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' . ' " A, ri --r-;-.-- - - --i y. , . , - . - - ----- ' --"J; y-;.. y -r V-.y-. ' ----- ... .v;.- . . , y . ' , ,, - " - -1 , : .- T . -yf y v-yyy,. C C C THE HOME PAPER J READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY EVERY THURSDAY I f: VOLUME X. BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921 NUMBER 5 v. )? V .ROAD QUESTION GETS ATTENTION OFLEGISUTORS Four Road Bills To Be Consid ered My Limit Pay of Co. Superintendents REVALUATION UP AGAIN RALEIGH, Feb 1 Proposed road laws providing for a state-wide sys teem of hard surfaced highways will within the week flood the legislative grind and the indications are that the General Assembly will .have to speed up if its work is to te com pleted in the next sixty days time limit. Three bills are now in the hands of the committe providing for vir tually the same number of mileage. The first bears the name of Dough ton Cooper, the second was intro duced by Representative R. 0. Ev erett of Durham, and the third one byMacguire, of Surry, Requblican member of the lower house. The first is for bond issues of fifty mil lions while the Macguire bill is dou ble this amount and the Everett bill ealtt for a twenty million dollar is sue. Virtually allj three bills fol low along the plan suggested by Gov ernoor Morrison in his inaugural ad dress altho there is varience - in the matter of details. Another bill is now being drafted by McSwain of Cleveland which dif fers .radically from the idea of the governor and with the three meas ures already introduced. " One hun- STATE NEWS The Harnett county commission ers will be asked to pass $150,000 for good roads at their next meeting. Hal Kearns who was seriously in jured in an airplane wreck at Ash- boro has sufficiently recovered to be removed to his home, reports from Greensboro today. INSURANCE MEN AFTER FIRE BUGS J. A. Rountree director general of the United States Good Road associa tion will come to Greensboro todad to begin Work in preparation fpr the Bankhead National highway association. Forty four million pounds of to bacco already have been jsold on the ware-house floor at Winston-Salem, and predictions now are that sales will reach between 50,000,000 and 55,000,000 pounds before the sea son closes. Moseley Hall township, of Lenoir county is seeking to be transferred to Wayne County. The peopleof Len Grange and vicinity are being asked to sign a petition asking the general assembly to enact the proper legisla tion. Senator Lee S. Overman, United States Senator from North Carolina declares that his lobby bill intoduced sometime ago in the United States senate is not to keep any North Caro Hian from approaching him on any subject. Suspicions Fires Being Investi gated By State Insurance Dept. Arrests Made CIVIC MEETING CALLED RALEIGH, Jan. 29. Every avail able deputy of the State Insurance Department is at work now investi gating fires on complaint of parties suspecting incendiarism. Insurance Commissioner Wade received notice' Wednesday from Deputy Commis sioner W. A. Scott that he secured the arrest near Wilson of Daniel Page and a negro accessory, Hilliard Barnes, accused of burning Page's store and stock of goods. They are both in jail in default of bond, await ing preliminary trial. Later at the hearing Page was bound ovr to court under a $5,000 bond.- The negro Barnes was released. Investigations by Deputies of the department dur ingJanuary, have already resulted in the arrest of 12 in various sections of the state, 9 of whom have been re turned to court after a hearing. Deputy Commissioner Jordan had four arrested in the Asheville section last week. Investigation of a fire at High Point last week resulted in a report by Deputy Scott that in his opinion it was due to carelessness of con struction. He reported the flue to which the furnace was connected had a wooden block built in it in place of brick, and this block had burned half intwo at the point where the fire started burning up the store and stock of goods. Investigation of fires by the In- DOLLAR DAY SALE HELD HERE Plans Are Being Made For Big gest Trade Event Ever Held In Beaufort The Civic Department will meet in dred millions is proposed and it is to the rooms of the Topsail Club on isurance Department