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Smithfield Tobacco Warehouses are selling \obaeco as high or higher than any warehouse in the state. 46TH YEAR Johnston County’s Oldest and Best N ewspaper-Established 1882 Don’t Join the Army, of Unemployed If you are looking for work don’t be discouraged. Advertise for the position you want in our Want Ad columns. EIGHT PAGES TODAY SMITHFIELD, N. C„ FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 7, 1928 EIGHT PAGES TODAY NUMBER 72 Further Cut In School Budget Kate Must Not Be Increased And $6100 Must Be Taken Out Of Budget Rules, Coun ty Commissioners. At a meeting of the County Board of Commissioners held here yesterday, the school budget was presented by Supt. H. B. Marrow. The board, after careful consider ation, decided that the school rate | must not exceed the rate for last ' year which was $1.08. The budget had been trimmed already, hut i when presented to the commission ers it was still $0,100 more than a $1.08 rate would allow. Mr. Marrow was instructed to make further cuts until the budget can j be taken care of without an in crease in the rate. In order to do this, Mr. Mar- I row explained to the board that the cut would have to be in the i number of teachers allowed. Since 1 large schools have already been cut. ( from one to three teachers each, it | looks as if the small school will | have to stand the other part of me lui. .nr. marrow siaieu mat there are a number of instances where teachers in small schools are teaching' on the average only about twenty pupils, while all of ►the teachers in the larger schools are teaching from 35 to 45 pupils. For this reason it would seem fair that the teachers in the small | schools should be required to teach j nearer the same number as the ! teachers in the large schools. Mr. 1 Marrow pointed out that a saving could be effected by trucking a j small school of say forty pupils but which requires two teachers, to a large school which would ab sorb the entire forty in the va rious grades without any addition al teaching force. Both the county board of com missioners and the board of edu cation had previously expressed the opinion that the taxpayers of the county would approve such cuts rather than have the tax rate increased. The hoard of commissioners at its session yesterday canvassed the returns from two school elections held recently in the county. An election called in the Glen dale district to include the Price school in the Glendale district, thus giving the pupils of that school an eight-months term in stead of six, failed to carry. Those | who registered for the election j numbered 217. Ninety-three votes j were cast for the election, while I 81 were cast against. It. required 109 votes to carry it. The election called to make the Corbett-Hatcher school a part of j the Selma district passed. This school which teaches through the . seventh grade will be taught as it is now except it will run eight months, and will be a permanent part of the Selma district. The registration for this election num bered 84. Forty-three votes for the election were required to carry it, and sixty cast their vote in this way. Twenty-four were cast again st it. The commissioners were in ses sion on Wednesday of this week, but the business transacted was routine. Return From Camping Trip. Messrs. Herman Lawrence and Zo LeMay arrived Monday from a trip to Washington, New York. Buffalo, Kansas City and other points in the Middle West. They made the trip on a Ford car and carried a tent with them. A woman’s mission on this earth is to convince some young: man that he ought to get married. | 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 issu« Tom Creech recognized his name last issue. Today** Tantalizer: mijrosgee PRICES ON LOCAL TOBACCO MART COMPARE FAVORABLY Offering On Opening Day About Third Of Last Years’ First Sale; Suggestion To De stroy 40 Million Pounds Of Sorry Grades. Due to the rainy weather, at th< opening tobacco sale here Tues day. with a total offering; on hot? warehouse floors of about lOO.OtH pounds, only approximately one thinl of the amount was sold as or opening; day last year. The con tinued rains since Tuesday have made for light sales, and it car hardly be said that the toibaccc market is fairly underway as yet •Much of the tobacco marketed this week has been of the pooi grades, but notwithstanding this, the prices have compared wel with those of other markets. The prices the first day averaged be tween Id and 14 cents, according to warehousemen, and the far mers went home well pleased with tin- way the market opened. A number were here Tuesday who did not bring any tobacco to sell, hut who came to watch the mar. ket. Some of these stated that the price was better than they had expected in view of the decrease in price over last year on markets further south. Some indicated that they expected to keep in touch with ' the market here, and would bring t( uaeeo here this season. An associated press dispatch sent out from Raleigh stated that around six million