r
8 Most Of The News
B AiJ The Time
^JrVVELVE. NO. 3
ps
Banners Pleas
I Prices Bein:
H <
Markets
1 perms
Day's Average At |
MVhitev;!e Was $19.67
for 758,9^0 Pounds;
Hcood Prices Being Paid
^HFor Good Tobacco
pRF!,.- BUYERS
?" ARE ON MARKET
Hge Characteristic Of This
^Wear's Crop Is Its Light
Weight; Demand Is
|H Strong On All Types
Mr-,. tobacco marketing
,. :shored in Tuesday
H . '.cville market sold
fl S.940-pounds of to
iverage of $19.69.
H| of general satis'
evidence every
gathered to
nf their first dav's
If, - it was obvious even
I. thi iy that prices would
2-cents to 3-cents
wr last year's open[i
; n ? ay the prices were
Li,:,* ;i?m the opening, and
I < lit;:. Whiteville sales
[peri!? predicted that the
[vi. -> would go above 20-1
ty. Great'..-t improvement in1
[ '.vas noted in the better
ti,. 1 :h - vcral piles bringing l
L; -~5 ua to $37.00 per hun- j
I" - the most part, however.
Lie;: r the first two days were
L: by tfie offerings of infer
I.ittl* quality tobacI
sf offered, b".t good
p - typ>. - were in evidence j
Id the'demand was strong.
Cr.f fact was obvious when j
b at .: age was added up
Iks -v right: That was that
Is y-ai - r,p is unusually light.
it Although warehouse floors
ere catered with baskets that
tie : : i high, the total number
>.v s l"-l short of the million!
itk. a figure that is easily ac-;
le for local sales facilities j
weed of normal weight is
-5 offered.
0 thing that indicates that
iy enthusiasm is justified is i
1 net that both the Imeprial |
iti'l M Rritioh. I
IJer.t*.: lobacco Co. have buyi
ir. Whiteviile. Another enBaging.
fact is that a new inper.'ient
company is being restt
In Whiteviile for the
S time this season. This is the '
tthern Tobacco Co. of Wilson, '
bse buveis have contributed!
lie spirited bidding that has!1
Bacterized opening sales on 1
: Whiteviile market.
lighway Maps To /
lark River Road I
0 Longer Will There Be
Any Quarrel With Highway
Officials Over Failfife
To Show Highway '
All Way " !
NV.v S' Highway illustrated
m, ... for distribution to
I to inquirers who
"te th" < ;i te Department of
'Mervatir,n an(j Development
?4;,'ing .V- rth Carolina, will be i
distribution the lat'
this week. W. W. '
nior office engineer
" e ' "ay commission, has
jjjten W. e. Keziah, of the
' ounty Chamber of
pleasing news that
i an the Brunswick
to Southport, thru
i dion, is shown for
h instead of just
to Orton.
tion of these tour
sued four years ago,
C: n as being in New
;nty. Following edi^
? ' proper location in
ity but showed no
1 ng the Brunswick
!Y spot except by
'i-h Wilmington, or al'
i there. This was an'
' of the fact that
tourists in Southern
' / '1 ;n tiie spring were given
tContinued on page 4)
TH1
0 8-PAGE
?COj
;ed With j
g Paid On
At Opening
k . .
Pundy Mintz
Being Sought
By Officers
Pundy Mintz, an escaped convict
whose ability to elude officers
gained foi him considerable
notoriety and an outlaw's
decree four years ago, is
reported to be back around his
old haunts in the Maco section,
and there is a strong suspicion
that he may be connected with
the robbery of the three Southport
business places 10 days
ago and the Bolton robberies
of last week.
Brunswick county law officers
and highway patrolmen spent
several hours Sunday night and
Monday morning watching for
a man whom they hoped would
turn out to be Mintz, but he
failed to show up.
The Brunswick county bad
man is a fugitive from a road j
sentence for stealing an automo- j
bile. After leading officers of
this section a merry chase several
years ago he suddenly disappeared.
and nothing has been
heard of him until recently.
His mother, a respected citizen
of the iuaco section, said that
he had gone away and was
holding a steady job.
FSA Officials
In Lumberton
District Meeting Will Be
Held To Acquaint Administrative
Officers
With Working Of Program
The Brunswick County, Purchase
Committee and supervisors have
been requested to attend a district
meeting on the tenant purchase
program in Lumberton on
Tuesday, August 27.
