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O) lr O) K (p9 I IX. 4 State library X Ini&uu The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING JO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY ") WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XV EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY SEPT. 16, 1926. PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 37 UK 11 iiliJ FINANCIAL STATISTICS OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT OFN. C. FOR YEAR 1925 Operating .Expenses And Maintenance of Departments Were Over Sixteen Millions. This Does Not Include Permanent Improvements Like Road Building. Revenue Over Twenty Eight Millions . (By U. S. Department of Commerce- Washington, D. C, September 14, i 1926 The Department of Commerce announces a summary of the finan cial statistics of the State of North Carolina for "the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. ' ' , Eipanditorc. The payments for maintenance and operation of the general departments of North Carolina for the facal year ending June 30, 1925, amounted to 116,679,744, or $6.09 per capita. This includes $1,842,788, apportion ments for education to the minor civil divisions of the State. In 1924 the comparative per capita for main tenance and operation of general department was $5.79, and in 19 J 7, $1.96. The expenses of public ser vice enterprises amounted to S26, 061; interest on debt, $4,421,994; and outlays for pernament improve ments, $26,296,950. The total pay ments, therefore, for expenses - of general departments and public ser vice enterprises, interest, and out. lays were $47,424,739. The totals include all payments for the year, whether made from current revenues or from the proceeds of bond issues. Of the governmental costs report ed above. $25,212,575 was for high ways, $3,310,684 being for main, tenance and $21,901,891 for con struction. RcVCBM. The total- revenue receipts of North Carolina for 1925 were $28, 416,461, or $10.37 per capita. This was $7,288,". 2 more than the to til payments of the year, ! exclusive, of the year, exclusive of the payments - for permanent improvements, but $19,008,278 less than the total pay ments including those for permanent improvements. . These payments in excess of revenue receipts were met from the proceeds of debt obligations Property and special" taxes represent ed 18.5 per cent of the total revenue for 1925, 27.0 per cent for 1924, and 60.2 per cent for 1917. The increase in the amount of property and special taxes collected was 92.6 per cent from 1917 to 1924, but there was a decrease of 8.0 per cent from 1924 to 1925. The per capita property and special taxes were $1.92 in 125 $2.10 in 1924, and $1.20- in 1917. The receipts from generarproperty taxes in 1924 and 1925 were neli gible, being simply delinquencies. Earnings of general departments, or compensation for services render ed by state officials, represented 11.2 per cent of the total revenue for 1925, 14.5 per cent for 1924, end 20.4 per cent for 1917. Business and nonbusiness licenses constituted 49.3 per cent of the to tal revenue for 1925, 39.1 per cent for 1924, and 19.4 per cent for 1917. The percentage of increase, in re ceipts from business and nin. business licenses noted for 1925 was due, principally, to increased amounts re ceived fro mautomobile licenses and from the sales tax on gasoline. Receipts from ' business licenses consist. chiefly of taxes exacted from insurance and other "-incorporated . companies and from sales tax on gasoline, while those from non-busi. . ness licenses comprise chiefly taxes on motor vehicles. Indebted. The net indebtedness (funded or fixed debt less sinking fund assets of North Carolina, on June 30, 1925, was $91,646,408, or $33.44 per cap ita. In 1924 the per capita debt was $25.28, and in 1917, $3.85, the increase shown for 1925 being due to a bond issue for highway purposes. Amcm4 Valuatiaaa and Tax Levi. In North Carolina, there is no levy of the general . property tax " for State purposes. PREPARING FOR ELECTION v Cowity Board of Elections -chair man, D. E..LangdaIe has "called a meeting of that body for tomorrow (Friday) morning at nine o'clock. The object of the meeting is to set the machinery in motion for the No. ember election when county officers and several State officials are to be elected. A congressman for the third district, as well as all other dis tricts will be chosen at the same time. The registration books will open Sepl tember the 30th and remain for thirty days. T ; - Messrs &ari uoody of Charlotte an dStacy Nelson of Gloucester have accepted positions with Hou- Drug company. MARRIAGE PERMITS SEEM TO PE INCREASING There appears to' be wore activity in the matrimonial market now than for some time, as evidenced by per mits granted. Register of Deeds John-W. Hamilton has