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A* iR-t I^V i } ■f >-'•' •^1 ^ ’ ... .> ' - - ( i*U‘^yi'^ X krmaLi ' ‘ " .. r,. ■ ^ , .. . ! j .. . . \ I . ■ HARNETT COUNTY NEWS DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF HARNETT COUNTY PRIMARILY, AND OF THE STATE GENERALLY. Vol, VII—No. 29 1?I.00 PER YEAR—6c A COPY Lillington, N. C., Thurs^y, July 16, 1925. ‘If It Concerns Harnett, It*s in THE NEWS' DISCOVERS OVER $50,000 VALUES NOT BEING TAXED In Lillington School District For Special Support of Lo cal School — Reported Monday to Board At their meeting here Tuesday, the second day’s session of their slu tiug as 3 Board of Equalization, the Board of Commissioners had placed before them the discovery that over $50,000 worth of property was not being levied upon tor the special tax to support Lillington School. Search of the tax books had revealed that this property had not paid any special school tax since 1920, and the sup. position is that it has not paid any of this tax since the.creation of the Lit. lington School Disiilct in 1912, though the search had not gone far. . ther back than 1920. The presenta. lion to the Board was made by J. R Baggett, who has beer a member of the school trustee board for a num ber of years. The amount of taxes that would be due on the property in question since 1920 is over $1,500. The ilsi of property as reported to the Cnm. m.*s3loners Tuesday is a? follows: J. A. Giles $ 2,•420.00 Leander Lee - 6,020.00 Mrs. C. C. McDonald 2,400.00 A. A. .McDonald 10,300,00 C. A. McNeill 200.00 •Mrs. Alice McNeill 1,800.00 Mrs. M. L. Northam 3.375.00 Mrs. E. B. Reid 1,400.00 David Reia 5,000.00 M. T. Spears and J. C. Thomson 1,095.00 T. B. Upchurch 10,000.00 J. G. Layton 7,009.00 B. B. McDonald 335.00 R, A. Bell 3.970.00 A. P. Allen 105,00 L. A. Avery 2,730.00 J. G. Layton 1,400,00 E. B. Reid 55.00 a a Ric* Total $ 59,005.00 Chairman Grantham, upon motion, appointed Attorney Spears and Com. missioner Layton a committee to in. vestlgate the matter and report as early as possible to the Board. It is not known that ibis list Includes all of the property that has been left off the special school tax list, and the committee is expected to find any ether property not so listed, if there is any. It Is generally supposed that this error came aboui by reason of the fact that the property mentioned has not been assessed for the special tax, and that the owners have been laboring under the impression that they were paying all the taxes which they were due the county. Mr. Baggett slatec to the Board that he considered it would be a wise move on the part of the Board to select a competent list taker and pay him to search out property throughout the county that might be escaping taxation. He was Informed, he said, that there is quite a good deal of property that is escaping taxation altogether. A tax expert, he stated, had tcld him that if the county would hire him on a commis sion of 25 per cent, he would quit his Job and guarantee the county sufficient return so that he might se. cure commissions of at least $5,000 a year. It is an established fact, according to numbers of citizens who profess to know, that there is considerable property in the county that is not on the tax books at all. Mr. Baggett made to the Borrd the astounding statement that he had been told by a former official of the county that there was property within a stone’:, throw of the courthouse which T,‘a# not on the tax books. The revelation Is expected to bring about some sort of efficient tax list ing in Harnett county, which, accord, ing to the testimony of these wh-o have been very observant along ml; line, the county nas never enjoyed. With the great e'Tort of the .ommi _ i sloners to find ‘ome way out of the dilemma of high taxes and seeming necessity for raising them silll higher, the prospect of placing enough “icvlsable” value on the books to oring about a reduction of taxes come: as refreshing new: to the taxpayeis. Boundary description of Lining, ton School District, laid out by the act ot Legislature of 1913. creating the district, is us follows: Beginning at a point on Cape Fear River, Purefoy Ferry, and running thence