AN ADVERTISING
MEDIUM THAT
BRINGS RESULTS
The County, TH? State, The Union
fcOUISBURO, N. CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNK 10, 1081
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LOUISBURG
A. F. JOHNSON, Editor sad Manager
SUBSCRIPTION $14(0 Per Year
VOLl'MN LXn.
TWO OUI EDUCATML
= INSTITUTIONS COMBINE
Southern Conservatory of Music Comes
To Louisburg
i ?
Becomes A.Portipn
Of Louisburg Col
lege Beginning
Coming Session ?
Entire Faculty,
Student Body and
Equipment of The
Durham Institu
tion To Be Moved
? To Louisburg At
Once; Makes New
Building a Neces
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sity.
Th? Southern Conservatory
of Music which for a genera
tion has been established in
the city of Durham has com
bined with Louisburg College.
The entire Faculty, student
body, and equipment of that
institution will move imme
diately from Durham to Louis
burg College.
_ This is one of the outstand
ing schools of l^usic in the
South. It is a four year School
offering courses in undergrad
uate and graduate work. It is
authorized to award the de
grees of Bachelor of Music,
Master of Music and Doc
tor of Music. This Con
servatory prepares its own
'caching and practice litera
ture and methods. Its work is
standard and its graduates are
accepted in any music school
of the fJnited States. . Scores
of its gradates are teachers
and artftis of recognized abil
ity. They fill positions as
teachers, supervisors, and di
rectors of Hiusic in schools, col
leges and. conservatories of
music.
Gilmore Ward Bryant, the
Director, is the composer of.
half a dozen musical plays and
is said by Theodore Pressor to
have given more piano lessons
than any other teacher in the
United States. -
Mrs. Bryant 's vocal pupils
are accepted and are praised
* in the Chicago Conservatory
k of Music. Mr. Frederick Mar
tin, America's great basso, re
comfnended tg a pupil of his
who was coming to Duke to
study wither A Brfant. ?
Mr. Gerakl ;1 Br^iftt is pn
doubtedly th? outstanding vio-!
linist if Hbr'tti Carolina.
The ? Schobf,. Music ' main
tains a stringed instrument
trio very popular in radio and
concert programs.
This combination offers to
the students of Louieburg Col
lege an opportunity hitherto
unexampled in its history.
The consummation of this
consolidation will make it ur
gently necessary for the im
mediate erection of the Chape)
building provided in the plans
ior Greater Louisburg College.
Focnello ? I'm sorry that my en
gagements prevent my attending your
charity concert but I shall be with
you In spirit ..
Solicitor ? Splendid t And' fhere
would you like your gplrlkft^r?KT I
bare tickets for two, three and live
dollars. N I
Lumpkin Talks
To Kiwanians
Hon. W. L. Lumpkin, Franklin
Count; Representative to the 1(31 N.
I .. General Assembly, spoke before the
Kiwanians of Louisburg, last Friday
l.ight, on Legislation of the 141-day
Session of the Assembly as directly
affecting Franklin County.
Ur. Lumpkin told of the state-wide
legislation affecting Franklin County
which included the school law, the
road law, local government law and
the reorganisation of the department*
cf the State government which afford
nn estimated economy of from seven
lo eight million doll ? annually. He
explained more fully the local legis
lation which Is the redaction of six.
months school costs, savins on
bridge construction and maintenance,
plans of collection of taxes under the.
tux collector, reduction of salariea
of sheriff and clerk of Superior court,
fro vision of division In -Recorders
Court, and the ten par cent reduction
:n all salaries. The road and school
laws of the State afford, he stated, a
twenty-three per cent reduction on
the 1930 tax ljvy, for Franklin Coun
ty ,
In conclusion, Mr. Lumpkin spoke
i ! reactions to the Assembly telling
pf the forty years effort to put consti
tutional si* months school term and
the acceptance of this principle,
telling of jhe acceptance of the State
?supported road principle and the or
ganized and determined effort to pull
the cost of State and local government
down. . He shewed that the real flght
was between the agricultural East
and mountain and the giant indus
trial Piedmont section. The exist
ence of 600 miles of territory with
diversity of interest made it difficult
to frame any State wide Legislation
flexible enough t6 be acceptable.
