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The Columbus County Paper Everybody Reads It" "The Columbus County Paper Everybody Needs It Twenty-Fourth Year FOR THE COUNTY OF COLUMBUS AND HER PEOPLE Two Dollars Per Year VOL. XIX. WHITEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MAY 8, 1924 NO. TWENTY-THREE FAR FLUNG CRIES GOING UP FOR BERRYPICKERS lfl BHI LRv fe V P mk W I I B Columbus County Berry Growers in Tar Heel Preacher Throes of Labor Shortage and Are Fights Vice in Virginia Scouring the Country for Help Chadbourn Will Ship Two Hundred Cars This Week Tabor Market Doing Well. North Carolina Preacher Turns Cru sader in Virginia City and Make Some Astonishing Discoveries Richmond, Ya., May 4. Preach ing before a vast audience in the city auditorium this evening- , with Chadbourn School Finals Friday Night Commencement Exercises Begin To morrow Night and Extend Through the Thirteenth; Program For the Several Dates Chadbourn, May 7. About all the preparations have been completed for the closing exeicises of t.hp nrp- am . n ttt t-iii ttn m c x onau we r mate wmie Korae sent session of school May 7. The old days ; marketing shed. Prices were rruni aifourn Chadbourn was in its glory, as arst strawberry market in the ! -:wv come again, or you will i if vou will come and stand what off, due to of overripe fruit. berries sold as low as $2.50 per crate un account of the berries being too ripe for good shipping. Good berries Burns?" as his topic, the Rev. Dr. I Carter Ashton Jenkins., Jr., pastor some- f Calvary Baptist church, and son a great amount f a Baptist minister of Clayton, N. Quite a bit of C., declared that if Richmond and the and Friday night, May 9th will witness the be ginning of the program. For Friday night an operetta. Cin derella, will be presented in the au- the citizens of ditorium at eight o'clock. law enforcing Monday morning, May 12th, the bodies are not able to make of senior Class Day exercises will take nun lou'l' p.ar turner at the Bank of Chad- brought" $5, $G and $7 per crate, vitne evening and see the Hundreds of growers reported they ine of wagons, each more lilt1 in length. which are heir turn at the berry sheds tickets that mean a count nf money to the thousands rowers of Columbus (iid not get more than half over their fields on account of labor shortage much fruit accordingly went to Richmond a very different city from P'ace at 10:30 the present cess pool of vice the next m&ht at 8:15 a thing in order is the Ku Klux Klan. Dr. Jenkins recently launched a campaign here against blind tigers and other terms of vice, visiting Brown Brothers purchased many dens of iniquity disguised as o'clock. Monday splendid comedy, The Arrival of Kitty, will be pre sented by the Senior Class. Tuesday night at 8 o'clock the graduating exercises will be held in the auditorium. cars ca rs halar"a of birrie a 'rube'' from the slushes of Han- ri A!: i. ht-ar f lu-rr The present session of school has over, and gathering evidence against Deen in every way gratifying in point them. f accomplishments and the prin- CKurchmen Frightened. ciPal and teachers are being very much commended for their work. The I "Within, the past two weeks," said, 'T have had no difficulty he lo- searcl; anyont berries handicap, the trucks go after them and bring them in and carry them back at night if the distance is short. If thev live afar they come for the week or in anv s eating 47 places in which hundreds ! . on' of the 27 other buyers 81 long on the roads of Co- yards awaiting re-icing and shinning and adjoining counties can at 7 p. m. hundreds of women and i the rumbling of the trucks children berry pickers quartered in growers who are out in all manner of outbuildings on farms if berry pickers. If there is and in the town. willing to come and pick Tuesday: Hauling brisk today andof citizens are buying liquor at their ! closing exercises distance 's apparently no starting early in the morning there iwl11 daily, uurmg my campaign, was less congestion than occured on he police department has rendered Monday. Wagons were not kept some every possible assistance, sup long in line. Prices were slightly iPb'ing a squad of plainclothes men hieher and oualitv of the fruit was! to aid me in the work. With the two weeks and pitch camp j better as pickers had passed by the (assistance of the police a number of ort of a shelter. Almost by j overripe fruit. $5.00 per crate was bootleggers have been located and patrons and friends and the public, generally, are invited to attend the J. K. Powell Joins Bank Of Columbus sunrise they are dotting the berry j given by one buyer as the average 'arrested. Yesterday bootlegger, fields; sometimes in bunehes of fjy Jr the dayJEeatv-two cars -bought fWas arrested in tiui morning', and -af- and shipped tonight. Labor condi-ier Deing Daueu, was iouna later in; tions seem a little better. A slight j the day plying his trade as be- Member of Well Known Family With Wide Experience in Banking Comes to Local Institution About May-s.1 or ten sometimes by hBMfeds, ac cording to the size of th field and ft With the announcement that Ju- the ability of the growers $o get pick- fall