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The i va, fG TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE i $JT) WATCH Your label a: - '' "Vw'J The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. j READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE i WATCH Your label end pay your subscription V. cJ'7 VOLUME XX 12 PAGES-TWO SECTIONS THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 49 RECORDER'S COURT TO BE ABOLISHED ;- - Board of County Commission ers Passes Resolution End ing Court Next Year Unless some change is made some time in the future there will be no Recorder's court in Carteret county after December 1932. This is in ac cordance with a resolution adopted by the board at its meeting here on Monday. The resolution which was offered by Commissioner Chadwick, states that "after two years trial the pub lic interest does not require the con tinuance of the court." Mr. Chad wick also said that the audit recently made shows that the court is costing several thousand dollars more than it brings in. There was no opposition to the resolution and it was adopted. County Superintendent Allen and Mr. Ira Garner of Newport came be fore the board to see if some arrange ment could be made about paying the salary of Mr. C. S. Long, agricultural teacher in the Newport school. This matter was also brought up at a pre vious meeting. As before it was stated by the board that nothing could be done about the matter as the tax levy for all purposes was fix ed several months ago. Miss Lillian Duncan of Beaufort and Miss Dozier representing the State Department of Welfare came before the board and asked that a County Welfare Agent be appointed. Miss Dozier stated that there were more than 900 persons in needy cir cumstances in the county and that practically no welfare work is being done. There was considerable dis cussion the outcome of which was that the matter be deferred until the first Monday in January. There were several applications made to the board for financial aid. An order was passed to pay Mrs. Bet tie Rose of Harker's Island $5 a month, to pay Lee Murdock of Wild wood, for Tobe Shepherd $5 a month and that Mrs. Ruby Lockett be allow ed $7.50 a month and that the State Welfare Department be asked to ap propriate the same from the Mother's Aid Fund An order was passed ad mitting Mrs. T. D. Meares of More head City to the County Home. T. Clifford Wade of Morehead City was allowed $1.50 a month the same to be paid on "his taxes. J. F. Duncan and Stanly Woodland came before the board and asked! for a reduction in the valuation of the Tidewater Power Company's plant in Morehead City. A motion offered by Commissioner Chadwick wa? passed that the valuation remain unchanged. A motion was passed appropriating $15 to aid in paying the burial ex penses of Floyd Robinson of Beau fort. The Auditor was instructed to ad just the tax matter of J. M. Willis of Morehead township. The Auditor was instructed to no tify J. T. Ricks, Solomon Willis and Julian Fulcher to come before the board at the January meeting to straighten out a tax matter. A motion was passed to pay Sheriff Chadwick two months salary as soon as funds are available. The audit recently made by A. M. Pullen and Company for the coun ty for the year ending June 30, 1931 was presented to the board. Funeral Services Held For Fred Lathrop King After having been in ill health for the past several years, Fred Lathrop n-mg sr., widely known and unver sally liked local man. missed awav Monday at noon in Norfolk, Va., at at. Vincent's Hospital, the immedi ate cause of his death being abdom inal hemmorrhage. His failing health culminated several weeks ago in his being removed to the Norfolk hospit al. Up until just prior to noon Mon day he St. Vincent doctors believed Mr. King to be improving; the change came quick'y just before noon and was folowed.in a short while by death For many years Mr. Kin? followed the vocation of a painter here in Beaufort and the vici ity. and was considered to be an excellent work man at trat trade. During the last few yearc, however, ha has been em ployed by Adair & Rice, local fun eral directors and embalmers. In both capacities he won for himself a favorable p'ace in tho hearts of the people of this community and else where. To many of the younger gen eration he was just plain "Uncle Re mus," as they affably designated him. He was or e of those rare individuals who never grew old in spirit, and therefore was as much at home with the youngsters of today as he was with the frown folks. Mr. King was married twice, his first wife being Miss Mattie Fulcher, and to that union was born two sons, W. Fred King, of Beaufort, and Roland King, of Greenville. After the death of his wife he married Miss Minnie Neal; two children sur vive this union, John Bragg and Vir ginia King. Funeral services were conducted at three o'clock