pounds of to- ' bacco were sold on the markets | of the Eastern Carolina ,bright belt, and that while official figures ; were not available, it was calcu lated that the average price was ! not a great deal more than twelve i cents through the belt as a whole. ! The suggestion is said to have j been advanced in Kinston that the' farmers voluntarily destroy forty million pounds of their poorest1 grades in an effort to reduce the : supply, and help the price of the better grades. Headquarters For Democrats Open Offices Of Chairman I . H. If rooks Selected; Miss Mat tie Pou Offers Services Free As Secretary. Democratic headquarters will be located during the campaign in the oliices of County Chairman F. H Frocks at the rear of the court house. Miss Mattie Pou, sister of Congressman F. VY. Pou, has vol unteered her services' free of charge as secretary to the chair man and beginning next Monday Miss Pou will be at headquarters ready to render any assistance needed. It has been the rule to employ a secretary. Miss Pou is well qualified for this position. Besides being a trained stenogra pher, she knows Johnston county well. She has been a lifelong, staunch Democrat, and will render valuable service to the party by being connected with the county organization. She was chairman of the Woman's Committee in Smith fiek. township during the last campaign, and her efficient service helped to bring out a good vote in Smithfield township. Chairman Brooks is calling a meeting of the County Executive Committee to be held in the com missioners room of the courthouse this afternoon at four o’clock to perfect the plan of organization in Johnston county. The election is less than two months away, and the campaign will soon be under full swing. <. j. Godwin wins TRIP TO CANADA ('. I. Godwin, who has repre sented the* Atlantic Life Insurance company in this section since 11)14, has earned a trip to Canada for himself and Mrs, Godwin, offered by the Atlantic Life Insurance company of Richmond. The annual meeting of the Atlantic Life rep resentatives will he held at Cha teau Frontenac, Quebec, Septem ber 3-(>. While in the north Mr. and Mrs. Godwin will visit a num ber of points of interest.—Raleigh Times. Mr. Godwin formerly lived in Johnston county at Pine Level. He Is the son of Mr. Berry Godwin. MAKES TRIP IN INTEREST OF INVENTION Mr. Jas. H. Kirkmch, justice of the peace and county coroner, will be absent from his office here on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. • Anyone desiring to see him on le gal business may leave their mes 1 sages with Mr. H. V. Rose, clerk . of the court. Mr. Kirkman will be 1 in Washington and Baltimore next 1 week in the interest of his inven tion, a highway painting machine, which will be put on the market in the near future. , There are two kinds of parties in this country—political and pet ting. Both need watching. Miss Wells Chosen To Fill Vacancy Mrs. Joe Davis Resigns As President Of 15. &. P. W. ('tub; Not To Hold Trade At Home Fashion Show. At a call meeting of the Bus iness and Professional \\ oman’s i :du'b held last week, the resignation : f Mrs. Joe Davis as president was reluctantly accepted, the resigna tion having been occasioned by the fact that Mrs. Davis is leaving Smithfield to make her home in Washington, D. C. At a meeting held Wednesday utternoon. Miss Mary K. Wells, former president, was chosen to succeed Mrs. Davis. Miss Wells was president last year, and her efficient service caused the club to urn to her again when the vacan At this session of the club, it was decided to drop at least for this fall the “Trade at Home Fash ion Show,” which had been plan ned for September 14. Mrs. Davis, who was familiar with the plan for this trade event, as president, was in charge of arranging the program and her unexpected de parture from the town makes it impracticable t<> stage the fashion show at thisOtime. The regular meeting of the club will be held Tuesday evening. MR. MILLIE HOLMS DIES AT HIS HOME NEAR HERE Mr. Millie Hobbs was strick en with apoplexy yesterday afternoon about seven o’clock at bis home near town and died almost immediately. He j was in a.lmost perfect health and lhis death icame as a great shock. He had gone to the barn when he was taken. The fun eral Mill be held this after noon at the home at two o’clock and interment will be made at Clemont church. TAKEN SICK WITH PTOMAIN POISON WHILE AT PICNIC Mr. Jesse C. Barbour and daugh ter, Miss Blanche, were taken quite ill with ptomain poison last Thursday while attending a picnic at Hopewell. It is thought their illness was caused frorp something they had eaten for breakfast. A physician was called and they are now improving. They wish to re turn thanks to friends who minis tered to them while they were sick at the church. LIONS CLUB MEETS MONDAY EVENING The Lions club will hold its reg ular meeting Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the basement of the Methodist church. Mr. Lester Rose of Wilson, deputy district governor, and Mr. Ed Stalling--, also of Wilson, will be present. Mr. Rose will be the speaker of the evening. A musical program will he a feature of the meeting. All the members are urged to be present. Club Girls Enjoy Four Days Camp Thirty Members Of The 111 Club (iirls Of Johnston County At Fort Monroe Near Fayetteville; Splendid Program. I!y MISS nil.I)A KKKN Thirty members of the 4-H club girls of Johnston county spent four delightful days at Camp Mon roe near Fayetteville last week. Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, John ston county Home Demonstration agent was our leader. We left Smithfield at 2:110 o’clock on Tues day, August 28, on two school trucks to carry our baggage and supplies. After a little tire trouble and getting on the wrong road going several miles we finally ar rived at camp at nine o’clock. We 1 spread our picnic supper and play- j ed several games, then fixed our | cots and retired. The rising whistle sounded at J 0:20 o’clock each morning. We j went below the dam for a shower j bath under the falls. After break- i fast we helped prepare food for dinner and wrote letters. Miss Garrison had a surprise trip for j us. We rude over to Fort Kragg i and saw many interesting things, such as firing the huge cannons. We were taken around to see the lifferent buildings and out to see | use large aeroplanes. \v v west* . :.)ack at Camp .Monroe for lunch j and after a rest period we went swimming in the lake. For a while we played games until time for •supper. After supper we were lis tening to a lecture on correct pos ture by l)r. Hareen of Fayette ville. when some one looked out the window and saw the house in which the light plant was stored, burning in full blaze. We were all frightened and ran out to our rooms to get our belongings and take to the woods. We were thank ful the light house was all that was burned. We had no lights then except flashlights and lanterns. After the blaze died down we toast ed marshmallows over the coals trying to get over our fright be On Thursday morning after our routine of duties, Miss Garrison took us on another trip. We went to Southern Fines and saw the large pencil orchards, but only a few peaches. We went to the San atorium and then to Pinehurst and saw tin* many beautiful homes there, but the one most admired was the little log cabin. We bad our picnic lunch near this cabin. We got back to Camp Monroe by four o’clock, had a swim in the lake, and played games. Thursday night we had a party with varied programs given by the girls and Miss Garrison which we all enjoyed. Miss Garrison appointed a com mittee to nominate new officers on Friday morning and the following were elected: president. Miss Gladys Davis, Middlesex; vice president, Mabel Adams, Four Daks; secretary-treasurer, Bessie Narron; corresponding secretary. Hilda Keen, Four Oaks. We left for home on Friday aft- | ernoon, sorry that we could not stay another week. We wish to ex press our thanks to our chaperones. Misses Christine Dodd, Minnie Bailey, Lillie Daught-y, Mesdames Clarence Lee and Joyce Wheeler, and to our leader, Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, for the splendid trips which they gave us. We arc looking forward to another next year, hoping we may have the same leaders with ns. SELMA BOVS ENLIST Among: the thirteen men who enlisted on Sept.. 1 at the Ral eigh V. S. Navy Recruiting; Sta tion were two boys from Selma namely: Everett J. Spencer and Charles R. Kirks. They were im mediately transferred to Hampton Roads Ya. Baptist Church. ; Sunday school 0:45, F.'II. Brooks superintendent. Morning: worship at 11. with sermon by the pastor, ["North Carolina’s Place in the Kingdom of God.” 7:15 p. m., in termediate B. Y. P. U. 8:00 eve ning worship, with sermon by the pastor. 3:30 p. m. service at the jail. Youths Touring Europe by Sea and Land J$kZ7 <&& .Vil ,. 'I'liis iilinln-ntph show* 1 ho arrival a! I-'I«»r* l.uru;t(» !ty sea a!nl land in (In* «i»i<*<• r oonlrapinni soon Id.UOO mi I os. of 1 liror vnani: i on who :• i-o making a lour of liio pinurr. Tiioy I,ad alivndv Ira'dod more Ilian Building Is Sign Progressive Town I'our Oaks Is Scene Of Build in" .Vlivities; Number Of New Hesidenees. Brick Slur. School Houses. FOUR OAKS. Sept. f>.—With evidences of much material prog ress and growth. Four Oaks again comes to the front, when it comes to new and modern buildings. Mr. L. ('. Keene, who lives near town, has recently completed and occupied a very attractive seven itein, modern i'oriek bungalow which any city resident- would be proud to own. The six-room addition to the al ready commodious school building is nearing completion. It will be ready for occupancy by the time school begins, probably October 10. T^hjLJ^jdition is surely a sign of progress" from two * Aslandpoints. One of these is educational as shown by the increased school en rollment of last year, making the total around a thousand and thus musing congestion on every hand. A few weeks ago Mr. Edgar Denning occupied his unusually at tractive bungalow which is admired l\v everyone. Its location