Ties,
ANDREW J. CONNER. PUBLISHER
"CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER"
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VOLUME XXXV
RICH SQUARE, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926
NUMBER 7
m THE TRAIL OF BOOTLEGliEKS
Three Stills Captured by Sberift Joy
ner in Gaston Township- One
Destroyed Near Rich Square
Officers have been busy of late
on the trail of boollepTKers. On
February 11th Sheriff H. L. Joy
ner of Northampton organized a
posse composed of &. W. Grant,
J. M. Wood and L. C. Prude n
and went up into Gaston Town
ship, near the Virginia line, and
with the aid of three officers from
Virginia made a raid, Two 300
gallon stills and one 100 gallon
still, together with 15 gallons of
whiskey, 1200 gallons beer, 32
containers were captured in
Northampton county. One of
the stills was being operated at
the time but a signal was given
by a watcher and the men operat
ing the still made their escape,
though hotly pursued by the of
ficers. As the bootleggers made
a dash to get away one of them
grabbed the cap from the still
but dropped it some distance
away.
The stills were copper and were
among the best yet captured in
Northampton.
On Monday morning Officer
Talmadge Bolton and deputies
went about two miles South of
Kich Square and destroyed a still
and two barrels beer, but found
no one at the still. They had
been watching it a week with
the hopes of capturing those who
were operating it. The still worm
was found several yards from
the still.
The latter part of January a
notorious bootlegger from the
Littleton section, Halifax county,
a white man. who had come over
into Northampton, near Jackson,
to make his home, went back to
Halifax ccunty to sell liquor, was
captured and tried before Judge
E. H. Cranmer at Halifax, con-
uicted and given four years on
the roads of Halifax county.
County Meeting Home Demonstration
Clubs
County Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs met Satur
day, February 13th, at Conway
with representatives from every
club in the county except Severn
and Garysburg. The group was
addressed by Miss Mary E.
Thomas, State Nutrition Special
ist from Raleigh,
Miss Thomas expressed herself
as well pleased with the woman’s
exchange which was held in the
same room at 1 p m , just pre-
ceeding the splendid Red Cross
Commencement exercises in the
auditorium.
On Friday Miss Thomas visited
the growth class that Miss Rob
ertson is working out in cooper
ation with the County Home
Demonstration Agent at Rich
Square. She also met the wom
en’s club in the afternoon. She
says that so far as she knows
this is the first growth class to
be started in the state and she
hopes to come back again and
note the progress made with the
underweight children in the
class.
Mary Sue WTgley.
Enjoy a Real Law Suit
There will be given at Holly
Grove school house Friday night
February 19, 1926, at 7:30 o’clock
a mock trial that will be very in
teresting. We invite you to come
and enjoy a real laugh. It will
be worth your time as it will be
carried out in an amusing way
The funds will go to help pay
for a piano at Ashley’s Grove
ctiurci'i. All are invited to chme.
Enjoy the trial and then the re
fresh-rn-nts that will be served
afterwards. Admitsion 10 and
15 cents,
KIRBY TOWNSHIP FARMERS
CLUB MEETS AT CUNWAY
The members of the Kirby
Township Farmers Club, North
ampton County, had the oppor
(unity Friday night at Conway
to hear Mr. Paul C Lindley, of
the J. Van Lindley Nursery Com
pany, Greensboro, discuss ways
and means to make the home
surroundings mure attractive and
beautiful. Mr. Lindley is prob
ably the best authority in the
South in his line and the valuable
instruction which the members
and others had direct from Mr.
Lindley Friday night should re
suit in a more beautiful Kirby
Township and a more attractive
rural Northampton County.
Mr. Lindley began his talk by
Quoting a familiar quotalion from
Thomas Jefferson, ‘'LetJ:he far
mer forevermore be honored in
his calling; for they who labor in
the earth are the chosen people
of God.”