Those in the county expecieci i
to attend the meeting are W. C. I
Gore of Shallotte, A Preston
Henry of Winnabow, Dennis R.
Hewett of Supply and W. M. |
Ginn and Mildred McDonald sup-1
ervisors for this county. The I
meeting is for the purpose of in-1
structing those in charge of the i
tenant purchase program in the1
method and procedure for aiding
low income, but industrious, ten-j
int farmers and share croppers'
in securing a farm of their own.1
The meeting will be held in
;he new armory building at Lum- j
jerton. The meeting will begin at,
1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Ex-,
(Continued on page 4) J
Archaeologists
To Open I
It's "hold everything" with
regard to digging up the old
Indian Feast Mound on Bald
Head island. Harry Davis, director
of the North Carolina
State Museum, writes W. B.
Keziah that he is not averse to
pushing a shovel or leaning on
one, but digging into such a
creation without being amply
fortified in the science of
archaeology may destroy something
of great value.
Therefore Mr. Davis plans to
bring on a real archaeologist
to supervise digging when and
where there is digging to do.
The mound was discovered recently
by Dr. B. W. Wells of
State College. Its dimensions
are some 25 feet long by 20
feet broad and it is from 3
to 4 feet high. The composition
is oyster and clam shells
and the mound is said to be
precisely like one discovered at
Carolina Beach a few years
ago. That mound revealed a
number of articles, highly valuable
to science.
Mr. Davis also wrote with re
E SL
A Goc
IS TODAY
WlR
"A
Negroe
Teacher Lists
For All Schools
Almost Complete
Arrangements For Opening
Of School For Fall Term
Are Being Made; Opening
Date Three Weeks
Away
FEW VACANCIES
STILL EXIST
Only One New Principal
For Brunswick this Year;
Local Faculty Almost
Completed
With the opening date for
Brunswick county schools now
Just three weeks away, final arrangements
are being made for
the coming school year. With
few exceptions the faculty personnel
for each school is completed.
At Southport W. R. Lingle returns
as principal. Already named
to his teaching staff are Miss
Doris Butler of Clinton and Miss
Pattie Perry of Tynor, new additions
to the faculty. Old teachers
returning are Miss Bertha Colvin,
Miss Marjorie Wellborn, Mrs. W.
R. Lingle, Mrs. H. W. Hood, Mrs.
Robert Willis, Miss Louise Asbury
and Miss Thelma Comer.
At Shallotte school the principal
is Henry C. Stone. His fa-,
culty will be high school: Miss
Madge Myers, Marion Gatlin, E.
Norman Plott, Mrs. Edna Wilson
Russ, Miss Ida F. Creech, Miss
Corrinne Iola Greene, Miss Mary
Elizabeth Stanton.
7th grade: Mrs. Mae Home,
and Miss Aileen Williams; 6th
(Continued on page 4)
Beach Fishing
Be Going
*
Flowers In Park
Need Fresh Dirt
Preceding the rains while
many of the ponds in the conn
ty were dried up, many tons
of the rich black bottoms were
dug up and used on the flower
beds at Orton. Such earth
is still obtainable and parties
who know flowers say that it
is badly needed by those in
Franklin Square.
It has been suggested that i
citizens owning trucks would
be doing a valuable public service
if they would permit their
being used for bringing in a
few loads of such earth at
times when the trucks are not
otherwise engaged.
Coming
ndian Mounds
gard to unusual fish that the
museum would like' to have.
They have only one small barracuda
and would like a larger
one. From a friend it is learned
that Mr. Davis greatly bewailed
being unable to get the
66-pound amberjack, recently
caught at Southport. The shark
weighing a ton and the stingray
of about the same weight
would also have been highlyvalued
by the museum.
The museum has a truck and
will come on short notice to
get unusual specimems. With
this arrangement, the Chamber
of Commerce secretary asks
that fishermen taking unusually
large or rare fish or any
sort save them and bring them
in, instead of throwing them
overboard. If -hey are worthy
of being placed in the museum 1
they will be stored in the ice
house until Mr. Davis can ar- j
rive and either make a plaster .
cast or carry them back to j
Kaieigh.
