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<! by
14 Shotgun Slugs; Attacked Just
After Raid. .... ■
Constable M. A. McLin and Con
stable C. A. Cooper were wounded
by shotgun slugs near Mineral
Springs Monday, in the first shoot
ing of officers by bootlegers which
has occurred in Nash County for
seven years.
The two constables, special in
vestigators for the ABC Board,
were shot from ambush as they
drove out of a swamp after load
ing a 100-gallon still and 20 gal
lons of whiskey on their car. Since
December, when they began work
ing for the Nash Board, they had
been highly effective in routing out
illegal liquor-making in Nash Co.
Ollie Viverette, who lives three
miles from Nashvile and George
Parker, of the same section, were
arrested as being suspected of the
shooting, but denied the accusa
tions. Viverettes, bare feet are said
b/ officers to fit tracks left in a
cornfield by the attackers.
McLin was seriously wounded •
by 14 slugs in the shoulder and
neck, but managed to drive to-
Nashville from the scene of the
ihooting'l He was rushed to Park
view Hospital in Rocky Mt. Cooper
received five wounds, but none of
fhem were very serious.
Sheriff C. L. Johnson and a posse
scoured the area Monday after the
shooting, and continued working
on the case all day Tuesday but no
further developments were report
ed late Tuesday.
Soon after the attack officers
rushed to spot and brought blood
hounds from Wilson, but the dogs,
lost the trail in a siwamp.
J C Bunn Slips
Would-Be Robber
(Continued on page .two)
J. C. Bunn, who works in Hart
ford, Connecticutt, just missed be
ing held up Wednesday night last
week on his way home for a few
days.
He had parked his car by the
side of the highway just this sjde
of Enfield to catch a nap, after
running off the pavement three
times in his drowsiness. He woke
up to see a man standing by his
car. The man asked to see his
driver’s license. When J. C. reach
ed toward the steering post where
his licensie was fastened, the stran
ger snatched at his shirt pocket.
Trying to drive and at the same
time trying to push the stranger
off the car with one hand, J. C.
ran into a ditch. Just than a pass
ing transport truck alarmed the
robber, who escaped in a nearby
car driven by an accomplice.
The driver ofThe transport truck
helped him out of the ditch. He re
ported the attempted robbery in
Rocky Mount, btt has not heard
of any resulting arrests yet.