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(STATE NEWS IN DIGEST v3H5ESX5355E!I53333aEE535rSZXEa555S3P53? Co-operative tobacco growm will ?bar* in a third payment amounting to three million dollar* in Eastern North Carolina and the old halt of North Carolina and Virginia in De cember according to an announce ment made by the director* Novem ber 26th. Mayor Eugene E. Culbreth Nov ember 26th appointed twenty-five cit izen* of Raleigh to be delegate* to the Southern Commercial Congree* to be held in Richmond December 2-4. John A. Buchanan, local businem man, wa* elected president of the Citizens Hotel Corporation, at a meeting of the board of director* of the new million-dollar hotel project in Durham November 26. Edenton Street Methodist church will have the first church chimes to be installed in Raleigh. Contracts for an armory for the Salvation Army which is to coat be tween 920,000, and $25,000 will be let in Wilmington at onoe. Prises of $1,000 in cash and 22 a silver cups have drawn entries from * 16 states to the annual joint poultry show of the North Carolina poultry association and the Central Carolina Poultry Association which will be held in Greensboro December 0-6-7. Shingle roofs and defectiw fines still lead in the cause of fires in North Carolina though the toll from this and all other causes in the month of October just passed was hardly half of the total for the month of Octo ber, 1922. The October fire loss this year was $326,000 and last October it was $740,329 according to the re port made by Stacy W. Wade, Insure ance Commissioner. The Seventh District Convention of Odd Fellows adjourned in Fayette ville Tuesday night until April 1924 when the meeting will be held in Lumberton. The general average on the Oxford tobacco market every day last week 7 was above $26. per hundred and on Friday the average for all sold was $26.06. The break amounting to 161,000 poc&Ua. Tobacco sales upon the Wilson market opened strong this week. The first day's sales amounted to 1,004, 806 pounds which sold for $268,737. 76 an average of $26.24. A disastrous fire started Tuesday morning in Goldsboro totally destroy ing a large warehouse owned by the Tobacco Growers Co-operative As sociation together with about 1,000 bale* of cotton, jf L. A. Jackson, a Sampson County 1 farmer, sold his 1914 cotton crop in Dunn Saturday. Former Congressman R. M. 0" Hackett cf North Wilkesboro died November 23 at Long's Sanatorium where he had been a patient for several weeks. Death resulted frqm a kidney disease and complications. Members of Raleigh Shrine Club wil lopen their Winter Circus week at the city auditorium December 8rd by giving a live baby. Kepudiating an nrmirauon awara i of $12,000 for his services as attor ney for Wake Forest College in con nection with the litigation arising 1 from the Bostwick bequest of $1, u, 609,000, Frank Earle Parham of New York has instituted suit for $200,000 ? against the college, of which he is an ? alumnus. \ ? -? -'L, -I With the student body of Wake ^^"orest College preparing to observe "International Golden Rule Day" next Sunday, according to the. pro gram backed by President Coolidge in a proclamation, Col George H. Bellamy, State Chairman of the Near East Relief, November 26 announces the pledging by a number of institu tions and organisations to help in this manner. Elon College at Burlington will be another observer. ' The first freeze of the autumn played havoc with May peas aqd snap beans in Elizabeth City causing a loss between $60,000 and $160,000 in the counties of Pasquotank,.Cam den and Currituck, according to a re pfKp by load commission merchants. Building permits totalling over $26,000 were issued Thursday by the city of Raleigh. The largest permit was issued to the Tabernacle Baptist Church for the construction of a ) Sunday School building afthe rear of the church. It is to be a two-story l*brick building and will coat $14,(6$. The Raleigh branch of the Caro lines section of the American Society of mechanical engineers was organi sed November 22 with twelve mem bers. Thirty-four dollars and fifteen cents, the price that one hundred pounds of local cotton la bringing upon the Wilson market established a new high record for the yeer. All of the net earnings of ths Nor folk-Southern are being turned back into the form of improfementtaut into the road