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ANDREW J. CONNER. PUBLISHER
"CAROUNA, CAROLINA. HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER"
SUBSCRIPTION PER ANNUM $1.0G
uLUME XXXV
RICH SQUARE, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1926
.NUMBER 16
SEVERN NEWS j
MARGARETTSVILLE NEWS
SEABOARD NEWS
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES
CROP PROSPECTS
NEWS FROM KELFORD
Killed at School House -Raid on Li
quor Dealer-Severn Schooi
Wins High Honors
Mrs, Earl Bryant, Boykins,
Va., spent several days in town
last week visiting relatives.'
Mrs. Verona Boggard, who has
been teaching in Vance county,
is home after closing her school
for the summer.
Mrs. J. L Collier and Mrs.
Janice Martin were in Roanoke
Rapids Thursday where Mrs.
Collier went to the hospital for
treatment.
Messrs J. L. Joyner and J. B.
Mann were in Rich Square and
vicinity on business last Thurs
day.
A large crowd from here at
tended the group commencement
at Conway Friday and we have
no doubt but what it was the
largest crowd that has ever gath
ered in Conway at any one time.
The school here won the first
place in eleven different contests.
Miss Hazel Maddrey won over
the entire county in the memory
contest of the high school de
partments, The faculty and en
tire student body as well as the
patrons of the school are very
proud of the places they have
won thus far. With earnest ef
fort we have no doubt but our
school will come away with sev
eral highest honors at the county
commencement which convenes
at Woodland.
Mr. J. S. Woodard and daugh
ters of Portsmouth, Va , were
week-end guests of relatives here
Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Pruden
were Sunday guests of his moth
er, Mrs. Mollie S. Pruden.
Mrs. H. P. Stephenson spent
the week-end in Jackson, guest
of her sister, Mrs. G. H. Tyler.
Simon Peete (colored) who
runs the transfer for the Farm
ers Mfg. Co. here, was seriously
hurt last week. He was attempt
ing to straighten a log which
was hung up with a main line
car and the log came loose and
fell across his body. After re
ceiving treatment by Dr. A, R,
Hodge, he was rushed to a hos
pital in Norfolk for X ray exam-
inatior.
At a party staged at No. 8
schoolhouse (colored) in South
ampton Co. Va., Saturday even
ing, Herbert Artis was shot and
almost instantly killed by Harry
Lighter. Lighter was intoxicated
at the time of the snooting and
was arrested at his home that
night. Artis rented a crop from
Mr. C, H. Britt last year, but
moved to Southampton county,
Va., first of this year.
The Baptist Sunday School had
present the largest crowd of tne
year Sunday morning. 170 pres
ent with an enrollment of 220.
The Methodist, though not as
large in numbers as the Baptist,
have a good average attendance.
The Fidelia Class of the Bap
tist church was delightfully en
tertained by Miss Una White on
Monday evening.
Miss Julia Calvert of the music
department in the high school
spent the week-end with her
home people in Jackson.
Sheriff H. L. Joyner was in
town Monday afternoon.
Friday night Mayor C. H.
Britt, Chief of Police W. E. Joy
ner, assisted the Sheriff of South
ampton county, Va , in arresting
Clarence Jordan, a famous moon
shiner near Boykins, Va Jordan
was caught with about 15 giilod.-)
of the ardent spirits and over 18
customers. Wheo the arresting
party arrived and knocked at the
back door, they were told to e.o-
ter after stating they were
friends Jordan was standing
Mr, and Mrs. J. S. Gay and
daughter, Peggy, spent Sunday
in Jackson with Mrs. Gay’s
mother, Mrs. Mary Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Gray spent
Friday afternoon in Waverly with
relatives. They were accom
panied home by Mrs. Gray’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. K.
Mayer of Waverly, and their
daughter, little Miss Barbara
Gray, who has been spending
several days with her grand
parents.
Messrs H. C. Bottoms and J.
A, Pruden attended a Masonic
meeting in Pendleton Wednesday
night.
Miss Bessie Bottoms, member
of Nahunta High School faculty,
Wayne County, spent the week
end at home, She was accom
panied by Miss Reba Bell, Mr.
Aldon Gurley and Mr. Harvey
Davis.
Mrs. Nannie Bridgersof Wayne
Countv, spent the week end with
her brother, Mr, M. B. Garriss.
Mrs. J. A. Pruden spent Fri
day in Norfolk shopping.
Messrs J. G. Stancell and J.
and J. G. Bottoms spent Wed
nesday afternoon in Roanoke
Rapids on business.
Rev. Frank Culbreth filled his
regular appointment at Sharon
M. E. Church Sunday A. M. He
announced that there would be
no preaching at Sharon next
Sunday.