with the old road in a southerly direction, a'hicb has therefore been the line between Lll., lington an dUpper Llnle River town., ships, to a point a'here said road 1 crosses Duncan's Creek, thence down | the various courses of Duncan’.s • Creek to Upper Little River, thence j down th? various courses of the Up. i LAFATETTE ROAD MILLION PQLLARl Anti-Byolution Books Are Sellii^ Fast MEET BEGINS IN SHOWER BREAKS SAVANNAH TODAY SEVERE DROUTH All Points Between Raleigh ’ Feai Old Fashioned Rain Came and Savannah Have Repre- J 'Last Saturday to Refresh sentation at Big Gather- Wiltering Crops and t in? in Georgia City Chase Swelter Heat All roads lead to Savannah today. A real old-fashioned rain variously lor thObO who are Interettied in the j estimated in value up to one million nllimatc success of the Lafayette. Ucdlars to the farmers of this ter. lllgliway u;i the most convenient and rilory, with its accompanying cool shortest route north and south. At | winds and resuUantly softened at- 11 o’clock this morning in the j moiphere, brought great relief "to Georgia port city there will be called l all whom It concerned” last Saturday to order the mid.year meeting of the'af trnoon. The rain, which was of Lai'a.vette Highway Association in' th^ gulley.washlng variety in its „ what 1“ expected to be not only the! volume, came none too soon, accord- "■ '»« '» /arm,r= Who wa.ohoh .he gatlon to the Pan-American road8./'^»’‘' but onq also to be, precious drup.s fall to earth with a congress, to be held at Buenos Mrss In 1 known for it.; record-making. It is j broad smile of satisfaction on their October. The congress hopes to spread e.xpeoted th.nl .siep.s will be taken at [ faces. Crop-; all over the county, and the gospel of good roads over both tb« this soion to put the rottd forward ' e:peoinlly In t'ne high sandy-loam At the Scopes Trial ill Dayton Americas. immedlato'y a.s "The Shortest and sections, atood In great need of rain. GEORGE JOHNSON AND TOM DAVIS TAKEN MONDAY Most Convenient Route North and'even the clry.hot weathqr plants South." While this huo been the showing effects of the long drouth, claim for the road all along, yet there Although there is above the average has occurred to those in leadership! crop in proepect in Harnett county, 01 thfe association that it is the part there was none reported anywhere of wi-jdom to defer the formal open, that did not .stand in need of rain, ing of the road till every little detail The earth was very dry and drank and detour has been attended to in! up the rain as soon as it bit, until li5 proper way. ' the volume had soaked the surface Already the Lafayette Highway is to such extent that a templet of mud' coming In for much favorable com.!aiiowed the surplus water to run. meni. jMuch of its commendation is j jvjot so much of the precious fluid forthcoming by reason of the fact' reached the streams, however, as the I that the highway builders of South beds of the rivulets had became Just Carolina racognlzed in the beginning' apout as dry as the high ground it. that this road was a highly practical t self. There was sufficient of the mois.. .route and have been constructing itjture to renew the Jaded crops, and aero.-.', the Palmetto State with that: the kingdom of vegetation took on Two white men—George .Johnson view. The consequence is that the' a new lustre overnight. But what of Anderson Creek township and Tom Lafayette Highway is one of t’ne' rpe rain did for vegetation was not Davis, who gave his home, as Surr.v principal through routes in South! a,i; ^ worked w'onders in relieving county,.!