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THE liEAUF EWS The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co.l READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS 'TO THE BODY WATCH Your label and pay your subscription TEN PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY OCT. 7, 1926 PRICE Sc SINGLE COPY NUMBER 40 VOLUME XV DANVILLE HOTEL MAN OFFERS TO LEASE THE MUNICIPAL HOTEL Will Pav Six Percent On Investment. Is Running Chain of Hotels. Might Be Able To Get Even Better Rental rr ' A proposition to lease the propos-1 ed municipal hotel in Beauofr wasj submitted to the Hotel wommisBion Tuesday. The proposal was from a Police court docket Monday kiter hotel man in Danville, Virginia and noon was not as large as it is some was through Mr. H. A. Underwood times. Charlie Daniels submitted' to of Raleigh, The offer was seen by a charge of operating a car without a News representative arid stated that j license and was let off with $4.70, six percent would be paid on , the the costs. John Felton, a negro boy, cost price of the investment for the was charged with cutting the screen first five years. The News was im door of Peter Shenarah, a Syrian who formed by Mr. Underwood that the ; operates a pool room. Mayor Thomas nartv. or parties, making the offer J gave the boy the option of paying are running a hotel in Georgia, the one in Danville, the Proctor in Green ville, have recently leased the Bland in Raleigh and have agreed to lease the hotel to be built in Kinston. They desire to include the Beaufort hotel in their chain. Mr. Underwood lived in Beaufort several months in 1917 and built the sea wa'.f in front of town. He is known by many people here. The Hotel Commission organized by electing W. A, Mace, chairman and E. Walter Hill secretary.. The proposition made htrough Mr. Under wood was heard but no action was taken on it. The commission seem to be confident that a municipal hotel could be rented at a fair price with out any difficulty. A stateVnent con cerning the matter by the secretary of the commission Mr. Hill is given herewith. HOTEL MATTER DISCUSSED. To the voters of Beaufort: ' The main objection heretofore ex pressed in opposition to the issuing of bonds for the purpose of construct ing a municipal hotel has , been that such a hotel could not be leased, and therefore, would be a new burden upon the tax payers already heavily burdened. This objection has been negatively answered in black and white as the Hotel Commission now has a bona fide offer for the lease of said- hotel for a period of twenty years, the lessee to pay 6 per cent on the'a mount invested during the first five years as rental price. At the end of the first five years a new rental price to be agreed upon by the Com mission and the lessee, and in the event of failure to agree, then the proposition to be submitted to arbi tration, the Hotel Commission select ing one man, the lesse another and these two to select the third man. It is admitted, therefore not a leg itimate subject for argument, thati the first five year peri&d will be the hard years forthe success of the project. The experimental stages being over by that time the rental rates will naturally greatly increase. It is therefore thought advisable not j to undertake to retire" any of the ' bonds during that period. After the ! first hve years tne increase remai , rates to be agreed upon , as above"! stated should be amply sufficient to funds for the yearly I f ,, hnnH' over and above providing the interest pay- ments, and with the retirement 01 bonds from year to year the interest rate would be decreased while the revenue would be gradually increas ed: (a-' by increase in rental rates to lessee. - (b) by decrease in the amount of interest. It is thought that five and one-Half per cent bonds can be successfully floated. Should this prove true, there would be one-half of one per cent in favor of the project to be put into a sinking fund and dur ing the first five years of the hotel operation. However.ias above point ed put, no sinking fund would' be necessary if provisions should be made- for retirement of the bonds un , til after the first five year period. The increase rental would then take "Care of sinking fund for that purpose as above state. The above' statement is made upon the offer for rental already .in the . hands of the Commission. However, the writer is of the opinion, and this opinion is shared by the. .members of the Commission, that better' rental proposition can be obtained than the one offered. But assuming" that such should prove, to be the case, then the six percent ' reposition -already submitted will be sufficient to care for the interest on bonds dur ing the first five year ' period, and there should be no- reason for a levy upon (he property or against