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E ".-.- .4 : i - TT ii O ' f JHE HOME PAPER 1 c D READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY ( EVERY THURSDAY 7 " T 1 Volume x. BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921 NUMBER 7 EMS 1&, myru . .', ..." i' ' r INEW ARMY BILL IS EXPLAINED Numbers Fixed For Efficient Service by New Bill. Du ties of Officers Many. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Special correspondence) The Army bill as preffered by the House Committee on Military Affairs, appropriates pay for .' about 150,000 men and 14,000 ffi- 7",? cers ut it must not be supposed " Vtliat every ten enlisted men will have ry3jr..tommi8ioned officer in charge ot 'p Y hm. There is no such dispropor tion in actual practice. Congress min Daniel R. Anthony, of Kansas, in charge of the bill, explained to his ' 4 -ri..M th. mo!i,i Antia colleagues the mangold duties i e-, r, qu.rea oi tne omcers n aaa.uon io, t, the actual command of troops. , A ; duties of the commissioned officers in ;(, our army for the next few years will . , .. . ... not Deer.y connnea w oHM. g tions. We find that it is going to take for the purpose of military training in this country at schools and colleges 1,000 officers. It will take another 1.000 for vocational -T- 7 Li a a a 'mal sent out by the safe company i h; trang purposes, and hundreds of ' JA them will be required in many other: , ..." y . activities away from their regiments, i 7 . " J . . . " . ' ' 17w.TrZr.- 7n UUCUl- In ad- intMiiHeive . i """ .dition there are several technical bu- . im.1i. a T thA Woi anartnlunT TnnT . V'JiaVe nothing but oflicers in them. '; Ihe general public is apt to get an f erroneous impression by merely com I ' piring.the figures of oflicers and men. A, ' The' fact is that the Republicans of t ' the House have fixed the number of jf both at'the minimum consistent with ' v...' n efficient military organization. . Intro Juciag Hob. Roy C. FitzgeralJ. V Among the veterans of the World ('. War who will come to Congress for t the first time at the opening of the ppec'a! session is Roy G. Fitzgerald, of Dayton, Ohio. The Third Ohio District, from which Fitzgerald rentes, has been strongly Democratic rince 1 '.H, but the Republican nom inee carried it last November by u rluralitv of 7.000. When the I'nited :... nt,, tS war Vit7L'errld was over the draft age. hud a family 'bow since tl.ey were .lipped, of wife and three children, and was , enjoying a. lucrative lew practice. For four or live days the weather He left everything, went int.) train- i t this sect'.ti h.n been more like ing in a combat division, was com- May than February. Kvery d.iy has missioned a captain and sent to been perfectly clcsr i.nd the temper France. He is as rea.ry and earnest ature in the middle of the day has a worker in civil as in military nf- been l5ve vventy degrees. Roses ' airs, as indicated by the faet that in have been blooming here more or addition to attending to his law prac- ie s all Winter and other (lowers are tic hit lind time to serve as piesi- alvo putting out now right along. dent of the Federal Bar Association Mocking binls are singing like they to tht. puluy ,)f t)e war department. 1 7.27 per hundred pounds. wj). m yj2l proppcua during have been Indicted by the FUh Com of hi subdivision, trustee of the pub- thought Spring was here snire. and lhe Unr i hing. so, ul lo pi ivate March that might be helpful to the misaioner charged with taking seal lie library, trustee of the law library, the English sparrow, are busy m.