ATTEND THE COUNT T CONVENTION AT THE COURT HOUSE TOMORROW AT 11 O’CLOCK Use Want Ads It yon have anything to aell a Want Ad will find you a buyer, quickly, cheaply. VOLUME 46—NO. 46 Johnston County's Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 1882 Tell Your Friends It they don’t read the Herald they won’t see all the Johnston County happenings. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1928 $2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY Johnston Gets Biggest Increase Is Apportioned $17,480.20, the Largest Increase Of Any of the Ninety Coun ties Sharing In the School Equalizing Fund RAiLEIGH, June 7.—Johnston county received the largest in crease—$17,480.20—of any of the ninety counties that shared in the $3,250,000 school equalizing fund, i the apportionments of which were j announced Monday by Leroy Mar- i tin, Secretary of the State Board \ of Equalization. As compared with the figures for 1927-1928, there are few \ changes in the amounts as reeeiv- | ed by the participating counties in! the 1928-1929 distributions. Rob-. eson county, which last year re- ; ceived the largest amount from the j fund, got aibout $10,000 less from; it this year. With the school costs for the coming year increasing by some over a half million dollars, the board in order to take care of this increased cost had to boost the property valuations in the ninety counties by $133,000,000. The total figures, as computed by the State Department of Public Instruction, shows that the school cost for the coming year will be $532,701.57 over that of last year. For the en tire one hundred counties, the school cost increased $708,484.55 over the total cost for last year. | Apportionments for the adjacent j counties for the coming year fol low: Cumberland, $50,802; Frank-J lin, $61,967.29; Harnett, $67,914.- | 86; Johnston, $74,125.76; Lee, $23, 340.98; Moore, $26,668.97; Nash,' $67,557.22; Orange, $23,419.08; Randolph, $44,397.83; Sampson, $82,331.67; Vance, $7,775.07; Gran ville, $23,834.09; Chatham, $32, 812.56, and Wayne, $13,217.24. NO SERVICES AT LOCAL PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY There will lx* no preaching serv ices at Smithfield Presbyterian church, Oakland or Community churches next Sunday. The pastor, Rev. Chester Alexander, and Mrs. Alexander are serving as counsel lors at the Synod’s Young Peoples conference which is being held at Davidson College. Sunday school will be held at the usual hour. KILL SNAKE IN HOUSE. Last Sunday evening a chicken snake measuring four feet one ( inch was killed in the dwelling of j Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Godwin in | the Sandy Ridge section. The j snake which was found in the hall, j was killed by Miss Thelma ban- j caster with a hoe. Mrs. Godwin had ; just been to see aibout her baby who was asleep in a room about four or five feet from where the snake was discovered. A snake was seen in the barn about two W'eeks ago, and it is thought that per haps this was the same one. OPENS QUICK LUNCH STAND IN THIS fTPY7 Mr. John McCall, of Warsaw, who moved to Smith held about two months ago, will open a quick lunch stand business here in about two weeks. The name of this new enterprise will be the City Quick Lunch, and drinks, cigars, cigar ettes, tobaccos, candies, fruits and ice cream wrill be sold there. It will be open day and night. American Legion The regular monthly meeting will be held on Friday, June 8 in the commissioners room of the courthouse at 8:00 o'clock. Every member is expected to be present. S. E. HOG WOOD, Adjutant. 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. Frank Johnson recognized his name last issue. Today*& Uantallzer: donhyrneix Flies Over Pole C.encal Umberto'Nobile, com 'mncir of the dirigible Italia North Pole" y CrOSSed °Ver the N. T. Flowers Dies At His Home Here Funeral Held at Methodist Church Wednesday Morn ing Conducted By Rev. H. j K. Fairlcoth; Junior Order! Ofliciates -4 Mr. N. T. Flowers passed away ] M his home here early Tuesday morning at the age of fifty-nine years after an illness ot several weeks with heart trouble. Mr. Flowers had been in bad health for two or three years, but it was not until about three weeks ago that he was confined to his bed. Since that time he was critically ill un til the end came Tuesday morning. The funeral was conducted on Wednesday morning at eleven o’clock at the Methodist church, of which the deceased was a member. In