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State Library X W. ' . .uur label and pay your subscription L.. t adv.r sing medium published in Carteret Co. HEADING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY VOLUME XIV THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 12, 1925. NUMBER ELEVEN 1 ft M 4: J 5-J Economy The Slogan Of General Assembly Taxes Were Raised To Take Care Of The Ten Million Deficit. Governor McLean Succeeded In Having Twenty Three Measures Enacted Into Law Beaufort News Bureau 306 THE VANCE. (By R. E. POWELL) Raleigh, Mar. 11th A legislature that in many respects has been epoch making has gone home where the members expect to be applauded for their conduct during the past sixty days. Undoubtedly they will be. Every reflex of public sentiment, which has come to Raleigh from the precincts far and near, indicates that the State at large liberally approves what this general assembly has done. The body adjourned Tuesday night at 11:30 o'clock. It has been an unusual body in that it has added little to the burdens of the tax payers and yet, anomalous as the thing seems, taxes in the revenue bill which it passed have been raised fifty per cent. But then there's a $10,000,000 deficit which the McLean administration inherited when it came into power. Most every move that' it has made has been in the direction of economy. Not all of them may pan out exaitly as the governor and the legislature hope for but many of them will show a reduction in the operating cost of the State government. It will take some weeks yet to ap praise the work of the law makers and it may be months before the State knows whether, in a zealous effort to inaugurate economies of administration, it has not brought on conflicts. Safeguards, however, a gainst such mishaps have been at tempted and when the fiscs.1 year be gins on July 1 next a real, honest-to-goodness business administration will ge under way. Every Measure Adopted Every single one of the twenty three major measures proposed by Governor McLean to the General As sembly were enacted into law and practically every one of the number without opposition in either branch of the General Assembly. The one piece of legislation which His Ex cellency mentioned in his inaugural, e bill to provide for the creation cf a board of pardons, was withdrawn on the governor's own motion and a- gainst the advice of its champions in the House. There was a flaw in the bill which the governor did not feel he had time to cure before adjourn ment and he insisted on withdrawing it. In the meantime, however, he ex pects much of the burden of pardon cases to be taken oft" his shoulders by a pardon attorney, the apointment of which was authorized by the legis lature. He declared yesterdoy that he had not been able to give sufficient consideration to this matter to say who would be appointed. In place of Judge J. Lloyd Horton, of Farmville, who resigned while holding cout in Wilmington this week, Governor McLean promptly named Albion Dunn, well known Greenville lawyer. Make Other Appontments The appointment was made almost instantanter and was followed by the sending to the Senate of the names of the members of the ( nlarg e& prison board., Chairmar Jas. A. Leake, of Wadesboro, and Richard M. Chatam, of Elkin, were re-appointed on the prison board and the new members are Henry K. Burgwyn, of Jackson ; A. E. White, of Lumberton, John M. Brewer, of Wake Forest, Preston Wilson, of Warsaw, and Ben B. Everett, of Palmyra. Governor McLean said this after noon that the increased act vity of the prison made a larger board nec essary to the more business like func tioning. It is bis purpose to ask the chairman to divide the board into comittees of two members so that supervision of the Central prison, of the two prison farms and of the new program for adding industry at the prison. (Conitnued on page five) 4, j. .v.'', " '"'""'"'"'T'" -MtvLn ,... . .....,, .. ..... . ...... . REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. W. I. Willis and wife to County Board of Education, tract in Smyrna Township, consideration $1466.66. C. C. Piner and wife to Jessie Pin er, tract in Smyrna Township, con sideration $75. j C. C. Piner and wife to Jesse Pin er tract in Smyrna Township, consid eration $75. I Chas. Hancock apd wife to F. E. :Willson lot 05 in Beaufort Heights, 'consideration $125. Geo. C. Womans and wife to F. E. jWillson lot 23 in Beaufort Heights, consideration $425. ! W. L. Standi to Willis Sea food Co., tract in town of Beaufort, con sideration $25. I Jno. G. Cox and wife to R. T. Al len et al 1-24 tract in White Oak Township, consideration $10. E. J. Becton and wife to D. W. Winbourne 1-24 tract in White Oak Township, consideration $250. ! W. B. Gains and wife to Clem L. Garner, tract in Newport Township, consideration $10. j Clem L. Garner and wife to W. B. Garner tract in Newport Township, consideration $10. Cape Lookout Development Co., to Geo. R. Faller lot 12 in Harkers Is land Township, consideration $25. i Jno. W. Gillikin and wife to R. H. Styron tract in Hunting Quarter Township, consideration $5. ' S. W. Robinson and wife to R. H. Styron tract, in Hunting Quarter Township, consideration $25. ! Caroline Willis to J. F. Hamilton tract in Hunting Quarter Township, eonsderaton $1. 