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Use Want Ads if yon have anything to nell a Want Ad will Snd yon a bnyar, quickly, cheaply. VOLUME 46—NO. 65 Sell Your Tobacco in Smithfield $2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY Sanders Family Enjoys Reunioi ‘ —♦— One Hundred Fifty Descend ants of Late John Sander Gather at Old Home Plac Sunday iSunday, August 12, dawnec bright and clear after a oloudy blustery Saturday, and over 15( descendants of the late John San ders wended their way to the ole homestead seven miles west ol Smithfield ‘now called the C. L Sanders home, for the annual re union. As the members of the family arrived they were asked to regis ter in a book, the registration committee being composed of Misses Emily Smith and Margaret LeMay, Mrs. H. V. Faulkner, C. L. and Robert A. .Sanders. Those present were then greeted by Mrs. J. K. Sanders, Mrs. T. W. LeMay, and Mrs. Athal Price, and were tagged with their names. Then each was asked to find his name on the family tree which had been drawn by Mrs. J. C. Hood of Kin aiun, a great great granuuaugn ter of the late John Sanders. The picnic table fairly groaned "with the bountiful dinner spread upon it. Rev. E. D. Dodd, pastor of the Methodist churches on the Four Oaks circuit, pronounced the invocation, after which the guests enjoyed the veritable feast which had been prepared. After dinner was over Mr. Rob bie W. Sanders, of Clayton, who was master of ceremonies, intro duced Mr. L. G. Stevens of this city, and Mr. Stevens made a few remarks in which he expressed the desire of all to continue these re unions. Miss Margaret LeMay, who is the oldest granddaughter of the oldest living grandchild of the late John Sanders, Mrs. A. M. Sanders, was then introduced. She gave a brief sketch of the sons of John Sanders as related to her by her grandmother. Miss LeMay told of the coming to America from England of the Sanders family, John Sanders, the ancestor of the branch which final ly found its way to Johnston coun ty, having been born January IT, 1775. She told of his sons, Baldy Sanders, John Fletcher Sanders, William Boddie Sanders, Willis II. Sanders, Robert A. Sanders, and Claudius Brock Sanders. These meriall received college education and with the exception of Baldy, John Fletcher and William Boddie Sanders, all were alumni of Uni versity of North Carolina. Willis H. in 184J; Robert A., in 1844; and Claudius Brock in 1851. Claud ius Brock Sanders was salutator ian of his class, giving his oration in Latin. Living descendants of these men are: Mrs. J. W. Wel lons, Mrs. Sallie Stevens, Fletch er Sanders, Mrs. Annie Faison, Mrs. Z. R. Martin, Mrs. W. S. Stevens, John K. Sanders, Claude L. Sanders, Robert A. Sanders, Willis Sanders and Mrs. A. M. Sanders. There were also two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Sanders Price and Mrs. Elizabeth Sanders Leach. After Miss LeMay’s talk it was decided to hold the next reunion at the same place, the home of C. L. Sanders, on the second Thurs day in August, 1929. The follow ing committee was named to work out the details: Chairman, John K. Sanders, Smithfield, route 2; Robert A. Sanders, Smithfield, route 1; W. Ransom Sanders, Ral eigh- W. E. McCullers, Garner, route 1; Charles W. Sanders, Kin ston; William Jones, Raleigh. The committee represents each branch of the family. Descendants of Baldy Sanders were Mrs. Kittie Long, Mrs. T. W. TURN TO PAGE THREE ■Kl. W im.tr 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. Cullen Hooks recognized his name last issue. Today** ‘Tanfanzer: ttonualinlrag New York to Vancouver by Motor Boa Tho motor boat Miss Vancouver, carrying .Tamos McArthur and Sydney McQuillan, as it slartod i‘rom the lialtery, Now York, on its way to A anconvor, U. c. The younjj mm. who are members of the Koval Hamilton Yacht Huh expect to average twenty miles an hour. They will follow the Atlantic coast, cross the Caribbean sea, thence throimh the rnnauia canal and up the I'acilic coast. 