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Rovin' Reporter ! continued trow page cmej 'is they may represent. week we ran across some interesting in The Rovin' tarter. Now, don't get the idea tare trying to flatter ourself. L R.nin' Reporter to which we ' lS Bob Ohl of the U. S. Ljl Air Station at Patuxent V. Maryland. The service pa f f0r which he writes is the Lxent Tester, established in jy i!>45. As we were writing p Rovin* Reporter in the State Pilot long before 1945, the p must have swiped our col c headlines. Anyway, they ap f ruling The Rovin' Reporter pmut in a jeep. Among other ws, our headline swipers ran p poetry in filling up their an' Reporter. Unable to resist , impulse, we are passing on , of their great efforts in verse t the benefit of Brunswick r.ty sirls: ?My lady, be wary of Cupid, ?pay heed to the lines of this verse ?To let a fool kiss you Is stupid, N To let a kiss fool you Is worse." > Kr and Mrs. Henry L. Brown Lexington Park. Md.. are regu t readers of The State Port it. Just about as reqularly, af r they read it, they have been ding their copy of The Pilot i sometimes other papers on Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hammock San Francisco. California. Re dly Mr. and Mrs. Hammock, p were stationed at Fort Cas II and had apartments with ! and Mrs. John Cannon and | Mr. and Mrs. Walter Aldridge during the early days of the war? wrote Mr. and Mrs. Brown, say ing they enjoyed all the papers1 sent them, especially The State Port Pilot. This moved Mr. Brown ' to send us a check for a year's j subscription for Mr. Hammock. In sending the check Mr. Brown said he and Mrs. Brown enjoyed The 1 Pilot just as mucfi as Mr. and Mrs. Hammock do. When they are pressed for itime with their tractor plowing, I discing, harrowing, etc., some of the Brunswick farmers might find i a good pattern to follow in the [ method employed by Everet H. IShepard, Yankee tomato grower. ; Getting his tomato plant fields j ready, Mr. Sheppard now has I tractors going around the clock. Two sets of tractor operators, j taking eight hour shifts and no j time off to go fishing, have been putting the Shepard land in read iness for the tomato seed. The tractors are, of course, equipped with lights for night work. Dawson Jones, one of the bi? sportsmen of Leland, was around at the office Monday afternoon and this department sought some kind of a working agreement with him for the spring months and summer. It was our proposi tion that we should trap the minnows for use in the spring if he would dig the worms that are better in the summer. This pro position had a stipulation that he would have to give a guarantee to perform his worm-digging part of the partnership. He objected to the guarantee feature, prob ably because he is alergic to work, as was our friend L. T. Yaskell, who is now living in New Jersey and very homesick because of his knowledge that the minnows are plentiful and that there was never before such fishing as we have coming on now. If all of the Brunswick folks who have bought cinder blocks, bricks and other uuilding ma terial from wrecking companies in Wilmington and Camp Davis make as good use of what they bought as Rev. T. F. Johnson did with his, there will be some very attractive buildings put up in Brunswick this year. If anybody doubts that cinder blocks will lend themselves to the construc tion of an attractive home, they' should go and see what has been build for Rev. and Mr. Johnson on Route 17, just above Bolivia, j Only 12 and small for her age,' Leticia Hickman, daughter of Chief of Police and Mi's. Otto ] Hickman, has won herself a regu-: lar playing place at forward on 1 the Southport girls' team. While more husky guards on opposing teams can sometimes keep her from the basket she is quick and accurate on her shots. It took three letters on our part to persuade William Sch wartz, big Washington, D. C., real estate man and a party of other sportsmen not to come down this week-end for some gulf stream fishing. Our idea of things was that the weather was altogether too unpredictable for that sort of operations. Aside from our love for basket ball, we are more or less neutral about which Brunswick county team should win a game. If they are playing against some team from outside Brunswick we are all for them. Friday night we were sitting on the visitors side of the Waccamaw gym. About 80 enthusiastic Southport fans had left their seats to stand by the railing and -cheer on the home town boys who were running away with things on the court. We may have been conspicious, sitting up there alone and indif ferent. Whatever it was, we thought it nice that Lina Mae Stanaland and Annie Jane Ben-| nett, guards on the Waccamaw girls team, should leave the Wac camaw side of the auditorium to come over to us and tell us about the Waccamaw girls team and their seven straight wins of the season. It is a part of our work to have folks tell us of interest ing things and we get a right good kick out of things when two pretty girls do just that. A few years ago'the hot water! 