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*^: .‘•■1 r ,->-i i-. . . fs,. •■ 'I S!i- lr.\ . li^S m HARNETT COUNTY NEWS DEVOTED TO THE INTERBST OF HARNETT COOWTV fMMAIlILY, AND OF THE STATE GENERALLY. Vol. VI—No. 41 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR—Be COPY LiUncton, N. C., Tkvr^ayr OctoW 9, 1924 DOINGS OF A DAY IN SESSION BY COMMISSIONERS Mostly Rotated to the Count3r*s Financial Affairs and the Collection of the Revenues. Session of the RonnT of Count; Commissioners -Monday of this week bad to do mostly with matters of money—not alone the spending of it. but aHo the getting of It. For the benefit and information of those who are minus the knowledge that it takes a whale of a sum to run the County of Harnett for a whole year it might be mentioned that practical ly tbree-fourth.s of the time taken by tho County Commissioners to go through with a day’s business meet ing is consumed upon affairs finan cial. There are always on hand a uumber of people who want money expended upon some project or other in their bail wicks; there are rarely however, any persons present who are anxious to show the County Path era whore they can realize more reve* nue with which to meet the wanted xpendltures. And /hus it is tha\ the path of a County Commiasionei has come to be a hard one to travel Some faint Idea of the worry at taching to the Job of Comlssioner may be gained when it is learned by the avernge citizen .that scarcely a meeting day rolls around when the Commissioners are not confronted with items requiring expenditure and yet with the treasury as "broke” as a New Year pledge on January 2. Not that the depletion of the treasury causes any sleeplessness on the pari of the average citizen; but the point is that whether he knows it or not makes no difference to him—the County Fathers are the chief wor riers and they are left with it to do as they best can. Following are the matters coming before the Board foi consideration Monday: Clxty-tour dollars was allowed toi policing the Dunn fair. The home demonstration agent wat given authority to take over the cot tage on the courthouse square and use it as headquarters tor her de partment, the transfer to take piacf as soon as the lease of the present occupant expires. Mr. J. A. McLeod is now paying the county |15 per month rent for the house as a dwell ing. J. A. Spivey was granted a leave oC fid days absence from his Job of aaperintendlng the convict camp His assistant. Shop .Cavineaa, will hold down the Job during Mr, Spiv ey's absence. Mr. Spivey’s right hand Is put out of commission by a ease of erysipelas, and ho has a. crop to harvest on his farm on Route 2. H. A. Turlington filed bond of $50,- •go and took the oath of office as tax collector. Tbe Commissioners ordered that he allow no discount on lt24 taxes, and that be collect no penalttes. It was ordered that the maximum acale allowed by Schedules B and C of the -Revenne Act be imposed for this year. This Is known as Privil ege Tax. nndtheshaidpartyofifhesecondnartyof The Bank of Lilllngton was named ns depository -for the county's fubdr and Tax Collector Turlington was ■otilod to take due notice of it, and be governed accordingly. 'Rie Dmke-Jones Company of Oreeaaboro was awarded tbe bonds of Duke school district. The Issue Is |70,gg0 and the Oreensboro con cern made a bid of $70,702. The bonds were in demand, several othet bond buyers entering bids. The stip- alntlon called for only 6 i-4 interest however,' and the others lost out In competition with the Drake-Johes Company. County Attwney Young Instructed To Call On NcArtan’s Bondsmen BBTIVAI. 