in temperature and partially fore." nms iv. roweu wuuiu uine active tis. Small children get two to three , cloudv weather brought encourage-! A tour of the blind tigers, he said, I management of the Bank of Colum- djollars per day. Experienced pick- ment to all. Growers are hoping for hatl disclosed that fully 90 per cent ers come nearer averaging five, all i rain. ;f people encountered in them are make good money, all are happy Wednesday: Little improvement church members. with their work. To many of them i in prices marked todays sales despite "There are two few preachers in it savors of an old fashioned camp I the fact that many well informed Richmond who are willing to make meeting. i folks had been saying the price an open, clean-cut fight on moral is- The Bank of Chadbourn is in the j would go up. Twenty car loads were sues," he went on. "Their members throes, so to speak, handling the j bought an average price of about can live any sort of a low life and stream of growers that pour in with ! f ive dollars per crate. A couple of seldom is any discipline exercised in Soils Well Adapted for Asparagus Growing Head of Big Fertilizer Companys Service Bureau Greatly Impressed With Possibilities in Columbus County Rattlesnake Bites Cat Tail Bay Man Reptile With Eight Rattles Gets Fangs Into Fern Jones Who Near ly Died Before Medical Assistance Was Available Dr. A. E. Graham, head of the agricultural service bureau of Va Carolina Chemical Co spent first of this week in Columbus and in corn- Yesterday morning at eight o'clock while Fern Jones and his son Sam, were cutting off a ditch bank and do ing some ditching on their farm near pany with the local representative of Cat Tail Bay. 13 miles from town the company, Mr. Robert J. Powell, j a large rattlesnake with eight rattles he visited many sections of Colum-, bit the elder Jones above the ankle, bus county . The younger man promptly killed Dr. Graham stated that he was the snake and rushed his father to greatly impressed with the agricul- , the house and irdpr hi t?a una 111 CK .L vn u. county and The thirteen mile trip to Whiteville Were Well ' was madp in rernrr tlniD nnA a adapted to almost any sort of a the journey the victim of the bite crop. He is very anxious that our becamp HpathK- C,VL- u ,o - , oivi. W X O IJL Ullipk,'- ly carried into Dr. Whitaker's office tural possibilities of the he said the soils here iarmers try asparagus as he thought both soil and climate well suited for this crop. During his stay he visited the strawberry sections and made examination of the different soils that the berries are grown on with a view of being able to give the growers valuable information on culture and fertilization. Young Hallsboro Man Meets Horrible Death on arrival here and Dr. Whitaker and two other Doctors worked over him for several hours and managed to abate the poison although the vic tim of the bite is not yet entirely out of danger. Louis Sasser Crushed Under Logging Train of North Carolina Lumber Company Tuesday Morning; Twenty-Five Years Old Farmers Organize Mercantile Company New Concern Has Large Body Stockholders and Will Cater Es pecially to Farmers; On the Co operative Basis It is expected that a charter will T o r7T7. j jb& jecived frW the Secretary of . oi M s-ja John SP a& r Corporation of Whiteville within the boro, met a horrible deat'i Tuesday when his body was fright ed in some manner under bus, May 15th, a new period in the nstory of this well known White ille institution was forecasted yes erday . Bringing to the local bank a broad knowledge of banking acquir ed in many years' experience with prominent bankers and a compre hensive idea of the particular re- checks to be cashed or for deposit, ! crates sold for $15.00 each. The ber- their churches. The preachers are, quirements of ries were generally good in quality very busy raising money, organizing j iumDUs county is a problem for a dozen men. Many thousand'; of dollars are being paid out and the wagons and vehicles passed hourly during sale hours and j under the buying shed at the rate of every employee of the bank is kept j about three per minute, the waiting at a pay window for hours on end. lines from the north and south wrere Efficiency is all that enables them j never more than a quarter of a mile to take care of the never ending calls j in length, for cash and deposit slips. Notes A sort of summary of the weeks activities, day by day, may be the ''t way to handling this story and the balance of it will be written ac- loiuingiy. i . ,, , i, , i4.uv. at tne extreme iow miR.ei,, d.'