'wells at Fort Caswell attracted a great deal" of attention while the property was privately owned. Belief still exists as to the po tent qualities of those waters, es pecially for use in some ssort of ; chemical operation D. J. Smith of Southport has believed for sev eral years that there are possibili ties in the waters. William A. El lison, biologist here with the shrimp survey boat, appears to have similar ideas. At any rate they think that investigations should be made and Mr. Ellison may ?possibly make some private tests while he is here. I Proofs of the reading matter ' of a new South Eastern North Carolina coastal fishing guide that Is shortly to be issued by the State News and Advertising j Bureau were received here this | week. Some corrections and ad visable changes were made in ac cordance with a request. The Brunswick county coast is get-1 ting an exceptionally fine break in this guide. All points from) Town Creek down the coast to Calabash are getting a good de-1 scription of their fishing facilities and the sort of fishing to be had at the various points. Early the other morning, a time when very few other people were up, we were around where they are building the new Baptist church. Rev. H. M. Baker, an ex ception to the general run of folks, was up and about. The talk soon drifted around to basket ball. On this subject the preacher said: "You ought to see the col ored boys of the Brunswick Coun ty Training School play basket ball. They are good." This was a claim we can heartily endorse. We haven't seen the present team in action, but several times dur ing previous years we have seen the -school' put out in the way of basket ball teams. As the preacher said, they are good. In addition to getting a big bulldozer from Carolina Beach for his land clearing operations, E. H. Sheppard of Shiloh, N. J., has 'brought down fi-om his New Jer sey farm three truck loads of various sorts of farm machinery 'and- equipment. This included two rubber mounted farm tractors and a rubber mounted self propell ing tomato seed planter. Not the least of his farm stuff to get a ride down here was his personal jeep. Loading the small car en volved no other problem than, driving it on and off the big truck. The jeep and tractors were the easiest things to unload. Sandwiching the matter in be tween periods during the basket ball game the other night, Dr. R. H. Holden, of Shallotte and Hol den's Beach, advised us that pir ates used to use the niouth of Lockwoods Folly river as a har bor just as much or more than they used Bald Head Island. Many attempts have been made to locate treasure burled by the pirates on the Galloway and Hol den farms, jilst above Holden's Beach. J. L. Stone, Shallotte town ship farmer and tobacco grower, advised us this week that the to-' bacco plant prospects were veryi promising. Ten days ago Mr. Stone resowed 900-yards in his tobacco seed bed. Just as soon as he got the new seed in the old seed began coming up. His original seed had been alright. I His resowing simply resulted from the fact that he and other j growers do not care to take chances of not having sufficient plants. Once in a great while when the' truck is laid up, the W. B. & S. i Bus Lines bring down the mail from Wilmington on one of the regular passenger buses. Such a' time happened Monday. We were1 waiting at Bolivia for the bus, ] which lacked 10 minutes of being; due, when it flashed by before; it could be flagged. This distress- j ed Douglas Hawes who, wishing i us to get out of Bolivia as qutck- j ly as possible, commandered the | car of Mrs. Foster Mintz and set: out with us to catch that bus. j The regular one came by a few j minutes later. Mrs. D. W. Sabaston of Shal lotte decided Monday that her, brother, Edward G. Williamson, i of Lake Forest in Wilmington, | would be much better informed | regarding what was going on in ] Brunswick county if she sent him The State Port Pilot. We saw no reason to dispute her theory. At the same time we inquired into his and her ancestry and learned i that