New York Man
Tells Of Cold
Subscriber In New York
Writes Report Of Some
Winter Weather They
Have Been Having Up In
His State
In case you do not know it,
Nichols, N. Y., is in the northern
part of New York' state. Chales
W. Crell, a criber out that way,
has had a hankerring to move to,
Brunswick, for the milder climate,
for the past two years. The fol-1
lowing interesting letter was re- j
ceived from him this week, and f
the folks who think we have had
any bad weather should read it.
Dear Mr. Keziah:
The State Pilot came today and |
I see where you had a little bad j
weather down there. We have had!
a pretty rugged winter up here, |
25 to 30 degrees below zero with
plenty of snow. I have seen it 35
below and at the same time we
were suffering from a sleet storm.
We were without lights and water
for days.
"We were running a hotel, along j
with our poultry business, at the
time, and we had to melt snow
to do the dishes with. We used)
Pepsi Cola for drinking water for j
a whole week (The attention of J
the Wilmington Pepsi Cola comp- j
any is called to the foregoing.)
"I hope your bad weather is all'
cleared up by now and that every-j
thing is going nicely again. I see |
where you got a nice 21-pound j
fish. The boys up here have been I
fishing through the ice again this
winter. They put up little wooden
huts out on the lake, as shelters
from the cold and wind. . [
"We didn't receive our State'
Pilot last week. It must have got-1
ten lost in the mail. I certainly;
did miss it. Wish that you printed'
it twice a week. I would be wil-1
ling to pay double for it, as It
keeps me up with what is going
on in Brunswick county and I al-1
so find many things very interest- j
ing in what our Rovin' Reporter
writes about. After reading the:
paper I always pass it along to!
a neighbor of mine, that I am j
trying to get interested In Bruns-1
wick county.
"We have burned about eight i
tons of coal so far this winter. No j
mail has come through in the past i
three days. Looks like more snowi
coming. So, you can see, Mr. Kezi-'
CALENDAR OF CIVIL CASES
For Trial in The March
Civil Term, 1948
SUPERIOR COURT
Of Brunswick County, N. C.
MONDAY, MARCH 29
Case No. Plaintiff's Atfys. Cases Defendant's Atty's.
2124?Frink & Herring?Beck vs. Beck
2155?Frink & Herring?Hewett vs. Hevvett
2160?Frink & Herring?Jolly vs. Jolly
2161?Frink & Herring?Reaves vs. Reaves
2257?Frink & Herring?Bradsher vs. Bradsher
2269?Frink & Herrin,- -Thompson vs. Thompson
2279?Frink & Herring?Cousin vs. Cousin
2208?Prevatte?Colder vs. Calder
? MOTIONS ?
2037?Prevatte?Canal Wood Corp. vs. Eddie Land?Frink & Herring
2108?Fring & Herring?Stanaland vs. Bennett Prevatte
2140?Prevatte & Hackler?Pretlaw vs. Hamme Hamme
TRIAL
1935?Varser, Mclntyre & Henry & Ruark?itolmes vs. Smith?
McEwen, Frink & Herring, Moore & McClelland
1936?Varser, Mclntyde & Henry & Ruark?Holmes vs. Smith?
McEwen, Frink & Herring, Moore & McClelland
1943?Varser, Mclntyre & Henry & Ruark?In Re: Will of Holmes?
McEwen, Frink & Herring, Moore & McClelland
TUESDAY, MARCH 30
2255? Frink & Herring?Stone vs. Danford Hewett
2281?Hewett?Causey vs. Hall Frink & Herring
2278?Ruark?Express Company vs. Wells Frink & Herring
.2242?Frink & Herring?Scott vs. Jewel, et als Cronly
1924?Ruark & Wright?Pridgen vs. T.W.P. Company
James & James & Poisson & Campbell
1925?Ruark & Varser, Mclntyre & Henry?Lewis vs. James
Walker Hospital
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31
'2039?Ruark & Varser, Mclntyre & Henry?Gray vs. Trip, et als.
