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
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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. ,
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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
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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.
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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. (
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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.