both, naturally, were child-1 ren of Capt. Bill Williams, for more than 30 years a freight boat skipper between Seaside and Wil mington. While carrying on with this occupation he took time out to raise a very pretty daughter, i Not even the Invitation of his honor, Mayor Leon Galloway, to attend the Shallotte Lipns Club Anniversary meeting Thursday, night as his special guest could i interest us away from our plans j to see the Southport-Shallotte Basketball games. The office pays our way to basketball games but1 does not pay our way to Lions Club meetings. Besides, we are going to have some special friends mixed up in that Thursday night basketball game at Shallotte. Sixty-two tractor owners and operators turned out for the trac tor school at Shallotte Friday! morning. At Winnabow in the | afternoon 19 more appeared for | the demonstrations in care and maintenance given by J. C. Fer guson of the Extension Depart ment at State College. County Agent Dodson and Mr. Ferguson were both very much pleased with the interest manifested at both places. Planting and caring, for garden fcrops already up. discing and plowing land has been the major interest of most Brunswick coun ty farmers this past week. Goo'1 >veather and springtime beinf here put everybody in the mind for this sort of work. The first thing we know now will be that Rice Gwynn or John B. Ward of Waccamaw township will have come in to report they are set ting out their tobacco plants. Things go a long way in neigh borly friendliness. The Baptists are building a new church and each Saturday the good ladies of the congregation have cake, can dy, etc., for sale, the proceeds to go to the church building fund. This past Saturday, as a friendly gesture from a Methodist, we bought a quarter's worth of the candy from Mrs. R. C. Daniel. We had hardly got to the office with it before Father Frank How ard, a Catholic, came around from Whiteville and helped us finish it up. As they are bound for distant points in many cases, a very large percent of the people charg ed with seeding put up a cash bond to cover the $7.50 court costs and the nominal fine of $10,000. This saves them from having to wait several days for the weekly session of the Re corders court. When the offense against them is called and they ; fail to answer, the bond for fine ^ and costs amounting to $17.50 1?! forfeited. This explain? why the! term "capias" is used in describ- j Ing the action relative to many cases coming up in the Record' er's court. . J. H. (Harve) Milligan of Wac-' camaw township was in town this week and proceeded to interview us about the political situation. While we have a fair Knowledge of the. go-about with respect to interviewing some one else, we are no good when it comes to somebody else Interviewing us a- j bout politics. As a matter _ of; fact, we recently interviewed j Bunn Frink. Since then he fias; been getting local and long dis-j tance calls from all about over' the State. In each case he side-j tracks the issue by informing the! would-be interviewers that any j statement from him,w'ill have to j come from* us. An orphan reared by Mr. and I Mrs. Jeff Wescott, of Southport, Robert Shields left Southport 20 years ago. After working around here and there he enlisted in the Army and has been In the ser vice for the past 16 years. He came home last week for the first time in the 20 years to visit Mr. and Mrs. Wescott and other rela tives and friends. Former chairman of the board of county commisioners O. P. Bellamy is another good tobacco grower who is expressing the opinion that the plant prospects are alright for Brunswick county. Mr. Bellamy, whose farm is near Hickman's Cross Roads, stated this week that his plants are doing nicely. He had not heard of any growers who were anti cipating a shortage of plants. WANT ADS FOR SALE: Practically new 75-lb. capacity ice box. Bar gain. Walker Lancaster, South port, N. C. PLANT NEW EVERBEARING FIGS NOW and enjoy delicious j Figs from July to December. | Send us only $4.65 for three Bearing Size Trees Postpaid. We will also send Free Copy 48-Page Planting Guide illus-1 trated in full color. Salesman I Wanted. ' WAYNESBORO NURSERIES Waynesboro, Virginia FOR SALE: 45-ft. shrimp boat, new Chrysler Marine motor, three new shrimp nets. $3,000.00 cash. Boyd Robinson, Shallotte Point, Shallotte, N. C. FOR SALE: Two-apartment house, excellent location. Seven building lots situated on high way near hospital. Available at bargain price. Stevens Agency, Southport, N. C. FOR SALE: New cement block building, 