If You Want Results The difference between the Or dinary and the Extraordinary is only a few cents. Your Adver tising deserves to bring Results. Try the Herald columns. For Smithfield “One thing at a time and that done well Is a very good rule as man can tell.” In ’29 let’s concentrate On a hotel, new and up-to-date. SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORN IN G. MARCH 26, 1929 47TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER EIGHT PAGES TODAY NUMBER 26 Other Parts of County Also Visited By Ter rible Wind Storm; Meadow School Suf fers Perhaps the Biggest Loss The severe wind and rain storm which visited Johnstoi; county Saturday afternoon about two o’clock, assumed the proportions of a tornado in certain sections of the county, peihaps the severest damage having- occurred at Pea cock's Cross Roads in Meadow township. Not in many years has this section experienced suc'h ter rific wind. rsews reached .Smithneld .short ly after the storm of the wreck age at Peacock’s Cross Roads, when one of the young ladv* teachers of the Meadow school telephoned the office of the county superintendent from Benson. All telephone lines at the cross roads were out of commission but the young lady caught a ride to Ben son. in an effort to communicate with Mr. A. G. Glenn, principal of the Meadow consolidated school, who had loft for Smith field shortly before the storm. The Meadow school had been partly unroofed, and the water tank had blown over and was a total wreck. The garage at the teadherage was demolished though an automobile which was in the garage escaped any damage what ever. The porch to the little two room dwelling occupied by the negro janitor of the school was torn away by the wind. This constituted the damage to school property in that vicinity, though the loss will probably be around two thousand dollars. The \v a te tanic was the greatest loss to the school. Volunteers in the community, by night, had a tem porary roof on the uncovered area which measured about 45 feet in length and from 12 to 30 feet in width. Added to the school damage was the wreckage of two stores and a garage, damage to several dwellings and Trinity Baptist dhurch at the cross roads which will require several hundred dol lars to repair. Mr. E. A. Tart, who owned one of the stores, moved his stock of goods as soon as possible to a store building across the road which was not damaged at all. An uprooted tree fell against the residence of Mr. Tart, a short, distance from his store, and crushed the roof on one side. Mrs. Tart and her young baby were in the room. Mrs. Tart later in tthe afternoon was moved to the home of relatives several miles away. A. E. Lee was torn in splinters. About 35 tons of guano were left uncovered. The wind carried the weather-boarding: and tin roofing: with such force that the church prove across tin* road was literal ly covered with debris. The flying timbers were swept over the store in front of the demolished build ings, this store being apparently unharmed. Great pieces of tin roofing were left dangling in the oak trees that were not uprooted by the terrific wind. A piece of two-by-six scant iing hit the side of Trinity Bap tist church, several hundred yards away, witlh such force that it pierced a hole about three-quar ters of a yard in diameter in the center of the side of the structure. A piece of the scant ling was left in the hole. Every window on the south side of the church was torn out, and the floor of tihe church auditorium TURN TO PAGE 4 Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell {he name of a person in Smith field or Johnston County, *and to the one deciphering their flame and presenting a copy of this paper to the Herald office, we will present a free ticket to the Victory Theatre, Tickets must be called for before the following issue. ,Mrs. A. (». Johnson recog nized her name last issue. TODAY’S TANTALIZER murpfiallyhywe Union Meeting At Carter’s Chapel I.idle iliver Baptist I’nion To lie Held March ;i0 and .'51 ; (Jood Pro,"ram Arranged The Little River Baptist Union will be held with Carter's Chapel Baptist church on March 30 and 3d. Mr. J. M. Richardson is mod erator of this organization, while Mr. J. R. Atkinson is the clerk. The following program has been Saturday Morning. 10: c;o 1 devotional Services by Jesse B. Creech. 10:1.*) Welcome Address by Mil lard Johnson. 10:25 Roll Call. 10:30 Reading of previous Min 10:10 Business of Union. 