in the form of improve ments according to J. M. Shea, sup erintendent of the New Bern divis ion. The University of North Carolina has been signally honored in being elected vice-president of the asso ciations of American universities A large good humored crowd on Washington Avenue In Weldon November 23rd to witne^d the inla tion stunts of the D. 0. K. K. in which about forty candidates partict j pa ted. "The Citizens Hardware store in Star, owned B. Owen was re cently entered ny- burglars who. re B moved over $200 worth of traarmz. HARRELLSV1LLE NEWS Mrs. Ola Penny of Raleigh poued through town Tuoaday on route home after visiting relatives in Evanstown. Mr. J. O. Aliew, Sr., wet a visitor in Ahoekie Tuesday. Mr. Jack Deans from Ahoekie pass ed through town Wednesday after noon. Mr. W. M. Newsome visited Ahoe kie Tuesday. Regular prayer service was held at the Baptist church Wednesday night at seven o'clock. Mr. C. M. Csills has purchased a new Ford sedan. Messrs. Wajriand Baker and Ed ward Evans were busineea visitors in town Thursday afternoon. Mr. J. J. Beasley and his sister, Mite Garnette Beasley were the guest of Miss Ethel Callis Thursday even ing. Mrs. Walker and little daughter and Mrs. Basnight and daughter, Miss Ethel, were the. gpests of Mrs. jr. A. Powell Thursday afternoon. Mr. Starkey Sharp, Sr., and daugh ter, Mb* Alee Sharp went to Ahoskie Friday on business. Mr. 8. E. Harrell and Cecil Roughton were business visitors in Ahoskie Friday. Mr. Will Evans from Norfolk, Va., was a visitor hare Wednesday. Mr. Julian Powell frem Norfolk, Va., visited friends in town Wodnee Frank Brett and eon, Wallace,! were in town Saturday. Messrs. Sidney Winborne, Nathan Hoggard and Reuben Grisaom' were in town Saturday. Messrs. R. G. and W. M. Baker wer# in town Saturday. Mr. Eugene Holoiman from near Colerata was a busineea visitor in town Saturday. The teachers-meeting was held at HsrreilsviUe High School Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Fountain and Misaes Vernon Hill end Mary Stock ton from Tarboro spent, the week-end with Sheriff and Mrs. Bismark SculL Born to Mr. sad Mrs. J. E. Wilder, November 24th, ? fine hoy. Mr. end Mrs. T. A. Powell end family were visitors in Ahoekie Sun day. Mr. D. N. Evans and family went to Evanstown Sunday. The M. E. church members are go ing to gi+e a play, "Old Maids Con vention" December 6th, at the school building.' Refreshments will be serv ed. Rev. T. E- Walters filled his regu lar appointment at the Baptist church Saturday and Sunday. Mr. N. W. Britton visited our school Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Oram Hill from Bethlehem visited Mrs. James Cotton Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Bettie Miller is spending a few days with Mrs. James Cotton. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Callis and their daughter, Ethel, went to Ahoskie Sunday. Mr. Ewell Somers from Burkeville, Va., a relative of Miss Sadie Somers, was in town Wednesday. Sheriff Scull waa a business visitor in Elisabeth City Friday and Satur day. We are very sorry to report that Mr*. George Castelloe is very tick, but we hope she will soon be out again. Master Thomas Powell spent the week-end with hi* sister, Mrs. H. H. Ward. Mr. N. Wr Britton, our county school superintendent, made a very interesting talk at the Baptist church Sunday morning on the "75-Million Campaign." MENOLA BRIEFS Little Ernestine Vinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Vinton is on the sick list this Week. We hope she will soon recover and bo herself again. : s . ,.. ?., ^ , Mr. Jake Parker had the misfor tune to run over his baby last Tues day afternoon. We are very glad to report that no bones were broken and the child was not seriously hurt. Mrs. Clyde Britt and baby, Doris Ernestine, spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives in Woodland. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Parker and chil dren of Rich Square spent Sunday in the home of Mrs. Mary Browne. Messrs. I. P. and O. P. Snipes made a business trip to Ahoslde Saturday afternoon. Miss Gertrude Snipes of Chowan College and Messrs. Jesse Brown and Andrew Vinson of Rich Square visit ed in the homes of their respective parents this week-end. Mrs. H. U. Griffith is visiting in the home of her daughter, Mrs. A- M. Browne in Ahoslde. Visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Vick Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Vick and' daughter, Dorothy Lee, of Seaboard, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Vick and daughter, Annie Laura of Franklin, Va. We are glad to report that little Miss Minne Louise Parker, who has (been ill with tonsQitis, is much im proved at this writing. Rev. J. F. Cale filled his regular I preaching appointment at Menala 1 Sunday afternoon, November 25th. We are glad to say that Mr. q. G. Snipes, who has been fll recently, is better now. ~ ? COTTON GINNED There were G.fiOl bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Hertford County, from the crop of 19Z2 .orior to November 14, 1923, aa compared with 2,905 bald* ginned to November 14, 1922. NOTI at or SALS By virtue of the power end author ity of ? certain deed of trust exe cuted by P. H. Taylor end wife lfattie Louise Taylor to J. H. Matt hews, Trustee, on the 15th day of July 1920, and recorded in Book 68, pa?e 429, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, default having been made in payment of the notes therein secured, the undersigned, J. H. Mat thews, Trustee, will sell at public sale at the wharf at the W. P. Tay lor Mill plant on Chowan River in the town of Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina, at eleven o'clock a m., on Monday the Slat day of De cember 1922, to the highest bidder for cash, the hereinafter described pergonal property, and will sell at public sale at the Court House Door in Winton, Hertford County North Carolian, at one o'clock p. m., on MONDAY. THE 21st DAY OF DECEMBER, 1922, to the highest bidder for cash, the hereinafter do scribed real estate, lots, tracts and panels of land, timbers, rights, ways and easements, te-wit: First: The W. P. Taylor Saw Mill and Heading Mill plant situated on Chowan River in the town of Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina, with all machinery and fixtures' thereto attached that have heretofore been used and now in use in the oper ation of said saw mill and heading mill plant, and consisting of one saw mill; two sixty-horse power boilers; two one hundred horse power boilers; one forty horse power engine; one fifty horse power engine; one one hundred horse power engine; two pony plainers; two jointers; two turners for different sine heading; two horizontal heading machines, one filing room complete; two brick dry kilns 18x108 feet; each with rein forced concrete top; one electric light plant generator; ample storage room for twenty car loads of head ing and all other equipment, machin ery and fixtures attached to and be longing with said saw mill and head ing mill plant that have heretofore been used and now in use in the oper ation of said saw mill and heading mill plant, but not any new parts bought and not attached to said mill plant on the 16th day of July, 1920, subject to the terms and conditions of a certain lease from Jordan A Parker to W. P. Taylor as the same appears of record in Deed Book 64, at page 536, Hertford County Register of Deeds office. Second: One Tug Boat named Lil lian of Wlnton, with all machinery equipment and fixtures thereto at tached; one scow barge four feet deep, twenty feet wide and seventy five feet long; one water skidder with all machinery, equipment and fixtures thereto attached; one land skidder, with all machinery, equipment and fixtures attached thereto as located on the wharf at the W. P. Taylor Mill plant July 16, 1920; one chain drive locomotive, two loading cars and about one and one-quarter miles of 25 pound steel railroad iron as same was located on the W. P. Taylor "Smith A Hill' tracts of swamp land in Gates County, North Carolior July 15th, 1920, with all machinery, equipment and fixtures thereto at tached; one small house boat, with all machinery and fixtures thereto at tached; one pile driver gin and ham mer as equipped and located on the wharf at the said W- P. Taylor plant July 16th, 1920; one water pomp as fixed on the above described soow barge July 16th, 1920. Third: The entire right, title, in terest and estate conveyed to W. P Taylor in the contract and lease for the Mill Site property from Jordan A Parker as same appears of record in Deed Book 64, at page 666, Hert ford County Register of Deeds office, with all of the unexpired rights, privi leges and easements thereunder, sub