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A. NEWSPAPER FOR .PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE IN A PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY. VOL. I NO. I Tyrrell County The Land Os Great Opportunites SOIL RICH AND PRODUCTIVE; HAS UNLIMITED RESOURCES Ranks as One of the Rest Farming, Trucking and Fishing Sections of the State—Population About 10,000 Tyrrell County, lying as slfe does between the Counties of Dare and Washington in Eastern North Caro lina and bounded on the North by Albemarle Sound and on the South by the County of Hyde, boasts one of the best climates in this section of the Country. It is one. of the best farming, trucking and fishing sections: to be found anywhere in the State. She is traversed by The Norfolk and Southern Railroad and also for miles by a State Highway which will by September be hard surfaced and one of the big links in the Modern Road Construction pro gram of the old North State. The County has a population of eight to ten thousand, a population which is gradually and surely in creasing in its resourcefulness and as well as in its num bers. While it is one of the small est Counties in the state it is famed as one of the most prosperous and progressive. Its people are known far and wide for their hospitality and congeniality as well as for their unusual prosperity and resourceful ness. Columbia, the County seat and capital, has a population of ap proximately 1200. Her streets are paved, her schools are unequalled, her churches are famed for the character or the m-histC*- and T 4 r “ shippers and her citizenship as a whole known widely and favorably for their representation and exem plification of all those things that make for the most progressive and forward looking citizenship of this modern day. The new and modern electric light plant, which is to be installed complete at a very early date, is to be merely representative of the many and unusual opportun ities offered people of the outside in this land of promise whose incom parable advantages along some lines have all too long escaped the gen eral observation of the homeseeker and the potential investor. The modern and complete sewerage sys tem is now practically an accom plished fact. Other advantages and conveniences are here to welcome the interested outsider whose at tention will always be rewarded in material ways. There is a Christian Church and a good public school in every com munity in the county. The people are neighborly and friendly to all newcomers in their community, and all are made to feel that here is a real spot of promise, a land of fer tility and a soil of great and diver sified adaptability, a people of more than ordinary intelligence and reli gious turn of mind, a hospitable and progressive people in a fertile and prosperous land. Farming, trucking, fishing and stock raising are the principal oc cupations of the people. There are numerous creeks and small rivers coursing through the county, afford ing an abundance of pasture land and fresh water for stock and cattle farms that could be much more widely and more effectively used in this great industry. The prox imity to Albemarle Sound and Alli gator River make fishing a great and profitable industry. The for ests abound in timber and hard wood suitable for building material and all kinds of good working enter prises. Our County boasts of economic but progressive county government. The tax rate is smaller than in many counties less progressive. We have all the opportunities and advantages offered by all the necessary county officers, but no waste is had on un necessary offices that would be a burden on our people. Our rural population is not dense, hence our farms are usually large, and our lands are cheap. We need to in crease our population, subdivide our ’ - * * dfrer (Elj? ®grrrfl (Emntty SODA CLERKS TAKE COURSE IN CALORIES New York, April 21.—Here’s where the drug store soda clerk either takes a course in dietetics or takes off his white jacket. If he doesn’t, know his calories, proteins and vitamins, the mere ability to compose a. three-layer sandwich or mix a malted milk won’t help him much in the future. A dozen leading drug stores of the New York area already have complied with the public demand for expertly served dietetic foods, ac cording to the March issue of the American Druggist, and have estab lished fountain luncheonettes, where especially prepared foods can be ob tained by the growing thousands who now regulate their diets scientificaL ly. Weight building and reducing items of diet, foods to counteract overacidity or other particular bodi ly conditions, especially prepared orange juice, milk or egg drinks and health sandwiches—these make up the rapidly growing list which, the druggists believe, will make the dietetic fountain second in import ance only to the prescription count er in the progressive and ethical drug store. , ' m SECRET BOMB FACTORY LOCATED IN PORTUGAL Libson, April 21.