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By Mary Frances Misenheimer
Schedule for Next Week
Monday, a. m., 4-H club, Plym
outh High School.
Monday p. m., Mt. Tabor Club.
Tuesday, Cross Roads Club.
Wednesday, Cool Springs.
Thursday, Piney Grove.
Friday, Lake Farm.
Saturday, curb market, 8:30.
Mrs. Joe Browning, of Hoke Club,
again led the sales for curb market.
Miss Lula Watson was second high
est seller. These two club members
have led the sales at curb market
for the past month and a half.
The members of Cherry Club are
still canning. For the past month
they canned fruits and vegetables to
the number of 987 quart jars, pre
served 448 quarts, and pickled 151
quarts. Some of the members still
have fresh corn and beans to eat out
of their gardens.
Wenona club women are to be
congratulated on the interest they
take in club work. Large numbers
always attend the meetings and take
an active part in the program. The
following officers have been elected
to serve during the coming year:
Mrs. Carlos Manning, president; Mrs
Marvin Rose, vice president; Mrs.
Ted Rosenthal, secretary; and Mrs.
N. Rosenthal, treasurer.
Mrs. Glenn Furbee gave an inter
esting talk on her week’s visit to
Raleigh at the short course. Half
of her expenses were paid by the
club. If every club in the county
would take the responsibility of
sending a member to the short
course every year much benefit
would be derived in the clubs.
Mrs. W. H. Harrison still has plen
ty of fresh vegetables growing in
her garden, corn, tomatoes, greens,
carrots, and butter beans. She had
all of these for dinner Thursday.
Chicken, too!
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County Ministers To
Attend State Meet
I n inston - Salem
Number Nationally Known
Religious Leaders To
Make Addresses
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Ministers of Washington County
are invited to attend the first con
vocation of ministers of North Caro
lina that will be held in Winston
Salem Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday of next week under the au
spices of the North Carolina Council
of Churches.
Clergymen of all denominations,
including Rev. R. H. Lucas, Baptist;
Gilbert Davis and N. A. Taylor,
Christian; C. T. Thrift, Methodist;
all of Plymouth; Rev. W. J. Watson,
Methodist, Roper; Rev. O. L. Easter,
Methodist Protestant; Dr. G. A.
Martin, Baptist; Rev. John W. Hardy
Episcopal, Rev. Roy Respass, of
Creswell, and others in this county
are expected to attend.
The purpose of the meeting, which i
is expected to draw a thousand cler
gymen and their wives, is to stimu
late and revitalize religious life and
pastors will secure information to
bring back to their congregations of
every denomination information and
fellowship secured through the con
ference.
Speakers will include Dr. L. A.
Weigle, Yale Divinity School; Prof.
H. P. Van Dusen, Union Theological
Seminary; Dr. A. K. Chalmers, New
York; Dr. I. L. Holt, St. John’s Meth
odist church, St. Louis; Dr. W. O.
Carver, Southern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary; Dr. Paul S. Leinbach,
Philadelphia.
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B. B. Slaughter To
Preach Here Sunday
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Rev. B. B. Slaughter, presiding el
der of the Elizabeth City District,
will preach at the Methodist church
next Sunday morning and hold the
fourth quarterly conference. At
night the pastor, Rev. C. T. Thrift,
will preach.
November 12th a special demon
stration is to be given on meat can
ning. Please keep this in mind and
attend. The meeting will be held at
10 o’clock in the home agent’s of
fice.
The fall federation is to be held
November 18th at the courthouse
at 2:30 p. m. Miss Pauline Smith is
to be the speaker.
Club members, please plan to at
tend. An interesting program is be
ing planned for you.
Best Sales of the Season
Made on Our Floor This Week
Although the quality of tobacco offered on our floor this week has been
only fair, we have had some of the best sales during the entire year. Medium
tobaccos are selling between 40 and 50 cents, and the better types are sell
ing as high as 70 and 80 cents.
When tobacco sells higher you may rest assured it will be sold by Jim
and Charley Gray. We always run a good sale, and we always sell tobacco
for the peak dollar.
Don’t be misled by “BULL.” Follow the crowds to the leaders in both
pounds and prices.