ATE
>d News paper ]
Southport, N. C., Wt
AGES
>s Held
Agriculture Boys I
! Of Bolivia At
Mountain Camp
Were At Tom Brown Camp
At Bernardsville Last
Week With Their Teacher
When The Mountain
Flood Came
THRILLING TIME
FOR WHOLE PARTY
_____
Weather Did Not Prevent
Trip To Mountains Being
An Experience Long
To Be Remembered
The Bolivia Agriculture boys
' spent last week at Tom Brown
Camp. This camp is owned by
the agriculture boys of North
Carolina and is located in a broad
valley at the foot of the Craggy
j range. Although the camp is more
j than 3,000 feet above sea level,
I entirely sunrounded by mountain
| ranges, it lies in a wide valley,
! and the 18 acres in the camp
| site proper are almost level,
j Such a location adopts itself to
any kind of outdoor sports. The
j outdoor sports program include
| baseball, softball, tennis, volley
ball, badminton, swimming, and
horse shoes. The large recrea- '
tion hall is equipped for shuffle 1
board, table tennis, archery,
shows, and various other entertainment.
R. K. (Bob) Evans, head coach ^
and professor of physical education
at Georgetown college* is
director of recreation. His wide
training and experience in physical
education admirably fits him
to head such a camp recreation
(Continued on page 1)
Soon Will !
On In County
c
Shore Fisheries Are Annual ^
Source Of Revenue Fori
Many Brunswick County
Citizens
f
FALL MULLETS
rflMlNP. SOON v
~ ?
Long Shore-Line Of County v
Is Dotted With Commer- v
cial Fisheries; ?ood ii
Money Made e
n
The September mullet runs are t
expected to, put in their appearance
all along the coast of g
Brunswick in a very short time o
now. The coming of these fish,
which often include great num- g
bers of large roe mulletts, is us- e
ually the beginning on the Bruns- v
wick coast of the most generally
active season of the year. g
Coincident with the mullet runs, o
all sorts of fishing gets better n
on this lower coast. The shrimp n
become more numerous and with
them greater quantities of edible d
fish are usually taken. These con- ti
sist mostly of spots. Even the lj
menhaden boats usually find the
going better when the runs of /
mullets are on.
Inquiry reveals that there will
be some 15 or 20 shore fisheries
set up along the coast of Brunswick
in the next week or two.
Usually there are one or two such F
industries on the Bald Head j
island beach; two or three on the;
Fort Caswell and Long Beaches
and the same number in the
vicinity of Holden's Beach. The
largest such fishery on this coast ti
is at Holden's Beach and is oper- ?
ated by the State Highway Com- f
mission for the purpose of ob- H
taining fish for the various State
Prison Camps. Convict labor is a
used at this fishery and many ?
thousands of pounds of mullets a
are taken annually and salted
away for latter use. 0
Shallotte Inlet; Gause Landing, f(
Brooks Beach and Calabash all fc
have their shore fisheries and ei
during September and October,
often lasting well through Novem- f
ber, a great number of trucks T
travel along the coast, ready to jd
(Continued on page four) is
-
P0R1
In A Good Con
????
idnesday, August 21st,
2OC0
Pendit
GET
JMR, J^g
WINDING UP?Scenes 1
only the late tobacco still ret
may be found in the tobacco
liar chant of the tobacco au
Short Session |
Of County Court
Dnly Few Matters of Minor Importance
Tried In <
Court; Juvenile Judge
Tries Two Cases
Monday's session of Brunswick
:ounty Recorder's court was cut
ihort, all cases being completed
>y noon. Two actions brought be'ore
Judge Walter M. Stanaland
vere remanded to the Juvenile
fudge.
Roscoe Rogers, Jr., white was
ine of these. He was charged with
Iriving an automobile with no
iperators license. He was reeased
into the custody of his
ather and was taxed with costs.
James Fales and Earl Cornie,
vhite, were before Juvenile Judge 1
lam T. Bennett for larceny. They
rere found guilty and were taxed i
rith costs. They were released i
nto custody of relatives and plac- ;
d on probation for one year, i
lonthly reports of their conduct ;
o be made to Judge Bennett. i
In Recorders court Glenn Pig- J
;ott, white, was found not guilty 1
f false pretense. .
