VOL IX
BEAUFORT," N. C. THURSDAY APRIL .22 - 1920
NUMBER 16
i;ev candidate appears
W. 0 Rouse Wants Repub-
! lican Congressional 4
- . , Nomination :J ;" j
It appears that the Republicans
'as well as the Democrats, are
going to have a contest for the
Congressional nomination in the
third district ' in the June primaries-
W. B. Rouse a young ; at
torney of New Bern has announc
ed his intention of entering the
primaries and ; contesting with
Richard L. Herring of Clinton
for the nomination.
: Mr. Herring was endorsed as
the Republican ' Congressional
nominee at a convention held in
Goldsboro on the forth of March.
Monthly Repqrt Of Beau
fort Graded School
. The monthly, report for , the
Beaufort Graded School is as
follows: Ages 6 to 21- enroll
ment: boys 153, girls: 183, total
336; average .daily attendance:
boys 144, girls 152, total 296, fab
sences; boys 206, girls 194, total
400, tardies beys 118, girls 87. to
tal 205. Ages 8-14 enrollment:
boys 113, girls 111, total 224, av
erage daily attendance boys 103,
girls 104, total 207, absences, boys
194, girls 91, total 285, tardies
boys 46, girls 58, total 104.
The Honor Roll for this month
is as follows:
First Grade-Braxton Daven
port. Vireinia Brickhouse. Ethel
Blake. Letha Blake, Jack Chad
i. j r aKe. Letna a
inree names we picscuuju w . . r W:ii:am Tonkin Tames
the convention they having been wick, WUUam. Jenkins, james
f H.mnfQ.mn.nn W.R Dixon Troy Johnson, Luther
Type Setting Machine :
Contracts Closed For New Equipment
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County . Commissioners Wireless Plant Complete-
Rouse of Craven and R. G. Max
: well of Duplin. One ballot was
'taken which showed that Mr,
Herring was nominated by a
large majority. The vote stood,
-Maewell 19. Rouse 21 1-2 and
Rice, Garland Willis; Herman
Austin, George Willis. Nellie
unapiain, pieiiie uray v-ongieiun,
Agnes Goodwin, Eleanor Jones,
Alice ciyoe Maaes. j inie raritin,
v m r i. i I . a. a. I
verna Mae apnngie, , iviaiue
Weeks, Mildred Willis, Richard
Herring 51-1-2 and a motion was p;nner
pX5JESnK5 Mr Rime Second Grade-Lewis Barbour,
nominee unanimously. Mr Kouse r- nuA,..
;,fi t PiArtnr Bert Brickhouse, Dan Chadwick,
, forth district -' JP" Dixon, Jack Glover, Ar-
Mr. Rouse was not altogather thurMerrill, Ernest Rfce, Earl
satisfied with the outcome of the Schneider, Jr., Jack Willis, Nat
convention and has intimated White, Evelyn iChadwick, Mattie
o.vpi time to friends that he Day, Aleise Kilhngsworth, Vivian
, ninU moi-A a mntt in the nri- Manning. Alvetta, Skarren, Mil-
rnariea. He announces now that dred Willis. Sallie Bell Willis.
h will maif the ficht but the Third Grade-Rita Yoffie,
News has' not learned whether fen iS8"!?.
he proposes to. canvas the dis-iwuc nuwc, ri ixuiK, ji.
I Fourth Grade Luella , Good
fcllfc VI 4 . ' I - . .
Several Republ:cns here have win, Bess Jones, Ruth Killings
expressed themselves to. the m ef- worth Marearet Sanford. Sarah
feet that they regret mat Mr. WilliSf Frank Campbell, Charles
Rouse is taking the position be Ujanson, Roderick Parkin, Louis
ooes in rann Styioo, Calais Willis.
He of course has a. legal right i..XT,Jr.u:
toetiterthe primaries, as any
'one has. but they-say that he
went into the convention and
was defeated fairly and should
take his medicine. The impres
sion here is that he will be over
whelmingly defeated in
primaries.