—were captured Monda,- Carolina, if in fact it is not the most the living things upon earth of the afternoon at a liquor still aboui highly developed road in that State.; jwelterlng heat, and humans were in- three miles from Spout Springs la Entering the Palmetto State at ciude as beneficiaries. Anderson Creek township, by Federal McColl, the highway stretches like \ No damage has been reported from Operating Huge Steam Liquor Plant; in Western Harnett When Nine Officers Call ed on Unpleasant Visit Offi.cers t’osser, Wilson, Adams an i a wide heavy ribbon released from a [ storm with the exception of the Batten and Harnett deputies Salmon, i-p)) and makes a bee-line for thejpiowlug down the big tent which D&vla, .Nipples, Tart and Pearce, A Georgia border. Through Southlpop^es the gospel services of the thlrj man found at the still ran orf Carolina the road Is virtually caviness Evangelistic .party in Lll. when the officers appeared and h> straight as an arrow. Crossing thejiingtoo. Wilting baalls put to the was net taken, neither could thev Savannah river a short distance be. ‘ (ggp the lent re_sct by noon Sunt) make cut his Identliy. hnson anJ tow Hardeevlllc, the "Straight Road” Lgy and the regular three o’clock Davi;. the two men c.iu ' tried 1.3 swings Into Savannah where it turns 1 j,.,ggting was held on schedule time, get away, running as ■ . is the.r hs burden of traffic into the broad [^^t the night meeting the tent was heels could carry them wnen thev hard-surface highway that leads; ajjpost full of people. first spied the officers, ‘but the straight to the Florida coast. j — minion-i of the law were too swift fci ^ The contour of the Lafayette High. | LUCAS SEVERELY them. Together with Johnson and . ;vay is one that compels admiration- SLASHES ASTOR NORRIS Davis, he officers captured two still,, i not only of the route but of the great, one a huge steam doubling oullli an l: foasibiliiy of the entire road as oue j juij- i4. ^Astor Norris, 16- the other an anciont affair of small that leads from somewhere to some-jy^^j. Richard Hill the ..... .... inn,, ...... v„ year o'd son of Mr, ana Airs. Ktens capacity which had been discarde.l where and does It in a business-like | uye in the Spring F with the installation of the modcr.i! way. Although there is much ^ce^ery j poured out, together gallon.-, of beer. with 2,000 and up-to-date mill. About 15 gal-, along the right-of-way that is hospital, here, suffering Ions of liquor found at the plant was ,orhing in Interest, and a wealth wounds inflicted historic interest, yet the practicality Laster (Buddy) Lucas, 1,6-yea'’ of the highway in its adaptability to j Mrs2 .Tames Lucas. The officers reported that .Johnson, j rough traffic is the main point thatj^^ neighborhood, last Prl- who seemed to be the buaineas m.ina.|iios a.-.-tuated its promoters and is Antioch Free Will Bap- ger of the outfit, had a stlJl located ' fenmce which is expected to appealj^jJ .Lucas was arrested and about 1 quarter mile from the homej^iith grestest force to those ^ul of his father, John S. Johnson. Tom uavel north and south. ; released on ball when it. was Davib is unknown in this county. u a Jljianco of .300 miles from gave his home as Surry count1 Ljuingion to Savannah by way of the found that Norris' wounds were not though he told the officers he had u ' bafriyetle, wife and four children in Danville, ' Va., but did not live with them. C and there far as can be ascertained at present. Davis has never appeared in court here before, Jim Johnson, a brother of George Johnson, is now serving a sentence of three to five years in State Prison for killing Frank Stone a couple of j'cars ago. This killing took place not very far from the scene of the still captured .Monday afternoon. are many jutolst-’, wlio will take delight in I making the trip leisurely over the highway: 'but there are special trains for the hu-'^.y business and profes sional men that will allow them to attend the meeting in Savt^nnah and;^c“7rred on return in a minimum of time. A; i serious. Different versions as to the I'eason for the fight between the two .young men have been advanced, but no two agree. Both of the participants, however, maintain that it "was !an ac cident, it is said. The cutting I,affray the church grounds , ^ , while preaching was going on ilnside. special car has been chartered in j ^ Parker, local physician, Raleigh and It will be filled wt j attended the Norris boy ,stated representatives from that the knife penetrated Just*below ing a( a time when the peach o’’-; collarbone,'but he had chards of the Lillington Fruit Orow-,^^ ascertain the A feature in connection with the jews are approaching shipping Dr. extent of the hurt for fear of raid is that no colored man seemed W. Halford, who was scheduled j ^ renewed flow of blood, to be empkyed who could be used as i ore of the principal addresses of brought; to the Duke hospital, a 'scapcgoa'i. session, found it impossible to attend j clothing of the Norris -boy was The liquor manufactory was di..