-.k- t.onip;lliy. The Iredell ounty chain gang farmprg jn aidjng unfini,h.d lop. In forbidden waters. They will director of a national bank, chairman ing their nest and getting ready for ,, j, u pal t of thl. ,.lUipn.ent that whi. he was abolished several yearn pullled plirit oT the jj,2i p,nt- be tried at the March term of court. of the State Rar examining commit tee and is active in the work of number of the leading fraternal or ganization and the Y. M. C A. Like all good workers, he will be a welcome addition to Congretsionul circles. Emargeacr Liilatin Onlf It in undrrUnd thatthe R. puS lican majority of the Ho ie will per mit no legislation to pa before March 4th that i not .if a strntly Merge.it V rbararti'r. No objection ... rai-ed. of f.iur e. t. regular I.toiry b.lU, which are .ail o-. .ioereil legil ition. The object of pulling a I. in. t it .on on t ie Co- gre.onl pro gram i" to o.d aay t iab u . i,iie,.t to ti e ad.iiinlotration of Pre ident Hari.mg. A!! t. . oap . i ! no- ure now end. i g m ' u'k'.f" 1"' Mil v -. ! . go .VI r !.. thrt ft.rt lot. and l. . iii.e pnil of 1 r n live p."ifi ii At He ' l " ll . ! It " ft' i "'I ' I' d-- 1 ltafil- lc l- i i. .' ini I rm-UT?" "f whate ir li r I : i i p.t M"l r,e a . it r . vr i. i, i " i l,uU ' mAhriaci. lici r :i.s I . M Hi ,1 tt f of i . i.i 11 i. I. .ii' i. ... .1 . .1 .. ) ..Mm .,!... M.'.r I I. M i .1 V. .......rati ..jr. I ... M l-ulr- er i.i I I . I'uli ,. .ie.l Ctty. i.(..vr ti. Paul, A'Sijnt, and i:r u .Simpkirta, Merrtmun. . 1 ! N Local News Items Work on the compass station at Cape Lookout isgoingforward. Sev eral car loads of gravel have been unloaded, here and carried down in IBy means of this annaratua which is being installed vessels at sea can get information that will nable them to get their bearings. A. dwelling house is also to be erected for the men who will look after the compass. If the weather continues like it has I been for several days the indications are that Dollar Day here Saturday will be a bie success. The merchants :are making their preparations to f ve the Pub'ic some miehtv god bargains and reports are that a lot i nnnrfnr,ifv cnandise at very low prices. Band concerts and moving pictures will en-: tertain the shopners so thev cam well as attend to business. The Beaufort Banking and Trust Company's new safe arrived a few days ago and has been installed, a . . . ... i mon.v on h..v It i. hnrvUr nr4T P-f, has triple time clocks by . . . . , . . l. ,s ,eu ",lu ,s V'e .VP7 latest thinCT OUt in thP WAV nf A hank . .... ... safe. The bank also has a fire-proof vault in which to keep its records and ti i ii r . a . i t its customers. Dr. H. Bocker, of Washington, N. C, was here Sunday and Monday a id vhile here conferred with several cit izens in regard to tne tick eradication campaign. He says that a.i educ.i- tio"a' campaign will be started short ly hy the United States Department now operating as faf" north as Bal--of Animal Hushnmlrv to' show Deonle timore will be extended to Philadel- Vhe necessity of getting rid of the 'I'vei tiiks. Ir. Bocker c:.nie here frim II tte-ii- where the e.juiication work has ('one on for some 'time and where he ?ny t ie remits are very satisfactory. The pei.p'e who ow i cuttle there are much pleated with the improvement which the .itlle - housekeeping. I hen too tne larm- a ers are getting ine.r poi seen - ready and plowing the grJmd to get it in shape for the planting which will begin I, a few tluys. MERRIMON NEWS The dredge boat has t')-tihed up the work at the Newse r'er end of t'.ie Inland Water Way and has mow I up -tear the canal proper. Mr. I.. H. It-icon, of NorfolU. a who v. ns for ma'iy years i unnei In utH t'e miili-.K V.ine i'l, K. itei n North t'ujohna, wis wit'. .. t rek a few. dy .!t.ii' nrvii'j mis y fiu'id. of f .rmi r y- u Ivt I.,. Tin- .ri'ltl.,'1- frter I i! ' i nii nr ' . ii y nivg d.iy ! f . I.i ;. 'in- 1 -1 l. I mi' j.d.x. dt ' h.i S tnp v et ti c P.ul ,n I I. x IV .1 ). I K. 1 (. j- Ii 'I. I l . . . i ..I V ' . i '.i.i , . f .. i s , , , i i.tjf-H ji ,i titit.t.i "ii i g 'Hi. it f Mr I'i i..f t ip Pr.lAL NOTICE ON DOL- LAR DAY Ttta Luffk New lil "'r, t.Kr ltcrta.Uat fr nia Mtoatkt Ue II. RataUr fi U lis aMalk far II...TkU affte i( t4 if COLLAR DAY. FIRED BULLET THROUGH TEMPLE Man Still Lives After Shooting Himself In the Head With A Rifle On Monday morning at about 8 o'clock Mr. Lloyd Garner, a well known farmr living on route 2, New port, attempted j(o commit suicide by shooting himself with a 22 calibre rifle. The, ball was fired into his r,Knt temple and passed