OUR SLOGAN: ‘Sell Johnston County Tobacco In Johnston” Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 18 82 Smithfield wants a hotel —But it also wants to es tablish a Livestock Sta tion Yard. 47TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER . SMITHFIELD, N. C.. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1929 SIX PAGES TODAY NUMBER 57 School Committee Answers Article Corinth-Holders Committee men Set Forth Reasons For Not Cutting Teachers Sal aries, ami Practicing (((her Economies ■A recent school election held in the Corinth-Holders district foiled to carry, and I,he length of term, as a result of the failure to carry will be reduced from eight months! to six months, and as a conse- ' quence, no high school cun i.e I maintained. An article signed by j voters in the district published in papers in the county suggested I tthat an eight, months' school might be maintained if teachers' salaries were cut and other cco nomies practiced. In answer to the article mentioned, the school committeemen of the Corinth Holders district give reasons wit the suggestions made would not be the best policy. 1 he committeemen, Messrs. D. R. Hocutt, C. W. Hocutt and J M. Davis, express their views as follows: “Sometime ago your paper, an 1 otiher papers, published an article concerning our school over the signatures of Messrs. Andrew Wise, and others, containing sug gestions as to how we, the com mitteemen, could better run th? Corinth-Holders school. We know that we cannot satisfy everybody, and we think that if some of those who are not satisfied had our places that they would bel ter understand things. “Their first suggestion was in reduce the salaries of the teaches to $75.00 per month. We could do this but what kind of to ache.-3 would we get? They would be what we used to call third grade teachers. None, of the other schools of the county employ such teachers and we feel that our children are just as good as the children in the other districts and ought to have just as good teachers. “We have employed no more teachers than the law gives us and we have employed these teachers at the state salary sche dule, except one with a supple ment of $30.00 per month. No other district in this county, not in the whole state, pays its teach ers less than the state salary schedule. Then how can we em ploy them at $75.00 per month and get as good teachers for our children as the other schoo's get? “Ten years ago we could got teachers for $75.00 to $100.00 per month, hut if you remember the sorry little schools we had, we do not believe you will blame us for getting better teachers .is we have done. Ten years ago, before we had consolidation our district ran the Hales, Emit, Cor inth, Sandy Springs, Poplar Springs and Holders schools. These schools had 400 children tendance of .‘525. They had n" high school students, but they paid $1020.00 above the state sal ary schedule for their teachers, while we paid only $240.00. “These six schools employed fif teen teachers to teach 325 pup:’ while w’e employ fifteen teachers to teach 402 puipils in our graded school. Last year 80 high school j pupils and 025 elementary pupils! were enrolled at our school. Tnis makes 705 pupils against 400 ten y<£ars ago. The average at tendance last year was 07 high school and 102 elementary, or a total of 520. The law gave us four high school teachers and fiftee i elementary teachers. You will stc (Turn to page four) Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith fielrl or Johnston County, and ;o the one deciphering their same and presenting a copy, of this paper to the Herald od’ice, we will present a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the following issue. Mrs. O. Bullock recognized her name last issue. TODAY’S TANTALIZER dirorkuntdeec H— The Kid and the Co{> 'Give them something to cat an the' ‘11 (cil you all they know," be heves “Dig Bill" Kelley, New Vor‘ policeman, who*s never without ■ goed;e to offer as first aid to a los and frightened child. Here he i restoring speech and memory to . fluid 1.-Y means of a delicious lolly pop. 'AVho says a New York coj hasn’t got a heart? Dr. Orr Speaks To Local BP&W Club Johnston County Hospital Theme of Talk Made At Luncheon Meeting Tues day; Miss Turlington I’ic sides Dr. W. J. B. Orr was f!v | speaker at the luncheon meeting | >f the Business and Professional i IVoman's clulb held in the base- i ment of the Methodist churcu Tuesday. Dr. Orr talked to the :lu!b at the invitation of Miss Ruth Wilson, group leader in :harge of the program, about the | Johnston County Hospital, an in- ] ■vtitution that is rendering untold service in this community. iln about three years time, a spot that was formerly a ‘weed Ejrown field has been transformed into a place of beauty as well as it place where physical ills are :reated. The handsome brick Incit ing in a setting of gras and trees infi shrubbery represents a money valuation of around $100,000, but its value to the community in taring for the sick cannot be es timated. Since the hospital was opened, about three years ago. Dr. Orr stated that up to and including July 8. 