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PLYMOUTH EXTENDS A HEARTY WELCOME TO HGMESEEKERS Eise Dommke THE-Man THE BEACON OFFERS SPLENDID OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVERTISER a Year, la Atfvaaaa. "TOR COO, FOR CO UNI RY AND FOR TRUTH." SlngU Copy • Cc*ti VOL. 39 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928 NO. 41 Democrats To Open / County Campaign < Early In October l1 h_ - «t* ^ / ( EMINS NT ORATORS WILL BE INVITED Launch Campaign in Town Of Roper: Rally To Be Held In Plymouth; Speeches Slated For Creswell Faced with what its leaders admit to be one of the greatest fights in the last quarter of a century, Washing ton County Democrats will open their campaign in the school building at Roper some time during the first of October, it was decided in a meeting of the Democratic Executive Commit- j tee that was held here in the court house Wednesday with a number of the candidates and others present. Amo»g the speakers mentioned for an invitation to deliver the opening ad-. dress were J. C. B. Ehringhaus, of ! Elizabeth City, former Governor Cam epp Morrisop, of Charlotte, and J. \V, Bailey, of Raleigh. A Democratic rally will be he'd in Plymouth during the middle of October at which time about fifty hogs will be salughtered and barbe cued in order to feed the immense gathering of the loyal party members that is expected. Clyde Hoey, of Shelby, was mentioned as a possible speaker for this occasion. Also a prominent worker among the womer will share the ora orical honors with the speaker on this date. I he pro-' gram will likely consume the most of cpy bsgi'mimg promptly at 11 j o'clock in the morning. * , Another motion was passed to have a third meeting some time dur ing this month it which time Congressman Lindsay Warren, of Washington, will >e the principal speaker. This meeting will be held in (lesvvfiH it? the scjion] auditorium, A jm>i;e detailed program of these meet ings will be announced at a later date when the arangement are completed. ^ Mrs. J. C. Gatlin w; s named as the Jigad pf a series of clubs that will be organized among the women in the toumy that are members of the party. Her duties are to sponsor the or ganization and func ioning of the clubs until a general meeting is held at which time regular officers will be elected. The leaders of the party think that this will be a great asset to the & party in the polling of votes for both the county, State and national ticket. jpe "sp&cetfi of thi party in this campaign is to produce a majority in face of the several 1 actors that are militant against the Pemocratic Strength! The democratic forces have - been somewhat delayed in organizing, l f however’ 1 >' thought, that by the first c ^ ‘vfthe party forces will the County V cutive Committee. The following were named as mem bers of the Finance Committee: W. / P. payenpopt, Mrs. Q. P- Hatfield, F'C pa{mi, Miss pussie parstarphen, W. Q. Chesson, Miss Eva Allen, Mrs, E M. Chesson, J. C, Swain, Mrs, Ida Brickhouse, J. L. Rea, Mrs. Van B. Martin, Harry Stell, Mrs. T. L. Bray. E W. Tarkenton, Mrs. J. Brien Har ris, Mrs. W. E. Spruill, Mrs. A. L. Holmes, Mrs. W. L. Furbee, E. L. Owens, H. E. Beam, R. W. Lewis and I , J. A. Chesson. Jf f T|,e following wefe named qn a jjcpuniH'ee 1° make arrangements for the rally day that will be held here some time during next month: L. E. Hassell, R. C. Peacock, Edward S. Blount, J. H. Allen, John Stillman, R. i w. Johnson, E. F. Swain, J. W. Spoilt, A. L. tfoltnes, J,. Everett, jp(S White, ff- J- Furbee, VV. A. ‘ Swain, J. L. Rea, J, E. Phelps, E, R. J^ewis, W- B- Chesgon, G, V, Lewis, and G. C, Phelps, The committee on arangentents for the rally day program are requested by County Chairman Mizelle to make a list of everything that is donated by any person and turn in the list by September 28 so the county officials will be enabled to ascertain the a amount of food that will be furnished for this occasion. fit Wont Be Long N ISSUE WARNING TRAFFIC LAW VIOLATORS An additional policeman has been lidded to the local force for duty on Saturdays and on occasions that would cause an increase in traffic in order to more strictly enforce the traffic laws that are in effect here. Speeding, aperating cars without the proper | lights, parking in unlawful postiions on .he principal streets