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Lake' Matfamuskeet Farm Operations End March 1st!
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National Park Is Bonanza To Lawyers?Leas Still Held In Tennessee?Discharged Clerk Charges Favoritism?jj
C,?c'+"v" farnim?! Farmprs Talk of Revolt?Binsdale Changes Bill?Other Interesting N. C. News Items.. .1
?Th = NT v: Holland Corporation an
nounced Monday that i: would stop
a!! farming operations en its 50,000
aero lake bottom farm on March
1st. This farm was reclaimed from
tf.e I- jni of Lake Mattamuskoot
a:id for many years had been owned
by Au i. Ilccksher. New York phil
anthropist. After March 1st the
farm will be on caretaker's basis.
Final action in ceasing operations
v.as diii- to a lack of cooperation
in op rating and maintaining tiie
drainage system. The pumping
pirn: in operation for around 15
years needs rejwiring arul has not
been run into October. It is esti
mated that 17 millions have been
spent on this project.
?A study of the North Carolina
Ptrk Couimi sion's financial records
JK. *.i*. axax/A. m/ *
! reveals that a total of S92.C19.81 was
! paid to attorneys between October 1
1, 1928. ar.d February 7. 1933. fori
court litigation and title work in
. connection with the purchase of
! lands for the Great Smoky Moun- j
tain National Park. This does not
include amounts paid to steno- j
grsyhers or paid for other expenses.!
: Biggest benefits went to Congress- j
; ir.un Zcbulon Weaver, who received |
.$15,250 in salary and fees; Mark!
Squires o: Lenoir, chairman of the:
Pa i: Commission, who was paid j
12!.Too in salaries and fees and col-J
iected $7.102 23 for expenses, andj
Veiii Rhoades. executive secretary t
of the commission, who received |
S22.C74.47 in >ularv and exoenses in!
I
a four-year period. These salaries
j did not come from the $2,000.000;
appropriated by the 1929 Legislature :
for the acquisition of park lands. It I
came from the funds of the Rocke
feller Foundation and from money
raised by popular subscription by j
the promoters of the park. State
Senator W. O. Durgin of Davidson is!
spon:orin2 a bill to abolish the pre
sent park body and transfer its
duiie^ to the Department of Conser- |
vat ion and Development.
?Miss Hazel Satterfield. Reidsville I
who was one of the 17 enrolling of- j
fiee employes discharged bv Secre- j
tary ei' Stale Stacey W. Wade, is- j
sued a statement in which she i
charged Mr. Wr.de and Senator i
Larry I. Moore ? with favoritism, j
Sen. Moore advocated reduction of i
the petsonncl of the enrolling ofrice j
force and. since he was head of the1
reorganisation committee. Secretary!
Wade adopted his: suggestion. Miss j
Saiterfiel'J charges that a number,
of clerks who needed tiieir jobs I
were discharged w ithout atiy com
plaint against them, while others i
who did not need their jobs so badly :
were retained in the State's em-)
plcy simply because they had aj
prominent sister or relative or fo.-|
some similar reason.
I
Talk of revolt, bills of rights,!
the spirit of the 177'J's and morator- I
iums filled the air at a meeting of!
farmer.-, in the I.enoir county court- i
house i:i Kinston Friday night. Half'
a hundred determined-looking own-'
ers of tax and mortgage-ridden
farms tried to decide upon a plan1
to save their properties and those of
their neighbors. Seme expressed j
their intention of "prc.ecting their
homes at any risk." Four counties
were represented, and belief was
expressed that the meeting would
result in a section-wide movement!
that would secure a moratorium or
relief of other form for Eastern,
Carolina's thousands of hard-press- I
ed farmers.
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?Senator John W. Hinsdale an-!
nounced Tuesday that he has wid- i
er.ed the scope of the selected com
1
modity or luxury tax sponsored oy |
him in 1931 so as to include other ;
articles and that his new data is!
being considered by the sub-com- ;
mittee of the joint finance commit- j
tee. As a further safeguard he i
proposes a provisionary measure that j
would call for a small general sales j
tax if the commodity schedules
secured less revenue than needed.
? Mrs. Ruth Linter Peterman was ;
charged with the murder of her j
husband, R. L. Peterman, vice pre- I
sident of the Southern Public Utili-1
ties Company, in a warrant sworn j
out in Charlotte Sunday night.!
Peterman was killed with a .38
calibre revolver. The fatal shot was
fired at close range and entered his
head just above the right ear. There
were indications that a terrible I
struggle had taken place in the1
Feterman home prior to the shoot- j
ing. When officers ? reached the!
scene, Mrs. Peterman, clad In a [
night gown, was bending over the ?
dead body. She screamed that she;
had killed her husband, but later in
a hospital she denied this. She has
been under treatment for several
years for nervous disorders and at
various times had been sent to a
sanitaroum for treatment.