.niuu&ii While it has never been expected i that this years crop would bring the ! big prices that last years did, grow 1 ers cannot restrain disappointment 'snf . r : ... i iJ 1. I ; rrevious to tuuav umy s car- Had been purchased at Chad bourn. prices had bung around six ""liars as most of the fruit had been inferior quality owing to frosts tai'l.v ii; the season. Today started u'ith a rush and eighteen car loads w'ere purchased at prices running fr"m Sr, to $9.50 per crate. The berries were of good quality and k'ldimr grew lively late in the afternoon- growers were looking ahead t!i Monday with considerable alarm and fears that they would not have t'l-'ugh labor to take care of the rap ul'y ripening crop. Saturday night "v n on Sunday many growers surrounding counties m search of pickers for work they are making money at present nrices. It is still oelieved that the their churches, vieing with each operation in banking other as to who has the largest powen is fitted for Sunday schools and the membership whcm he has accepted the people of . Co in the way of co- matters, Mr. the position with the most perfect harmony and while they are playing their fiddles Rome is burning to the ground and Richmond is on her way to hell, "Hundreds of citizens have ex pressed to me their appreciation of the work I am doing, but to this hour only one preacher has express ed any concern in any way. And why is it that these preachers are so num? Because they know QrlrPt will advance and cold weath- c - er Wednesday and today are doing Chad- roin Itinued. .But i had ratner uo my that if they took the position that I do their churches would be smashed in twain and their salaries discon- anrj oured truck- in'. h coming week. '-lay: Warm dry weather Sun an almost summer tempera today turned the berry fields vhat might be described as a of rinened fruit. Growers found themselves with a totally in ;i,br)Uate supply of labor and no '"'-pc-ts of relief for the situation, unless the elements were to be de Pended upon for rain or cooler leather which would check up the day tun into i lj a slip-hf fall of UUUl" U"- " . . Wednesday, not enough to do any uty ana warn my lenow men, anu good The growers around Whiteif necessary beg my daily bred, than ville apparently had plenty of rain, to be an ecclesiastical coward. An unusually large amount of ber- j Preachers Criticize Him ries are going by express to Colum- j Tn my fight for righteousness in bia and Charleston, S. C., and other. Richmond, my greatest critics have points. Erpress shipments are gen-j-,een preachers. In my investiga erally made up of berries too ripe to ' tions I have already run across sev go in the regulation cars for long erai Baptist deacons who are pa hauls to distant markets. tronizing these hell holes, and one Labor shortage and unsatisfactory or -wo prominent church members prices for berries will cause a great wno are renting places that are amount of fruit to go to waste this being used for this illegal business." season. The pickers could not get , jn company with the police , round to them un4:!! after they were j Jenkins made a special effort too ripe for ordinary shipping. ! night to catch a certain Baptist . ! deacon bootlegging liquor, but the advertising columns oi a i aeacon smeueu a rat, as il wcic, aim ntain news that, eluded the trap set tor mm. mis the average; man operates a small store. Dr. Mr. T 11 1 ' 1 ll - C l rowen, wnne tne possessui ui nere he wide experience In banking, still is front Qf tt i : a young man. tie was oorn m Whiteville, then, is a return to scenes with which he is familiar, and to friends for former years. For the past five years Mr. Pow ell has been the active head of the Bank of Warsaw, occupying the po sition of Vice President of that insti tution. He also has been President of the Bank of Kenansville since June, 1922, these positions he still retains and will not dispose of his interest there. Under his manage ment both of these institutions have shown, rapid, substantial growth, proof of the peculiar genius possess ed by the new Vice President of the Bank of Columbus for giving the people the kind of banking service they want, and being ready to co operate with them whenever the bank can be of help. Lovaltv to family traditions, morning fully mar a logging train of the North Caro lina Lumber Company, of which he was an employee at Hallsboro. An effort was made to rush him to a hospital in Wilmington, but he died before reaching there and the body was prepared for burial and brought back to Hallsboro that evening. It seems that young Sasser was in the employ of the lumber company but not a part of the regular train crew. Something went wrong with the train and he was called upon for assistance. From reports reaching next few days. Stock in the con cern has already been subscribed for and the business formerly conducted by J. B. Rogers and Company has been taken over along with a lease on the building that was occupied by the J. B. Rogers Company. The company is capitalized at twenty-five thousand dollars. So far about fifty farmers and k few busi ness men have taken stock in the concern and more is being sold daily. The manager of the store will be bonded for the full amount of the paid in capital and it is understood that a manager and other officers will be elected at the meeting that was working under o'r in is scheduled for next Tuesday night. the engine or cars when they started and he was badly crushed. It is reported that two members of the train crew were al so injured but this report has not been confirmed here. Military Organization Gets Appropriation Major R. J. Lamb Presents Cause Of Local Military Organization to County and Gets Good Appro priation For Same Many relatives and friends