VOLUME VI.—No. 42 SPRING HOPE, N. C., NOR. CAR., THURSDAY AUGUST THIRTEENTH, 1936 $1.50 PER YEAB Free Trips Offered To Contest Winners Tommy Baker Will Dance on Program COUNTY-WIDE AMATEUK, BEAUTY & SHIRLEY TEMPLK CONTESTS ARE SPONSORED BY BAPTIST LADIES AID One of the featured contestants in the Amateur Contest tomorrow night will be Tommy Baker, a 10 year old tap dancer from Cooper’s Union. Tommy is well known for unusual ability as a dancer in spite of his youth, and has been urged to perform on Major Bowes’ radio amateur program. Among the other out of town entrants who are expected to per form on the amateur program which will be presented by the Bap tiat Ladies Aid Society at 8 o’clock Friday .night in the high school auditorium, are a. blues singer and several musicians from Rocky Mt; JMiss) Willie Rhodes, the singer, has proved popular with audiences wherever she has appeared. Mary Neal Saunders, Helen Saitnders and Jim Saunders will all present musi _cal numbers ■ and Audrey Mae Hayes 'will give an exhibition of tap dancing. The llstsi of entrants have not yet been closed and sev eral talented . performers from Nashville are expected to be in cluded in the program. Young girls from 2 years of age through the third grade are eligi ble for the Shirley Temple contest> officials of the Ladies Aid have an nounced. The Amateur, Shirley Temple, and Beauty Contests are all open for county-wide competition. The winner of the Beauty Con test, for which all young ladies are eligible, will be awarded the ti tle, ‘Miss Nash County’ and will receive a trip with expenses paid to compete in the state-wide beau ty contest among county contest winners. The little girl who wins the Shirley Temple Contest will be crowned “Mis Shirley Temple” and will receive a dress. The perform er who wins the Amateur Contest will also receive a free trip to «n ter the state contest and will be given a radio audition. All persons who plan to enter any of the contests are urged to see Mrs. R. L. Pitts, Mrs. A. F. May, or Mrs. L. T. Bartholomew immediately. The Amateur Contesrt is open to anyone living in Nash County who has musical ability or any special talent such as dancing; impersonat ing, whistling, reciting or novelty ^rformances. Merchants in Spring Hope and throughout the county are cooper ating in the presentation of the contesta, the proceeds from which will go to the benefit of the Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church. Admission prices to the program Friday night will be 10 and 25e. Contestants in the Beauty Con test and the Shirley Temple Con test are to meet for rehearsals at the high school at 10 o’clock Fri day morning. Several Merchants Make ImprVem’nts Several Spring Hope merchants are touching up "their establish ments just now. E. I. Mitchell has just completed a new office at his sawmill on the highway east of town. The white wood-frme structure makes hand some quarters. A stucco finish in being applied to the walls of M. T. Barnes’ Gro cery and the rear of the adjoining building.Besides making the build ing look more attractive, the stuc co will protect the bricks. James Oliver May’s Service Place has the woodwork and ceil ing newly painted and the roof in green. The Spring Hope Grocery Co. hast been partly re-covered with a metal roofing. And the woodwork around the post office door has been rebuilt. Lions Set Blind Man in Business JOHNNY GREEN WILL OPER- ATfi TOBACCO AND CANDY STAND HERE Recorder’s Court Judge L. li Davenport further co^itrnued 'pr^&i* for judgment *un til August 17 in the case of Leon ard Brown, who was charged with driving drunk, in recorder’s court in Nashville Monday. Brown appeared in court after a capias had been issued. Another case brought against him, for aban donment and non-support, was set for trial August 17, The Court found probable cause in the case of Willard Bass, charg ed with assault with intent to com mit rape, and bound him over for trial in the August term of Super ior Court under f500 bond. Jim Champion was declared not guilty of trespa.ss and larceny. Prayer for judgment was contin ued in a case against Bud Davis, who pleaded guilty to assault with deadly weapon m the original trial use of Sue Davis and refrain from tinue to pay $7.50 a month for the last October, on condition he con- molesting her clifidren. These con ditions were set Monday at the ori. girtai trial, and were only continu ed when the ease was recalled Mon day. Jonah Boone was found not guil ty of possessing whiskey for sale. Johnny Green, a Nash County blind man who for the past few years has been peddling in Rocky Mount, is now operating a candy and tobacco stand on Street near the railroad. The Lions CTub supplied Green with his stock of tobacco, candies, needles, thread and pins and the club made arrangements for his entering business. The efforts of the Lions Club in his) behalf were begun as a project when District Director Sam Alford of the Lions International, of Henderson, sug gested the project to the lions Club here four weeks ago. Mr. Al ford is also a member of the tSate Commission for