8BRV10BS AT BUHerS. CRHHK PRBBBYTBIUAN CHURCH Rev, A. T.'Lassiter, former pastor of Bale's Creek Presbyterian' church will nsalat the pastor in a- series of ■ervlcea there, beginning next Mon day night. Rev. Mr. Lassiter Is well known throughout the whole of Hsr* coanty. and bis friends of Buie's dreek will be'glad to have him with them again. J. F. HBN1US, Pastor UNION FRAYBR SBRVICBI Regalar midweek prayer service will ^ held tonight at 7:30 in tbe Presby4erlan church. Everyone is cordnilly Invited to attend. First mentloc of tbe alleged fact that Sheriff J., W. McArtan Is short 111 hl3 accounts with Harnett county as tax collector is contained In an en try made upon tho minutes of tbe ses.Uon of Board of County Commis sionors on Monday of this week. A1 though it has boon talked of for more than a year now, official hint of it has not been recorded in such manner that it might be given the public as matter of fact. Information that the Commissioners have found the Sher iff short In his accounts is contained in the -following paragraph taken from the minutes ef Monday: "Whereqs, the committee appoint ed to make settlement with J, V/. McArtan, Sheriff, has reported to tbe Board that they have been unable to get a settlement; now, therefore, be it resolved by tho Board of Commis sioners that E. F. Young, attorney, be and Is hereby Instructed to de mand of Sheriff McArtan's bondsman a sottiemont of said McArtan's short age." The committee appointed to make settlement with the Sheriff, some months ago, was composed of Com missioners W. J. Mac -Stewart, James A. Buchanan and County Attorney, F. Young. It is understood that this committee has hold several meet ings and has with considerable paint gone over -the tax books and obtain ed other data of a financial nature from which they have endeavored to lelermlne the true status of the oiinty's affairs in dollars and cents Reason for theli; failure to o'btaln a lottlcment with the Sheriff, it had been declared, was due to the fact that seemingly there was a discrep- incy of upwards $50,000 between the ngure.s upon the Auditor’s books en tered as receipts and the figures upon tho Sheriff's tax books representing money due the county. Receipts from the tax books, it is said, fall to tally with the Auditor's cash ^ook by lomethiug over $50,000—the exact imount to be determined after de duction of the commission allowed he Sheriff and the insolvents to be marked off. The matter of the status of tbe sheriff’s account with the county be came an issue in the Democratic pri mary in June. Eleventh hour publi cation of a statement that the sheriff was upwards of $50,000 short in his mttlemert with the county for taxes collected brought forth bitter denun ciation by the sheriff's friends of the Board of County Commissioners, who did not make the statement them selves, but allowed individual olti- zens to use a statement from the County Auditor’s office which pur ported to show that taxes to the amount of over $50,000 bad been collected by the sheriff and not turn ed in to the treasury. The issue was sharply dlrawn, the division alining hundreds of voters on the one side or the other. "-Mc- Artan” or "Anii-lMcArtan” became a --logan in the primary campaign and in many quarters tNS vote was east almost solidly throughout the whole ticket upon that basis. a candi date did not favor McArtan for sber- iff he was black-listed by those who favored the sheriff, and vice versa. Although this rule was not adhered -to in GOURTHO BE MADE BY AN “If It CoBC«nu HunMtt, Wm i$i THE NEWS^ E TO GER moN Two Giants Banished From Organized Baseball Northern End to Ei^nd Twen ty-one Feet to iMAnde Both Up and Down Slab Of fice Roeinn «baw Byrd Bros. A BbaW have been awarded contract for the erection of an addition to the coaithonae meas uring twenty-one -feet ^all the way across the northern eaif> of the build all precincts, yet to a large jq^. Construction forcA was placed extent it prevailed whbre the sheriff j the Job -Monday raoiBlng and dig giog of- the fouudatlea- has already Robert LffiFollctte^ «ir. and his friends were strongest in voting power. Many of the sheriff’s friends laid claim to the defeat of the Incumbem CommlesioncES on the ground that they had taken undue advantage o tbe sheriff. The result of the vote: when counted showed that only one of the Commiseloners, who stood for reelectlon in phalanx, sustained him self and came out victorious, that one being James Ambrose Buchanan of Upper Little River township. All of the other tour were decisively de feated. Now since the resignation of Mr McArtan as candidate upon the Dem ocratic ticket to succeed himself, the sheriff's closest friends—not all of been completed. Tbo-.