The following sales were made on our floor this week:
Milton Evans—23 1-2—30—37—42—45—50—62—Average $46.74
A. M. Long—35—35—47—47—54—87 Average $53.24
Mitchell & Todd—30—40—42—50—57—67 Average $49.99
F. S. Boyle—35—46—51—53—60—81 Average 57.23
A. C Boyce—25—40—45—60—82 Average $53.20
D. R. Ev’tt & TomHyman—35—42—47—47—47—47—Av. $43.27
1st Sale Mon., Oct. 26th
Red Front Warehouse
JIM AND CHARLIE GRAY ROBERSONVILLE
Mrs. Higlismith Is
Speaker at Meeting
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Factors contributing to the High
death rate of mothers and babies in
North Carolina are poverty isolation
and inefficient midwives, Mrs. J
Henry Highsmith, of Raleigh, assist
ant director of health education of
the state, told members of the Jun
ior and Senior Woman's Clubs here
last Thursday afternoon.
In an effort to remedy these evils
a health nurse, Miss Mozelle H. Hen
drix, has been placed in Plymouth
as supervisor for Washington, Tyr
rell and Hyde Counties, with Miss
Lillie Gaylord, of Roper, to be health
nurse in this county, returning from
a course in nursing at William &
Mary College about February 1.
At the present time Miss Hendrix
is conducting classes over the coun
ties for midwives. Later health
centers will be established in Plym
outh and maybe Roper and Cres
well for the mothers to visit for ex
amination and literature to help
them in the proper care of them
selves and their babies.
This work is being done under the
mother and infancy clause in the
National Social Security Act passed
by the last Congress. It is hoped
that this work will be made perma
nent in the counties. Club women
and physicians are asked to coop
erate in the work.
First Offering Said
To Have Been of
Extra Good Quality
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Farmers Warned Not To
Rush Picking and Cause
Weak Market
The first lot of peanuts from the
new crop was sold on the Suffolk
market last week at 5 cents a pound,
the highest figure reported since
1927, information received here re
cently from the peanut town stated.
The purchase was made by the
Planters Nut & Chocolate Company,
whose officials explained that the
initial purchase was of unusually
good quality. Opening prices a year
ago were reported at 3 1-2 cents a
j pound.
The 5-cent price can be expected
to attract much attention among the
farmers of this section, but the grow
ers should remember that the fancy
price paid was for fancy peanuts
that were dry and in good condition.
The hasty harvesting of the crop,
without doubt, will beat down prices
and cost the growers thousands of
While the task is near completion,
there are a few farmers in this coun
ty who are still digging their pea
nuts, with the possibility that a scat
tered dozen or so have not yet start
ed the work.
Several W'eeks should elapse be
fore picking operations should be
started, but some few farmers will
likely start that work the latter
part of this week or the w’eek fol
lowing, taking chances on the goob
ers being thoroughly dry by that
time. The main picking work will
hardly get underway before the mid
dle of next month. Delayed week
after w’eek during two months of
last season by bad weather, few
farmers are expected to gamble on
the chance of fair weather, but to
complete the harvesting of their
crops just as soon as the peanuts and
hay have cured.
Just what the 5-cent price on the
Suffolk market means, no one
know’s exactly, but the opening price
indicates that the crop will command
more money this year than it did a
year ago. The condition of the crop
and orderly marketing are two im
portant factors to be reckoned with,
and either one can make or break
the market.
Decline in Farm
Taxes Since 1929
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Washington.—A drop of 36 per
cent in farm real estate taxes from
1929 through 1935 was reported re
cently by the agriculture depart
ment.
A tax study, limited to farm land
taxed by states, counties, school
boards and other local units, dis
closed that the levies had been whit
tied down from an average of 58
cents an acre in 1929 to 37 cents last
year.
Nevertheless, the study showed
that the 1935 taxes were still about
three times above the 1900 averages
of 12 cents an acre. And more than
50 per cent above the 1914 average
of 24 cents an acre.
A “sharp rise in taxes from 1900
to 1929,” was said to have been
caused by “rapid expansion in local
and state services,” with road-build-1
ing and education chiefly responsi
ble.
The depression, the study said, has
“reversed the farm taxation trend,”
with public services either curtailed
or their costs shifted to the state
and federal governments.
Comparison of principal regions
for 1935, 1929, and 1914, include:
South Atlantic, $0.29, $0.48, and
$0.14.
