Use Want Ads If yon hare anything to sell I Want Ad will find yon a buyer, quickly, cheaply. Sell Your Tobacco in Smithfield VOLUME 46—NO. 66 SMITH FI ELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1928 * * $2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY Mr. Morgan Tells Of Dominion Day Corresponds To Our Fourth of July; Union of Churches In Canada Said To Be Proving Satisfactory By REV. S. L. MORGAN We arrived in Montreal July 2. All Canada was celebrating on that day its great national holiday, i which is called Dominion Day. It is the Canadian Fourth of July, i celebrating the union of all the provinces of Canada under one | government. They celebrate it | more enthusiastically and religi ously than we do July 4. I may pause here for general comments on Canada. A group of my more thoughtful readers will thank me for drawing on reliable authorities for data to furnish a solid background for the observa tions of my recent journey. Words of appreciation from such readers are sufficient encouragement to draw out these articles beyond the limit I had first set for them. To widen a bit the horizon and to ! enlarge in any measure the sym pathies of a group of readers I would well repay the few hours of time and effort devoted to these! notes. Clearly the editor realizes i the need for injecting some sort i of diversion here and there from the dreary and almost sick ening monotony of politics. | Canada’s “Dominion Day” fell j this /ear on Sunday. It found us in Press’ott. I had never attended Mass in a Catholic church, and went to the service at 8 a. m., in the beautiful Catholic church. I marvelled that a town of S,000 should have so magnificent a choir as I heard. I learned after the service that I had listened to a great choir from Montreal, which had come up by boat. We went later to the wharf and were shown through the palatial steamer. At 11 I went to morning worship in the “United Church of Canada,” a church which is found in almost every Canadian town. It is a very interesting departure in Canadian church life. A few years ago three denominations in Canada united, the Methodist, Presbyterians and Congregational. I was much inter ested to come in touch with the new church and to get some first hand information of its working. The pastor celebrated Dominion Day by preaching a very helpful and patriotic sermon and by choos ing patriotic hymns. He talked to me for some time after the serv ice about the United Church. With hardly any exception the Metho dist and Congregational churches had come into the United Church, but many of the Presbyterian churches had refused to give up their identity, resulting often in division. A block away stood the splendid Presbyterian church, with its service going on at the same hour. But many of its members had gone into the United Church, and it struggled on apart, and the feeling was not the best. The rule agreed upon was that the building remained the property of the ma jority in all cases. One practical problem had been to place the many hundreds of pastors who were not needed after the union was effected. Altogether the change was proving satisfactory, this thoughtful pastor said and the tendency is toward complete adjustment of difficulties. Dominion Day brought to the surface the fine spirit of patriotism felt by Canadians everywhere. If we of the U. S. are proud of out country and our government, the Canadians seem quite as much so of theirs. The British government TURN TO PAGE 4, f 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 he called for before the follow ing issue. Miss Ala Turlington deciph ered her name last issue. Today's Tantalizer: oumsdhligsta Where Smith Will Hear of Nomination 1, ep-s ®[,the„^w>"rk cnpltol In Albany, shown above Goy. Alfred E. Smlfli will be formally notified, the evening of August 22 flint he is the Presidential nominee of the Democratic party Buildings Burned At Lumber Plant Loss of Shaving and Boiler Room at Herring’s Plant Estimated at Tuesday afternoon about 2:30 o’clock the fire company was call ed to the Herring Lumber plant where a blaze had been discover l ed, which entailed a loss of about $300. It was thought that the fire i started from a spark in the shav ! ing house, and this building and 1 the boiler house, which was con [ nected with it, were burned. The i machinery was not damaged, j The Lumber Plant being outside j the town limits, the firemen were ; unable to connect the hose with the water system, but by use of | chemicals and water from a well at the plant, they soon had the fire under control. Without their aid, the entire plant would prob ably have been burned. The loss was partly covered by insurance. LIONS ( LI B HAS AN IN T E K ESI IN (I M E ETI NO The regular meeting of .the lo cal Lions club was held last Mon day night wti'h a majority of the members present. However, due to vacation of some and necessitated absence from town of others, there were several members absent. Vis itors at this meeting were Messrs. C. W. Beaman and W. Ryal