Body Of Missing
Man Is Located
W. M, Tharrington, of Frankllntoa,
Believed A Victim of Foul Plaj
Henderson, June 12.^? The body of
W. M. Tharrington, 40, single man of
Frankllnton, who had been missing
from his home for more than ten
days, was found hanging to a broken
limb from a tree In Tar river lata
Thursday, and a coroner's Jury em
panelled by Coroner F .B. Hlght, of
Vance county, reached a verdict that
he came to his death by foot play at
the hands of unknown persons. The
body was turned over to Franklin
County authorities by Coroner Hlght,
who said they were making an in
vestigation and were hopeful of ar
rests. ,
Coroner Hlght visited the scene
v hen notified late in the day of the
body being found. He called Dr. A.
V. Newcomb to the scene and an ex
amination .of- the body, which was
tadly decomposed, was made. Three
holes were discovered In the scull,
one over the left eye, another In the
middle of the forehead and a third
In the right temple, all having ap
parently been made by a small blunt
instrument and not by a pistol bul
let. In addition an autopsy revealed
that Tharrington had been shot twice
in the back and once in the abdomen.
What were thought to be blood
stains were found on the concrete
bridge across the river on Route 60,
leading to the supposition that Thar
rington had been kilied and his body
tfcrown into the river from the bridge.
It had apparently floated down the
stream and had become tangled on a
limb in some underbrush alongside
the bank on the Vance county side
of the river about halt way between
the highway bridge and the high Sea
board Air Una railroad bridge sever
al hundred yards -away. When found,
the body was partly submerged. The
man's hat was gone.
The man at times worked as an
electrician. He is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Carrie Tharrington, and
a brother, Sam Tharrington, both of
Frankllnton.
The coroner's Jury consisted of J.
D. Whitley, Malcum Pulley, J. R. Per
k'nson, Defclt Overton, J. B. Puller
rnd W. W. Wind.
The fact that the body was found
in the river, which is the dividing
l<pe between Vance and Franklia
counties, raises the question 6t which
had Jurisdiction. The fact, however,
that the body, was near the bank on
tha Vance county, side. led Coroner
Hlght to proieed. If a murder haa
been committed, as is thought, it Is
not known on which side of the link
it took place.
Files Petition
For Receivership
For N. C. Agricultural Credit Cor
poration of Raleigh, la Federal
Court Wednesday.
Mr. G. M. Beam, on* of Loulsburg's
prominent attorneys, Wednesday Sled
1 1 tltions for a receiver In bankruptcy
I roc eedlngs In Federal Court in Ra
leigh before Judge.-. L M. Meekins
against the North Carolina Agricul
tural Credit Corporation, in the Inter
est of a number of creditors in Frank
lin County in particular and the en
tire eastern section of North Carolina
in general.
In discussing the matter Mr. Beam
elated that his clients among, .whom
are named In the proceedings apt W.
W. Webb. G. L. Cooke, J. W. Perdue,
L, P. Perdue and others, had ascer
tained that other creditors of the Cor
poration bad sought racaWarshlp
1 roceedlngs in the State ? Courts at
Shelby, Cleveland County, and feeling
lliat the Federal Court proceedings
would be a great deal cheaper to the
Creditors and bring sett)?a*nt closer
in toaeh with the majority of the
Creditors who reside In Central and
Eastern North Carolina this suit was
instituted. *
It is understood that the stock in
this Corporation is owned largely by
farmers who borrowed from it It it
stated that in 1928 and 89 the bor
rowers were required to It
per cent of their loan in cash witb
the Corporation as security In addi
tion to the 10 per cent in stock they
v er? required to take. The petition
ers sat out In their petitions that they
paid in to the Corporation in cash thli
requirement, have paid their loans ix
full and hare not been refunded theii
cash deposits, which they contend
(hey are entitled to under the con
tract.
