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Tobacco growers in two states wh<
are members of the Tobacco Grow
ere Co-operative Association are elat
ed over the payment of a million anc
a half dollars which affected thous
anda of farmers in the dark belt oi
Virginia and Eastern North Carolina
A three-man debating team wil
leave Trinity College Friday for Nee
York, where they will engage in de
bate with New York University de
hating team.
A meeting held at Kinston last Sat
urday failed to re-organise the East
tern Carolina baseball league.
Another meeting of representatives
of the prospective towns will be call
ed for early April.
During a recent electrical storm at
Burlington, the lightning penetrated
a window and knocked off the foot
. board from a bed occupied by two
little children, both of the latter es
caping uninjured.
Dr. Bernhardt Strecker of Ger
many, speaking in the First Baptist
church at Goldsboro, said Sunday
that Germany was headed for pro
hibition.
A woman, the daughter of the
former register of deeds, was on last
Saturday appointed Register of
Deeds for Columbus county. This
makes the second woman in tee State
to hold this position.
The Spring Fashion Be view and
Aiilfcftwiiftfril# Show hold at GroonviUo
under the auspices of the Merchants j
Association, late week, was a great
success. L. . J;, .
"The beet market In the world for
eggs and poultry is right here in
>North Carolina," says A. G. Oliver,
state poultry expert In several
places in the State production of
poultry and eggs has greatly increas
ed during the past year.
Trustees of the Caswell Training
School, state institution for the feeble
minded, are scheduled to meet in
Kinfton early in April to discuss ex
pansion of the school plant Several
new buildings are planned out of the
$409,000 appropriation recently made
by the legislature.
The feet has been established that
Gaston county has passed from fourth
to third place in the cotton spinning
industry of America with a total pro
ducing spindlage in operation and un
der erection of 1,180,67B.
3. Paul Leonard, Secretary of the
State Merchants Association, in a
public statement made last week,
lamented the failure of the garnish
ment and bad check bills to pern the
late General Assembly.
Reports from Elizabeth City and
other places along the North Caro
lina coast are to the affect that un
usually small catchingg of fish have
been mede for this yew, in compari
son with the usual crop of fish.
For th? first time in about ten
yean a passenger boat service is
about to be inauguarated between
New Bern, and Norfolk and Balti
more.
Governor Morrison will be the chief
speaker before the annual meeting of
the Kinston Chamber of Commerce
Thursday night.
H. A. Page, Jr., of the Sandhill
Page family, has lately purchased the
Jackson Springs property, which he
will at once begin to improve and put
in shape for the summer.
The record testimony taken on the
rate hearings which concluded in At
lanta last week covers four* million
words, according to a statement made
by Corporation Commissioner A. J.
Maxwell who attended them.
Water in the swollen Yadkin river
has subsided to a point considered
safe, and less dangerous than had1
been through. The streams were
about to overflow at one time last
week, and serious damage was expect
ed at any time.
The State Highway Commission is
talking about emetine a cement fac
tory, from which the supply for build
ing concrete roads will be obtained.
The oommiasiea in facing a serious
problem to secure sufficient concrete
to build hard roads, and will either
have to erect its own plant or import
it hem from Belgium, France and
other foreign countries.
An official estimate of the State
Income taxes says they will fall short
of what had been expected by at least
a half million dollars. Federal re
turns from this State show a large in
crease over IMi.
Mrs. Herbert Harrison, 27 years
old, of Kinston, died last Saturday
t from smallpox, after she had refused
NlIo allow the medical authorities to
give her the vaccination.
B. W. KUgore, of the Extension
service, has addressed letters to
eountv agents advising them* to call
attention to the banking law of North
CaroiiM which allows agricultural
paper tfEPnia nine months, or long
enough for farmers to produce their
CIThe Sou then Railway will contest
'? $ ?>,
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\ the right of the Corporation Commis
sion to order them to erect a anion
depot at Selma. The Coast Line and
the Southern were recently ordered to
build a depot there, after several
years of negotiations.
Cart Georch, for several years with
the Washington Daily News, has as
sumed charge of the new daily paper
at Wilson?the Daily Mirror.
On thousand student debaters' in
260 high schools of the State are now
hard at work in preparation for the
annual ^""ffulsr debate to be held
at the State University this spring.
A. D. Watts, former commissioner
of revenue for North Carolina, who
was tried for immoral conduct in the
Raleigh court last week, was lined
$100 and costs.
The NortJj Carolina Federation of
Music clubs held it annual convention
in Wington-Salem last week.