42 Watermelons Bring $65 Cash (ieorge VY. Hicks, .lohnst<)i ('ount> Farmer, Markets Load in Raleigh; Melons Weigh Between 50 and 75 Pounds -<. Mr. Geo. W. Ilicks, of Garner, route t, breaks the record in John ston county, in the raising and marketing of watermelons. Last Saturday 7.r. Hicks carried forty two watermelons to Ilaleigh and retailed them out at the City Mar ket, his net proceeds being $05.00 for the forty-two nuelons. They ranged in weight from fifty to seventy-live pounds each, and sold for from one to five dollars apiece. In addition to the forty-two melons which he sold, Mr. Hicks gave five to Rex Hospital and three to friends in Raleigh, mak ing this load Saturday number fifty melons. Mr. Hicks, who farms on the Mary Stephenson place near Shi loh church in Cleveland township, secured the seed from which those melons were grown from W. A. Simpkins of Raleigh. Mr. Simp kins bought a watermelon of Mr. Britt who lives near Tarboro in Edgecombe county, and Mr, Hicks bought the melon from Mr. Simp kins, paying him fifteen dollars for the melon. There were enough seed from this melon to plant 11<5 hills. Mr. Hicks paid special attention to these hills, making every ef fort to give this new variety of watermelons a chance to produce the finest fruit possible. From these 110 hills he has gathered 253 watermelons all of which av eraged more than fifty pounds each. Mr. Hicks states that these melons have a luscious, red meat. Besides this new variety of wa I teimelons Mr. Hicks has three I acres planted in other varieties, lie markets his melons in Raleigh and carried his first load from the three-acre field to Raleigh yester day. These melons are fine but not so large as the ones marketed Saturday. FINDS OLD PIECE OF MONEY Mr. Jasper Capps, of ( lay ton, route 1, was in the city Saturday and showed an old copper cent made in the year 1807. it looked all of its age of 121 years. Mr. Capps found the coin last Wednesday after noon in the edge of his corn field near the road. It is about the size of a half dollar. It bears on one side a woman’s head and the figures 1-100. It" hears on the other side a wreath similar to the one now used on a current penny. Nab Twenty-One In Selma Raids Federal I’rohiliilion Ay <nts Invade Johnston County Town; All Hiving Bond Ex cept One Deputy Prohibition Adminis tiator P. M. Caudle, of Fayette ville. conducted a raid in Selma, in Jt>hnston county, yesterday that netted 20 men and one woman, three of the men being negroes and the others white, all of whom are charged with violating the Na tional prohibition law. Yesterday was zero day for the prohibition agents, who had been collecting evidence for several weeks. Early in the morning came the Prohibition Administrator with three United States Marshals and six prohibition enforcement agents. No time was lost in rounding up the alleged violators of the prohibition law. As fast as they were nabbed they were brought before United States Commission er 1, \V. Massey for preliminary hearings. Most of them entered pleas of “not guilty.” That made no difference. They were held for the next term of Federal courts in naieign, an giving- uonus wiui one exception. They are charged with possession and selling. Fradically all of the arrests were made in the vicinity of Selma among the farmers of the com munity. Two filling stations oper ators, L. 1‘. Ward and Karl Wade, were nabbed. Late in the after noon Finney K. Core, who had heard of the raids, appeared vol untarily before Commissioner Mas sey. lie was recognized. W. 1). I'enrce also surrendered and gave $500 bond. Others arrested in the raids yesterday with amounts of bonds required included the following: Ivey House. $200; M. Peeden, $200; Mr. and Mrs. London Braswell, $1,000 each; Ruffin Starling, $500; Lola Wallace, $500; Jim Starling, . $500; Edgar Allen, $500; Will Fu trell, $500; W. II. Pearce, $500; Joe Atkinson, negro, $500; James Sanders, negro, jailed; Jim Capps, $1,000. James Capps, Jr., J5500; Moses McKeel, $200.—News ami Observer. LOCAL NATIONAL GUARD |V /HOES TO CAMP SUNDAY Members of the 113th Field Ar tillery of the North Carolina Na tional Guards left Sunday foi Fort Bragg where they will be ir i camp for fifteen days. H. L. John son is captain of this company anc ; Luby Royall, first lieutenant , There are abuot sixty members ol this military unit, about forty o1 j whom went to camp. Gardiner Believes In Electrieit} —— ! Democratic Nominee For (Jov ernor Would Improve Liv ins: Conditions On the Farn ! Kll.iKl.UY, Ans. Kl.