-adilTtlon will be of brick eonstractfnb to conform to the balance of tho'building, and will go up two storlon,'^''^ allow ad ditlonal office space botkjkp and down stairs. ip The addition to tiuji ;eoartbouse will allow space tor tw« more offleef upstairs. Downstalrr timre will be added space sufficient a meeting room for the Board of Bounty Com missloners and two vaults, one for the Register of Deeds bnd one for tbe Clerk of Court. Vmlt space foi the books and records-, of both of these officlais has long since' been overfilled and in some laetancea the . .sacred archives of tbe dMinty are them but a great many reposing in nooks ud eb|u»rs where testing great indigation over the tact jbuttSSHTare ac- that Mr. Buchanan remains upon the ^ ticket. They claim that he should' also resign his place. Inasmuch ae Hr. McArtan, though victorious in the primary, hne tendered his iiieslg- natlon and left his place on the ticket to another man. The county executive committee oi tbe Democratic party has been ap pealed to, but they have refused sc far to take any action in regard to Mr. Buchanan’s name remaining up on tbe ticket. It is hot known li they will take any action. Just what the outcome of the mat ter will be, or what defense the sheriff will set up in regard to the allegation of shortage by tbe Com missioners, is not known and proba bly wilt not be nntll. Attorney Young makes demand upon the' bondsmen >When tho attorney will make tbi& demand has not been stated. There is much diffeernce of opinion regard ing the attitude the bondsmen may take in the matter, inasmuch as tbe sum stated as being tbe amount the sheriff owes the county exceeding his bond by several thousand dollars. County Auditor also thata will be more elbow-room, which will com port more handsomely with the dig nity of the office slnoe the pay has been made more suitable also. The Coanty Tax- Collector will, also have an office In the courthouse, it la pre sumed. This official has' already be gun the duties of office, biM^ag open- en books this week st the Dunn Fair grounds, where he is solteetlag upon the Averasboro, Duke and Qrove ra celpts. Tbe addition .iijrftbiOiias-'will cost approximately glO.OffO, accord ing to Mr. Shaw, manager of Byrd Bros. A Shaw. DEATH CLAIMS CLAUD STEWART Educator of Forty Yearn and One of Hamott's Staunchest Citiaons TAXCOLLECTOR TURLINGTON PUTS UP OFFICE HERE County's Newest Official Takas Office Formerly Occupied by Sheriff in Courthouse and Opens Tan Books ■a ■% ■ / Oonmnnlty pride is that which swells in the' breast of the citizen who -wlabea the world to become a better place Cor bis heving Uved In It. F Rabect LaFoHestc^ Is tekMg ele active part la tbe capqmlgn fee the €laud D. Stewart of Costs, one of Harnett county’s most highly es teemed and nsefnl cltixens, died last Thuradmy night nt 1>1 o’clock. He was $5 years old and bed been in de clining health tor several months, Bright’s disease being the Immediate cause of bis death. Mr. SUwart was educated at the University of North Carolina and taught school in Har nett and Johnston counties tor about forty years. He took an active In terest in |be educational progress of the State and was well and favorably known throughout this section. Mr. Stewart is survived • by hla widow and nine children, seven sons —Herbert, of Benson; C. Q., Lntts, Alfred and Henry, of Coats: Victor, of Tulsa, Okla.; Worth of Akron Ohio; and two daughters—Mrs. Paul Flab and Mias Callle Stewart, both off Dunn. Deceased was the last sur viving' child of the late Oapt. Daniel Stewart, at one time the largest farm er in Harnett tounty. Mr. Stewart was a loyal member of the Hlsston- ary Baptist church. He had served as. a member of the Harnett county school board and sdso as