issued licenses recently to the following named couples. Leland G. Watson, Peletier and Glennie V. Poole, Stella, N. C. W. D. Norris and Katie Belle Hol land, Peletier, N. C. Leonard E. Thompson, St. Peters berg, Fla. and Thelma Inez Garner, Newport. George Major Piher and Blanch Watson Piner Morehead City, N. C. Howard S. Smith, St Augustine, Fla. and Maxine Felton, Beaufort BOILER EXPLODES THREE MEN HURT Men Badly Burned Bat Escape Death. Other Morehead City News Morehead City, Sept 15, 1926. Three men barely escaped death when the boiler exploded on the construction barge, Katrina on which they were employed. Nels Nelson, Engineer of Charleston, S. C, Pave Gould of this city and Morris Toemer were badly burned. They were im mediately rushed to ' the Morehead City Hospital. They are resting as well as could be expected and ex. pected to recover in a few weeks. The .barge is- employed -. by the Sanford ft Brooks, contractor on the State Highway bridge between here and Beaufort The explosion occurr ed about noon Tuesday. School Open The Morehead City Graded Schools opened here Tuesday September 7th with an enrollment of 700 scholars. Rev. C. W. White opening the morn ing session with prayer followed by a talk by Superintendent H. L. Joslyn Chas. S. Wallace chairman of the board of trustees, addressed the students after which was sung, "Old Folks at Home". The High School band gave a selection. U. D. C Meeting -. The U. D. C. Chapter of Morehead City held a call meeting Monday afternoon at 3:30 .at the home , of the president, Mrs. J. F. Gillikin for the purpose of electing delegates to the Convention at Feyetteville which takes place October 13th. Three matters of business were discussed, during the meeting and a committee was appointed to arrange the group hostess and places which worked out so successfully last year. A committee, composed of Mrs. D. G. Bell, Geo. Dill and J. C. B. Morton were appointed to bring before the chapter the names of officers for the ensuing year. The- following dele-, gated men elected to attend the Con vention: Mesdames Gildens, J. B. Morton and Chas. Tolson. .The officers of the Parents-Teach ers Association gave a beach party last Monday afternoon complimen tary to the school faculty, board of Trustees and their wives. . Surf bathing was enjoyed after which supper was served. Among the party were Miss Gustin, county supervisor and Mr. J. H. Workman, county .superintendent , . REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE , .' MEETING County Chairman D. M. Jones and Secretary James Wallace Mason have issued a tcall for a meeting .of the" Republican county executive com mittee. The meetingis to be held in Mr. Mason's offices at 11 o'clock Saturday' morning. Besides the mem bers of the committee the News hears that a number of. Republicans who generally take an active part in poli. tics- are expected to be present The object of the meeting is to get things in shape for the campaign. " WATSON POOLE Wednesday . afternoon at one o'clock Miss Glennia V. Poole of Stella and Mr. Leland G. Watson of 1 Peletier were, united in marriage by the Reverend E. Frank Lee. The ' marriage took place 'at the Metho- dist parsonage and was witnessed by several friends and relatives. TEACHERS CONFER ABOUT PROBLEMS President Wright Addresses Meeting Which Was A Very Successful One The Teachers' Conference held here last week in the county court room was well attended and from all appearances a success in every ..way. Practically all of the schools for white pupils . were 'presented -by teachers. Plans for the years' work and other educational matters were discussed. The County Handbook 'and supplies of other sorts were dis tributed among the teachers. President . IRobert H. Wright of the N." C. Teachers' Training College of Greenville addressed the confer ence on Friday morning. He toldj the teachers that theirs was a great responsibility because Carteret coun ty is one of the few counties in the State that has the eight months term. He said the spirit in which they did their work was the main thing in teaching. Sometimes the child's failure is the teacher's failure also. He said that it was best not to give the child too much to do but see that they did wel what they undertook. He urged the teachers to make every effort to help develop the children in to the best sort of citizens. ' Dr. T. C. Britt addressed the conference on health problems and plans for health work in the schools. Miss Edith Powell, County Demonstration Agent spoke" concerning the work she is attempting to do in the county. Secretary Julian K. Warren of the N. C. Teachers' Association was also one of the speakers. County Super intendent J. H. Workman emphasiz ed the importance of the work the teachers have to do in Carteret coun ty this year. " Among other points he discussed the