1 F. L. Mozingo and wife to J. C. Pratt and wife tract in Morehead City Township, consideration not shown. E. A. Council to R. H. Dow dy lot 16 in block 78 part of lets 9 and 10 in block 6. in Morehead City, consideration $3700. ! B. H. Eaton and wife to Richard B. Allen Land Co., tract "in Morehead Township, consideration $1. I Jas. S. Whitehurst to D. H. Lewis part lot 29 Beaufort consideration $1560. DEMOLISHING OLD BUILDINGS AND PREPARING FOR NEW In a very short time now work will start on the fine filling station which the Standard Oil Company is to erect at the foot of Turner street and Front. Good prcgrers is being made in tearing down the old structures that have stood there for many years. These three buildings were bought by Mr. I. E. Ramsey who is moving the lumber to vacant lots that he owns where he will make some use of them. Mr. B. A. Bell will move his jewelry store to the building at the corner of Front and Craven streets formerly occupied as offices by Dr. C. L. Swindell. He will stay in this place until the Bank of Beaufort is ready to turn over to him the build ing it now occupies. Mr. H. V. Daniels of Norfolk branch manager of the Standard Oil Company was in town Tuesday look ing over the ground and arranging to start construction. He pays that in respect to convenience and beauty the building which his company will erect will compare favorably with the best in the State. FIRE IN RESTAURANT 1 An alarm of fire Sunday night at about eight o'clock brought a large crowd to the Arlington cafe on Tur ner street. There was a tremendous amount of smoke but very little fire. An oil cooking stove had gotten flood ed and the vapor caught fire. Some one turned in an alarm and the fire truck responded in a few minutes but found little to do. The princip 1 da mage done perhaps consisted in the fact thtt about half of the congrega tions left the churches when they be::l he alarm. ANGRY HUSBAND BEATS MILK MANi Norcom-Springle Case Attract ed Ligr Crowd To Mayor's Court Monday A somewhat sensational case in Mayor's court Monday afterri' drew a large crowd of interested spec tators. In the absence of Mayjor Thomas L. J. Noe Mayor pro tern presided. The trial of George Nor- com for an assault upon Leslie jSpringle was the main feature of the court. It appared from the evidence that Ion Saturday morning at about 7 o' clock Mr. Norcom, who runs a butch ler's shop on Broad street opposite the court house square, called Mr. Springle into his place. After get ting Springle jnto the store Norcom accused him of having insulted his wife and proceeded to attack mim jwith his fists, beating him up consid erably. Springle offered practically no resistance. After he had beaten Springle Norcom unlocked the door an diet him out giving him a parting kick as he left. ! Mr. Norcom Etated that the reason he attacked Mr. Springle was that his wife told him on Sunday night Springle had asked her to go to ride with him. Mrs. Norcom went on the stand and asserted that she knew Springle well and that he did ask her to go to ride. Mr. Springle denied that he had asked Mrs. Norcom to go to ride with him Sunday night or any other time. He was in town Sunday night and went back at an early date to the Hancock-Huntley dairy which he runs. Two colored men, John and Lem Harper who were with him and who worked at the dairy swore that he did not speak to any woman while in town. Mayor Noe decided that as no deadly weapons were used in the assault a fine of f 10 and costs' would be sufficient which was the sentence rendered. Other cases were disposed of as follows: G. W. Fulford, drunk, two cases, $3.90 and costs in each esse. Stephen Dudley, Floyod ItoV'ivon. Will Mason, Charles Si'th, drunk, judgment suspended on payment cl costs. i Brady Gillikin, Barney Dixon and Price Johnson fighting. Judgment suspended on payment of costs as to Dixon and Johnson, and Gillikin went free. Pete Davis, profanity, judgment suspended on payment of costs. All convicted will have to work 5. days on the street if costs are not paid. ICE PLANT STOPS PRODUCTION TEMPORARILY An explosion of a steam evaporator at the plant of the Eeaufort Ice Company last Saturday morning caused seme excitement but for tunately no great damage was done. Elijah Hardesty a colored employe was burned about the face to some extent but not dangerously so. The explosion wrecked some ammonia pipes and a good deal of ammonia wi:s lost. The plant is now being remodell ed and these pipes would have been taken out any way in a few days. New equipment which will double the capacity of the plant is now on the way. In the meantime no ice is be ing manufactured or will he until the new machinery has been inst ill ed. SWEET POTATOES BRING i $2.50 PER BUSHEL ! Southport, March 10 The success of the Brunswick county cured sweet potato continues to be assured. In stead of the old way of being forced to sell their sweet potatoes as soon as matured, and thereby getting a low price because of all producers being in the market at the sametime, or holding what they could not sell and feeding their potatoes to the hogs the farmers now have an endless market season, through the curing process. A few days ago, a buyer visited the lower section of this countyand bought enough of these cured sweet potatoes to make up a carload lot. And the price was a pretty fair one, $2.50 per bushel RURAL