the polf of any tax payer. The necessity for a modern hotel lor Beaufort is too well known for discu&sion, mi the benefits tn Ve de - (Continued cn page lour) . POICE COURT ITEMS. the costs and having the door fixed or taking ten days on the streets'. Alonzo Fulford, another ivegro youth, was tried on the charge of stealing a pocketbook containing $115 from Will Parker. He was bound over to Superior Court under a bond of $250 which it appeared he was not going to be able to furnish. MONTH OF SEPTEMBER WAS UNUSUALLY DRY The average rainfall in this sec tion for the month of September is 4.13 inches. According to the report of the U. S. Weather bureau from the Piver's Island station,' the month of September this year the rainfall was considerably below the average. It was 2.14 inches. There were no storms during the month and the wind blew most of the time from the northeast, southeast and south. , It blew from the southwest only two days. The highest temperature re corded was' 92 on the 7th and the lowest was 62 degrees which was on the ,27th. The temperature figures for the month are as follows: Max. Min. 72 1 2 3 .4, 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 : 88 ..91 92 .....89 I."91 -.92 ...89 90 - ..90 81 83 88 85 81 .-. 84 87 84 'r-1 80 86 88 ' ----- 87 87 - 88 .189 :. - 88 79 '.79 v..83 77 75 74 75 73 73 73 73 73 68 67 65 68 65 68 68 70 65 63 68 68 69 70 67 . 67 62 64 65 68 jg g3 s . ' REPUBICANS NOMINATE " WILSON FOR LEGISLATURE The town of Newport seems to be pretty sure of the honor of having one hercitisens to represent the county In the next General Assembly. Mr. William H. Bell the Democratic nominee, and Mr. A. L. Wilson who. win carry tne Kepu-'jlxan banner are both from Newport. Mr. WiI?on was put on the ticket in the place of Mr. D.i M. ,Jones who declined to make the race on account of business en gagements that prevented him from doing it. Anothcr unusual feature of the legislative situation' is that the two candidates are brothers in-lnw, which makes it a sort of family af. fair. A meeting of the Republican ex ecutive committee held Saturday mornnig in the office of the secretary Jas. Walace Mason selected Mr. Wil son as the Republican standard bear er. There was no opposition to M Wilson and his nomination was there fore unanimous. The time for start ing the Republican campaign has not been settled as yet but members of theommittee say the candidates will meet soon and probably start their J campaign next week. REGISTRATION ENDS SATURDAY The News is informed by Registrar C..H, Bush&ll that abcvt 280 perrons have registered for. the' aproaching hotel election. This is a small num ber when compared with the total number of voters in Beaufort. The registrar will be in the city hall Sat urday all day or until five p'clock that afternoon. This will be the last ' oj-portenity to register for the bote! election. CONTRACT LET , FOR CAUSEWAY TO CEDAR ISLAND Lincolnton Firm Get Contract. . Westerner Want Bogue Sound Road Paved SURVLY LENOXVILLE ROAD A pretty god sized crowd was on hand when the board of county com missioners held its ' regular meetin. A delegation from the western part of the county was there and there were otKer people present from vari ous parts of the county. Attorney E. Walter Hill of Beau fort and Mr. L. B. Ennett of Stella addressed the board on the subject of continuing the paved road from 'Broad Creek to White Oak township. The distance asked for is to the clay road and is about four miles. Crhair man Woodland assured the western delegation that it was the purpose of the board to build the road as soon as possible. 'x The board opened bids for con structing Ihe causeway from Lthe mainland to Cedar Island. This calls for excavating about 150,000 cubic yards of dirt. The successful bidder was Sigmon, Rhinehert Company of Lincolnton, N. C. Their bid was 18 cents per cubic yard. "" The next low est bidder was the Davis Construc tion Corporation of Beaufort and was 30 cents per yard. A, resolution was adopted by the board which provides that the taxes of the East Coast Land Company for the years 1924 and '25 shall be ap plied to the cost of the road built by the company through their lands to Sea Level. The cost of the road is placed at $52,000 and the said road has been inspected and accept ed by the board. The taxes of the company will be applied in this way until the road is paid for. A resolution was - adopted , unani mously by the board accepting the offer of the board af trustees of the, Beaufort Public School to sell the school building and grounds near the courthouse to the county. The price of the property is $35,000 and it will be used for school purposes until the expiration of the present school year. A motion was pased instructing the county engineer to make a survey of the road