—The State po lice have issued an official note ad dressed to the Portuguese people announcing the discovery of the se cret manufacture of bombs on a large scale throughout tfy v co:unt fi and of documents proving, they Al lege, that the political adversaries of the dictatorship are accepting the co-operation of Communists while spreading propaganda abroad. “THIS YEAR” 75 cars hogs weight 600,000 pounds. 10,000 pounds dressed hogs. 3500 boxes fresh or iced fish. 1500 crates eggs. 350 coops chickens, or 24,500 pounds (live poultry.) ENTERTAINS PHILATHEA CLASS Mrs. T* K. Yerby, delightfully en tertained the Philathea class of the Baptist church, Tuesday night, April 17, 1928. The meeting opened with Presi dent in chair, Mrs. S. J. Bateman. After the business period, the social hour arrived, and the hostess ser ved delicious refreshments. Those were: Mesdames S. J. Bateman, Hur dle, J. A. Brickhouse, S. J. Hollo way, T. K. Yerby. S. A. Norman, J. H. Bateman, Mattie Bateman, M. A. Davenport, T. S. Crutchfield, B. Harrell, Clive Liverman, Anna Pittman and Miss Bessie Owens. sify our farming operations. Our people are progressive in every way and are fast awakening to this great need. More improvements have been made in Tyrrell County in the past decade in building better homes, adding home comforts, in added facilities for better schools and churches, in improved farm lands and in improved fertility of the soil, in improved stock hogs, cattle and chickens, etc., in better highways and improved health conditions and in every way that tends to make farm and community life more pleas ant and profitable than in many other counties in this section of the State. Our people will welcome new comers in our’midst. We have the lands and the climate and the nat ural resources. We want others to come and share these advantages with us. We need cotton factories, canning factories, oil mills, knitting mills, wood working factories and outside capital to furnish labor to. our peo ple who are not engaged on the farms, in fishing or in other ways y„ *?. hrr* moo* COLUMBIA, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1928 Columbia Carnival A Great Success The sum of $113.82 was cleared at. the “Indoor Carnival” given un- < der the auspices of the Columbia . P. T. A. Friday evening. The older ( people of the community as well as ] the young people entered into the i spirit of the occasion. In view of the big time it has 1 been suggested that the Carnival be an annual event in the town of Co lumbia. 1 Festivities began with a -upper served at 6 o’clock. Then following various attractions including a baby show, swing match, Merry go-round, slide for the little children, ball throwing and a min strel. Refreshments were served during the evening and several se lections was given by the Kindergar ten orchestra. Previous to the occasion a re presentative from each of the high school grade was selected by popular votes to enter the contest for Queen of the Carnival. There was a lively race between Miss Lillian Sawyer of Sound-Side representing the eighth grade and Miss Ruth Postum of Columbia of the ninth grade. Miss Sawyer won by a small mar gin and was crowned Queen. The success of the Carnival was due largely to the Committee in charge composed of Mrs. W. D. Cox, chairman, Mesdames W. S. Car man, A. J. Cohoon, W. H. McClees, S. .1. Holloway, J. H., Bateman, C. E. E. Liverman, Muriel Spruill, Ira Alexander, W. E. Drake, W. A. Yerby; Misses Martha Sykes. Sabra Sykes, Corntjna Chappell, Margaret ; Hogget.. Sudto Hptuiif.ck- • ?•£»*- nolia Owens; Messrs W. D. Cox, W. P. Wilkins, E. G. Owens and W. G. White. The association at its next regular meeting will close the years work with a cash balance and all debts paid. Miss Esther Mae Davis, spent the day Thursday, in Plymouth. Edgar Woodley of Plymouth spent Friday in town on business. T COLUMBIA, NATURAL TRADING CENTER FOR TYRRELL COUNTY Columbia is the natural and logi cal trading center for the whole of Tyrrell County. It is not essential that all of our people shall trade in Columbia, but it is very essential that we trade as much as circum stances will permit, with Tyrrell j County merchants. The reason for this is too plain for argument. It is a fair guess to assume that sever al thousand dollars annually of Tyr rell County money leaves us never to return. This motley represent the annual toil of our people, their earnings and savings to be spent for the necessities and luxuries of life. The mail order houses of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Richmond and dozens of other cities in other states are the chief beneficiaries of our thoughtless spending. Their cat alogues are found in entirely too many homes, white and colored, in the county, and these so called bar gain sheets are both attractive and alluring and often deceptive. Our people buy from these so called bar gain sheets and fancy they are sav ing money. ( When you send your money off to a mail order house it is gone never to return. The mail order people grow rich while' your home town merchant, who pays taxes, supports schools and churches and subscribes to home and community enterprises, grows poor. The capital stock in a certain mail order house with stores’ in Chicago and Philadelphia only two years ago sold on the stock mar ket at $75.00 per share. Today it is selling at $265 per