of the city, and driving with a cut-out open are the main traffic laws that are being dis regarded by motorists. Sheriff Reid has agreed o< join the ocal force in their campaign against his disregard for law. For two weeks :htre have been policemen at the prin cipal corners in the city warning the rutomobilists to desist front disobeying hese laws. So, from now on, every me must be informed that the offic ab: have been charged by the city council to arrest those that continue lo disregard these laws. LOCAL NEWS Mrs. W. B Chesson of Mackeys was here Wednesday. J. I Brewer of Norfolk was nere this week visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. A. S Jordon were n Washington Sunday visiting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Winslow and chi'd of Washington were nere Sunday visiting Mrs. Fannie flyers. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Outten of Norfolk were here last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Stubbs. Rev. and Mrs, Theodore Par trick of Scotland Neck were here during the week end visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Beaslev and Miss Bell Fa;ran spent Sunday i n Morehpad City; Mrs. W. S. Swain of Durham is spending some time here with Mr. and Mrs. T- L, Satterthwaite in Jefferson street. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Burgess motored to Washington Sunday where they spent the day with relatiye? and friends, Miss Mavi-' Thigpen, G. H. Hale, and son, Charlie, of Weldon were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs, R: W; Johnston on Main street. Mrs. A. W. Dissosway and ittle Miss Evelyn Arps and Mrs* Nona Newman were in Columbia Sunday visiting relatives and friends. >Mt. and Mrs. C. T. Robbins and Mr. and Mrs Clarence Ains ley motored to Washington Sun Jay wht^e they visited friends and relatives. Mr, and Mrs A Hie Allen and Miss Mabel Tarkenton and Herman Owens were it Rocky Mount during the week end as the guest 8 of friends. ALMO THEATRE TONIGHT Mary Pickford IN “Sparrows” M. G. M. NEWS Saturday Night Tirp McCoy Riders Of The Dark ALSO Fifth Episode of Serial The House Without A Key INK WELL IMPS Monday Night Only Clara Bow IN 'Get Your Man” ow — Roanoke Fair STUDENTS ARE LEAVING FOR SCHOOLS Summer vacation is over; festive scenes and gay occassions give way tc the desire for knowledge as the ex odus back to school begins. Vacation activities are now dispensed with as about twenty young people from this immediate vicinity depart for prepar atory schools universities and col leges. A few of those that attended schools out of the city last year will not return for various reasons. About scvee graduates of the local school last year will join the number that will enter higher institutions of learn ing this session. Athletes that were stellar players on the local baseball and football teams will enjoy a try out on the var ious college teams. Days and weeks of intensive draining confronts tha as piring players that left the home team in good condition last year, be fore they will be in a condition to even play on second teams in the various colleges after a summer of pleasure and inactivity. There is hardly a city of the s^mq amount of population in thq St^te that will be affected more by the com ings and goings of the students than Plymouth. Of course, those that leave here will enter schools of ad vancecl learning, while on the other hand, many strange students will be observed on the streets and in the schools here, as four trucks daily bring the pupils in from the various sections or the county. Some may come to this school faom other small towns. As the daily arrival of these new pupils is noted, so is the departure of members of the local young set who have been entering school since ^he first of September and will continue leaving for the various schools until next month. Those that wore stu dents last year and will remain behind this year to continue their respective duties in their chosen vocation will al so be noticed as they are seen at the few entertainments and meetings that will feature the fall season. Leaye for Schools Among those leaving for school who will attend State College, at Raleigh, are: James Wood and Gor don Norman, Dale and Joe Tucker Titterton, Jack Swain, Martin Dar den, George Darden and Harry Gur kin. Vance