2677 patients have en tered the hospital for treatment. No patient has ever been turned j down. If the person was in dest:- j tute circumstances, some sort of arrangement has been made and . medical treatment provided. The i-ounty has taken care of 42 pa- j tients at a cost of approximately j $1."»00. These cases are known a charity cases and only the actual hospital expense is charged. Tii j attending physician or surgeon receives no fee whatever. The hospital now has a student' nursing force of seventeen nurses, ing in a setting of grass and trees uatc superintendent. A graduate nurse is also in charge of the operating room. The nursing school here has not only met the requirements of the State Nurses Association, out ll goes ueyunu those requirements. Instead of a minimum of two years in high school, the hospital here requires completion of high school before a student nurse will be accepted. I)r. Orr told the club of plans for the future of this institution and bespoke the cooperation of Ps members. The club furnished the nurses’ sitting room when the building was completed. During tihe luncheon the busi ness session of the club was held with Miss Sarah Turlington, pres id.ent, presiding. The minutes were read and the report of the treas urer given. It was decided t> sponsor a picture show at the o cal theatres in the near future in order to replenish the treasury. Mrs. T. J. Lassiter, chairman of. the Education Committee, a de ed for back numbers of maga zines to be sent to her at the Herald office, and these will oo distributed to those in the county who would like to have them to read. Since June 24 a total of | 108 magazines was reported to i have been given out to 22 per I sons calling for them at the Herald office. Mrs. C. C. Massey was a guest at this meeting of the club. Miss Mary Primrose Noble was la Raleigh visitor Wednesday. Burglars Enter | Four Oaks Store Q. Baker Loses Barn and Feedstuff By Fire; Lee f Jordon Wedding i'OUR OAKS, July 11.—Bur jglars entered the store of W. J. lewis on Friday night and stole three hundred dollars worth of merchandise. Most of the thing* stolen were ladies clothes and in cluded dresses, silk underwear, and about one hundred pairs of silk hose. The entrance to Oe store was made by breaking th: window glass over the side door on Railroad street. Mr. J. Q. Baker, who lives near town, had the misfortune to have his barn and feedtuff burned on Monday night. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is esti mated at around fifteen hundred dollars. Mary Lou Gordon, of SmithfieU, were married on Monday, July 1 in Rocky Mount. They will make their home here with M1:. Lee’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. L/ce. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Girbson, of Rocky Mount, spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Creech. Miss Lucile Stanley spent last week in McColl, S. C., with rel Miss Mary Cothran, of Ham let, is the guest of Mrs. Carl Miss Laura Belle Creech, of Norfolk, Va., arrived here Mon day to spend some time with rel Mr. and Mr. Leslie of Miami Fla., who have been visiting; rel atives in Norfolk. Va., spent sev eral hours here' Monday with friends en route to Fayetteville where they will spend some time. Mrs. W. C. Manning;, Jr., oi Williamston, is visiting her1 m ither. Mrs. Bettie Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Jody Massengill prhari:, state Sunday school worker, .« I holding a Sunday school revival | here at the Baptist church this J Mr. and Mrs. Herman Creech and children, of Tarhoro, spent 'Sunday here with relatives. Her man Creech Jr., is spending this .week with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. i Creech. ; Mrs. William Adams and • *n, Billy, of Chapel Hill, spent the j fourth here with Mr. and Mrs. j B. B. Adams. j Dr. and Mrs. J. II. Stanley spent several hours in Fayette - J ville Tuesday j iMr. and Mrs. R. A. Keen ha i , as their guests for the week end Mr. and Mrs. Files, of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Ward and [daughter, of Norfolk, and Mrs. B. E. Ward, of Kenly. I Mrs. R. A. Keen and mother, Mrs. Penny E. Boyette, spent Mo - day afternoon in Kenly with Mrs. J. P. Eagle. Spanish Flyers lop to bottom, Major Ramoi Franco, Major Ruiz tie Alda an< Senor Madariago, expert Spanisl mechanic, who were reported lost They started in a hydroplane fron Cartagena, Spain to journey by ai to the Unitefl Mates. Co. Commissioner Ask Conference Write Letters To Committee men Inviting Them To A Meeting Here Today; Cot ton Weigher Appointed for Henson The county commissioners spent another day Monday pouring tr the school budget trying to con trive means of reducing the