last year result be spent on nothing but hard-surfac--1 Thursday, February 10th, at 3:30 P. led in the trial, conviction and sen. ed highways, connecting all county anj on the second Thursday of ' tenc of eleven cases of arson, and seats and principal towns. The eacn month thereafter. A full at bonds are to be sold only as needed tendance is urgently requested. to carry on the work. A sinking jjRS. A. J. COOKE, State, fund is provided for from the auto- ( Sec, civic Dept. Community Club. ; mobile and gasoline tax for the pur- The merchants of Beaufort have decided to put a liberal supply of pep into trade conditions in these parts In other words they are going to gin ger things tip. A meeting of a number of the leading merchants of the town was held Monday evening in the rooms of the Old Topsail club and it was unanimously decided to put on a Dollar Day sale here on Saturday the 19th of this month and also on the following Saturday. The plan was suggested by W. L'.. Stancill, Secretary of the Chamber of Com merce and it will be conducted under the auspices of that organization. Dollar day sales as they are called have been held frequently in towns and cities of this state and elsewhere and they have usually proven very successful. Genuine bargains are offered and as a result many people are attracted to the sales and many goods are sold as a consequence. Everybody likes to get hold of a bar gain now and then and besides that people like to come to town when they know that a big crowd is going to be there on that day. It is the custom when these dollar day sales are held for each merchant to take some article, or several ar ticles if he wishes, and offer it at ac tual wholesale cost or even less' than cost for that day only. As most of the stores offer different articles the result is that the public has a chance to get a lot of things at very low LOCAL ITEMS Pr. G. W. Lay has declined the call to serve a church in Charleston which he received some weeks ago and will continue to serve St. Paul's. Dr. Lay and his family have many warm friends here who are pleased to know that they will not leave Beaufort. Mr. C. S. Treadwell, of Chicago, arrived here last week and is spend ing several days here looking after the development work at the open grounds. He and Mr. C. G. Strieder and Mr. B. M. Potter, of New Bern, and W. J. B. Shull, of Newport, are looking over the property and getting things in shape to start the drainage work which is to be re sumed at an early date. Honorable D. M. Jones spent Sat urday and Sunday here on a visit to his family and friends. He says that considerable committee work has been done by the General Assembly but no bills of general interest have been passed yet. He thinkslr likely that a good roads bill will get through this time. Some of the Reublicans are favoring an issue of $100,000, 000 worth of bonds which would give every county a million for roads. Mr. Jones returned to Ral eigh Monday accompanied by Mrs. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Wheeatly who have been living in ths Thomas house on Front street for several years moved this week into their handsome new home at the corner of Front and Marsh streets. This is ont of the finest residences in town and it has an outlook that cannot be beaten in the State. New filing cases bought some there are still several accused await- will be made now very shortly. ing trial in various counties of the 'large advertisement will appear prices. Full explanation of the sale month, ag0 arrjved Monday and we CHAIRMAN GOOD MAY RESIGN HIS SEAT VERY SOON T-:.y One of the Leaders In Congress- lo KetireChatrman of Important Committee APPOINTMENTS HELD UP in COTTON CENSUS FICURES BANK OF BEAUFORT STOCK HOLDERS MEET pose of retiring the bonds when they become due Undr the provision of the Mc Swain bill the state will not tfte over the dirt roads to maintain but will maintain hv a through Datrol nr.nW.fin. .11 State roads after hM Thursday. January 27. and with the recod, r .1 .OT . oa- ortrt r I O t . I. .. . rnmtrurted The ,e exceptions ine lurmrr uimrri oiair rr rui.uio unirn lur inc year The U. S. Census cotton report re cently issued shows up to January the 16th there had beep ginned in The annual meeting of the stock- j Carteret county 1537 bales, at