| Commenting further - on the pro
? eedlngs. Mr. Beam stated that it wai
necessary to take immediate actloi
because of the fact that much or till
truck section of North Carolina wai
Involved and this truck is now beln|
moved to market, which if tairlj
pood prices prevail for the truck wltl
a corresponding fair price (or cottaf
end tobacco he sees no reason why a|
unusually favorable settlement cannqf
' l> made to the stockholders after par
. ing to all the borrowers the cast
> money deposited by them as adfll
tlonal security for the 1929-29 loans
This will probably terminate In one
of the biggest sifits brought In th<
bankruptcy Courts In North Caroline
since the liquidation of the Horn<
Cotton Mills of Clayton or the Trt
, State Tobacco Association and will
jrobably affect mite North Carolina
farmers than eltMV of the above pro
1 (eedlngs.
Capt. Green b
Seriously Injured
Capt. M. M. Green, conductor on
the Loulsburg train suffered painful
end possible serious Injuries Friday
Afternoon when he was struck by an
automobile in trout of the Franklin
Hotel and knocked to the street and
pruK for a distance. As a result he
received two broken ribs, a broken
shoulder and painful cuts and bruises
about the tace hands and legs. He
was taken to Rex hospital at Raleigh,
where last reports say he is rest
ing as well as could be expected.
The car that struck Capt. Green was
a Hudson and was driven' by a col
ored woman named Edna Bibley, and
was owned by Willie Young, also
colored. Others were In the car also.
The driver was h41d undfr bond of
$200, which was given .
The accident occurred so we are
informed while Capt Green was
crossing the street or had stepped in
to the street for rfomi cause.
New Bank At
firanklinton
Monday morning brought to Frank
linton new and more adequate bank
ing facilities, according to report*
lecehred in Loulsburg. The First and
Citizens Bank and Trust Co., a branch
of the Smlthfield Institution has ta
ken over the Cltiiens Bank and Trust
Co., taking over all business since the
re-openlng of the local Institution and
will also liquidate the business of
the old Institution. It Is understood
the local branch will be under the
management of Mr. R. P. Holden, for
merly of W*ke Forest
This change is recognised by lead
Icg cltiiens of Franklinton, in dis
cussing the matter with the Times,
as an Important matter In the inter,
rat of all buHnesa itf Franklinton and
surrounding territory as It brings td
them the advantages and conveniences
of one of the states strongest bank
ing institutions .
???'" V ?
? New Stenog- Sharptoigfc called
pbout bis account' this morning.
Dunn-Brown? And you told him
l'<? Just left- fW Europe?
New 8tenog ? Tea, and that yon
wouldn't be back till this sfternoon. 1
Negro Taken From
Br Mob After At
tacking Woman
Warrenton, June It. ? One Negro
who had to be blackjacked Into Ar
rest and narrowly missed being shot,
Was whisked from a mob ol about
}00 men' to the Vance county Jail
end another was rushed from the
trowd und placed behind the bars ol
the Warren county jail following at
tempted assault on Mrs. L. E. Erwln,
01 Norllna, this 'morning about 1
o'clock In the yard near her home.
Three other Negroes were arrearted
ft Norllna later In the day and are
being held In Jail here until Mrs. Er
Wln recovers sufficiently from alight
Trutnes und the shock to Identify her
{assailant. .
Hearing screams Mrs. Erwin's 11
year old daughter notified a Mr. Den
tist, a relative with whom th?y live.
UneoaselouH.
He rushed to the scene and found
Mrs. Erwln with her clothes disar
ranged. braised about her throat and
1n an unconscious condition.
