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Beaufort Mews ' -State Library "1 The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WATCH Your label and pay your subscription PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 25 VOLUME XV EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY JUNE 24, 1326 .; ); i -a z I V INSURANCE FOLKS SAY HAMLETJIAN WAS A FIREBUG Baker Caught In Hs Own Trap And Burned To Death HAD HOUSE INSURED (By M.'L. SHIPMAN- Raleigh, N. C. June 21 The part of North Carolina at the Sesqui centennial celebration at Philadel phia, the report of the State Treas ury showing a pleasing surplus, the declaration of the official returns of the election and other matters held interest in Raleigh during the week. The report of the insurance depart ment on the recent boarding house fire at Hamlet turning a "hero" in to a "murderer" was read with in terest and the Capital City heard that departments will have the five per cent cut off their budget restored by the Governor. ' Governor McLean returned to Ra leigh Saturday after spending the week at Philadelphia and Valley Forged Pa. At Philadelphia he spoke on North Carolina, marched in the parade of the original states and took a leading part in the celebra tions of the week which were devot ed to the original states of the Union. At Valley Forge he spoke at the ded ication of the North Carolina Bay in the Valley Forge ( memorial to Washington. With the report-of the State Treas urer and Auditor showing a surplus after eleven months of the fiscal year have passed of more than two mil lion dollars and with the possibility the surplus will be at least a million after large interest payments are de ducted on July first, it is reported in official circles that Governor Mc Lean will order the five percent cut made in' the budgets of all depart ments and institutions to be restor ed. The cut wag . ordered . by the Goftrnor as director of the budget many-months ago when it appeared the State might have a deficit in. stead of a surplus and in line with his duty as budget director which re quires that he keep expenditures within revenue. The large income and other collections created a sur plus. Governor McLean has had nothing to say on the subject of whether he will order the five per. cent restored as of July first but there are persistent reports he has this matter under consideration. The state board of elections met during the week and declared the official count of the election of June C. It showed that Mr. Overman de feated Robert R. Reynolds for the senatorial nomination by a major ity of approximately 48.000 and that Reynolds carried 26 of the counties while Mr. Overman earned 74 coun. ties. Nominees were declared for other positions, an official recount was refused in, the solicitors race in the seventh district in which W. F. Evans, incumbent, requested a re count of the votes in his race against Leon S. Brassfield. The report of the Fire Insurance Department on the recent boarding house fire at Hamlet in which four lost their lives created quite a sur prise. B. B. Baker, Who lost his life, had been hailed as a hero in the first reports but there were some suspi. cious curcumstances and the case was investigated. It developed, says the reDort. that Baker had heavily insur. ed his boarding house furniture and effects, that he had apparently killed one of his boarders before the fire for his money and burned the house to hide this crime and to collect the insurance. It was also discovered he had been involved in a murder case in South Carolina several years ago and his house had burned before just after being heavily insured. The evi. dvnea is all circumstantial but it leadB to insurance department to the belief that Baker lost his life in his own trap for he was burned to death while presumably rescuing persons from the house but, in the opinion of the fire forces fighting the flames, while making his way back into the house to feed the flames with gaso line and kerosene. The State Board of Health met during the week but again failed to elect a secretary to carry on the work which Dr. Rankiin directed be fore he joined the Duke Foundation. Dr. G. O. Coober has been acting . secretary for a year but the board has made ud its mind whether to elect him and in the meantime he is handlinr the department in a high ly efficient manner. The delay of the Board is puzzling outsiders here but it has been rumored there some internal dissension which pre vents a definite decision. , (Continued on page three) TWELVE FOOT CHANNEL FAVORED BY COMMITTEE On Monday President W. H. Tay lor of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce received a telegram from Senator F. M. Sintmons saying that he had gotten the unanimous ap. proval of the Committee on Com merce of the U. S. Senate for an eight foot channel for the Inland waterway