school tax. but adjournment came with having found a solution to this difficult problem. The commis sioners are faced with a low* r property valuation, according to report, which means ihat the rate will have to be higher unless expenses o'f -county government can be reduced. Before the com missioners adjourned Monday, they decided to invite the school committeemen all over the county to meet with the board of com missioners here today (Friday; with the hope that these im*n can render some assistance as u the school budget. Letters have been sent to each committeeman. In order that current expense? may be paid while the appropria tions are under consideration, the following resolution was adopt-d at the meeting Monday: “Ordered that under authority of Chapter 14b Public local law.; 11*27, Section 14, that the auditor Ul U Oil 11SUI11 1011111) urer of Johnston county be au thorized to approve and pay cur rent- expenses in the several 1 -• partments of county government pending the making of the annual appropriation as authorized in said law, and further* that said ex penditures authorized above be charged against the final appro priations for the several depar merits of the county when sad i appropriations are made for t current year.” The town board of Benson met with the county commissioners f<-r a brief session Monday and . «■ leeted a cotton weigher for tho town of Benson. There were thru i candidates as follows: J. H. Job son, J. K. Boyette and Mac Ba hour. After a secret ballot, was found that Mac Barbour ha I received the highest number votes and he w^s declared to i the cotton weigher of Benson f< a term of two years. I The school election held al j Princeton recently was canvasse and declared carried. | Dr. J. W. Hose and Dr. D. J j Rose of Goldsboro, were in th. I city Thursday the guests of thei. brother, Mr. Kirby Rose. Dr. J W. Rose has recently complete' i his medical course at Tulane Un’ , versity, New Orleans, La., and has j located at Goldsboro. Regular Session Recorder’s Court Many Criminal Cases Tried \ On Tuesday and Wednes day of This Week Recorder’s court was in session Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and the following: cnminal cases were disposed of: Anderson Wood was lined 310 and taxed with the cost for pos session and transportation. Carson Canos was sentenced to i the county roads for four months for assault with deadly weapon. The sentence was suspended upon ithe payment of $10 and the co*t Mack McLamib was fined $25 for possession and transportation of cider and for being: public'y drunk and disorderly. He was also taxed with the cost. Walter Young;, charged with Judgment ni si sci fa. Hally I). Tart, charged wi h assault with deadly weapon, was found guilty of simple assault. Prayer for judgment was contin ued upon the payment of the cost. Lastus Tart received a six month road sentence for assault with deadly weapon. The sentence is to be suspended upon the pay ment of a $25 fine and $25 to the prosecuting witness for doc'- | tor’s bill. He was also taxed with j the cost. \V. W. Me La mb was in court charged with operating a car in a reckless manner and operating car without proper license plates. Nut guilty. * Edward Byrd was found gui’ty cf possesion. Prayer for judgment was continued ufion the payment of the cost. 1). B. I^ee was found guilty of possession and prayer for judg ment was continued upon the payment of the cost. Gaston Everett was found guil ty of larceny in the value of less, than $20 and was sentenced to the roads for six months. He is to bo discharged at the end of 00 days provided the cost is paid. C. R. Dodd was convicted of giving worthless check. Prayer for judgment was continued upon the payment of the cost. Golden Parker entered a plea of guilty to giving worthless check and prayer for judgment was continued upon the payment of the cost. J. F. Powell who was charged with careless and reckless driv ing was not convicted. Golden Parker was in court charged with careless and reck less driving, assault with auto mobile, and operating car wh;1e intoxicated. He was not convict ed of operating while intoxicated but was found guilty of careless 'and reckless driving and of as sault with automobile. Prayer for [judgment was continued for two | years during good behavior and | the car of J. F. Powell. He may be brought forward for judgment | at any time. Kdwin Batten was found guilty , of possession and transportation of eight gallons. He was sen tenced to the roads for HO days, to be discharged at the end of '10 days if the cost is paid. He gave notice of appeal and his bon 1 was fixed at $200. Dewey Staneil was sentenced to the roads for 00 days for pos session and transportation. Tne sentence is to be suspended upon the payment of a $10 fine and the cost. Harry Bridgers was convicted of assault. Prayer for judgment was continued upon the payment of the cost. Walter Young was