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Thirty scholarships to Johns Hop
kins University, known as "Hopkins
Scholarships", are available to stud
ents in North Carolina, Virginia and
Maryland, according to an announce
ment from the offices of the Depart
ment of Education.
?To stand trial for an alleged mur
der committed forty-four years ago,
J. B. Kemp went to Lumberton Mon
day to appear in superior court He
is charged with having killed a Red
Springs man in 1878. He gave up to
the authorities some time last fall,
while living in Florida.
The 421st company *i the North
Carolina National Guard was recent
ly sent to Whiteville to maintain
order during the trial of Bob Wil
liams, a negro, who was sentenced to
be electrocuted for killing an offleer.
The troops maintained perfect order
during the trial.
In the South, North Carolina is far
ahead in agricultural education and
. in the Union only one State, Indiana,
holds a higher rank, according to Roy
H. Thomas, state supervisor of agri
cultural education, in an article he
has prepared for a national publica
tion.
Former Governor Locke Craig, who
is just now recuperating from the
effects of a serious operation, issued
a public statement Monday, in whieh
he defended Governor Morrison in his
controversy with A. J. Maxwell. Mr.
Craig says: "It looks to me as if the
opposition to Governor Morrison's
legislative program is largely gener
ated by personal antagonism and
enmity."
Jeff Powell, 61 years old, ended a
thirty year feud with his brother, 78
years old and a Confederate veteran
Monday, morning, when he pumped
his brother's body full of bullets, as
they quarreled in the road between
their houses at Gamer.
Dock Thurston, representative
from Johnston County, at a general
mass meeting held at Smithfleld Mon
day sought to get approval of his
proposed legislation to abolish the
office of welfare officer, home and
farm demonstration agents. Only two
persons out of a crowded courthouse
appreciated the course he was tak
ing. ' -r :
Under the direction of solicitor
Evans of the seventh Judicial district
fifteen alleged bootleggers "the high
er-ups" have been arrested and plac
ed under heavy bonds during the last
week. Raids were staged in several
sections of Wake County and in the
city of Raleigh. Judge B. H. Crea
mer issued bench warrants for the
entire bunch.
More than ?.100,000 pound* of
butter were mad* in North CueUu
during last year, according to th* De
partment of Animal Husbandry and
Dairying at Stat* OaUago. The report
also pointed out the great develop
ment of the ice cream and cheoae
industries in the State.
Tuesday is the ftrst birthday of the
North Carolina Cotton Growoia' Co
operative Association. One year
ago this week, this association with a
membership of ?4,000 growers was
launched by securing a eharter from
th* Secretary of State.
According to re porta avaBable to
dotttolThoehmmta^to l,17B^r
sons who loot everything in the fire
in December, 143 families perma
partially rehabilitated. The work of
relief is still going ofcx* smoothly
snd Now Born people sue beginning
to realise the great benefits derived
from the Bad Cross station there.
Not long ago a guard in the Nash
county higfawaya shot to death Claaste
Dees, o young boy from Missouri,
whoa ha attampted to oocapo from the
elude gang. Ho wm serving a 30-day
sentence for hoboing. He wes buried
in Potter's field, but last wnek his
body was dag ap sad sent to Ms
mother in Missouri. Charitable or
ganisations of Kocky Mount ndsed
the necessary funds. The guard who
did the shooting was exonerated.
Edenton will soon have a #40,000
auditorium, according to announce
ment made last wosk. Contract for
th* building will b* 1st jast as soon us
the bids are ail received.
Judge Henry Grady, who has been
charged with being at the hood of the
State Ku Klux Klan, bitterly flayed
the modern bootlegger in Ma charge
to a Beaufort County jury last week.
A mooting of general interest to
agricultural Eastern Carolina wfll be
held in WUson Friday night. Repre
sentatives of Bm Eastern Carolina
Chamber 0f Commerce will gather
there to hear a report of their secre
tary on the methods best suited to the
control of the boll weevil and also lay
out i plan of operation to be follow
ed during 1028.
Actual not collections from all
sources during the first operation of
the new State Revenue act ending
June 80, 1922, totalled 88,880,000.09
according to the report of the Reve
nue Commissioner transmitted bp
special messenger to the State Assem
bly last week.
