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C ....... 4 v t v- - 1 4 J ! 11 Hi The be.t advertising medium published in Carteret Co. -f ; READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY ; WATCH Your label and pay your sulsctl :L , VOL. XI THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURDAY, OCT. . 19, 1822. NUMDER FCIiTY TWO -Y- J' ( ) -J 'A' ). Chairman VVheatly Answers " . Criticism of Opponents Large Crowd Highly Entertained By Debate Between Demo cratic and Republican Champions -Fcrzner. County Home Superintendent Raised Some Excitement - The debate Tuesday nigbt between Messrs Lather Hamilton of Morehead City and CC R. Wbeatlyol Beaufort attracted a. crowd that completely filled the county court house and over - flowed the corridors of . the building. Most of the crowdwas from Bean fort but they were there., also rora rf, many parts of the county. ' The meeting was the result of a challenge. issued last week by Mr. Wheatly to Mr. R. T. Wade of Morehead City in particular and any Democrat who . might choose to accept t..tvU The crowd began coming early and by 7:80 the hour set for the speak, ing to begin th house was fulL' Af- . , ter the band bad entertained the aud ience with a selection Mr; E.W. Hill " who acted as Chairman and, timekeep er. called the meeting to order. - He explained the purpose of the .meeting . and .'requested .4 respectful hearing for each of the speakers. , ' V" .-i' -. Each speaker was to bare forty ' minutes for his opening and twenty - minutes for his rejoinder. . In 'ac cordance with this arrangement Mr. - Hamilton waa introduced and amid considerable applause began his re marks. He said he was glad to see so 'much interest in politics and was " particularily glad to see so many la dies present. He had once (been op posed to woman suffrage but was not now and thought the women ought to take as much interest in political matters as the men. Mr. Hamilton devoted a part of his time to a discus sion of school matters. , He said the Republicans ought-aot to blame the high taxes on the schools. :; He talk ed about the- State's equalising fund, teachers saalaries and .the . County Superintendent's ;. salary. He, . said )the State levied no - taxes . now Von property and that the county core- ' mirisoeners were solely, responsible for taxes levied He said he did not think the taxes: were likely to be lower any time soon, the .main thing waa how the money waa spent. He talked in general terms about extrav agance and said the board had shown too much partisanship, in turning out the former welfare officer. "He refer red to the ' horizantal cut in assess-. menta of property made by the board and then restored. He-referred tocuBion and that the other side hid : the fact that the, county bad a road ' superintendent and . county- farm' a - gent, whom he called a veterinarian, did not aay whether he opposed them or not. . Hff .. discussed : the ' County Health Officer matter . and aaid'-the ' board bad shown partisanship here again. He took a little wirl at na-.' tional pelitics, Ulked about the tar- iff and closed by asking bis opponent to give anaccount of his steward' '. "J snip. ; , ;;, r : When Mr,' Wheatly arose "to speak he was' greeted with a tremendous burst of applause and , without any t ' preliminaries he waded' into the dis. f' eussion. , He said the county bust . ness was divided into three aubdivi- sions: the Board of Commissioners, i the Board of Education ' and the " - Board . of Elections ; . the two Utter . 4 are dominated by the Democrats. He said every dollar paid for education was disbursed by the Board of "Edu , ' cation aed the Commissioners had ' ' noth'ing todo with the natter. Re ; publicans here have favored -educa-. j I tion; Democrats have opposed-, it. He. got tremendous applause when '. he stated ' that the fight forschool t In "BeauTort several , years' back the Democratic leaders opposed the bond issue and went so. far as to register i and vote forty. negroes against it. - .-wMr. Wheatly discussed "thoroughly county tax matters, .showed thst the ', county rate is 45 cents on the hun ' ! ; dred that the school rate bad, been i advanced to 60 cents. He slid th4 i preceeding Board .of Commissioners bad collected $52,709 and that bis ' board bad collecUd $49,700,88 . In taxes. Under the preceeding board the County Home bad coat $7,709r , 0$ and under the present board it bad cost $4,137.07. Old board bad ftiade a lot of obligations which the new boaad bad to pay amounting to $178,000. The new board has . spent only (22,000 of bond money. He discussed revaluation briefly, paid his respects to 01d:.; Hoss" ;: Watts, touched on the schools again saying the county had bought bonds for Da vis, Stacy and Sea Level schools