Our commencement exercises
will be Thursday night of this
week at eight o’clock. The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend.
We are very sorry to lose two
of our most prominent families
from our community, Mr. J. G.
Stancell who is moving to Sea
board, and Mrs. Annie Vick to
her beautiful new bungalow in
Emporia. Va. While we shall
miss them we hope for them all
success and happiness in their
new homes, and we are glad that
they are not going very far
away, so that we may still see
them occasionally.
Mr, J. G, Bottoms spent Fri
day in Suffolk on business.
Mr. M. B. Garriss and family,
Mrs. Rosa Norvel and Mr. H. P.
M. Garriss spent Sunday after
noon with Mr. and Mrs. B. D.
Garriss in Boykins.
Mr. J. A. Pruden and family
and Mrs, Annie Vick spent Sun
day afternoon with relatives and
friends in Severn.
Mrs. Lawrence Whittaker of
Enfield is spending a few days
with her sister, Mrs. Charlie
Stanceil.
Ctiickeo Sale
A poultry car will be operated
over the Seaboard stopping at
Conway April 28th and Seaboard
April 30th. Cash will be paid for
all poultry. Cull your chickens
and sell what you do not want.
The following prices will be paid:
Colored Hens 25c lb.
Leghorn Hens 23c.
Roosters 11c.
Turkeys 25c.
Colored Broilers 47c.
Leghorn Broilers 41c.
Geese 10c.
Ducks 15e,
Guineas 35c each.
E. P. Gullbdge,
County Agent.
over a 10 gallon keg which he
was to purchase f@r his retail
trade. The manufacturer was
present no doubt, but Jordan
would not say who he was, stat
ing he would shoulder the re
sponsibility himself. All these
present were searched but no
rum or guns could be found. It
is thought he had several cus
tomers on this side of the riyer.
Local News Items Boiled Down tor
Busy Readers-Seniors Enter
tained
Mrs. Mattie Gay left Sunday
for Richmond to spond a few
days shopping.
Mfs. Fannie E Balderson,
Sharps, Va., left for home Sat
urday after a visit of several
weeks to her diughter, Mrs. J
H Ramsay.
Mr. and Mrs. J, T, Maddrey
and son, John Waylaad.and M'S.
Susie Suiter of Garysburg, were
Sunday afternoon gues s of jy/L'S-
R. M. Maddrey.
51rs. W. U O-arbee left Mon
day for Elizabeth City to attend
the annual meeting of the East
ern Division of the Womv^n’s
Missionary Society of the M. E
church.
' Miss Emma Reed, Ststesvilie,
is the guetof Mrs. G. F. Crocker
this week.
Sheriff and Mrs. H L Joyner.
Jackson, were Sunday afternoon
guests of Dr. and Mrs. C, P.
Parker.
Miss Maud Stancell arrived
Tuesday from Rockingham after
spending several weeks with her
sister, Mrs. Bedie McLendon.
Mr. Thurman Bullock and sis
ter Saliie, Roanoke Rapids, were
week end guests of their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bullock, i
Mr. Ben Long, Portsmouth,
was a Sunday guest of his moth
er, Mrs. Anna Long.
Mrs. S, J. Kee, Weldon, and
Miss Carolyn Woodruff, Raleigh,
were guests in town Monday.
Messrs F. C. Weaver and H.
L. Duffee spent Sunday in Nor
folk with relatives. .
Mr. Walter Bradley. Birming
ham, Ala., arrived Saturday and
is the guest of his mother, Mrs.
Moliie Bradley.
M'r. Reese Bullock, Wilson, ar
rived Sunday and will spend the
summer here with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bullock.
Mr. John Buck water. Ports
mouth, is visiting his sister, Mrs.
Russell Edwards, this week.
Miss Elizabeth Brown, Kit-
trell, spent the week-end at the
dormitory,the guest of her grand
mother, Mrs. Johnnie Johnson.
Messrs Roy Worrell and Paul
Spencer spent Sunday in Wake
Forest and Raleigh visiting
friends,
Mrs. Anna Adams entertained
the Sophomore Class at the school
building last T.oursday at noon.
After a few contests she served
cream and cake.
Prof. H. M. Lynch spent Mon
day in Conway on school busi
ness.
Mrs. D, P. Harris and son Her
bert and family, of Weldon, mo
tored to Elizabeth City Sunday
and were guests of Mrs. Harris’
mother.
Miss Edna Futrell arrived the
past week from Conway and is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Net
tie D. Crocker.
Mrs. Carl P. Parker and dau
ghter, Helen Bridges, spent
Thursday in Norfolk shopping
Mr. and Mrs. A.J Crocker left
Sunday for Reidsville to spend a
few days visiting Mrs. Crocker’s
father, Mr. Jones.