Wood all. Mr. Beaman is a young at torney just located in Smithfield. A very Interesting program was rendered under the direction of Program Chairman Marvin Wood all. The regular business was trans acted. Lion President Wm. B. Wel lons announced a tentative plan for the club to bring to Smithfield during the coming fall, some very prominent speakers to address the club, and there is a possibility of some of these meetings being open to the public including a Ladies Night at the club. PIS (; A H I) E M O N ST K A TIO N CU B HAS PICNIC On Thursday afternoon of last , week, members of the Pisgah Horn eDemonstration club and their families gathered at the home of the president, Mrs. Ira C. Whitley, near town, and enjoyed a delightful picnic. Miss Minnie Lee j Garrison, county home agent, was ( present and directed a number of games in which-both children and grown-ups took part. After the games, Mr. R. P. Hold ing, of the First and Citizens Na tional Hank, made an interesting talk appropriate to the occasion. His words of encouragement to succeed in any undertaking were calculated to inspire the members to greater effort. After listening to Mr. Holding, those present were invited down to the spring where a delectable picnic supper was spread on a table beneath the large elm trees which bordered the path to the spring. The occasion was well attended and was enjoyed by all. Mother: “Junior, you didn't wash your face this morning.” Efficiency Expert’s Little Boy: “No, Mother—T heard you say we were going to have grapefruit for breakfast.”—Life. Kiwanians Hear George T. Whitley Mr. Whitley Makes Fine Talk On the Subject: “Service in Material Things”: Club En dorses Trade - At - Home Show The regular luncheon of the Ki wanis club was featured by an ad dress by Lion George T. Whitley, ' superintendent of the Kenly • schools. His subject was “Service I in Material Things.” The speaker developed fully and completely the : trade-at-home idea, and insisted on \ patronage of home industry. By | trading at home, we both increase j our material wealth and decrease | our tax rate. Whereas, by trading | in another county, we decrease the tax rate in that place, by putting money into their coffers, and in crease our home tax rate by the same reason, namely: by taking j our money away, said the speaker, i This is a fact too often overlooked by the average person, continued the speaker. Convincing illustra tions of the home patronage idea were given in a number of cases. The Johnston County Hospital, which fills a long felt need in this community, the Benson Creamery, and the Pottery by the riverside, were mentioned as specifies. A successful business should serve the other fellow in a big ger and better way, and at the same time meet his competitors terms. Fellowship and courtesy are vital factors in the trade at home idea. Commonplace cordiality should be displayed the year round by every business man. All John ston county towns should cooperate in making a bigger and better community; border towns should not be forgotten or neglected, con tinued the speaker. A word of warning was sounded against the too prevalent custom of time-pricing trading. The sound financial condition of the Pied mont section of Carolina was con trasted with the state of indebt edness of some of the eastern sec I he possibilities ol local service clubs were discussed by the speak er, and delight was expressed over the achievements of the Smithfield civic clubs. Turning from the material to the spiritual things, Mr. Whitley stated that our Sunday schools were not as well attended as they should be, and that civic clubs should stand always ready to im prove this condition. This was one of the most time, ly and instructive addresses heard by the local club in some time. The club went on record heartily indorsing the Trade at Home Fash- I ion Show which is being arranged ' by the local Business and Profes- I sional Woman’s club for the near | future. Miss Ruth Brooks, recently re- ] turned from an extended western j trip, delighted the club with scv- | eral music selections. All Explained. Man (searching through house for his wife, to the maid): “Brid get, do you know anything con cerning my wife’s whereabouts?” Bridget: “Yes, sir. T put them in the wash.”—George Washington Ghost. Clayton To Stoge Good Will Tour -4. beginning Monday Night Clayton Citizens Will Visit Seven Sections of County; Tour Last Year Success CLAYTON, Aug. 16.