- Hon. 0 I Max Gardner, who is the Demo j cratie nominee for Governor ot North Carolina, and in that state 1 the nomination means election, is intensely interested in bringing1 the blessings-of eleeric light and elec trically driven labor saving de j vices to the farms and farm homes jin North Carolina. Although it is impossible for him to accept the invitation of the Executive | Committee to attend the fourth meeting of the Southern Appa lachian Power Conference which meets in Atlanta, Georgia, Octo ber 8 to 10, pnd which will de vote considerable time to the dis cussion of farm and rural elec trification, he stated to Joseph |Pratt, Chairman of the Comrnit j tee, that he is very much inter ested in the work of the Confer ence ^and believes that it should be uolo to very materially ad vance the movement for electri fication of farms. “In my home county of Cleveland,” he said, “we have an organization of home lighting cooperative associations wh^ch are operating under a state hiaiuie, and between eight and i n*JK* hundred rural homes in my I county are being lighted by elec I tricity.” Mr. Gardner further stat J l'd that he desired to see the en J tire countryside of Jiis state sup plied with electric power. ‘‘I be lieve that bringing electric power and light to the farm will very materially help to solve the farm problems,” said Mr. Gardner; and be further said that one of his I ambitions was to improve living conditions on the farm and in the i rural sections to the end that the I farmers and farm women shall be I able to have comforts and conven iences in their homes similar to those that can be obtained in city homes. “The biggest problem in State and Nation today is the farm problem, and we are more than blind if we do not frankly recognize this fact and courageous ly and constructively face it.” Clayton Young Woman Is Dead -- Miss Ha/el Stephenson, Sister Of Our Townsman, I). Carl ton Stephenson, Passes At Richmond Hospital. Our townsman, Mr. D. Carlton Stephenson, has the sympathy of the entire community in the death of his sister, Miss Hazel Stephen son, which occurred at Johnson W ill is Hospital in Richmond last Thursday night. years of age, but for about a year and a half she had been ill with complications following influenza. Pleurisy developed some time ago and she was taken to a Richmond hospital for an operation. She was in a weakened condition, and in an effort for her to gain strength her biother gave her a blood trails I fusion last week. However, she grew weaker and weaker and was never to undergo the operation. The young woman was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Stephenson of Clayton. Besides her parents she is survived by an only brother, Mr. L>. Carlton Stephen son of this city. The body was taken to Clayton Friday and on Saturday afternoon the funeral was conducted by Rev. S. L. Morgan, pastor of the Bap tist church of this city, assisted by Rev. J. B. Hurley, pastor of the Clayton Methodist church. Inter ment was made in the Clayton cemetery. A large crowd was pres ent and a lovely floral offering covered the grave. The pall bear ers were: Messrs. Carlton Adams, of Clayton; A. M. Calais, Lehman Barnes, George Cherry, Luby Royall, M. E. Hines, Howard Ste phenson. and Pugh Hinton, of Smithfield. To Arrive In City Today. Mrs. Hugh V. Johnson and Hugh Vernon, Jr., of Jacksonville, Fla., will arrive today to visit Mrs. C. H. Johnson. Rev. D. H. Tuttle To Fill Vacancy "ill Take Work at Princetoi ol Kev. <;. li. Perry »Vh< i>ie<l Last Week; Rev. W. E Class Has Part of Circuit 1). It. Tuttle returned home yesterday from Lenior, his oltl heme, where he spent several days. Mr. Tuttle has accepted reg j ular work again in the Methodist (conference for the remainder of ; the year, the presiding elder hav I mg appointed him to till the va j fancy caused by the death or Kev. !