tax list-tak er for his township for many years. He was a stsanch Democrat and took an active intereet In polities. The funeral was conducted from tbe home {Friday «|ttemooto, at 3 o’clock by Rev. J. A. Campbell, hla pastor, and Interment was made In the Stewart family cemetery. Mr. Stewart's acqualntoneesblp ax tended thronghout this and adjoin ing counties and there 'Vas no man who, was more warmly regarded aa an honest and upright ccttlsan. Be 'wlp be remembered , for hla splendjid Utb, .tor ^ truly leaffM the world 'better tor'bnvlng lived In It. Prealdssmy cerrM oa by bln ftubsf, Iba acnalof from Wl*ec—lu. Citizens bud taxpayers of Harnett county will face a brsnd new order of things when they come to pay their taxes this year, and they will pay them to a brand new offlcUl. In the same place where taxes hare for merly been paid, but by a Tax Col lector, the office where formerly the Sheriff held forth has been trans formed Into a pikea where nothing is transacted la the way of law enforce ment—nothing but the receiving of moneys due tbe county. Henry A. Turlington of Coats, the newly appointed tax eollMtor for the county under the law ereatiag that office separate and apart from * the office of sheriff, has set ap office in the room formerly oecapled by Sher iff McArtan, the sheriff -moving hU headquarters over into the room oc- cnpled by tbe grand Jury when in session. Tax Collector doesn’t have all tbe township tax books nt his diapoaal af yet, hnt hs a suffieiont number of them to keep him and hla depntle busy if the taxpayers will come for ward and adjust thelr-accounts. Tbe balance of tbe books will be in tbe hands of the tax collector in a few days. Mr. A. B. CuiTln Jr. of Angler wi’ be deputy in charge of the tax col lector'e office la LiUlngton. Mr. V. B. Williams will be in charge of the office at Dunn. Mr. Turlington requests The Hews to Inform the people thai-lto, vlU go after the laxM this year wkh all of his energy, and 1m expeeta nvnry tax payer to be proa^ in settling. - connty stands -usry mneb In iwed ef tnnds and tbutan eoUsiotor la making streanoiu effort to relieve tbd situar tion! Mot t^ towit Mtong thg uskm- cities is the tnAdn wlOi wkieb to tbe sehoola. Innaanek we nc- o§i' wlU want to Bok the sehoola agfgr tor tack of ravdWMk It M bffitffired tbwt-^laens will bj'FlWtopg In the paying oflAww^ ,. Jtoiihsmffiore, Mx iM-ldn^^a not itotonfftoi HIGHSMITH AND COUNTTS SCHOOL OFFICIALS CONFER Standnniixntkm of Higb School IHwuModo-Dittioa of Prinei- pels Outlinod—»DucuMioiM Become l^ely. LEFT TO RIGHT: SAND. vnes wotu , DOLAN, 0*CONNSLL Jimmy O’Connell, snbstltate ontflelder of the New Tortc Itotloeal Lengne ffiaseball Team, whom John McOraw puridtased from San'Francteoo Chib for |76J)40 at the beginning of last season, was barred from'mganlaed Tmirrfmfl for all times, together with Coach Coxy Dolan, of the CManto, on the ffiiarge that they bad attempted to bribe Second Baseman Sand, iff the Phllly Na- ttonala, to throw the game which clinched the pennant tor the qisnto. gM^d reported the offer to Manager Fletcher, of the PhlBtos, ««ul Judge IsuMlts’ action loliowed. LILLINGTON STRONG FOR RALEIGH -TO - SAVANNAH ROAD; DELEG)) TES NAMED TurttUftM he grill ba on ffitoibb.gwr Aiadto. In fnrtheraace of a program for cooperation with tbe Bennettsville Chamber of Commerce In establish ing an interstate highway between Raleigh and Savannah, fifty repre sentative citizens of Lilllngton met in convention last night to adopt meth ods of procedure and name delegates to "the BenneUsviile conference on October 16th. Present in the meet ing last night were half a dozen la dles. Previous to last night’s meet ing there was a sort of get-together, round-table discussion held in Klllle- grey Hotel several nights ago, which meeting named Dr. J. W. Halford ai chairman of .the steering committee for the carrying out of the aims and purposes of the highway program. At the former meeting Mrs. Milllkln, of the KUllegrey management, tendered a luncheon and invited ladles of the town to cooperate in launching the movement to bring the highway via Lilllngton. At last night's conference, which was held In the courthouse audito rium, Dr. Halford acted as chairman, and presided.