from Eeaufort to the Cape Fear river. Another telegram from Senator Simmons was received by Mr. Taylor Tuesday in which he said that he has succeeded -in getting the committee to adopt a twelve foot depth instead of the eight foot chan nel. The depth- of twelve feet had been recommended by the engineers in charge ofthe survey. If the riv ers and harbors bill passes Congress, with the provisions referred to in it, it is thought that work will start on the waterway witHSn the next twelve months. It is estimated that it will take $4,500,000 to complete the job. CARTERET COUNTY BULLETIN ISSUED Three Students At The Univer sity Write Interesting County Sketch A recent publication from the Uni versity of North Carolina press is ar interesting pamphlet entitled "Car teret County: Economic And Social." It was issued under the auspices of the Carteret County Club and if a bulletin similar to others that have been put out from time to time by other county clubs aS the University. 'The actual work of preparing the material for the Carteret county bul letin was done by Miss Aleeze Lef- ferts, Mr. Clifford W. Lewis and Mr. Henry C. Lay. The publication con tains 99 pages of information about the county and its people and is very creditable to the student au thors. The subjects discussed in the bulletin are the folowing."The, His torical Background", by Aleeze Lef ferts. H. C. Lay, C. W. Lewis; "Nat ural Resources" by H. C. Lay; "The County's People" by Alee Lefferts; "Wealth And Taxation" by C. W. Lewis; "Carteret County Industries" by H. C. Lay; 'Farm Conditions And Practices" by Aleeze Lefferts; "The Local Market Problem" by H. C. Lay; "Schools" by C. W. Lewis; "Ev idences of Progress" by H. C. Lay and C. W. Lewis; "Carteret County Problems" by Aleeze Lefferts. As can be seen from the titles of the articles in the bulletin pretty much every thing of interest pertaining to Carteret county has been discussed. The pamphlet also carries a number of very good illustrations and several informative statistical tables. LARGE POTATO CROP ABOUT ALL HARVESTED Probably the largest crop of Irish potatoes ever raised in Carteret county, or at any rate one of the lavpest. has iust been harvested. Up to and including Wednesday's ship ments 207 solid car loads have gone out. from Beaufort this season. This does not include several cars shipped from Morehead City and a good many smal IshiDments from here. While the crop has practically all been har vested there will be a few more snip. ments this week and next Potato prices have advanced considerably recentlv. In Elizabeth City and Aurora on Monday number ones were $5.50 to $5.75 and on Tues day about the same. On the eastern shore of Virginia Tuesday numher ones were quoted at $6.25 to $6.50. MENHADEN FISHING HAS BEEN GOOD RECENTLY For several weeks menhaden fish- in r has been eood in this section, Not many boats have been engaged in it thousrh as only three factories are in operation, those of C. P. Dey, Taylor's Creek Fish Scrap ana uu flnmnanv an d the Atlantic Fisheries. Yesterday Captain Ned Lewis who ia in command of the W. A. Mace brought in some 400,000 fish and he has caught several othir good loads roeentlv. Mr. Dev's boats the Alert and Elizabeth have also been doing well. The fish, caught are small and have yery itt,e oil in them. They make very good scrap or fish meal thousrh and the work of catching the fish and making scrap furnishes em ployment to a considerable number of men. MARRIAGE LICENSES Owen Conter and Mary Haskett Harlowe, N. C. Americans purchase annually $5, 000,000,000 worth of goods, on the installment plan. BOARD APPROVES NEW CITY BUDGET A Total of $81,585.00 Is Esti mated Aa Necessary For Next Fiscal Year An adjourned meeting of the board of commissioners of the town of Eeaufort was held at the city hall Tuesday morning. Those present were Mayor Thomas, commissioners Maxwell, Noe, Smith and Whitehurst The principal object of the meeting was to consider the town's probable expenditures for the coming fiscal year and to adopt a budget. City Treasurer W. L. Stancil was present and assisted in preparing the budget which was aproved. Before it is finally adopted however it will be held open for revision. It will come up for final action at some meeting to be held in July and citizens who wish to do so can express themselves in regard to it at that time. The total amount of the budget as now stands is $81,585.00. This shows that the town's expenses have increased very largely in the past four or five years. The principal terns of the proposed budget are in terest payments on bonds issues. The interest on $375,000 street im provement bonds is $22,500.00. The iteiest on all bond issues except the street -bonds is $17,500.00. The sum of $13,000 is set aside in the budget to retire that amount of the street bonds. There are of course various other items in the