<k li. Perry last week. Rev. Mr. J 1 uttle will preach at Princeton j 0,1 the second Sunday morning and ■ night a/id also on the first Sunday j night, and at Fellowship on the | lii st. and fourth Sunday morn ings. Mr. Tuttle was superannuat ed at the last annual conference, since which time he has made his home in Smithfield. He will con tinue to reside in Smithfield. The other churches on the Princeton charge will be taken caie <)f by Rev. W. E. Glass of this city. Mr. Glass was formerly a member of the Methodist con ference, but on account of his health had to give up his work and is now in the insurance business. About two months ago he took over some of the work on the; Princeton circuit. Mr. (Mass preaches at Stevens Chapel, , Smith's Chapel, Brogden and Me- j Call's Cross Roads. Negro With Bad Record Is Jailed Escaped Convict From Tar boro Caught in Selma With Car Which He Stole in Maryland A young; negro about twVnty Hve years of age, Charles Harris, alias Frank Barnes, was arrested on the streets of Selma last Thursday night by Deputy T. E. Talton, Chief J. H. Griffin of Selma, and J. L. Gurley, the night policeman at Selma. The negro had a North Carolina dealer’s license over a Maryland license on a Dodge coupe. This aroused the aikpicion of the officers and they took the strange negro in charge. A search of the car revealed evi dences of burglary. Tools and ap paratus for getting gas from gas tanks sunk in the ground were found. The negro was placed in jail and Friday he confessed to Deputy T. E. Talton that he had stolen the car near Woodbine, Md. On Saturday Mr. Walter Avera, who lives near Selma, and Chief Griffin came to the Johnston coun ty jail and identified the negro as the person who had burglarized the home of Mr. Avera on lhurs ilay. Mr. Avera stated that Thurs day morning his wife had prepar ed a chicken dinner and had then gone to the field with him. When they returned for their lunch the chicken dinner was gone and Mr. Avera missed a pair of trousers. The negro was wearing the trous ers which had been missed when Mr. Avera and Chief Griffin inter viewed him. Mr. Avera’s name was on the trousers. In the car along with the tools and other things was a 1927 driv er’s license issue to Trueman J. Knuff, of Woodbine, Md. The of ficers wired Mr. Knuff and found that he had had a Dodge coupe ! stolen on August 4. Yesterday the negro was in a mood of confession again and this time he told Deputy Talton that he was an escaped convict from Tarboro. He was serving two terms on the roads for which to taled more than two years, and had served three months when he made his escape. When local authorities and the authorities at Tarboro get through with the prisoner he will be turn ed over to Federal officials for vi olation of the interstate commerce TO PREACH AT SAULS SCHOOL HOUSE SUNDAY Rev. D. C. Johnson will preach at the Sauls school house in Wake county next Sunday at 3 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend. Superior Court Convenes Her* Judge Daniels of (Goldsboro I Presiding; W. A. Gree Foreman of Grand Jury ! A one-week term of Johnstor I county Superior criminal cour opened here yesterday with Judge h. A. Daniels of Goldsboro pre. -siding. Solicitor Clawson L. Williams was not present in court yester day, and Mr. W. II. Lyon actec as solicitor in his place. As soon as court wa« called tr order the following grand jury I with W. A. Green as foreman was j impaneled: W. H. Etheridge, D. N Ennis, Thomas Cockrell, S. V. ' Smith, Bryant Hines, J. H. Lassi [ ter, W. A. Green, J. D. Lassiter, Ira W. Tart, A. L. Massengill, J. I.. Dupree, M. P. Lassiter, Wiley Grimes, F. C. Fitzgerald, J. W. 1 Coates, Jr., H. R. Hill, W. J. Judge Daniels in charging the jury expressed his pleasure in again presiding over a Johnston county court. Judge Daniels will serve in this district for the next six months, it being the rule for a judge to serve in his home dis trict every five years. In his charge, Judge Daniels told the grand jury that every county is af flicted by a certain element that has no regard for law and order. It should be the aim, he said, of ill judges and officials to make every county a place where a wo man or child might go from one end of it to the other without fear of molestation. He called upon this body of men to investigate care fully all cases brought to their attention. He also charged them to look into the condition of the various county offices. It is a wholesome thing to have the cit izenship of the