- The editor of The News was appointed secretary, and concerted action was promised by all present when detegatlons were named to go to the Bennettsville meeting. As delegates tbe chairman appotntei' the following: From Lilllngton: H. T. Spears, J. R. Baggett, W. P. Byrd. J. C. Thom son, J. O. Layton, B. A. Parker, J. B. Tngwell, N. HcK. Salmon, Henderson Steele. Unanimous vote by those present placed Dr. ..Halford also on the local delegation. Prom Kipling: W. L. Sen ter. From Chalybeate: D. H. Sen ter. Prom Bunnlevel: C. M. Alien. Reading of telegrams from citizens of RaMgh who had been Invited to attend the meeting, in which the Raleigh men stated they could not attend, some of them having engage ments which they considered, of more importance, brought bn discussion of the atHtude seemingly adopted by the Wake contingent toward road Improvement sonth of the State capi tal, ' and especially that leading into UlUngton. Remarks'along that line were made by Messrs. H, T.--Spears, Dr. Halford, J. R. Baggett. W. P. Byrd, J. G. Layton and others. Sentiment was next to unanimous that Raleigh was—and is—^hinrboring prejudice against the Lafayette high way. Color of truth la given to, this impression by the fact that delega- ed a road of their own. Aside from the indignation felt and expressed by those at the meet ing last night, the consensus of opin ion- was that Lfllington take np ne gotiation was those along the line who would w-illing cooperate, and to unite hi' ah effort to bring, to pass 'the distabllshment of the proposed !|ilghwar{ "Dr. Halford-and Mr. Bag gett called attention of the meeting to tbe fact that the Lafayette' Road Association, organized In 1917, had sponsored the Lafayette highway and had stood at ..the helm till It was brought Into a reality. . Remarkable information was brought to light when it was stated that there wa$ actually'a treasury with real fund» attaching to the association, Caahler Spears of the Bank of Llllington In forming the chairman t^at there was about $80 In the treasury besides a goodly number of markers purchased for the highway. The' secretary of the meeting was instructed to give to the daily papers some of Lllllngton’s sentiment in re gard to Raleigh's seeming disregard of the' Importance of the Lafayette highway. After expressing the. urg ent need of a tall quota of delegates at the meeting in Bennettsville on October Idth, the meeting adjoui^ed. tions from Lllllagton have been toTd by Highway Commissioner' John Bprunt Hill at his office In Durham that Raleigh delegations had request ed him that no road, improvement be made south of Raleigh In Wake oouBly. Walter P. Byrd gave a version of the Wake county road muddle thht jsesmed to have its seat in- political 'factionalism, the upper 'Wake contin gent fighting every-move toward giv ing the Iirwcr W«ka pep^e'their Jnst conilderatlon Htc' way of road: build ing. . The 'vtoattm off Mr. . Byrd sound ed pftntuffbln to those present at the meeting ItoeatMe-or the fact that no Jirnsronmeut mads in the- south, kbfid htoiffing into Homott' MRS. SBNTBR DfPROVBD. Latest information from the bed side of Mrs. J. W. Senter of Kipling, who has been confined in Rex Hos pital since she underwent serious op eration; la that she is gradually im proving. Mrs. Senter has been very ill for the past week or more. ANOTHER FILUNO STATION. Nortbam-Thacker Motor Oo., own ers of Lllllngton’s largest garage and local dealers in Ford cart, are erect ing a brick filling station on the loi adjoining their old garage and flUIu station on Lafayette highway. . The new station will be completed in ' few days. (B¥ B. D. BUNN) Dr. J. H. Hlghsmltb, State super visor of high schools, met the school officials of Harnett county at Liiling- ton oh Wednesday of last week, tc discuss the Standardisation of higi' sohools. He