Wednesday in St. Paul's Church by the rector, the Rev. Worth Wicker. The remains lay in state in the church from twelve o'clock until the services began. Mr. King was for many years a faithful member of this church and at the time of his death was a vestryman. "The Strife is O'er" and 'Hark, Hark My Soul," were sung at the church, and Mrs. John Brooks sang a solo, "The,; Old Rugged Cross." At the grave" "There ia a Blessed Home,'! was sung. Inter ment was in Ocean View Cemetery. The undertakers were represented at the funeral by D. Q. brnaw, oi New Bern, Geo. W. Dill, Morehead City, and by Mr. James, of Bell & James, Morehead City. Active pallbearers were vestrymen of St. Paul's Church: C. R. Wheatly, C. A. Clawson, Walter Guthrie, C. H. Bushall, W. A. Mace and Joseph House. He is survived by his wife, three sons and one daughter, named in the foregoing; one sister, Miss Maude King of Goldsboro; a nieceMiss Eu nice Freeman, of Goldsboro; and a nephew, William Duncan, of Raleigh. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Geo. M. Piner et ux to Colonial Oil Co., tract Morehead Township, for $10. ' W. L. Stancil, Trustee to Mrs. Marv and Robert F. Tillett, 1 lot Beaufort, for $600. E. W. Glass et al, to Beulah B. Stewart, 6 acres Straits Township, for $10. Several Suits Tried In Court This Week Superior Court has been in prog ress here this week beginning Mon day. Several cases that were on the calendar have been tried but most! of them will jiot be reached, in fact a considerable number have already been contniued. Judge Sinclair i. is presiding over the court. j The case of Elks and Broadus, ad ministrators, versus Atlantic Bedch and Bridge Corporation was taken hp and after considerable sparring Ije tween attorneys was dismissed. Att'ojr neys for the plaintiffs took an appeal to the Supreme Court. This is the case growing out of the deaths of Jasper Hoel and H. L. Joyner ef Greenville which occurred while thai were fishing near the bridge and were electrocuted when their fishing line got tangled up with a live wire on the bridge. The case was tried last January and resulted in a mistrial Other cases were: William Sasseen against Joinj Hanff, W. B. Hanff agent and C. T, Gillikin. The evidence was in dei fendants asked for a nonsuit and the same was granted. The plaintiff api pealed. f Morehead City and M. L. Mans field against Mrs. Gertie Willis, Frank lin Willis and Carteret county. Judg ment was that Mansfield was entitle to $10 a month rent for 12 months. J Morehead City and M. L. Mansll field against Mrs. Keithy Willis and! Aeitny ,wuns. jury gave verdict mj favor of Mansfield. He is to get $l(n a month rent for 12 months. Hamilton Grocery Co., ' againstj Chas. S. Davis. Verdict in favor off piaintin ior $z4.zz ana interest irom July 26, 1928. APPLICATION FOR A GAS FRANCHISE i Warm Discussion Before City Board On Question of Issuing Franchise The boar dof city commissioners at the regular meeting Monday night Hibbs Fish Company of Hibbs Fish Company Plans Big Expansion A recent issue of the Fish and Oys ter Reporter of Tampa, Fla., contains a reprint of an article from the St. Petersburg Independent in which a good many people in this section will be interested. The article refers to the plans for the expansion of the St. Peters- Dill Ambulance In Mix-up With Sedan Monday afternoon Geo. W. Dill, Morehead City funeral director, was driving his ambulance down one of the east and west streets in that com munity and a Chevrolet sedan driven by Mrs. Daisy Meekins and occupied by four other ladies came out of a side street and hit the Dill vehicle, tearing one of the rear wheels com pletely down, bending up the fender and ripping the bumper off. Coroner Dill said that he blew his horn sev eral times and drove onward, as he had the right of way. Mrs. Meekins, who is said to have only recently learned to drive an automobile, said that she did not hear the horn blow. As the Dill Funeral Home was con ducting a funeral Monday afternoon, the ambulance service of Adair & Rice, Beaufort funeral directors, was procured for this after the collision put the Dill vehicle out of commission. NAT EBORN BOUND OVER TO RECORDER'S COURT Nat Eborn. who lives near More- head City, was tried before Justice of the Peace H. W. Noe at the court house Monday on the charge of trans porting liquor and bound over to 'the County Recorder's court unaer t J150 bond. Another warrant contain- ing some other charges was with drawn with the consent of the pros ecuting witnesses. Eborn has been in court before on liquor charges. Big Department Store Destroyed By Fire passed the resolution giving the Tide water Power Company a franchise on its second reading. The resolution ha sto be passed at the next regular meeting for the third time which will be final. Those present were May or Taylor and Commissioners Gibbs, Glover, King and Rumley. Considerable