proposed budget. The matter of the side track on Broad street which has been discuss ed at several meetings was taken up again and the' action of the board was rescinded again.. A motion of fered by Commissioner Smith was adopted which provides that the track shall be laid between Queen and Craven streets to the ice plant. A motion offered by Commissioner Whitehurst that creosoted piles be used in building the city dock ' on Ftont street: to front of the' Inlet Inn was adopted. DEEDS RECORDED SHOW ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE A considerable namber of 'deeds have been recorded recently by Reg ister of Deeds John W. Hamilton and his assistants. As indicated by these most of the realty sold recently has been in Morehead township although sales have taken place in other parts of the county. The list up to date is as follows: E. K. Bishop Co. to Morehead Heigts Inc. 27 acres Morehead town ship for $10. W. P. Whitaker Jr. to Morehead Island Co. 2 tracts Morehead town ship for 2000. Morehead Bluffs to C. A. Morns- ette lots 30 31 32 Block 45 Morehead Bluffs for $150. Bogue Dev. Corp. to Almira W. Bruton lot no. 5 Block 47 Morehead City for $6500. W. V. Pellitier to Mattie A. Adams 89-100 acres Morehead township for $10. C. H. Piner and Wife to Lucy Wil lis 1-2 of lot 6 Morehead City for $300. etc. Abbie F. Willis to Mattie Fiver lot 40 Rever street Newport lor $juu. C. E. Millis to Wm. H. Bell 2 acres Newport for $10. etc. Va. Carolina Land Corp. to n. u. Smith lot 5 to 16 and 20, Newport for $100.- E. F. Oglesby and Wife to J. fi. Hibbs 10 acres Oyster Bed Newport township for $10. Geo. W. Huntley and Wife to W. G. Mebane lot 3 Hammock property Beaufort for $100. etc. Sallie F. Sharp to W. G. Mebane lot Hammock property for $100. etc. C. R. Wheatly to T. W. Bnnson et al lot 75 Old Town Beaufort, for $1,130. Beaufort Realty Corp. to M. L,. Kustler lots 21 and 22, Block 58 West Beaufort for $240. Beaufort Realty Corp. to Steve Changaries and wife lots 16, 17, 49, Blocks 37 and 70 West Beaufort for $T0. etc. George Davis to C. P. Dey 4 acres more or, less on North side Taylors Creek for $10. Walter Davis and wife to Eugene Yeomans and Wife 1-2 acre Harkers Island for $400. Cape Lookout Developing Corp. to C. E. Lewis lot 11 Block 31 .Cape Lookout for $100. George T. Doffes and Wife to G M. Telghman lot 6 Block 1 Bogue Bluff for $3000. Morehead Bluffs Inc. to C. W. Mos sier lots 44, 45, Block 16 Morehead Bluffs for $1,440.08. Morehead Bluffs Inc. to Charles K. Massey lots 46, 47 Block 16 More, head Bluffs for $1,440.08. MAN BADLY CUT AT BEACH SUNDAY George D. Styron of Beaufort And J. I. Baker Have A Serious Difficulty ; According to the latest informa tion which the News has been able to obtain, Mr. George D. Styron of Eeaufort who was badly cut in a fight 'that occurred at Atlantic View Beach is getting pretty well. He is not entirely out of danger of blood poison, or septicaemia as the doctors call it, but if it dees not develop very socn the danger will be past. He was taken to the hospital at Morehead City immediately after the fight and is there yet. Mr. J. I. Baker, man ager of the beach hotel and pavilion who did the cutting was arrested by Sheriff Wade shortly after the occur rence and was put under a $300 by Magistrate J. R. Bell of Morehead City. The trial was set for Friday but will not take place then because Mr. Styrcn will not be able to attend it. It has been rather difficult for the News to get at the facts as to the difficulty and they probably will not be known until the trial brings them out. As the News heard it the re port is that Styron and one or two other men had been upstairs in the building called the pavilion. That Uaker saw them and accused them of going there to drink whiskey and ordered them to stay out. Some ten or fifteen minutes afterwards Styron approached Baker downstairs iri the building near the cash register and asktd him what he meant by talking to him as he had done. They had some words and Styron struck Baker a hard blow in the face and Eaker cut himin the abdomen with a poc ket knife. The cut was four or five inches long and deep enough to cause the intestines to protrude from the wound although they were not cut. His friends carried the wounded man to 4 .boat and then to the hospital. Baiter is a man of about sixty years cf age. He and his wife and several children are living at the Ocean Beach hotel. Styron is married also and has several children. The fight caused considerable excitement over at the beach Sunday and there has been a good deal of talk about it here in Beaufort since then. ' INLET INN ARRIVALS. Mrs. I. M. Meekins, Miss Mary Meekins, Miss Isabella Meekins, of Elizabeth City and Miss Ursula Burns of New York, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Finley of Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Heyward