Davis Brown, white, was found] i
uilty of speeding and was tax- I
d with costs, one-half of which | s
ras remitted. I
Ray Spencer, white, was found
uilty of permitting a minor to j
perate a motor vehicli Judglent
was suspended upon pay- 'n
lent of costs. ni
The case against M. R. Saun- [ U
ers, white, for aiding and abet-' ~
ing in driving without operator's f
cense was nol prossed. *
Special Courses
Will Be Offered ;
________ g
'rincipal Henry C. Stone 4
Gives Information Re- garding
Commercial Clas- s
ses And Music
Miss Virginia Fritts will connue
to give . private piano les-] f
ins by arrangement at Shallotte i s
lis year, according to principal j 1
ienry C. Stone. j s
Miss Ruth Ellen will give priv- J t
te voice lessons to those stud- i f
its interested in voice, also by 1
rrangement. r
The fee for the commercial i
mrse this year will be S10.00 hi
ir all regular students, and ?20 i
>r all outside students. All stud- f
its taking this coure must pay v
le fee within one week after v
ley register, says Mr. Stone,
hose who are not able to pay i
uring this term will have to reg- t
iter for another course. t
/
r pil
imunity
1940 PUBL1S1
ifreo
ig Core
TING IT IN THE 1
"v ?
- '<*|P1
ike the one above soon will
mains to he harvested. A mo
warehouses of the Border Be
ctioneer calls off the dollars
Duck Hunters
Longer Seas
*
<
Recovers Two
Long-Lost Rings
If you've ever lost a ring, 1
don't give it up.
Six years ago while working <
on a cottage on Caswell Beach
.John Garrett lost his Duke
University ring. Last week
Mary Morrison, who has been
spending the summer at her t
father's cottage over there, j
found the missing ring. She j
brought it to Southport, and s
from the initials inside the own- t
er was soon determined.
And that calls to mind an 2
even more remarkable recovery 3
made by Mrs. J. W. Jelks two
years ago. The two little Sas- r
ser boys were playing In their t
yard next door to Airs. SaUie a
Garrett when one of them found s
i valuable ring that had been r
lost 26 years ago by .Mrs. r
[elks. It was returned to her, d
ind before the day was past
the other little boy had found ii
mother ring lost by Mrs. Jelks ii
it the same time. p
il
BUSESESS TRIP C
C. Ed Taylor of Southport is o
Lexington this week on busies
in connection with the J. k
. A. M.
Jne Time Whe
Melons W
More watermelons than a
iozen boys could eat. It sounds
ike a fable, yet truth was
itranger than fiction Sunday
ifternoon when Wallace Moore,
Tr., invited members of his
Sunday school class out to his
lome for a watermelon cut- ;
ing. i
More than one hundred of his
ather's finest mellons had been i
;aved for the occasion, and Mr. ;
tfoore who wanted to save the
leed, warned the boys in the
>eginning that anybody who
elt that he couldn't handle at
east three melons had better
lot start. There was no back- i
ng down. Enthusiasm still ran 1
gh as one after the other of the
'ich, red halves rolled over, ]
ace up. For convenience, they i
vere quartered, and the feast 1
vas on.
Now it is doubtful that finer i
nelons than these have ever
>een grown in Brunswick couny,
It's doubtful, too, that more
OT
HED EVERY WEDNESDAY
NOT
mer's j
*
SARN
be over for this year, for (<
re familiar sight these days;'
:lt markets where the l'ami-j
Will Have '!
>on This Year
Season Will Begin On November
if-d, And Wili
Extend Through December
31st, Inclusive
WOODCOCK DATE
IS SHORTENED
Shooting May Begin At
Sunrise This Year, Not ,
At 7 A. M., As Was
Law Last Season ,
Hunters of migratory water- '
owl will have 60 days of hunt- ,
ng this fall instead of 45 as last
ear and can begin shooting at 1
unrise instead of having to wait '
int.il 7 a. m.
j
The hunting season for this
:one will be from Nov. 2 to Dec. (
II, inclusive.
Secretary Ickes issued the new
egulations last week governing
he hunting of ducks, geese, coots f
nd iacksnine but orovided a ,
* " - I
horter season on woodcocks and |
educed the bag limits on geese, ,
nourning doves and whitewing
loves. I
The secretary said that an ,
icrease for five consecutive years j
i the duck population made it
ossible to liberalize the huntig
rules but added that "we
annot yet be sure that the day ,
f stringent regulations is past." t
"Our policy", Ickes said "is to 1
eep the annual kill below the an- .
