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AUFORT NES Largest Circulation In Carteret County The People' Newspaper The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f EEADINGTO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY ) WATCH Your .abel and pay your subscription VOLUME XVIII EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1929 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 28 Investigation Starts Into County Affairs Former County Officials Examined And Several Other Persons; Asked To Produce Books And Papers; Hearing Again Friday. As stated in this newspaper last week would be done, an investiga tion into the affairs of Carteret county for several years prior to the present administration, began at the county courthouse Wednesday at 10 o'clock. Chairman Bushall presided over the meeting and board members, Messrs. S. D. Edwards, Norman Gas kill, Denard Lewis were present ex amination of witnesses was conduct ed by attorneys E. H. Gorham and E. Walter Hill, C. F. Delamar of Durham who was employed some time ago to make an audit of the county's books was present at the hearing. The testimony of the witnesses was taken down by two stenographers. Owing to the absence of Mr. Hed rick of the firm of McLendon and Hedrick of Durham, the hearing was continued until Friday morning the 12th. It will be resumed that morn ing at 10 o'clock. Mr. Hedrick was unable to be present on account of illness. This law firm wlil have charge of the investigation but will be assisted by local counsel. The witnesses will be examined one at a time and no one will be allowed in the room except those who have some official connection with the matter. The witnesses examined yesterday were former county engineer George J. Brooks, former county attorney Luther Hamilton, former commission ers T. B. Hall, H. C. Taylor, G. W. Huntley, Rudolph Peletier, George Whitehurst, former auditor W. L. Stancil, R. C. Carter, accountant, F. M. Simmons of the Simmons Con struction Corporation, T. E. Kelly, C. K. Howe. Only a few questions were asked the witnesses, principal ly as to whether they had any books or papers in their possession relating to the countv's business, esneciallv as to receipts and disbuiments. The testimony taken at the hearing will be made a permanent record and can be seen by one who is interested in the matter in due time and it may be published also. There has been for some time a demand upon the part of the public, or some of it at any rate, for aciefinite statement as to the large expenditures made in the coun ty in the past three or four years for roads, bridges and other purposes. The investigation now under way is said to be a response to that demand. Monday and Tuesday the commis sioners sat as an Equalization Board to hear complaints as to property valuations. These matters were also taken up again Wednesday after the other hearing had been adjourned. About thirty applications "for relief were made to the board. A few of these involved right large amounts but for the most part they were of comparatively minor importance. In some instances the complaints were as to errors in acreage, timber having been cut off lands, houses burned down and the like. The board ex pects to spend a short time Friday again in clearing up these equaliza tion complaints. DR. AND MRS. N. Th .' 5. ENNET LEAVE ON EUROPEAN TRIP Information has reached the News that Dr. Thos Ennett and Mrs. Ennett of Richmond Va. were booked to sail yesterday on the steamer Majestic for Europe. They will be gone about two months and will tour England, Scotland, Belgium, Germany, Switz erland, Italy and France. Dr Ennett belongs to a well known Carteret county family. For a number of years he has lived in Richmond and is the Medical Director for the public schools of that city. TWO LICENSES ISSUED AND ONE COUPLE WEDDED Two marriage licenses have been issued at the office of the Register of Deeds this week. They were to Silas Perry Jones and Emma Katy Brown of Morehead City and to John Kelly Gray Jr., f Rocky Mount and Mar garet McP.ail of Mount Olive. The latter cou;le decided that they not only wanted a license but desired to have the nuptial knot tied at once. This service was skillfully and quick ly performed by Assistant Register of Deeds J. R. Jinnett who is a licen sed minister. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Jno. F. Lewis to A. J. Dixon, 1-2 acre, Morehead Township,, for $10, Road Sentences Given In Recorder's Court Several cases were listed on the docket for trial in Recorder's court Tuesday morning but only two were actually tried. The first of these was the case in which two young Negro men, James Cox and Aleck Smith, were charged with an assault and Bennie Murray for aiding and abetting in the sam . In this matter Moses Wilson, colored and his wife Sarah were the. prosecuting witnesses. i ney uve on , the place ot Mr. J. t. babiston on the New Bern road and the defend ants live in the colored community of North River. The testimony of Wil- son and his wife wah that the three !