Teacher's Responsibi lity, the Work This Year, Prepara tion for Work" and Discipline. Miss Margaret Gustin, County Supervisor, discussed a number of problems with which, the teachers , will be confront ed. ... Mr. George Parkin morning for Raleigh. left Friday Town Lends Money To For A special meeting of the board of commissioners of the town of Beau foit was held last Thursday night. The Mayor and all of the commis sioners were present. The principal object of the meeting was to take some action about the $100,000 bor. rowed on July 12th and about which there was considerable discussion at the legular meeting of the board on the first Monday. - At the meeting last Thursday evening the board adopted a resolu tion to lend the $100,000 to the county at 5 1-4 percent which is the same rate that the town pays for the LIGHT DOCKET MONDAY IN POLICE COURT Police court Monday afternoon was a rather quiet affair. The specta tors were few-and the number of de fendants were correspondingly so. I The following cases were tried : Ben Deputy, a negro boy-who has been i ntrouble before, was charged with loud cursing on the street He was given the choice of paying a $10 dollar fine or serving 10 days on the streets. As the $10 was not at hand it seemed that his chances for help ing to improve the streets was good. Bert Lloyd pleaded guilty to the charge' of being drunk and drew a sentence of $10 or 10 days. He works on one of the fish boats and the Mayor said he would allow him to continue but if he didn't pay the fine he would have to work it out Carl Gabriel and Cecil Skarren were cabled to answer a charge of ng-nung. uaoriei aid not snow up ana ne case against mm was continu ed. Skarren was assessed the costs amounting to $4.70 or 10 days. The case against City Light Super intendent Hardy Lewis chaiged with allowing a dog to run at large was continued on account of the absence of the prosecuting witness . A. T. Gardner. The Mayor and Chief of i Police said they would- have Mr. j Gardner . present next Monday. I Christopher Jones paid $3.45 for al lowing his dog to run at large. The case against John McDonald and Aleck Mason charged - with havine been drunk was continued untilnext! Monday. Miss Helen Blanton of Griffin, Georgia, who Jias been visiting Miss Lucy Parkin left Sunday morning for Pantego. BUILDING REVIVAL ABOUT TO START Two School Buildings, Several Stores And Other Struc tures May Go Up Soon Beaufort is not much given to building booms or booms of any sort, but it does seem that some, thing in the nature' of a building re vival is now in the making. The lar. gest thjng in sight is the public school building for white pupils and which will cost around one ' hundred thou sand dollars. A school building for colored children to cost in the neigh brhood of -$35,000 is also a probabi lity of the near future. If the election on the hotel pro position results favorably this will mean the expenditure of $150,000 for site and building. It will not be possible to start building the hotel until an act of. legislature has been obtained even though the election should be favorable. That is to say no bonds can be issued without a special act. It is also known that a large oil company has in mind the erection of a filling station here for boats and cars and has had men here looking into the matter of get ting a site. Reports are current that several new store buildings are to go up here in the next few months. In fact one, a very nice concrete structure, has just been completed by Mr. Richard Dickinson on his lot on Live Oak street. Work has start ed on a building on Front street on the lot , where the Alonzo Thomas warehouse stood. This house which wil be a two story brick one is being built by the Davis Construction Com pany for Messrs George J. Brooks, J. F. Duncan and C. R. Wheatly. The News has heard rumors that three other persons are contemplat ing erecting store buildings on Tur. ner and Front streets. It is also re ported that -several residences may be built in Beaufort within the next six months. So all in all it seems that ptome real building is going- to ' be done in Beaufort in the next few months,"which will give employment to a good many people as we'll as greatly improve the town. County Road Building Purposes money. The county will give a six months note, due aJnuary the 12th., the note to be placed with the Bank of Beaufort. The board also adoDt- ed a resolution to borrow $20,000.of this mney from the county at 5 1-4 percent which will be used to nav for work done by the Simmons Con struction Corporation on Broad street and also to build a new pier at the foot of Pollock street The money which the county is borrowing Irom the town is to be -used fr road building purposes according to a re solution adopted by the county board of commissioners. . REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS SHOW MORE ACTIVITY The real estate business which has been rather quiet during the Summer months appears to be more active now. A Transfers recently Jrecorded are as follows: Rebecca W. Hudson, and husband to C. R. Wheatly part lot Beaufort for $10. ... E. H. Meadows Jr., .Trustee to National Bank of New Bern tract in Beaufort Township for 1500." '" Beaufort Realty Corp. to W. C. Poplin 2 lots West Beaufort for $275. Jerry Fulford and wife to Maxwell Mason 4 acres Cedar Island Township for $20. Thos. W. Robinson and wife to Melvin Robinson 2 acres Atlantic for $5. - ; . 