ject to the terms and conditions thereof and to the payments therein required hereafter to become due and payable. Fourth: All of the standing tim ber, rights, ways, privileges and ease ments described aad conveyed in a deed from J. J, Piland and wife ,to W. P. Taylor, which deed is of rec ord in Deed Book 48, at page 501, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, to which - deed reference is made and same is made a part of this deed for describing the timbers, rights, ways and easements herein conveyed. Fifth: All of the timber and trees of every kind and description now standing and being on the W. P. Taylor "George Keen" tract of land in Harrellsville Township, lying on Wiccacon Creek and adjoining the W. F. Durfey lands and others and 'containing 212 acres more or less, and being the same tract of land pur chased by W. P. Taylor from J. B. Catus, Commissioner, by deed of record in Deed Book 48, page 483, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, which when cut within the per iod of ten yeara from July 15th, 1920", shall measure ten inches and up wards in diameter across the stump twelve inches above the ground, and sack as shall attain that alia during the period of ten yean from July IS, 1920, together with the osnal and necessary righto, ways and privileges in, on, over and across said tract of lend for them, servants and vehicles and other usual machinery and ap pliances for cutting and removing said timbers within said period of ten years from July 15, 1920 ( and whkh said timbers, rights, ways and ease ments were on July 15, 1920, sold separate and apart from the fee sim ple title to said tract of land. Sixth: Those certain two tracts of Swamp land on Bennett Creek, in Gates County, North Carolina, known as the Smith and Hill tracts of swamp land; and being the same traets of land which L. L. Smith and wife and A. O. Hill and wife convey ed to W. P. Taylor by deeds of rec ord in Deed Book 01. at pages 726 and 728, Gates County Register of Deeds office, to which deeds reference is made and they are made a part of this deed for accurately describing said tracts of land. Seventh: The entire right, title and interest and estate owned by W. P. Taylor at his death in and to that certain tract of land whkh C. S. Vann conveyed to W. P. Taylor and Jordan and Parker by deed of record in Deed Bbok If., at page 40, Hert ford Cqunty Register of Deeds office, to which deed reference is made and same is made a part of this deed for the purpose of accurately describing said tract of land, and which tract of land is bounded on the North by Folly Branch and Chowan River, on the East by the Jordan and Parker lands and the Beverly A Wynns wharf property, and on the South and West by the W. J. Getting land and containing twelve acres, more or less. Eighth: Lots Nos. Four and Five, in Block P-, as the same are shown and designated on the map and sur vey of the W. P. Taylor property, made by Jno. L. Kennedy, Surveyor, and recorded in Deed Book 52, at page 487, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, to which map and survey reference is made and same is made a part of this deed for accur ately describing said lots aind parcels of land; and which said lots and par cels of land are situated in Murphy, Hill and Cross Streets in the town of Winton, Hertford County, North Car olina, and adjoin the lands of Nathan Pope and others and being the same lots conveyed to W. P. Taylor by Jesse T. Lowe and wife and Onida V. ?ssssSBmsaaaammimwamBaiBamsi^msmmaaBmaaBa Powers mad others by deads of record in Book 20, at page 80S, and Book 82, at page 267, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, to which deeds reference Is made and same are made a part of this deed for further describing said lots and parcels of land. Ninth: Lots No*. Three, Four, Five and Six in Block A., as the same are shown and designated on the map and survey of the W. P. Taylor prop erty, made by Jno. L. Kennedy, Sur veyor, and recorded in Deed Book 52, at page 487, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, to which map and survey reference is made and same is made a part of this deed for accurately describing said lots and parcels of land; and which said lots and parcels of land are situated on Murphy and Gailing and HOI Streets in the town of Winton, Hert ford County, North Carolina, and known