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Miss Emma Matthews who is a
student nurse in Winston Salem, is
visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. White, Mrs.
Emma Elmore, Miss Helen Powell
and Walter Kee spent Sunday in
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Heywood Cherry, Mrs.
Dora Hawkins and children, Max
ine and Howard, and Mrs. L. Pow
ell spent the week-end in Washing
ton, D. C.
Russel Pierce spent the week
end in Norfolk with relatives.
Mrs. Joe Williams, Mrs. E. M.
Wright and Mrs. Ray Edwards
spent Sunday with relatives in
Brunswick County.
Miss Gladys Bowenn spent Sun
day in Emporia, Va., with her
mother.
Mrs. Frank Williams, Mrs. W.
S. Dean, and Mrs. Job Taylor
spent Thursday in Richmond, Va.
Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Beckwith
spent Friday in Richmond, Va.
Misses Susan Holliday and
Traynham W'yche spent Saturday
in Richmond, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. David Lambert, of
Gramicy, La., announce the birth
of a daughter. Mrs. Lambert was
formerly Miss Anna Freemand,
and has visited Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Marks here on many occasions.
Miss Susan Womble spent the
week-end in Raleigh, N. C.
Mrs. Wm. Jackson was a visitor
in town this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Velton Lewis
have returned to their home in
Salemburg.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Dobbins,
Mrs. Ray Jeffries, Misses Louise
Brown, Elizabeth Wolhar, and
Llewelyn Matthews, visited in Ed
enton last Tuesday.
_ ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of John T. Allen,
deceased, late of Halifax County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Roanoke
Rapids, North Carolina, on or be
fore the 17th day of March, 1934,
or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This 17th day of March, 1933.
JOSEPH E. ALLEN, Adm’r
of Estate of John T. Allen
t-Apr. 28.
WEEK-END
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BRUNSWICK STEW
ROCK MUDDLE
and
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JOE WILLIAMS, Prop.
Formerly Duncan's Cafe.
Taxes Eat Up 12 Per
Cent of Farmer’s Income
Agriculturist Must Raise Three Times as Many Bushels
Of Potatoes, Wheat, or Other Crops With
Which to Pay Taxes on His Land
TAXES on farm property absorb
* nearly 12 per cent of the gros3
farm Income of the United States
as compared ■with only four per
cent before the war, Horace Bow
ker, president of The American
Agricultural Chemical Company,
HORACE BOWKER
asserted in an interview in New
York City. This means, he said, that
a farmer must give three times as
many bushels of corn, wheat or
other products for the support of
the government than he did in the
years before the war.
"In paying 12 per cent of his in
come in taxes, the farmer bears a
very unjust portion of the taxes of
the United States. The farmer is
the one class in our population who
is bearing the full brunt of the de
pression. Not only does he pay a
substantial part of his income in di
rect taxes, but he also pays the
many indirect taxes the same as do
the other elements of our popula
tion. Farm products are selling at
pre-war prices, yet the prices he
pays for manufactured products are
considerably in excess of the pre
war level. In other words, his dollar
is worth much less than is the dol
lar of the general public.
"There is no question but that
the general tax system now in ef
fect discriminates against the far
mer, who constitutes one of the
most important parts of our popu
lation. The system," continued Mr.
Bowker, "was unjust even before
and after the War; now under the
extraordinary economic conditions
prevailing in the United States, the
tax system is unbearable and in
tolerable to the farmer. He must
be relieved of this discrimination,
which can be accomplished only by
revision of methods of state and
local taxation. Such tax revision
will require substitute taxes—in
come, s^les, excise—in lieu of th«
excessive general property leviei
now imposed. This shifting of th<
burden will naturally evoke opposi
tion, notwithstanding its fairness
However, such revision of state and
local taxing methods must come,
the farmer cannot be expected tc
bear the tax burden of the countri
forever.”
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of the authority con
tained in a certain deed of trust
executed on the 14th day of Dec
ember, 1927, by Henry C. Taylor
and Ruby L. Taylor, his wife, to
J. R. Allsbrook, Trustee, recorded
Deeds of Halifax County, North
Carolina in Book 381 at page 471,
default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness there
by secured, the undersigned trus
tee will on the
8th day of May, 1933
at 12:30 o’clock, P. M., in front of
the courthouse door in the town of
Halifax, Halifax County, North
Carolina, offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for
'ash, the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
That certain lot or parcel of land
situated in the Town of Roanoke
Rapids, Halifax County, North
Carolina, fronting THIRTY (30)
feet on the East side of Jackson
Street, and running back the same
width between parallel lines at
right angles to said Street One
Hundred Forty (140) feet to an
alley, and shown and designated
as Lot No. THREE HUNDRED
SIXTEEN (316), as shown on a
map or plot of the property of the
Roanoke Rapids Power Company,
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, of
record in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Halifax County, North
Carolina, in plot book No. 1 at page
38, and being the identical lot of
land conveyed to the said Henry
C. Taylor by deed of J. W. Taylor
et als, dated March 9, 1926, and of
record in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds of Halifax County,
North Carolina in book No. 364 at
page 396, reference to which said
map and deed is hereby made for
greater certainty of description.
This notice dated and posted this
4th day of April, 1933.
J. R. ALLSBROOK, Trustee
4t-Apr. 27.
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Prof. R. E. Vaughn, of Univer
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Railroad property owned by the
State of Georgia is valued at $20,
000,000.
Pennsylvania uses a motor boat
to assure collection of the tax on
fuel for automobiles.
Chicago’s new Mayor, Edw. J.
Kelly, was elected by the City
Council.
American films exhibited last
year in Australia declined 40 per
cent.
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as executor of
the estate of Mrs. Rebecca L.
Hockaday, deceased, late of Hali
fax County, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having claim
against the estate of said deceas
ed to exhibit them to the under
signed at Thelma, N. C., on or be
fore the 20th day of April, 1934, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar
[ of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 20th day of April, 1933.
HUGH F. HOCKADAY,
Exectutor estate of Mrs. Re
6t-May 25 becca L. Hockaday j
Scotland Neck Bank
Funds Affected By
New Bill By Taylor
(Special to THE HERALD)
Raleigh, April 25th—Representa
tive Taylor, of Halifax, has intro
duced a bill in the General Assem
bly to authorize the Commissioner
of Banks to pay over certain funds
of the Scotland Neck Bank, held
by him since early in January,
1929, when the bank was closed,
and unclaimed by the owners re
corded, to other depositors of the
closed bank.
A somewhat similar bill was in
troduced in the Senate earlier in
the session and was killed.
A public hearing before the
House committee on Banks and
Banking on the bill has been set
for 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon of
this week.
16 automobiles are now manu
factured to sell for less than $600.
The popular trend seems to be
elimination of chromium plate from
radiator shells.
Over $3,500,000 was spent in
Southern states in 1932 by an Ak
ron, Ohio, tire manufacturer.
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