the absence of his pastor, Rev. H. R. Faircloth, pastor of the Freewill church, conducted the funeral service, after which inter ment was made in Oakland ceme tery. The Junior Order from his old home community, Bentonville, to gether with the Smithfield lodge, had charge of the service at the grave. The floral offering was beautiful and expressed the silent sympathy of many friends. The pallbearers were: Messrs. II. A. Grumpier, A. V. Gulley, C. M. Johnson, J. W. Phillips, Jack Ham ilton and T. C. Og'burn. The deceased formerly lived in Bentonville township, haviing mov ed to Smithfield about five years igo. He- was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife, twro sons, Mr. Nathan Flowers of this city, Mr. Willie Flowers, of Ben tonville, and one daughter, Mrs. Elsie Morgan of Benson. Two brothers, Mr. Joel Flowers and Mr. W. A. Flowers, and two sis ters, Mrs. Bettie Williams and Miss Eimma Flowers, of Benton vrilie, also survive. ASHE PRAISES WORK KENLY LION’S CLUB Sam A. Ashe, Jr., chief deputy clerk of United States Court for the Eastern District of North Car olina, stopped long enough Mon day to praise the efforts of the Kenly Lion’s club to help in the naturalization of 18 foreign-born residents of Kenly. Complying with a request, Clerk Ashe sent naturalization blanks for the 18 foreign-born residents to fill out to Ellis Kannan, chair man of the Americanization com mittee of the Kenly club, Kannan stated, are planning on teaching the fundamentals of citizenship to the aliens so that when they ap ply for naturalization papers the way to American citizenship will he made easier for them. “If other civic clubs would pay more attention to the educating of the foreign-born so that they will make good citizens, the clubs will be of some value to their commun ities,” said the clerk.—Raleigh Times. TWO MORE ARRESTS IN EASON MURDER CASE Two more men, Wiley Grice and Herman Eason, of Selma, were ar rested yesterday afternoon on a charge of being implicated in the murder of Everett Eason, Sunday, May 27. They were placed in jail in default of a $5,000 bond each. This makes four men being held as I defendants in this case; besides | three others who are held as ma I terial witnesses. The coroner’s in vestigation which was postponed on account of the illness of the counsel for two of the defendants * I will be resumed next Monday morn ing. _ 29 Gradautes From High School Here I)r. Elbert T. Russell Delivers Commencement Address— John A. Wallace Awarded Edwin Smith Pou Medal ‘'Education and religion repre sent forces out of which our civ ilization has come and on which it will rest in the future,” declared Dr. Elibert T. Russell, of the fac ulty of Duke University, who de livered the commencement address here last Monday evening in the school auditorium. Dr. Russell dis cussed the origin of our civiliza tion, indicating that our ancestors lid not find skyscrapers, nor rail- i roads, nor automobiles when they came to America, neither did they >ring these things with them. Our civilization came from a mind that \ could develop these things. He predicted that if a generation should be incompetent or unwilling, >ur civilization would perish. lie >elieves in an education that vould teach boys and girls not only | o make a living, hut that will ! each the mind to thiink, and think j ilong new lines. Free speech and i ove of truth have contributed lar- j rely to the making of our great lation, and Dr. Russell declared hat the moment that freedom of ; peech is suppressed the fap root >f progress will be cut. The pur suit of truth is a great adventure, I iut not pursuing truth is a great i The exercises of the evening be- I ran with a prelude on the piano >y Mrs. Chester Alexander. Rev. >. L. Morgan pronounced the in- j vocation, after which Herman i fones, president of the graduating! lass, delivered the salutatory. Rev. j D. E. Earnhardt then introduced: he speaker of the evening, Dr. El >ert T. Russell. After the address, fohn A. Wallace delivered the val edictory, after which...Mr. J. A.; iVellons, chairman of the board of rustees, presented the diplomas to he class*of twenty-nine as follows: | Lottie Mae Biggs, Mamie Beasley, •Ilia Mae Coates, Ella Mae Dail, \'aomi Ennis, Gladys Edgerton, Wary Lou Gordon, Ruth Hamilton, \ !nez Holland, Jeannette Holland, Harriet Pierce, Gladys Powell, Wary Ragsdale, Lucile Stephenson, ( \va Wallace, Elizabeth Aycock, i luth Barber, William Avera, Jul