—Clayton will hold 3ts “Goodwill Tour” again this year, this decision hav ing been reached at a meeting last Friday night at which were pres ent more than thirty citizens, rep- ■ resentatives of the town’s leading business houses and professional men, all of whom were outspoken in their desire to put on the tour ! again, which was so successful last fall. Clayton’s first venture of this kind was inaugurated last August, at which time a week was devoted | to visiting the neighboring centers in an effort to encourage and pro mote and increase the spirit of friendship, fellowship and co-op ! eration that has always existed between the business men of the town and their neighbors in the ! country. So well did this venture mater ialize last fall, and so outstanding , were the results obtained, that it needed but little effort to launch the movement this year, and even go into it on a little bigger scale. Last year the tour lasted for a week, or five nightly visits; this j year it will be lengthened to in- ! elude seven visits, and will begin on Monday night, August 20, clos ing Tuesday night, August 28. In making out a schedule of i places to be visited, the only thing that entered into the selection was the desire to reach the greatest number of people in the given length of time. And acting on this desire, the committee selected the following places all of which have ! suitable school auditoriums for giving the programs: Monday night, August 20, Pleas ant Grove. Tuesday night, August 21, Ar cher Lodge. Wednesday night, August 22, Oakland school. Thursday night, August 23, Sandy Ridge. Friday night, August 24, Mt. Auburn school. Monday night, August 27, Cor inth-Holders. Tuesday night, August 28, Ele vation school. At each of these places the pro gram will begin promptly at eight o’clock, and will not last for more than an hour. Bo^tre this hour, however, the visitors from Clayton will arrive at the places designated, and a short time will l>e spent in getting acquainted with each bther, talk over the interesting matters of the times, and otherwise have a good time. *“ s to the programs that will be given, we want to assure you that they will be high class and enter taining. Clayton has an abund ance of musical talent that offers a wide range of selection in get ting up a program, and the best the town has will be included on these visits. There will be one or two short talks by interesting speakers, who will discuss with the folks the things they want to hear. Besides other things, they will tell you that Clayton has al ways been and still is the best cot ton market in the state. They will tell you that Clayton’s progressive merchants are preparing for the fall trade with clean new stocks of high class merchandise and they will maintain a scale of prices as low or lower than elsewhere. They will tell you that Clayton has a modern system of schools and the doors are wide open to the youth of the land. They will tell you, and tell you with all truth, that Clayton was never in better posi tion to serve the rural population of this community than it is today, and never has the town had a more industrious, energetic and j hard-working set of business men than will cooperate with you when ! you come to Clayton to trade this j fall. i Bo, read the list of places and ' dates above, pick out the point | nearest you, and meet the Clayton ! visitors when they come. They will have a snappy, short and iuterest ! ing program, gotten up with the I idea of pleasing men and women | TRADE-AT-HOME FASHION SHOW I The Business «nd Profes sional Woman’s club is iniat ing an enterprise that prom ises to be one of the big trade events of /the fall season, judging from the enthusiasm with which the local merchants ] are responding to the move- I ment. A **Trade-at-Home | Fashion Show” is being plan ned for Friday evening, Sep tember 1 1, in which every merchant will be welcome to advertise his wares in some way. Various scenes will be ar ranged affording opportunities to display the latest in wear ing apparel for men and wo men for all occasions. The event will be given wide pub licity. I Abdalla Store Moves Location .J. I). Spiers ( loses Out Furni ture Business Here ;tnd Ab daki Occupies Store Which He Vacates The Abdalla-Vinson Store com pany of Selma, which recently opened up a ladies ready to wear and millinery store here, moved this week to a new location, the Uhre formerly occupied by the Spiers Furniture company, on the corner of Market and Third streets. This building, which is two stories high and has a mezzanine floor, is commodious and well lighted. It has been recently paint ed throughout, and its fresh and new-looking appearance will en hance the arrangement of new goods which Mr. Abdalla expects to buy on northern market? in the near future. Mr. J. D. Spiers, who has oc cupied the building since he erect ed it in 1907, is closing out his furniture store here and is moving his stock of furniture to Erwin where he has operated a branch store for some time. Before going into the furniture business, Mr. Spiers conducted one of the best dry goods stores in Johnston coun ty. He came to Smithfleld in 1891 C; om Prince George county, Vir ginia, a? agent for the A. C. L. He has long been identified with the business interests of Smithfleld, and while he is closing out his furniture store he will still have an office here. He has secured the rear end of the Abdalla store, and this will be headquarters for his business for some time. MUSIC CLUB TO MEET TUESDAY EVENING The August meeting of the Aeo lian Music dub will be held Tues day evening