Prevatte, Mintz, & Frink & Herring
2225?McEwen?Trott vs. Fergus Frink & Herring
2229?Frink & Herring?McKoy vs. McNair Prevatte and King
THURSDAY, APRIL 1
2127?Hamme?Hamme vs. Hamme Mintz, & Frink & Herring
2140?Prevatte & Hackler?Pretlaw vs. Hamme Hamme
S. T. BENNETT, Clerk Superior Court
Limestone To Be
Used On Farms
One Of Nine Practices Ap
proved For Use by Bruns
wick County Farmers In
1948 Program
Applying limestone to farm
land is one of the 9 practices
that have been selected from the
State Hand Book to apply to
Brunswick county in 1948. The 1
credit rate or applying limestone
to farm land is $3.55 per ton 1
for bulk lime delivered to the j
farm. The farmer's part to pay at
the time he places the order with
the County Office is $2.50 per
ton.
The County Committee feels
that there is still a lot of farm
land and pastures that need to be
limed in Brunswick county and
they are hoping the farmers who J
need lime will be sure and show'
their intentions of using lime on j
their 1948 Farm Plan and come j
to the County Office and place
their order for same. The secre
tary is now ready to take orders
for limestone. No orders will be
accepted for less than 4.0 tons
for a farm.
ah, if we were living there in
Southport we could not think any
thing of that little storm you had.
"We only live three miles from
town, but It sometimes takes days
and weeks for the snow plows to
get around to us. We get an
awful wind here and the snow
I just keeps drifting in. Between
the ice and wind a person can
hardly stand on their feet some
i times.
"Albany, New York is another
cold and windy city in the winter
time. The wind rages around the
Capital on State Street. We lived
in Albany during the time A1
Smith was governor. He was the
best and greatest governor that
New York state ever had. My dad
and I supplied the meat and poul
j try for the jail birds at that time.
"Today is Wednesday, I sup
Jpose you are busy getting out the
paper. I am always glad when
| Saturday rolls around. As a rule,
l when we are not snowed under,
I the paper gets here on Saturday.
Very respectfully
Charles W. Crell
Rte. 2 Nichols, N. Y.
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SIXTEEN BALES IN A BELT
Sixteen bales of cotton were used to make this giant conveyor bell?
the National Cotton Council reports. One of the largest conveyor belts
ever made, the cotton belt is a quarter of a mile long, four feet wide,
and weighs eleven tons. Built especially for a limestone crushing
plant, it has a capacity of 1,500 tons of limestone rock per hour.
Southport Wins
Leland Games
Local Girls Nose Out Visi
ors 20 To 18 In Opener
With Southport Boys
Romping To 31 To 17
Victory
For the first time in several
years the Southport high school
basketball teams won a double
header on the local basketball
floor Saturday night as the girls
I turned back Leland 20 to 18 and
the boys defeated the visitors 31
to 17.
The girls grabbed an early
lead in the opening quarter and
held on grimly in the face of a
late Leland rally. P. Williams scor
ed all but one of the points for
her team, and her 17-point total
was high for the evening. Re
becca McRacken accounted for
10 points for Southport, closely
followed by her twin sister, Cath
erine, with 8.
In the boys game Southport
was in command all the way, with
tall Tommie Bowmer accounting
for 15 points. Runner-up in the
scoring parade was Brendle with
7 followed by Swan with 6. Clark
and Long were good for 6-points
each for Leland.
GETS PROMOTION
Currently assigned to the Itami
Air Base, in Japan as truck driver
for the Base Motor Pool, Private
First Class Robert P. Robinson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Robin
son, of Supply, has been promoted
to corporal. He has been in Japan
with the Air Forces since Jan
uary 5th.
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they're the best sport shoes you ever hod.
Come in for a pair and get ready for
more fun.
MINTZ & CO
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THOMAS CAFE
On Route 17?one mile north of S. C. State Line
Steaks ... Chops .... Seafoods
Pit Cooked Barbecue ? Sandwiches a Specialty
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MRS. JUNELLA THOMAS, Prop.
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Ford Cyclone Lock Shingle. This is the shingle you
have been looking for. Rides out the most severe wind
storms, yet costs no more.