7. Thos. W Robinson and wife to Clarence Robinson tract in Atlantic for $5. Thos. W. Robinson and wife to Manley Robinson tract in Atlantic for $5, - ' " Morehead Bluffs Inc. to Mrs. M M. Menger 2 lots Morehead Bluffs for $2750. . W. H. Ivey and wife to M. L- Piner and wife 4 lots Morehead City for $400. - ' . ' Wade C. Meadows and wife to Lester Grover 100 acres near New port for $2000. D. H. Stallings and wife to C. O. Hill one lot in Newport for $2000. Herbert Springle et al to J. F. Duncan, trustee 82 "acres White Oak Township for $375. Portsmouth Fisheries Co. to Mason & Burwell 15 3-4 acres Portsmouth Township for $2500. COUNTY BOARD IS PLANNING TO DO MOREROADWORR Ask For Bids On Several Road Project In Eastern Section NOTES ISSUED FOR $475,000 At its meeting Monday a week ago the board of county commissio. ners adopted three resolutions that provide for the issuance of $475,000 in short time notes. The first reso lution calls for the issuance of two notes of $50,000 each and one note of $25,000 dated September the 7th and bearing interest at the rate of 5 1-4 percent The proceeds of this loan is to be placed to the credit of the State Highway Commission in a New York bank. The second resolution provides for four notes of $50,000 each and two notes of $25,000 each dated Sep. tember the 7th and bearing interest at the rate of 5 1-4 percent. The resolution says these notes are in anticipation of an issue of bonds and the proceeds are to be used in road building. The third resolution provides for issuing a note dated July 12th and falling due January 7th, 1927. This note is for $100,000 and is payable to the town of Beaufort and bears 5 1-4 percent interest- This money is to be used in road building also according to the resolution. There were several delegations on hand for the meeting of the board and most of them wanted road work done. Delegations from Straits, Gloucester, ManihallMu;rg, Atlantic, and Harker's Island were present and on account of the large crowd the board meeting was held in the coun ty court room. A motion made by Commissioner Huntley and seconed by Commissioner Whitehurst and passed unanimously provides for paving the road from Louis Smith's to Hull Bell's store. ' County engi neer Brooks' was instructed to sur vey and lay out the most feasible route for a hard surface road from Bell's store to Marshallburg, Glou cester and Straits and to submit his report at the next meeting. - The board took up the Harker's Island ferry matter again and pass ed a motion giving a franchise to O. W. Chadwick to run the ferry. This provides that Mr. Chadwick shall give a performance bond to run for one in an in amount equal to the cost of the approaches and docks which are to be constructed by the county. The cost of the same to be ascertain ed by the county engineer. Motions were adopted by the board instructing County Engineer Brooks to advertise for bids on build a uad and causeway between Atlan tic and Cedar Island and also for building a hard surface road from S. E. Styron's store at Davis to White Point brook in Atlantic. The latter. road to be a six inch concrete slab 16 feet wide. W. F. Taylor of ' Bo. gue and Jim Hill of Atlantic were appointed deputy game wardens by the board. An order was passed ad mitting Elijah' Lawrence to the coun ty home. A. A. Lloyd of Beaufort was placed on the outside poor list at $5. a month. Lawrence Hazel of Beaufort was ordered to- be taken off the outside poor list The following jurors for the next term of court were drawn: O. F. Davis, Lola; Wilbur Lewis, Beaufort; ' Denartf VChadwick, Mar shallburg; A. H. Chadwick, Glouces ter; E. M. Pittman, Lukens; W. B. Pake, Beaufort R. F. D.; Wilbur Stewart, Gloucester; Chas. S. Davis, Harker's Island; Eugene Dudley, Sr. IBeaufort, R. F. D; B. S. Swinson, Camp Glenn; L. C. Holland, Peletier; A. D. Willis, Mtrehead City; D. S. Oglesby, Morehead City; Mack Sal ter, Stacy; A. H. Pridgon, Newport; Harvey Taylor, Sea Level ; W. A. Hauser, Morehead City; Elijah Ham ilton, Sea Level; Charlie W. Pake, Marshallburg; Nolia Fulcher, Atlan tic; A. C. Murdock, Wildwood; W. J: Salter. Atlantic: H. B. Chadwick. Gfoucester; Dennis Goodwin,- Roe; Walter Long, Wildwood; Duffy Day, Lola; J. A. VV