time was taken up in discussing the city's debts and what should be paid out of the money de rived from the sale of the water and light plant. An order was passed in structing City Clerk Thomas to issue vouchers in favor of the Beaufort Banking and Trust Company for $8000 on a note that is due and also paying $10,298.33 on some bonds and interest coupons that are past due. A note for $11500 due the Bank of Beaufort and which was held by Col. F. S. Dickinson of Rutherford, N. J. as security for a loan, was paid last week. It was stated thatt he board will order some other obligations paid in the near futrure. An paplication for a franchise to lay gas pipes by attorney C. R. Wheatly representing Richard M. Johnson and associates of Norfolk, Va., was laid before the board and brought on a rather spirited discus sion. Attorney J. F. Duncan and Messrs. Mathes, Poisson and Carteret representing the Tidewater Company were present and joined in the dis cussion. The Tidewater representativ- MANY NOTABLES ATTEND MEETING IN CAPITAL CITY Literary And Historical Asso ciation Had Unusually rine Meeting es did not ask for a gas franchise WARM AND DRY WEATHER . ibut said they intended to make a sur- DURING MONTH OF NOVEMBER f vey of the situation here and might asK tor a Irancnise later. jvj.r. w neat- While not so dry in these . parts during the month of November as October was it was still pretty dry. The rainfall for the month was 1.51 inches. There was a fairly good rain on the 19th,, .45 inches and pit the 28th.; .90 Jnches.;'"The weather wa1. ly argued against giving the Tidewa ter Power a monoply of the gas and electric' business in Beaufort and said that a franchise should be given to any one should ask for it." The board indicated that it was not ready to-frar4 franchise until the matter also warm; the ;c61dest'pera UII IllUblUXl UX VUIUIHIBBIUIiei UIUUB OV was 41 above zero, on the 7th and 8th. There were 19 clear days,' two cloudy ones and 9 partly cloudy. The winds blew from the northeast 12 days, southwest seven and the rest of the time from other directions. The temperature figures for the month day by day are the following 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. 30. Max. .65 .65 .66 .70 .74 .70 .57 .60 .68 .71 .71 .72 .72 .74 .77 .76 .77 .77 .80 .77 .79 .77 -76 .72 .74 .72 .74 .70 .65 .75 Min. 42 43 45 48 45 46 41 41 45 47 47 48 59 55 57 60 ol 67 64 64 65 61 61 61 59 49 46 52 53 tion was deferred until the January meeting. A motion was passed on request of a committee of citizens that 20 be allowed toward paying the funeral expenses of Floyd Robinson. A bill of the Utilities Engineering and Management Company of Char lotte for $8400 for commission, claim ed on the. sale of the water and light plant was read and on motion laid on the table. A request of the State Highway Commission to allow lights to be dis continued on the highway fill between the two bridges was not acted on. CONDUCT LAST RITES FOR FLOYD ROBINSON Funeral services were held this af ternoon at three o'clock at the home of Mrs. Robert Dunn for Floyd Rob inson, the Rev. R. F. Munns conduct ing the last rites, assisted by the Rev erends Worth Wicker and J. P. Har ris. Interment was in Ocean View Cemetery. Death came after a lingering ill ness that had persisted for years. He had received sanatarium treatment on several occasions and was at the Ma rine Hospital, Norfolk, Va., at the time of his death Sunday morning. Mr. Robinson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Carrie Robinson, three children; one brother, Tuttle Robin son, and a sister Mrs. George Gilbert burg. The founder of that concern, H. W. Hibbs, is an native of Carter et county and has a fine summer home here on Bogue Sound. The growth of the Hibbs company, de spite the dull times, will doubtless be noted with pleasure by many people in Carteret county. The article fol lows: "Fishing interests of the South will be interested In the announcement of the expansion program recently un dertaken by the Hibbs Fish Company of St. Petersburg, Florida. According to the St. Petersburg Independent, an industrial program involving a quarter of a million dol lars has been undertaken by this pi oneer fish company of the West Coast of 'Florida. Tho St. Peters burg paper says: "With the veteran H. W. Hibbs, founder of the local industry, still at the helm in the operations of the fleet and guiding the board of directors in markets of his long established trade throughout the nation, new in terests come to carry through a pro gram which will include the building of a storage plant of 1,000,OOU pounds capacity with sharp freezing system, the biggest plant of its kind in the southeast; the erection of a modern cannery, with equipment to pack a wide variety of seafoods so abundant in the gulf and on the west coast of Florida"; the continuous op eration of the company's fleet of