Meet Champion Snake - Killer By James D. Bellainy? , During Past Few Nerve Wracking Weeks - James D. Bellamy. Jr.. of Sbal- , lotJte township, is undoubtedly the rattlesnake Killing c=,on ? kUeiedm?three Urge rattlesnakes and two rattlesnake Pllot within the past two weeks JoU j more rattlers have been killed y. others on the Bellamy farm of the three rattlers by M ? lamy One of them was in the barn loft and Mr. Bellamy went, UD the.e at night in search of a board. He was t eeUng ar oun for the board and .thinks he mu have touched the snake. ^y wav the reptile sounded off ai most in his face as he stooped over feeling ->n the barn floor He straightened up in short order | Si went backwards at the same; time. Getting a flashlight and his rifle he made short work of j killiitg this one. It had 10 ra and a button. The second of the three snakes, was found and killed just out side the Bellamy hog pen. Al though fairly large it had only four rattles. The third and largest snake was killed this past week in the ; Bellamy cornfield. Mr. was githering corn and says he stepped directly on 2TSS m c. awling or stretched out on the ground. From the feel ing under his foot Mr. Bellamy had the instinct to jump before the reptile could coi., sound buzzer and strike. A c. awling rattler cannot strike, but it can whip into a coil and strike like a whiplash. This one was sounding its warning and Mr. Bellamy was taking a lonj, step at the same instant. The reptile had 16 rattles and a huge fellow. Rovin' Reporter Continued From Page One not setting ourself up as being qualified to advise the farmer, but we believe there are many of them who can profitably en gage in small scale growing ot some other things besides tobac co. It seldom pays anybody to keep all eggs in one basket. A patch of strawberries, a few scup pe.nong grape vines and the other recognized good crops may some day come in very handy when neither tobacco production or prices turn out to be what was expected. Many beautiful little well-kept homes are found in the rural sec tions of Brunswick. They are a credit to the owners and com munities, an inspiration to every body else to do the best that can be done with existing possibili ties. Believing that the public in general recognizes the fine com munity effects resulting from from having nice homes, we would j like to have folks in all sections j of Brunswick nominate the home- j owner or owners who are making an earnest effort to beautify their home and grounds. Write us a j short story about such people, ! telling us where they live and what they are doing. If your community is interested in the efforts of any particular family it is safe to say hat the county is also Interested. If you are not sure of your descriptive vocabu lary, write us anyway, giving the details. We will fix it up and will not use your name, if you I | wish. It is getting- to be a hard mat ; ter to name someone in the Shal lots community and someone at Southport to give the free weekly moving picture show tickef. There are so many folks to whom we would like to give these tickets, and with only two each week. At the Shallotte Theatre I this week Mrs. Virginia Russ I Bellamy will be admitted to any ' one show upon presentation of a copy of this week's paper. At the Amuzu at Southport Manager Furpless will be glad to admit Miss Loraine Hewett to the show when she goes around with her copy of the paper. The parking lot and headquar- J ters for the several hundred men | that will be employed on the j Brunswick river ship lay-in-basin will be only about two-hundred yards below routes 17 and 74 at the Brunswick river bridge. The community around the bridge is naturally expecting a considerable amount of development to result from the basin operations. In addition, that section of Bruns wick county is makmg fine strides on its own. The tobacco growers and pro- [ ducers of other crops all know | that to make a success in either wet or dry seasons their soils must have plenty of humus. This fact has been preached in Bruns wick county for many years. This past summer afforded a good il lustration of crop production dur ing an extremely wet season. J Hundreds of Bi unswick tobacco growers who had provided for humus in their soil by the plant ing of cover crops made big crops of tobacco, corn, etc. Coyer crops to provide humus is about the best fertilization and crop in surance that can be put on farm ing land. This fact and the fact that commercial fertilizers for next year's crops will likely be extremely high in price should encourage the planting of humus producing and soil building crops now while the season is here. i If the chance only presents it self this department of The State Port Pilot plans to take a leisure ly two or three days trip from Shallotte down the river through Shallotte Point, Gause Landing, Seaside and back to Grissettown, or on down to Calabash and back to Thomasboro. Such a trip should provide a lot of interest ing information about our com mercial fishermen friends and their work. In addition the pros pects of development of the coast al sections of Brunswick is a matter well worth keeping posted on. Next year will see a lot of development in Brunswick coun ty's big coastal area. Interior points in Brunswick usually feel the worst of the mosquito pest during September and October. This year these in sects have been very few, accord ing to all reports. The circum stance is accounted for by the fact that continuous raina kept the waters always fresh. There were no stagnant ponds of streams in which the parent mos quitoes could breed and hatch their young. Warm weather and dryness, if such weather prevails, may yet bring out swarms of the insects during the remainder of October and early November. The general belief, however, is that the mosquito crop will con tinue to be short during 1946. The coastal sections of the coun ty are seldom troubled by the in sects owing to the prevailing winds coming from seaward. Undertakers might logically be regarded as gloomy persons, not at all interested in the life that goes on all around them. This is absolutely not the case with our friend Grady Kilpatrick, owner of the Kilpatrick Funeral Service. NEW OYSTER ROAST W?j Iwve opened an Oyster Roast at our Store and Filling Station on Route 130, at Ash. Fresh Oysters Daily . . . Roasted To Your Order IKEY'S PLACE ASH, N. C. BUY IT NOW! If you plan to give a watch for Christmas, come in and have us put it up for you now while we have Elgins, Bulovas, Hamiltons, Wal thams . . . still available. HARRY ROBINSON Southport, N. C. Our observation has lad us to catalogue Mr. Kilpatrick as a fine, friendly citizen who would be an asset to any community that had him. As for public spirit, he is always the first to respond In any worthy cause. To do him' justice, he is not only the first j to respond, he usually outdoes i ? > ? everybody else. Our friends Thomas and Croom j who own and operate the Sin- 1 Clair Station and Garage at the Brunswick river bridge have an additional partner in the form of a coal black cat lost the whole of its tail in some my sterious manner. The Thomas Croom combination has no idea how their ? black cat lost its tail. They are likewise uncertain of its pedigree. All they know is that the feline took up with them some time ago and remT^ tolerated companion ^ , elected member of the fii *1 boys. In addition to the,?' ^ garage business, have a y looking after all 0f the ? ^ for the Gulf States