Miss Selma Bradley spent the
week end at Chowan College,
Murfreesboro, guests of Misses
Mary and Bettie Spencer.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Norvell
and children and Mrs, Dean
Crocker and daughter Garnette
Leake motored to Norfolk and
spent the week end wuli relatives
Mrs. 3. V. Edwards entertain
ed the Embroidery Club last
Wednesday evening from 8 to 11
o’clock. Her home was taste
fully decorated with spring flow
ers. Bridge was played at two
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First Series of Commencements Held
April I6!t)-First and Second
Winners in Contests
The first of the series of com
mencements in Northampton
County was held by Conway
Group at Conway. Friday, April
16
Tne schools enteied enthusias
ticaily into all contests. Miss
Hattie Parrott, assistant State
Supervisor, from Raleigh, and
Miss Maude Cotton, a music
teacher from Weldon, were the
out of the county judges of all
public contests. Miss Sibyl Jes
sup, Mrs A'-thur Fly the, Mrs.
D.oniel Lane, Mrs. Futrell and
Miss Cora .Bagley of Jackson
were judges of private contests
and exhibits.
There were between a thous
and and fifteen hundred people
present. The crowd was unusu
ally orderly and everybody seem
ed to enjoy the day contesting.
The exhibits were of an unusu
ally high order. The note books
and projects were the result of
weeks and months of effective
classroom work. The schools that
I took the trouble to bring their
j daily work deserve special men
! tion. In this field Newtown won
60 points. Holly Grove 100, Pote-
i casi 180 and Conway 325.
I Total points in contests were
I as follows: Galatia 10, Newtown
jl5, Milwaukee 15, Holly Grove
120, Potecasi 40, Creeksville 65.
Pendleton 65, Severn 100, and
Conway 115.
At 2:30 winners were read and
Supt Long delivered a number
of Reading Circle, Attendance
and Health Certificates
Following this were the athle
tic contests in races, high jump,
broad jump, dashes, etc. The
crowd stayed on until nearly S'X
o’clock. The points won were
as follows: Creeksville 35, Pen
dleton 50, Severn 70 and Conway
365.
The County Music Memory
Contest was held in the after
noon. Fifty two children from
Holly Grove, Potecasi, Severn,
Pendleton, Milwaukee, Wood
land, Rich Square, Jackson, and
Seaboard heard parts of twenty
five musical masterpieces played
on the victrola and attempted to
write the name of the composi
tiou, its source, composer, na
tionality and type from memory.
Agnes Martin of the seventh
grade at Rich Square won 1st
place with an almost perfect pa
per. Holly Grove had four chil
dren to come next in line. Haze!
Maddrey in the eighth grade at
Severn won first place in the
high school. Rich Square school
will be awarded a beautiful $12 00
bronze tablet, presented to the
winner in Northampton County
by the National Bureau of Music
in New iork City. Misses Mar
tin and Maddrey will represent
the county in the State contest
to be held under the auspices of
the State Federation of Women’s
Clubs at Raleigh, April 23, Let
us hope they may bring back an
other trophy. More important
than that is the fact that hun
dreds of our children from grades
5 11 have had the opportunity of
this excellent musical course.
Group commencements will be
held at Garysburg, Wednesday,
April 21 and Jackson, April 23
County Commencement will be
gin at Jackson, Friday evening
at 8 o’clock. Downstairs there
will be the Grammar Grade con
tests in arithmetic, spelling and
oral composition. In the audito
rium will be the Primary, Gram
mar Grade and high school chor
uses and the piano contest. Dr.
Most farmers in the Roanoke-
Chowan section are behind in
farm work on account of fre
quent and heavy rains and cool
weather. The season is about
ten*days late, the foliage of the
trees is from ten days to two
weeks late.
But very little corn has been
planted and no cotton that we
have heard of. Last week the
ground was too wet on most
farms the entire week to plow or
plant.
Fall sown oats, wheat and
clover are fine, but unfortunately
the acreage in these crops is
comparatively small.
A heavy rain fell Sunday night,
April 18th, and Monday morning
we had some snow.
The receipts of fertilizer have
been smaller than usual in most
sections which indicates a hesit
ancy to plant a large crop of cot
ton. •
Roxobel News
Dr. and Mrs W. E. Jenkins of
Roxobel delightfully entertained
last Friday evening at a bridge
party. Their hospitable home
was thrown open to about thirty
two guests. The living and din
ing room was artistically decorat
ed with spring flowers, ferrsand
dainty butterflies were perched
here and there.
Eight tables of bridge were
played during the evening. Cer-
tering the tables were yellow
butterflies giving the numbers
of each table and with dainty
place cards and little yellow
baskets filled with yellow and
white mints added very much to
the decoration.