ABOUT TOWN
(Continued from page one)
grams and othe rspecial occasions at
the college.
Three of the four deacons in the
Baptist church in Plymouth do not
live in Washington County. They
are T. J. Swain, Greenville; Joe
Dixon, Wilmington; Fred O. Watkins
Grantsboro. They have recently
moved away. Local deacon are Wr.
R. White, W. E. W’cede, J. B. Ed
mundson. and Henry Woolard. Their
names are on a deed in the court
house executing a sale of a burial lot
on the old Baptist church yard to
C. A. Nurney.
It is the hope oi Miss Morelle Hen
drix that the health centers estab
lished in this county in cooperation
with the matern.ty and infancy
clause of the Nat.onal Security Act
will examine the school children,
contacting the parents to correct the
health defects. H. H. McLean, sup
erintendent of schools, says that
lie hopes that an eye clinic will soon
be held for indigent white and col
ored children.
Miss Jacksie W'iggins, teacher of
the commercial course in the Plym
outh High School, has increased the
students to 28. Night classes have
been set for Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, with shorthand from
7 to 8 and typing from 8 to '■). She
will also teach ballroom dancing on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
An hqur each will be devoted to
separate classes of boys and girls.
Miss Charlotte McNair, daughter
of Mr. .and Mrs. J. T. McNair, has
been employed as librarian at the
public library in the basement of
the courthouse here. She will be in
the library every afternoon from 3
to 5 except Sunday. This is one
step the library officials are taking
to popularize this civic undertaking.
It is expected that a board of gov
ernors will be appointed to be in
charge. At present the Thursday
Afternoon Literary Society is in
charge.
Better than ever is the record of
the James E. Jethro Post of the
American Legion. Last year there
were 77 members paid up before the
time expired and now there are 83.
This speaks well for Commander P.
W. Brown and District Commander
Dr. C. McGowan, who worked on tire
local vets until they got them paid
up to make a good record.
The negative side, composed of
Edward Stokely and Marvin Sexton,
won in a debate on “Resolved, That
the Study of Civics Would Benefit
the Average Individual More in Life
Than History,” at the Plymouth
High School. Opponents were Jim
mie Hayes and Becky Ward. J. O.
Cooper teaches one class and Miss
Irene James the other.
N. B. Chestnut, of Greenville, dis
trict supervisor of vocational agri
culture, was in Plymouth Wednes
day visiting the school. He was to
spend Thursday in Roper and Cres
weli. “Nothing but routine,” he told
the reporter, “just dropping in to see
the boys (teachers of agriculture)."
Motorists here believed that if the
sh eets would bo marked off for 45
degree angle parking of automobiles
tha tit would be to better advantage
to the driver than is the straight-in
parking on Water Street. It would
take the same space for the car, but
be easier on the driver. Chief of
Police P. W. Brown has been asked
to try this when he paints the
spaces again. Now Washington St.
is 45-degree angle. On Water Street
a second car could be parked paral
el with the curb.
Mesdames T. L. Bray, J. K. Reid,
and Edgar Batem m will oe host
esses to the Major Charles Louis La
tham chapter of the U. D. C. at the
home of Mrs. T. L. Bray Friday aft
noon, October 30. at 3:30.
kitchen when they came to the show
er held at the Plymouth High School
Thursday night. The home econom
ics class entertained and served sand
wiches, with music being presented
by the band. Seventy-five gifts will
be uscxl in this department of the
school.
YOU GET
$100 A MONTH
“ENJOYMENT”
INSURANCE
That’s really what this plan
means. Beginning at a specified
time we pay .>100 a month to
you for as long as you live—
you assure yourself of money for
your future needs and comfort.
Ask us about this.
R B SPENCER
i'l Y MOUTH, N. C.
Representing
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Pay Your 1935
Town of Plymouth
T A X E S
UNLESS PAID BY NOVEMBER
1, 1936, YOUR PROPERTY WILL
BE SOLD TO SATISFY TAXES.
P. W. BROWN
TAX COLLECTOR, TOWN OF PLYMOUTH
Every Business Has Its Worries
—And for that reason our advisory department is ready to serve
you, with complete facilities for investment investigation, cor
poration procedure, trust fund establishment, checking and sav
ing accounts. May our representative call?
Branch Banking and Trust Co.
PLYMOUTH, N. C.