36 - Months To Pay
R. B. WARREN, General Contractor
ROOFING ? ASBESTOS SIDING ? PAINTING
Cement and Brick Work
Dial 2-0129 ? WILMINGTON, N. C. ? 210 S. 9th St.
J. E. PINNER, Agent
PHONE 3256 SOUTHPORT, N. C.
Shrimp Trawlers
Catch Menhaden
Returns From These Efforts
Last Week Reached Prof
itable Proportions Accor
ding To Reports From
Fishermen
Showing real verality, several
of the large boats of the South
port shrimping fleet have been
keeping the plant of the Bruns
wick Navigation Company op
erating continuously for the past
three weeks. More and more of
the big boats are joining in the
operations, which are bidding fair
to be a regular winter-time in
dustry for the boats.
Some of the three men boats
turned in upwards of $900.00
worth of the menhaden to the
factory the past week. Top boat
in these operations was the Sea
Boys, big locally built trawler,
operated by Captain Kenwood
Varnum.. The Rosena, Captain
Sandy Simmons; Corporal Doug
las McArthur, Captain Roma
Smith (Colored); Dorothy and
Lelia, Captain Homer McKeithan,
were next in order. Several other
big boats only got ready in time
to operate for a day or two in
the week. Several additional craft
are out this week.
Fifteen or twenty minutes is
said to be the average time for
a drag to load up, this is against
an average drag length of about
one hour for shrimp.
Several of the boatmen and
boat owners have been h^ard to
express their appreciation of the
Brunswick Navigation Company
and Manager R. F. Plaxco for
providing a market for their
catches when there is not enough
shrimp to make shrimping opera
tions profitable.
County Native
Seeking Pardon
Frank Stuart, Alias Perry
Lee, Seeks Pardon From
North Carolina Prison
Authorities For Old
Crime
Although press dispatches from
Raleigh credit Frank Stuart, alias
Perry C. Lee, with being a native
of Brunswick county, nobody has
come forward to claim relation
ship and it is not known in South
port what section of Brunswick
Stuart, alias Lee, hails from.
The dispatch states that prison
director Clyde O. Robinson has
received a letter from Lee, the
letter saying that he would ap
preciate getting a pardon.
This set the prison authorities
to looking around to try and find
out what Perry, alias Lee, could
be pardoned for. They learned that
in 1933 Lee was arrested in War
ren county and sentenced to serve
6 to 8 years for conspiracy to
rob. He escaped from the Macon
county prison camp in 1936.
Some two or three years ago
he was located and arrested in
White Bird, Idaho, where he had
attained business success through
the operation of a lumber busi
ness and a restaurant. Because of
his good citizenship in Idaho the
governor of that state refused to
permit his being extradited to
North Carolina.
This past month the Raleigh
prison authorities were notified
that Stuart, alias Lee, had been
arrested in California as a fugi
tive, allegedly carrying? a gun.
ON HONEYMOON TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas,
married in New Jersey Sunday,
and Mrs. Thomas' brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ar
cesio Scabarozi, spent Monday
night and Tuesday here. They
were, on their way to Florida.
Mrs. Thomas, a daughter of Mrs.
Rose Scabarozi and the late P.
Scabarozi, was born in Southport
and lived here for two years prior
to the family moving to New
Jersey 20 years ago.
CREDITABLE WORK
Colored residents of Southport
have recently completed a most
creditable piece of work in
clearing off their cemetery, neat
the old CCC camp.
Bryant Death
Reported Here
Friends here regretted to learn
last weyk of the death of M. L.
Bryant, which occured at his
home in Fayetteville Thursday.
Mrs. Bryant and the three
daughters of the couple resided in
Southport for the past three
years. Mr. Bryant, employed in
Fayetteville, spent much of that
time here also. The first of the
year in order to be with him the
family moved to Fayetteville. One
of the daughters, Betty Jo, was
a star player on the high school
basket ball team here.
OPENING BRANCH
Green's Fuel Oil company of
Wilmington are opening a branch
in Southport and have rented the
space next to the tax building ? '
an office and supply room fof "
pliances, etc. The branch m b"
in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Dosher.
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A Brunswick County Business
LELAND, N. C.
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