the holders of the Bank of Beaufort was same time last year 2441 bales was The figures for the theee columns giving the name of j merchants and the articles which j th y are going to sell at cut prices, i Thousands of circulars will also be ; printed and scattered all over the ) county. For fear the weather might ! installed in the offices of the Clerk of the Court and the Register of Peds. The Whltehursf Company of New Bern, sent a representative here to put the case in place. Persons who believe in the ground hog theory will have to see to it that Li. a . c . . prove umavorao.e , ,.r the weather is good for six weeks or day it wa, decided to hold the sale on no mor, uy Yesterday two aaiuraays so as w oe sure h d f the' little animal to t I I 1a I i strike one good day. It is in order they have been State is to be divided into nine high appear and as at no time did the sun and directors were re elected for the and 811,353 for 1919. way districts and the work directed .ensuing year. The following Di.ec by the present highway commission tor. were elected to d.rect the af- MERRIMON ITEMS for everybody to watch out for the, fc , d , d i advantage of the big sale. he had no chance to see his shadow. than the creation of a nefc fairs of the bank for the year: W. L. Arrington. C rather one. State construction is provided for with State main tenance with the further provision that counties hav ing already built haiJ surfaced roads that meet the requirement of ttia tt. lliirhuav Oimmiftsion will ,"r " ' . k.. k fair reimbursement for ' ' " After the meeting oi ensuing ' A. Claw on, W. B. Duncan. John Korlaw, G. W. Huntley, J. A. Hornnday, Jr.. C. 1). Jones, W. V. Smith. T. A. Uzzell. A report of the Cashier showed that the bank was in exrelleit con dition and that the business of the receive their road when taken over by the State as a part of the State system. Ka ad valorem U will be levied. This bill is to be submitted to the Qualified voters of tha State for their ratification at the election in 1922 for members of the General Assem bly. Representative McSwain ei pacta to lay the measure before the body of the week. Hit at RavalaalUa E. I.. Nelson who has moved to Kinston, has been Ui about a week. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Tecton, of Bachelors was r visiting friends relatives, and attending preaching Sunday. .Rev. J. M. Carraway preached at Now it your chanca. Tba Beau fort Newt will be tent for two yaart lo a naw or old iubciiber for $3. Thi i ! than 3 cant waak. Don't mitt thii opportunity. PROHIBITION LEADERS HOPE TO TICHTFN LAW NORTH RIVER NEWS the stock- holders the Directors met for the election of officers, and all the for mer officers were retained. The of ficers and employees of this bank are T. A. Unell. President; John Forlaw, Vice President; J. A. Horna- day, Jr.. Cashier; Mia Ella I). Davis. Beaufort Sunday P. M Assistant Cashier, Mrs. C. B. o coU, Book keeper. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Prohibi tion leaders In Congress art hoping to tighten up the Volstead law. They are planning new legislation to provide a flat jail sentence for the Mr ... Mr. Paul Beacham soent fir,t o""" of selling liquor, with- " " ' ' .! - .L. At 1 Merrlmon Sunday and Sunday night. Sunday at Upper North River visit.ng oul courw vir .nA Mr. P.. i r:illiWin right of imposing a fino. Other Misses M.ldred Salter, Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Be.t Gilhkin. , 7 im among the Riggs and Elisabeth Pelangia who Mi Viola Allridge, of Russell prohbition leaders relate to ths are attending St Paul's School at , Creek, is here spending a week with ..Pv .j ai.Ura tlaua. aa aa to Beaufort, spent the week-end at Mrs. Paul Beacham. WASHINGTON, Feb. l.