(lier The soldiers are b now men and another one Fairleigh il-1 with &nd son, came to their house Sunday, n t-j, i e n. c t ' . . , , . , .,r On Tuesday a parade of the first morning. Moses took a drink with , , . . , , 6, .. . . .. battalion and a review in honor of mem anu uiey men got to suarreimg about some liquor which Fairleigh said Moses had taken. The men' were ordered to leave, there was a scufflle and to frighten them Moses fired off his gun. Nobody was in jured apparently. Mr. J. F. Sabiston and his son North testified they heard the row and went over to try to stop it Mr. Sabiston carried his gun along and when the men threatened him point-1 Morehead City, Beaufort and other ed it at them and ordered them to places. They also bathe in Bogue leave which they did. Hesaid the Sound and go fishing occasionally. Negroes were all about two thirds j On next Thursday" evening a't the drunk. The defendants all plead , Atlantic Hotel a big'military ball will not guilty and tried to make the best: be given. On Sunday night there is showing they could under the circum-;to be a military concert there. The stances. encampment ends SautrJay July 20 After hearing all the evidsr.ee and that night and Sunday morning Judge Hill decided that all of three of the men were gSllty, although not to quite the same extent. He gave Aleck Smith 30 days on the roads, or a chance to pay a $25 fine and costs. James Cox and Ben Murray were given 60 days each on the roads. He said he gave Murray 30 days extra lor not tening tne trutn on tne stand. A family dispute from the Mill Creek section was also aired in court. ' This was an effort on the part of members of his family to have C. H. . Haskett put under a piece bond. His wife was the first witness and she j testified that she was afraid he would do her bodily harm. Said that he; had threatened to "sprit" his grand-! son Lester. After considerable dis- j cussion it was agreed by all side3 that; "sprit" is a nautical expression, and . means to spread out as a sail is flat-; tened out by a sprit. Mrs. Haskett said he talked about killing somebody but had not named any one in par- ticular. She said they had been mar- ried 38 years and for the past ten weeks ther had been more or less bad feeling Thos. Haskett, aged 27, son of the: again this year. Miss Summerell has defendant testified that his father ( had special training in dramatics and had threatened to slap his wife and, coaching of plays and beauty little son Lester and had talked of pageants. Mr Jack Lyles, manager committing suicide. He is not afraid fortunate in being able to secure Miss of his father but his mother is afraid fortunate in beinf able to secure Miss of him. Mrs. Thos. Haskett testi- Summerell again, fied about the same as her husband, j Last year Morehead City was sig- Upon cross examination of the nally honored in the beauty pageant, witnesses by Attorney W. C. Gorham Miss Zenovia Guthrie, of the city, won it appeared thatMr. Haskett had first prize in the Atlantic Beach gotten after his son about beating a beauty pageant, end going to the horse and a cow and that his wife had Feast of Pirates at Wilmington as sided with her son. The defense I Miss Atlantic Beach took first prize claimed that this was the cause of again. Second and third prizes the row. jwere won by Miss Elizabeth Murnhv. Judge Hill said he did not see any reason for putting Mr. Haskett under a peace bond on the evidence sub - mitted and dismissed the warrant, The case against James Howland of Morehead City, charging false pretense was dismissed on the ground of not probable cause. Cast against J. E. Lewis, worth less check and Flotie Real, larceny, Fairleigh Wilson, assault were all continued until July 30. The Judge will be away and there will be no court until that time. A. J. Dixon to P. L. Hoag, 1-2 acre Morehead Township, for $400. J. C. Long, Mortgagee to Luther Hamilton, Trustee, 10 acres Harlowe Township for $100. Luther Hamilton, Trustee to Emma Long, 10 acres Harlowe Township, , latest addition to the selling force of for $100. the News is Rollin Lewis who lives at J. F. Duncan, Comr. to I. T.Noe,tthe corner of Ann and Fulford part lot Beaufort for $80. (streets. Persons who would like to Laura F. Davis, widow, to Lilly L.have him deliver the News can have Everett and husband, part lot Beau-jit done by notifying him or the News fort, for $10. 'office. N.C. GUARDSMEN AT CAMP GLENN Drills, Target Practice And Athletics Keep Soldiers Busy; Have Some Fun Too The annual encampment of the 1 120th Infantry of the N. C. National Guard is in progress at Camp Glenn this week. For many years the en campment has been held at Camp Glenn. Last year however this cus tom was broken and the encampment took place at Camp Jackson, Colum bia, S. C. Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning the troop train ar rived and over 1000 men belonging to companies from all over the State were in camp. Nine companies are present. Colonel Don E. Scott of Graham is in command of the regi ment. Captain E. R. Morgan is the regimental adjutant. A. L. Fletcher is ordinance officer with the rank of JJajoi. F ormer Captain Silver Rnrai'llo ra nlflnc an4 tvnlnirtn rtffiniv iUi thg ranks of M . c aip Xheodore patrick j- is chaT,!ain and Major W. C. Goley is regimental sur- geon. A considerable number of Boy Scouts are in the camp learning U'Vlnf fhar ran oKrnf frVio Mfa r,f o p , tt G. Davids, senior instructor of the N. C. National Guard took place. On Thursday the 18th a dress parade of the regiment will be giv en. Much interest is being manifest-, ed in the annual field meet when ath letic contests of many sorts will take place. It is likely that baseball teams will be organized. When off duty the soldiers are enjoying them' selves with trops to Atlantic Beach. the various companies will entrain for their return home. Second Annual Beauty Pageant At The Beach The second' Atlantic Beach beauty : mseMt will be h1(1 Auv,t 14 ar!, ls at the beach. The beauty pageant last year brought thousands of people to Morehead City, Beaufort and the beaches. It was estimated that more people came to the baches than had come in a number of seasons previous to the beauty pageant. Plans are being made now to make the beauty pageant bigger and better in every way. Already girls from all over the state have indicated that they will be entrants in the contest. Some of the most prominent men and women ln the state will be judges at the pageant. Special entertainment features to be announced later will be j secured for two days of the pageant Miss Jessie Summerell, of Green ville, who managed the pageant last year, has been secured to handle it j of Salisbury, and Miss Ada Allen, of ; Newport. ; The girl winning first prize in the j beauty pageant this year will receive a silver loving cup, represent Atlantic Beach at the Feast of Pirates in ' Wilmington, and have all of her ex- penses paid to Atlantic City, or some other resort town on the eastern coast for two weeks. The ' girls winning second and third prizes will receive silver loving cups. Last year the loving cups were presented by Atlantic Beach, The Atlantic Hotel and Morehead Villa. ROLLIN LEWIS WILL SELL THE BEAUFORT NEWS The Beaufort News is sold at news stands and also by news boys. The ST. PAUL'S CHURCH RECTOR ORDAINED With Solemn And Imposing Ceremonial Reverend J. A. Vache Becomes Priest Before a good sized congregation from Morehead City, New Bern and Raleigh, in a most impressive ser vice, Mr. Jean A. Vache was ordain ed to the priesthood, Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock at St. Paul's church. A full vested choir from Beaufort and Morehead City entered the church to the procession al, "Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus." Directly after a few prayers, the or dination sermon was preached by Reverend Frank Dean, Rector of the Episcopal church at Wrightsville. Reverend Mr. Dean gave a most in spiring address, taking as a basis for his sermon, his text, Esther 4:14, "Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such- a time as this," stressing the point that the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ rests with the individual, not alone with the ministry. Following the sermon, the Litany was said by the Reverend Stephen Gardner, Rector of St. Peter's church Washington. The Reverend Guy H. Madara, Rector of Christ Church, New Bern, then presented Mr. Vache, to the Rt. Reverend Thomas C. Darst Bishop of the Diocese of East Caro lina to De ordained to the order of the priesthood. Those assisting in that service were Reverend Israel Noe, Dean of the Cathedral Memphis, Tenn., and Reverend Walter Raleigh Noe, Secretary of the Diocese of East Carolina. Immediately after the ordinati in service, the Holy Communion was celebrated. The music rendered by the choir was exceptionally good and was high ly complimented by the visitors at tending the service. , ; All visitors and visiting clergyme n y;ere entertaind at a buffet luncheon served at the Rectory after the ser vices, with about fifty present. GHERMAN HOLLAND ELECTED ASSISTANT CHIEF OR POLICE At a special meeting of the City Eoard of Commissioners held Friday night Gherman Holland was elected assistant chief of police. It will al so be a part of his duties to look af ter the La France fire truck and drive the same when an alarm of fire is made. He will receive compensa tion of $100 a month. His hours of duty will be from 2 P. M. to 