(Continued on page 4)
n Finest
rent Abegging
willing or ambitious appetites
have ever attended the opening
stages of a watermelon feast.
But soon there was a noticeable
slackening off in the bantering
that had been going on,
and then there was an uneasy
question or two designed to determine
if that minimum limit
of three really would be enforced.
Those quarters were doing
a lot of filling up.
And that's about the end of
that session of the Wallace
Moore watermelon party, for
the boys soon found that their
eyes were bigger than their
bellies.
Later in the afternoon members
of the Men's Bible Class
of which Mr. Moore is a member,
came out and took over
where the boys left off. 'One
and all, they were unanimous |
In their verdict that this year's
watermelon crop on the Moore
farm is a big success.
!
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
$1.50 PER YEAH
iNlNG
k k
Inquest
Chas. W. Easley
Passes Tuesday
In The Hospital
Funeral Services Held This
Afternoon At 3 O'clock
From St. Phillips Episcopal
Church By Pastor ,
HAD BEEN ILL SINCE
SUFFERING ASSAULT
Three Negroes Who Had
Been Released On Bond
In Connection With
Case Were Back In
Jail Tuesday
Charles W. Easley, prominent
Southport citizen and law enforcement
officer, died early
ruesday morning at Dosher Memorial
Hospital where he had
l>een a patient for several days.
The deceased had not been in ,
good health since he was seriously
injured several weeks ago
when he and Chief of Police Melvin
Lewis were assaulted by several
negro men while attempting
io arrest one 01 uieir assananis.
Following his death, an autopsy
was conducted by Dr. L. C.
Fergus. His findings were not disclosed.
A coroner's inquest has
been ordered for Friday night at
8 o'clock in the courthouse, and
the following jury has been empanneled
by Coroner John G.
Caison: Price Furpless, Joel L.
Moore, A. E. Furr, W. E. Bell,
C. L. 3?llers, and M. L. Piggott.
ThlSe of the men being held
for trial in Superior court for
the assault upon the officers
were at liberty on bail, but when
Mr. Easley's condition took a turn
for thf worse Monday night they
were rounded up and brought
bacK to jail. No action was taken
against James Joyner and Douglas
Swain, who were among the
original group arresteu in this
case and for whom a nol pross
with leave was taken by the state
at a Recorder's court hearing.
Mr. Easley is survived by his
wife and one daughter, Miss
Martha Easley. A step-son, W. L.
Styron, and one step-daughter, l
Mrs. Fred Ashburn, also survive
as do two sisters, Mrs. James
Cagle of Raleigh, and Mrs. Walter
rransue of Elkin.
Funeral services were conductad
here this afternoon at 3 o'clock
From St. Phillips Episcopal church
by the rector, Rev. J. Leon Malone.
Interment was made in
South port cemetery. .
Pallbearers were members of
the local J. U. O. A. M. of which
Ihp deceased was a loval mom- H
oer.
ACCEPTS JOB I
Bruce Ludlum of Southport has I
accepted a position as salesman I
for Waccamaw Motor Co., in H
Whiteville. 9
Tide Table I
Following Is the tide table I
for Southport during the next I
week. These hours are appre- I
xlmately correct and were fus* I
nlshed The State Port Pile*
through the courtesy of the I
Cape Fear Pilot's Associatlo* I
High Tide Low Tl# fl
TIDE TABLE I
Thursday, August 22 ,
10:10 a. m. 4:08 a. m. I
10:26 p. m. 4:32 p. m. f
Friday, August 23 . fl
10:50 a. m. 4:39 a. m. 'I
11:07 p. m. 5:09 p. m. I
Saturday, August 24 H
11:32 a. m. 5:12 a, m.
11:52 p. m. 5:54 p. m.
Sunday, August 25 I
5:54 a, m. I
12:19 p. m. 6:57 p. m. I
Monday, August 26 I
0:44 a. m. 6:53 a. m. H
1:12 p. m. 8:08 p. m. I
Tuesday, August 27
1:44 a. m. 8:06 a. m.
2:12 p. m. 9:12 p. r- I
Wednesday, August 28 I
2:53 a. m. i I
3:18 p. m. 'At fl
5c'
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