and sur roundings already show Mgns of ' it* being one of the most beautiful homes in town in the near future. Excavation has already been started for a large two-story brick building on Main street next door to B. T. Barbour’s store. The low er front section will he occupied by the Four Oaks Bank which now has its headquarters near the de pot. At tile rear of this lower section an up to date barber shop will be installed and equipped. The entire upstairs will be used for various kinds of offices. Nothing preventing, this building will be ready for use by the middle of No vember. This now addition to the business interests of our town is being erected by Mr. R. ('. (’ana day. one of our most prominent and progressive citizens. The new negro school building, which is located in a pretty forest out on the Smithfield highway, is being rapidly completed. It is modern in every respect, as ample room for any moderately large school, and available space for rec reation. It is a structure that its occupants should be grateful for and justly proud of. MISS TITTLE IS MADE DEAN <)E WOMEN Miss Lelia Tuttle, sister of Rev. D. II. Tuttle, who has been a mis sionary in China for a number of years, has recently been elected dean of women in Soochow Uni versity. Miss Tuttle has been a teacher of English in McTyeire College at Sanghai. and also in the Laura Haygood Normal School in Soochow. Miss Tuttle will be pleasantly remembered here, where she visited when on a fur lough her brother, who was pas tor of the Methodist church at that time. S. S. Picnic at Fellowship There will be a Sunday school P'cnic at Fellowship Methodist church which is on the Princeton circuit Friday, Sept. 7. Rev. I). H. Tuttle has been invited to make a talk during the morning. Mr. W. C. Rowe is superintendent of the Sunday school. SIX SUCCESSIVE RAINY DAYS CAUSE OVERFLOW STREAMS M KI.FAKK EXTENSION ]>y Mrs 1). .1. Thurston, Supt. “The race moves forward on (he feet of little children.” Children are natural imita tors, and we have often ob served them playing the role of mother or (teacher. The other day a number of little hoys were busy at play in a ditch of water, and after a careful observation it was dis covered that with old tin buck ets, reeds and wires, they had several complete stills in op eration. On the bank were the outposts armed with air rifles, watching: for the ofli Who were they imitating;, and where are we marching? Baptists Organize Mens Brotherhood Hon R. M. Simms, of Raleigh. And Rev. I . Bunn Olive. Missionary -To C hina Ad dress Initial Meeting At Baptist Parsonage. Last Tuesday evening some twenty men dined at a banquet at the Baptist parsonage in Smith field, ami after a number of ad dresses, organized a Men's Broth erhood. The Brotherhood is the name given to the men’s organi zation auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention, succeeding the Laymen’s Missionary Movement. The name was changed a year or two ago to enlarge the scope of the organization so as to include mere definitely the general activ ities of men in their local church life, and to invite fuller play of the men’s club idea, but the mis sionary idea remains specially prominent. » The meeting at the parsonage was featured by very strong ad dresses by Hon. It. N. Simms, one of the leading attorneys of Ral eigh, and teacher of the no-ted Simms class of men in the Ral eigh Baptist Tabernacle and by Rev. L. Bunn Olive, a missionary to China, soon to return to his ,\urw iiii'U'. ivt/v. o. 1 j. .vioigciu, pastor of the Smithfield Baptist church, acted as toastmaster, in troducing the speakers and leading in the organization of the Brother hood. It was pointed out that the two prominent conditions of mem bership are active support of the local church and its program, and interest in Missions with financial support of the missionary bud get. A constitution and by-laws was adopted, and 17 names were ! enrolled as members of the new I organization, with Mr. 0. C. Caw ley as president; B. M. Brannan, vice-president, and James H. Davis, secretary. A fine spirit of enthusiasm was shown by all pre=ent, and it was felt that the organization gives promise of be coming a very influential factor in promoting a new era of activ ity in the church. The organization of the Brother hood was effected largely as a re sult of an appeal coming to the TURN TO PAGE 4, PLEASE Meuse River Is Out Of Banks And Was Still Rising Yesterday; Total Rain For Six Days Nearly Seven Inches. •- x successive rainy days have Irenehed Johnston county and have wrought the streams above the ’h.od stage, some of which have )ecomo impassable. Early yester lay morning the total rainfall since September 1 was 6.85 inches. \'euse River measured 20.7 feet In the afternoon about 4 o’clock ind was still rising. Fourteen feet ,s the flood stage, and the extra dx feet of water is spread over the lowgrounds along the river hanks. At the bridge on highway lumber 10 at this city overflow waters have almost reached the >riek yard. The nearly seven inches of rain all measured at the local weather >ureau station was distributed over he six days as follows: September I. .86 inches: September 2, 2.32; September 3, .30. September 4, .16; mptember 5. 