-(Spec ial correspondence) It is under-, stood about the Capitol that Con- ressman James W. Good, of Iowa, hairman of the House Appropria tion Committee, will resign his seat in the near future to become a mem ber of a western law . firm. It . is . probable that Representative Charles R. Davig, of Minnesota, will be se- '; lected to fill the vancy in the chair manship. He is the ranking Repub- lican on 'the Appropriation Commit tee, and precedent entitles him to the honor. Mr. Davia has been a mem ber of tha House for 18 years, and for about half of that time has served on the Committee on Appropriations. For several years he has had entire charge of the District of Columbia Aproprlation Bill, being chairman of the subcommittee to which that meas ure was assigned. Bars Ua. i - As a result of a conference, of the Senate Republicans, the disposition of the more than 10,000 appoint ments sent in by the President has been determined upon. New ap pointments in the Army and Navy will be confifirmed if they coma unv der the provisions of ths army reor ganization act. A few Navy ap pointments will also receive tha ap proval of the Senate, aa will soma civil nominations that are necessary for the proper conduct.- o'f Govern ment business. About 1,600 post, masters, political appointees of Mr. Wilson, will be allowed to go over until the next administration. It is understood that chairmen of commit, tees to which tha nomlnstions have been referred are to go over the lists informally and select those names which may be confirmed without em barrassment to the Harding adminis tration, report them to the Senate, and have them approved in open ses sion. If the Democrats undertake to interfere with that program and force the confirmation of political appointments the' Republicans are ready to drop their present plan and approve only, certain army and navy officers. ' . ' a : Swivel-Cnair Hera Ordered Out. It Is reported that sustained criti cism by Congress of the swivel chair Army officers still stationed in Waah ington, has resulted in an order be ing quietly passed around in the War Department to dispense with all pos- reach the home brew and to make . officers now assigned to the Cap- home with their parenU returning to GilUklnf of mort .weeping the present law un-J't'- Ths number now on duty ther-. D Aa!. X. M ftntarlea Kill calls for a horl.onUl reduction of dress for two years .for $3 Us value, by twenty five or cent reguUr prKe is .$2. a year and is in line with fhe pledge, mad. Subartbe now and take adv.n ky the representative from A.he that tage of this offer. Ire "Inquities of revaluation" would be done to deal. ftrd a bill which will require any k41w .nil krtiift4 tin hv to (tin Soecial offer. The Beaufort " ' - " ' "7- ' Ula, News will be sent to .any. ad- caught in the fly wheel of a gas en gine day. Monroe I). Lewi, and wife to The Bowie measure also Provide. Mji(Jtt for ,n- supreme court.in that after the reduction ha. been y9tn Wnvn there ka more than one David W. Harri. 6 acres in Smyrna maet from the 1920 valuation, u vtc.ncyi to file notice with hi. an- town.hip. con.ldtr.Uon 1 10. will be tssed for a basis for all valua-' nounr,mnl wring what place he ' The Bank of Baa u fort to D. W. lions of real estate for the year, of ntnda becoming a candidate for Morton the Tho. Thomas houe and 1911, 1922 and 1923. Senator Sam. introduced a bill which lot on front street, Beaufort, con- " Uejtl Faf af SaperUtaadaati would esmpt judges of the supra ma alderatinn IMaO. . 'and the superior court bench, from I). W. Morton to J. A. Homaday The bill Introduced t p,rtklp.Uon in the primary and Jr. the above n.med property con- tentative VYolts of Gaston limiting h j,,, by .onv.nUon. , .(daratlon iOO. the sal.ry of county aurlntondenU , workMene Compensation i of public In.trucUon to 15.000 I. , o(W lf h- hot by Mr. C. W. TWpa.. Dd fspectod w onng on omr nnv. n h Jwr The eaaential difference between ht. Mr. Geo. W. Thompson d'.ed Tue-- bill and the other two i Out the day afternoon at hi. home In More D war- Hall b.ll provide for a l .t head City after an kllna that ha. I Insurance fund for psytng injured Ut4 for aaveral year. Mr. Thomn- w or I. men. aon formerly lite I in Raleigh and Krpreeit.,tSv Gl.iver followed w a Wrll known buirea man f ut the auggett.uil of the governor in that city. Ilia health became great his bill givg g the executive authuri y imiwiired Mime year, ago and t'.lr k ty lo lnvtig ile a .