an Booker, Alton Dail, Herman Jones, Thomas J. Lassiter, Louis Morgan, William Ragsdale, Chas. VI. Rhodes, John A. Wallace, Kd nuud Ward, James Wellons and Slmer Wilkins. Aifter the diplomas had been a resented Mr. F. H. Brooks award ?d the Ediwin Smith Pou medal to John A. Wallace, the member of he senior class who has made the >est scholastic record during his four years in high school. His av erage wras 95 and fourteen-six teenths for the four years. Louis Morgan made the next highest av erage, his average being 95 and nine-sixteenths. James Wellons av eraged only slightly less than Louis Morgan, making 94 and six sixteenths. Superintendent Shutford then read a list of the honor rolls and those who received certificates for perfect attendance and punctuali- ! ty. Louise Biggs, a member of the j tenth grade, was among those re- I ceiving attendance certificates, she ! having a perfect record for attend ance and punctuality for the past ten years. The winners in the rec itation-declamation contest were announced, Miss Dixie Johnson re ceiving the reciter’s medal, and! Corbin Young the declaimer’s. These contests were close, the judges making honorable mention of Miss Vestal Byrd and Winfield Jordan. SUPREME COURT DECLARES COWER MAYOR CLAYTON More than one year after the election, F. G. Gower was le gally declared mayor of Clay ton, when the State Supreme Court returned an opinion find ing no error in his suit against C. W. Carter. The vote in the election was 239 for Carter to 238 for Gow er, but Gower proved that a citizen of Syria and a young woman under 21 years of age had voted for his opponent.— Raleigh Times. COUNTY CONVENTION SATURDAY AT 11 A. M. J. B. Benton, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, in announcing the time of the county convention to be held in the courthouse Saurday, inadvertently named the hour as 1ft o'clock when it should be 11 o’clock. At this convention delegates to the State Convention wijl be chos en. As announced previously, after the convention, the coun ty Democratic executive com mittee will meet. Baby Girl Found On Porch Home Family in Pleasant Grove Cares for Infant Until Welfare Superintendent Is Notified; Now in Hospital Early yesterday morning a long iistance telephone message receiv ed by Mrs. D. J. Thurston, county welfare superintendent, called her to the home of J. L. Osborn near Hightower school in Pleasant jrove township, where an abandon ed baby girl had been found on the porch about three o’clock in the morning. The baby which was newly-born, had on no clothes and was scantily wrapped in a daisy .•loth square when found. No clue ?.ould be found to trace its par ents. It had evidently been left on < the Of born porch by people in a ear during the night. About three j’clock in the morning the cries of the baby awakened the inmates jf the home and the little girl was : warmly wrapped and kept until the welfare superintendent arrived, rhe baby is small but seems sound and normal. tM'.. The call from Pleasant Grove was immediately answered by Mrs. Ihurston, and the baby has been Maced in the Johnston County i Hospital for a few days. It is the Jesire of Mrs. Thurston, if the lit tle one lives, to place her in a suit ible heme for adoption. FAMES EVERETT EASON DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL James Everett Eason, 35, son af Mr. Enley Eason, died at the Johnston County Hospital Sunday morning, May 27. His death fol lowed an illness of only a few hours. On Saturday evening he went to Smithfield and on return ing home he was waylaid and mur tiered, dying in a few hours after leaching the hospital never regain ing consciousness. Mr. Eason is survived by his wife, five children, father, three sisters and one brother. The funeral was held at Branch Chapel church Monday afternoon at two o’clock, Rev. W. M. Ferrell conducting the. service. Mr. Eason was a man of sterling character, a good and faithful hus band and father, a good neighbor, believing in God and His promise, doing the best he knew for the up lifting of humanity. He will be greatly and keenly missed by his intimate family and neighbors. It is so hard for us to give him up, but we must be submissive and say, “Thy will be done." It is so hard for us to understand why his life was taken as it was, but up yonder we will understand. We loved him, yes we loved him, But the Angels loved him more, And they have sweetly called him To yonder shining shore.