2 A. M. and at any time that a fire might oc cur. As police officer and truck driver Mr. Holland succeeds John Pate who recently resigned. Printing is the dynamo of business -Pacific Printer. Twenty One Year Shorn Progress Through the courtesy of Miss Sallie Phelps the News had the privilege re cently of seeing a copy of "The Lookout" a newspaper published here some twenty odd years ago by Horace H. Hamlin now living in Cler water, Florida ar.d well known to many Beaufort people. The date of the paper referred to was December 11, 1U08. It was an eight page, sev en columns to the page publication, set by hand and very creditable in appearance. It carried considerable advertising but hardly enough to make it a very profitable enterprise. However considering the amount oi business done in this section at that time it may be said to have had a very good patronage. The principal advertisers in the Lookout were the Bank of Beaufort, the Beaufort Banking and Trust Co., the Paragon store of Morehead City Gaskill and May, Potter Bros., C. P. Dey, Guthrie and Co., N. W. Taylor, Richard Ftlton, the Beaufort Drug Co. Mrs. C. A. Moore, Albert I. Lew is, Hugh Fodrie and several New Bern and Morehead City firms. The Charles Hotel of Morehead City, op erated by Charles S. Wallace, had an advertisement in the Look Out. Law yers who had cards in the paper were Daniel G. Fowle, Abernethy and Da vis, Claude R. Wheatly. Insurance a gents were C. T. Chadwick, B. J. Bell, C. D. Jones, Thomas and Mace. A report of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners was carried in the Look Out The new courthouse had just been completed and a resolution was adopted thank ing the Building Committee composed of W. S. Chadwick, Wr. L. Arrington House Drug Business Now In New Quarters &fter having been: closed for sev eral months owing to the failure of the Beaufort Drug Company, the store room in the C. L. Duncan build ing at the east corner of Front and Turner streets is once again being used as a drug store. For many years this corner store has been used for the drug business and it had come to be regarded as a fixture in Beau fort. The drug business of Joseph House, which has been conducted for several years in one of the store rooms in the building owned by the Bank of Beaufort on Front street, has been moved into the Duncan building. Mr. House has leased the store and has bought the fixtures that were in the store and which are very handsome ones. The stock of mer chandise that was there and the fix tures in the House store were sold to out of town parties. Mr. House came to Beaufort in 1919 just after the close of the war. He was in the employ of the Beaufort Drug Com pany for several years and then went into business for himself in 1924 and has built up a substantial business. Mr. House finished moving into his new quarters yesterday and began business there yesterday morning. Morehead City School Has Business Course Morehead City, July 10 There is a growing demand for business train ing all over our state. In the larg er communities this demand is being met in our public schools, but so far those desiring a commercial course have had to leave Carteret County to secure this training at a great deal of expense in a businss school. The management of the Morehead City Graded Schools, realizing the impor tance of this demand have been anx ious to make such a course possible to all in the County desiring this train ing. The Board of Trustees have ar ranged for the expense of needed equipment but the teachers salary will have to be secured by tuition. The work will therefore be open to any high school graduate in the county at a tuition fee of sixty dol lars ($60.00) for the nine months. Book keeping, typewriting and stenog raphy will be given. It is an opor tunity for those interested to secure this work at home at a small fraction of the cost at a business school. This class will be limited to thirty pupils. If interested get in touch with Supt. H. L. Joslyn at once and make application. Canada is enlarging her forest pa trols to protect her extensive timber forests from fire. A little moonlight now and then Will marry off the best of men. Old Newspaper In Carteret County and C. V. Roberson for the able man ner in which the matter had been handled. At the meeting of the board on December 7 the recently elected of ficials were sworn in. The commis sioners were W. S. Chadwick, after wards electedchairman, W. R. Han cock of Straits, Jas. M. Robinson, at lantic, Y. Z. Newberry of Newport, W. C. Taylor of Bogue. S. P. Han cock was sheriff W. J. Wallace Regis ter of Deeds, M. Leslie Davis was elected county attorney. E. S. Rob inson standard keeper and M. Chap lain, jailer. The bank statements carried in -the Look Out at that time are interesting now because they show the big de velopment those