the blind. Since the project was unanimous ly adopted by the club, various candidates for the aid of the club were considered before Green was chosien. Mr. William Lewis of Raleigh, a member of the State Commisison for the Blind, was in Spring Hope Tuesday and Wednesday making final arrangements for Green. The stand which the blind merchant occupies was contributed by the State Commission. Since the object of the Lions Club is to encourage ^If-help their financial assistance'is accepted by Mr. Green asi a loan, which he will repay as soon, as his business jus tifies. Two ABC Constables Shot Near Nashville AGRICULTURAL NEWS By J. S. SUGGS, County Agent HaroldDeanBrown Many people of Spring Hope were shocked to learn of the death of Harold Dean Brovim of White- ville in ah automoile’ accident Tues day night of last week. Dean’s mother, Mrs. Bessie Brown, taught music in the high school here last year, and was well liked in the community. A fresh- A letter from Mr. B. Troy Fer guson, District Agent, was recent ly received requesting that all agents publish the proper stages for cutting hay as approved by the Department of Agriculture. It is very important that we take great pains in saving our hays at the right time in order that we may obtain the maximum food val ue from these plants. Under the Soil Conservation program there is a large increase in the hay crop over the past few years and since we have this enormous increase we should take great pains in sav ing this and have a large produc tion of high quality hay rather than a production of hay of infer ior quality. It is suggested that we cut al falfa when from one tenth to one fourth in bloom, or about the time the first hasal shoots appear. Cut soybeans between the time the r-eeds begin to form«and when they are half developed. Lespedeza when in full bloom. Cowpeas when first pods begin to turn yellow but before any get ripe enough to shatter. Oats vetch mixed when the oats are Jn the milk stage. Johnson Gra^s when the first heads appear from the boot. Oats and wheat when the grain is in the milk stage (except that oatsi for horse hay may be cut when the seed is in the oough stage. Bermu da and other grasses not later than full bloom. The above recommendations take care of most of the local hays as to time of cutting and I would sug man at Wake Forest College, Dean j gest that the farmers watch their was a regular visitor in Spring | hays closely after cutting and Visit Station Fifty Negro Farmers and farm women from (Jold Valley, Spring Hope and Momeyer, visited the Upper Coastal Plains Experiment Station, five miles east of Rocky Mount, last Friday. Hope and had a host of friends here. He often came from school week-ends with Dr. W. R. Cullom. Mrs. Lizzie Brantley received the first news of the accident to reach Spring Hope, a telegram from Mrs. Brown Wednesday morning telling of the accident and announcing that the funeral would be held on Thursday morning. Dean and several other boys were going to a dance at Lake Waccamaw. The car in which they were riding ran into the concrete abutment of a bridge. It isi now thought that after the accident the boy’s body was run over by an other car. Dean was 19 years old, and would have been a sophomore at Wake Forest this year. soon asl cured sufficiently to har vest, put it in a shelter where it can be protected from weather. A bright pea green hay has more fdcd value and sells better than a bleached, coarse hay. Of all furbearing anirhals in the state the opossum is the most valuable. by three out-of-town be judged judges: 1. Entrants must be between the ages of 14 and 21. 2. Evening, afternoon or sport clothes may be worn, but clothing IS not a point on which the contest- These rules have been announced ants will be judged. Bathing suits for the Beauty Contest, which will are not allowed. Mrs. J. R. Vann returned Sunday from a visit in the home of her un cle in Jamesville, with her mother and sister of Clayton. Mr. D. H. Holliday spent the weekend visiting relatives in Scot land Neck. Mrs. Josephine 'Wallace and daughter of Albemarle, who have been visiting KeVT'TH. F. Hodges, Mrs. Wallace’s father, retumedl home Sunday. I attended the 4H club camp last week at Camp Leach. There were approximately 160 people present at this camj). Camp Le^ch is locat ed 14 miles from little .Washington state for boys aWfl girlsi club camp, on the Pamlico River and is one of the nicest places of its kind in the Mrs. Effie V. Gordon, Home Dem onstration Agent, and Mr. R. F. Shearin, Assistant County Agent, were in charge of the camp for the week end and drew praise, from all who attended as having conducted a successful camp program. The camp program was both education al and recreational and all the club members seemed to thoroughly en joy themselves. The compliance forms No. 7 & 8 have arrived in this office from Wasiiington and we plan to call a meeting of the supervisor^ for the purpose of giving instructions on this work Satiirday morning and expect to have compliance in full Bootleggers Fire Out of Corn Keld M. A. McLin Critically Injure