* The Golden Gates were opened, A gentle voice said come, With farewells unspoken he calm ly entered home. I His sister, MRS. JOHN A. WHEELER, j Clinton, N. C. I FEDERAL OFFICERS MAKE SUCCESSFUL RAID Federal officers made a raid in the Smith school section Thursday night of last week and destroyed a 125-gal'km still. Seventeen gal lons of whiskey and four barrels of beer were destroyed. Marshal Johnson was arrested, but is out on bond pending his trial. In the scuffle that attended bis arrest, a pistol went off and took effect in the thigh and hand of Johnson. Kansas City Ready For Big Conclave Convention Hall Built in 1900 For Democratic Conven tion Will Be Scene of Re publican Political Show " rittien Especially iForfl'hc Herald By ROBERT FUM.FR. KANSAS CITY, June 7.—The whole town’s talking about the coming Republican National Con vention, whidh meets here June 12. And the town is not merely talk ing—it is making most thorough preparations for the event. These j preparations have been going on continuously since December 7, 1927, when the word was flashed ihroug'h the country that Kansas City had been chosen as the site )f the Republican Convention. There will be adequate accommo lations for every one of the dele gates, alternates and visitors. As a wag put it: “There even will >e room for the elephant’s trunk.” Kansas City was chosen as the !ite of the convention after the nost hotly staged battle to pick he convention city ever fought. The convention will be held at he Convention Hall of Kansas !ity, which was built in 1900 for he Democratic Convention of that ■ear, when the Democrats nomi jated the late William Jennings 3ryan. For a quarter of a century Con ■cntion Hall has been the scene of oncerts, athletic contests and in lustrial exhibits. Now again shall resound in its mils the great tumult of a na ional convention! Again history hall be made within its confines! I V.nd truly, this year’s convention vromises to be a very exciting one, is recent developments in the po itical situation indicate. The Convention Hall has room ’or over 18,000 persons—there is room on the arena floor for all lelegates and alternates. The build ng occupies a quarter of a block >n 13th street and Central Ave me, close to the downtown district >f Kansas City. Here the Republican presidential md vice-presidential candidates .vill be chosen, and the platform of ;he party will be adopted. Maine’s delegation of 15 will oc *upy the seats in the front row in he center of the hall. On its left will be the big Penns ylvania delegation, on the right the !9 delegates from California, and ;o the rear those from Massachu setts. Behind Massachusetts will be the Jelegations from four other New England states—New Hampshire. Vermont, Rhode Island and Con necticut, with New York’s 90 rep resentatives, the largest unit in the convention, grouped near the cen ter of the auditorium. Wihen Kansas City was chosen in December, it was decided to change the usual 1,109 delegates to 1,089 delegates. This latter num ber of delegates will attend the sessions starting June 12 at Con vention Hall. The keynoter, or first speaker, at the convention will be Simeon D. Fess, United States Senator. He is an aggressive, earnest speak er who has a sincere, forceful method of delivery. He is an his torian and a staunch Administra tion adherent. william ivi. liutier is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements and chairman of the National Com- j mittee. There will 'be a nation-wide hook up of radio stations to bring the news of the convention to every corner of the country. Not only will the speeches and tabulations of votes be heard but also the cheers, demonstrations and noise of spontaneous parades taking place all over the convention floor. There 'will be microphones placed all over the floor and balconies. Elaborate preparations are being made to make this radio hook-up one of the most thorough ever made in the history of radio. Length and time of the sessions in Kansas City are still very much in doubt, which makes the task of the radio interests very diffi cult. However, radio listeners will be “in on” every phase of the con vention. i Farmer’s Son Wins Cross-Country Race Andrew Payne being congratulated by his lather, an Oklahoma firmer, on his victory in the C. C. Pyle cross-country race, known as the “bunion derby.” The race has attracted world-wide attention. The winner receives a prize of $25,000. Proceedings Of