An adiourned meeting of the
.r. a. : . : :
uoaiu ci vxjuniy commissionersi rire oi an unknown origin
was held in the court-house last that broke out at two o'clock " ;
Thursday morning. - This meet- last Friday morning completely '
mg was to consider some matters demolished the Wireless Station
ett over trom the regular meet- located on Pivers Island. Vali-
ing. All the memDers ol the ant work on the part of the Lab- -.
board were present at this meet- oratory and Wireless men, assist.
ing. , s ed bv a number of citizens from
Mr. Stallines of New 'Bern town nfevented tht fire frnm
came before the board and sub- spreading to the buildings occu-
mitted specifications as to install- pied by the Bureau of Fisheries ;
ing water and sewerage- in ; the and thus fortunately saved them. .
County Home and jail, also, on The wind at the same-time -
heating the court-house and jaiL chanced : to be blowing away
A representative of the Hvman from the buildinca and this nn
Supply Co.. of NewBern came doubt helped a great deal.. The
before the board and argued 'the house occupied by the Wireless
merits ot tne uoit tractor, ine station, all of their instruments .
price of this machine is $4250. and a boat house were wiped out
Decorating Interior OI
- - lUnk ;
Fifth Grade-Glennie Paul, Viv
lan arsons. Margaret urn,-
Georgia Fiver, Martha Longest.
William Potter. . Lucille Brick
house, Herbert . Whitehurst
Sixth Grade Ruth Norcom,
the Lydia Parkin, Margaret Ramsey,
Mildred Whitehurst, Clyde Htfl,
Sterling Chadwick.
Seventh Grade-Annis Doane,
Ida Yoffie.
Eighth' Grade-Stella Camp-
Mi'Arfcnnthe interior of the bell, uiancne uarDour.
1 V w M , ' . I . A m
Beaufort Banking and Trust . Nmth urafle -l"et wuns, jraui
CompanY's new building while! jonc. Edward : Duncan.
necessarily slow is prorreoing Tenth Grade-EsteUe Yoffie.
Steaouy. DUiucicm pius.. a ;limrn!irv nf the Honor Roll
Deen maoe lO STOW inc iuw .w V,,. tr m, Unnhr
appearance that the banwng , ;
xir.v !ane an exDerienced 1 23 tirls number on Honor -Roll
Herorator hz rharce of this part 41. percentage of enrollment: 23;
of the work. The walla and ceil- totals number on Honor kou; b
ing are being given a rougn ircentage oi enroumem cx
finish of a sort of grayisn color
The above is a picture of the type setting machine which has
.been boucht bv the Beaufort News and will be installed -some
"time this Summer. This wondenul machine represents the' very
: acme of mechanical type setting. There is no printing office in
North Carolina or any where else that has a better machine than
this number 14 Mergenthaler linotype.
Gutenberg's invention of movable types in the fifteenth centu-
" rr caused a revolution in the world of letters. The invention, of
the Hnotvoe in recent times, marks another era. Next ' to"vGun-
tenberg's Invention it has probably done more than anything else
to diffuse Information among the people. - - v
.The Beaufort News is installing this type setting machine and
With white panels
Owing to the slowness of the
roanufacturen jn delivering tl
new fixtures it will probably be
Kevenl months before the new
bank will be occupied. ,
Sea Products Morin
. ... !$cn0ol Prixes
A .solid gold medal and a
Conklin Fountain I"eu is now
on display at F. R. Bell's Drug
Store, as prizes for first and
second best speakers, respective
ly, in a Recitation Contest for
the girls of the Beaufort High
School. ThU contest will be held
on one night during the, closing
exerdscs. the exact date win be
nnoutu-ed ' latter. The above
mentioned prizes are favors 'of
I)r. K. k. HelL On behalf of the
rhnnl an4 Mnecbllv thecontest
ants I wish to publicly-thank
the donor for his interest and
genoroui giving.
: G.1L Ferguson, SupL
You can get the Beaufort
News from nowtill January the
first for one dollar. W hy let such
tmall turn deorive you of know
inif what is happening in Carte-
Pass Resolution . About
Central Highway
. Route
ly Wiped Out Explod-
ing Cartridges Whxs.
tie Through
i The Air
Commissioners Lewis and Gilli
kirLwhQL had-beejippointed: to
buy machinery were continued
and authorized to make such pur
chases as they saw fit. "They af
terwards closed a deal for the
tractor. -' ; : v. . , .