His autobiography of the Un
planted Lot was all but pathetic
and in substance as follows:
Plant me with loving hands and
heartfelt interest, and plant me
for your childrens sake. Plant
me with care and with earth filled
with humus. With this founda
tion, I will give you fruit and
flowers. Plant me to last. Let
oaks, hard maples shade and pro
tect the children this and the
next generation. Lime and re
seed my lawns often to make a
green carpet. Let me and my
neighboring lots breathe and ex
press the cheerful smile of blooms,
the shade of trees. Locate aiy
home back from the road or
street, away from the dust and
noise. My entrance path begin
ning at my most convenient cor
ner, let it wind to a welcome door
step. Hundreds pass by, to one
who enters, and so plan to plant
a welcome. Plant me for every
month. Plant me in masses and
avoid straight lines, Evergreens
will give winter warmth, berried
plants will attract the birds. Plan
before planting me. Make of me
no checker board and make flow
ers a part of my landscape but
avoid pails perched on posts. Se
lect me with respect to cost and
style of the home. Let me help
to make you a good housekeeper
in the great “Out door Hying
room.” Planting me will make
you a better, more successful
man, a better neighbor. Your
family will grow up here and
spend their happiest days with
me. Beauty is a necessary com
modity of happiness. Plant me
now, for nature is striving to
cover my bare spots. Screen the
harsh and ugly junction point of
ground and building, remember
ing though, like your family, at
tention is needed; for trees and
shrubs eat and drink same as you
do. Neglect them and they die.
“In order to make Kirby Town
ship healthful and happy,” said
Mr. Lindley, “each farm should
present to the passerby an out
door living room, carpeted with
green grass, flowers and folliage.
Contract the impression one gets
in passing a home like this with
one which presents nothing but
barren fields and unpainted build
mgs.”
The speaker urged those pres
ent to clean up their premises of
unsightly things such as corn
cobs, old buggies, wagons and
farm machinery rusting away in
the yard. Separate the house
yard from the barn yard with
nice fence or hedge. Mr. Lindley
thought it would not be a bad
idea for the people in Kirby
Township to do as he has done in
Guilford County. He has bought
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SEVERN NEWS
NORTHAMPTON RED CROSS
SEABOARD NEWS
Dwelling Destroyed By Fire-Marriage
oi Popular Couple-Returned From ‘
Hospital-Church News-Personal
Miss Claire Howell visited her
sister, Mrs. Angus Hines, Suf
folk, Va., last Monday.
Miss Bettie Starr Howell, who
recently graduated from the Pro
testant Hospital, Norfolk. Va.,
paid a short visit to her father,
M^ W, H. Howell. She was on
her way to Norfolk, from Smith-
field, N. C , where she attended
Mrs. H. P. Howell while she was
threatened with pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs 0. R. Joyner,
Suffolk, Va , spent the week end
with his mother, Mrs, Ida Joyner.
Otis holds a very responsible
position with the National Bank
of Suffolk.
Mrs. Lula White, Miss Una
and Hinton hite were in Roa
noke Rapids shopping last Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Pattie Watson, Murfrees
boro, visited Mrs. H, W. Mad
drey last Wednesday.
Miss Maude Vinson and Mrs.
Vergie Wynn. Murfreesboro,
spent Thursday with their cousin
Mrs J. L. Joyner.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. DeLoatche
and family, Conway, spent Sun
day with his mother, Mrs. Saliie
DeLoatche.
Several of the ladies here went
to Conway Saturday afternoon to
receive their certificates on Red
Cross nursing and to hear the
speaking.
We were glad to hear that Mrs.
E. N. Gardner, of Thomasville
Baptist Orphanage, had left the
hospital at High Point and was
home recuperating. Her hua
band. Rev. E. N. Gardner, was
a former pastor of Roberts Chap
el church and has many friends
here,
Mrs. J. L. Collier has returned
from the Roanoke Rapids Hoa
pital, improved by the treatment
received there, but it is feared
bv her physician, Dr. A. R
Hodge, that an operation will be
necessary before she entirely re
covers.
The Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church met with Miss
Essie Porter Monday afternoon.
Misses Ann Downey and Lizzie
Jones were week-end guests of
Miss Florence Barkley. They are
students at Chowan College.
Miss Eunice Vann. Holly Grove,
was a Sunday afternoon gufst of
her aunt, Mrs Ida Fleetwood.
Several members of the Wo
man’s Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church are anticipat
ing a trip to Raleigh to attend
the Woman’s Missionary Council
which convenes there the second
week in March. This will be the
sixteenth annual meeting of the
Council and it will be the first
time it has ever been entertained
in this State. It met in Rich
mond in 1921.