Ayers goes t.o the ytdyters ity of North Curding, at Cahgpl Hill. Bepuett Stephenson and Russell Har rison return to Duke University, at Durham. Lloyd Owens enters David son College, as freshman. Clyde Ca hoon goes to the College of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Va. Miss Edna Earl Nurney will re-eptey. the East Corjlipp Teachers (ijollege, at Greenville. Mis* Louise Stephenson re turns to Pineliind College, at Saleip burg, for tt second term- Misses Min nie Gordon Gaboon and Ethel Spruill go to the North Carolina College for Women, at Greensboro. Misses Caro ls n and Louise Brinkley and Margaret Boss Walker ure to attend Salem College, at Winston-Salem. Sydney A. Ward will attend the Augusta Military Academy, at Fort Defiance, Va., for the second term. ENTERTAINS SUNDAY * school classes Miss Eva White entertained the Re Iroboth Sunday School classes on the lawn of her home m the Skinnersville section last Wednesday evening cele brating her birthday. The home was decorated with bouquets of zinnias. Tables arranged on the lawns for desks for school children were orna mented with cut flowers and Japanese lanterns. Cindy was seyvt<J \>y a number of little boys and girls. Punch was served by several young ladies. Mrs. Walter White and Mrs. S. A. Holton won prizes in a flower-guess ing contest. The feature entertainment of the evening was a game of playing school with Miss Whyte as the teacher. When the bell sPUHded the children assemb led fop lessons In desks on the lawn. During this time many interesting contests were enjoyed. Cake and ice cream were served. A large beautiful birthday cake was prominently ar ranged on a table during the serving. FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY FOR J. E. BLOUNT Funeral services were held at his home in the Mackeys section Tuesday afternoon for James E. Blount, who died some time Monday after an ill ness that lasted for several months , Willmm»ton, Sep r EXPENDITURES ON SCHOOLS COMPARED Expenditures for the public schools in Washington county for the ses sion of 1926-27 was $76,925.64. it was learned yesterday from statistics com piled in the office of A. T. Allen, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, at Raleigh. This was $91,435.'44 less than the expenditures for the Martin county school system; $7,967.58 les-s* than the expenditures for the schools in Hyde county; and $3,642.57 more than the expenditures for the school system in Tyrrell county during this same session. The figures given in the foregoing paragraph represents the total expen ditures including the current expense items and the capital outlay. The current expense items includes the salaries of the teachers, principals, superintendents, and all the paid em ployees of the county school system, and in addition, the fuel, school sup plies, rent, insurance, and the opera tion of a large number of trucks to transport the pupils, The capital outlay for Washington county during this same session a mounted to $2,842.05 for the schools. This total included all payments on ivew buildings and sites, additions to old hnildinirs. emiinment trucks and library equipment for some of the high schools. This fund will be great ly augmented this year as there has been provided by the school officials better and more comfortable trans portation facilities, and more adequ ate equipments for the various schools. During tin's same session there was a total enrollment in the thirty schools in this county that amounted to a Lout 2,418. This year it has exceeded the 2,500 enrollment mark that was first predicted for the current season, this makes this county rank twenty second in the expense of the variou school systems in the hundred coun ties in the State. Hyde county had an enrollment during the 1926-27 ses sion of 2,530; Tyrrell county had about 1,523 enrolled; and Martin county had a total enrollment of 6, 212. The annual expenditure for each pupil for the 1926-27 session was $31. 