?Leila Carey Page, 19-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
W. Page of Garren Hill, suburb of
Pinehurst, died or asphyxiation
Sunday in the home of her uncle,
Franck C. Page, in Hewlett Eav
Park, Nassau, New York. She wa-;
a sophmore at Bryn Mawr College
and was spending the week end with
her uncle at the time of the tragedy.
It is thought she mistook a gas
radiator for a steam radiator and
turned on the valve before retiring.
?A peaceful death last evening end
ed the career of John Patrick Stell,
familiarly known as "Uncle Bud,"
for 42 years an officer of the law in
Wake county. He was chief of police
in Raleigh for four years and had
served many years as deputy sheriff
and deputy marshal. He was 69
years old.
?The Senate this week voted to re
call the marriage requirement bill
which passed Monday night. tThe
real objection to the bill is the sub
stitute which provided an affidavit
as an alternative for present physi
cal examination which was elimi
nated in the original House Bill.
The Senate also deferred final ac
tion on the bill to prohibit legislators
from accepting any position created
or the emoluments of which might
increase during their term of office
'and recommended the inclusion of
such a provision in the Constitution
of the Constitutional Commission.
The Senate stood its ground on the
bill abolishing the Industrial Com
mission by refusing to take the
measure from the unfavorable
calender.
?Industrial Commissioner J. Dewey
Dorsett has issued an award of $6.
000 to the widow of Dr. M. L. Kes
ler. late manager of the Mills Home.
Baptist orphanage at- Thomasville,
who was killed instantly in an au
tomobile accident near his home
1 last August. On the day he was
killed, he made three speeches to
[raise funds for the orphanage and
the commissioner ruled that he was
I an employe under the terms of the
Workmen's Compensation Act at the
| time of his death, altho his speech
making was not a purely executive
I duty. The award will be paid in
weekly installments of $18 each.
| ?Declaring he had "not threatened
to throw anybody in the creek,"
! Sheriff J. M. Peavyhouse of James
town, Tennessee, said Tuesday that
North Carolina officers are welcome
| to take Colonel Luke Lea. and Luke
! Lea. Jr.. if they will come and "get
, rid of" two habeas corpus writs
I that have been served on him. The
? Leas were given permission to make
I bond pending their habeas corpus
1 hearing on February 28, but they
| still remain in Peavyhouse's custody
j at the Mark Twain Hotel in James
? town.
-J. V. Watson, 05, was fatally in
jured when a truck in which he was
.iding crashed into a tree thai had
fallen across U. S. Highway No. 1
five miles south of Rockingham.
?Mrs. Ernest Davis was instantly
'tilled and Mrs. Frank Stewart was
painfully injured when they were
struck by an automobile driven by
1 W. E. Moore cf Lillington. The wo
men were shopping on the town's
Main street when the tragedy hap
pened. Moore stated he did not
iee them until it was too late to
avoid atriking them.
?Blinded by the lights of an ap
proaching car, Frank Windley, aged
50, rural letter carrier for about 15
years and well known Belhaven citi
zen, was killed Saturday night when
the car in which he was riding ran
off a concrete bridge and was sub
merged in a creek. Windley was
the only one in the car who was
injured. Both his jawbones wore
broken and there were internal in
juries. He died before medical aid
could reach him.
?State Health officials make known
in a recent bulletin that an out
break of virulent cases of syphilis
among prominent families in a cer
tain North Carolina county have
been traced to midwives afflicted
with the disease. The name of the
county is not disclosed.
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Currituck County News j!
Belief Grows
Walker Murdered,
Rewards Offered
Currituck officials are not recon- j
idled to the theory that Brandon
Walker, who mysteriously came to
a violent death on the highway near
his home at Barco on a recent Sun
day night, was the victim of a hit
and run driver.
At the regular meeting of the
board of county commissioners of
Currituck county on February Gth.
j a resolution was adopted by the
j beard, offering a reward in the sum
of $100.00 for the arrest and convic
tion of the murderer of Brandon
Walker, young white man, who was
mysteriously murdered on the night
of January 28th. There is also ba
ling circlulated through the immedi
l ato community c*' Barco, Curri
jtuck county, a paper in the nature
j of a subscription to a reward offer
led by citizens and residents of the
1 community in which the young man
1 lived.
| Sheriff Howard E. Fo.bss and his
; deputy N. N. Hampton have been
continuously working on the case
since the time young Walker was
found dead upon the highway nearj
his home, but to date they have
been unable to find any clue suffi
cient to make an arrest. Deputy
Sheriff Hampton has expressed the
opinion that he believes the action
taki n by the county commissioners:
and the residents of this section
in offering a reward will aid materi
ally in securing evidence in the mat
ter.