eight vessels, known to be of the best on the waters of the state; the erec tion of a fish meal plant with the de hydrating system; supply of the mar kets long ago built up in practically every consuming center east of the Mississippi, and finally, the employ ment of fishermen and their boats in this territory and adjacent waters. . New Officers I t'"hny dj ' orial8sc the omcers are as iouowa: n. tt. xiiuub, chairman of the board of directors; John A. Thompson, president; Wil liam Hibbs, vice president; M. K. Thompson, secretary and treasurer; Herbert T. Davis, general manager in charge of operations. All are resi dents of St. Petersburg, so that this industry is strictly a home enterprise. Prolonged Negotiation ''Negotiations have been under way tor some time, extensive re search work has been carried on. Complete Surveys have been made. These negotiations have now been completed as between the fish com pany and the Tax Securities corpor ation and those associated with that organization, which has its headquar ters in the Florida Theatre building. In the transaction Judge Willam G. DR. NOBLE WINS PRIZE Br M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Dec. 7 Raleigh went "high hat" last week, as one of the Raleigh editors expressed it, refer ing to the gathering of many not ables of the State for the annual convention of the State Literary a :id Historical Association, and its rela tives, the North Carolina Art Society and the North Carolina Folk-Lore So ciety, and will keep the head-gear at . a rakish angle all through this week, while paintings of iNorth Carolina ar tists are being displayed and visited daily by hundreds of citizens, with many school groups. The Literary and Histories-! Asso ciation had a peculiarly interesting gathering, due in part to the an nouncement that Dr. Marcus Cicero Stevens Noble, Sr., head of education at the State University, had won the award of the new Mayflower Socity Cup, for the best literary work pub lished during the year. His book wm "A History of the Public School of North Carolina." The new cup is a handsome and valuable product, 20 inches high, made of hand-hammered silver, rest ing on a Belgian marble base and sur mounted by a reproduction of the ship Mayflower. It is in a case made of walnut and plate glass about six feet tall and will b kept in the Hall of History in Raleigh. A band will take the names of the winners each year and may be removed and an other band substituted when the first is filled. The novel part is that a small six inch replica or model of the larger cup becomes the property of the winner each year, also engrpr.u with his name, the year and name of his work. ' : ; Dr. George W. PaschalL, of Wake ; Forest College, , was .ejected , presi dent ;' BunamrStftndi9h;r Colburn, Biitmore Forest, governor of the May - flower Society in the State, is first "' vice-president; Miss , Sallie Joyner Davis, Greenville, second vice-president; Rev. A. J. Howell, Wilmington third, and Dr. A. R. Newsome, Ral eigh, secretary. Speakers included Dr. Ulrich B. Phillips, on "The His toric Defense of Negro Slavery," Judge Robert W. Winston, on ''An drew Johnson: the Modern Prome theus," Bishop J. B. Cheshire, pres ident, on early religious influences in North Carolina, and others. The Art Society did an unusual thing by inviting resident or native artists to display thir works, instead of bringing them, as for several years, from the Grand Central Art Gallery, New York. A complete dis- King represented the Hibbs interests. Play f excellent art work is the re- The Kihhs Fish Co.. is nneratinc iSUlt. . , - r n now and has been a leader in the shipment of Florida fish from this city since 1889. In these 42 years the company in its business annually has often topped all other industries of the city. The company's business likewise has been the one big fac tor in making St. Petersburg the cen ter of the fish industry of the Gulf of Mexico." 57) both of Beaufort. CHECK FLASHER VICTIMIZES SEVERAL PERSONS IN MOREHEAD AND COUNTRY A young man probably twenty three or four years of age who is New Bern has had several disabusing the name of D. E. Britt in trous fires this year but probably the Morehead City and the vicinity last worst of all was that Wednesday week and the first part of this, pass mornine when the Coplon building, ed a good many worthless checks off occupied by the UelK uepartment on tne peopie, pussiuiy uuUU store was destroyed. The fire was dred and fifty or two hundred dol discovered shortly before three lars in all. In fact, so many people o'clock and was raging furiously. It ; 'swallowed the bait" that it is almost seems to have started on the second j impossible to ascertain mt how floor Help from Kinston and More- much the people, were swindled out head City was obtained but it was ( of, or the exact number of people impossible to save the building. Ad- that