from Beaufort to Lenox ville and make an estimate of the cost and report to the next meeting of the board. A motion was pass ed to make a correction in the valu ation of the land of W. L. Arthur in Moiehead township according to a recent survey made by the County Surveyor. Upon recommendation of D. J. Godwii', chief game warden of Caiteiet county, the following were appointed deputy game wardens: Henry T. Banks, of Lukens and Joel Davis of Harlowe townsihp. The county "auditor was instructed to ad vertise for bids for the sale of a lot in the town of Beaufort now belong ing to the county. County Engineer George J. Brooks was instructed to advertise for bids for the digging of shells and levelling and hauling the same on a road on Harker's Island. A motion was pass ed allowing discounts and pentlties on taxes as follows: For the month of November a discount of 1 percent, for December a discount of 1-2 of or.e percent, for the amount of Jan uary pay entire amount, February 1-2 of one percent penalty, March 1 er cent penalty. April 1 1-2 percent penalty. The board audited a num ber of bills and recessed to meet Oc tober 25th. MAKING IMPROVEMENTS IN BEAUFORT HARBOR The U. S. engineering boat Neuse and the dredge Croatan arrived last Saturday and Monday morning began woik in Beaudfrt harbor. The first thine the dredare started on was deepening the channel at the bulk head. Several of the large fish boats when loaded have had trouble in this channel recently on account of shal low water. It is suposed to be sev en feet deep at low water but sand has eome in and made ft less 'than this m some places. The Croatan will fill, in also the narrow channel at the eastern end of the island known as "Town Marsh." This will conect with the rock riprap being built in front of town and with the island tiself will make a barrier fw front of town more than a mile long. It may be' that some other dredging will be done in this vicinity before the Croatan leaves. MARRIAGE LICENSE. James W. Roberts, Morehead City and Ollie Woodard Washington, N. C. MANY PEOPLE VISIT STATION Biological Laboratory . Ia A Popular Place For Visitors. Study Marine Life There An increasingly larger number of peqple are visiting the U. S. Fisher ies Biological Station, on Pivers Is land from year to year. In 1923, in round numbers, 1300 visitors regis tered, 1700 names were signed to the visitor's register in 1924, and 2000 in 1925. The register for 1926 of course is not complete but it is prob able that the increase of previous" years will be maintained. It is un derstood, however, that not nearly all the people who visit the laboratory register. In fact, it is estimated that only about two-thirds of the visitors sign their names. The station has beautiful grounds and well kept buildings. A museum room is maintained in which the com mon as well as some rare marine an imals may be seen in the preserved state. During the summer "quite a few live animals also are .exhibited. The valuable diamond-back terrapin is grown in captivity and many peo ple are int.eersted in seeing the plant in which they are bred. Visitors of course are not admitted to the lab oratories where the biologists carry on their studies. The principal lines of work carried on at the present time at the station consists of experiments in " diamond back terrapin breeding; a study of the mullet fishery, including a study i of the status of the fishery, the life history and the movements, of the fish, measures of conservation etc r a study of the scallop with respect to its life history (including spawn ing, rate of growth, its span of life, migrations etc.) with the view of working out means and methods for greater production and proper con servation ; and a study of the spawn ing habits,-the eggs, larvae and the rate of growth of several important commercial fishes. In addition to tha etudies mentjoned that are carried on by the regular employees of the Buieau of Fisheries, the facilities of the laboratory are offered to compe tent investigators outside of the ser vice. During the past summer, for example, eight college and university professors from various schools work ed at the station and conducted re search in aquatic biology along lines connected with the fisheries. It is a well known fact that sane measures for the conservation of any form of animal life cannot be pass ed until the life history of the animal is 'understood. Neither can an ani mal ordinarily be propagated until its natural habits of reproduction are known. JiVhen this is understood it becomes evident why the tedious work of studying life histories is necessary before safe and sane meas ures nr protecting animals can be passed. The life habits of the diamona-oacK terrapin are now sufficiently well un derstood and methods for their pro pagation have