The hostess, assisted by Misses
Matilda and Janet Hedspeth and
Mrs. C. S. Bowers, served but
terfly salad and punch.
First prize for gentlemen was
won by Mr. E. R. Tyler, second,
Mr. H. R. Paschal; first prize for
ladies was won by Mrs, B. F.
Burkett, second. Mrs. Godwin
Spivey; consolation prize, Mr. W.
R. Ainsley.
Those present were, Mr. and
Mrs. Godwin Spivey, Mr. and
Mrs. H, R, Paschal, Mr, and
Mrs. E. R, Tyler, Mr. and Mrs.
B. T. Burkett, Mr. and Mrs. C.
M. Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. John
Peele, Jr,, Mesdames T. T. and
William Norfl-cet, Misses Mary
Lee and Louise Capehart, Ethel
Bryant. Florette Peele. Viola
Peele, Matilda and Janet Hed
speth, Musa Reeves of Norfolk
and Miss Huggins. Messrs C. R.
Livermon, W. R. Ainsley, Guy
Tyler, 0. T- Jilcott, Jimmie Jenk
ins and Voight Pritchard.
Dingley Brown, director of music
at Meredith College, will deliver
an address. The people of the
county should not miss this ex
cellent program.
On Saturday all other contests
will be held at Woodland. Prompt
iy at 10 o’clock nearly every
school of the county will be rep
resented in the pageant. Child
ren of Old Carolina, given on the
Fair Grounds, Miss Katherine
Batts, director from the Univer
sity of North Carolina, is spend
ing this last two weeks in the
county helping schools make final
preparations. Come one. Come
all.
Seventh grade certificates will
be delivered at 2:30 P. M,
Blanche Penny,
Supervisor.
Note—The names of the schools
winning first and second places
will be published next week.—
Ed.
Scbool. Gives Fine Musical Entertain*
ment-Accidentally Kilied-FIsl)-
ermen in Luck
Dr. and Mrs. Johnston are
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Johnston, on Front
Street.
Mr^ Carlton Cherry, a law stu
dent of Wake Forest College,
spent last week-end with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cherry
Kelford fishermen are having
fine luck catching shad in Roan
oke River, As high as thirteen
were caught by one party one
evening last week.
Since Mr. E. D. Clear,on came
to Kelford as agent for the Sea
board Air Line Railway, that
road has increased its freight
shipments to and from Kelford
wonderfully. During the past
season more than forty cars of
peanuts were shipped from here
by the Seaboard and hardly a
day passes that there is not a car
or two of fertilizer placed here
for unloading. Mr. Cleaton is a
splendid business man. highly
efficient and capable and has
made a host of friends who de
I'ght to do business with him.
Kelford people were very much
grieved to hear of the accidental
death of Mr. James B. Porter at
Wake Forest last Thursday even
ing. Mr. Porter was a traveling
salesHian from Norfolk, Va,, and
had made many friends here dur
ing the past several years. It
seems from the evidence of those
who saw the accident that Mr.
Porter, who was seventy years
old, failed to see an approaching
automobile as he stepped off the
sidewalk in the college town and.*
was struck in the breast, knocked '|
down and injured so that he died
before he reached the Wake For
est College Hospital,
The most delightful entertain
ment of the season was gi’^en an
the Kelford theatre Monday ev
ening, the 19th, by the 1925-2&
music class oi Kelford school.
This class is composed of abou“
twenty girls and was lead by
their teacher, Mrs. Arthur Ruffin.
Mrs Ruffin is a highly specialized
teacher in music and has the
happy faculty of being able to j
place before her students the les
sons in such a manner that they
can easily grasp them in both,
theory and technic. The whole
concert was a most interesting!
panorama of the beauties of the I
arts and science of music as the!
sweet notes of the beautiful se-|
lections fell from the silver!
strings of the handsome StieffI
piano as the ivory keys were
softly touched by the nimble
fingers of Mrs. Ruffin and her
classes. The stage settings, the
lovely gowns of the performersl
and the bearing of their
leader brought out the faultless
execution of the program inwon-|
derful and pleasing effect.
HFBUILDING CHURCH AT WOODLAND
The contract for rebuilding the
Methodist Church in Woodlanc
has been let to Mr. L. R. Joyner
of Potecasi, N. C.
Sunday school and preachint
service will be held in the Com
munity Building while the churcl
is undergoing construction, Sun
day School every Sunday morn
ing at 10 o’clock. Preaching:
secjnd Sunday, 8 P. M.; fourti
Sunday 11 A. M. and 8 P. M.
Play At Lasker
Friday evening, April 23, at
8 o’clock. Dusty Hill talent will]
present a good 3 act play here at
school building entitled, “Club-j
bing the Husband.” Come out
and laugh away the blues. Adm.
15c and 25c.