and children, Raleigh, A. D. Matthews, Oxford, W. D. Car ter, Wilson, B. M. Washburn, F. B. Harris, Wilmington, G. K. Lewis, Winnabow, E. B. Morrow, Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hellen, Durham. A. J. ilpatrick, A. J. Kilpatrick Jr., Charles M. Kilpatrick, Wm. Philpot, C. D. Ward, W. D. Sanford, Augusta, Ga., E. T. McClenagahn, Raleigh. ANNUAL PICNIC TUESDAY. The annual picnic of Ann Street Methodist Church took place Tues day. It was held at Atlantic View Beach and a large crowd attended. The weather was fine and the surf bathing and other pastimes weie greatly enjoyed by the children as well as by a considerable number of grown people who were present. A tame elephant eats more than one thousand pounds of green fod der and twenty-five pounds of un- husked rice daily. DAVIS HOUSE ARRIVALS. Some of the guests of the Davis House recently were as follows: J. G. Mould, N. E. A. McManus. W. A. Ludwick of the-Texas Oil Company, A. W. Green, F. M. Wheeler, T. W. Watson, Louisburg, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Carr, Miss Rita Williams, F. L. Carr Jr., Branch Carr, Bill iJridgers, A. D. McGowan, of Wilson, N. C. Toms, Stuart Toms, Morristown, N. J., J. J. Harrington, Greenville, Miss Virginia Swink, Woodruff, S. C. Miss Frances Wortham, R. J. Bowen C. A. Wilson, E. S. Gray of Winston. Salem, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Newton, Wilmington. F. T. Garner and Wife to M. Mann 2 lots Newport tpwnship for $10. B. S. Taylor and Wife to J. R. Piver, 20 acres Straits Township for $500. James A. Harris and Wife to Mary F. Piner tract Smyrna township for $30. etc. Tyre Moore and Wife to Eugene O. Moore 1-2 acre Smyrna township for $25. VOTERS URGED TO GIVE SUPPORT TO EIGHT MONTHS SCHOOL TERM Superintendent Workman in Final Appeal Asks For Fair Deal For Rural Children. In Many Districts Taxes Will Be Lower Than Now From time to time we have given do this. The county owes every you facts and figures about the eight J child an equal chance. So go out to months school term. All of these , the polls on Saturday June 26th. and have been tabulated from facts and ! lend a helping hand. You can nev records, and we have been careful fr do a better deed in your life, to present the facts as they are, and Many of you may not see just what it has always been our policy to rep-! this will mean to the education of resent the school situation to the pub j Carteret. County, but in two or lie as it is. It is greatly to the ad- j three years you can realize f o ryour vantage of every tax payer in special i self what it will mean and you will tax districts to vote for the proposi- j thank yourself for casting a vote for tion, if they vote against this they ; the equalization of educational op are voting against their own inter, j portunities in Carteret County, ests, financially and otherwise. The Now friends, speak with the bal. only places there will be an increase j lot so that those who come after you in taxes will be in the non-local tax j will be better prepared to make a districts and this has been explained living and can join tl.e ranks of a to these people. i better and more nob'e citizenship, As a whole the farming interests which after all is sumned up in our .- n,.. m,n The i contribution to civlm.tion. biggest farming section is around j Newport and they have eight months j term there So the school can be adjusted to the farming conditions, Now, good people of Carteret j County a few more d&ys and you 1 have a chance to decide the biggest ; ouestion for the children of Carter et County that you have ever had. The question is up to you. The children of Carteret County stanc ready to drink from the fountain of knowledge. All they want is a chance to sip from the cup that holds for them the fundamental essential that supplies for them the satisfac tion and quenches the thirst of the anxious mind. The satisfying of this thirst for knowledge creates in him interest, desire, ambition, aspi ration to do, make and to be. The child's mind is plastic and here you lay the foundation for good or bad. Give him a chance to broaden, ex pand, originate, grow, develop into a man with an influential citizenship, give all the .children a chance to make the very best citizens possible. If not th progress of the future suf fers. If we- develop and educate the children of on section and not the others, we are only reaching a part of our citizenship of tomorrow. Carteret county's educational sys tem is no stronger than its weakest link. The district used to be the unit in the primitive stage of our educational system. Now we have grown beyond that, we have broad ened much. The State now recog nizes the county only as the unit of an educational system, and says that the county is responsible for the ed ucation of all of its children. Our communities have grown beyond the small