"He choked me, he choked me",
were her first words, It was said, as
she was regaining consciousness af
ter she had been carried into her
home by Mr. Dentist. Later she
Identified the criminal as a low, black
i Negro who wore a hat and a white
. bhirt and overalls.
V ~ FWlBf.
Officers were notified at once and
. (? mob began forming. Bloodhounds
' vere secured from Loulsburg and
*hen the man who came with the
dogs reached Ncrllna he discovered
i bat it was his sister who had been
atsaulted. The doga picked up the
i trail at once and led to the home
vhere three Jenkins Negroes live.
They were not present and their
mother said that Robert Jenkins, to
r \\ hom the flugsr of guilt pointed, had
i not been there.
i CUent Jenkins was picked up by
I part of the searchers about three
i miles from the scene, and becoming
t i:frald that he was going to be barm
r ed, gave officers aaalatance in finding
i l.is brother, Robert Jenkins who was
i lound In a house about a thousand
i yards from his ' ?me where the dog*
t bad trailed.
Attempts W Shoot.
i , , When he ?u spotted Mr*. Erwin's
. brother threw hie gun on him and
. would, have fired. It wu eaid, had
> It not been (or the tact that before
t l:e could fire Chief M. U. Drake of
t Warrenton caught hU gun.
) Robert Jenkins, whose wearing ap
. parel compared In part with that de
I scribW by Mrs. Erwln, denied his
, guilt and resisted arrest until he was
. mi rock by a blackjack. He was then
placed in a car and rushed to the
Vance county jail by Sheriff W. J.
Pinnell, and W. F. Alston brought
his brother to tfce Warren county
jull. Gilbert Jenkins was also ar
rtsted and placed in jail here, as
1 v.ere Eltfeh Williams and Herbert
Pliuhmer, suspects.
Late j,his afternoon Mrs. Erwln was
still in. a too nervous condition to
identify 'her assailant, but it is thought
t.iat she will be alright by tomorrow.
Mrs. Erwln has been making her
liome at Norlina for about six weeks.
Before living there her home was at
Louisburg.
Quietness prevailed at Norlina late
this afternoon, and there was no evi
dence of a mob being formed to re
r move any of the Negroes from the
jells.
Green-Clifton
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Smith Clif
ton announce the marriage of their
daughter, Sophia Boyle, to Mr. Ben
jamin Thorpe Green, on Wednesday
the eleventh of June, nineteen hun
dred and thirty, Danville, Virginia.
Mrs. Green is a popular and attrac
tive young lady of Louisburg, and la
very popular throughout this section
of NortluOarolina., She tsa daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice S. Clifton.
Mr. Green ,f? the son of the lata
Ben. T. *?mh3one of Franklint&a'a
most popular and highly respected
cltliens. He is popular among a
large host of friends In this section.
At The Louisburg
Theatre Next Week
The following U the program at
the Louisburg Theatre, beginning
Saturday, June 20th:
Saturday, June 20th ? Richard Ar
len and Fay Wray In "The Conquer
ing Horde," also chapter No. i "The
Indiana Are Coming."
Monday and Tuesday, June 22-23
?Barbara Stanwcyk In "Ten Centa
a Dance", with Rlodrda Cbrtea.
Wednesday, June 24th ? Bargain
Day ? Jackie Cooper and Mitgl
Green In "Sklppy," with Jackie Sear)
and Robert Coogan. Also comedy
and serial "Hero of The Flames."
Thursday and Friday, June 25-J4
? "Three Girls Loat," a Fpx Movie
tone Thriller, also selected short
Saturday, Jun% 2.7th ? Buck Jonetf
in "The Avenger,"' also comedy and
I ??rial "The Indiana Are Coming."
Back in Eolitics
Co I H,
toe* ?M? _
prttidou. Has
KOOWWft.
who,
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iVItM
oat lor Gov.