Commissioner Pigott was ap
pointed to confer with the con
tractor about the location of the
proposed North River bridge. '
Permission was given the Beau
rthr mrhnrv at a crrat Mwnv for ft business of
Tif arflnn inHirate not onlv enternrise on the nart POlt Witn rederal aid.
W-V( ...w w.w. " r W 1 M . ,
i ne mauer vi ciecung a coun'
making a loss of many thousand ,
dollars. '
-A-rumber of caseaof rifle and--
revolver cartridges were stored
in the building and when these
caught on fire tbey made a rack- ,
et almost equal to the battle, of 1
Chateau Thieray. A large crowd
ot citizens had collected at the
foot of Front saeet to witness '
the conflagration but when the
cartridges began' to :. explode
their anxiety to get over to the :
island was considetably cooled.
ThoitumH hf the hnllct 'whic
fort IceComnanv to connect with I
" W " - . Liu Ull UUK.il L A km Ull UUL J W WL. IAA1
the- wen m the. lourt-nouse iuck none ox tnemiounda human
square the said Company to put target. V " ' -
in spigott at jail and pay for all A Board of Survey heaoed by
water1 used at this spigott ' Lieutenant Commander Ridgley
. Chairman Wallace was author- of Norfolk, is expected here to
, uuuuiou " ifluu.u. d t examine into the fire and
ized to purchase, materials for m?ke a report of such facts as,
repairing Steli bridge and have ascertain about it The
them placed on the ground. station here was established in .
! A resolution was adopted by llJ03andit is generally under:
the boaitf1 which stated . that ; U I stood that it has been a Very use-
urn a ennea At tVm .YMrA h-t I tui one.
W M lSW 0.1SM V WUW ' WU4 A
I a road should ' be' built to the
Craven county line from B-au-
fort via Harlowe instead of New-
' uunng tne war it was used a
great deal and it is said that the
service given ships from here
was particularly good. For about
a year past then has been talk
ing ot moving the station to
of those who are responsible for this progressive step but also an "c . G,enn citizcna he-e are
abidinir faith that the community wUl show its- appreciaUon of ? EyV LUC wlc desirous keeping it here if pos-
. " , - ' ' i.umiiwiwmk;ii uj S1DIC
It ia first and last their newspaper. If they want to do so they P "u '"Z TZZTZl
' : . incfn.mnfaUtv of .rreat tmorl for themselves and commissioner uiiimm named iu LVJrr.wC. 1 " rr:
tail iikuc 1 i tr.J I wren iiMmjk aiiu aii viaiiuii w
v. luuuciy. i.IUiuoiw ten(y to the Meaufort Fire
their county.
The strike of tlie railroad men
in big cities North has caused
considerable inconvenience to
fish dealers here and to the fish'
ermen as welL Being unable to
ett shipments throuEh the deal
ers had to decline buying and so
the fishing fndustry has ielt the
effects of the strike. The situa
tion has improved considerably
now though and several ship
ments of sea bass for New York
ruve cone-, forward. : Quite a
good many soft crabs have lefi
this point for the big markets re
cently and If the weather would
star fair for a while conditions
here would soon be satisfactory.
Candidate tor Com
missloncr -
The first candidate for Couity
Commissioner to announce him-
stU so far in the News U out this
week. J. L. Edwards a well
known citizen of Newport whose
card appears in this Issue has en
tered the race-w ...-
Odd Fellows Anniversary
The 101st anniversary of the
organization of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows will be
celebrated here Sunday after-
noon at 2 P. M. by Concordia
Lodge no, 11 of Beaufort and
Unitv Lodge no. 156, of More
head City. The exercises 'will
be held in tne uiaoea acnooi
building. C. O. Baird of Golds
boro will deliver the address and
there will he iDorooriate music
rendered. The public is cordial
ly Invited.
Mrs. W. V. a Potter enter
tained a few friends last .Tues
day night at her home on Ann
street . . ti .
Those present were Mrs.
White. Mrs. C & Maxwell, Mrs.