11:00 Sermon by Rev. L. 1*1. Godwin. 12:00 Announcements by Rev. A. It. Creech. Saturday Afternoon. 1:00 Devotional Service by R. G. Xarron. 1:15 Cooperative Program by F. H. Brooks. 2:00 Report of W. M. U. Meet ing, at High Point by Mrs. Gar field Biown. 2:20 Miscellaneous. 2:10 Adjournment. Sunday Morning. 10:00 Sunday School. 11:00 The Message of Easter by Rev. R. I.. Shirley. 12:00 Announcements by Rev. A. R. Creech. 1:00 Devotional Service by D. C. Smith. 1:15 The Challenge of the Church by Rev. E. G. Holland. 2:00 Closing Address by M;l lard Johnson. 2:30 Report of commitec for next Union. 2:40 Miscellaneous. 3:00 Adjournment. freight car of A. C. L. BROKEN OPEN FK1D.U A freight car on the A. C. I.. aiding here was broken into 1* ri day night and certain merchandise 1 was found missing. Two or three dozen straw hats, some shoes, and toilet goods were among the arti do.s found missing. Railway de tectives were notified and enough | evidence was found against L. Smith and Bernice Narron to jus tify their arrest. Empty boxes ^ and one pair of shoes were found in ’he woods across the railroad. Sunday morning Chief C. R. I able and Deputy K. A. Johnson were | called to the Sunday school build ing at the lvanlhoe cotton mill where they took charge of a num ber of straw hats which had been c*i ncoaled near the building. <;j-;T STILL .11 ST ACROSS RAILROAD. NEAR MILL Thursday about two p. m., Dep- j uties J. O. Hinton and F. A. John son discovered a copper distilling outfit in the home of Hen’y. Kason, colored, just across the railroad near the old cotton mid site. Five quarts of liquor, some i jars, and barrels that had con tained beer were also found, houi^ men were arrested following this j ! find, namely: Henry Eason, M ul ler Smith, and B( h Parker, all colored, and Ralph Johns >n, white J man. Johnson and Smith are out under bond, but Eason and Parker are in jail awaiting trial in Rc I corcier’s court today. S(. Paul's Episcopal Church. Good Friday service will be held I in St. Paul’s church Friday nioni jing at 10:.‘»0. Rev. Duncan Thomas j will conduct the service. The pub < lie is cordially invited. j Mr. and .Mrs. Frederick Brooks, I of Greensboro, were in the city for the week end. deral >le ’s X Hoads k — - - i Makes 22-Hour Flight ... lxmise Me f*hct ridge, holder of {he airplane altitude record for wo men, Iras now set^a new woman’s endurance flight record of 22 hours, 3 minutes and 12 seconds at Oakland, Cal., bettering the pre dons record bv nearly five hours. Another Cotton Essay Contest Pupils In Johnston Count' Schools IrgecI To Enter Contest Which Will He Be tween April to and May 1 The North Carolina Cotton ! Growers’ Association will conduct another essay contest this year, according: to John A. Smith, the field representative for Johnston county. This is the second year j ef the contest and thousands of j high school boys and girls of the j slate are expected to compete for j i-i.zls. "Cooperative Organ-, — Isiauuardizing and Mer- j char.disiiig" is the subject of :hc essays, and the following prizes j will be offered: first, $3b in cash; ! second. $25; third, $15; fourth. $10. Cash prizes arid medals will also be offered by the American ' Cotton Crowes' Exchange in the I national contest. Each of the four winners in the state contest will receive a free trip to Raleigh, where the essays will he spoken and one of the four state winners will be declared the champion and be awarded the free trip to the national contest. Mr. Smith states that quite a number of prizes will he given those taking part in the contes; in Johnston county, these prizes being donated by business j men of the county. ill Johnston county are urged to enter this contest which will he held between April 15 and May 1. It will he re me in.be rod that last year .Mis.- Hamilton of the Prime ton school won the highest prize offered in Johnston county while I Miss Kuth Brown of Anson coun-: ty warn the state championship. | Anyone interested in this con-! test- can secure any information: in regard to it from John A. Smith, Smithfield, or M. (I. Mann,; diiector of field service, Raleigh, j MOTHER MRS. V. V. HINTKR i PASSES AWAY IN HOSPITAL] RALEIGH. March 2:;. -Funeral services for Mrs. C. E. Perry, l who died Wednesday night at | Mary Elizabeth Hospital. were held Thursday afternoon at three o’clock at the family burying ground near Archer Lodge in Johnston county. Mrs. Perry, whose maiden name was Selia Hawkins, was born October, 1ST*), in Johnston county. She was married to W. R. Car roll in 1 HIM. She survived by four children by the marriage. They are: Mrs. V. Y. Hunter, of Smithfield, Mrs. \V. S. Johnson, Silas Carroll and Glenn Carroll, of Raleigh. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Carroll in PJ12 was married to Mr. Perry, who sur vives her also one sister ana two brothers. The pail bearers were the Brothers rk and for the last year of his life he has been altogether inca pacitated. Mr. Langston was about sev enty years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by many relatives here in Johnston countv who will recall him as a boy and a young man. All during his life as a minister in Georgia he has always kept in close touch with his home-folks and has frequently visited them. He is an uncle of Mrs. Alice Hood and Mr. II. V. Rose and Mrs. J. K. Lassiter, of Smithfield; and he is survived by a wif religious services during the en days mentioned. There is no worthy organization in the community that does not recog nize that the highest service ren dered to the community is that rendered by the churches, and that a series of revival meetings i'f a high type is a distinct con tribution to the welfare of the entire community in all phases of its life. This being .so. I can bid confidently for the cooperation of all organizations and groups in the community in promoting the success of the meetings we are announcing. “I confidently commend Dr. Ball in advance as one who will render the highest service to our entire community. He is one of the most highly honored of south ern Baptist pastors, sane, conser vative, refined in thought anti ex pression, a gentleman who will not offend against the finer sen sibilities of others, a man who loves the sinner and winsomelv preaches a great gospel to save him from sin, a man whose deoo consecration makes one feel it is great to be good. Those who do not plan to hear him with some regularity will miss much. He is pastor of a great church, and is highly honored over the south as one of its noblest ministers. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Bap TLRN TO PACE FIVE FIRST HOG SHIPMENT FROM SMITH FI ELD The first shipment, of hops from Smithfield and the sec ond from Johnston county in carjoad lots will take place here today. Mr. .1. B. Slack, tri-county agent, has arrang ed for two cars to he loaded cd here and he will accompany them to Richmond to consum ale the sale. Among those who will have hops in the shipment are: .1. A. Smith, G. B. Smith, H. T. Smith, and J. P. Parker. All of these men are members of the North Carolina Cotton Growers’ as sociation. Others besides these may have hops in this ship Meet To Discuss Co. Farm Census Group Johnston County Farmers Hold Round Table Discussion Advantages and Disadvantages Croup Re ports In General Several farmers and represen tatives of Johnston county held a round-table discussion in the. courthouse on Monday morning pertaining to the advantages and disadvantages of official crop re ports in general, and the county farm census in particular. They were unanimous in the opinion that these reports are decidedly advantageous to the farming in terests. ami that the cost is in significant in proportion to the benefits available to the farmers. The chief reasons advanced against the farm census reports are the following: (1) Unreliable; (2) expensive; (3) for taxation purposes; (-1) for speculators; (5) guess work; ((>) interferes with tax-listing. These were clarified satisfactorily. It was definitely shown that the results are entirely reliable so far as trends are concerned in those counties where the law is com plied with. The expense is just what the commissioners make it, but thus far no extra compensa tion has been provided. Being limited to acreages without val-1 ucs that cannot be taxable. Spec- ( ulators can make no use of acre age data alone, and besides this, informtion is not published until after the harvest season. It i> not guess work inasmuch j as the growers themselves are1 She ones who furnish the infor-! mation. No one can provide more dependable acreage facts. The J provisions of the farm census law are such that these farm reports] need not materially interfere with the tax listing excepting on Sat urdays and the extra cost at that time nwii not no more man me extra services, of a high school! girl or boy during rush hours. it is not absolutely necessary for each township to bo