share. Their stock holders have made millions that should have been distributed among our merchants at home. * • Our business men own property arid pay taxes here to support our county and city .government at V,r>rn/> It is their money that builds A Growing Home Enterprise Here A small Hatchery of 5,400 egg 1 capacity was started in the fall of 1926 on H. C. Davenport’s farm near Columbia, by T. W. Armstrong and IL C. Davenport and is now eperaf- 1 mg at full capacity. This Hatchery is operated for 1 home folks entirely, very few chicks i being shipped outside of Tyrrell and Washington counties. All the Hat- ching eggs for the Hatchery are : bought from local poultrymen who J own flocks blood tested and culled ] by the State Vetinary Department, • and personally supervised by the * owners of the Hatchery, which 1 gives the local poultrymen a class of i chicks equal to, and far better than most chicks now offered for sale 1 anywhere. There is now several < large flocks of pure bred hens in j the County and numerous small 1 ones. i The farmers are learning that it i pays to cull their flocks often, re placing with pure bred chicks and i using plenty of good grade feed. This season the Tyrrell Hatchery has bought from the local poultry men 17,000 pure bred eggs and have customed hatched for local poultrymen over 9,000 eggs. A few more years will see Tyrrell County as one of the leading poultry coun ties in the state, and this and ad joining counties will be one of the largest egg producing sections in the eastern part of the state. EASTER BRIGHTENED FOR GIRL CASHIER BY HONEST MAN ,4riKw.- York, Apvit 18 ( Autocaster) Antonia, checked up Jfuto xfcorx -tMC night before Easter. The sun grew brighter for her on Sunday, when after a sleepless night, an athletic young man approached her window and said: “I got S9O too much money in my pocket; I believe you made an error when you cashed my cheek yester day.” k He was Mark Koening, Yankee shortstop. our good roads, erects our churches ' and schools, and pays our teachers I and educates our children. It is their money that supports our poor and maintains our public county in- stitutions. It is their money that - supports our public welfare and I health departments and guarantees ” the peace and good order of Ibu? : community. If the money that is now spent with foreign mail order houses and with alluring price cutting offers made by merchants in other towns and cities around this section is from this time on spent here in Tyrrell County with our home mer - chants, in a few years Tyrrell 1 County will become the garden spot ; of the state. It will mean more ' roads and better roads, more schools ' and better schools, more farms, * richer farmers and bettdr farmers. 1 It will be a greater and greater ' county, and a richer, more pros- perous and more contented people. ’ advantages. A welcome awaits both capital and labor in the building up of one of the best sections to e found in this state or elsewhere. ’ Columbia 'boasts one of the strongest and most progressive bank ing institutions °f this or any other section of the state for the size of ; the town. Its officers and stoek -1 holders, its directors and managers, are forward looking, wise and pro gressive engineers of public policy, f 1 ; Columbia’s merchants as well £s the other merchants in the Count} offer all possible advantages to the people. In short, everybody in this section of Eastern Carolina joins hands in making this one of the moat promising parts of the at this time, and attention of people * 1 around about will be more and more drawn to the unusual opportunities offered here. AMERICAN LEGION POST FORM; PROMINENT SPEAKERS TO ATTEND WOMEN IN JAIL EASY PROBLEM FOR OFFICIALS Sacramento, Calif., April 21. Women criminals are the victims of; “uncontroled impluse” rather than the victims of a psychological lean ing toward crime. c This conclusion was announced by I Miss Josephine Jackson, after 11 1 years as superintendent of the wo- c men’s department o,f San Quentin j prison, where Clara Phillips, the Los t Angles “hammer murderess,” and \ scores of other notorious women law- ] breakers have come under hc*r di- 1 rect observation. ; “There is no criminal type among 1 women prisoners,” declared Miss ] Jackson. “Crime among women < generally follows an impulse in which the women make a detour into ; crime, without thought of the re-h suits that follow’.” ] Two “predominant influences” ] Heading to crime am-ong women were . set forth by Miss Jackson as fol- • lows: First—Love of finery, leading to ■ larceny, embezzelement, etc. Second—Revenge springing from , jealousy. Very few women of the proles- , sionally immoral type are to be found serving penitentiary terms for felony, this class being found more frequently in the city and county jails, said Miss Jackson. The prison superintendent also said that women prisoners at San [ Quentin present no discipline prob lem and that most of them released on parole; make good. i “Whatithe women of San Qaentin, : chiefly nWd is work.