and sat down amid great applause. ; ' . Mr. Hamilton began rejoinder by saying he was glad the Republican leader favored education, the Repub licans in the ' State always opposed itv;:;:y;; C He discussed the County " Home more' than any thing' else in his re joinder. Said MrJ Wheatlys figures were misleading, that the former su perintendent got $ 75 a month against $100 for the new man and that he raised a lot of hogs, potatoes and so on, He talked about revaluation a little, .said the commissioners ' have failed to ; economize and their, sins were sins of omission and after run. a few minutes oyer time closed md applause. ;-vkA ;'fC " :i -'' ' . In his rejoinder Mr. Wheatly was very -vigorous" and 4; effectiyeJ(.:tHe took up the County Home matter a galn, showed that the former Keep er's salary was a little less but' that his pay roll was a great deal-more amounting to $2,243. He said that the inventory of what the former superintendent bad raised did hot in clude the bed bugs which the grand Jury's report showed were there. This brought a great roar from the crowd and also a remonstrance from-Mr. Wiley the former superintendent 61 the home who came on the rostrum and spoke ta Mr. Wheatly.., After this' interruption" the speaker ' Vent into discueition of the cost of roads and. bridges comparing ; the present administration with the former one and showing that .the work" waa be-1 mg.aone aow xor. iesst iis me having ended he closed with an el oquent appeal to the voters of the 'county and was liberally applauded and congratulated.' - -V - Judrine from the ' applause the audience " at- the .debate must have been fully two thirda Republican. Comments heard on all jsides after the discussion showed . that' the .gen eral opinion was that Mr. Wheatly had decidedly the better of . the dis- failed completely to make good, its charges of .wastefulness, incompet ence and pinhead partisanship" REPUBLICAN SPEAKINGS. Superior Court which Is in session-. - ' . this weeW has Interf erred somewhat Uth the political campaign now going on ' in the county but nevertheless both - Democratic x and ; Republican spell binders have gotten in some work and will continue to do so for the rest of the week. "The Repub lican nominee for Congress Reverend T. J. Hood has spoken in number of places , in the county to large au diences. He spoke this afternoon in the county court room here and to- Light he U to speak in Morehead City Friday night he will visit Atlantic and Saturday afternoon he closes his campaign In the county at Newport, , Saturday night C R. Wheatly and other candidates .will address the ' voters of Straits. , County Welfare Officer Jas. Wallace Mason and W. G. Mebane! will speak to the 'voters of HarkerV. Island Saturday night. Next Monday E. Walter - Hill and other candidate! Will speak at Bogue, and CT R. Wheatly and others Will at the aama time visit Peuetier. Tuesday night Mr. HU1 will go to Eldorado and Jfr. Wheatly will be at Holly ,, Springs. -Wednesday - night Messrs Jas. W. Mason and W. G. Mebant are scheduled to speak at Sea Level. r;.; ; 'i, , ... '' '- -'.-.. ' '' The production of erimeoa elover seed in the United States baa never equaled the planting require meats in this country and considerable quan UtJes -are mportsd each ; year from France and Germany, according U the Unltei States Department of Ag riculture. , r TOBACCO PRICES IN ' - SEPTEMBER .WERE GOOD ..RALEIGH, N. C. -Thirty nine markets , reported operations during September with 81 active warehouses Price during the month hae aver aged $25.15, or $3.22 better than the average for September last year.- '5 The Meban. market reported $31. 85, theliighest average price during the month, though the amount ' -of sales on this market has been very small. ; The Wilson market reported producerssales during the month a mountihg to 1168,926. pounds. This was 8,600,000 more than wag mar keted there during c September;' last year,, and the prices have been bet ter on this market than they were then. ; All sales included in this re port cameirom the independent ware bouses, To ; date,: this department has been unable to. secure any report frm thisCooperative Marketing As sociation. V':y':fK'&'. '":; S : There were eight ; warehouses op erating during the month that have failed ,to send in a report for which probable sales would make the pro- aucers total about '48,000,000 paunds for the month... v . - - The quality of the tobacco crop at time of harvest was 78.9 Der cent Of a normal. The heavy early rains followed by - the severe-1 drought through the tobacco belt resulted in a very light weight crop, though the color of the leaf has been good. Rmrkt rvas Warcboniamaa ' Quality poor at average" Farm- ers pleased with prices." "Crop half