Real Eatatt Transfers
, WMf tM tMf
T4 hmt ! StU il I S
eiecico. LMDartment. atizens and em-
nloves on the I&land for tveir ,
Mrs. Potter Entertains Mrs. Lila Weeks Is Dead quick response and efficient
work that night ot the lire. ,
After an illnm of several
weeks M'S.Ula Weeks died all
her home on Ann street yester
day a week ago. She was sixty
years old. Mrs. Weeks surviv-
War Risk Insurance
For months past the News has
receivrd about every week aj.
If IIHI, I'lli, v I'HAnm, ling. , . - W. U..-1 J 1 f 1 HC1C llUlll Hit 1111
G. IL Furgeson, Mrs. Jim Potter. hn2 ' " 7 . husband Mf. Jna tureau in Washington re-.
Mrs. Edd Potter, MrtWnV I lafc Jusepn weexs,neraiugnier sirs, lativeu soldier's and sailor's In-.
sel Mrs. N IL Russell Vfisses Kobert uunn, a sister Mrs. jonn surancc unas maniiesuy Dceu
Laura Thomas. Era r Loftin. Uh Mason ana lour Dinners Messrs. m i.-w
uaura i nomas, crauy uwiin. tti.-.- Iohn tnA Au d!e all cf these communications.
lianMoms, Julia Rumley and p5"ioway,jonn ana Aiex. Moi this insurance mat-
Nannie pter- - Mason, runerai services lor tne .-:,,.. wr anA aiw
Dv w. rdfi vJ ' Brr u hlrh deceased were conducted by Key who he!s war insurance rjohcies '
.ww. " f"j i . - , . . i . .
delicious refreshments were ererw iurnpas ani ine in have.a number ot options whicft
terrneni was maoe mucean view they may uxe aavzniage ox u
served.
Cemetery.
The following is a list of deeds
recently recorded:
L, F. McCabe and wife to
Mollie Simmons lot no 106 town
of Newport con. flGO..
L, F. McCabe and wile to
Mollie Simmons lot no 109 New.
port con (85b
Amelia J. Smith to S. E. Gas-
kin and wife 250 acres in Merri-
mon township con. K00l
J. A. Hornady Jr. snd wife (to
T. K. Lewis lot on Ann Si. East
Beaufort con. $10 Ac, --
Chas, L: Abernethy and wife
to'Thos. W. Dickinson lot la
East Beaufort con. $150. -' "
J is. RoUnsan to J. B. Goodwin
iracionceoar isuna. .
-Jot! S. Smith and;wife to
Ernest Nelron' 12 sere and
house in I Urlowe township con
The Ladies of the Eastern
Star will have a sale of good
things to eat in the Masonic Hall
Friday April. 23 beginning at 3
P.M. Come and bring your
friends. .
they w ish. For instance they
can have their insurance paid all
in one sum, it may be paid in a
certain number of installments,
cr in installments to run during
the life time of the beneficiary.
There aievarious tther features
Birth of Infant
here last Satorday. He was for
a long time the sexton of the Ann
Bo a to Mr. and Mrs. J.F.Owens 1 t rtrt Methodist church and he
(Sunday a boy, Jas. Franklin Utso preached at the Congrega
uwens jr. Mr. iwens is ineitKjnai emircn. tie was more
manairerof the Western Union! than seventy 'ears of ago and
office here I except for a number of years
I spent in Alabama lived in Beau
One dollar. will pay tour sub- fort allot his life. The funeral
scnpcionto ine ucauion news tervices ot the deceased were
from rywtill January Ihe'firrt. 0 Sjnday afternoon by
Send U in and keep up. with the Reverend J. S. V and a- Jarre
county.
Henry Jerkins Passes
: Antral- , ;
Henrv lerkins a well known
and highly respected colored eh- of this warinsurance whidi can..
ben of Beaufort died at his home K Z2rZ.
of, Beaufort who is acting Assist
ant Surgeon in the United States
Public llesiih Service. ..
Lik n iif
rstH h whi nits t
Marriage Licenses
Two' marriage licenses have
ttct of the Kegjster 01 Uceus.
TVy were to.
Koy bimmons and tva Oarrcr
of rtewporL - -
M.'L. -Tunnell ol Whoncr.
vi!le snd Lffe M. i-iwrcpce tf
Straits. , ' ' '".,-..
, 'jwvr owi T.'
it CliwhMmU.
$m -
rtMSMt 0 t4 foil ta, '