream and
butter to cities and eat oleomar
garine.
“Flaming youth,” dancing,
drinking or shooting worries other
■countries also. Lawyers from Ja
pan, France and Britain are watch
ling a Berlin murder trial. Hans
Krantz, aged nineteen, helped his
young friend1, Scheller, and Schel
ler’s sister, Sildegard, to pass an
evening pleasantly with dancing,
tobacco and much drink. Hildegard,
only sixteen, smuggled a friend,
Otto Stephan, into her bedroom,
and Hans, attached to Hildegard,
told the girl’s brother he ought
to kill Stephan. He did it, then
killed himself.
The question is, did Krantaz com
mit murder when he told his friend,
“Avenge your sister’s honor by
killing the man?”
Americans talk today of many
things—prosperity, politics, as
sorted crimes, sports.
| News that will interest future
generations is the fact that actual
moving picures of human beings
Iwere sent through the ether, with
out wires, across the Atlantic
Ocean.
Human beings actually saw each
other, separated by three thousand
miles of water.
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Five
Presidential
Possibilities
The five possi
ble successors of
Calvin Coolidge
I as Republican
candidates for the
Presidency, this
fall
r Secretary of Cora
merce Herbert
Hoover, Former
Governor of Il
linois, Frank O.
Lowdcn, Senator
Charles Curtis of
Kansas, Frank B.
Willis of Ohio,
(James E. Watson
of Indiana.
Princeton Truck
Drivers Organize
Object of Club Is To Make
Truck Service Safe and
Economical; Elect Officers
PRINCETON, Feb. 27.—At a
meeting of the truck drivers of the
Princeton school last Thursday,
a Truck Drivers’ club was organiz
ed. It is the purpose of .this or
ganization to have regular meet
ings twice each month for the dis
cussion of all problems relating to
the truck service.
This club has as its ultimate goal
the accomplishment of the follow
ing projects: First, to make the
truck service as safe as it is hu
manly possible for every pupil
who uses the trucks as a means of
getting to school; Second, to keep
the cost of operating the trucks at
a minimum.
The members of the club have
been clipping newspaper accounts
of all school bus accidents for some
time and will continue to do this
as a part of the regular work of
this organization. These accounts
will be studied in detail to deter
mine in each case the cause of the
accident and find out if possible
how it might have been avoided.
The mechanic assigned to this
school by the county superintend
ent to keep the trucks in good
running order will be invited from
time to time to explain and dem
onstrate to the club how to deter
mine the source of the trouble when
the truck gets out of order and
how to keep the cost of repairs,
gas and oil as low as possible.
The following officers were elect
ed: Jim Hill, president; Robert
Peedin, vice-president; Harvey
Jones, secretary; Zettie Kornegay,
news reporter.
WALTER LASSITER IN ALL
STATE HIGH ORCHESTRA
Schoolmates and friends of Wal
ter Lassiter, member of the junior
class of the Smithfield high school,
jwill be interested to learn that he
has been chosen as one of the
three trumpet players of the all
state high school orchestra. This
musical organization of 130 pieces
jWhich is selected from various high
schools of the state, will play in
Raleigh on the evenings of March
22 and 23 during the meeting of
,the N. C. Educational Association.
jThis young man has played with
|the Midnight Ramblers, local or
chestra, for several years, and de
serves the honor which has come
to him.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Norton
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Snipes and
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Hawkins, of
Rocky Mount, spent Sunday in the
city with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Nor
ton,
Training Scoool
Begins March 1
Fourth Standard School For
Training of Church and
' 'S. S. Workers To Be Held
In the County
The fourth Annual Johnston
County Standard Training school
will .be held in Smithfield on March
11 to 16 at the Centenary Metho- j
dist church. The school is designed
for the training of Sunday school
and church leaders of Johnston
county and an able faculty has
been secured, specialists in the [
courses to be given.
Five courses instead of four will
be given this year as follows: 1
Bible, by Prof. H. E. Meyers of
Duke University, the textbook to
be used being, “The Missionary
Message of the Bible”; Pupil
Study, by Dr. W. I. Cranford of
Duke University, the textbook be
ing, “The Pupil”; Play and Recre
ation, by Miss Margaret Engle of
Richmond, Va.. the textbook being,
“Recreational Leadership for
Church and Community”; Primary
Worship, by Miss Georgia Keene,
elementary superintendent, the
textbook being “The Training of
the Devotional Life” Junior Les
son Materials by Mrs. H. M. Wade,
of Parkersburg, W. Va., the text
book being “Junior Methods in the
Church School.”
The first session will be held on
Sunday afternoon, March 11, at 3
o’clock. After a brief worship and
introductory service, the class work
will begin. Two class periods of
fifty minutes each will be held on
Sunday afternoon. The schedule for
the rest of the week will be as fol
lows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday eve
nings: 7:30 until 8:20, first class
period; 8:20 to 8:40,intermission—
worship; 8:40 to 9:30, second class
period.