locality. Our whole county is one community. It is only fair and right that the county as a whole should educate all of its children. County after county in North Caro lina is beginning to recognize that it is the only and just way to edu cate its children. Not many years hence the State will be the unit and one big community. Lets get away from the district idea; that is a thing of the past. If it is fair and just for the county to furnish to every child a six months education from the general county fund then why is it not fair and just for the county to furnish every child eight months on the same basis from the genera! fund? It is, Dear voter think. This is the fairest, squarest school propo sition that you have ever had a chance to vote on for the children of the county. A special school tax of between 20 and 30c, more like 25c will pay the salary of the entire teaching corps for two extra months county wide, and this is all that is asked for. The present special tax in all the rural districts will be elim inated. This method guarantees ev ery child in the county an eight months school term. Mr. and Mrs. Voter if you have reeistered do not fail to vote; that will count a vote against the school system and against the boys and girls in Carteret County. You can not afford to vote against an eight months school term for any boy or girl. ' If you stay away you are voting against them. If you go to the polls and vote against an eight months school term you are voting against them. So now is the time to do your bit for the children of Carteret County, It is a matter of right, justice and principle to vote for an EIGHT MONTHS SCHOOL TERM. Do not remain at home on next Saturday but come out to the I polls early and cast a ballot for' the future manhood and womanhood of Carteret County. Carteret County can not afford to let nearly one-half of its children be strangled with handicaps, while the other half walk the royal path to knowledge. It can not afford to Let us not neglect, forget, or be indifferent to pay this GREAT RE- i to me emmnu m u lUu, u tne iatner ana moini r oi tomorrow. I will close with thi farewell words of our immortal edi cational gover nor, Aycock. "EQUAL". That s the word! The equal right of ever; child born on earth to have the opportunity "to 'iurgeon out all that there is with n Him." Very t uly yours, J. H. WORKMAN, County Superintendent Schools. TO DRAW PLANS FOR CAUSEWAY Bids To Be Received On New Undertaking at More head Gty Morehead City, June 23. George Brooks, Beaofart engineer,- wm to -day commissianed to draw up plans and specifications for a causeway across Bogue Sound conecting Morehead City directly with the ocean beach., Bids w U be received early in July, accordiig to officials of the Atlantic Beach Bridge Cor poration, which is financing the project. ' The bridge was recently author ized by the United States War De partment and the Carteret county board of commissioners. It will be the final link in carrying State High way No. 10 all the way from beyond tha mountains at the Tennessee line to the Atlantic surf. Preliminary specifications for the bridge call for concrete piling and wooden top, with one draw for the inland waterway. It will leave Morehead City at 28th street and extend over half a mile to the beach. Estimates place the cost in the neighborhood of a quarter of a mil lion dollars. Plans now call for completion be fore next summer. The bridge will not be used solely for the transpora. tion of pleasure seekers, but will -form an important link in the com- ' mercial trade of this section, giving access by road to local markets for fish and truck from the 20-mile strip of land now cut off from the main land by Bogue Sound. Formerly the only means of transporation has been by boat. JUDGE NUNN'S RACE COST HIM $1,916.54 Raleigh, June 23 Judge R. A. Nunn in his successful race for the Democratic nomination for Superior court judge in the fifth district spent $1,916.54. This is shown by his statement of campaign expenses which was filed with the secretary of state today. Julius Brown, his op ponent, spent $153.92. MISS JONES ENTERTAINS IN HONOR OF HER GUESTS Miss Annie Neal Jones delightful ly entertained last Friday night at her home on Quern Street in honor of her house guest Mrs. Clifford Ilor naday. ThS party was unique and was planned to drive away cares and hvino lauffhter. Each entree rjlaved j bl.ought forth a riot of aii!iter 'a:td enjoyment. Mrs. Horace Seeley won the prize for being able to make i's best man out of a stick of chewing gum. Miss titta Manson was suc cessful in a guessing contest. While a delicious salad course was being served Mrs. Hornaday, in her usual charming manner, entertained the guests with humorous readings. , The guests on departing declared the evening one to be long remem bered.
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