Goodwin, Beaufort; Neal T. Davis, Morehead City; John E. Willis, Smyrna; L F. Mason, Mer- rimon; w. w. rsut reuetier; J. U Hill, Newport- ! Vlidwood; H. K. Simmons, t. ' ' . M. Mor ton, Beaufort, R--w.: j. A. Wal lace, Merrimon. .. WORLD OF WISDOM ine Salisbury rost compresses a world of wisdom in this sentence.: "Hiding a disease does not cure it, covering up; facts does not change them, and no honest newspaper is going to hide because the facts might offend some one." (Raleigh News and Observer). PRICES LOWER THAN FORMERLY Several Publisher Agree to Sell Book at Same Price as in Tennessee GAME LAWS ARGUED (By M. L. Shipman) Raleisrh, N. C, September 13 The opening of schools and the partial return of cool weather were matters of interest in Raleigh during the past week. Governor McLean was active in a number of matters and left the Capital twk to make speech es at farmer's' gatherings, the text book question was finally settled by a compromise on the part of publish. ers and officialdom braced itself, took a backward look at the peasant, idle days of summer and prepared for a long, ardous winter. The General Assembly must be prepared for and official Raleigh during the next few months will be preparing to the best of its ability, spurred on by an ex ecutive who is insistent that matters be in proper shape when the Legsila- -ture meets in order to conserve the time of the members. The Govrenor took a decided stand during the week with regard to ex tradition of prisoners in other states. He declared that he would always surrended a prisoner when papers were properly presented and would never raise the question of whether or not a fair trial could be obtained in the other state. He said this rule -should alwrys be followed out by the states and would tend to closer rela tions. He was speaking partially with reference to a negro whom the sheriff of Haywood county held for a reward after Mr. McLean had hon ored extradition papers. Governor McLean rebuked the sheriff rather sharply And ordered the negro releas ed.' - Cooperative dairymen and im proved, farming methods were the subjects of Governor McLean's two speeches at farmers gatherings dur ing the week. He also said that while he favored encouraging dairy men he did not believe it would be a safeidea to start a dairy at the State Prison Farm as he did not be lieve convicts could be trusted with a matter' so close to public health. The Governor took definite action in the case for increases of rates pend ing by the Postal and Western Union companies. He advised the Corpor iition Commission to employ experts to assist it in working out the claims of 'th companies and authorized the Attorney General to appear as the people's representative when- the cases are finally aired this month. He recalled these two companies while asking increased rates are fighting in the courts the tax which North Car olinian places on their business. The text book contrversy was fi nally settled during the week when all of the publishers agreed to reduce their prices to those in effect in oth er states,- as guaranteed under North Carolina's contract. This means a saving of $15,000 annually' to school children of , North Carolina. The matter first came up when the gover nor of Tennessee seeking renomina tion stated he hid gotten text books for school children lower than any other state in the Union. North Carolina has a contract with publish ers guaranteeing text books as low as in any other state. Three cases which were started in the Superior Court against publishers have been withdrawn by the State. The State of North Carolina has the only negro education exhibit at the sesqui-centennial . exposition in Philadelphia, it is stated. The SU.te . was invited to put on such an exhibit as representative of educational work . for negroes in the entire South. Many fine pictures of negro schools in the State are included in the his tory which is vitally told in attrac tive way. Rev. George Wood, who slew J. B. Vickers' when the latter was try ing to escape from hjs custody, may get a hearing in curt this week. He has not asked jt p eiiminai y hearing on the murder charge and the bo id is returnable to Wake Superior Con.t today,, when it opens, .-It is evp.-U ed the case will be aired in couit, but whether it wil pass the grt.nj ju y stage at this term has not bten de termined. Frank Parker, crop ta. tistician, believes that agriculture does not get a "square deal" from the government and he blames this on business and professional men as well as farmers. He advises bus iness men" to pay more attention to farmers' affairs as they affect their own prosperity, and advises better business methods in farming. . The Game laws af North Carolina (Contiued on page six ) t ' ' :" - '" i iniirinlifT- mi ' "" I
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