outlined the duties of the high school principals, realising that their work had been good, but gave a program for more progress. Dr. Highsmith is working with these county groups, for he believes he can do more efficient work in this way than In a State-wide mass mestlng. In the first place; It is ours to see that all the high schools become standardized and that Ahe non- fltandard ones become standard. The minimum tor a standard high school is one hundred and sixty days {ex- clnsive of holidays) with forty-five minutes reottatton; and no high school teacher holding lower than a high school 'V" certificate. There are only seven States out of the forty-eight that have a shorter school term than North Carolina. Blach pu pil must do IfiO clock hours of work. There most be three full-time high school teachers holding a high school teacher’s certificate. Fifteen units must be required tor graduation, giw Ing two doable periods per week, for laboratory sciences. There must be laboratory equipment for at least two BOiencss. and must be in a sepa rate room. There must be a full line of maps .for the history department. There must be a library of three hun dred volumes, and this must be a special .library room.... .. ^ere was a very nirely dlw^Miofi’ of "setting np objectives” and a time table. Since the- county has an adopted list of text books, all of the schools in the county should cover, about the same amount of work. It should not take one school a year to finish eighth grade arithmetic when others finish In- six months. Those present were asked to come together again the first of Novemlier to draw up some objectives tor Harnett' coun ty sohools. The dally program and reclta? sbeeto were dieeussed.' The .county e to work out a uniform high school traneertpt' blank. If one child goes toom one school to another be must carry this record sheet to show Just the amount of work covered In tho first school. One of the most vital needs of oUf' high schools' today Is a system ^of permanent records. The following were appointed a committee to work out a uniform system of keeping rec ords for Hamdtt county high schools: B. P. Gentry, chairman; f. W. ^rin- kle, B. D. Bunn. Those present at the mOeting were: B. P. Gentry, county superintendent; J. A. Campbell, Bale’s Creek; B. D. Bum), Lilllngton; T. W. Sprinkle, Duke; J. W. Nichols, Dunn; Prof. Snider, Lafayette: Prof. Taylor, Coats: Prof. Caskill. Olivia; Prof. 1. J. Stephenson, Angler. SANFOXW TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE advertising SANFORD AS A MARKET Pimtes Abide GaiM fifake to ajlow tlto^-toMteinei riaetflnif^W f«e«nty dkMtHaw lowor townaUna ze- lag fjw He •tatto MHit; through tegtslatlve Mtlqp irdm n ,Vi the ’WNke'rtoUt Wstoto (uht MmetroeH ; Sanford Tobaceo Board of Trade is putting on a campaign of advertising whereby it is designed to aoqua'lnt- the peopio of the surrounding torrl*., tory with the fact that the Lee oapl- Ital oltjr Is'making a strong bid an a auperlor,' tohs^ market. .Tobacco growers 1>ethg the principal ones in tended In the sele of the weed, their attention Is beibg called to the great ad’/antagee that Sanford offers in the way of warehouse fnoUltles, as well as the excellent'^ management in obnige of each ot Hie fiMws. In -Harnett' eounty there are to- baoeo farmers duo grow some of the -find ifitodmens- ot.-ifib weed that arc' effotod on any fipijff. This is oot simply a "sfad^’*' idtement gotten - out by nnyone who would try to use It tor any infinenee It might have,on the tmrmer:. but it is' a ooming.tlme and {igd^ . from tboee who hate y«4^ of hanfififar tobaeeo' and are hwip finnU- ' fiWd’ iSo'^sjWhk- vttii anthoMd thoM tarmera espeeiaHy that the-fia*: tad TObaeefe Beard off Trafiii/aMtihtii tlitodh Re fUhrtottMag'tn TlMNhinL . tt be voir for the BfiMfigl-te-/ biffeo''tarner* to ffit Gw Saato^ .pfiopto td,7:fldri«9r» djiia .la'other najli^d* Ja ' no dsds' toytho ' 'Ftoid'FhF.^ther ' •fcottid adt malia good - .(r - 4~A '1
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