*’ she “And they plead for industries that i are colorful and interesting.” FAMOUS “FREE FARM” NEEDS NEW TENANT Pontiac, Mich., April 18. (Auto caster) —Senator James Couzen’s famous “free farm,” now being sur rendered by Frank and Mark Wil liamson, agricultural college students because their accounts were on the wrong side of the ledger, needs a new tenant. The Senator advertises: “No rent, no taxes, to man w’ho makes my 900- acre ‘Wabeek’ estate show a profit.” ELECTION WORRIES WIFE OF CANDIDATE Berlin, April 18 (Autocaster) Frau Marie Fischer, whose husband is in the running for the Mayoralty of the little town of Pfaeffinger in Wurttemberg, got so excited by the supense of waiting for the election that she attempted suicide by jump ing into the River Ammer. She was saved and suffered only a slight chill. Brickhouse-Alexander Miss Thelma Alexander and Mr. Wilburt Brickhouse of Columbia, N. C., were quietly married, Sunday morning by Rev. Postum, at the home of the bride’s pastor. After which they left by car for Norfolk and other Northern cities. DR. DILLARD REMAINS IN SERIOUS CONDITION Edenton, April 25. —Dr. Richard Dillard, of Beverly Hall, continues in a critical condition. Since an at tack of paralysis sustained last fall he has had temporary periods of im provement but since his return from John Hopkins, Baltimore, a month, or more ago, he has gradually de clined. TWO OF MAN’S 60 WIVIES WIN SIO,OOO APIECE Cairo, April 21.—A wealthy mer chant has been sentenced here to pay two of the 60 wives he married during the past 30 years, SIO,OOO each. • While the court dismissed Hie criminal charge that he got tid of most of the wives by fraudulent ff -1 vorces, it recognized the claim ’«r damages of two wives. ( A NEWSPAPER THAT WEAS NO BELL, COLAR NOR HALTER, A N D SPEAK ENGLISH. $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Local Post Names Popul?** Officers, Applies for Charter And Arrange- Meeting At a meeting’ of leading members of the American Expeditionary Forces in Tyrrell County recently a local post of the America Legion was organized, officers \ve;e named a plans arranged for a big celebi tion. The lolloping officers we e named: Commander, S. S. Wood ley; Vice-Commander, F. E. Co hoon; Adjutant, D. J. Sr«*■ f ?: Tret •- urer, T. W. Armstrong' ; « apla'n, W. H. McClees; Sergo anr t Arr , D. S. Brickhouse; Service Office-, C. B. McKeel, Jr. The local Post of the America ; Legion was organized with 25 p: id up members. Application was du’y niade for a charter, and an arrang - ment was made for a big celebration at which visiting speakers of no e will be in attendance. More detailed statement will be made through the columns of this paper as to other and further pla*'; and operations of this most worthy and useful organization in the life of the community. Local Post of the American le gion will meet Wednesday, Apr 1 25th. At this meeting they will re ceive their charter with 25 paid up ceive their charter with 25 paid up members. Legioniers flam the Washington, N. C., Post will be pres ent, as guests. The eats will bo served by the local P. T. A. About" Y oup Health Things You Should Knew by John Joseph Gainer, M. D. “HEART DISEASE** When a man or woman dies sud denly, and without visible cause the newspapers announce that de ceased was “ a victim of heart dis ease.’’ In the majority of cases t e cause of death was nothing of the kind, but—it sets the public mind at rest. It is so easy to lay the blame cn this most noble, much-abused organ. Still the fact confronts us stubbornly that, among our several vital organs, the heart is <‘a-niy first. We should therefore render the heart due respect, and take the Im possible care of it. Perhaps overload irtg is one ol‘ t <? most serious offenses against a nor mal heart—and it is accomplished by over-feeding. Roughly speaking, tne heart lifts eighteen pounds of blood seventy-two times per minute* —"r 1,296 pounds per hour—and for i single day, multiply by 24; it runs into tons per month! This supposes you weigh 150 pounds; if you are heavier—think of it! The thing is almost bewildering. I may be m error, but horse sense tells me I am thinking along right lines. The unnecessary food that we a e continually shovelling into the stoi '. ach, and which is later thrown in o the circulation by the absorbent, and more than half of it undigested —is the heart to blame if we die of weakened and over-distended artcr , ies? The heart is often blamed L ,r failure, when the six o’clock dinr.c is the “nigger in the woodpile.” T e mince-pie, sausage, and heaviy 1 seasoned dressing, not to say t c steak a half an inch thick and often half raw! Prbably shortness of breth and faintness are first symptoms that lead ooe to suspect a burdened heart. Pain over the heart is more often due to neuritis of intercostal nerv Palpitation is a warning signal— heed it. You would fight if you wer* , treated as we insult the heart. Kid neys are responsible for many deaths attributed to the heart—then, bac teria from a diseased throat. Keep i on good terms with your spe^r*'/-*’. \ Motion Picture By TelepV >' . Friends of Mr. Britt Shell i • glad to hear that he is improving. Joe Alexander has returned from ‘{Norfolk, after spending a couple of days with friends.
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