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Pop co\.*t my and for truth." sutef* c«py i VOL. 40 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1928 NO. 2 Christmas Spirit Is Prevalent Among Plymouth Shoppers Merchant’s Stocks Fastly Diminishing As Traders invade Local Stores PRICES ARE FAIR IN COMPARISON Mistletoe, Ho ly, Turkeys And Chickens AvaMab e; Schools Closed Until January 7; Santa Claus Making Ready For Annual Trip; Churches To Have Appropriate Programs; Decorations Galore Evidences of the Christinas season are glaring on every hand in Ply mouth today with plenty of trees, turkeys, holly, mistletoe and Christ mas trees available while shoppers from the city and surrounding sec tion are thronging the stores to pur chase their Yuletide presents and to persuade jolly old Santa Claus to visit the chilren at their home Chi; imas deliciacies are maintaining an average of other years in pr:C which is an added attraction to the shoppers. Stores and business houses hav. been thronged during the week and shoppers are buying an immense r. meant of toys, Christmas gifts, con fectioners and other de.iciac.es to tend to make a Merry, Merry Christ mas for all while merchants are add ing new clerks to serve the customer that are crowding into the business establishments. Each store in tow: began the season with a great array of Christmas novelties that are fastly diminishing from counters as the stores are remaining open until 9 end 10 o’clock in the evening. Turkey Prices Turkeys began selling at between 25 cents and 45 cents a pound at the (beginning of the season. Number; are being sold at several cents ■ pound less than the maximum price at the beginning of the Yuletid' shopping period. Cliickens are selling at 20 cents and 25 cents a pound. Thr fowl is growing more popular as ?. special Christmas dish each day Ducks and geese that are so popular in cities are not so much in favo' here. Decorations Increasing Holly and mistletoe are already in evidence. The little Christmas tree are in the yard in front of Reene’p Beauty Shop. They add to the Christ mas appearance of the town. Storer and business houses and display win dows are filled with decorations oi the Yuletide season. A personal Santa Claus has not appeared on the streets here as yet. Homes are beginning to engage the Christmas spirit and art being decorated. Community Christmas Tree School work will be suspended af ter today’s classes until January 1 1/iJjch gives the children a full twe weeks vacation. A play in the school auditorium this morning added to the Christmas sentiment. Churches wil! have special services and program.' during tne coming ouuuay o»u Christmas day that will heighten the interest in this festive celebration The Major Louis Charles Lathan chapter of the United Daughters oi the Confederacy will sponsor a com munity Christmas tree on the Chris tian Church comer at the intersec tion of Main and Washington street; during Christmas at which time car ols will 'be sung; recitations made and other entertaining appropriate features for a Christmas service. STUDENTS FROM COLLEGES return to roper home; Roper, Dec. 20.—Students hom< from college for the holidays ari Miss Martha Chesson, Wesley Mar row and James Bateman, from Duk University, Durham; Neva Gan Rope and Mary Carolyn Hassell from th North Carolina College for Womer at Greensboro; .Cecil and Fre Blount, Campbell College, Buie Creek; Charles Mizelle, State College Raleigh; and Raymond Ainsley, Uni versity of North Carolina, Chape i i . BOARD’TO MEET SOON TO CALL NEW PASTOR Members of the Board of Deacon, of the Baptist Church which includes W. R. Hardison, W. R. White, J. B. Edmondson and Enoch Ludford will meet some time during the next few days to make arrangements for thr employmnt of a succssor to the Rev J. R. Everett, pastor, who has resign cd to take up post-graduate work ir the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville, Ky., of which institution he is a graduate. This announcement which wa made in the services last Suuda; will on the first of the year bring t< a close a two years and seven month.' successful pastorate of the loca church. During this time there hav been a number of additions to th church as the result of the labor o the minister who came here soon af ter his graduation from college. Als during this time the financial stand ing of the church has been improve! end many other marks of success ar< evident. The minister goes to his Aim1’. Mater to take a course that will cor. si:me about two years in his prepar ; Eon for obtaining the degree of do,tor of philosophy and religion in addition to the three years work tha’ ha has done which is above graduate work as the result of which he nov holds the degree of master of theol ogy. After this he says, “that he i. rot sure what steps fie will take ir his future work. For some time the minister ha.' been anticipating such a course aftei the first of the coming year. His resignation becomes effective oi January 1. The method of selectinp his successor and any predictions a? to who will be called yet has no1 been decided by the Board. It i thought that they will take definite steps to fill the vacancy between nov. and the middle of January. FIREMEN TO HAVE SPECIAL MEET ON DECEMBER 28TB There will be a special meeting o1 the members of the Fire Departmeni on Friday, December 28, it was an nounced here today by Chief L. W Gurkin. Matters of importance wil come before