Miss Isla Britt, the attractive
daughter of Mr. J. H. S. Britt,
and Dr. A. R. Hodge, Jr., son of
Mr. A, R, Hodge. Sr , Knight
dale, N. C., were quietly married
in the home of the bride last
Thursday P. M , Rev. A. W. H
Jones, pastor of the bride, offi
ciating. The ceremony was wit
nessed only by those of the fam
ily of the bride. The bride is
very popular in this community
and has many friends and re
latives. Dr. Hodge has been our
physician since last August and
since he has located here he has
made many friends and has a
large practice in this and ad
joining communities. Immediat
ely after the ceremony they left
for the groom’s home, returning
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Hold Commencement Exerclses-199
Graduates Given Certificates—
Northampton Leads In Work
Conway, Feb. 13.--With one
hundred and ninety nine grad
uates, the Red Cross course in
Home Hygene and Care of the
Sick, came to a successful close
here today with a very impres
sive ceremony. The classes under
the direction of Mrs, Richard T.
Walker, Field Representative of
the National Red Cross Head
quarters, Washington, D. C ,
have been conducted in nine dif
ferent communities. Mrs. Walk
er, who has conducted classes in
different counties of the State,
stated that this was the largest
graduating class she had had in
North Carolina.
The exercises were opened with
a song by the Conway Glee Club
The invocation prayer was made
by Rev. E. B, Craven of Conway.
Following this County Superin
tendent of Schools, P. J. Long,
made the address of welcome.
Mr. Long expressed his gratifi
cation at the large number of
graduates and stated that he
hoped that some way could be
found to perpetuate the work.
One of the most interesting
features of the program was the
demonstration by the nurses of
the care of a patient. The sheets
of the sick bed were changed
without disturbing the patient;
temperatures were taken and the
patient propped up in bed to take
food. A boy with a broken arm
was carefully treated.
Mr W, D. Barbee, of Seaboard,
Vice Chairman of the Northamp
ton County Chapter. American
Red Cross, was the speaker of
the occasion. Mr. Barbee re
called vividly the heroic work of
the Red Cross during the World
War and stated that the oppor
tunity for service was equally as
great at present.
Stressing the present need for
service, the speaker said that
many or all were willing to serve
during time of calamity or sick
ness but few were trained for
service. “In and around Con
way,” stated Mr. Barbee, “I
have heard there were sixty cases
of pneumonia. These emergency
nurses have already rendered
great service in their communi
ties and will be a wonderful help
to the county.”
Miss Ailie O’Neil, field repre
sentative from Red Cross Head
guarters, Washington, D. C.,
presented the certificates. She
very briefly sketched the history
of the Red Cross showing that
its function was to render service
in peace as well as in war.
Communities having classes and
the number getting certificates
were as follows: Rehoboth 15,
Dusty Hill 17, Lasker 20, Rich
Square 31, iMilwaukee 17. Severn
and Pendleton 14. Woodland 30
and Conway 19
Tne graduates made a very
striking appearance in their white
cobtumep. While most of them
were young school girls there
were a number of middle aged
women.
About five hundred people were
present at the exercises. The
Conway Quartette sang several
songs and Miss Viola Stephenson
of Pendleton sany a solo.
H. C. Wharton
GEORGE-WOODLAND NEWS
Masonic Notice
There will be a special com
munication of Rich Square Lodge
No. 488 A. F. & A. M. Thursday
night, February 18th, at 7:30.
Work in third degree. All Master
Masons welcome.
Miss Edna Long, a member of
Black Creek high school faculty,
spent the week end with her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. M, F.
Long.
Mrs. Edd Clark, Weldon, spent
a few days here the past week
the guest of her daughter, Mrs.
W. Gradv Edwards.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kee, Wel
don, were visitors in town Mon
day,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pruden,
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Pruden and
Mrs. Joe Pruden spent Sunday in
Boykins visiting the latter’s dau
ghter. Mrs. Ashburn White.
Master Billie Harris spent Sat-
iirdav in Suffolk consulting the
dentist,
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Riedell
and son Billie spent the week-end
at Bath. N C.. guests of Miss
Claire Crenshaw.
Prof. H. M. Lynch and wife
were week-end guests of Mr.
Lynch’s parents near Lawrence-
ville, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Matt R. Stephen
son, Raleigh, arrived Monday
and are guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Barbee.
Mrs. Robert Davis, Tarboro,
was the week end guest of her
brother, Mr. H. R. Harris.
Mr. Elmo Crocker spent the
week end at Portsmouth, the
guest of his wife’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. F. Plummer.
Mrs. William Lemuel Harris
will be “At Home” Wednesday
evening from 8 to 12 o’clock,hon
oring the Seaboard High School
faculty and Seniors.
The Woman’s Missionary Soci
ety of the M. E. church held
their regular monthly meeting at
the church Monday afternoon.
There was a goodly number pres
ent and a very interesting pro
gram rendered.