found guilty | of the larceny of chickens in the I value of less than $20. He receiv I ed a six months road sentence but is to be discharged at the end of 00 days provided the cost Miss Garrison Has Returned Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, the i county home demonstration agent, returned to Smithfield Wednesday .from Rock Hill, S. O., where she . was called several weel>s ago on I account of the serious illness of her mother, who died Monday, [July 1. S. S. Revival In 17 Baptist Churches Movement Will Climax In A Mass Meeting To Be Held Here Sunday At 3 P. M. -' *,« The Sunday school revival be- j pun last Sunday in seventeen of the churches of the Johnston as-1 sociation has been gaining in mo- 1 mentum every day during he ' week. It will reach its climax next Sunday afternoon in a great mass meeting to be held at 3 p. m . in the Smithfield Baptist chtirch, when it is confidently expected that the attendance will pack the buildings to its capacity. Every ilay the workers from the seven teen churches have been meeting at 10 a. m. in the Smithfield church, and the attendance has been remarkable considering the heat and the busy season for the farmers over the county. The j churches has been 20 or 30, a mi the house has been well filled, with the attendance increasing i flaily. At these morning meetings the leaders have made the most j enthusiastic reports of the attend- j ance and increasing interest the j night before in the several churches. This Sunday school revival, as it is called, is under the auspices of the executive committee of the Johnston association, the Johnston Baptist Sunday School Association and the Sunday School Department of the Baptist State Convention, headed by its state secretary, Berry Morgan of Raleigh. Some twenty Sunday school specialists under the direction of Mr. Mor gan are leading the churches in the revival, which aims at en largement and training in Sunday , school work. It began last Sunday afternoon in the seventeen churches taking part, when per haps an average of twenty work ers from each of the churches went out and took a complete re ligious census in the territory cov ered by each church. It aimed to discover for each Sunday scho/. the number of possibilities for en larging the school, and the num jer of unconverted in the con stituency above nine years of age. and to supply the number of of ficers and teachers at present in each school, its present enroll ment, the average attendance last quarter, the attendance last eur ly, and the aim set for attend ance next Sunday. Each night one or more train ing courses are being conducted in each church by the director the hook, “Building a Standard Sunday School,” being used in a:i the churches. At the mo*-mng meeting in Smithfieid each direc tor reports daily the number in attendance the night before, and the attendance has been steadily increasing during the week, the aggregate attendance for the 17 enurcnes oy me miuuie ut .nc week mounting to six or seven hundred each evening. The meet ings will continue Saturday as on other days. Sunday morning in each church the director will un dertake to help the church com pletely to grade and re-organize the Sunday school. This will re quire a large number of new of ficers and teachers in each school, judging from the great number of new possibilities revealed by th^ census as reported by each church. Keen interest is being focussed on the mass meeting Sunday aft ernoon, some of the schools prom ising to attend in a body. Kev. Chas. Howard of Louisiburg, State B. Y. 1*. U. president, will be the chief speaker. He is a young man of remarkable force. All the pas tors of the association are to have seats on the platform together with Perry Morgan of Rale:gh, State secretary of Sunday school work, and C. A. Jacobs of Selma, president of the Johnston Sund ty School Association. The churches taking part in the Sunday school revival together with the directors for the Severn! churches are as follows: Clydes I Chapel, wiith Miss Ruth Scott, of | Greensboro; Wilson’s Mills, Miss Ruth Presslar, of Wingate; PL gah, Miss Louise McDaniel, of Elizabeth City; Clayton, L. T.. (TURN TO PAGE THREE) Mr».' Jfrtie . Wooftrow ?a/re oi ^Boston, Mass., daughter oi the lati President Woodrow Wilson, who it u reported will soon be ‘unnchr.i’ as I eaadid»te for United States Senator Farm Tour Thru j Eastern Counties J. B. Slack, County Farm | Agent, Arranges Three Day, Tour For Johnston County , Farmers; Schedule of Tour! At a recent meeting of they County Agricultural Advisory Hoard it was decided to arrange a farm tour through some of th3l eastern counties of the state. ^ schedule has been worked out fo: this tour and is given below. Any farmer in the county who desires j to make this trip may do so. | T he actual expenses on the trip j should not he but a few dollars, j and the trip as arranged will oe well worth the time and cost for ; any one who decides to go. Vari ous types or livestock farming. : including hog feeding, dairying, especially permanent pastures, and j poultry work will be studied on! this trip, with a visit to the Wil- ; lard Experiment Farm also. Any 1 one desiring to make this trip should communicate with J. B Slack, county agent, Smithfield. N\ C., at once. First Day. Ix.