Boll Weevil Is Plentiful
In Currituck County Now
No Trouble ut All to Discover Live Weevil* Almost Any
where in (U>unly, hut Damage Negligible Because
Squares Now Forming Will Never Mature Anyway
That the boll weevil is far more prevalent in Currituck than
in Pasquotank County is the opinion of Elizabeth City folks who
attended court at Currituck Monday.
The weevil was found in Pas
quotank last year, but was not
reported in Currituck up to
August of this year. But where
as there seems to be a consider
able part: of fosquotank which iR
still uninfested by the weevil, it
seems that in Currituck live
weevils can be picked up in
abundance almost anywhere
from Point Harbor to Currituck
Courthouse.
That tlie weevil has within a few
weeka become thus generally preva
lent in Currituck County is, at any
rate, the belief of Emory Smith,
teacher of agriculture In the Poplar
Branch High School, who iR from
Mississippi and knows about all there
is to know about the weevil from
first hand observation. So confident
is he of Currituck's general infesta
tion that, when an Advance reporter
at Currituck Courthouse this week
seemed skeptical about it. Mr. Smith
took the 'reporter into an adjoining
field and within five minutes six live
weevils had been captured and one
weevil grub had been found.
It was Mr. Smith who ahout a
mouth ago discovered the first wee
vils found In Currituck County near
Jarvlsburg. Woods and water are
plentiful in Crurituck and It Is be
lieved that these factors, together
with the frequent rains and cloudy
weather of August, have been re
sponsible W?r the pest's rapid Increase
in the county.
While contending that weevils arc
plentiful in practically every cotton
patch in the county, Mr. Smith re
assures farmers who are fearful of!
heavy losses from the pest this year.
Squares are plentiful, lie points out,
and while squares are plentiful the
weevil will do little harm to the
bolls. As It Is too late in the season
for squares now forming ever to!
reach maturity before frost, the dam
age of the weevil to the squares will'
not afTect the cotton yield this year.
Next year, Mr. Smith says, will be
the first In which damage from thej
weevil in Currituck will be apprecl-1
able and In his opinion it will be
1925 before growing cotton at pres
ent prices will be unprofitable In
Currituck.
COUNCIL ENDOKSES
RECOMMENDATIONS
Making his second set of recom
mendations to the City Council In
regular session Monday night of this
week. City Manager John IIray had
the satisfaction of having the Coun
cil endorse his program without
changing an lota of it.
Among these recommendations
was one for the purchase of a tran
sit, chains, level rod. range pole and i|
proper drafting instruments at a cost
of approximately This equip
ment la to be used in making surveys
for maps and for estimates and for
laying out and extending streets, and j
so on. Among the streets to be so
surveyed, with a view to its opening
westwardly from Dyer. Intersecting
Harney, to Cherry street Is Mat- 1
thews. An old cemetery at the pres
ent western terminus of Matthews
street has prevented previous action
in this direction, hut it Is believed
that the City Manager now has au- (
thorlty to meet this situation under
a" recent act of the Legislature. I
Ofher recommendations by the
City Manager endorsed by the Coun
cil were as follows:
Installation of the street lights on
the corner of Southern Avenue and
B. street.
Authority to place Walter Eason
In charge of street construction
and repair work as foreman with
the understanding that In cafe he
proves competent recommendation
will be made at the November meet
ing of the Council to increase his
?alary.
The placing of everything pertain
ing to sanitation, such as street
cleaning and sweeping, the collection
of garbage, together with the oper
ation of night soil carts, under the
direction of Captain W. (J. Simmons,
?Anttary inspector "
POWKLLH mi NT lilt I HPS.
j Powells Point, September 3.?Mrs.
S. M. Pallanee of Norfolk*, who has
n visiting relatives here, returned
home today with Mr. Hallance, who
motored here Sunday.
Julian Harris, who has been a
trusted employe of P. T. Owens, pop
ular Powells Point merchant, left
Friday for Nrfrfolk, where he has ac
cepted work. Mr. Harris will be
greatly missed In this part of the
county, for though only 19 he was
superintendent of a Sunday school
rand was identified with every move
| ment for the good of his community.
Ernest Parker of Powells Point
left Friday for Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs, J. E. Evans and fain
ily of Norfolk motored down to the
Community Day celebration at Point
Harbor and also to visit friends. The
family returned to Norfolk Sunday,
but Mr. Owens went to Elisabeth
CHtjr.
Mrs. Jennie Owens, who has been
visiting relatives here, will return to
her home at Norfolk today.
j Mrs. I,lllle Beasley of Kitty Hawk.|
who has been visiting friends here,
returned home today.
Illsa Julia K. Brlce, who has been
visltiHrg relatives In Elisabeth City, Is
to return to her home here
expected
to4ay. .
I.ITTLE I'AVI.NG TO BE
DONE BEFOREJ>PIMN(;
City Manager Hray will not under
take sidewalk or street paving in
Klizabeth City on any considerable
Hrale until the opening of spring, if
one may judge by the tenor of his
report to the City Council at its reg
ular session Monday night.
He will Hpend the autumn and
winter in making surveys for this
work and In acquainting himself in
detail with the problems to be over
come In connection with It.
However, temporary improvements
on sidewalks in areaa that are fre
quently flooded by rains or tides will
be undertaken, and the matter of
drainage, in particular, is to receive
the greater part of the City Manag
er's time and attention from now un
til the opening of spring. Having
observed conditions here throughout
one winter. Mr. Hray be Here* that he
will be In position to spend the city's
money for permanent improvement*
to better advantage wh^n weather
conditions become suitable for carry
ing on paving operations.
Iloth In the matter of temporary
street and sidewalk Improvement and
in that of drainage. Mr. Ilray's first
consideration will be given to streets
and avenues leading too and from
all of the schools in and arotino tlu
city, he told the City Council Mon
day night.
AMERICA RETAINS1"?;
DAVIS TEN NHS CUP
Portst HlUf. N. y.. Sept. 4.?Am
?rlo? yestwdly rttaltcd th? Davis
Cup (or (ennis by defeating Austra-I
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IMIOSPWTS llltK.HT FOR
POWKLLH POINT SCHOOL
Powells Point. Sept. 3.?The Pow
ells Point school will open Septem
ber 10. and prospects are bright for
a successful session.
About Ave years aco the school
building here wait damaged by a cy
clone and the school for several
years labored under a handicap. Dur
ing the 1022 vacation period, how
Aver. Che damage wm reptlrtd and
the school lut year under the man
agement of Mr*. C. A. Wright made
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es just received.
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