81 in Washington county. This will show an increase this year for the simple reason thjtf if will be accom panied by ayi increase in attendance. The annual current expense for each child was $30.64. From all the facts that are present ed in the statistics it is revealed that the increased expenditure thgt \yi\l he made this year ig Washington county will he accompanied by increased en rollment and attendance, longer school term, better prepared teachers, a laiger program of activities, a more modern school plant, and, greatest of ah, it shows an increased interest of the people iy the education *f their children. Funeral Wednesday For Lawerence McNair Funeral services were conducted at the home of Mr, sp\d Mrs, T. Mc Nair., on Washington Street, Wednes day morning fpr Lawrence McNair, 4 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mc Nair, who died some time Monday as the result of complications of diseases that was caused by injuries sustained when the child fell on a pair of scis sors causing them to enter his nose. ■ The Rev. J. R. Everett, of the Bap j tist Church, officiated. Friends cniy. j triluited a beautiful floral offering, tn | lirimiii was u^ayc m vnv < cemetery near here. The accident occurred at the home ot the child’s father, J. B. McNair some time during the week end. '1 he child was taken to the Park View Hospital at Rocky M°U‘U Sunday, af ter an examination the hospital at ; taches advised the parents to return i thi child to their home, where he died. with the Rev. A. H. Marshall, rector ol the local Grace Episcopal Church, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Theo dore Partrick, jr., rector of the 1 rini ty Episcopal Church, at Scotland Neck, Interment was made in St. Luke’s cemetery. A large crowd at tended the filial rites for this native of Washington County. Surviving Mr. Blount is a widow, one. daughter, Mrs. Stella Hyman, of Scotland Neck, and two sons, Phil 1 lip, of Wallace, N. C, and Edward S. Blount, a sop who still lesidcs with his mother. it. 25 - 28, Football Two Killed In Auto Collision Near Here Monday Afternoon ---4* U. D.C. CHAPTER ORGANIZED HERE A local Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was or ganized in the courthouse here Wed nesday with about twenty members present at the first meeting e)<pressing their desire to join. It is expected that the charter membership will be great ly increased at the called meeting which will be held at the courthouse next Tuesday afternoon. This will be the last chafice for those that desire to become charter members to file their applications. Other may join at any time. The chapter will be named at the meeting next Tuesday. In the mean time a committee was appointed to confer with Miss Gussie Carstarphen, Washington county historian, and re ceive recommendations as to a suit able name for the chapter. It is thought that it will be named after Washington County during the Civil War. A motion Aas entertained and pass ed naming the first Wednesday in each month as the time for the regular meet ings. The first of these will be held in October. Rev. N. H. Harrison, a Confederate veteran of near here, will be asked to sign the applications and the documents to make the applica tion for a charter more historic. The following officers were elected ; Mrs. B. A. Sumner, president; Mrs. W. B. Chesson, first vice president; M ra, A. L. Alexander, second vice president; Mrs. J. W. Norman, secre ;<iy; Mrs. B. G. Campbel, recording secretary; Mrs. H. S. Midgette, treas urer; Miss Gussie Carstarphen, histor ian; and Mies Louise Ayers, regis trar. Entertains At Birthday Dinner A surprise birthday dinner was giv en to Charlie T. Robbins at bis home on Main Street last Thursday at noon by bis family, celebrating his thirty first anniversary. Those gt the table in addition to. Mr, a»d Mrs. C. T. Robbins were Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Robbim, of Westover, Mr. and Mrs. George Trimbly, of Jacksonville, Fla., M*s. Tom Ayers, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Misses Miriam and Blanche Robbins, of this place. Funeral Today For W. H. Tarkenton Faineral services will be conducted at his rseidence near Roper at 4 o’ clock Friday afternoon, for William Henry Tarkinton, 72 years old, who died at his home ye-sfi-’fday as the re sult of & yin lent attack of a chronic disease, yyhich assailed him while at tending the funeral of C. Frank Mc Nair Wednesday. Interment will he at the family cem etery near his home. Rev. N. G. Dun can, of Creswell, will officiate. Although born in Tyrrell county, Mr. Tarkinton lias been a resident of Washington County for more than 4U years. In early life We