Mr. Otis Harris and daughter
of Norfolk were weekend guests
of his father, Mr. Joseph Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Horne and
three children, Pendleton, were
Sunday guests of her mother,
Mrs. Rosa Pruden.
The Parent-Teacher Associa
tion held their regular monthly
meeting at the school building
Friday afternoon. Several of the
patrons were present and several
things were discussed and plann
ed for the near future.
Miss Marie Duke entertained
about twenty of her friends Fri
day evening at a Valentine party.
The home was decorated with red
hearts and red and white crepe
paper. Several contests and
games were the features of the
evening’s entertainment, after
which refreshments consisting of
jelly and cake were served.
Little 0. W. Maddrey Jr., who
has been quite ill the past week
with bronchitis,is slowly improv
ing, much to the gratification of
interested friends and relatives.
Rev. Rufus Bradley of Rich
Square spent a few hours in town
Saturday visiting his aged and
feeble mother, Mrs. Mollie Brad
ley. Her friends were delighted
to know she has recovered her
strength sufficiently to take a
short auto ride with her son and
to call in the stores on her re
turn.
The Y. W. A’s. held their reg
ular monthly meeting Monday
afternoon. Their leader, Mrs.
Russell Edwards, reported a rep
resentative and enthusiastic
meeting.
Rev, D. P. Harris, who suffer
ed with a severe cold all of last
week, was able to fill his appoint
ments with Elam Baptist church
in the morning and Seaboard
Baptist church in the evening
last Sunday.
Rey. Frank Culbreth filled bis
regular appointment with Sea
board Methodist church last Sun-
Boys Team Wins Over Red Oak, Girls
Lose to Robersonvllle-Per
sonals
Rev. A. J. Parker, Smithfield,
visited relatives in town the past
week.
Mrs. Goodwin, Gibson, is visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Brittle.
Miss Sibyl Jessup, who fills a
responsible position in the office
of the County Supt. of Public In
struction, was at home here with
her mother over the week end.
Edwin Brown, Elwood Parker,
Robert Griffin and Walter Brown
Jr, who are attending school at
Guilford College, spent the week
end here with their p treats.
They were accompanied by Cary
Reese, a school mate.
Mr. Edward Gotland, Kinston,
spent Sunday here with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C T. Out
land. His sister. Miss Anna,
who is attending school at E C.
T, C., Greenville, accompanied
him,
Mr. Alton Batts, Wilson, spent
the week end in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J, Gotland
Misses Alice Elliott, Bryte
Daniel and Ruth Broughton,
teachers in the school here, went
to Norfolk Saturday shopping.
Miss Ella Gotland, Roanoke
Rapids High School, was here
over the week-end with her par
ents.
The girls basket ball team went
over to Robersonville last Friday
night where they were adminis
tered defeat by the girls team of
the Robersonville High School,to
the tune of 20 to 8, While we
understand our girls were not up
to standard, we have no apolo
gies to make, for those of us wh >
have seen that team at Rober
sonville in action, know it is one
of the fastest in the State,
The boys met the Red Oak
basket ball team in Roanoke Rap
ids Saturday night in the first
game of the State championship
series and defeated them by th;j
score, 26 to 24. The game was
close and exciting throughout. At
the end of the first half the score
was 16 to 11 in favor of Red Oak.
At the end of the third quarter
the score 24 to 18 in favor of Red
OaK. Our boys pulled themsel
ves together in the last quarter,
put all the pep they had in the
game and while they were suc
cessful in caging goals enough
during the last few minutes of
the game to amount to eight
points, their opponents were held
scoreless during the last period
of the game with the above men
tioned results. Mr. Manning of
Roanoke Rapids refereed the
game. Woodland and Weldon
play the next game of the series
Wednesday night of this week at
Roanoke Rapids.
Conway Dramatic Club
Conway Dramatic Club has
entered the contest which is to
be held at Chowan College, Mur
freesboro, N. C., Friday, Feb.
19. at 8:00 P. M. The play to be*
given by Conway is “Suppressed
Desires” by Cook and Graspelle.
The students who are the actors
are Gilbert Ricks, Juanita Vick
and Frances Freeman. The other
schools, who are contestants with
Conway, are Ahoskie and Sea
board. The admission will be 50c.
Come and help Conway’s actOrs
by your presence and support.
day morning. He announced that
the 2nd Quarterly Conference
would be held with Pleasant
Grove M. E. church Saturday
week, dinner would be served on
the grounds, the Presiding Elder
would preach in the morning and
the business session held in the
afternoon.