entirely throuKh coming out on the opposite j side of his head- Stranee to say !deth was not instantaneous, in fact UP to yrday which was the latest miormation tne Mews could obtain r Krtllt hn r.nc rlrt f Z n -t n..M living although his condition was Ve- Warded as very critical. The bullet " "- y uiam, having Passed very close and missing it Dy tne smallest margin. Mr. Garner's neighbors say that he iwas undoubtedly insane at the time j the rash act was committed. He had 1 no se"ous troubles of any sort that i couW have Pmpted him to attempt u:. i l tu ,"s uw" "ic u,,u reason can De "signed ior it accord-; ing to reports except hfi had ,ost lnA .m-.i was summoned immediately alter the footing and the unfortunate man hast knii 1 nossihlp attention since u ... 7 " J. n ' " " . ' " L11.!. l.iiiir. .vii. uanici is a maiiitU'UuiHU nine iiiuiilii wan a in4C man and has rour children, feople in the neighborhood deeply sympa- thi7i u'lth trho rami v onn huvo ( ntia every thing they could to assist them in their hour qf affliction. EXTEND FEDERAL LINE TO PHILADELPHIA SOON (The Morning New Eerninn) Exte.ision of the federal boat line Phla within the near future, is the st ttement of Mr. M. 1). W. Stevenson who has just returned from Washing- ton City whe-e he conferred with of- facials of tl.e New York Canal Section of the Inland and Coastwise Water- ways Service of the war department. The equipment to be employed in arryi'tg n this extended transport- t!on will consist of a total of tl steam ers and 1M buries. Stop Canal Service The decision of tN service to fur ther extend t'-.e Ne.- ern-P.akiinore fre ght line follows it.- .eiision to dis pense with the New t'ork-BuiTalo ca- nui .Kit ion line as .Ar as g ivernmcnt s-jb.id.zing is tj.u-en.ed. This sec- tion has bee,, so nuccewiiul that, true hl41, D,.,.n , .rv, on the Kr.e canal that wl b,. pul jn commiion on the IirorM)tPli ,.w Bern-Paltimore Phila- ,,.ph,a mr. Seventy-five percent of ,.,)U,im-nt is being sold to the pri- vat concern while the remaining 2 a per cent will be Used till the New Hern line. Cau of Action The fact trial great shipment of lumber have been made from New Her;t. and ihe fait that the major j p:ut of ft l sent to the Philadelphia niH.ket. anil the fi.tt ta.it this sec '.mii l .)' i-onsidi-ralile iiia-itite of g..,il Ir.ii.i t'ui' i.ty. we.e the ii.nli n Iff iit, oi. ii t if we. . o.i of I if ,il i.i t t t.te M e r tt on of ! : ! lr. I . .1 ev tlti I'.ei i that t c . .' , I'l' ,. i , t'.'i .1 f.r I i ,h ,j, i.. r.c I aitlpmrnit 1 . Dxt o'.i'i j; t c -.it -i ha l.:g':t of t -i! i lo- gM ti a ,l o t. d I Jf ihe I ... lnf.1 of (.. line iiri. Dttulr 1 and Jr.u.i) J, Freight from tne n.itlh rn-m i. . to Z.'.'O.lH puuadi, while the mn ahlpment out of New l.era t it .I'u Cto.luV y I State News I Reports from Chapel Hill state that Orange county roads are in a deplorable condition and that the people suffer from the worst situa tion in 20 years. Tobacco brought the splendid av erage .price of $65 per hundred pounds last week at Elkin. This1 price was above the fondest hopes of the growers. Thomas J. Jerome, age 65, one of the most prominent members of the ' Guilford Bar Association died A his : home in Greensboro Friday afternoon ! at 2 -45 o'clock i . . Colonel Albert Cox, will deliver the , rv . ' . T tvf , . . .. , . per hundred pounds. This was a annual decoration day address at Chi-! , . .. , . n , ' . . ! substantial advance over the Decem cora Cemeterv. Dunn. Mav 10. it was:. ... , .. . stated through the United Daughters! : .. '.,",. of the Confederacy there yestrday. it. d. crown is in jau in &ansDury charged with assaulting Annie Ferris 1 . . , , r,uinfA i: o aaa """UM u "" "v" .vortn oi diamonds irom wife charged wjth the t,t i. .vortn oi diamonds from her. His1- but is out on bond. Reports from Lumbefton indicate . . , ... ... that the tnhpriilnnis free plinip cnn. ,,' . ."I I' v ; " " " . . success. A total oi 17U patients were examined and 61 were found to hnva til hmvu.tcia , The Insurance and Realty company of Greensboro proposes to erect 20 modern residences during 1921. Plans for a number of these new homes are now under way, and now others are being prepared. .1. I.. I.enther.4 of Kinxton has hune . ,. " up a unique recuru as a puiiceniun l K:!islon. He has made his 200th ar- ret of speeders and not one of the number he has arrested has denied the charge. . j'te Lenoir Forester service plms tt) put out several thousand yjung white pine trees this spring and to hegitt an active campaign of forest- ,ng tne inuum..