T Smithheld Tobacco Warehouses are selling tobacco as high or higher than any warehouse in the state. 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. 47TH YEAR SIX PAGES TODAY SOUTHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4. 1928 SIX PAGES TODAY NUMBER 2 "5 y Arthur Brishaae champion hoy and oiki — TOHI) VS. ROCKEFELLER— "HAT MADE STANDARD OIL MAN'S STRANGE nature— Old of the Livestock Show ac tivities in Chicago included judir in«c the healthiest buy and gir; in the United States. Thelma Svarstad, a South Da kota, girl, who won the female v hit nit ionsliip, is seventeen years ohl. ! nule, strony, w'eighs 12A pounds, is o feet 2 inches tall drink . plenty of milk, n0 tea m cofife. and expects to be a teach er. The hoy champion is William Tobias, of Michigan, fifteen years old, who weighs 120 pounds, is 5 feet 0 inches tall, likes boxing, admires' Jack Dempsey, also drink lots of milk. Milk dealers, please notice this in your advertisements. From a livestock—and many ^ other—points of view, these an. fine American children. But somewhere in America there is a little baby shivering in it> mother's arms, delicate, with a thin little body, a big head, wid< anxious eyes, that some day will do things the healthiest boy and girl will never do. Write that down for your com fort, if you have a •child that isn't so robust. Henry Ford's offhand statement. “No .successful hoy ever saved money,” was not meant literally. He meant that it was bitter to spend for information than merely to save a few dollars. Thomas A Edison, his intimate friend, “never had any money until he got so much that he couldn’t The other "world’s richest man," John D. Rockefeller, is surely a “successful boy," and did save money, lie advi.^es young and old to save now, as he hands each one a tcn-cent piece with a smile worth a good deal of money. Mr. Rockefeller will tell you, "Save money, not chiefly for the money you save, but because saving teaches self control, and that’s the beginning of wisdom." Ford lias high respect for John 1). Rockefeller. He said to this writer, “1 never saw John J). Rockefeller but once. Rut when 1 saw that face I knew what made Standard Oil." Strangle is the nature of man. In New York a young- man con fesses to strangling a fifteen year-old girl whom he loved. He says she wanted to kiss him. That is his excuse. .At Brunswick, (la., Walter Haw jins, in prison, saw his wife, whose complaint, had jailed him for wife heating. lie seized a carving knife, dashed from the prison, overtook his wife, slabbed her several times. IIis excuse is: “f loved my wife so that I woo'd lather see her dead than with somebody else.” It’s no sin to pet on Sunday, but the way some fellows do it is 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. .Ed Peterson failed to de cipher his name last issue. Today’* Tantalizer: lgena..al Five Year-Old Girl Has Bank Account Tuesday a visit to the First land Citizens National Hank found a little five-year-old curly-haired girl landing up in a chair be fore the teller's window watching Mi- - Vara Sanders count 384 pen ' nies which she had emptied out of her hank to make a deposit. This little miss was Irene Klizabeth (Johnson, the five-year-old daugh i ter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace John I son. She was taking a keen in j lerest in what has already become ?n annual custom of depositing the pennies from her bank. Site began saving her pennies in 192fi. ; Her bank account which however rs presents more than her penny hundred dollars. Teaching thrift to ti e young is a lesson they will not forget, Proceedings Of Recorder’s Court - -+ Onrt Not Held on New Years i Day; Number Cases Dis posed Of Wednesday anil Yesterday Tec nier’s court was m id \Yed jnesduy this week instead of Tues day which bein'*' New Year’? day wa a holiday. Judge Parker pre rd !. d and the following cases iWL-o disposed of: | State vs. Robert Lee, charged | with operating a car while intox j ica ,< <1. The defendant plead guilt;* and was lined S10 ami coot. A plea of nolo contendere was | enured by Charlie Richardson, colored, charged with larceny and ! he was sentenced to jail for i"1 day- to be worked on the road. | of John.-Lon county. lb Mi.tchiner, colored, was in court charged with carrying con cealed weapon. He was found I guilty and was sentenced to be day.