were plagued by him. hnilHWa were damasred 1 The man was described by one . fc,,t woro not Hfistroved. Morehead City merchant as being Mnnw,r MnJordan of the Belk somewhat young in appearance, tall ctotoH that a laree stocK OI ana sum, ana amreu in woiiun& PLENTY OF RAIN NOW store roods, estimated at $90,000, was in store. A great deal had been bought for the Christmas trade. About $40, 000 insurance was carried on the stock. The building beiongea to tne The drouth that has afflicted Car teret county for about two months ...... .1 ".I-.. was dettnitely DroKer, last rr..y tment Company 0f New with a good rain:;that lasted most of opion inv The a good fcrest fires have been exti.iguu-ine and the crops greatly helped. ' ' it a il. 1 a 1 j wAt t or 11 tne day. aiso yesiemay u,eic. f. I " , j , fy, Rplk store. 1 i -j .tua omit ivcu lit vv many ne.vy .now- , 1 r - tt,A to he worth be- d nuiiains "V" clothes. He posed in several instanc es as a linesman of the Tidewater Power and Light Company, the con cern that now owns both the More head City and the Beaufort electric light plants. Several of the Morehead City stor es including the Paragon, W. -C. Mathews at the Morehead City Drug Company, and quite a number of oth t::-5ve rr.s t r.bout $40,000 insurant on ers are holding worthless checks of known white man of the Bay View section, and Manly Pickett, Morehead City Negro, sold him oysters, each ac cepting checks for about twenty dol lars, it is reported. Not being satisfied with the mer chants and the oystermen, "Britt" went up Bogue Sound and purchased between seventy-five and a hundred dollars worth of turkeys, telling the farmers that he was buying them for Freeman Brothers of Morehead City, and giving them his personal and worthless check on the fictitious "Citizens Bank of Morehead City. It is said that some of the swindled farmers have been endeavoring to Jo cate the "Citizen's Bank" but it seems that they have as yet been un successful in finding it and having their ''checks" cashed. As far as the News has been able to find out, "Britt" "skipped" Mon. day afternoon or Tuesday, without anything being done in the way of having him arrested. If anyone a- round Beaufort was the object of his various and sundry operations, they TIDE TABLE Information aw to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct and based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allow ances must be made for varia tions in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. High Tide Low Tide Friday, Dee. 11 0:13 9:37 10:02 10:29 10:51 . ll:01p, K 11:23 a. 11:41 p, 12:20 a, 12:33 p a. m. p. m. Saturday, Dec. a. m. p. m. -5- dyf Dec. .'. r ;' n JHonday, Dec. m- m. Tuesday, Dec m. m. 2:33 " 3:30 12 3y:23 a. 4:18 p, 13 4:15 5:05 14 5:09 5:52 15 6:06 6:41 a. P. a. P- a. P- Wednetday, Dec. 16 'D. E. Britt," Eoth WW Curry, well- have kept quiet about it. 1:19 a. 1:27 p. 2:14 a. 3:22 p. m. m. Thuraday, Dec m. m. 7:06 7:30 17 8:09 8:18 Donald Matteson, winner of the Prix de Rome, is one of the most not ed of the artists displaying paintings, while the paintings of Bishop Ches hire and the late Edward K. Graham, by Clement Strudwick, Hillsboro, are attracting much attention. Others hav ing pictures on display are Charles Bakerville Jr., now of New York; Is abelle Worth Bowen, Raleigh; Elli ott Dengerfield," Gene Erwin, Dur ham; Mary Graves Rees, Chapel Hill James McLean Ralegih; Mrs. Ruth Huntington Moore, William Pfohl, old Salem sketches; Mabel Pugh, Francis speight, William Steens, Mary H. Tannahill, Mary Tillery and Louis Verhees. The display will be open daily until December 14. Mrs. Katherine Pendleton Arring ton of Warrenton, president, who has done much toward the promotion of art in the State and presented many portraits to schools, paid the entire cost of the exhibit. She was re-elected president and Governor O. Max Gardner honorary president. William T. Polk, Warrenton; Mrs. S. Westray Battle, Asheville, and Josephus Dan. iels, Raleigh, are vice presidents; M. C. S. Noble, Jr., secretary; Miss Isa belle Bowen, treasurer, and Dr. Clar ence Poe, chairman of the executive committee. The Folk-Lore Society, ensraeed in studying, collecting and preserving the songs, storeis and expressions of negroes and Indians, isolated moun. taineers and secluded fisher-families, the illiterate and the learned, heard a talk on Folk Music in America by La mar btringfield ; a report on Mythi cal Monsters, by Mrs. John Carr; North Carolina Folk Tales, by Ralph C. Boggs; Voodooism, by Edward P. Dreyer, New Orleans, and Proverbs, byGeo. E. Hoffman, Winnetka, 111. i Officers were re-elected, as follows: Mrs. Josephus Daniels, prsidnt; Mrs. j Maude Minish Sutton. Dilbboro: Dr. m. jT. B. Harrison and W. J. Ar-vu-s, m. (Continued on page eight) m. m. m. m m. m. m. m. m. m. READ THE NEWS WANT AD5
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