Currituck Club Women
To Have Club House
The Currituck Womans Club will
j soon have a club house of their own.
For several years this club has been
holding its meetings in the differ
ent homes in the neighborhood. They
have nevertheless done much in
their club work. The members of
J the Club have been desirious of cb
. taining a site for a club house for
ja long time and until recently had
been unable to obtain a place. With
J in the past v.eek they have made
fnegotiatioas with Mrs. E. E. Ber.
inett of Norfolk, Va., for the pur
i chase of a small parcel cf waterfront
j property ? t Currituck Courthouse.
iThe property the club ts purchasing
| is the Dance Pavillion formerly
'operated by J. II. Overton of Coin
! jock. It is planned that this oid de
lapidated building will be remodeled
i into an attractive club house. The
iCurrituck women have a great deter
jmination and once they undertake
a thing they usually do it well.
Several clubs in the county already
own their clubhouses and all of them
have been made very att: active
places.
Miss Virginia Edwards Home Dem
onstration a gent for Currituck
'county has worked tirelessly for the
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Hoard Says Simpson
Is Entitled to $48
An effort by County Commission
ers J. D. Hathaway. Jr.. and W. T.
Love, Sr.. commissioners from Eliz
abeth City tewnship, to hove the
;beard rccind its action in passing
?Martin B. Simpson's bill for $48 for
j 1C days' services as secretary of the
j County Board cf Elections did not
! meet with success Monday when the
j beard voted to allow their previous
action to stand.
When Mr. Simpson presented a
bill to the board in January for $18
compensation as Board of Elections
secretary, the bill was passed with
out question. Commissioners Love
and Hathaway were later informed
that the Board of Elections held
oniy a few meetings last year and
that Mr. Simpson did not act as
! secretary at the two or three meet
ings he did attend. ?o they brought
the matter up again las* Monday
and asked that the board rescind
the order to allow the $48 to Mr.
Simpson. Mr. Simpson claimed he
was entitled to the claim by reason
of the time he spent in collecting
filing fees from candidates, issuing
absentee ballots and like matters.
Commissioners Love and Hathaway
maintained he was entitled to the
$3 per diem salary as board secre
tary enly for the days on which the
board met and he acted as secretary.
Chairman W. O. Etheridgc and the
| past several years in Currituck j |
I county and with the fine cooperation j (
I cn the part of the women all over |.
j the county, much has been ac-1 (
| ccmplished. Let's say, hats off to j j
| Miss Edwards and the club women1 j
j of Currituck county, they have done I,
l a great work in the past and it looksj
jar, if they have a greater determi-jj
nation now than ever.
, HARD LUCK FOR
SHERIFF AND DEPUTY j
i Howard E. Fcrbli, sheriff of Cur
I rituck county and his deputy N. N.
Hampton, were not quite so fortu
! nate as the sheriff of Perquimans,
j They too purchased their bonds
; through the Union Indemnity Co. of
j New Orleans. In making applica
i tion for their bonds they accom
i panied their application with checks
' covering the premiums on their
bonds for one year, which cost them
$212.50. Recently the Union In
demnity Co., went into receivership,
i and the officers were ordered to
J execute new bonds. Since the of
ficers have collected slightly more
than one third of the Current tax |
I levy the bonds for the officers were
reduced to $10,000 and $2,000 re
spectively by the board of commis- I
sicners. A complete audit of the tax j
becks has been made to date and '
county Attorney Chester R. Morris j
is now trying to secure the neces- j
| sary bonds for the officers through I
' the Lloyds Insurance Company.
I
CURRITUCK FARMERS
i MAKING EFFORT TO
PRODUCE POTATO CROP
i
The farmers of Currituck county
have been pouring into the office of
the Currituck Mutual Exchange for
the last few days trying to makeji
I plans and arrangements whereby
they con obtain seed and fertilizer
:for the planting of Irish and Sweet |
potatoes in Currituck county. Many j J
of them are making application to i
The Regional Agricultural Credit 1
Corporation for loans. Likewise many j
of them are being told that they
cannot obtain loans from this Cor
po.ation because of not being able
to fully' and adequately secure the
'corporation for the loan.
Emery Smith manager of the Cur
rtiuck Mutual Exchange has been
1 very busy for the last month try
ing to make arrangements for the
j farmers of Currituck county to be j
! able to farm this year. He has made |
.several trips to Raleigh to discuss
jthe credit proposition with the of-'
ificcrs of The Regional Agricultural!
j Credit Corporation. Mr. Smith now!
? seems very much encouraged as con-1
jcerns obtaining credit but feels very j
; blue about the outlook for prices i
jo:' the crops grown. Farmers in Cur-!
iiituek do not seem to be so alert
?as heretofore, they have lost prac-?
i tically all they ever had in farming,
and they haven't much courage to
'continue. i
? I
'ether board members did not take!