of Mr. Liston Elkins in Columbus and Bladen counties will be interested in the following cliping from the Dav- ; Representing the 117th Motor idson College publication of recent Transport Company, Major R. J. date. Mr. Elkins was born in White- Lamb, well known citizen of White ville and has many relatives and ville, went before the board f coun friends in both counties: "The re- ty commssoners Monday and spoke tiring editor-in-chief of the David- in behalf of the boys, giving in de sonian has left a record of which to tail the importance of the company be proud, to mark his four years at to the county, its necessity and the Davidson. Under his able direction, need of co-operation. Mr. Lamb, the Davidsonian has risen to where closed by asking a liberal appropri it is now one of the livest college ation and he read a long list of coun weeklies in the South. Liston El- ties that were making liberal yearly kins has excelled not only in journ- appropriations for similar National alistic lines, as he has taken part in Guard Units. friends of Mr. Powell said yesterday : two inter-collegiate debates, both of Mr. Lamb asked for five hundred The nowenaner often co r r is just as valuable to deep thinking person cal social and general news was partly responsible for his ac ceptance of the post in the White- Dr. ville Bank. The desire to advance last ! the prestige of the Bank of Colum bus beyond anv place it ever has reached, and to make it a real com mnnifv asset, are inspiring motives in the make-up of the Vice President, j well be proud. them proving a victory for David- dollars for the local company and af son, but also in literary and athletic ter some discussion the company attractives. He has made an im- was given four hundred, an appro pression upon the campus life by his priation that the boys appreciate manifold activities that will pjrove in- very much. The board of education effaceable, and his mark in life is has already been donating the use certain to be one of which he can of a building as an armory and the as is the lo- Jenkins explained, but it is general that process. 0,r He found over in the next c umns. The advertising matter in a used as a blind for this traffic. nowsoaper is the very best index to Twenty-eight the prosperity and progress of the ripen inir 1 . .rriH uiyoMc""j r STJ Ti A n 1 i n 1 ' . 1. T i- V. nnnnr io mill car ioaas oi Derries wac county m wnicn tne yai. t marketed at Chadbourn today and ud. This paper is proud of the ' " reported ten cars. At times j advertising news that it carries each "'"in? tbo nftorr, of rfcodhrmm irQOL- Tt shows readers, were two lines ot wagons, au- goes, T Meru it shows readers, wnerevex that Columbus is a live- wide-awake county, full ot progres sive people. growers had to wait in one- nr the other of these lines for hours ' I if It r-l,,,vl . , - J olnMT 11-n they could take tfcrir turn under the j 6 months $l-year $2.00 in advance. Subscribe to the News Reporter- Some time ago when Mr. Fred P. j Mr. F. R. Jordan, who moved from Latham was in Whiteville in the in- near unadDourn to tne mastit is candidacy for the of- Hayne community near Wilming- m. m ' . i ri 1 ficp of Commissioner of Agricul- ton three years ago, spent csunuay ture, this paper inadverently stated ltere with Mr. Eli Whitsett. Mr. Jor- an(j tne paper believes that such an are looking for- that he was 72 years of age. Mr. La- dan is extensively engaged m bee act wiU meet tne hearty ap- hat ly known that his principal business Lamam wah iol-lis selling liquor, the store being terests of hi town has been furnishing lights with out any request or arrangements having been made to that end. It is understood that the town will shortly be asked to make a donation in the same manner as the county Whiteville neoP1 r . . 1 . i . -i i i tt ward with interest to the debate that tham is in reality only 51 years oi culture ana trucKing at masue nayne. pr(rval of the citizens of the town. be held tonight in the Meth- age and is a boy for all that. Mr. ,He says his lettuce crop is good tms i rphe motor company is fast coming is t.n odist church on the subject of law Latham is an all-round student of Wl order. The debate will be be- farming and knows and understands tween Paul P. Kelser and John W. farming conditions. An idea of his Tnno-ipv both prohibition workers of own farming operations can be national note. It is understood-that gathered from the fact that he has his visit here he visited the apiaries 4.u ov; r4ii onnvmenre at piht atreadv shipped fifty thousand of Mr. Whitsett, who has some five o'clock and the public is cordially in- pounds of live pork to packing hous-. hundred year and that his peach trees have be appreciated by both citizens of all the frtrit they will beais He is the town and the entire county. The president of the North Cap-olina I personal is splendid and the boys are Bee Keepers association and during "standing out for all that is good and desirable in a company. vited. Admission will be free. es this year. workers. qolonies of the little ! Subscribe to the News Reporter 6 months $1 year $2.00 in advance.
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