2.13; September 6, l.<*8. The figures for September > were reported about nine o’clock yesterday morning. Clouds contin u'd to lower and a drizzle of rain ontinued during the day which •aised the rainfall for yesterday dtove the figures quoted. Among* the streams that are mpassable is Swift Creek. Water vas reported running over the em •ankment at the bridge near the dullom place, and traffic was be ing routed around by Turner’s >ridge. It is said that Richardson’s iridge in the lower part of the •ounty may be endangered, though no definite report was available vesterday. At this writing the high uak of the flood waters has prob .h]y not been reached. There will ikely be some damage to crops planted in the lowgrounds, though the steady rainfall has given warning and farmers have likely rescued cattle from flood areas. At Selma right at the city limits '>n highway 22 the road has been Hooded, the water being across the pavement deep enough to drown ar engine in an automobile. The pave ment was covered for a distance id about a quarter of a mile, and traffic was routed on anothei v . r. loieiram or uiayton, route 3, was in the city yesterday I and reported that the Burkett i Jones bridge over Swift Creek was j washed away, and also a bridge over a big ditch near the creek, bridge. He stated that the mail carrier had not been able to de liver mail along that route since M ondav. This is the highest freshet that has been in Neuse River and other Johnston county streams since 11*24. In that year during the lat ter part of September and the first part of October two weeks of rainy weather caused floods which resulted in considerable damage to bridges and crops. The high peak for Neuse River at that time was twenty-four feet, this record lack ing two feet and five inches of reaching the record of 1919 when Neuse River was the highest with in the memory of the oldest in habitant. Max Gardner Opens Campaign in State In Speech At Boone, Demo cratic Nominee For Gover nor Makes Strong Plea For Party Unity; Endorses Smith For President. BOONiE, Se,pt. 3.—Before a crowd that overflowed the spacious lawn of the old Colonel Polk homestead here, O. Max Gardner, Democratic nominee for governor, today opened his campaign with a strong plea for party unity and an equally strong indorsement of Governor Alfred E. Smith for President. Vociferous cheers from the great throng greeted the nominee’s announcement that Governor Smith is now the legally elected nominee ot the tj^rty, and as such he is the embodiment of the party and will have the undivided support of Mr. Gardner. The speaker admitted that he differed with Smith on prohibition, and that he would not attempt to restrict anyone’s right to cast his ballot as he wishes, but, as an out and out party man, he “could not follow wher^ others talked ot dividing the Democratic party.” Houghton Presented. John E. Brown, of Boone, chair man of the Democratic executive committee for the eighth district, opened the program by introducing Representative R. L. Doughten a-3 the man whom both Democrats and Republicans of the eighth dis trict want for their no#ct represen tative. Mr. Doughton then intro duced Mr. Gardner as the man best qualified to carry on the work of the recent progressive governors of North Carolina. He said Mr. Gardner was already elected in th» hearts of the people. Mr. Gardner then arose and told a story quoted from Governor Ay cock. “If you tell a pretty woman that she is pretty, it doesn’t please her much, because she knows it already. But if you tell an ugly woman she is pretty, then you make her really happy. After hearing Mr. Doughton's compli ments paid to me. I feel like the ugly woman who has been told she is pretty.” Mins His Audience. Mr. Gardner had the audience with him from the beginning, al though it was composed of both Republicans and Democrats. His fine voice, £lear enunciation and excellent stage appearance, aided by his keen wit, kept the atten tion of the crowd from start to finish. He began by contrasting the trip from Shelby to Boone yester day with the same trip in 1913, when, because of the muddy roads, it took two days and a half to make the trip. “It was the Demo cratic party,” he said, “that lifted Boone out of the mud by building our fine system of highways. No Republican ever thought of the mud of Boone when he was pro posing road laws, because the Re publicans never did anything to lift Boone out of the mud.” Reviews Accomplishments. He then reviewed in detail the accomplishments of the Democratic administration in building the high way system and making it self supporting through the automo bi!c and gasoline tax. Then he added: "This work is not finish ed. and under my administration it TURN TO 1»AGE 8, COLUMN 1 A.unt Roxie Opines By Me— “I bet either candydate would nuke a good janitor ‘cause dey lin make sich sweejiin’ atata uents.”