been perfected to the extent that it is feasible to under take, in cooperation with the North Carolina Fisheries Commission Board, their propagation on a comparatively large scale for the purpose of re stocking the sadly depleted waters. The young animals are kept at the station until they are a year or so of age, or until they have gained some growth, have passed the crMical stages of life, and are able to protect themselves better against natural en emies. This method . of restocking the local waters already has been practiced on a small scale for a number of years and, as the animals that have been liberated are all mark ed, they are recognized when again seen. The proportianately large number of terrapins bearing marks that havf been recovered makes the work of rebuilding the terrapin fish ery appear very hopeful. A suffi ciently large number 01 adult breed ing terrapins is now On hand to pro duce within a year or two from 15, 600 to 20,000 young. . READ THE NEWS. This issue of the News car ries a good deal of matter that should be of interest to our read ers. The article about the meet ing of the county commissioners a an important one , and all ' should read, it. Other interest ing features are the piece about AYm proposed municipal hotel, that concerning the U. S. sta ' tion on Pivers's Island, - Mr; . Swann's letter on count in debtness, the Raleigh news let ter, the county correspondence, the real estate transfers, person al items, editorials, display ad vertising and many'smalier news THE COUNTY FAIR. On another page cf this news paper there appears a half page advertisement of the Car teret county fair, or Newport fair, as it is' generally called. The fair this time will last two days instead of one as hereto fore. The premium list this year . is larger than ever before and it is expected that the exhibits will be large in proportion. There will be a number of amusement features this year also that were ' not present last year. All in all tha fair promises to be an unu sualy interesting event and the biggest crowd in its history is expected to attend it. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION HERB County Sunday School Workers To Hold Meeting Here October 23rd-24th. ' Plans have been made for holding the annual Carteret County Sunday Schol Convention at the Methodist Church, Beaufort, on Saturday and Sunday, October 23, and 24, 1926. Arrangements for the convention are in the hands of Mr. C. S. Wallace, and Mrs. Rena Edwards, President and Secretary of the County Sunday School Association. These officers have announced that they have seoured as outside speak ers for the convention, Mr. D. W. Sims, Raleigh, General Superinten dent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association; and Miss Flora Davis, Raleigh, Associate Superinten dent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association. Besides these outside speakers, a number of prom inent pastors and Sunday School workers of the county will take part in the program. - The program, for the convention will include addresses and discussions of varicus phases of modern Sunday School work, the object ' being to make it possible for workers in all departments of the Sunday School to gel help from the convention. A request is being made to the Sunday School workers of the county to pre sent to the convention any special Sunday School problem that should be discussed. Announcement is also made by the officers in charge of the convention that, following a custom started three years ago, a pennant will be present ed to the Sunday School having in the convention the largest number of representatives, sixteen years bf age and over, according t othe number of miles traveled. Any Sunday Sch ol in the County can compete for the pennanfr except the Sunday School with whic hthe convention is held and other:, within one mile of the convention church. MANY CARTERET GIRLS AT GREENVILLE COLLEGE Greenville, Sept. , 30Registration began at East Carolina Teachers College Wednesday morning. Reser vations were made for , 700 young women. Considerably more than this number have been' refused en trance on account of lack of room and teaching force. The exact number refused for the present school year was 779. The following young women are registered from Carteret county for the present school year. Misses Ada Allen, Odessa Jarvis, Esther Mason, Mrs. Lois Mason, Roma Morris, Chris tine Nichols, Pearl Smith, Bcrnice Davis, Annie Nichols. Four young women from this county were refus ed admittance to the college on ac count of not having room for them. SHORT MEETING HELD BY CITY COMMISSIONERS The meeting of the Board of city commissioners Monday was a very quiet and serene affair. Not much business was transacted and there was no arguing orfspeech making as has