"A Womanless
Wedding"
To Be Presented Jim ttrd, At XUIr
High. School, By Local American
Legion Auxiliary
The following Invitation has been
irsued to every eiUxen of Louisburg
and franklin county:
Ur. and Mrs. Fuller Payne Invite
you and your present to the marriage
of their daughter lma Payne to Mr.
Caesar Legge, on Tuesday" the 23rd ot
June at 8: JO la the evening at Mllla
High School, Loulsburg, N. C. At
home after July 4th, provided they
can raise a month's rent.
Miss Payne is the charming young
daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Fuller
Payne, and will ba remembered as
the winner' at the Eoatern Carolina
beauty contest, as Miss Katesvllle,
some twenty odd years ago. She is
a talented musician having spent five
years at the Boston Conservatory of
Mnatc, learning to play a Vlctrola.
She reads well, but don't cook so
17 all.
Mr. Caesar Legge is a promising
young man about town, and has been
riomlaing to pay his past due bills
for several years. He holds the Im
portant position of head bookkeeper
at Mort Pleasants apartment store.
He was wounded in the World War
by an army mule, and was decorated
for bravery for Calling to salute a
Second Lieutenant.
Following la a list of the important
characters who appear In this solemn
social season's sensation.
Bride: lma Payne ? Mr. Baldy Wil
son.
Groom: Caesar Legge ? Ed. Bar
tholomew.
Preacher ? T. K. Stockard.
Bride's Mama ? Horace Hilton.
Bride's Papa ? Mayor L L. Joyner.
Best Man ? J. S. Howell.
Dame of Honor? W. J. Cooper.
Ring Bearer ? Dr. H. G. Perry.
Flower Girls ? Dr. Johnson and Dr.
Burt.
Singer ? Bill Morris.
Maid of Honor ? N. C. Phillips.
Train Bearers ? D. E. Cone and My
ron Pleasants.
Brides Maids? Nobe Medlin, W. E.
White, Jr., R. W. Smithwick, Clifford
Hall, M. S. Davis, James Malone,
Blair Tucker, E L. Best, F. M. Fuller,
Clyde Collier, A. Toakei, A. W. Green.
Groomsmen? Clanti Collins, A. W.
Person, Edwin Malone, Cheatham
Alston. R. G. Bailey, E.?F. Griffin, W.
W. Neal, A. W. Macon. S. L. Rober
son, E. F. Thomas, F. J. Beasley, Hill
Tarborough.
Special Orchestra features will be
rendered by the Carolina Foot Warm
ers and other outstanding artists. A
merrymaking masterpiece for the
smalt admission prices of 10 and 25
cent*. i i .,>?
Lpuisburg
One ot the heavlept hail' and rain
storms for many rears visited Ldufo
burg and vlchtfty Saturday evening
between six-tWrty and nine o'clock.
Kail stones of. various sizes up to
half the. ?ti*e of an egg (ell thick and
fast and did much damage to gardens
and e-roB*. The main hall damage
vas within a- radius of about two
miles of Uxjisbttoc, ranging mostly
up the rirgt." At, this something over
two and a half tnefces of rain fell.
Again on Moefar night an unus
ually heavy rain and electrical storm '
visited Loulsburg and vicinity. Much '
damage was done to electric wires .
and attachments. During the storm
lightning struck Pearce & Tuckers
gin on Nash and Church streets, set
ting Are to H, but did nittle damage
as the Fire Department responded
promptly In tie midst of the storm
and extinguished the blaze with chemi
cals. A big water damage was done
ss th^ rush to lower level! was in
I rogress. making many washes in
/cads, fields and flooding places ot
business In LoulsbuTg.
Angus ? What makes this rock
Sandy ? M'? a Plymouth.
HIGHWAY
COMMISSION
mm?