The following Methodist pastors
of the county are cooperating to
bring this school to the county;
Rev. D. E. Earnhardt, Smithfield;
Rev. D. M. Sharp, Selma; Rev. J.
B. Hurley, Clayton; Rev. E. D.
Dodd, Four Oaks; Rev. H. B. Hous
ton, Benson; Rev. F. B. Joyner,
Kenly, and Rev. G. B. Perry of
Princeton.
The books for these courses will
be on sale at Hood’s drug store in
a few days and anyone desiring to
do so can read the text before the
school starts.
Last year more than a hundred
credits were given in the school and
it is hoped that the number this
year will break all records.
It’s easy enough to catch 'em
young these days, but it takes a
strong fellow to treat 'em rough
and tell ‘em nothing.
Smithfiehl Folks j
j At Myrtle Beach
i South Carolina Resort Seeks
To Tell Outside World of
I Marvelous Development
Now Going On
Myrtle Beach, S. C.—the napie
tself has a liquid cadence. It sug
gests sylvan solitudes and cooling
>reezes, and while myrtle trees do
lot greet the eye as one approches
vhat is destined to be perhaps the
nost wonderful playground on the
Atlantic Coast, a profusion of wax
»nd other varieties of the myrtle
shrub does add beauty to the glis- ;
Gening strand that follows the
crescent shoreline, of the ocean at
'his point. It can hardly be said
in these last few months that there
is much solitude in this beauty
spot, for the sound of the ham
mer, the roar of the road building
machinery, the honk of automo
biles tell the story of a transfor
n at ion.
And it was this transformation
that a party of Smithfield people
were taken to see last week by pro
moters of -\yhat, in a sense may be
termed, the Myrtle beach develop
ment. Miss Leanora Saville and
Mr. W. A. Brown who have charge
of a North Carolina district for
the purpose of letting the outside
world know about Myrtle Beach,
came to Smithfield early last week
and on Wednesday morning eleven
ladies boarded the white bus at
the hotel .here and began the six
hour ride to this charming summer
and winter resort. Those in the
party were: Mrs. W. M. Sanders,
Mrs. H. C. Hood, Mrs. W. 1). Hood,
Mrs. W. Ransom Sanders, Mrs. C.
B. Williamson, Mrs. J. W. Steph
enson, Mrs. T. jj Lassiter. Miss
Hattie Sledge, Miss Ruth Jones,
Miss Mildred Young and Mrs. E.
B. McCullers, of Clayton. The
destination was reached in the
early afternoon, in plenty of time
to be taken for a two hour ride
over the main part of the devel
opment.
The open sesame to this de
lightful region so abundantly en
dowed by nature with beautiful na
tive shrubbery, with a balmy cli
mate, with a beach that has ab
solutely no undertow, is the name
—Wroodside. It was Col. H. B.
Springs, brother of a forme!*
Smithfield citizen, St. Julien L.
Springs, who interested the Wood
side brothers in the coastal devel
opment. Mr. John T. Woodside and
three of his brothers two years
ago purchased 66, 488 acres with
a twelve mile beach frontage at
Myrtle Beach and, after spending
a year making plans for the for
mation of a sportsman’s paradise,
actually began the work which is
now going forward rapidly. Mr.
Woods ide, who is from Greenville,
S. CM is prominent in textile and
banking circles, owning the largest
cotton mill under one roof in the
world which is located at Green
ville. He is spoken of as the ‘Duke’
of South Carolina.
And it is because of the money
behind this development that
makes it different. The place is
not being advertised with any idea
of speculation. Speculation is dis
couraged. The place represents a
worth while investment, and the
thing the promoters want most of
all is folks. Everything possible
is being done to make Myrtle
Beach easy of access. The Atlan
tic Coast Line Railway has just
spent a million dollars improving
the line into Myrtle Beach, and
within a fetf weeks pullman serv
ice will make it possible to leave
New York and within seventeen
hours be at this seaside resort. The
King’s Highway from Boston to
Frederica, Ga., famous in colonial
days, passes by Myrtle Beach
which suggests that the beach is
not a thing just discovered. For
years, Myrtle Beach has been
known in South Carolina for the
ocean bathing, hunting and fish
ing. This King’s Highway will in
time be hardsurfaced. In fact ten
miles from Wilmington to the
South Carolina line is already un
der construction. In addition, the
state highway to Marion, S. C., is
being improved this, road connect
ing with the Atlantic Coastal
Highway at that point.
I By the time these means of
transportation are completed, the
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James Webb Caught
At Whiskey Still
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Choir Singer IF ins Fame j
fAMTOCAVTCRj
Photo shows Grace Moore as she
topeared at the Metropolitan Opera
House, where she made her debut in
Grand Opera as Mimi in Puccini's
“La Boheme.” Miss Moore rose to
her present fame from a choir singer
in Jellicoe, Tenn.