SCHOOLS SOON TO HAVE NEW EXECUTIVE Superintendent Wrfght Will . Leave July The First For A New Field SCHOOLS HAVE PROGRESSED The important duty of selecting a superintendent for the rural schools of Carteret county will soon rest upon the new board of education. County Superintendent M. L. Wright has been offered and has accepted a position in the faculty of the N. C. Training College at Greenville. Mr. Wright's term in Carteret county will expire July the first. The new board of education is composed of W. H. Taylor of Eeaufort, J. R. Morris of Atlantic and Charles Webb of More head City. It is rumored that there will be several applications for the position; of county superintendent. Mr. Wright's new position cairies with it an increase of salary of $1000 m6re than he is now receiving. It may be of some interest to read ers of the News to know what prog ress has been made in the rural schools in the past four years which is the period Mr. Wright has had charge of the rural schools. In 1920-21 the value of all rural school property was $36,500; now it is es timated at $238,000. There were no brick school buildings in the rural sections then, now eleven new build ings have been erected and several of them are of brick construction. In 1920-21 there were 69 teachers now there are 80 teachers. Fojr years ago there were enrolled 1861 white children and 222 colored pu pils. Now there are on the rolls 2518 white and 242 colored pupils. There were no standard high schools in the Tural section then now there aV ihree sucb nlgh BehooI's. In 1920 very little aid was gotten from the State's equalizing fund. This year the county draws $29,800 from the State for maintenance of ru.T.l schools. The salaries of teachers have been advanced all over the State and this has resulted in con siderable improvement in the quality of the teaching force in this county as well as elsewhere. Athletic asso ciations and other organizations have been effected in many of the rural schools and greater interest in the schools on the part of both pupils and parents has been aroused. LOWER CAPE FEAR WILL GET $338,000 Wilmington, March 5 Cape Fear liver below Wilmington will receive $338,000 and other streams in North Carolina $87,000 according to the recommendations of the chief of en gineers and of the United .States dis trict engineer here, as imboriitd k; the rivers and harbors bill which lus been passed and yesterday received the signature of President Coclidgo. Recommendations for t';e 30 foot Cape Fear river bar channel and oth er improvements called for appro priation of $220,000 while $118,000 would be expended for maintaining. Cape Fean river below Wilmington would be allotted $9,500, Northe-isi branch of Cape Fear $4,000. Other appropriations reco.mendi-d by the engineers include: k'euufort to Jacksonville, $23,150. Beaufort harbor, $16,250; Cure Sound, $7,100; Morehead City, $5,000; Trent river. $2,500; Contentnea creek, $1,500; Pamlico and Tar rivers $18,250. The engineers estimated ih;:t it would cost $2,162,00 for completion of the harbor of refuge at Lookout Eight, but no request was made for such an appropriation in the rivers and harbors bill, it is stated. POSTAL RATES CHANGED 1 In order to meet the demand for increased pay for postal employes postal rates have been advanced. The rate on post cards will be two cents each and there have been changes in money orders, registry fees and parcels post. The new rates go into effect April 15th. Full information can be obtained by any one who is interested at the local ! postoffice. SUPERIOR COURT i ENDS SUDDENLY! Few Cases Tried. Others Con- j iinued. Judge BamhiU's Wife Is Sick One of the shortest terms of Su- perior Court ever held in Carteret county took place this week. Court opened at 11:30 Monday morning, or ganized and then recessed for an hour and adjourned at a quarter tojwnich s to take place next Tuesday four. It was in session less than ;has increased considerably in the past three hours. The adjournment was ten days. At first opponents of the due mainly to the fact that Judge. new building said the bond issue Barnhill's wife is sick and he said jWould be beaten by a tremendous that under the circumstances he did majority and did not take the elec not feel that he could hold court ,tion very seriously. However it has with any satisfaction to himself or developed that only about three anybody else. Then too owing to fourths of the voters have registered the absence of attorneys E. H. Gor- and so the majority cannot be large ham and Alvah Hamilton it was nec- either for or against the proposition. ess;jry to continue several cases to indications are that the contest is the June term. ' going to be a close one. i When the registration books clos- ! Court convened at 11:30 and the ed Saturday aftenoon 685 persons Judge delivered a short charge to the had been recorded on the books by grand jury, calling attention to the registrar Thos. S. Martin. Of these importance of the office of grand jur- there were aproximately 310 women or and explaining the duties thereof. and 375 men- As to how they win Mr. Gus Felton was chosen foreman vote no one knowg but those who and Mr. Herbert Forlaw was sworn are working for the school say that in as special deputy. Some criminal they expef;t to get a good majority cases were continued but others