county represent ed by the grand jury investigate the various offices and such an in vestigation is welcomed by officers of the right sort, declared Judge Daniels. He commented also upon Johnston county’s handsome court house, and called upon the grand jury to see that it was well kept. After the grand jury went to ■heir task, Monday’s calendar was disposed of and work was begun on true bills returned by the grand jury before the noon hour. The first case to be tried was State vs. Jesse Temple. The defendant en ered a plea of guilty to house breaking and larceny of a pistol >f G. W. Sorrell. At this writing judgment has not been pronounc ed. The next case to he tried was the State vs. John Radford and Matthew Marlow, the defendants being charged with the larceny ol an automobile valued at $200. The automobile belonged to M. A. Wall. EAST CAROLINA IS HIT BY BIG STORM KINSTON, Aug. 11.—One per son, a negro woman, whose name t'ould not be ascertained, w$s kill- i ed, a number were injured and ; heavy property damage was done by t.wo storms which swept this; part of tihe state early today. Farms in the Institute section of Lenoir county were devastated by a twister, a veritable western cy clone which swooped down without warning in the middle of the night. John P. Dail, Lenoir county for est warden, estimated the damage there at $50,000. A dwelling and many tobacco barns and pack hcuses were destroyed. Trees were uprooted. Farmers lost tobacco, stored in the ruined packhouses and barns, valued at many thous and dollars. No person was injured so far as could be ascertained. In the Lizzie area in Green, a negress was killed by a falling chimney as she cringed before a second gale in the corner of her wrecked home. This blow occurred at 4 a. m., an hour and a half or two hours after that at Institute. Leave For Asheville Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Allen left Sun day for Asheville where they will spend several days. Spending Week Here Mrs. Clarence W. Roten, ol Scotland Neck, is spending this with her parents. GOES TO BOLOGNA E. K. Stouflor, (lean of the grad mite school ot' the University of Kansas and a professor in the maihernatienl department of that institution, who will represent the ( nited States at the International Mathematical congress, scheduled to take place at Bologna, Italy, in September. Fifteen Freight Cars Are Wrecked Traffic Blocked For Twelve Hours on A. C. L. Here Fri dya; No One Hurt Traffic on the Atlantic Coast Cine Railway was blocked here all day Friday due to the wreck of a freight train which took place j about four o'clock Friday morning.! About 125 yards of the double track between Four Oaks and Ben- j son were torn up, a broken wheel laving been assigned as the cause tor the smash-up. The wreck ed train was a through freight bound for the north. Fifteen cars were pretty much torn up, these having been loaded with water- j melons. No one was hurt. Wreckers from Rocky Mount and Florence, S. C., reached tihe scene about eight o’clock in the morning and section forces from Mnithfield, Four Oaks and Benson assisted in clearing the wreck. It ouk. however, practically all day to clear the wreck enough for .rains to pass, the first train go ng by late in the afternoon. Traf ic during the day was routed by Wilmington. Some of the readers of the Herald failed to get their papers >n time because of this wreck. They were placed in the postoffice it the usual time but delay in the ‘rains caused them to miss con nection at some points and no loubt it was Monday before they were delivered. CORRECTION OF AN ERROR Mr. L. L. Slaughter, Chancellor Commander Clayton Lodge No. 127, Knights of Pythias, has call 'd'our attention to an error in our -ccent write-up of the annual pic nic at the Pythian Home in which t was stated that the land on which the Home is located was lonated by Ashley Horne. As a matter of fact, on the 19 lay of November, 1909, A. J. Bar bour and wife, Annie Barbour, and D. W. Barbour and wife, Lena | Barour, conveyed to the Grand 1 Lodge of Knights of Pythias of North Carolina, forty and one-j half acres of land for the sum of J $1,230.00 and other considerations. Twenty acres of this tract of land were given by