ILmj, 27." C.
humtliltwo
1l t wXmaX
cf
:i Z7 years eld. lie
"-C3 about 2 years a-
nt was the first acci
in North Carolina in
f:
4. -
Cf
ra!!ice
.:t cf-
- ry tu-
33. I .ii::3 dar-
11 . 3 aal c -cchllv the month
cf L;;:aLcr was much better than
in Revenue for the entire
year cf 1CC3 was $3,181.83 as
compared with ,$3,831X3 in 1935.
The last quarter of '33 showed a
gross of $2,165,53 as, compared
with $2,561.88 for the same period
: JiHY. 14lh.
Arrargements are complete for
btc! In Prironer's -
SIic 2 As Convicts teave Camp
' :t:r.Ient of the Kenans
t3 Prison Camp reported
1 t a convict by the name
3 x?z sent to Ealdgh yes-'
he was found carry
" 1 Iver Johnson pistol
" i. TI:e pistl was very
: rZ3 hsrs Lave no idea
-i c:!l have secured It.
- c; :;::ts were beirT tak
T ? c:pto wcrk yester-
j r-i was well concealed
:rancb Rally
I : :rJ:ters of the county' are
1 1j i lan a schedule for Jan.
: 3 that there will be preach
i every community in - the
7 e smetime that day on the
ranee movement. The minis
T V s county will be asked to
'i in neighboring 1 churches,
t every ; congregation!;- will
ting minister that day.
f at all our ministers
: ; jation will cooperate in
rr.e.nt-'aadbf.'13t:v every
: 11.3 county will have , a
. iLhin reach of kin on
1 1: a: 3 get in touch with
r.;f: !nan, Cole C. lar
;.ar c aunty chairman at
rat-i-'-n
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C:aa:!3
:!;-j.'-cf
:r ct a
County Fatlicro
Koiai:c3u!arMeet
Duplin's board cf commissionen
met in regular monthly .session
Uonday and dispatched usual rou
tine business. Cther matters com
ir g before Jheia were I Archie Ste
wart Smith was appointed Town
ship Constable for Island .Creek
Township. Ho one was elected for
the job ,in the geueral election, .
resolutions were passed request
ing C. E. Quinn, Duplin's repre
sentative, in the General Assembly
to pass an act and amend acts
fromerly passed authorizing the
ueric or uourt to pay all moneys
received for County Solicitor fees
to the county treasurer to be cred
ited tothe general county .fund;
authorizing tax collector to pay
all moneys collected for doe taxes
into the general county furid.
These.moneys heretofore have been
deposited to , the .'credit of the i
scnool fund. - ,,
Eeasons for this action was ex
plained as due. to a reduction of
the general county fund to the ex
tent that it cannot meet all nec
essary expenses. The county solic
itor is paid out of this fund. , ,
;"A resolution was passed request
ing that the State Highway and
Public Works Commission-to pro
ceed as rapiaUy as possible, - hard
f -r"7.i;i erjt
it v.22 1 . leral i aa:i3 to pave the
7ar:a-.7-:i- clla-r.cce Hill -Tea-chey-w'allaee
read as early as pos-
BALEIGH.N. C, Jan. 7.- V
i Clyde Roark' Hoey, , who : today
became the 90th man to occupy the
chair of the chief executive of N.
Carolina, was bom in Shelby, Cle
veland county, N. C. on Decem
ber 11, 1877. He celebrated - his
59th birthday 27 days before tak
ing the oath of office as governor.
U Hoey was educated in the pub
lic school of Shelby, ,but by the
time has was eight years old he
was working on the family farm.