- ... uc.es . l a i i . r of waste land now aaji ining unu surrounding eilgemont coutity. Figures compiled for the month of January .show a total of a 1.4 70.8 ii poum.soi lorarco ufi 4Ui.u..ri in North Carolina. T'.e average price was 20.JK per hundred poundv i A t II i . pn- -' was u..s per nun.iiea pounav n.e average prue ior uecemoer v.ai . t I. g. as reasut.nsneu ai a meeting ol t e county cmmissionerii munaay. The county has a number ot prison ers on nantl wnitn win oe reieaseu foi mad work. A d ive for a $.100,000 endowment fuii'l for the St. Mary's school at Kal e'g .. was ope: eil nt the Army and N.i;, il.nntr in Washington, I. Tui il .y n-g'tt. Aiming, the gueta a ; rcreuiry ami Mr.. Joe)hu . i -ii, i .i a---els . ttd Irf-l.t of 'ul.i'-K'oii. Al.'n.l I. lUul.ttg fl.ir.ti.itr iH'rior oirt C i I nn u jiru 'I J iiiigt lit t-l'lil .Ui- In IV I- J .'tl:,g iMtr k ..f It . I., he pur ic . h" leg.- I i' HI ' l.i ' t, e Feiie 111 i.o.il ftiill. V i bill piU-t s .inljy. 1 I v ' -I V. -,. .- ri- by The I I I I i k 1 .11 1! l- i ! h i I .i i , '.. t t ii ,'i ii I '2 ', T Iti tf. rill- 1 olioa t".r n Method, ! i.l tin .! t.l.l 1, '. 'i I 1 lur uf lhi Nm '. ' Vilvofate, a l at ( .t ms i.i'lii. at . art tret MrliSuit.at n urr.l 1,1 dirf i Horo last nljhU JANUARY TOBACCO PRICES ADVANCED Sold Three Cents Highes Than For December. Big Crop Was Raised. Raleigh, N. C, Feb.ll, 1921: During January, the average price of the 56, 470, 843 pounds of tobacco sold on 44 markets in North Carolina was over twenty cents per pound. This was an advance of three cents over the December sales and is less than two cents below the season's averaee. The month's sales from 140 warhouses were five times the amount sold for the period of last year by the 163 warehouses. 0f almo8t fift Beven million pounds of tobacco, sold last month the 49,314,570 were for producers Ifirst honril at an avovooo Ofl fXQ Der average oisk.zv. rnus it is seen that about ten million dollars ! were exchanged with the farmers for 'their tobacco last month. Winston- 0, j. .u.- i. ottieni nmue me recora in sales, amounting to. 8,893,108' pounds.av- eraging$24.43 : Wilson second with 0 . . . ; o, oao.io puunui min.oo per nun dred. Mebane led with best prices on 893,029 pounds, having averaged $35.63 cents on three floors there, , . . . . - ' Roxboro being second at$32. 76 for 1'434'014 Punls The 1920 crop was the largest ever produted in No,Tth Caro;nil Already the fh.st hand gale amoUnt to than last years crop. The Govern- ment estimate of 384,000,000 pounds i lacks but ten per cent of bein-reach. ! ' ed if we count the tobacco sold in Danville and border markets. Only 33,000,000 pounds U needed to meet the estimated production, vhichis expected to check closely with the actu..l production, as it did ! last year For the first time on record every ! township, consideration $34. tobacco rales was submitted in time 1 G; W. Babbitt and wifs to E. 0. -to be used before the report was Davis tract in Hunting Quarter town dosed on the morning of the eighth, ship, consideration $5. s s i ,' . . h!y this means the figures were com- j John L. Styron and wife to Mrs. p'eted ai,d the report mimographed Vera Swain 5 lots in Morehead City, by the eveni.