A. J. Barbour and l). W. Barbour to the Grand Lodge j of Knights of Pythias, anil the | money paid was donated by the members of Clayton Lodge No. 137 Knights of Pythias. This is the tract of land upon which the buildings of the Py thian Home have been erected. All other lands of the Pythian Home farm have been purchased by the trustees of the Pythian Home since the erection of the hoirie at Clayton, N. C. The Kraft Cheese company is opening a branch plant in Ashe county thus helping to stimulate greater interest in dairy cattle in that section. The Henderson County Poultry Association has unloaded its sec ond cooperative carlot purchase oi J poultry feed. Hoover’s Speech Of Acceptance Republican Nominee For President Takes Stand For Prohibition; Is Heard by Throng- of 70,000 Stanford University Stadium, Cal., Aug. 11.—(AP)—His voice heard around the world, Herbert Hoover today enunciated the prin ciples upon which he asks the American people to send him to the White House as the third suc cessive Republican President. He reiterated his stand against repeal of the 18th Amendment and for the rigid enforcement of en abling acts under it; proposed farm relief through a three-fold plan; declared for religious tolerance, and promised the direction of eco nomic progress in support of the moral and spiritual growth of the nation. | As he read slowly and concisely | the 8,500 word message accepting | the nomination voted him by the | Ivans as City convention two months ago, the adopted son of California faced a vast army of his countrymen banked tier upon tier in this huge amphi-theatre, who received his declarations with noisy demonstrations. Monster Crowd. Hoover chose this setting, here upon the rolling campus of the University where he enrolled as a first student, and his fellow’ citi zens responded with perhaps the greatest outpouring that ever had attended a notification ceremony in any state in the Union. More than 75,000 people were gathered in the stadium, almost filling it to capac ity. Lud speakers, perched high upon a column that towered above him as he read, carried his voice to the furtherest reaches of the bowl. Broadcasting apparatus transmitted his voice to more than 100 stations in this country, a net work reaching from border to bor der and coast to coast, while his utterances were taken across the seas on short wave lengths to Great Britain, Australia, the Ha waiian Islands, the Philippines; in fact, everywhere the English lan guage is spoken. Just as Hoover has se‘ out to make this a rather unique cam paign, so his fellow citizens of C alitornia strove to make this oc casion different from any of the kind that had gone before. March ing bands, stunting airplanes and brilliant daylight fireworks fur nished the forerunner of the speech-making. No Reference To Smith. Speaking to a vast throng in this athletic bowl and to countless thousands in an unseen radio au TURN TO PAGE 3, PLEASE, New l.aw’yer Locates Here. Another lawyer is added to the number now residing in Smithfield in the person of Mr. C. VV. Beaman who comes from Stantonsburg. Mr. Beaman graduated from the Law School at Wake Forest and was given license to practice his profession .last January. He .ex pects to do a general law practice and is located on the second floor of the Davis building. MARKET OPENS WITH LOW PRICES AT MULLINS. S. C. Mr. W\ A. Parrish, of O'Neals township, auctioneer for a Wen dell tobacco warehouse, was on the tobacco market in Mullins, S. G., when the market opened there. He reports that the market opened up with low prices, the average being around eleven cents. Mr. Parrish thinks that it will not be profitable for farmers to market their poor grades. STEREOPTICON LECTURE TO BE GIVEN AT PISGAH Next Thursday night, August 16, a stereopticon address will be given at Pisgah Baptist church under the auspices of the W. M. S. of the church. The address will be illustrated by lantern pictures showing Baptist Missions in Bra zil. It is free to everybody, and all members of the congregation are urged to be present, especially the young people. Members of the Smithfield Baptist church will give the address and operate the lan i tern belonging to that church. The hour ia eight o'clock.