At the age of 12 he entered fa
Shelby printing shop as an appren
tice and began to learn, the trade.
the annual meeting of the Eenans
vilb Production Credit Association
which will be held on January 14
at the Kenansville High School
Auditorium in Kenansville . at one
o'clock, according to S. V, Wilkins
president of the association, who
said that a large attendance ' of
farmers are "expected. -, . '
The Kenansville Production Cre
dit Association serves ' Duplin
County and furnishes short-term
credit for , production and other
purposes to its members.. The as
sociation now has a membership
of 534 and Mr, Wilkins says that
every member is expected to . at-
teal 1' 3 annual meeting at which ,
a c: "ate report of last year's ,
cr;r-t.-as will be made, directors ;
will tz elected and plans made for ' '
1CC7 cperations, '
. The meeting will, be attended ',
by Ilr. H. L. Gardner; Vice-presi
dent cf the Production Credit Cor-
poration of Columbia, who will ad-;
dress, the stockholders at the con-
elusion of the business session '
The officers and directors of the
Kenansville Production' Credit As
sociation are: - - '
S. V, Wilkins, President; I, P. -:
Wells, Vice-President; Eugene R.
Carlton, director; M.' W. Sutton'
Director; and M. R. Bennett, Di'
rector.', I " ', . -:,t'. - "
John Bowden Oates,Faison, TcJces Life
"Blows Hole Through Head With Gun
John . Bowden Oates, age 55 of
uougmon oiq not cnoose to run,
and Hoey ' became a candidate.
Bitterly, opposed by Ralph W. Mc
Donald, sales tax foe, as well as
by Lieut.-Gov. A. H. (Sandy) Gra
Five vftars lfttftr h honpit tii:ham. and John McRae; Charlotte
shop in which he had been work- attorney, Hoef led by a slight mar
t oin 'in -fhA tint. TIp-ftiArrofin tw-
t; ru; t n n vTirLn Faison took his own life last Fri-
approached, Hoey made it known day ; double - barrel ;
he favored Congessman Robert 1. ; ??uf .ann '
Doughton, dean of the state's del- ?0W1f t out lm brains. Only one ,
egation in '.Washington. , M S? ?M "L!"!
:ath
-Tl3 c!a:::o artchitexture1'' of
I :e C;::t:l, l:r- the admi
" l ct every vi:iter' to the ca
I as at last been, frowned
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"rt 7. w'jane, Jr., relates
t' t ; r. "clviouelv a far-
- ; tclc," ashel him
C "1 v,as located.
v - i.x lia.dL r stepped
" 1II3. Wynne
ing on credit, and became a news
paper;publisher;' He continued - to
publish and edit his weekly paper,
but three years later, at 20, poli
tics called, and he was, elected to
the General Assembly as represen
tative from Cleveland county.' He
served two terms in the House and
one in the' State Senate. ' "
.While he was in" Raleigh for 'the istate-
assembly, he began his work in
the University of North Carolina
law school; and ui 1899 he was ad
mitted to the, bar , Since 1908,
when he : disposed of the . weekly
paper in Shelby, Hoey has devoted
his full time to - law and politics.
In 1913, he "became assistant U.
S. District Attorney for the West
ern North Carolina district, a post
he held until 1919 when he was
elected to the 66th congress to fill
the unexpired term of E. Y. Webb,
who resigned; ; - -
: A year and a half later, when
his j term v expired, . Hoey declined
rs-toiaiiatiod tri Returned to the
private practice cf law, X practice
which in the next 15 years carried
him to a high place in ! the -legal
councils of the' state. He retained
his strong interest in the fortunes
of the Democratic party, although
not as a candidate 'or office hold
er. He took the stump for Demo
cracy, speaking in behalf of party
candidates at each election. Soon
he was recognized as; the state's
leading public speaker,' a designa
tion he has not since relinquished.
' Ilcliirg loyally to the party of
which he has been a member for
so many years, Hoey teok .the
stump again in 1C23 for 1 Smith
Democratic canIlate for pres
ident. Caiith was defeat:! aal N.
Carcllaa went HcralHean fer the
o'clock by. his cousin W. . Bow
den.'', -
He disappeared Friday : about 1'
o'clock stating that he was going
to Green County with Ben ' Oates
of Faison: Shortly after he left t a '
shot was heard in the woods back
of his home but no one paid any
attention to it. Sunday afternoon'
mary after record :, balloting. 'In
his nearesUpponent, soundly and'f 'clock W J?
became the . Democratic
nominee
f or governor.