-, on the roads. The road sen tence was suspended upon pay S mem of $‘>0 and cost. Arthur Stalling, charged with violating the prohibition law, was found guilty of possession for the purno.se id' sale ami was given a four months load sentence. Karl Starling, charged with vi olation of the prohibition laws was found guilty of possession a ml was lined and cost. W. K. Beasley and Carson Bare foot were found guilty of violat ing the prohibition laws and pray er for judgment was continued upon payment of one-half cost as to Barefoot, and one-half cost and $S'I line, as to Beasley.. James Fred Honeycutt- plead guilty on a charge of abandon ment a t,| non-support, and prayer ] tor judgment was continued upon Mia:, merit t f cost. Char lie Smith was found anil ity uf possession of whiskey and of t rar.'portat ion of liquor and was fined SI" and cost. Iastcr Worley was in court charged with obtaining a mar riage license by fraud. Prayer for judgment was continued upon payment of cost. Paul Webb was found guilty of possession and transportation and was fined 81" and cost. Walter Smith, colored, was found guilty of giving a worth less check and was sent to the roads for a period of -'»0 days. O. O. Nichols was found guilty of sample assault and prayer for judgment was continued upon tIn payment of cost. (irnham Lowler, Jasper P ink ley ami Lonnie Allen we: e in court, charged w!:h operating a car while intoxicated and with as sault. None were found guilty of updating car while intoxicated Fowler and Brinkley were found guilty of simple assault. Each \v*as taxed with $25 and half the cost. Allen was not found guilty of assault. Major Womack was in court charged with disposing of mort gaged crops. lie was found guilty and was sentenced to the roads for !'0 days. An appeal was taken Car.-' Belonging to G. T, Powell and Jos eph Sanders Stolen From Street? Attempt !s Made to Steal Do Soto Belonging to .1. l>. Herring Mar ly Thursday Morning A series of automobile thefts I taking place here within the past few days has caused local citizens, to wonder whose car will be next.' Sunday night the Dodge sedan of Mr. (I. T. Powell was missed about six o'clock, and a search was instituted at once. About 1 eleven o'clock it,was found parked by ihe rive)- near the new bridge over Ncuso river at the west side of t'iwn. It was thought from ' the amount of gasoline used that the the car had been driven sev enty-five or eighty miles. The1 car was aoandoned at the time it was found, but it did not ap- ; pear yo bo damaged. On Monday night the Bunk au tomobile of Mr. Joseph Sanders, of the Elizabeth section, was: stolen while parked in the street here at the home of Mrs. L. L. Turner. It was recovered la’o Monday night in a ditch by the j highway near Clayton. Appar nau run mi tin iy me Oliver direh and being unable to get it . our had abandoned it. The ear was only slightly damaged. Yesterday morning an attempt ; was made to steal the practically ; new DeSoto coach belonging to! Mr. John D. Herring. The car wn parked in front of the John- j Mi'ii apartment house and about I:■ Im o'clock in the morning three men were seen pushing it along : Second street toward Brooklyn. LTpon realizing that they had been seen the men fled, leaving the car in the street at the side of the apartment house. None of the thieves have been apprehended, but it is thought that the same persons are con nected with all the thefts. A CORRECTION So:ma, Jan. —Through an er ror last week it was stated that the Selma Parent-Teacher Asso ciation had sponsored the com munity Christmas tree. Instead it was tile Selma Woman’s cluh. Since the same earnest grotm of women work in both organizations, it was a very natural mistake to make. Selma Woman’s club has been extremely active in putting across a number of worth-while objectives and programs, their most recent being this community Ciiristmas tree. The president, .Mis. C. K. K«>rnegay, was assist ed by a group of helpers who sac i if iced much of their own limited time in order to make Selma’s first community tree the success it proved to he. We are glad to make this correction. CHII.l) KICKED P.Y Mi l E On Tuesday afternoon the lit tle four-year-old -on of Mr. and Mrs. James Capps while playing in the lot at his home near Micro was kicked by a mule and se verely injured. His jawbone was dislocated and several teeth were knocked down his throat. He. was brought to the hospital here and is now resting as comfortably as could be expected. TRAIN S( IlEIHLK CHANCED Mr. J. A. Campbell, agent at t!ie local A. C. E. station, an nounces a change in the schedule of train No. :J4 which will arrive at 7:12 a. m. instead of 7:32. This change has been in effect •free Sunday, Decent Ik r HO. to Superior court. Oeorge Leach was found guilty of violating the prohibition law and was lined $10 and costs. Two cases were disposed of yesterday. Charley Boykin was charged with an attempt to burn a house. Probable cause was found and the defendant was bound over to Superior court, under a $i)0O bond. Acquilla Natron was tried Ho cruelty to animals and found guilty. Prayer for judgment was continued upon payment of cost. Special Term Of Superior Court Altiil.ligh IiiiiUlMT/:! Is (;l]it \htad With Term To Open Jan 2S T ■ snu lai