Divides State Rfe "
Districts? Name*
Heads ^
Sam Scott, Of Wayne County,
To Have Charge of Working
Prisoners On Roads 0f
Stat*; Highway Commission
To Operate As Unit In
Handling Road Proftliaa
Throughout State
Effecting organization plans under
which It will take over more than
4 j,000 miles of county roads and ap
proximately 3,000 county prisoners,
the state Highway Commission an
nounced Thursday the establishment
cf fljre administrative districts and
assigned Sam Scott, superintendent
iti Wayne CuumLi roads, as custodian
of the prisoners.
Headquarters for the districts were
located at Tarboro, Fayettevllle,
Greensboro and Ashevllle, and engi
neers and assistant engineers jrere
ramed. Ail of the engineers foi* 6ach
of the five administrative divisions
were district engineers under the old
I Ighway system set- up of nine dis
tricts
J. C. Gardner will be engineer of
Division A with headquarters at Tar
boro, and With J. D. Taylor a? as
sistant.
K B. Snowden, of Klneton, with
heudquarters at Fayetteville, and with
K. Markham as assistant, will be en
gineer of Division B.
W. F. Morson, of Wilmington, will
head Division C with headquarters
at Greensboro and with D. M. Rea as
assistant.
H. E. Noetl, of Marlon, will head
division D with headquarters unan
nounced, and F. S. Klutz as assistant.
J. C. Walker, of Ashevllle, will be
engineer of Division E, with head
quarters At Ashevllle, and with T. T.
lietts as assistant
Prisoners' Custodian
Mr. Scott, who has been transfer
red from county work to prison sup
ervision for the Highway* Commission.
,vill have charge of receiving, taking
care of and dismissing all prisoners
coming under the custody of the com
mission. His appointment to this
position had been predicted dayB ear
lier.
Under the new law, the State Is
given custody of all county prisoners
sentenced to 60 days or more.
A resolution setting forth that the
commission Intended to abide by the
spirit of the 1931 road law in that it
represented the State at large and
that no individual member represent
ed any particular section was adopted.
Each of the five divisions will be
sub-divided into five districts, each
of which will have more road mileage
than any one of the former nine dis
tricts, Mr. Jeffress said.
The counties of the State were di
vided into the administration divi
sions as follows:
Division A: Currituck, Camden,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Gates,
Chowan, Hertford, Bertie, Northamp
tpn, Halifax, Nash, Edgecombe, Wil- .
sin. Pltt, Greene, Lenoir, Jones, Car
teret, Craven, Pamlico, Beaufort, Mar
tin, Washington, Tyrrell, Dan, and
Hyde. - j
Division B: Onslow, Pender, New
Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus, Bla
den, Sampson, Duplin, Wayne. Robe
son, Cumberland, Scotland; Hoke,
Moore, Lee, Harnett and Jfefeoston.
Division C: Wake, Fr War
ren, Vanpe, Granville, Pets?n. Dur
ham, Orapg*... Caswell,' Alamance,
Rockingham, , Stokes, Forsyte. David
son, Guilford, Randolph; Chatham.
Division D. MoKtgomjeMMWbwiond,
Anson, Untop, Stftolyl ? MackM^burg,
Cabarrus, . Gaston, LIncolil; TJMawba,
Alexander, Wilkes, Alleghany, Starry,
Yadkin. Iredell, Davie, Rowan.
Division E: Cleveland, Rutherford.
Polk, Henderson, Transylvania, Jack
son, Macon, Clay, Cherokee, Gra
liam, Swain, Haywood, Madison, Bun
combe, Yancey, McDowell, Mitchell,
\very, Burke, Caldwell, Watauga, and
tohe.
Licensed
Pharmacist
Lewis E. Scoggin, Jr., who recently
graduated In Pharmacy from tha
Jnlrerslty ot North Carolina, has
>a?8ed the State Board ot Pharmacy
ind Is now a registered drug 1st. He
will be associated In business with
its father In the operation of L. E.
?coggln Drug Co.
??OR FIRST CLASS JOB PRINTING
PHONE NO. SIS