. Factional differences have cropped
out in the city of Durham since candi
dates have announced for the various
city positions. It will be the hottest
campaign within years, reports say.
In Raleigh there is also a warm ftght
being waged over nominations to city
offices.
Banker* of Nash and Edgecombe
i counties held a meeting at Tarboro
I last Thursday.
The first case of sleeping sickness to
be reported in Goldsboro was turned
in to the health department there last
Friday. ? -
Federal prohibition agents are en
| gaged is a campaign on mopping up
. with bootleggers in Craven county
| and adjacent territory. They have
made several big hauls lately.
Miss Adelaide Randolph of Kinston
and William Carter, both popular in
| their home towns, kept their marriage
| secret five months befor^ announcing
it one day last week.
President Chase of the State Uni
versity, has announced that he will
continue to WWrk on tip proposition
of securing a four-year medical col
lege for that institution.
Concord is to have another large
textile plant soon. It will be erected
at a cost oi $40,000, according to re
Meredith College's endowment
fund has reached almost a half mil
Man dollars, according to statements
made last week by President C. E.
Brewer.
The National Association of Insur
ance Agents convened in AsheviBe
last week.
The condition of Walter E. Daniel
of Weldon, former solicitor of this
district, luis shown steady improve
ment since he was stricken with para
lysis at a Richmond hospital several
day ago.
Although a short month, the fire
losp for February, was announced last
week by Insurance Commissioner
Wade, aggregated $648,888, against
$828,679 for January, but nearly
double that of February, 1926?
$364,886.
Southern Baptists have done much,
Dut piuDiy ume in proportion to
their ability, to carry out the three
fold will of God to "Win men, teach
men and heal men, anerted Dr. L. R.
Scarborough, president of the South
western Baptist Theological Seminary
of Port Worth, Texts, at the Flrtt
Baptist church in Raleigh last week.
Since extension of the city limits
by the late legislature, Greensboro
has become the third largest city in
North Carolina, with an estimated
population of 40,000. Winston-Salem
and Charlotte are the leaders.
Comparisons made Monday of in
come tax reports to both the State
and Nation show that the State has
already surpassed its showing for the
whole of last year both in amount and
collections and number of returns
filed the federal government has run
slightly behind the receipts for the
same date last year.
Col. James R. Young, former In
surance Commissioner, who has been
offered the preeidency of the Dixie
Fire Insurance Company, of Greens
boro, denies that he is trying to wreck
the company, as set out in an in
junction secured by some the stock
holders to prevent his election.
North Carolina experienced one of
the coldest waves of the winter dur
ing the first two days of this week.
Freesing temperature prevailed over
all sections of the state.
Extensive additions will be made
to the Atlantis Coast line railroad
shops st South Rocky Mount, and will
provide for the employment of four
hundred additional men.
Although rain and bliasord put a
damper on the parade and other open
ing features of the Eastern Cgmjiaa
Exposition at Wilson Monday, It
opened up for business and is expect
ed to surpass anything: in its claw ever
held in North CsrtiUna. More reser
vations for exhibits have been made
than space usually given over to the
State Fair at Raleigh.
The seven curb markets establish
ed in North Carolina by farm women
did a (17,000 business last year. How
about one for every town in the stats
this year?
NOTICE '
North Carolina? Hertford County.
In Superior Court, Before the Clerk.
Godwin Bryent, Lillie Fog* and
husband Johnnie Fog*, Linnie Steph
enson and husband Lamb Stephenson,
Nelson Bryant, MoUie Laseiter and
husband Atlas Laseiter, Dode Lasei
ter and husband William Laseiter,
Pattie Grant and husband Junlous
Grant, Betty Laesiter and husband
Ed Lassiter, Edna Castellow, Oscar
Bryant, Hattie Fleetwood and.hus
band Herbert Fleetwood, Charity
Josie and husband Jessia Joeie, Molly
Raby and husband York Saby.
Against
Wiliam Bryant, Henry Bryant,
Caulen Vaughn, Ethel Vaugn, James
Vaughn, Irene Vaughn, Walter
Vaughn, W. H. Bryant, Henry Thom
as Bryant, Benjamin Bryant, Balcom
Woodson, Martilla Woodson, William
Woodson, Sallle Ann Woodson, and
husband, Woodson, Matilda Til
let, and husband. TUlet, Mattie
Holoman and husband Holloman,
Lelia Davis and husband Charlie
Davis, Ellen Vann and husband
Vann, Bptty 8. Taylor, Charlie Davis,
administrator of Wiley Bryant, de
ceased, and Esra Griffin.