toi m of Johnston county Superior court ordered by the Governor to open here on January 28 to continue for two weeks for the trial of criminal cases, will lx held as .scheduled. At. tlie opening of lb corder's ecu:! yesterday, a discussion was lu Id by the Johnston County I’ar A-.sociath n a- to -whether to hold this term of court or not in vivw of the widespread prevalence of influenza. After some of the members of the bar had express ed their views, it war decided to . C|_ ili? calendar as arranged, and the calendar will he made today at 2 p. m., and other preparations for the court will go into effect. Judge W. A. Devin, of Oxford, will provide over the special term. Among the lawyers reported sick at this time are C< l. f\. S. Abell, J. A. We lions, James Ray and A. M. Noble. nor Has Narrow Escape From Passing Bullet Mrs. K. K. Whitehurst barc !;. escaped a serious accident home here. Mrs. Whitehurst Wednesday afternoon at Her Has standing' in her yard "hen a bullet from a pistol or rifle whizzed by. passing through her sweater near her hip. No one was within sigh*, but it was thought that the bullet came from the rifle of some child at play. Friends of Mrs. Whitehurst are glad that she was unharmed by tlx- occurrence. Death of Mrs. Brewer. Selma. .Ian. ■).—Mrs. Pherabc Bowena Brewer was horn in ■H.hns-ton county December 2~. lsh.7 and passed to her reward December 26, 1 'd-8 at the age of On March '2.1, 1 s7 7 she was m a tried to Mr. Monroe Brewer, who died several years ago. since that time Mrs. Brewer has lived with her children. She was with hi r daughter, M s. Wa«ie Brown, in '“Lima when the end came. Her health had been declining for several month u Two wevk beiore her death she had a light stroke, followed by pneumonia which at her advanced age and wiakened condition she could not survive. She was a devoted mem ber of the Primitive Bapti t church, having joined in October, HHti. A most esteemed friend and generous neighbor, she was a beautiful example of a true Chris - : ian. She is survived by the fol lowing children: Mrs. J. A. Wood ard. KnighUlale; Andrew Brewer, Brinccton; Herman Brewer, (iolds boro; Mrs. Wade Brown, Selma; Mrs. T. H. Fulghum, Wayne county, and Benny Brewer. I’ike v:ile. One brother, Mr. .lames Smith, ol Saratoga, al-o survives. She leaves a host of friends who mourn her going, but who look forward to seeing her again in the land where there are no farewells. Tne funeral .-orvico was conduct e-P is no exception. Already ir :.vcs are being made and the personnel of clerks is changing in. Smithheld. The Spiers building on the cor ner of Market and Third streets empty, the Abdulla Vinsor. Store company having removed on .January 1. it.- stock of merchan di-e to the Selma stole. It c< tie', known when the building will be occupied though it has already been leased by parties in Wagram. In the near future The Oaks St res, of Goldsboro, will open a •< her of their chain in Smith lieid. Mr. Lamm, of Goldsboro, was here Saturday and closed tii:* contract for leasing the store of Mr. K. I*. Lore on Market Work has already begun on the i\ building of this store and a soon as. it is completed, The Oaks Store, which is a department store, will open. This firm lias in on considering; coming to Smithfield for some time. The American Dollar Store illicit lost its .stock of goods in •i tire before Christmas, will n|'M n up again shortly in the building which has been occupied by the Home Pride Su-re. The H utu- Pride Store went into bank ruptcy about December 1. Among other change- taking place is. the sale of the Shamrock F Ming station which was owned by Messrs. Heath .Johnson and Janus Kirkman. The purchaser is Mr. U. K. Holt, who was formerly A few faces will be mis.-ed in some of the business places of this city during t ho coming months. Mr. F. C. Sweeney, who has been with the Farmers Hank and Trust company for a number j of years as cashier and who prior ' to taking this position was con ! m.vTc«l with the First and Citi j 7.c.’ National Dank, is leaving, it ■ i- understood, to return to Wil mington. hk native home. Mrs. C. \\ . Hone, who has also been with the Farmers Bank for sev 'c-ral years, will leave in alumt a week for Henderson, where Mr. Hone has a position. Miss Sarah Turlington, who has been with the Southern Chevroilet company, ha- accepted a position with the laid;. Her place with the South j ern Chevrolet company will he | filled by a young man from Flor ida. who has not yet arrived. Among those who are leaving tins t*ity to make their home else where is Mr. Carry F. Wood, fov ' mer solicitor of the Recorder's court. He left on January 1 for Benson, his old home, where he Missionary Talks In Selma Church Mrs. S. M. Enitkson of Ja p:in Addresses Methodist Sunday School; Services I'or Masons SELMA. Jan. 3.