-.g of the nineth. Six consideration $575. . days ahead of last month. This is C().nmendttble to all warehouses , f. ... a nor . lip in viiv aavv v u v r v i v nnr cunt nf pjrted to dat Th season's average of 22 rents rontr. ts with 51 cents for last year's fore,ted acreage to be plan- -ted last April showed fourteen per (.t ivfar,. Ev tho that .was ..j bcor, any tobacca WM .,. t ,,: rolif,,.re(i man. hUw ,t ( rtiI1 considered reason- Rnortinr Service .ing. The New Bern market sold 382, 435 pounds of farmer's first hand aales and 41H.M0 pounds total for the month per cwt. at an average off 1 7.30 Creek, returned home Friday even ing after spending two weeks with Mrs. Paul Beacham. CORE CREEK ITEMS Mis, l iulah Dickinson rpenl Sun dry wl'iJ Miss Vivian ll.cklnwin. Mrs. .. ('. Iickinson spent Sunday at H.il iwe with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. S, F. Dill who hav ,vj g Bt SejKirt News, V., hute ri'i.rt.rd home. .'.J,. i Nellie Siuiill ient Sunday a. i i Mi Ai.ine Salimlon. Mr ... .1 M.s. V.. II. T..)l .r mm ! I'an.t.y, ' llit!o,te, it Si nl.; Wil , ,'!i 1 .Ii'. Alet 1 on- ..i Mr. v F. D i. t.i..l lj i.i... i.i V, i I.. . n. t.r ittirr WLJ v KOiS MELIINQ TV.- .... . w 1 li.i k .1 ti ,t v. g . 1 1 t.e h. I .il,i . si . 'VI. H ..'I lift, I to I... 1 1 g ; - to LL.N.i LUN O.N YACiir t T. r io-,..: li-.jr of ir. m A Mia, r,..i u.ni ; i of p.mut, u g ejt i e.ij ito . a le invited "fr.e ids i Saturday Inst, the occasion bririf a iMightful sad and luncheon alniarJ their splendid yathl, the "Ulatk Mammy." Real Estate Transfers The following transactions in rest estate have been recorded here re cently at the office of the Register of Deeds: ' . Julia Ann Arthur to Elizabeth Ar- V thur lot 12,, square 65, Evans street, Morehead" City, consideration $50. Harvey Murray and wife of Cra yen county to W. F. Anderson, Er-' nuth, Texas, 61 93-100 acres in More head township. D. W. Morton and wife to J. C. Rasbefry 800 acres in Harlowe town ship, consideration $100. Jas. M. Willis and wife to Joseph Moore and W. C. Best 23 1-2 acres in Morehead township, consideration . $1,200. Major Johnson and wife to Jas. M. Willis 23 1-2 acres in Morehead township, consideration $1,100. Jake Long and wife to Major John son 23 1-2 acres in Morehead town ship, consideration $10 Ac. J. B. Sawyer and wife to O. N. Hobbs lots 7, 8, 9, 10, in square 114, , consideration $300. 1y S. Mann to Mc. Simpson 25 acres in Newport township, consid- ' eration $1,000. ' Ivey Lewis to L. J. Grantham 60 acre tract in Craven county along border consideration $500. W. W. Chadwick and wife to E. W. Guthrie, Jr., lots 14; 15, 16, square 29 Morehead City, considers tion $100. Stephen B. Baxter and wife to Liv ious Bell lot 12 in square 100 More- !... k head City, consideration $500. V C. L. Willis to Hattie D. Davis 1-2 lot No. x in Bnuare 98, Morehead- City, consideration $10. Chas. M. Talmadge and wife to Va.-Carolina Farms Co., southeast quarter of southwest quarter of see tion No. 6, Core Sounds Farms, , T. Tallaksen and wife to E. O. Da- vis 2 3-4 acres in Hunting Quarter CHAMBER OF T u c COMMERCE TO ! 4 I There will be a, meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Friday night in the Old Topsail Club room, t'JSQ o'clock. A full attendance is desired ' INDICTED-FOR SCALLOPING About sixty men living moi'Jy ' in Morehead City and uo Boaue Sound NORTH RIVR ITEMS Miss Viola Aldridge, of Ruwell Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Piver spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. Piver's . iter.'Mri. T. L. Piver. Miss Naomie Killingsworth, of Peaufort, spent the past week end with Misa A. Simpon. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Arthur spent .Hindjy in lleaufort visiting Mr. and Mr, 'ohn Stymn. A number of our people n nt Sun ! iy t H i 'sell Creek attending 'nir h. Mi .in I Mi. .. a i.i Ml M. Alex Wade Visited D. Kowe at Ituwell 1 1 K ! S: nm " ,t thu k i oi in M ire'.ejj l',!y. I "g I twit ard ..il l.ne, oj lui.'tjy .- w.i.: II.' 1 l .11,1 1 .1 , A I' V. . i .'!..rr , v t .. ,; i t .:. . U i'. i f; t r br ' r t 1 '. ... , V.i-'i't Vji, u '4iort aTi ,W4S iii M ..le if l.r iii.'prt, n-4i a ft ' .. .';.n!ay ,rdrf tlf giel of Mir Wadr'a pre.its. M.aae UlliftD Pitr, TUelai aid (irorgia Wade, re th gt of I..4 Mrs. M. I). Pridgcn Saturdy Sunday. : Ii l! 4. r i. -i 1. 4 t i i
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