Recorder’s Court J udj;e Aycock Lectures Young Defendant Upon Folly of Youthful Mar riages; Violator Suspended Sentences Must Go to the Roads Judge W. P. Aycock in Record er’s court here Tuesday took oc casion to express his opinion of boys and girls getting married, when the duty devolved upon him j of pronouncing sentence upon Will I Wiggs, young eighteen-year-old husiband, who was in court charg- 1 ed with abandonment, non-support j and assault of his young wife. ! Judge Aycock stated that this ease was the result of too much ; automobile together with too much ! liquor. He described the defendant j as a boy who ought to be under j the supervision of his father, who I ought to use a rod instead of con doning him in his act. The plain tiff he characterized as yet an in fant herself and at the same time i the mother of an infant, one not ' much more dependent and respon- , sible than the other. After deliv ering a lecture Judge Aycock sen tenced the defendant to twelve months on the roads, the sentence being suspended on condition that he pay into the court $3.50 per week for the support of his wife and baby, and upon further con dition that he be a good and law abiding citizen during the next j two years. For the faithful per- I forma nee of the sentence the de- j fendant was required to give bond • in the sum of $300. Other cases tried in Recorder’s j court this week include the fol- I lowing: State vs. Arthur Roby j Jones, white, charged with assault j and trespass. The defendant was j found guilty of simple assault and . trespass, and prayer for judgment i was continued upon the payment of cost. Lawrence Smith, young white ; man, 21 years of age, was in the court charged with rape. Probable cause was found and the defendant was bound over to Superior court i under a $5,000 bond. Pou Coates, white, was found guilty of simple assault, and pray er for judgment was continued , upon the payment of the cost. Will Phillips, white, was found guilty of possession, and w’as fined SI.00 and cost. However, it ap pearing to the court from the evi dence in this case that the defend ant has violated the suspended sentence as set out in a case on January 25, the defendant will be required to serve the sentence im posed at that time. On January 25 Phillips was found guilty of man ufaeturing and possession and was | given a six months road sentence j which was suspended upon condi- \ tion that for two years he be not | guilty of violating the prohibition laws. The defendant appealed to Superior court and was placed un der a $500 bond. John B. Hudson, white, was1 found guilty of possession an.d was j sent to jail for 30 days and as- | signed to work on the county roads j and pay the cost. The jail sentence I was suspended upon the payment ' of $10 and cost and upon condition that the defendant does not violate , the prohibition law again in the next two years. Hudson was charg ed also with operating a car with out proper license plate. He was found guilty and was sentenced'to 30 days on the roads, the road sen tence to be suspended upon the payment of $10 and the cost. Lonnie Walker, white, was in court charged with operating a car Stores To Give J A Half Holiday Wednesday Afternoons From June 1.'5 to August 15 Will Find Twenty-Three Firms Here (Hosed To Allow Em ployes Recreation In accordance with a custom of the past two or three summers, r twenty-three of the merchants and business men here will close their ' places of business on Wednesday 1 afternoons beginning with next ; Wednesday, June 13, and continu ng through August 15. This is be- j ng done in order to allow their i employees some time for rest and i •ecreation during the hot summer ! The agreement signed by mer- j •bants and business men is as fol-j lows: “We, the undersigned, promise to close our respective places of j business every Wednesday after- i loon at one o’clock beginning June 13 through August 15, lifter due notice through the local papers:” W. M. Sanders & Son. Vara L. & Alma C. Smith. The Lorraine Shop. J. I). Spiers, Rose’s 5, 10, 25c Store. Crumpler-Jones Furniture Co. Turnage & Talton. Home Pride Store No. 4. J. E. Gregory & Co. W. J. Huntley. Jordan’s Jewelry Store. A&P Tea Company. Pender’s Store No. 114. Stevens & OgJburn. First & Citizens National Bank, C. F. Gordon, cashier. Farmers Bank & Trust Company, F. C. Sweeney, cashier. K. Lewis. N. B. Grantham. Austin & Hamilton. City Market (1 to 5 p. m.) Atbdalla Dept. Store. Peedin & Peterson. Home Cash Grocery. Mr. Layton McGugan, manager of the City Market, states that he will close from one until five o’clock, giving practically the whole afternoon off. Other stores will probably fall in line after a week or two. FINDS BOLL WEEVILS Mr. Henry Underwood, who lives near Wilson’s Mills, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Underwood said that he had found several boll weevils in his cotton field. while intoxicated. He was found j-uilty and was sentenced to 00 lays on the roads and pay the ;ost. Also the defendant was not to operate a motor vehicle again in Nort hCarolina within 00 days. Notice of appeal was given. Kenneth Starling, white was found guilty of giving a worth less check and was sentenced to GO days on the roads, lie took an ap peal. Easter Boylan, a G7-year-old col ored woman, was found guilty of possession for the purpose of sale. Sentence was deferred until later. Milton Gurley, white, was in court charged with obtaining a marriage license by false repre sentation. He was found guilty and fined $2 and cost. Lee Karp was found guilty of assault and was given a four month road sentence and a $25 fine and the cost. The road sen tence was suspended upon condi tion that the defendant is a good i law-abiding citizen during the next I two years. ' Mrs. Hinnant Dies At Hospital Here Funeral Held Tuesday After noon at Free Will Church in Micro Is Largely Attended * Mrs. Mary J. Hinnant of Micro passed away Monday in the John ston County Hospital after an ill ness of about six weeks. The de ceased was sick for about two weeks before she was brought to the hospital here where she re ceived every attention that~could be desired. But the faithfulness of nurses and doctors could not avail, and a complication of diseases caused her death after she had been in the hospital for four weeks. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the Micro Freewill ment was made in the family cem Baptist church, after which inter etery near Micro. Rev. S. H. Sty ron, pastor of the Micro Freewill Baptist church, conducted the serv ice, assisted by a former pastor, Rev. J. W. Alford, of Kenly, and by Rev. J. L. Welsh of Nashville, Tenn. A very large crowd was present to pay a last tribute of respect to the deceased who was highly esteemed by a large circle af friends. A male quartet from Ayden Seminary led by Rev. R. F. Pittman, of Baltimore, Md., ren ted several appropriate selec tions. The floral offering was very handsome and profuse. The active pallbearers were: C. A. Fitzger ald, H. M. Fitzgerald, R. L. Moore, C. W. Pierce, J. A. Peele, of Mi •ro, Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Haw kins of Rocky Mount, and A. M. Nclble, of Smithfield. The honorary pallbearers were: R. H. Powell, L. A. Cox, W. J. Talton, G. W. Car penter, John B. Exum, L. E. Hodge, of Rocky Mount; T. A. Weibib, of Charlotte; Rev. R. L. Shirley, J. D. Massey, C. E. Kornegay, W. W. Hare, G. M. Willetts, J. M. O’Neal, Dr. R. J. Noble, of Selina; John W. Blackman, R. L. Fitzgerald, of Pine Level; W. J. Massey, Rev. G. B. Perry, of Princeton; W. T. Kirby, J. J. Godwin, Henry Wat son, of Kenly; Dr. W. J. B. Orr, H. B. Marrow, of Smithfield; J. W. Fitzgerald, J. R. Atkinson, C. L. Batten, Henry Grumpier, H. J. Corbett, S. P. Ayeock, J. W. Wel lons, T. E. Wellons, Walter Bat ten, R. C. Pearce and J. W. Mo zingo, of Micro. The deceased, who was sixty nine years, one month and seven days old, was highly esteemed in her community. Before her mar riage she was Miss Mary J. God win, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Godwin. She was con sistent member of the Micro Free will Baptist church, having allied herself with that denomination when she was only fifteen years of Turn to page five, please Presbyterian Services, June 10th. Providence 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sermons by the pastor. Flower’s, 3 p. m. Spence, 3 p. m. Personal testi mony, by Sargeant Thomas. His theme will be “How’ He Found Christ.” Mr. Thomas has served in the U. S. Army for thir ty years. Young People’s Society at Prov idence »:J0 p. m., and \\ lMwood, 8 p. m. Revival services begin at Providence June 11 conducted by Rev. W. L. Foley of St. Pauls. Public is cordially invited. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— Ignorance tax iz a hull lot big ger ami wusaer dan de tax fer eduoashun. ..*C

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