with Mrs. L. T. Roy al! and Mrs. T. J. Lassiter as hos tesses. If the weather permits the program will be given on the lawn. In keeping with the warm weather, the program committee, composed of Mrs. H. C. Hood, Mrs. L. V. Henderson and Mrs. T. J. Lassiter, has arranged a brief program. The topic will he “Negro Music.” The program will open with a group of old plantation songs sung by the entire club, after which Rev. Chester Alexan der will give a talk on ‘‘The Negro in Music.” Mr. Marvin Woodall will sing “Lindy,” with banjo ac companiment, and an old ‘Mammy’ lullaby will also be on the pro gram. Miss Mattie lou will read a paper on the “Negro Spiritual,” following which the local negro quartette which has gained quite a reputation, will sing a group of spirituals. The negro quartette is known as “Cub” Watson and his Enterprise quartette. Falcon Camp Meeting. Announcements of the Falcon Camp meeting are being sent out, the camp meeting to begin next Thursday, Aug. 2d. The meetings will continue until September 2. The preachers scheduled this year are Rev. K. I). Reeves of Toronto, Canada, and Rev. Chas. A. Shreve of Washington, I). C. This will be the twenty-ninth an nual camp meeting held at Fal con. and children. And remember, that any program is more enjoyable when the crowd is large, 1 I Board Education Holds Meeting Surplus From Last Year Makes It Possible To Keep Tax Rate Same and Also To Take Care $750.000 Ronds The Board of Education met here Tuesday with all of its seven members present as follows: W. G. Wilson, chairman, J. W. Wood ard, B. B. Adams, W. H. Call, P. B. Chamblee, J. J. Young and C. G. Holt. At this meeting, the board sign ed the statistical report for the year. The auditor, Mr. J. T. Bagby, of the A. M. Pullen Co., reported on the expenditures for last year as compared with the budget adopted last year, and it was found that the total expenditures for the six-month schools was $478,647.5'.) against the approved budget of $506,123.70, thus leav ing a surplus of $27,476.11. It is this surplus together with a cut of $10,000 from the regular budget that will enable the board to carry the $750,000 bond issue next year without any increase in the tax rate. At this meeting also, a new form of check was approved which will greatly improve the bookkeep ing system. (Jonsiderable time wa^f spent during the session, in approving the awarding of bids for material to be used in the construction of the negro school building at Four 1 Oaks and the addition to the Four Oaks building for the white chil- , dren. I wo bids on lumber were con sidered, one from the Guy C. Lee Manufacturing company and one from the Herring Lumber com pany. Guy C. Lee was awarded the bid at $25 per thousand, his bid being two dollars lower than that of the Herring Lumber company. Three bids on brick were in hand. Those of the Geo. M. Nor. wood company and Borden Brick and Tile company were identical, their figures being $2,368.75. W. M. Sanders bid slightly lower. $2*359, and was given the con tract. The bids for structural stcele were the same, Dewey Bros., of Goldsboro, and Raleigh Iron Works bidding each $495. Dewey Bros., was awarded the contract. The mill work was figured on by three concerns: C. M. and W. G. Wilson at $875; Guy C. Lee Mfg. Co., $940; and Star Mfg. Co., $900. C. M. and W. C,. Wilson received the award. W. M. Sanders & Son were given the order for lime and nails, their bid being slightly under those of The Hardware Store of Selma. Sanders' bid on lime was $11.75 per ton, and his bid on nails was $3.72 per keg. J. P. Rogers, local contractor, has the supervision of these buildings in charge, this plan of construction having been found to be considerably cheaper. RE VIVA'I, TO BEGIN AT CLAYTON M. E. CHURCH On the first Sunday in Septem ber a series f revival services will begin in the Methodist church in Clayton. The pastor will be as sisted by Dr. Stanford, of Hick ory, who will come on Monday, September 3. Mrs. J. I.. Stiedly, of Charlotte, will come on Aug ust 29 and begin the meeting. An invitation is extended to the peo ple of Smithfield and Johnston county to attend this meeting. It will be remembered that Mrs. Stiedly assisted Rev. *1). H. Tut tle in a revival here when he was pastor of the Centenary Metho dist church. Her friends here will welcome this opportunity to hear i her again. TOBACCO BUSINESS IS ! PICKING CP HERE I The tobacco business is picking: i up in Smithfield, in spite of the fact that the market here has not yet opened. The grading; rooms have opened and a number are kept busy getting tobacco in shape to put on the warehouse The Smithfield Tobacco Com pany is receiving a good deal of tobacco to redry from the Georgia and South Carolina markets. On Tuesday and Wednesday fo this week this company received over [a hundred thousand pounds. Severe Storm In Sandhill Section I NEW PRIMATE Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, former nrchblshop of York, who has been made archbishop of Can terbury and primate of the