the firemen at this tim< and every member is urged to at tend. WASHINGTON COUNTY MAN SEES WORLD IN HOUSE CAI Bom at Roper in Washington coun ty about 55 years ago, John Fletchei Gaylord has pretty well traverse! the civilized world during his life He was here this week visiting Mrs W. T. Numey and Roland Gaylord During the Jamestown Exposition it 1908 Mr. Gaylord accompanied by ; daughter traveled from Florida t< the exposition in Virginia in a 16-foo skiff. Now he is traveling in a housi car which is furnished with all thi modem conveniences even with run ring water and electric lights. Seven years ago while in Japn1 Mr. Gaylord married a Japanese wifi who was with him while here. “Tempest” Ninth Episode of Serial “Perils of the Jungles” M. G M. NEWS ADM. - 25 & 35 Cts. COMING NEXT FRIDAY John Gilbert AND Joan Crawford IN “Four Walls” JUNIORS TO GO TO CHURCH IN A BODY Members of the Plymouth Rook Council No. 213 of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics: will meet at their hall Sunday even-, ing at 7:15 from where they will | leave in a body to attend services at the Christian Church when the Rev. W. E. Norris, pastor of the church and an honored officer of the order, will deliver a discourse on an ap propriate subject, it was announced here yesterday by T. I. Moore, State Organizer. All members are urged to be present at this meeting by Mr. Moore. It is very likely that the next dis trict meeting will be held in Ply mouth some time during Januar. when several of the State officers will attend. It is a custom of the order to present each free school in their territory with a Bible and flag and this offers a very good suggestion to have such a program in connection with the district meeting should Ply mouth be selected as the district meeting place. A special meeting wall be held thi \ening at which time it is thought hat the charter will be closed and r.y person joining after this time till be subjected to an initiation fee in addition to the regular admission fee. The charter should have been dosed at the ' meeting last Monday waning, however, cn account of un d iished business and pending applica tions it was deemed wise to continue the charter until the meeting thr evening. Reports are being prepared and everything will be ready to re port to the State and national coun cils by tomorrow. Eighty-four ap plications have been received and it is expected that a hundred members will be enrolled in a short time. SCHOOLS MADE GOOD RECORD DURING 1926 CreSwell, Dec. 20. — Washington County's white rural public school sys tem ranks in the twentieth place among the hundred school systems in the State in scores for academic and fi nancial factors for the year of 1926 27, it was revealed here today in a vnilable statistics. The average score for academic factors for the year was 70.4, while the average score for finan cial factors 67.1. The academic fac tors arc not related to the cost at all. while the financial factors relate to the cost entirely. The percentage enrollment in aver age daily attendance was 74.5 for the school year. This was figured with a hundred per cent attendance as the perfect score. The percentage of the average length of term in days is 75.5. The scholarship of the teachers in Washington county schools for this year w^as 66.3 per cent. The percent age in the high school enrollment is 63.2. There was a 72.5 percentage of enrollment of normal and under age or grades. In the scores of financial factors, the average annual salary of teachers and principals is 64.2 per cent. The per capita cost of instructional service, based on teachers and principals is 4(>.4. The per capita cost of current expense based on enrollment was 64.4. The valuation of school property per child enrolled reveals a perfect score oi a hundred per cent. The results in all ten factors, to gether with the averages of the aca demic five and the financial five, re veal that much progress has been made iti the school system for the last four years. Progress is noted in each of the factors for the year of 1926-27. A compilation of these factors for the current vcar will more than likely show progress also. City Fathers Begin New Year In Good Financial Condition HOMEAND FARM AGENTS BACK FROM MEET Among the 185 farm and home agents from North Carolina that met in Raleigh last week to attend the annual extension workers conference and short courses were Miss Prati Covington, Washington county home demonstration agent, and R. E. Dun ning, Washington county farm agent. Monday was given over to class room work on major projects to be taken in the different counties for the coming year. Classes on major projects, confer ences and lectures consumed last Tuesday while classes in major projects, joint conferences, lecture and outline courses of study were discussed on Wednesday. On Thurs day there was about the same routine of work in addition to the demonstra tions. A banquet at the Womans’ Club on Friday was the feature of the day. Addresses featured the Saturday’s conference program. The conference was shortened on account of an epidemic of the in fluenza that was raging in the sec tion at that time. It was shortened to December 15 instead of lasting un til December 20 as was first decided Officials reached this decision after it was decided by the college author ities to suspend classes for the stu dents. fO SPAKE the angel of the Lord to the shepherds, guarding their flocks, one night more than