|*^'® reeling and a loca spea*er u saturated wlill* blood. Lucas will covered by local deputies following, place on the program. .er Dunn Thursday for his towns along the way will swell the delegation by additions till there is a "swarm" of live road bees on the way SALMON REFUSES. SOLICITOR’S JOB; GIVING REASONS Commissioners Elected Him tci I Succeed Solicitor Brown, But' He Says He Cdn’t Afford , To Accept Neill McKay Salmon, Lillington attorney, refuses to accept the job of soilciior for the court of the county recorder, to which poslttorl he wa-i selected at the meeting oif Board of County Commissioners herti la.st Monday. In a letter .to the Com'.! missioners, who were in session here again Monday of this week, sUl ting as the Board of Equallzationi Mr. Salmon tonder.s his resignation ot the Job to which they eeteted hlna li' 'WW« 'World Fbotoa. Religion, science and law mingle at the trial of John T. Scopes In Dayton, Tenn., for teaching theory of evolution. The affair'Is half clt’cua and halt' re- -rlval. The streets are full of stands selling. .bookB,j[pamphleta, cartoons— all devoted to repelling or defending the argument .thiit man developed from interior forms. PlSfute shows booth ot T. T. Martin/-aluthor of “Hell and' th# High School" and similar tracts leveled at the'“monkey mem" ROAD TO MAMERS TURNED OVER TO HY. COMMISSION Final Inspection and Accept tance Tuesday 'Morning— Engineer Cook To Be County Maintenance Supervisor Final inspeetton of the Lllllngtou- Maraers'ilnk of highway route 60 was made Tuesday morning by Engi neer W. F. McKay and District Main tenance Supervisor P. F. Seward of Che State Highway Commission. The road was accepted and pronounced as one of the best types .of clay- gravel highway In the Stale. A final smolhing process will be applied lo the road 'before it has had time to harden Into Its permanent shape. Sand and oil tieatment will be ap plied to the road. Already there is being given an oil surface to the road aa It runs between Mamors and Jonesboro. "^Vith this treatment completed, all of the State highways in thldhcounty w'ill be of the same texture,except the short links of hard surface in the lower part of the county.^ Engineer R. W. Cook, lyho has had charge of the construction of the Lit llngton-Mamers link, has ibeen given supervltilon of maintenance of the state roads in Harnett county. He will remain upon this assignment until there is another project, con tracted for. FARMERS’ PICNIC TO BE A DAY OF ALL-ROUND JOY Preparations Being Made For July 23 When' Farmers and Others Will Enjoy County Picnic During a recent three-monihs per iod, 75 per cent of the long distance telephone calls between New York and Chicago were completed in less than 5 minutes. Compare this rec. ord with that of European co^untrlei where a search of an hour of more is often necessary -to even find a tele phone from which to put in a call. tIp'- g ven them that there was a still in operation in the nelghborhooJ of Spout SprliTg;. It required ^ev-, , ,,, eial li,>ur. ^c■a^ch before they located , to Savannah. That the meeting ulll n. however It wa:. finally found by, ti veal live one may be taken for Depui.e Cine-t Davt, and Henry; Srattted when it Is noted that Sav- Sainion wiirii they .-ame upon a small'‘“tnah has put forth spev a e or n branch that had been dammed. The' form of entertainment fo ra 1 * 1-- ^ . A ^ >1 maAtlrtCr fsnV_ stream is called the Enoch .Tohn.-oi': mill creek. The men were taken to Dinin for preliminary hearing after beine brought to Lillington where war. rants were secured and read to them who attend the road meeting, Sav. annah i-j strong for the Lafayette ‘ Highway, because she Is awake to the great possibilities that it brings to her gate.s. Lillington and Harnett county are Cipeclally fortunnle in having this -trctch of highway. The Lafayette offense. per Little River to the lower corner Highway. In fact, originated in Har- of E, B. Reid’s farm on the bank of said fiver, thence in an easterly dl.; PROGRAM reclion wlin the line of said E D Thursday, July 1«, 11 A. M. Reid lO the old McAlister ! a ■ ,ombly and Register at Savan. thence with the old Mo.