\ this view of the matter and the:
motion was lost. Mr. Love and Dr.'
Hathaway voted for rescinsion and
asked the clerk to record them as i
I voting thus.
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March 4 to Be Date
| Of Big Trade Event j
Determined to make a concerted
| attack on the depression and in
| augurate a long-delayed era of
| prosperity on Saturday March 4.
| E.izabeth City merchants will co
j operate in putting on a mammoth
' bargain day to be known as "Rouse- i
| volt Day," according to G. C. Meads, i
; secretary of the Elizabeth City
1 Chamber of Commerce-Merchants
! A sociation, who is now engaged in
! soliciting the business houses of the
I
own for promises of cooperation ?
rxi funds with which to promote
he event.
"Roosevelt Day," will be quite!
lifferent from any previous bargain :
lay attempted by local merchants, j
t will be advertised a week or ten j
lays ahead of time by means of,
lighway arrows, cloth street ban
ners, cloth truck banners, paper j
treamers, paper pennants, posters j
ind window display cards, milk bot-j
le caps and other types of adver- j
ising. Falling both on a Satur- j
lay, Elizabeth City's best trade day, j
md on the day of the inauguration {?
)f President Franklin D. Roosevelt. ?
.his day will be used by the mer-!
;hants as a means of setting their,
;ash registers to ringing again, lcick
ng the depression out of their back
ioors and ushering in improved
business conditions. It is one of the j
largest trade eyents ever sponsored!
locally.
Mr. Meads is now canvassing the
business houses of the city and is.
nopeful of raising funds for stag- j
.ng this event before the end of the.
week. He also hopes to secure
pledges of cooperation from a large j
majority of the merchants.
I
?D. E. Henderson, Charlotte frater- I
nal leader, aijndunced this week ,
that a mass meeting of members i
of secret orders in this State will |
be held in Charlotte April 9. Fur- I
ther plans will be announced later.'
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i THAT SMTiCISH MOTOR?
Every motor develops a dr.tt?.{ after a few thousand
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-t*?gcihcr: froni sluggish valves and accunuilated
! -carbon deposits. ?. {
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^cylinders; incllii '? it and prematurely worn piston
I: rings and sticking va.Ivcs wiiieh In-coine pitted and i
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I INCREASED MH.E.MiE?
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. i'be average .? .1! itt;- gain willi passenger ears is
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| ABC IT CARBON?
Carbon impair-. the power of ll?c motor it causes
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GAS IS a BETTER-QUICKER-CHEAPER FUEL\
Elizabeth and Suburban Gas Company
I !
IS P E C I A L
This Week ONLY
Prince Albert Tobaccos
One Pcund Can
GARD'S
Phone 7C5
ALBERT GARD, Prop.
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IIITEI GROCERY |
J. W. COX (Owners) 0. D. DUDLEY j
Now in New Location Corner Road and Fearing Sts. i
PHONE 17 1
Many Good Specials Saturday
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GROChPJES
The Finest In To^n.
We will appreciate your bus'.1
ness and strive to serve you *o
your satisfaction.
SIDNEY R. DAVis
Elm St. Plume
THE SHAD
SEASON'S HERE
I have them?wonderful vhiv
Perch too; and every other
sonable variety of fre.-h utui s.;i
Water fish and shell Lb. p.,.,;.r
me your orders.
THOS. CRANK
City Market rhonr Ml
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Fresh Meats, Poultry, Vegetables
Home Cooked Meats and Pastries
Delivered Any Pari of llic City. Plume or visit n,\ ,|;i|js
Prices Attractive
Prompt and Courteous Service
Mrs. Mattie Raper
Phone 215 and 364 City Market j
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PENDER'S!
Bargains I
STOCK UP AT THESE LOW PRICES II
SWEET CREAMERY - . II
Butter r II or tub lb; 2iy2cll
SWEET CRUSHED r II
Corn n?-25c I
RED RIPE
Tomatoes n?-2 ?? 5c||
WHOLE GRAIN II
Rice 4 lbs 11c I
Chesterfield, Camel, Lucky Strike, Old (.old
Cigarettes
COLONIAL LIMA
Beans 3 cans 17cl
MICH 1(1 AX HANI) POCKKI) DRIED II
Navy Beans 5 lbs |0c||
LIBBY'S or ARMOUR'S COOKED II
Corned Beef 2cans 33c I
FRESH SMOKED II
Picnics small and lean lb. 7^2^11
COLDEN BLEND II
Coffee lb. I9?j|
THE BliiPOULTRY ;
I supply UielBpW the best hopies in KUsaix>lb r
City and krtp ariflnr only choice fowls. I
NOT A jBBbsSfON DEALER \
616 So. Road St. ?
John T. Enris w' ? ?