as part of the Nancy Turner Home Place lot purchased by W. P. Taylor from Jno. E. Vann, Commis sioner, by deed of record in Deed Book M, at page 47, Hertford County Register of Deeda office. Tet|th: Lots Nos. One in Block A., as the same is shown and designated on the map and survey of the W. P. Taylor property, made by Jno. L. Kennedy, Surveyor, and recorded in Deed Book 52, at page 487, Hartford County Register of Deeds office, to which map and survey reference is made and same is made a part of this deed far accurately describing said lot and parcel of land? and being that lot of land qn Murphy and Mul berry streets in the town of Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina, which Mark Majette and wife convey ed to W. P. Taylor by deed of record in Deed Book 60, at page 511, Hert ford County Register of Deeds of fice, to which deed reference is made for further description of said lot. Eleventh: Lots Nos. One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven in Block G., as the same are shown and designated on the map and survey of the W. P. Taylor property, made by Jno. L. Kennedy, Surveyor, and re corded in Deed Book 62, at page 487, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, to which map and survey ref erence is made and same is made a part of this deed for accurately de scribing said lots and parcels of land; and being the land near the town of Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina, which S. P. Taylor and wife conveyed to W. P. Taylor by two deeds of record in Deed Book 20, at page 493, Hertford County Register 1 of OHda office, to which deeds refer- . one* is mode and same are made a part at this deed for further de scription of said lots and parcels of land. Twelfth: That certain tract of land in Wlnton Township, Hertford County, North Carolina, known as the William Coileld land lying on Elm Swamp, adjoining the Wright Jerni gan land and others and containing 16 acres more or leas; and being the same tract and parcel of land convey ed to W. P. Taylor by Jno. E. Vann, Trustee, by deed of record in Book 66, at page 168, Hertford County Register of Deeds office, to which deed reference is made and same is made a part of this deed for further description of said lands. The above and foregoing described property being property conveyed to P. H. Taylor by A. W. Taylor and Jno. E. Vann, Executors of W. P. Taylor, by deed of July 16th, 1820, and as described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust under which this sale is made. This the 26 day of November, 1928. J. H. MATTHEWS, Trustee. Winston A Matthews, Attorneys. 11-30-28-tt. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the power and authority given me in the last will and testament of the late Samuel Weaver, deceased, 1 will offer for sale at pub lic auction the fallowing property. One tract of land lying on the north side of old road leading from Parkers Ferry to Union, N. C., con taining 88 acres more or lees, joining the lands of J. W. Weaver, J. R. Weaver, A. T. Beverely, and others. One acre of land known as the old Reynolds school site lying on south side of said road joining the lands of J. R. Weaver, C. W. Jones and Sam uel Weaver's heirs. One lot in the town of Winton sit uated on Main street and joining the lands of Albert Jones, N. Joyner and others, known as the home place where Samuel Weaver lived and died. Two vacant lots in the town of Wlnton situated on the south side of Main street joining G. C. Collins and Sam Reid. Place of sale?Courthouse door, Winton, N. C. Time of qale?January 7, 1924, be tween the hous of 12 and 1 o'clock. Terms of sale?Cash. MATTIE WEAVER COLLINS, ll-80-4t. Executrix. - TOHBaY" Build Your Pennies, Nickles and Dimes into Big, Round Dollars Yon will be surprised to see bow fast tbey will grow if you become a member of our Christmas Savings Club. It's keeping at it that counts. Save a little every week and insure yourself a very merry and bounteous Christmas next year. DON'T WAIT! TIME IS FLYING! JOIN TODAY! r~ Pay small sums weekly and receive for next Christmas $5.00 ? $12.50 ? $25.00 - $50.00 - $100.00 $250.00 - $500.00 - Hundreds are joining. It's an easy way to save. Your first deposit makes you a member. Club Opens Friday, December 14th * ' FARMERS, ATLANTIC RANK AHOSKIE, N. C
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