The defendants above named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Hertford County to 1 ?
partition and divide among the heirs
at law of Wiley Bryant, deceased, a
certain sum of money now in the
hands of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Hertford County derived
from the eele of real estate belonging
to the estate of the late Wiley Bryant,
deceased, and the said defendants,
William Bryant, Henry Bryant, Caul
en Vaughn. Ethel Vaughn, James
Vaughan, Irene Vaughan, Walter
Vaughn, W. H. Bryant, Henry Thorn- '
as Bryant, Benjamin Bryant, Bal
com Woodson, Martilla Wood so e,
Wiliam Woodao*. Sallie Ann Wood
eon and husband ??Weodsou,
Matilda Tillet and husband Til
let, Mattie Holloman end husband,
Holloman, Lalie Davis and hus
band Charlie Davis, Ellen Venn end
husband ?>-Vann, Betty S. Taylor,
Charlie Davja, administrator of Wiley
Bryant, deceased, and Esra Griffiin
will take further notice that they are
required to appear<before the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Hertford
County at his office in Wlnton, North
Carolina, on or before the
9th DAY OF APRIL, 1928
And answer the complaint now on
file in the office of said Clerk of said
Court in Hertford County. And let
said defendants take notice that if
they fail to answer said Complaint
that day or within 20 days thereafter
the time prescribed ]>y law the plain
tiff will apply .to tha Court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court this the 27th day of Feb
ruary, 1928.
D. R. McGLOHON,
Clerk Superior Court.
E. R. TYLER, Attorney.
3-9-28-4L
NOTICE
By authority of deed of trust, J.
W. Brown and wife Mae, to the un
dersigned Trustee, executed 18 Nov
ember, 1922, recorded Hertford
county, Nprth Carolina, book 76, page
1, made for the purpose securing in
dorsees therein named, they having
been called upon and having assumed
payment of note therein referred to,
and at request of said indorsers, ben
eficiaries, I shall sell, fer cash, at
court bouse door, Hertford county,
Winton, N. C., between the hours of
eleven and one o'clock, on
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1922,
Land conveyed in said deed of
trust, and therein described.
Located North Carolina, Hertford
county, Maneys Neck Township, be
ginning at a post oak, near the Me
herrin river; thence along the edge
of the road (124) one hundred and
twenty four feet to a stake; thence
parallel to the said river, one hundred
and sixty feet (160) to a stake;
one hundred and thirty eight feet
(188) to a Spanish oak on the bank
of the said river; thence to the said
river and doom Urn said river to the
Starting point, containing one-half
acre more or less and known as the
"Bears Wharf Property."
Place sale; Court House Door, Win
tea, u. a
Time sele; Friday, April 20, 1928.
Terms; Cash.
This the 18th day of March, 1928.
A. PILSTON GODWIN, Trustee.
8-l?-88-4t.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of R. J. Baker, deceased.
This is to give notice that on
SATURDAY, APRIL 7th, 1922
At 11:00 o'clock a. m. *
I will sell at public sale, five shares
of the capital stock of Bapk of
Ahoskie belonging to said estate.
Terms of sale: Cash.
P. BAKER, Administrator.
. MHB5 r,- $:?
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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
EXECUTION
J. J. Piland and N. H. Laasiter
trading as J. J. PHand A Co. vs.
Frank Walls.
By virtue of an execution directed
to the undersigned from the Superior
Court of Hertford county in the
above entitled action, I will, on
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1923
At 12 o'clock m.
At the Courthouse door of said
county, sell t# the highest bidder for
cash to satisfy said execution, all the
right, title, and interest which the
said Frank Wells, the defendant, has
in the the following described real
estate, to-wit:
A certan tract of land near the
town of Winton, N. C., and known as
the Granison Holley home place, ad
joining the lands formerly owned by
the late J. B. Hare and others be
ginning at a sweet gum on southwest
corner of said land and runing
seventy yards northwardly, thence
seventy yards eastwardly, thence
seventy yards southward, thence
seventy yards westward to the first
station at sweet gum. For further
description reference is hereby made
to deed Frank Wells to C. W. Jones.
The said deed being duly recorded in
book 71, page 72, Register of Deeds
Office Hertford County.
Place of sale: Court House door,
Winton, N. C., Hertford County.
Time of sale: Between the hours
of 12 and 2 o'clock.
Terms of sale: Cash.
This March 12, 1928.
B. SCULL, Sheriff.
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The Home Demonstration Agent of
Moore County has already taken or
ders for 2000 cans of vegetables to
be filled by her organised farm
women during the summer months.
In growing cotton in North Caro
lina, it pays?
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