sold" '- "Green from second growth oa account of too much rain". - Aw erage grades' ; "MosUy 1pm"' "Bet. ter grades coming now" "Large pper cent of oiferoings .. for September were primings -wfth some good tipsif City Attorney andact as Com- little good tobacco being sold." FREE MAIL DELIVERY , , ' . STARTS NOVEMBER flRST. v: ' " '. y. On and" after November the first Beaufort is to have a free mail de livery.. Messrs Eugene Carrow and W. D. Skarren who are on the civil service list will be appointed i by Postmaster '" Rsymond Wheitly as letter ; carriers.' There "Will be two deliveries' a day, one in the morning ahd one in the. afternoon. .The box es for receiving mail , have not ar rived yet but are expected soon and when they come will be installed at convenient places in the town. - The rate for drop letters will be two cents instead of no cent as it is " now, which is the rule in all, towns where free" delivery ia observed 'After1 the new service starts the nostoffice "will not' be opened after 6 P M. or any purpose whstever. 'Under , the ( : ar range ment it is likely that there will be a considerable falling off in the attendance at the postoffice at the' time of the incoming mait Of course 1. -JV-. A il. I . P f wisn. w gw .mau . . . M 1 a ' Pomc ouuomg nere u rawer smau , Z. VT 1 r: Jt r v and it .is tholught ... that -the new , arrangement, will relieve the conges tion there considerably." ;j ; it SPEAKER' LOST HIS WATCH. '. Political campaigners have a vari ety of experiences some of which are pleasant and some not quite that way. Sometimes the weather is bad, their ears may break down or get stuck ia the mud other disagreeable things happen. Mr. E. Walter Hill Repub- jlican nominee for the Legislature had 'rather a unusual one recently when he . lost his valuable watch. While delivering a speech at Otway he kid his watch down on a desk in front of him In order that he might not speak too long... When be -'finished . his sneech ' he forrot about the watch (end left it on the desk. . Discovering his loss after leaving the building he came back to look for it and found that it was'jrone. He hopes whoever found, the watch did not know that it was his and that upon ascertaining that fact will restore it to him. BROUGHT HOMX FOR BURIAL. The body of Dr.-John Stewart of Washington, D. C was brought bare Tuesday on the way '. to ' Straits for burial. Dr. Stewart died a few days ago after a protracted iHnesa. He has a number of relatives iand friends' ta this county who' greatly mourn bis death. v-v. 41. SUPERIOR COURT I IN SESSION NOW Criminal Docket Light .'And , Soon Disposed of Few Re-, r. ceive Road Sentences . ,--.A one week's term of Superior Conrt convened here Monday et 11 v 80 o'clock. Judge Thos. U Calvert of Raleigh who is presiding over the courOn the charge to the jury, ex plained the functions of that body, referred to some of the acts that con. stitute crime and sUted that, a greater respect for the law'w need, ed fully as much as law enforcement, Toq many violate laws thinking it is all 4-ight to do so if they can manage to get by with it. ' r : $ Mr. ' Alvin ' L." Hamilton of More bead was presented to the court by Mr.'' Chas. L. Abernethy and ' was sworn in as a practicing attorney by the 7udge who made appropriate re marke as to the responsibility and duties" of the legal prof esion. ; ; ,. 'The 'criminal docket at this term of Court was rather ."light and , was disposed of in the first two days of the session and some - other, matters transacted besides..'. A number . of the ; criminal cases werecontinued for one. reason or another. -'The In junction proceedings ' ' started some weeks ago against Mayor C. H. Busb all and City Attorney G. W. Dun can were heard by the Court. Judge Calvert stated hat it was clear to his ; mind that .'no ' moral : turpitude had been shown In either of the cases but he tiought that Mr. Dun caij could not legally bold the office As to Mayor Bushall's doing the work of inspecting the " sewer construction 1 that he' would hold that this did not constitute two1 offices but .' that be could, not draw a salary -as Mayor and as inspector also, i He would 1 have to give up one job or the Other, jbut be need not pay back the money 'paid him for the inspecting up to the time the. Injunction vu started. . The following cases on this crim inal docket were continued or other wise disposed of iZpi v ?C -''''' i' 4T T: Garner, anji Luther Garner trespass eetin'aed.;f'.:if Alex' Curtis and Joa Blount violat- ing shell fish jsw, fCoAtihued. ; i - B. B. Garner assault with 'deadly weapon 'continued. S ' "' , J ? J M. F. Sperr abaiideanent, continu ed under former "order." -;:5t,''.T v Carl Gabriel, trespass, continued Julius' Dunn, larceny continued. '.; Jno. Hester, larceny, continued - ? Josepb Eldred, violating shell fish law, continued. V -,,;,', -lb Jno. E. Willis, assault continued ' Jas F. Webb, trespass, centinued.