^lister road;j^.,j, Hotel. to the Cape Fear River, thence up; ii:30 A. M. tne various courses ot the Cape Fear ! order by President R. L. River to the beginning. , preeman. Song "My Country ’Tls of Thee”. S.CHOOL EXPENDITURES Invocation—Rev. W. A. Joddard of 'Savannah. Address of Welcome—Hon. R. M, Jn 1923-24 $29,747,075.84 was the total spent in the tiaie. Of his sumjHul), Mayor of Savannah, $19,078,656.8 (, or 64.1 per cent, was | Response -to Welcome—R. L. spe.'il for current expenses, and $10.-j prseman. President Lafayette High. 668.418.97, or 35.9 per cent was j Association. spent for capital outlay. I Report of President—^What has evening. been done since last meeting. Address—"What Highway Build, ing means”—Hervey Granger. Sav annah. Appointment of special commit tees. Adjourn 1 P. W. for dinner. Afternoon and evening guests of Savannah Motor, Club and citizens of Savannah at Annual Water Carnl. val. Friday, July 17, 10 A. M. Singing National Anthem. Secretary’s Report—T. F. Moffett, Sumter, S. C. ,\ddre=g—"North Carolina and The Lafayette Highway”—J. R. Baggett Lillington, N, C. Address—"Bonding to Hard Sur face the Lafayette Hlghtvay”—^Hon. Jas. G. Padgett, Wallerboro, S, C. Reports of County Executive Com mitteemen on status of Lafayette Highway in their respective counties and memberchlps in the highway as8 sociatlon. Discussion of old .business. Discussion of new business. Adjourn at 1 P. M. for fish stew dinner as guests of Savannah Motor Club. "Water Carnival afternoon and T. J. Bffird of ‘Stanly county made an average of 38 1.2 bushels of wheat per acre on six acres of land this spring by following a careful crop rotation In which legumes were included, reports County Agent 0. H. Phillips. Torporcer Helps Honuby Owing, to the fact that Mr, Byrd’s sawmill has Just been burned and his time and attention taken up with his own affairs, we have 'been unable to complete plans for the Farmer’s Pic nic, which is to be held at his farm on July 23. However, we have ar. ranged a tentaiive program. The exercises will begin at 10:00 o’clock in the morning. Under the leadership of. Mr, D. P. McDonald and (Mr. Henry Faucet'te we are ex pecting a string band to furnish music during the day. We have also secured aible speakers, among them being, Hon. Chas. Ross, Assistant Attorney General and one of the best speakers in eastern Carolina, Mr.' James M. Gray,-Assistant Director of Extension Service of State College, Mr. 0. F, McCrary, District Agent, and Mrs. Estelle Smith, District Home Demonstration Agent. All ot these speakers will be well worth hearing, «o make your -plans to come and tel* J'our neighbors they cannot afford to miss being present. This is„a day for farmers and farm women and all others interesteJ in farming, therefore we are asking that you' all' come and bring well filled baskets. A long table will be fixed in the grove and everybody will spread dinner together, Mr. Byrd has assured me that the afternoon may be spent in swimming and bathing, .so bring your bathing suits and let’s have a good day to gether. H. A, Edge, Farm Demonstration Agent. and glve.s his reasons for so doing!. Mr. Salmon’s letter of resignatioil reads:' ; July 13, 19261 To Board of Commissioners of Harl nett County, [ Gentlemen:. ! I herewith tender you my resignal tlon as iSolicltor of the Recorder’s Court of Harnett County. I underl stand that under the.neiv law whic^b .places this appointment with the Board of Commissioners, that, yob voted me this position at your reguL lar meeting on last Monday, but unU der the circumstances surrounding, this appointment, I do not think lx wise for me to accept the place sit this time. I First, I happen to be the author of the act that placed this appolntmetjt. with the Board of County CommitL sioners, and I do not like to be pla'ceil in the position of having' been, thje author of an act of. the General'Aiil. sem'bly and then accepting the very first appointment.under