To Make Survey
Of Battlefields
Bentonville Will Be Included
In Inquiry Made by the
War Department
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—While
Senator Simmon has been advised
that the establishment of a Na
tional military park to commem
orate the battle of Bentonville can
not be passed upon until the War
Department can make a study of
all the battlefields, he has been as
sured by the Secretary of War
that this will be considered in the
study and report made to Con
gress of the results.
Senator Simmons has written
Governor McLean and Mrs. John
H. Anderson, chairman of the pub
licity division of the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy that “it
may very well be that the battle
field of Bentonville may be one of
those selected and favorably recom
mended for commemorative pur
poses by the Secretary.”
Senator Simmons and Congress
man Pou introduced bills providing
for the establishment of the park,
but they have been advised by the
Secretary of War that this propos
ed act is- in direct conflict with an
act of Congress, which was passed
in June of 1920 providing for a
study and investigation of battle
fields generally in the United
States for CpmmemVjrative pur
poses, and forbidding the purchase
of hereafter for military park pur
poses unless report thereon shall
have been made by the Secretary
of War through the President to
Congress as a result of the study
nd investigation made under the
1920 act.
Secretary of War Davis, states
that funds have been appropriated
by Congress for investigations and
surveys, which are now being made,
and that the battlefield of Benton
ville will be considered along with
othe*’ battlefields and report made
to Congress.
Mrs. Anderson has worked zeal
ously in an effort to get this park
established, and has had the coop
eration of Governor McLean, Sen
ator Simmons, Congressman Pou
and others.—News and Observer.
Entertainment and Cake Contest.
An entertainment and cake con
test will be given at the Princeton
school auditorium Friday night,
March 2, to which the public is
invited. After the cakes are judg
ed, they will be sold at auction.
The admission is free.
A Sign of Spring
‘‘I don’t know what’s got into
that young clerk of mine these
.days, I can’t get any work out ot
him.’*
“That’s not surprising. Spring
|may quicken the sap in the tree,
but it slows up the sap in the of
fice.”
Many a chap who acts- like u
caveman before marriage looks
like a cave-in two years after
wards.
Officers Take Him At
Still Near His Home
After a Skuffle; Is
Lodged In Jail
Deputy Sheriff R. D. Marler of
Bentonville township, asssited by
Deputies A. B. Ilood, 0. H. Bare
foot and Lawrence Peacock, ar
rested James Webb at a whis-key
still in Meadow township early on
Friday morning about two o’clock,
rhe 60-gallon copper still was lo
cated near the Webb home. Three
jarrels of beer and about ten gal
lons of whiskey were found. Pits
had been dug in the ground around
the still for hiding the whiskey,
and it is 'reported that there was
space in these pits for sixty or
more gallons.
Webb resisted arrest and rolled
over the ground for some time with
one of the officers in a “fist and
skull” fight. Finally the officers
succeeded in putting handcuffs on
him. Ttvo other men by the name
of Tart and Jernigan, both white,
were arrested at the same time,
and all were brought here to jail.
Webb is said to be a desperate
character. About two years ago
when Ku Klux visited him to warn,
him to discontinue his lawless
ways, he shot at them several
times and two were reported to
have been fatally wounded. Webb
has a wife and two or three small
children.
Early last Monday morning Dep
uties * Mar le • an d Hood captured a
still near Mill Creek church. The
still was in operation but had been
deserted before the officers reach
ed it. Three barrels of beer were
found and destroyed.
BREAKS OPEN COFFIN
AND USES SAME FOR BEI)
“Jim,” one of the colored
janitors at the courthouse, is
much concerned over the fact
that one of the coffins kept in
the basement of the courthouse
for the burial of paupers,
showed si gins yesterday morn
ing of having been occupied.
When questioned as to why
he thinks it was occupied. Jim
stutter-r-r-red out that there
was a big footprint where the
person stepped into it, and two
more at the end indicating
that the intruder had braced
his feet against the ends of
the coffin when he lay down.
Jim has not been able to ex
press yet what he thinks of a
person who would choose a
coffin for a bed before he had
to, hut from his stuttering, he
evidently has some strong feel
ings about the matter.
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KILLS LARUE PIG
Mr. J. D. Hamilton, who lives
near town, was here yesterday at
tending court. Mr. Hamilton killed
a 15-months-old pig Monday that
weighed 484 pounds. The pig was
a Duroe Jersey. At the same time
another pig was killed which
weighed 284 pounds. Mr. Hamilton
keeps thoroughbred hogs.
Birth Announcement.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Johnson, of the Smith school sec
tion, Thursday,1 February 23, a
daughter, Margaret Etheline.
Aunt Roxie Opine*
By Me—
“Prohighbishon wuz follered by
eyars and woman suffrage an*
hair-bobbin’.”