- Enoch Small, carrying concealed nA T.-,...., - o. Dickinson, felling mortgage nrooerty. continued. . Victor Gabriel, , and Frank Taylor disturbing the peace, continued. . ... - . - . . TnQt vio- lating stock lsw, remanded to. . Jus tice H. D. Norcom. " i . ' ' ' A. C.Darling, violating prohibi tion law ontinued.;t - " William Bell, larceny, guilty four months of Green county roads. W- - Charlie Johnson; passing worthless check, capias and continued. Henders sndMobley, fornication and adultery, continued. . .. - Robt Hudgms, Lester Newkirk and W. C. Davis, violating prohibi tion lawj continued as to Hudgins, Newjcirk and Davis, plead guilty sen tenced to four months on Green conn ty roaos.. ':- - . i Joe O'Neal weapon, four assault with deadly rlod of compulsory school" attendan months on Green eoun-'ee from 8 to,T years, ', ty roads. . ' ' . " W JL Willis, plead' guilty to mis treatingVhis wife let off with cost of Case. "-'v: ' .' . 1 Albert Willis,' exposing his person undaly, let off wi.th payment of costs, v Henry Johnson, David Lewis, Key GaskilL (disturbing public , worship, capias and continued. " .The grand jury made its inspection of the courthouse, vjail and County Home yesterday, foond every thing in good order. The Jury was com posed of the following: H. B. Sal ter, foreman, D. N. McCain, Henry V. Harris, W. Z. McCabe, Jno. W. Willis, Levy J. Goodwin, Elmer Wil lis, -Lores , Mason, Ralph Mason, J Claude Garner, B W; Harderty, T. TOBACCO FARMERS ON . " TRIAL AT NASHVILLE ' RALEIGH,, Oct. 16 With jthe largest array of counsel ever seen in any civil . case of recent years in Eastern North Carolina the suit of the Tobacco Growers Coopeative As sociation against ' Z. A. Harrell; and W. T; Jones, 'alleged contract break ers and members of the hsr caamm. tive came to. a close at Nashville 14 Friday after more than a thousand farmers from all parts of Eastern itforth Carolina had crowded the court house, during the greater pat of three days. . '1 , Never had such interest in any civ. il case in this section been evidenced by so many people as hung upon the words of opposing counsel which rep resented the best lawyers of the State and included such names ' as H. G. Connor, ' Jr., of Wilmington," Frank Spruill, Jos. B. Ramsey and L.' , V. Bassett -of Rocky. Mount for the de fense; Aaron Sapiro and Lawrence Levy ol Sanfrancisco, James H. Pou of Raleigh, Stephen Cj Bragaw ; of Washington and W. T.' Joyner from Raleigh for the Association. '. .. - Judge Frank Daniels after. a three day hearing of the case reserved de cision until this week with the state. men"I have had no case in my court l that Involved greater Issues or' one that 'was discussed with, more ability and learning by counsel, t. The very able argument of the law yers for the defense was largely cen-J tered on what they termed the un constitutionality of of the law and the creation of what they argued would become a monstrous monoply in tobacco which they .claimed would threaten the welfare of North Caro lina anil, the United States,' Vi The : lawyers defending Harrell and Jones, who plead not. guilty to a orecn coni-r-cw poHMu un w we case ox uarreu tnat ne w m partnership with a non-member and that, therefore, it ' would not affect the other, namely, Bv F. Eagles, who is not s member ofthe Association. .- Int the case of Jones It was pointed out that he has tenants who are not members of the- Association and that it would be difficult to make' an in junction apply to Urn without affect ing the rights of his' tenants, mong the many supporters .- ; Affidavits and testimony to this ef fect that Jones and Harrell hid sign ed the contract unconditionally as bona fide members of the tobacco cooperative -were presented by the attorneys for .the Association and James H, Pou of Raleigh . made a xorceiui piea zor tne integruy ox tne contract, stating 1 that ; the ', coopera tives were asking no public favors, were spending no- public money and had no.; selected mn1beT8hip, , Its only capital is the loyalty of Ameri can vcitizens land the good, faith of North Carolinians.4 Take that away from them ind the cause of the co operative :was hopeless, he declared. . INCREASE IN ENROLLMENT. Approximately 60,000 more child ren attended' "the public ' schools of North Carolina during the terms 1921 22 then' during the 192021. That is to say at a rough setimate, something like' 443,000 children be tween the ages of 7 and 14 were In public schools In this State last year f as against 883,000 between the ages of 8 and 14 enrolled the year pre ceding. These figures are based up