that act. it looks too much, like 1 tried to creale an office for myself. Second, there has been some liu tie confusion^about this office before. at the time you passed the resolution Requesting that I be aippointed -to fl,ll this position, and in. view of this 11 am afraid there would not be th'iit harmony in the court that is necesa^ sary in the Just' and equttaible admltb:! j istratlon of the criminal laws. ! „ - It is my desire to bs ever ready to- do whatever I can for the Democratic Party, but in this instan'ce I feel that, things are running along with' such smoothness and satisfaction at this lime that it would be unwise for me to do anything that would cause the slightest dissatisfaction. • ! I want to express to you my sin. cere appreciation of the confidence which the Board has placed In nje, and 1 trust that I can be of substan tial service to the Board, to t'be Democratic Party and to the Court out of office as well as in ofllce. ; Yours very truly,! Neill McKay Salmcu. The law giving the Board of County Commissioners power wad authority lo appoint a solicitor lor the recorded’s court was passed by Representative Townsend at the Isist session of the Legislature. The pas sage of the act was said to be at the request of the County 'CommiBslc|n- ers following a squabble over the job. The former law gave the pije_ rogative.,of anointment of solicitor lo the Judge of the count, with p>;o- vision 'for approval by the commis. EDGE URGES PLANTING OF PROVISION CROPS ■County Farm Agent H. A, Edge has found that there is to be a short age of such provision crops as Irish potatoes, ‘beans and cabbage, and he is urging farmers to plant' these as late crops. He Is sure that there are a numiber of fanners who have a few acres of spare land upon which they can put out these crops and thus realize some cash as the provisions will sell well late In the fall. In this connection it is pointed out that there is never a full supply of provisions In the fall; in fact, there is a distinct shortage every year, and Ic is emphasized that right here is where the farmer loses lots of dol. lars that he might easily gather in if he will only take a little time to plant laie provision crops. sioners. It developed upon Judge Caviness assuming the, post, that be wished Caviness Brown to have the , Job, whereas the commissioners le_ sired Mr. ^ Salmon to have It. No agreement being reached, Mr. Bro’wn has held the Job by appointment , from Judge Caviness. The act taltes-i effect as of July4st, and specifies th# ' salary as $76 per month. Heretof«>re ' the pay has been upon the fee 'baifis, and the emoluments are said to have run as high as $150 to $200 l)er month, , j Not very many people even knew that the act was passed by the Legils- Llvestock men at State College say that the face of the horse collar ohould be kept clean. It should be brushed off every night and washed at least once each week. This will help to prevent sores. Qeerge Tezporcer, infielder ot the St Louis CardhDutls,' been of great belp to Manager Bogm Hornsby this season in keying that ctub prominent In .tke national league pezuuut raca. The use of improved., machinery makes the average agricuUural worker In North Carolina able to care for three.^ times as many acres of crops as he could handle 75 years ago. lature affecting the Job of solicitor, but it is the consensus ot opln:.on among, attorneys that the salary at tached under the new act is calculat ed to take the pep out ot the proseiu- tion. 'I PINELAND SCHOOL FOB GIBUS OFFERS SCHOLARSHIP HEBE The News has been requested | to announce that Plneland School for Girls, at Salemburg, is offering! a scholarship to some girl in Harnett County. The scholarship Is worth $100, and' the only requirements are that the benefficiary be of good moral character and a graduate of an ac. credited high school.' 'Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Jones are-^ln charge of the Pinelsnd. school* and. lt wlllp be of great benefit to som^ girl to take a’d. vantage of their generous otter.' .Supt. B. P. Gentry 'wlll'be.glad to give In formation relative to the offer. I J?
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