: The election was merely a f or,
mality, and Hoey was elected with
the rest of the party ticket in the
V
accidentally came upon the body '
in a sitting position propped ; a
gainst a pine stump with his head y,,; -hanging
over his right shoulder. '
The gun was lying in his lap and
the stick which he used to nush
i the triffffer was still in his rtelit
tfnorr ir , 1 (Mt ' rnornna Haiti. l.-j mi.: . a j. ...j. n . .
i uH"vu . xfuoisiv j juami,: xae xoaa tore oui me oacK
Gardner, sister of 0. Max Gardner J of his head. " . , ' 1
another North Carolina governor, , , Members ! of the family, stated ;
They have -.'three .-.children A Uhat he had been' depressed for "V
staunch Methodist, Hoey. has been .'some time. His wife died 18 years
consistently active in church af-'ago by taking her life He is sur-
fairs, and for. many years has) vived by one son, Bowden, Jr., of ,
ueen leacner oime largest men s; Miami, Fla., four sisters, Mrs. Dan 4 .
Mallory of Monticello j Fla.; Mrs.' ? '
W. I. Walker of Decatur, Ga., Mrs;-
A. Hawley, Goldsboro, Miss Louise' .
Oates, Faison and, one brother, J, 7
L. Oates ot Faison. ;
t Funeral services were held Mon-.
day, morning at 11:00 o'clock
bible class in the state.
j GREENSBORO, N. C, Dec. 31
(UP) This is y& eulogy to a
Winner of fint places at the
Winston-Salem and Forsyth Coun
ty fairs for the past two years, a Irom hoin
f ilzs rolandCLIia hog; Weighing Uoncceetery.
-from the home and burial in Fai-
approximately 900 pounds, V, died
recently , of an unknown malady."
R. lee AneeL of the Greensboro
, ' , KIRB HAS THE MUMPS
Deputy Sheriff and jailer KirV
Road, had owned the AM'y.JtoV! .
animal for three years., - V. the Mump, :
k Fire Varderis For Duplin County ;
i. filler Announces List Sixteen ; : ;
.Ralph Killer, County1 Forestry,- " ' ' S
Warden furnished the Times with 'JL 1 J .) ; ' ' 1 ' 1 -
of the distrirt firi ' my ' agai u -weep nottom;
w xnc aistnci lire t .mn.i ifj. w.-. n:'.
a complete list
wardens as they are serving at the
beginning of the year, -He states
that there will possibly be some
changes which will be announced
later. , The district fire ; wardens
are : D. J. Oates, Taison ; John W.
Water, Scotts Cicre; W. R. Good
ing, IlaxweUs lull; Hallr Moore
finttiae in r-.y y:ars, . but ?.Ar wuuieia, :
'r--V T-""1'"- r'"1 r-4- c- 'Vr lci;i'A ri-c2 aejjaera, cmitn's
. ; "7j:..- r., IIIH; H. R. Carlton,' irrzclia-
.. -r r-T v.aria ca,;:u; .xrusy Carr, El-
.s t:a t;r:3 :r V a "-j a rac- VJ1 Z''JZ' :'-t r cf
. a; ,.raat ..-rchcy Cia-
lemuel Maredy Lanier's Store; G.
H. Elanton, Rockfish; and Fred
Byrd at Tin Cityl-V'v
People living in the", different
sections of the county will reccg
nize 'at once the nearest fire war-
de and will keep him in mind in
case of fire.' These district firs
wardens have the power to sum
mons all help necessary to trir-;
a fife tinder ccntrcl, and to crrc:!
anyons vha violates any pit it
the farcciry lar, 7e shcall I: :z
to'kno tl.aaa men. ari r.:a'.. a c
ery, cf":rt U r.::l:t t' :n ia -1 "
Cicat fli2 ccntrcl c-Iravcr;'!- .