reported! completely inasmuch as this in- j formation is secured on a “sam ple” basis. The cost is the low- ' est possible method, the tax list ing machinery already being pro vide*!. This information has the • inventory basis and serves largely in ' that capacity as a county information source. li was brought, out in the round table discussions the chief short coming of our farmers today is* that they are not doing enough inilni.lunl thinking. The govern-1 ment provides, many types of valuable information available: which might safeguard future plantings and marketings. In other words, with more study the farmer’s idea of supplying de mand could be clarified anil re mit in more profit from his op erations. 'Phe big purpose of this confer ence to which the county com-! missionesr and officers as well as leading farmers were invited was to clarify the purposes and uses of crop reporting work. Those in the conference yester day included W. V. Blackman, of Benson, route 2; M. (\ Hooks, Clayton, route d; Representative H. F. Hutchins, of Selma; K. G. Holland, of Kenly; J. B. Slack, tri-county agent, Benson; J. W. Stephenson and ,J. A. Smith, of this city; and Frank Parker, State Statistician, of Raleigh District Meeting Baptist W. M. U. Fourth District Meeting \V. M. U. of Johnston Asso'ria.* tion Will Be Held With Mt, Mitchell Church Sun:1, y March 31 CLAYTON, March 21, -Ths fourth district meeting: of th6 Woman’s Missionary Union of the Johnston Association will he held with Mount Moriah church on Sunday, March 31 at three o'clock. The churches comprising; this dis trict are New Bethel, Mount Mo riah, Clydes Chapel, White Oak. Bethesda, Baptist Center, Shiloh and Clayton. It is earnestly hoped that ail the women in so far as possible from each of these churches will attend this meeting1. Our study for the afternoon is “The Stewardship of Life." Hymn, I Am Thine, 0 L rd. Devotional, God’s Ownership: Our Stewardship, Mrs. C. M. Thomas. Influence and the rower ol Per sonality, Mr?. J. W. Smith. Talents, The Value of Time, Mrs. Hugh Hardee. Have You a Plan For Your Life?”. Mrs. R. F. Hall. Prayer, that our lives may he great through devotion to a great cause, Mrs. B. A. Hocutt. In addition to the prepan i pro gram, Mrs. Ira E. D. Andrew*, chairman of the district. »v;u- . that every woman in the fourth district will make some study of this vital subject before attending this meeting so that the little while together may mean the most possible for bringing in the kingdom in Johnston Association. BEAR TURNS OUT TO BE STILL It recently became noised abroad in Ingrams township that a bear was loose in the woods near Stone’s Creek in Ingrams township. Sunday. Messrs. Bud Massengill. Clthr lie Barefoot and others de cided to hunt for the hear and took their dogs along t•> help round up the wild nn - mal. About eleven o’clock they rounded up a forty-gal lon copper whiskey still Deputy Walter E. King of Ingrams, was notified and the outfit was confiscated. Thr still was not in operation, and no beer nor whiskey was in evidence. ANOTHER POULTRY CAR SATURDAY, SflTH. The eighth poultry car for this season will be loaded at the Southern Railway freight -station next Saturday, March 30 at Selma. The prices are the sane is were paid last Saturday with the exception of Leghorn hem and chicks which have advanced from 23 cents per pound to 21 cents per pound. The poultry car will open for business at 8:30 a. m., and close at 3:30 p. m. The following cash prices will be paid next Saturday. March 30: Colored hens and chicks, 20 e; nts per pound; Leghorn hens rrrl .•hicks. 24 cents per pound; broil ers, 32 cents per pound; capons and young turkeys. 28 cent? per pound; roosters, 14 cents per pound; ducks, 18 cents per pound; geese. 13 cents per pound; old toms, 20 cents per pound; guin eas, 35 cents each. MR. BIRC.ESS ACCEPTS POSITION WITH SAM WOOD Mr. Ralph Burgess of Benson, has accepted a position with Mr. Sam Wood of Selma, as manager of his ice and coal interests in Smithfield, and of hi.s ginning in terests at Benson. His duties will also include the engineering work of twenty-six cotton gins scatter ed throughout this territory. Mr. Burgess has held a p'’* sition with the Murray Gin com pany of Atlanta, Ga., for twenty three years, an evidence that ax an engineer and salesman his services were satisfactory. Mr Burgess wifi continue for the present to make hi- home in Benson, though he is consider ing moving to Smithfield later.