66-ft. frontage on highway near hospital. Suitable for residence or business. Bar gain. Southport Motor & Ma chine Shop, Southport, N. C. FOR SALE: 2-row cultivator for John Deere, A. B. or GM tract or, complete with shovels, disk hillers, spread-bars, hand and power lifts. Used one season. J. E. Olsen, Box 993, Wilmington, N. C. Auto UPHOLSTERING ? Convertible Top? ? Head Linings ? Side Panels ? Seat Covers ? Body Repair ? Auto Painting ? Welding SEE CLYDE SPRADLEY'S GARAGE & BODY SHOP FOR SALE: DeLux Model Cold spot. Excellent condition. Im mediate possession. $150.00. Call State Port Pilot, Southport, N. C. TYPEWRITER REPAIR ING?Any make. Also do repairing and cleaning on Adding Machines. Prices reasonable. See Mr. Harper at State Port Pilot Office, or contact me at 810 East Walter Street, Whiteville, N. C./Phone 3088. FOR SALE: Old Capt. Moore place, located 2jl0-mile from school building in Bolivia. Seven acres good land, 4-room house and outbuildings. Price J 1.600. 00. Stevens Agency, Southport, N. C. BEACH LOT: Front row, Long Beach. For sale at sacrifice. If you are thinking of buying a lot at the beach, dont miss this opportunity. STEVENS AGENCY, Southport. N. C. | NOTICE Notice is hereby given that by vlr tue of a decree of the Superior Court of Brunswick County. N. C., dated the 12th day of February. 1948. In an action entitled "Brunswick County versus Israel Hankins," the under signed commissioner will expose at public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash on the 20th day of March. 1948. at 12 o'clock Noon, at the Court House door. Southport. N. C., to satisfy the decree of said court ?o enforce the payment of $203.07. the following described real estate, located In Town Creek Township. Brunswick County, N. C., bounded and described as follows:? BEGINNING at a dead pine, runs thence North 50 degrees West 56 poles to a spruce pine; thence North 55 degrees West 70 poles to a stake at public road; thence with said road to a stake: thence South 55 degrees East III poles to a stake; 'thence North 55 degrees East 40 poles *to the Beginning; containing 26 acres, as will more fully appear by ref erence to Book ZZ. Page 577, of the Brunswick County Registry. All sales subject to report to and confirmation by the Court. Ten days allowed for raise of bid before re port made. Cash to be paid at sale. This the 18th day of February, 1918. R. I. MINTZ, Commissioner. 3-17c. NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that by vir tue of a decree of the Superior. Court of Brunswick County, N. C., dated the lL'th day of February. 1948. In] an action entitled "Brunswick Coun-1 ty versus Winnie I*. Cliff and bus-1 band. E. M. Cliff." the undersigned commissioner will expose at public J auction sale to the highest bidder for cash on the 20th day of March, 1948. at 12 o'clock Noon, al the Court House door, Southport. N. C., to satisfy the decree of said Court to enforce the payment of $244.06, the following described real estate. lo- i cated In Waccamaw Township, Bruns wick County, N. C., bounded and described as follows: ? BEGINNING at an oak In Smith's line near the public road; runs thence South 70 West 16 poles to a stake; thence West 23 poles and 20 links to a stake; thence North 7 de grees East 25 j>oles to a stake in Smith's line; thern-e the same South 70 degrees East to the BEGINNING; containing 3-*i acres and being the same tract of land described Tn a deed from W, M. Smith, et ux., to Winnaford Cliff, as .will appear by j reference to Book G4, Page 590. I All sales subject to report to and confirmation by the Court. Ten days allowed for raise of bid before re port made. Cash to be paid at sale. This the 18th duy of February,! 1948. R. I. MINTZ, Commissioner. | 3-l7c. NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that by virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of Brunswick County, North Carolina, dated the 12th day of Feb ruary. 1948, in an action entitled "Brunswick County versus Bertram Berry and Martha Berrv Littlejohn." the undersigned commissioner will expose at public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash on the 20th day of March. 1948, at 12 o'clock j noon, at the Court House door. South port. N. C.. to satisfy the decree of | said court to enforce the payment of ,$387.31, the following described real estate, located In Smlthville Town ship, Brunswick County, North Caro lina, bounded and described as fol lows:? BEGINNING at the Northwest comer of Cabell R^i!.U ?i|H(?5 Owen Stfeel.tMrwl ^ ? Av,nut. wardly. P?r*IW North line ?f ?