on those from 05 counties reporting to the State Superintendent, of Pub lic Instruction. , In these 65 conn ties there has been an increase of 40,000 children enrolled since ; the extension of the age limit of the pe- W TRIAL AT MOREHEAD CITY. MOREHEAD CITY, Oct 14 A case of local interest came . up be fore the Judge Jas. R. Bell to-day. State vs James Willis and Dan Finer charging the i : defendants ; with as sault oa Mr) and Mrs.. Standi pock. Attorney C. R Wheatley of Beaufort appeared for the State and Attorney Lather Hampton for the defendants. The court found the defendant guil ty, and fined Dan Piner $30 and Jas. Willis $20 and cost E. Gibbe, P. D.1I arphy, W. J. Jobn son wss special officer .in. charge of the jury NORTH CAROLEJA CROP IfclTS Tobacco Shows an Increase Al- so Sweet Potatoe and Irish Potatoes are Plentiful (By Frank Parker) RALEIGH, (Oct, 14-TOBACCO :.rAB:;fncreasa;;6f U per cent In the tobacco acreage, and a slight increase . of yield, at 607"pounds per acre, in- " sures an increased production of a bout 22 per cent The average prices on the auction markets are not yet equal to those of last; year. The total value of the crop is less than two per cent more. The value-per acre is $152.80, based on the prestnt information available. This over two per cent Jess ( than it was last , season, ' WHITE (IRISH) POTATOES'' Irish potatoes are too abundant this year. Great stocks are going Into storage and many left to rot. This state' late, crop is grown 1 primarily in the western counties. ' The com bined eisly and late crons occunv ... ' about the same acreage, ; have the same yield nd production as last fseason, ; The value, however, is much . less. At 75 cents per ' bushel.' it would , mean an 87.5 bushel yield, ' $65.25 per-arce-value, and 4,025,- " 000 bushels mean $3,018,00 value. ' They were worth twice as much last ," sesson. '. h;;. ;':.;; ''.-'.. SWEET POTATOES The atfre-L- age of sweet potatoes was increased four per cent, as well as the yield. The price has declined rapidly and an over-suply is reaching many markets. This Southern sweet poUto is not ap predated in the North because they . do not know how to cook them. As with prunes and raisins, the demand ' mugt be cre. At 75 cenU p mMt th, ver,e, 0f J06 busb. els will be worth $79.85 this year, if sold.' ' ':-:j"l" ; ' 'vi PEANUTS As the digging of pea' nuts is just begun and the previous weather was so ' unfavorable in the commercial northeastern counties, it is difficult to estimate the results. The acreage was reduced; 'the yield expec-. ted will be perhaps nearly 900 pounds per acre, giving approximately 115, 000,000 pounds production; which, at WO pounds, wUl give 1,280,000 bags in this, state if all were, marketed. There is quite a large acreage that is not pocked and-not counted in .the. above. ' . . '. VV ', y ;-V , ;, .; ' ; HAY The wet-weather and pros pests of failures of several crops has' resulted in far more hay than was expected. This is particularily true in -the eastern -half of the StateThe yield,! as well as the acreage, ia in creased. It .will be needed to .tide the farmers " Over an'- 'unprofitable year. Many acres of soy. beans, in-' tended for picking, have been cut for hay. i The same , was true of - cow peas, .Xrab grass , , mixtures , have been unusually good, ... ' ," -' - In spite of the adverse wet and dry Weather - extremes ' experienced here this year, we have already reach ed the goal ahead of last year In sev-' ersl crops and ure to get there with 0thersVO"''y:. '-''-t ; CORN Corn at 80 per cent of a- full crop (s better then last year,' ex- cepting in certain drowned-out areas of eastern counties and In excessive-; ly dry parts of central sections. ,. ," OATS Oats are much the same at 86 per cent .quality on the same acreage, but much better in yield at 22 bushels per acre, when last year they averaged only 18 bushels,' but the overage is lower et 63 centl. The total crop value tanks us with th average state.'..;,; -.-,' ; .;','-: The area has been much the same for three years, as also was the yield per sere. The total production of barley misses 50,000,000 bushels, but the value of the .present crop is a bout 20 per cent more' at 96 cents per bushel than Jast year's. On the per. sere basis of $18.43 at present quite an mprovement is apparent over the $16.05 of a year ago.' The state's rank in total value Is perhaps 13th. ' COTTON The large increase of 12 per cent in the acreage of cotton to be picked this year, over a year ago dosen't net pearly the production 780,000 bales, made last year ?7e 000, but the average price is better it having increased, whereas it de creased during the previous season. The 218 pounds this year mean an1 j Continued on page five) . - r i i J ''-' ;A V