became interested in politics and served bis people for sev eral years as constable and deputy sheriff. He is survived by a widow, one. son, Henry Tarkinton, two daughters, Mrs. Pete Phelps and Miss Elsie Tarkin ton, and one brother, Asa Tarkinton, all of near Roper. Tn nerliratf* Tablet Next Week The North Carolina division of the l nited Daughters of the Confederacy will sponsor the dedication of a me morial fence and tablet around the grave of General James Johnston Pet tigrew, on the Hon Arva Plantation, in Tyrrell Cqunty, Thursday morning, September 27, at 11 o'clock, accord ing to news received here front Mrs. Alfred Williams, chairman of tho com mittee, and Mrs. Walter K. Woodard, president of the organization. Everybody is urged to attend and bring a l.mch as a basket picnic din ner wiU be enjoyed after the speaking and the dedication ceremonies. Those wishing to attend should drive to Cre. wcll and be directed to the scene of the ceretnonies from this town. m A THIRD PERSON IS RECOVERYING Accident Occurred On No 90 Highway Near Bateman’s Store. Ford Damagea Chevrolet Destroyed Two were killed and a third person was seriously injured in a collision between a Chevrolet coach and a Ford roadster in front of a store owned by Herbert Bateman a bout two miles west of here on high way No. 90 late Monday afternoon, making the fourth wreck that has occurred on this road during the last few daysi. The dead are: C. Frank McNair, prominent Washington county farm er, who was driving the Chevrolet; and a Negress named Cordon, of Mar tin county, who was an occupant of the Ford. The injured Willis P;erce, a Martin county Negro, who was ooeratine the Ford. Attenrlincr physicians entertain a hope tor his speedy recovery as most of his in juries were external. The Ford roadster was moving a lcng the road at about thirty miles an hour headed west from Plymouth when the Chevrolet came around the bend at a slow speed toward Ply mouth. Just as the car driven by Mx. McNair turned the curve, Pierce said he thought the driver was going to turn the car into a side road, how ever, at a second glance he saw that the driver was trying to right his ve hicle in the road again, and before he could stop his fastly moving Ford the cars collided. Both automobiles were badly dam: aged. The entire front end of the Ford was smashed back into the frame, while the Chevrolet was knocked against an embankment at the side of the road where it was fired from a blaze that completely de molished it. The Ford was turned entirely around in. the road by the impact with, the front headed toward Plymouth. Funeral services were held at his; home Wednesday afteriton with the Rev, N, H. Harrison, minister of the Moratock Primitive Baptist Church, officiating. Interment was made ia the Windley cemetery. A large crowd attended the funeral where they paid tl eir last tribute to this native of Washington county. He was a mem ber of the Primitive Baptist denomi nation. No casualties resulted in the other three wrecks that occurred! during the week in this vicinity. An automobile operated by Herman Ambrose crash ed into a car driven, by an unknown Negro. Occupants of both cars re ceieed minor injuries. Both cars were damaged. The other accident occur red when an automobile driven by another party collided with a car driv en by M. W. Norman during tile week; end. CAPTURES DOE ON STREETS OF PLYMOUTH A doe was captured here near the Norfolk-Southern Railroad station on Tuesday night, by R. W. Stubbs, who* turned the young deer over to Game Warden Harry Stell for disposition. It is thought that the rough weather and the heavy rainfall caused the doe to leave its favorite haunts in the forest iuar the National Handle Co., and come into town seeking shelter or protection from the weather. Sports To Enter Limelight Sports will claim the attention of athletes of the Plymouth public schools in addition to their literary studies as soon as the weather per mits, stated Prof. L. H superintendent '■riy schools and .lt)director. Four times already the boys have been trying out on the gridiron for membership on the foot ball squad. Professor Hubble is of the opinion 'that the boys are making a good show el thb dnnmg of the season after a summer of practical idleness. A game ha
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