At a general meeting of the Bur
lington chamber of commerce last
week all the indebtedness was paid
off and money placed in the treasury
for further working of the organisa
tion. A huge banquet followed the
business session.
Roxboro business men met one
night last week, and following sev
eral speeches, organised a Building
and Loan Association. They hope to
aid in the building of their city
through the new organisation.
in spite ol the two million dollar
fire at New Bern in December, North
Carolina's fire loas for the year 1922
was only $722, 781 in excess of the
loss for 1921, according to the annnal
summary of reports compiled by
Andrew Joyner of the State Insur
ance Department. The loss for 1922
is $8,825,981.
Seventy-two of the ninety-five ap
plicants who faced examinations for
license to practice law in North Car
olina were successful, according to
announcement by clerk of the Su
preme Court Two of the applicants
failed to take the examination after
registering for it
A stricter enforcement of the com
pulsory attendance law is the prime
need in wiping out illiteracy in North
Carolina, according to the opinion of
State Superintendent E. C. Brooks.
By far the large majority of illiter
ate in the state today did not have
the advantage of education, he point
ed out; and to remedy this situation
the children should be kept in school.
The seventh annual Interscholaris
tic Tournament will be staged at
Wake Forest College April 6, 7, and
8, and each high school is eligible to
send five representatives.
Both Durham and Charlotte are
making strong bids for the location of
the State Medical School, now being
proposed by trustees of the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
Elevating athletic coaches to
faculty positions, the executive com
mittee of the Board of Trustee of
Wake Forest College in session at
Raleigh last week, elected Harry Gar
rity, star halfback of the Princeton
Tigers in 1920 and 1921 and an
unanimous choice for the mythical
all-Amarican eleven, athletic director
of the college, Phil Utley was made
assistant director with title of pro
fessor.
Bion H. Butler, writing in Sun
day's News and Observer, says east
ern Carolina will soon become the
playground 0f the State. The devel
opment of a State rend system will
have much to do with the develop
ment of this section, he thinks. t
The basketball team of the State
University is again scheduled to
make strong bid for South Atlantic
honors. It has defeated every team
met this season, including several Vir
ginia colleges, on a trip last week.
Foot new physicians were licensed
to practice medicine fat North Caro
lina by the State Board of Exami
ners in session at Raleigh last week.
A resolution denouncing the action
of certain citisens of Beaufort county
In uMlug that the note of the state
highway be changed Was passed by
the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce
last Thursday night. Some persons
had advocated changing the route and
constructing a bridge counseling
Beaufort and More head City.
Governor Morrison gave a brilliant
reception at the Mansion last Thurs
day night, in boner of the legislators
and their wives, many of wham at
tended the affair.
A. 1. Maxwell, member of State
Corporation Commission, last Friday
morning issued a prepared statement
of the State's finances, in which he
alleges that there la a five million de
ficit in the state treasury, instead of
a two million surplus as published in
Mm annual report of Ben Lacy, State
Treasurer. Ha caOod upon the legis
lature to go Mow enlarging the spend
ing program for the next two years.
On the same day Governor Morrison
made n speech to a joint session of Mm
General Assembly and bitterly de
nounced and flayed Maxwell, calling
Mm a "slanderer and a liar." He
asked for an investigation of the
State's revenue department The on
slaught of Maxwell has created a stir
in Democratic political circles, and
neither side in the controversy is
yielding. Each is almost daily Issuing
statements to prove their contentions.
New conditions face the North Car
llitt cotton grower. The old methods
will fail where boll weevil infestation
It heavy. Write for C124. Its free
lor the asking ami a eard to the Edi
tor of the Agricultural Extension
Berries at Raleigh will bring your
COW
Colerain Trunk
Is Family Relic
It I. Mora Tkaa 0*a HnM Yaar.
Old and Ha* Baa* Haadad Daw*
Far Gaaaratioas
(By REV. R. B. LINEBERRY)
Mrs. Con Es telle Deans, of Cole
rain, mother of Mr. J. 8. Deana of
Ahoskie, haa a little trunk with quite
an interesting history. It ia about
15 inches long by 0 inches wide, cov
ered with leather and lined, the cov
ering fastened on with brass tacks.