—The members of Kdgerton Memorial Methodist Sunday school were very fortu nate on Iasi Sumia> morning to have with them a returned mis sionary. Mrs. S. M. Erickson, who with her husband is spending a year’s furlough in i.he United States. Mrs. Erickson in a most inter esting manner told of the work she ami Dr. Erickson are doing in Japan, both are trained mission aries and have walked side by side in the foreign field for 23 Mrs. Erickson is a delightful speaker and held the closest at tention of her hearers as she told incident after incident, some ludi crous. some pathetic, all reveal ing her earnestness of purpose. •She is the author of two books. One wiirlen several years ago, “The White Fields of Japan”, was used by the Southern Presbyter ian church in mission study classes, and the other is. now in tile hands of the publishers. "While in Selma. Dr. and Mrs. Erickson and daughters were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Brief/. si-.i;' k i:s (> k \i \ si) .n s. The union service held at the Selma Baptist church Sunday eve ning for the Masons was largely attended and much enjoyed. Rev. P. M. Sharpe, of the Methodist church, read the Scripturo lesson. Dr. S. M. Erickson, a returned nvi? -h nary from Japan delivered the sermon using as his theme: "Spread the Light,” which was a m -i titling subject and applica 'hli to both Masons and mission aries. In the course of his re mark.-. Dr. Erickson touched on many interesting phases of his work in Japan. A special- feature of the serv ice was a cornet solo by I’rof. Harold M. Hel'ley. of Puke Uni versity, the piano accompaniment 1m ing played by Miss Uachel Cieech of Greensboro College. The benediction was pronounc ed by Rev. 1). K. Waddell, of the Presbyterian church. LEAVE 1 OK lOLLW.hh. A mnnlu-r of Selma's younger << \ -avi- leaving this week for iluir various fchuols ami colleges. They art: Geo. Davis Vick, Jr., to Georgia Military Academy; Harry Candler, West Point; Cronjo Karp, instructor in University of Xi-w York; Dr. Elmore Karp, in terne in Union Memorial Hos pital, Baltimore; John Daev Deans, Gordon Brown and Ralph Wood aid. Duke; Landis Brown. Caro lina; J. H. Brown, State College; Carr Whitley, doing post gradu ate work in chemistry -at John’s Hopkins lle-pital; W. B. Oliver. Jr., James Karp. So inn tie Grant, Ralph Talton, Wake Forest; Sam Hood, Campbell College; Mi.-ses Mary Evelyn Parker. Eunice Tem po and Thelma Ward, N. i < • W.; Hazel Blown. Mary Parker, M 07.0 lie Lee. to E. C. T. Francos Sharpe, Greensboro Col lege; Elizabeth Temple, Lime stone College, South Carolina. Those teaching this year are; Misses Marion Reynolds, at Ta bor; Velma Talton and Joe Tem ple, Benson; Rena King, Cary; Elizabeth Karp. Rocky Mount; Bertha Woodard, Ethel Corbett and Mildred Creech, Fine Level; John Morgan, Fayetteville. • A« a rule the fellow who-thinks lie’s the whole chee.-e generally smells like it. MRS. W. T. BAILED OF k KM. Y IS DEAD News reached this office late yesterday afternoon of the death of Mrs. W. T. Bailey of kenly. which look place yesterday morning. Mrs. Bailey was hurt in an auto mobile accident before Christ inas which finally caused her death. The funeral will he held today. has formed a law partnership with Mr. C. C. Canaday* Co. Commissioners m! More Offices — f j Gives Up Style Crown Mrs. P. Dubonnet, formtrlv Jean Nash, known a- the "best dressed, woman in the world,” has arrived from France declaring that she no longer cares to have that title. Out Home Agent IV.i's to Appropriate Salary; Third Time Home Demon stration Work In Johnston Has Heeti Discontinued Co Board Yesterday, Miss Minnie Lie Garrison, county home domonstra n agent for .Johnston, received a notice from tin* clerk of the hoard of county commissioners .stating that her salary would he j discontinued. Whether this means | immediately or after July 1. the end of the fiscal year, was not . Luted. , This is the third time that the ; home demonstration work in Johnston county has been discon ucd by the hoard of county j commissioners, once by a Demo | eratic board several years ago, oid a^ain in 1 by* the Repub : oean board. Kach time the mem ii.ors of the home demonstrtion 11 iuhis throughout the county raised -uch a "disturbance that the work ; v.vs kept up. Mi'S Garrison lias been the acmt for about eight years, hav ;g succeeded Miss Mamie Sue •bmes. who was the agent during 'war time-. Miss Garrison has lain a very efficient agent and o far as is known there is no criticism of her work. No reason has been assigned for discontinu ing *hc home demonstration work, but, in all probability the county board wishes to cut the county 'cv peruse that much. The county 1 appropriates only $U>10 for this work, the other expense being oorn by the federal government. The value of county extension \\\>ik has been proven] again and i again, and tiitir is plenty of tes jlunony to its maul effects here in Johnston county. F. 11. Jeter, .igi ictillural editor of North Caro | ana State College, discusses the ’• refits. of farm and home demon ; nation work in North Carolina j in the December ‘27 issue of tin I Manufacturer's Record. Many in I'dn stcn county will regret to see a backward step taken in dis emtinuing this work. Baptist Church Sunday. Sunday school d:-1 "> a. m., F. IT Brocks, superintendent. Preach* |ing by the pastor at 11 a. m. and 7 j). in. Subject in the morning: !