-ave Smithfield morning of July 29. Visit poultry plant at Golds Goldsboro to Lenoir county. Visit farms in I>enoir county with C. M. Brickhouse, county agent. Arrive Craven county line 2:30 p. m. Met by C. B. Farris, county agent. Visit farms in Craven county. Guests of Craven county farmers club at their regular monthly meeting and supper Monday night. Mr. Farris has given us a very cordial invitation to be at this supper which will he in the order of a fish fry given at Grantham’s farm on the banks of the Neuse river where we can go swimming if we like. Spend Monday night in New Bern. second Day. Look over Craven county far mers Mutual Exchange. Go to Jones county. Visit farms there with county agent J. T. Monroe. Jones county to Duplin county. Visit farms with L. L. McLen don, county agent. Go over Willard Experiment Spend Tuesday night either in Wallace or Wilmington. Third Day. Visit farms in Pender coun';y with W. H. Robbins. | Visit Castle Haynes Colony and jlnvershield Stock Farm. | Return home Wednesday after j noon, July 31. I FALLS FROM HAMBY BREAD TRICK; INJURES BACK Mr. I. M. Willis, driver of the! Hamby bread truck from Raleigh, fell from his truck while making bread deliveries here Wednesday morning, and painfully bruise! hiu back. He was taken to the John ston County Hospital. H j was reported yesterday to be very much improved. CEMETERY DUES ARE NEEDED AT ONCE Mrs. S. T. Honeycutt, treas urer of the cemetery committee of the Woman’s club, urges all who are in arrears with their cemt itery dues to make payment at ■ once. Funds are needed in order 'that the work may be continued. Io Form Board Of Trade Here Kiwanians Hear J. H. Ahell Tell of the Results of Ad vertising Smithfield Tobac co Market; Also Hear Dix on Wallace At the suggestion of the direc tors of the Kiwanis clu!b a Boaid >f Trade is in the process of be ng fornted. This organization is to be composed of the business men of the city in order that tbs business interests of the city may be touched; for the purpose oi* handling any matters that corr.o up, but its current objective is ti increase the sales of tobacco c~ the local markets over that of any previous year. At the Kiwanis luncheoii yes ternay a review .01 last year s ei forts to build a larger tobacro market was made by J. H. Abel’., treasurer of the Citizens Organi zation which last year raised two thousand dollars for the benefit rf Smithfield’s market. Mr. Abell showed that the money raised and expended by the town brought big returns; that over a million pounds more of tobacco was sold on the local market than the previous year, in the face of a short crop; that other small markets dwindl ed, and that the biggest thing that Smith field can do f°r ids to bacco market is to keep the ball rolling to retain the local mar ket. It was learned that the ten* dency was to recfcice the number of markets in this belt. In If'.'?:* the Bright Leaf Belt had 4$ markets, while last year this number had dwindled to 22. Dixon Wallace, a prominent to bacconist on the Wilson market for twelve years, but who will b?. with the local market this season, declared that without a doubt the Smithfield market paid as much for tobacco as did Wilson, and in many instances paid a higher price. He described the “block sales” which Wilson market ii forced to make on account of be ng overloaded; that on all sucl occasions the farmers, after banging around for two or three days, were compelled to so^i through such a “block sale” for n price smaller than the Smith field market could have paid. Perfection of a permanent or ganization for the city with no lues and no luncheons, to be inown as a Board of Tjaftfc com wmed of business men and ciri zens of the city and community is in the process of organization The following committee from tho Kiwanis club is working toward this end: R. P. Holding, chair man, Dr. W. J. B. Orr, Georgs Ragsdale, William Sanders, S. Stanley Mitchell, T. C. Young. Morman Shepard, W. N. Holt, Adam Whitley, Jr. Coates Family Reunion. A family reunion will be hell at the home of Rufus A. Coates in Elevation township on Friday, July 19. All relatives and friend* are cordially invited to attend and ■arty baskets. Guests are invited :o be present at ten o’clock. A sermon will be preached at eleve 1 and dinner will be served at twelve. At two in the afternoon a :hoir will sing:. A sermon will probably be preached in the aft* ;moon. Aunt.Roxie Opines By Me— “Deys a lot sod Hout mistakes uv prohibishun and ‘ole oa*u lirker is de cause uv it all’.”