From writing on the lining, we find
it was bequeathed to Joshua Simons,
(Mrs. Deana' gnnfather) in 1806.
It seems there was an understanding
that always there should be a Joshua
or a John in the family and this name
inherited the trunk. So it was hand
ed down to Mrs. Deans' brother, John,
he being W. J. Simons who lived at
Wake Forest, having married the
daughter of Dr. Wra. Wings te then
president of Wake Forest College.
By will of W. JrSliirons, the trunk at
his death came to Mrs. Deans. She
has a nephew, John Simons, who is
now an ordained minister at Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary. He
will likely be next the owner of the
trunk.
In the war of 1812, this trunk was
buried, being fiilled with silver dol
lars. You can see the print of the
money in the lining. One of the dol
lars was left in the trunk and be
queathed withit Mrs. Deans also has
three chairs given her, when she was
six months old, by her grandmother,
Mrs. D. A. Askew. Besides this she
wean ? pin now over 100 year* old
which her grandmother gave her.
Woman* Missionary Society
Last Friday night the Wo mans Mis
sionary Society spread a nice sapper '
at the reading room. It Was served
pleasantly in cafeteria style and was
very much enjoyed. Net receipts ware
$39.25. The crowd remained a while
for a concert bp raido.
Next Friday night the Parent
Teacher Association will meet at
tame place. Besides the local talent,
they expect Miss Minor, county sup
ervisor of school and Miss Harries
county demonstrator. Quite a crowd
is expected as this is Miss Harries'
flrst public appearance here. These
two ladies will remain over Saturday
for a teachers' meeting in the morn
ing snips demonstration by Miss Har
ries in the afternoon.
In addition to oar Boston hunters,
Colersin has some local hunters who
are expert after birds and turkeys.
Two of them came in last Friday
with a large buck deer. The public
has not been advised as to just where
| they And this game.
In the Spring the gardener's fancy
Often turns to thoughts of woe,
When the pesky little cutworms
Chew his plants off down below;
But he makes his poisoned mixture
Placing it between the rows,
Then the cutworms go and eat it
And turn up their little toes.
C. S. BRIMLEY.
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MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS
The Board of Road Commissioners of Hertford County, N. C., met on ,
January 22, 1923, pursuant to adjournment. Present J. A. Powell, Chair
man, John D. Bridger, J. R. Garrett, W. B. Pollard and J. B. Worrell. j
It was ordered that the Commissioner in each township approve the i
labor pay roll in his township and have same presented to Clerk for checks
for the next pay roll. 1
It was on mottion and carried ordered that a supply of bill heads or I
requisition blanks be prepared for use in purchasing supplies for the Road
Commission.
The Board, upon motion and carried, ordered the Secretary to pay to '
W. E. Jordan the sum of f 100.00 for damages to his farm account of locat
ing road. , *
The board upon motion and carried instructed the Clerk to request the
Board of County Commissioners to have the ferry house at Boone-Harrell <
ferry vacated by Jack Collins and to turn same over to the Road Board.
The Clerk of the Board is instructed to communicate with Mr. J. E. '
Matthews and Mrs. N. B. Sewell to file written complaint with the Board "
for any damages claimed by them.
The Board examined and approved the following pay roll dated Jan- I
uary 19, 1928. ?- 1
Winton Township:
Labor and foreman .. # 164.12
H. H. Lassiter, shop bill 10.76
Winton Auto Supply Company .... 6.00
169.87
St. Johns Township:
Labor and foreman ........ 274.26
J. C. Benthall, oils, etc. 4.60
C.4R. Howard, shop bill 14.66
298.40
Maneys Neck Township:
Labor and foreman 800.76
8. W. Savage, supplies 2.40 |
808.16
Ahoskle Township:
Labor and foreman 191.76 I
191.76 I
Harrellsville Township:
Labor ud foreman ? 147.76
Williams and Taylor, supplies ji 10.10 ?