nineteen hundred years ago. “Tidings” is an ancient word which means simply “news”. Thus it was that the news of the coming of the Prince of Peace was made known that night so long ago and all down through the ages those tidings have been repeated at this time of the year which we call Christmas. Since those far-oS times, the function of bringing tidings or news has devolved principally upon an institution which we know as the newspaper. No such institution performs that function more faithfully than the Home Paper in a community such as ours, a community of homes and home-loving people. And in tnat com* munity none is so humble but that his or her name is written in its columns not once but? many times throughout the years. For it's the Home Paper that welcomes you when you are born, watches you as you grow up and records your youthful triumphs. It tells the community that a new heme has bran founded when you marry, congratulates you and wishes y u w ell as you and your helpmate start out on a life together. It shai as your pride when you become a parent and aids you in molding the minds and characters of those near and dear to you. It rejoices when you rejoice, sympathizes with you in times of sorrow; it is quick to record your good deeds and your successes and slow to spread broadcast word of your shortcomings or failures. And in the sunset of your life, it is a companion and friend, keeping you informed of the doings of those to whose youthful hands you “pass on the torch” when your race is almost run. So day after day and week after week throughout the year the Home Paper brings you the news of your community. What better messenger, then, than the Home Paper to say to you Behold, I bring you good tidings” at Christmas time? For its tidings are the same as those of the herald angels on the hills of Galilee—“Peace on earth, good will to men”, and to every person in this community the Home Paper brings this message of community peace, community good will, community prosperity and an increased community hope for the coming year. PUBLISHERS ©, U28 I Power Plant Yielded Profit During Calendar Year Now Closing ICE DEPARTMENT MADE MONEY ALSO Slxiy-One Cants Out Of Every $i 68 Goes To Pay Interest On Light, Power, Sewer And Street Improement Bonds; Remainig $i 07 To Apply On Accounts Payable, Street Lighting A >d Other Debts A review of the records of the town in the office of City Clerk Spruill reveal that the town will be gin the new year with the expenses of the various depa'v mts of he city well provided foi in the m . xt of finance. The municipal light, p .7* er and ice plant will start the jv.tr with the records clear and a goodly amount of revenue in excess of ex penses realized from its operation during the current year. The books reveal that it has actulaly cleared a bout 6,000 this year. Sixty-one cents out of every $1.6? that is paid to the city government by each individual citizen goes to wards increasing the general and property tax funds; and the remain ing $1.07 is devoted to expenditures contained in the budget for special tax, it was learned from M. W. Spruill, city clerk, in an interview fVio 1Q9R hnHtrpf that h.?.S T' been adopted by the City Coun About $6,533.92 will be expend,, er bonds, sewer bonds, street im provement bonds; the retirement of light and power bonds, the retire ment of street improvement bonds and an amount laid aside for emerg encies generally termc rin' \~r fund. No expenditure lhi a mount will be allowed f. any r purpose save the ones mtnuua the budget. The $1.07 will go toward creating a fund of $11,461.14 known as the special tax fund which will be ex pended for accounts payable, street 'ighting, salaries, fire hose, auditing, provisions for livestock, street labo?' town ditch and miscellaneous expense matters. This special tax rate is ex ceedingly smaller than the one last year. The poll tax remains the same. FINAL PLANS MADE FOR PEANUT SHOW PROGRAM Final plans have been made for the program from Washington coun ty that will be rendered on next Friday at the Eastern Carolina and Tidewater Virginia Peanut Exposi tion that will open in Williamston next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock under the auspices of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, it was learned today from Mrs. W. H. Clark, who will direct the local talent during the performance at the goob er show. It is understood that the locals will present the “Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra” which has an array of local talent that is hard to beat. The cast is composed solely of women which make music on utensils usually designated for use in the culinary de partment of the home. This entertain ment will more than likely be sup plemented by otner noveiues vnai will be featured by local entertainers. The show will open Tuesday at 3 o’clock with a mammoth parade in which floats will be decorated to win prizes amounting to $100. Reserva tions for floor space in the spacious Brick Warehouse where the show will be held are selling fast. Fred R. Reh is decorating the warehouse for the event. The nine profssional acts that will be featured daily are on the pro gram for the opening day. Martin county will shine on this day with its local talent. ENTERTAINMENT SLATED FOR SCUPPERNONG CHURCH 'Scuppemong, Dec. 20.—There will be a Christmas entertainment at the Scuppemong Christian Church on Tuesday evening, December 25. Every one M to attend.