*Jn Eritf ??& ? '?'WSS ""of referente to Book ? H,gigtry the report to anil AU sale? court Ten days confirmation b> the rB. allowed for r*l* of oiq ? #( n|( ^Thirihe 18th day Of February. 19'* I; j misTZ. Commissioner. Notice I. tue of , a d^ree of he ^u, ? , of Brunawick Counur. 19tt. In i? M 20th day, o( ,, r,Le Court House o'clock Noon, a* l? t0 s:lUsfy U>? door Southport, . . ((i ,.n(0r0t tji? decree of ?*'i4 ,hc following /le paymeni of ????--* located In Scribed Township. Brunswick County N. C.b?un*dl5' and described a'8amiOW4'ii ?? ^T^cny of sUu.hport, teaHvr,lnoi; aforesaid m-S-nuln? ? SIW Rlscord Street (No Houndary feet from the l.ast nn^ ?lih Street. ? and running P?ranei jt# mi ill line of Rf"n, ar> ? ulacord veyeu by Marnei , necember 4, TSlf^coVVd^ Btk''3fl t>a? 81. of Brunswick County "^^rt to and All sales subje. t ?o ?0?'? J,"' ? , ffiSM? raise of ^ mThl? C0.e" Wlh day of February. ",8- R. I. MINTZ, Commissioner. 3-17e. - ADMINISTRATOR'S A*??Erator cTa oHhe"e^e of 1-orena Bgj nls Her8??n' nSlTthl? 1" 10 n0,lft County of "r.u"," ?.!h|ma agalnst said all persons having cwun* ??. ?njtr estate to present them ILo ?h<< of signed on or before the -?n '*,? February. 19?. ?r J ,m" recovery/ be pleaded In bar of ^ estate .m ?SE?1 Lorena Ennls Bergman, Le land. N. C. 2-25-6 times. - SOTICE State Of North Carolina County Of BrunswicV i?wer Under and by \inu? ? J(,e,l of sale contained In a ? w Mllchell of trust executed by John y,, and Wife tula B. ft^^d recorded Int. day of 3ia>. 1? ? . lhe In Hook t7 at l)a*P iwds of Bruits of the Register of defauU wide County. North laroiinm. of having l>een madeIn the and the Indebtedness thereby se ,hB atWy-sK'a.'s.itt ?-tgWhSvau the Sj-igr ??3s?T}ii" 58 iot'tc ^Townshli^and more particularly 1 described as folio?' ? o{ Tr? t v " nf?i'hc \Yllna V. Thomas pro j^rty according to map lh?g?L ,7,'. corded in Map Book N ? of the I'ublic Records of BruuswiCK taxes. This the 10th. day of February. , S. B. FHINK. Trustee. I Frink & Herring, Attya. 3-lOc. JTOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as executor of the estate of 8. W. Kadon, deceased, late of Brunnwick County, this is to notify all persons havln* clnlmn against said estate to present them duly itemized and verified to the un dertdicued at Bolivia. X. C.,. on or before the l^h day of Junuary, 1949. or thla notice will be pleadetl In bar of recovery. All person? indebted to ?aid estate will please make Im mediate payment. This January 17. 1948. MRS. VIRA L. EADOM, Administratrix. 2-25c. Notice OF MEETING OF THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION and REVIEW MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1948 Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to sec tion 1105 of the Machinery Act, Public Laws of 1939, a meeting of the Board of Equalization and Review will.... BE HELD ON THE 15th DAY OF MARCH, 1948 The Board shall, on request, hear any and all tax payers who own or control property assessed for tax ation in the county with respect to the valuation of such property or others; and shall perform such other duties as required by the Machinery Act with respect to assessing and listing property for taxation. No notice will be mailed to Taxpayers except in case of an increase in valuation of property. f W. P. Jorgensen TAX SUPERVISOR Brunswick County SCHEDULE W B &B BUS LINE Southport, N. C. EFFECTIVE TUES., JAN. 20,1948 WEEK-DAY SCHEDULE LEAVES SOUTlrfORT LEAVES WILMINGTON ** 7:00 A. M. 7:00 A.M. *9:30 A.M. 9:30 A.M. - 1:35 P.M. *1:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 10:20 P.M. *?These Trips on Saturday Only. **?This Bus Leaves Winnabow at <6:10 Daily. - SUNDAY ONLY - LEAVES SOUTHPOBT LEAVES WILMINGTON 7:30 A.M. 9:00 A.-M. 10:50 A.M. 1:35 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 10:20 P.M. We are now in a position to take care oi your orders for lumber, building supplies and paints. SMITH BUILDERS SUPPLY, Inc. Castle Hayne Road Dial 2>3339 Wilmington, N. C. STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES -FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES / When you go shopping for food in Shallotte, Make Our Store Your First Stop! We have been serving Brunswick county people for many years, and we have learned the things they like best. You will find our shelves a mighty good place to stock up your pantry. Another thing you will like about our store? .... is the Savings you will make if you do your trading here regularly. * " D- CARL ANDREWS "THE OLD DEPENDABLE" SHALLOTTE, N. C.