H. H. Taylor, axes and helves 4.00
H. L. Morris, shop bill .................... 0.40
J. H. Sesaoma, shop bffl 1.80
173.06
Marfmesboro Township:
Labor and foreman ..... 108.76
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108.76
Convict Camp:
Labor, foreman and gnards ? 882.00
T. B. Pope, potatoes for camp .... 10.12
7. W. Overtoa, Jr., beef for eamp 10.28
A bookie Department Store, merchandise ,. 881.97
Bainss Hamper Grocery Co., groceries, etc. ..... 420.49
City Market, beef 8.80
1,08180
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ufmnu suoumy DUIB:
K. C. Onlay, 140 Imn @ 45c -?40.00
James Bass, 180 hours 0 16c - 10.60
B. C. Colay, expanses to Elisabeth City 8.00
R. C. Calay, axpanoaa to Wanenton ? aio???a?k?a?ai 4.20
J. T. Barnes, lumbar ? W4.80
B. Vinson, rubber 1.86
Standard 00 Co., otts _ .......... *7.86
Seasons and Porbaa, garaca MB and soppMss 188.68
Wynne Brothers, supplies 1*8.**
W. 3. Basle, C. 8. C? coats prisoners 448.70
Jno. D. Newell, C. 8. C., coats prisoners UN
F. G. Hinea, freight charges paid 10.60
W. C. Ferguson, lumber 188.60
F. G. Hinea, freight paid ..... " 1.82
F. G. Hinea, freight paid ....... ..... 2.68
F. G. Hinea, amount paid C. O. D. chgs. truck repairs 78.88
Wataon 4 Company, oila, etc. 682.16
Bridge work 82.00
1,942.001
TOTAL ... $4,878.44 I
No further boeinesa before the Board it adjourned to meet en the
teeond Monday in February, 1928.
I. A. POWELL, Chairman.
J. A. NORTHCOTT, Clerk.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND BY I
COMMISSIONER
w?iuer ?ua uy virtue oi an ura?r oi
w seis of the Superior Court of Hert
ford County, made in the opeeial
proceedings entitled W. 8. Piland et :
il Terras Mary F. Parker et ale, the
indersigned commissioner will on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928, 1
jetween the hours of 1 i o'clock, m.,
ind 2 o'clock p. m., at the Courthouse
ioor in Winton, N. C? offer for sale
to the highest bidder, for cash, the !
following described land, to-wit:
1. Tract of land lying and being
n Hertford County, Winton Town
ihip, adjoining the lands of O. L.
loyner, Cofleld Manufacturing Co.,
1. H. Askew and others and known as
Holly Ridge. Containing Thirty-six
seres, more or less.
2. Tract of land known as the
ftome place of the lateeMargurette F.
Piland, adjoining the lands of O, L.
loyner, Cofleld Manufacturing Co.,
1. H. Askew and others, and contain
ing ONE HUNDRED acres, more or
less. This tract of land is situate in
Winton township, Hertford County.
This a a re-sale of the abore de- |
scribed lands, the bid at the former
sale having been raised ten per cent
ss provided by law. The bids now
stand 1187.60 for the first tract con
taining thirty-six acres, more or less,
and $606 for the second tract con
taining one hundred acres, more or
less.
This the 26 day of January, 1928.
C. W. JONES, Commissioner
2-2-23-2t of the Court
I
SALE OF GOODS AND CHATTELS
I will offer for sale at public auc
tion on Monday, February 18, 1923,
to' the highest bidder for cash, the
following described property.
Two horses, corn and fodder, also
a part of my household and kitchen
furniture. All my farming tools and
implements, one buggy and harness,
?ne farm wagon and one automobile.
Sale will be held at my home on
R.F.D. 4 and will begin at 10 o'clock,
?. m. DANIEL LOWE.
2-2-23-2L
BUGGY FOR SALE
On Saturday, February 24, 1923, we
will offer for sale at auction, at G.
Vinson's shop in Ahoslde, N. C., one
buggy, belonging to John Lee. Said
?ale is made to satisfy claims for re
pairs done.
Terms?Cash.
Time?At 2 o'clock, February 24,
1928.
This 81st day of January, 1928.
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2-2-8L Ahoslde, N. C.
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