were of the wonlen and hope to at ,east disposed of by submission or other- break even with the men. Oppon wise as follows: !ents of the school have one advan- i John Murray having whiskey in tage in that they do not have to vote his possession, plead guilty. He was at all. If a registered voter stays sentenced to three months in jail and away from the polls that is the same the sheriff was instructed to work thing exactly as voting against the him on the roads of Carteret county bond issue. Those who favor the if arrangements to do so could be proposition have to put their votes in made, otherwise he is to go to Lenoir the ballot box if they want them to county. count. James Harris, assault, true bill and j , A mass meeting to consider the continued. school question was held in the I Ira Hamilton injury to personal school auditorium last Friday night, property, continued. Tie attendance was rather small but Dave Smith, abandoment, capias Practically all who were present and continued. seemed to be enthusiastic for the new , W, F. Bell, violating prohibition h'Eh school. Chairman of the board law, plead guilty, prayer fcr judge- f trustees U. E. Swann presided ov ment continued to June term, must er the meeting and explained the. give $400 bond. P'an r the new building which he Hanse Wiggins, violating prohibi- said would cost complete about $70, tion law, called and failed. 00- Superintendent Pittman gava Tom Noe, larceny, cont'nued to interesting facts as to the school and June term under his own recogniz- its needs. Dr. G. W. Lay heartily ance. endorsed the plan of building the new Richard Willis, violating fisheries scho0' and said the eastern part of regulations, plead guilty, judgment the town was the place to build be suspsnded cn payment of costs. cause that was the only way the town : E. Dorsev Willis, same as above. can row- He said that if St. Paul's Isaac Frazier, violating prohi bition law, continued to June term. William Bell, violating prohibition law, called and failed. MAY SKIP EGGS IN CAR LOAD LOTS 1 County Farm Agents from five have some speakings at savsral street counties held an egg and poultry con- crners. ference in New Bern Wednesday the Mu,t Have Laboratory avta Librr.ry 4th. The object of this meeting was A letter that has an impoitunt to consider plans for getting egsrs bearing on the school question has re from this section shipped to the big cently been written by J. Henry markets in car load lots. Renresen- Highsmith, Supervisor of High tatives from Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow and Pamlico counties were present. T. W. Heitz of the U. S. ' Bureau of Matkets was present end ' offered cooperation with the county agents in the undertaking. On account of its central location Beaufort, N. C. New Bern is the proper place for col- My dear Sir: lecting the eggs, so Mr. Heitz stated. . I have your letter of the 5th in The plan is to collect eggs from the stant, with reference to the rating surrounding territory and keep then; cf your school. The Beaufort Hign in cold storage until a car load 400 School can not be retained on the ac cuses has been secured when they credited list unless satisfactory ar will be shipped to some bi city, rangement is made for library and Farmers and others are asked to gath- laboratory. There must be a sepa er their eggs while they are fresh and rate room for laboratory and r!so a clean and turn them over to retail separate room for library. The lab merchants who will send them to New oratory must, of course, be properly Bern for storage. No eggs have ev- equipped so that satisfactory work er been shipped from this section in can be done. The library room must car lots, although some poultry has be suitable for library purposes. It been shipped. In the Middle West should not only be large enough to and Far West eggs and poultry are house the books properly, but it handled in this way and it is claimed should .serve also as a reading room thi;t results have been very satisfac- for high school students. I hope tory. County Agent Hugh Over- such steps will be taken as will make street will be glad to furnish informa-'it unnecessary to remove the Beau tion about the egg shipping plan tof0rt High School from the accredit any one who is interested in the mat-led list. .ter. I Let me know if I can be of any as- Itistance. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER. I With all cood wishes. I am. Born to Mr. and Mrs. M::thew T. Owens on Tuesday morning a daugh ter Virginia Dare Owens. SCHOOL CAMPAIGN DRAWS TO CLOSE INTEREST GAINS Registration Books Closed Sat- urday Only About Three Fourths Voters Registered ri FfTTnN NFVTI TrtctnAV Interest in the school election School should stop that the town would have to provide school facili ties for more than 100 additional children. Others who spoke in favor of the plan were Reverend L. B. Eoney, J. A. Hornaday Jr., F. R. See!t v nnd Vv- G Mebane. Before the campaign closes it is planned to Schools to Superintendent Pitiman. The letter reads as follows: Department of Public Instruction State cf North Carolina Raleigh, N. C. March 8, 1925. Superintendent C. W. E. Pittman, . Cordially yours, J. Henry Highsmith, Supervisor of High Schools. To the Citizens of Beaufrt: (Continued on page eight)
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