Church of England to succeed Archbishop Davidson who resigned. Floods Paralyze Traffic In West Highway No. 10 and Railroad Track Blocked By Slide— Other State News Items Floods in the Western part of North Carolina have paralyzed traffic and the city of Asheville has notified the people living be low the huge Bee Tree dam to va cate their property. Officers are assisting people who dwell along he river banks to get out. The French Broad and Swananoah riv ers were said yesterday to be ris ing at the rate of one foot an hour, and at many points they were <ut of their banks. Highway num ber ten between Asheville and Old Fort is blocked by a slide which look a portion of the highway 100 i'eet long and dropped it down on he railroad, completely blocking the track. No train service has been 'possible between Asheville and Salisbury and Asheville and Spartanburg for several hours. Mrs. N. E. Humphrey and little -=on, Norman, Jr., who have been pending some time at Henderson ville, wired Mr. Humphrey yester day that they were completely cut off by washouts on the railroad and by bridges being washed away. Mrs. Humphrey expected to return home Wednesday but traffic was slopped before she could get away. Hon. Josephus Daniels was in • inference with Governor Alfred K. Smith at Albany this week. Mr. Daniels told' the governor that the solid south will go for Smith, but that the usual Democratic ma jority in the south will be cut down if Governor Smith’s accept ance speech is displeasing in the matter of prohibition. He stated to newspaper men that there was more interest being manifested in the governor’s forthcoming accept ance speech than he had ever known before. Chairman Mull has issued a call for the Democratic Executive Com mittee to meet this evening at which time a national committee man will be chosen to succeed Senator Simmons who recently re igned apparently because of his altitude toward the nomination of Governor Smith, it is not antici pated that any other business will be transacted by the committee at this time. The two persons most prominently mentioned for the place are Ex-Governor Cameron Morrison and Hon. Josephus Dan iels. -v Hring in New Fords. Messrs. T. C. Young, Corbin Young, Raymond Gower and Carl Little s'pent Wednesday in Char lotte. These men visited the Ford distributing plant there and brought back for the Young Mo tor company, a tudor sedan, road ster and phaeton. W. H. Barrow Gets News of Inn jury of Brother- In - Law — Number Reported Killed, Wounded and Missing Mr. W. H. Barrow, who holds a position at the local ice plant here, received a distress ing message yesterday after noon telling of the injury of his brother-in-law and wife in a severe storm that swept a section near Sanatorium yes terday. Mr. and .Mrs. Ingram, who live on a peach farm in the Sandhill section, are the injured persons, and they are in a Fayetteville hospital. They have four children, and one of them late yesterday after noon had not been found after the storm. A physician from the High smith Hospital in Fayetteville stated to Mr. Barrow yester day that around forty wrere \ killed, wounded and missing as a result of the storm. 'ABERDEEN, Aug. 16.—Two persons were killed and a score of others seriously hurt by a twister which struck Ashley Heights, a village five miles from here about 4:30 this morning. The dead: Unidentified white man, who had stopped over to spend the night with a friend, crushed to death. J. W. Jones, died of injuries. Those injured: Mrs. J. W. Jones, not expected to live. A Mr. and Mrs. Ingram and their five children. The parents are not expected to live while the children were badly cut and bruis ed. and .ainod in that " ust, dated Octo-1 . nd recorded in 506, Johnston H. W. Dewar, badly cut bruised. ~ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hardi'- REAL both internally injured. J. F. Bufkin, blown from \ ond story room about 50 juries undetermined. Number of other pc seriously hurt. Dwellings Collapscand executed The twister cut a path9 . lZ^?S 300 yards in width and trav * * * northeast. It completely razed e.en made cotton gin, garage, a brick storendebted“ and five dwellings, besides unroof ing several more. The property damage is estimated at $150,000. The twister did considerable dam age to tobacco barns before it hit the village and after striking there it traveled a short distance and then seemed to rise. BJushed to Hospitals. The injured were rushed to hospitals at Sanatorium and Fay etteville and several hundred vol unteers are at work clearing up the debris. Well Endowed. An old man was standing on the curb playing a one-string fiddle outside a Ludgate Hill shop. An acquaintance came up. “Watcher doin’ down ‘ere, Bill? I thought you worked the West “Not now I don*t. I give that to me son-in-law as a weddin’ i piasent.”—Northern Daily Tele graph. Aunt Roxie Opine* By Me— | I'm afraid A1 Smith iz gwlne | ter be followered by wet itove j wood and puny husbtM. _ __

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