institutions have made and reflect the general progress made in this section. The Bank of Beaufort's statement showed total assets of $74,280.90 and those of the Beaufort Banking and Trust Com pany were $60,653.75. The combined resources of the two banks here now are not farfrom a million dollars. Th business of Beaufort and of the whole county has increased in about the same proportion as that of the banks. In 1908 there were no pav ed roads in the county,. probably few if any automobiles. There were no large fishing boats, truck growing was in its infancy, real estate was very low and so were taxes and the public debts of the towns and county. It is interesting to wonder what dif ferences there will be in present con ditions and those twenty years from now. No doubt folks will be writing land talking about it just as they do now. STATE IS WEAK IN LIVE STOCK Farm Forecaster Contains Much Information About N. C. Crops (State Agricultural Dept.) Raleigh, July 8 Of the 44 pages in the annual issue of the Depart ment's Quarterly agricultural FARM FORECASTER, almost everv feature of agricultural statistics is presented. Ihe crop and livestock data for the past three years is tabulated in He. tail by counties. Many features never published before are included. The Crop Reporting Service collects original material from thousands of trained reporters. The Farm Cen sus alone included 191,000 actual farm records for determining the county crop acreages. North Carolina's rank in total crop value is quite creditable in view of the fact that we rank 21st in thi total acres of crops (6,722,000 acres) ihose btates ranking ahead of us in value per acre or crops are either primarily truck crop areas like Cali fornia, Florida and certain New Eng land garden plots. Arizona uses only her best irrigated soils on which are grown vegetables and cotton. So after all, as a strictly general crops State well diversified the value per acre gives us a leading place. The other side of the story is that the cost of production is also high with the profits per acre being low. Then, too, our cultivated acres per farm are low. Most farmers depend for their income on loss than 20 acres of land. Our greatest weakness is in live stock. As Dr. Clarence Poe, of the Progressive Farmer, told the 1,000 Wake County farmers assembled at State College recently, "A one-armed farmer is handicapped. Just so is the farmer who does not include live stock in his plans. By using that other arm almost twice as much could be accomplished." Livestock offer a home market. This is espec ially true of our cheapest and easiest crop grass. We work and plan to kill it instead of encouraging it. Good pastures are easy to produce on any of our soils. Mrs. Potter And Son Hurt In Car Accident Burlington, Juiy 7 Mrs. G. D. Potter, of 1727 West Lee street. Greensboro, su.'.'eied a broken right arm and h).-r son, Roland Potter, seven years old, suffered a fractured skull and broken right thigh in an automobile collision about 7:45 o'clock this morning just outside Elon College on the highway to Bur lington. The condition of the child, who was most severely injured, was declared favorable tonight by hospit al authorities. J. R. Potter, of Winston-Salem, brother of G. D. Potter, who drove the car wTiich his wife and child were injured, was also injured internally in the accident and was taken toa hos pital in Winston-Salem after his re turn home. The driver of the car and Mrs. J. R. Potter, only other oc cupants, were not injured. The identity of the other motorist who struck the Reo touring car in which the Potter families were riding was not learned here today. His Dodge coupe was badly smashed. Th touring car was almost demolished. Details of the collision were not available. Mr. Potter declares that while he was driving along the open highway the other automobile swerv ed into his. Xo reason for the change of direction by the Dodge could be given. Members of the Potter family here say that those injured in the acci dent referred to above are making as good progress as could be expected when the seriousness of their inju ries are considered. WELL KNOWN DOGS DIE Two dogs familiar to the people of Beaufort met tragic ends the past week. Rex, the eight year old pet of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Lewis was killed by an automobile dying a short time after being struck. Rex was well known to all of Beaufort by his familiar presence on the Beaufort Water and Light Dept.'s truck, and his manly bark. Boy, the Airdale dog belonging to Mr. E. Z. Chappell was killed by an automobile on Front Street, the driver not stopping to see to wnat extent the dog had been in jured. Boy was a familiar figure on Front street, playing with the Chap pell boys. City police enforce department of commerce aviation rules at the Mem phis, Tenn., airport.