happened in some recent meetings. Those present were Mayor Thomas and commissioners Maxwell, Noe, Smith and Whitehurst The matter of getting an appro priation for the public rest room was brought up by a delegation of ladies. They were informed that the budget provided a contribution of $150 (a year for this purpose. A motion was passed to buy 1000 feet of fire hose. ' The Mayor was instructed to issue a pes mit at the end of 20 days to W. L. Paul to make repairs to his theatre building on Front street The board recessed subject to the call of the Mayor. RUMANIAN QUEEN TO VISIT STATE DURING OCTOBER Queen Marie Coming. Gover nor McLean Grants Some Pardons. Attends Wilkes Fair U. S. TAX COLLECTIONS LARGE (By M. I SHIPMANT Raleigh, N. C. October 4 A com paratively quiet week in which citi zens of Raleigh enjoyed the first con- tinuous cool weather in many months was the order of things at the Capi tal Cjty last week. Governor Mc Lean began whipping matters into shape for what will be' important moves in the affairs of State during the next few months but there was nothing of importance announced "by the Executive. Mr. McLean extended clemency in nine cases during the week after theN matters had been investigated by Pardon Commissioner Sink. Ho left Raleigh Thursday for Wilkesboro where he delivered the principal ad dress at the opening of the Wilkes County Fair. The Executive urged the farmers to adopt diversified meth ods of farming, to form group coop erative organizations and to raise more cattle and hogs. He spoke to a large crowd. Returning to Raleigh, he announced that the Rumanian em bassy at Washington had advised him that Queen Marie of Rumania would visit North Carolina probably the last of October and would stop either at Raleigh or Asheville. Mr. McLean during the week appointed Captain Nathan O'Berry of Goldsboro on the. Educational Commission to succeed Charles ,A. Webb of Asheville who. resigned because of private business. He also announced plans for North Carolina Day at the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia. The United Confederated Veterans attracted attention during the week by announcing that a special conven tion of the order would be held at Raleigh October 16 to consider plans for asking the legislature, to increase the appropriation for pensions during the coming biennium. A strong fight was waged for a similar meas ure in the 1925 legislature but it lost out. 1 Federal tax collections during Sep tember in North Carolina increased two million dollars over those of last September and Collector Grissom is looking forward to collecting two hundred million dollars this year. For the first three months of the fiscal year he has collected $22,000,000. Dr. Charles O'H. Laughinghouse was sworn in as secretary of the State Eoard of Health on 'October first.succeeding Dr. G. M. Cooper who acted as secretary for the past year in succession to Dr. W. S. Rankin who resigned to go with the Duke Foundation. Dr. Laughinghouse an nounced Dr. Cooper would handle the educational phase of the health, work ' and be in charge of publications of the department At the same time Ronald Wilson was appointed assist'-, ant to the new secretary. Dr. M. L. Tovvnsend resigned from the Depart ment to accept a private offer. vThe Supreme Court heard the ar guments for and against granting a law license to C. P. Bannger, state labor federation head, and reserved decision for several days. Barringer has passed the mental examination but a protest was filed against him which he has answered before the court. The North Carolina Orphan age Association held its annual meet ing during the week and discussed methods of handling and caring for orphans. Charles H. Warren, super intendent of the Odd Fellows Home at Goldsboro was elected president of the organization and M. L. Shiprran of Raleigh was elected seceta'y treasurer and chairman of the pub licity committee. Judge Gilbert T. Sfevenson, vice- president in charge of the Raleigh branch of the Wachovia Bank & n Trust Company, has been attending . the annual convent 'on of trust office's of the United States in Seattle Y'8!i- iugton and the'- American. Cankers' Association in Los Angles, Calif j. -... nia, delivering an address - before each of these Important gatherings on "Social significance of Trust Ser- " vice." The Judge is considered h'gW authority on all phases touching the subject and handed out some w ho e- , some advice to the conference of his fellows on the Pacific coast. State Debt Large It is said that New York State, with a debt reaching $228,148,000; Illinois indebted in the sum of $127,-. 000,000 an ( California, owing $100, 073,000 are the only states having a larger debt than North Carolina 1 (Continued on page nine)
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