-id remove f r m t ,g tha rtimate of th tin 0,'fli a.iy member of an- eiei utive .uuil be of benefit to him be and board when be d.em. It for the bet Mr. Thompson came to Morehead Te bill is SUte wlde and will it i. bslloved affact a Urge majority of the educator, of North Carorlna. Uader this bill the espen ' eflre of the county auprlntendent of public Instruction, including the aal ary of the superintendent, stenngra libera. rltk. u;iervlr. aitant and all hr eei. r l-il not ieed five tioua td do'.Li. The b.ll. if pae-l goe i .to i.'eil April I,. New Eern, spent Sunday here with der which a person buying liquor may ; to be In oicess of 1.000. Thlt Guy M. Carraway who has been th-ir parenta. be puni.hed equally with tha penwn frw reouciion irom wo a at work on the Dredge got hi. leg . , n -elling it. S 7 T. . . .fy .VT . ! Conflation of every drop of II- " t uie numoer .nouia w.m v.. ui,.n. ...;iIhi . b still further cut In view of the hour. Sund.y with Mr. Ales W.de. or u h . f.ct th.t the war work i. being rap- Mr. Tom Willi, left Sundsy for M w.in- ur. This would legalise W'X ounl P- REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Morehead City to spend a few d.y lurt 0f , held In private' T,- trjr Mrs Dan Hill spent th nd e,,,,r- or deposit vault- Ob-i The Regl.fr of Deed, has record- jn B,.ttfort ,illnf Mr., Ja. Hall. Jtctton to tlwst however, ha. been j On. of the olkl. of the AmeH ed the following within the laaffew , made by some dry leaders on the Vtholeaale CaJ AaaoctaUon re- atr. ana air. nrw. ground that little .uch liquor find, quesiea me naie ssanoiaciorera Sunday St Upper North River. (u wy jnl0 c jj.nn,!, 0f bootleg trade Committee to postpone consideration Mr. and Mm. Nat Taylor, of Har- and that It won't be long before all,of the Cald.r Coal Bill for throo lowo spent Sunday with Mr. and Mr, such liquor will be ud up. Iwteka uUI the coal operators had Prim'roM Gooding. I Unleaa a pending bill, which would Hd time to -tody it Senator lob- There will be a basket party at permit federal commissioners to try "rt M. LaFolletto, the chairman af Uwer North River School lieu. Frt- minor liquor caaw, I. paaaed, a pro- the committee. Informed the wltaeaa day night, rbruar llth. Eery.: p4 amendment to tha llw would that VWt will dispoae of thU bill body la invited. tokt cars of this. Federal court long before that time, and If you .dockets are now badly congested with nave anything to say you had better If year ..tflUr aW. lake iSo Volstead violations and government ay it now." It la evidently the In Beaafert News 111 hl Ut lb Wig official, have reported a change of tontion of the committe to ipdit Har r akUt. . procedure hecewary. th consideration of the mv.aure, Th big fight for amendment will and attempt to hav it enacted Into MARRIAGE LICENSES start with th opening of th nw .- law befor th esplr.Uon of Con- . .ion In April, according to dry lead- gre. on M.rrh 4th. Two mrr.f li. ene have Kern i r. They My they have enough i. tued inre lt week iue of the votes In th hod to put through any New. The) were to Tommy Smith add rtrtctton. they mlg'nt dir. and Jute tlnff of Nrap.rt; Karl JinnK-.i a id M4leriv llrauf .rt II 1 H. QUARTERLY CONFF.RENCE J'J I ry. Tl Kkilaal raaJ.! Customer - "Why, you ve pjt y ur i;2l. Oik.r Bills but that tl err it not enough time Irf'.. Xeahwlnle, ( hairman VoUte.d, of the bou Jjiluiary committee, on lti kbuultlers will fail th bulk of rvtmrig ar.d tightening up. Is await l.ig word from prohibition enfoue ine.it oftirer. as to suggeativn. for making t law bullet proof. II lnlrl of lb slat. Ultimately th City and bdill a nk home ther and pure up gam!" kill will As II d all aPOointavetU for kava ik.ra livad ainra lhal lima. Flihnioi fr-- "Wt I, muni, I ak Two bill. Introduced In Ci anat board, will b mad for a term of Th body of h dei-eaaad w. Uk yer, ' el ai w to f.g I U prof. wa.,U lb advke of th mn charged -ff-rt th nomlnstion of members of four years during th first year of ei Ui Rale gS fr lntrm it In tb Meer a: l. own gam!" i'unvh l-on- w,u i ponsibibly of breaking up th .... i..,iur R.n.inr Tavlor of- th new auminuiraiton. i remetery ther. uon. nar iwuiMtsi . . - i - I outlaw traffic. Ti e '" rt l.i.iiterly ('oitfrr t for tne year w ill l-r hrld at I, e Melh odil rhurih oi Vrdnelay evening, l ebruary I'll, at 7 o r'.Mk. Tl 1'ieaiding l.lder. Kevere.id F. M. Sbambuiger will ronducl th prayer ervice. and afterward hold l' (juartcrly l'on.rnc. Everybody Invited. All th officer, of tit cl.urch are vtpected to attend. ' lary. 8nalor Taylor of- Ut nw administration. 1 n .( i . . . , . -1 , . . - , ' y
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