“1 bought the Architect of Char acter," and in the evening, "What to Do With Our Past." These are [iw* new year sirmons which the congregation and the public are | specially invited to hear. Prayer meeting Wednesday at Tittle Mtn Form Association. In Pomona, Calif., 7b dwarfs ! met together to form the Small i Men's Association of America, {comprising only human beings ; less than four feet high, of which I they became charter members. | Midgets, little men who art* not, like dwarfs. \n some way stunt ed deformed, could become as : ooiato members. There was no reason for forming the associa tion except that the dwarfs wished to band themselves together.— I Time. Board Does Not Wish Proceedings of Meet ings Made Public But Transactions Leak Out Yesterday for the first time the Herald reporter was denied the minutes of the- proceedings of the commissioners’ meeting held here this week. Ever since the Repub 1.cans went into office there has been talk that they expected to make some cTianges in the salary schedule of the county officers in an effort to reduce expense. The public has been awaiting news of the expected changes and when it was known that the board of com missioners were in session here Friday of last week and again on Tuesday, this publication made nn effort to get official, authentic information concerning the pro ceedings of the board. The reporter was told Monday that nothing of importance trans pired at the meeting ktst. week, but information from other sources was that certain changes had been made in which the pub lic would be interested. Again IU1.V U I l: JJ I t Sv ,1 Idl I Vt‘ or THIS paper, according to a custom that has been followed for the past several years during both the Republican and Democratic admin istrations,'called upon the clerk to the board and asked to get a re port of the meeting. This request was denied with the explanation that the commissioners did not wish the proceedings, other than the postponement of the next meeting from Monday until Wed nesday. an(] the announcement of visiting days for the jail, made Just what business these coun ty officials transacted is of course nuf known but a few of their official acts began to leak out Wednesday. The county tax collector received an official no tice that the appropriation for his office in the future would be $250 per month instead of $250 per month, this cut notwithstanding the fact that this office must col lect the delinquent taxes in ad dition to those of the current year. The entire salary of the home demonstration agent was discontinued. The appropriation for the office of the clerk of the court was out $150 per month. To l’:t< * the ••nf ire sularv of his bookkeeper was omitted from the appropriation. The salaries of the clerk of the court at $300 per month, of the first deputy clerk at $150 per month, and of the peer ml deputy clerk at $100 per month were duly approved. In commenting upon the omis sion of the bookkeeper’s salary, Mr. Rose, clerk of the court, stated that the taking of the bookkeeper out of his office will be a .serious calamity. Between $20,000 and $25,000 is held as trust funds by the clerk of the court and this fund is subject to constant changes of one nature or another, and it takes one man’s time to keep an accurate record cf all the moneys of minors, jur ors, witnesses, and of fines and forfeitures. This cut in the personnel of the clerk’s office led to a little in vestigation as to what this county office is doing. Reference to the official budget approved by the county commissioners in July re veals that the estimated revenue for a year from the clerk’s of fice is placed at $12,750 with an estimated total expense of $9,550. As a matter of fact the collec tions in the clerk’s office from December 1, 1927 to December l, 1928 totaled $21,956.08. The ex pense of $700 per month, which would include a competent book keeper, does not seem to he out of proportion. This same budget shows that the estimated revenue from the sheriff is $2,000, and the cost of running this office is set down at $13,315. The register of deeds is supposed to collect about $7,8G0 with an estimated cost of runutng that office at $7,300. The new Re Tl UN TO PAGE 5, PLEA88