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VOLUME XIV
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY APRIL 2 1S25
NUMBER FOURTEEN
SIX CAPTURED BY
OFFICERS MONDAY
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
OPPOSITION IS
Raid On Broad Street House
Bags Men, Women And
Liquor
The following real estate trans-,
fers have been recorded by Register
of Deeds Jno. W. Hamilton since last I
Thursday: i
Wm. Walton ft al to J. F. iw Governor Says
4 tracts Beaufort Township, consid-j
eration $10. j
STATE NEWS
VENERABLE CITIZEN DIES.
One of Beaufort's oldest snd be-':
"ATTT AF T TWIT)
tUUl Ur LLtil., Items Of Interest From Various known sitizens passtd awa' Satur"
' s Parts of North Carolina day moing at 7:30 o'clock when
j William Henry Hendrick answered
Columbus M. Pace who had se-ved the last calL He was born in Adam:
f.s. Superior Court Clerk of Her.der- county Pennsylvania on the 11th of
son county for 57 yems died last SePteniber 1834 and therefore was
over ninety years of age.
INCREASE TAXES
Df mocralic
Ticket Was Elected ar.d
Democrats Should Serve
Opponent of Proposed Bond
Issue Ridicules Theory of
Non Tax Increase
j James K. Oiover to James B. Glov-i RALEIGH March 31 Rennhli Thursday. He is supposed to have over mnety years 01 ae- He came , 7" 7
number of re- er part lot 1S9 old town Beaufort, !t.ans are ..." f 'H lPUf " ' held office longer than any one else Beaufrt 1863 with the Federal Edltor of he Beaufort News:
the county jail's consideration $10. ;olina f f in' the State having been elected on army and won tne rank of lieutenant1 ""7 """ LelL"" oneswno
y Ambrose Roberts and wife to Har- far as appointments from the esecu.. ticket in 180. : m Cava , Afterwards - ZlcJZl
A considerable
cruits were added to
guests Monday aftern
of a raid made by offic
ner house at the corner of Broad and ship, consideration, $10.
are concerned
Governor A. W. McLean has an-
The Southern Power Company havCaPtain Hendrick married Miss Mary cn are, "V" that ie of
Queen streets. Sheriff T. C. Wade.j L. J. Noe and wife to Courtney .nounced that he will not annoint a comPleted plans for another big pow-Elizabeth Sabiston of Beaufort Oc
Deputy fehenft Lmmett Chaplain and Godett lot 66 old town, Beaufort, republican to the budget commission,
chief of police W. R. Longest acting consideration $80. Under the law in effect in psst years,
0.1 uuormauou irai liquor was Demg I Mitchell Davis to C. F. Davis tract the governor was charged to appoint
sold there, entered the house with a Hunting Quarter Township, consid- a republican on the hnnW. mmmU.
search warrant and placed under ar- eration 50. jsicn. The new law passed by the Lancaster county S. C
rest Mildred Bryan, Beatrice Sutton I Allen Davis et al to Rosa B. Davis 1925 general assemhlv nwri ,,. '
of New Bern, William Sparrow, Floyd et al Tract in Hunting Quarter Town that the governor shall appoint two
Hill and Roy Potter all colored. La- ship, consideration $10. members of the budget commission
ter they arrested Annie Bryan, who j C. F. Davis et al to Mitchell Davis to serve with the chairman cf the
is the landlady of the house but who tract in Hunting Quarter Township, senate and house finance and appro-
wua not present wnen tne raid was consideration $5U. priations committees,
made. A keg containing a gallon or J. H. Davis and wife to Luther
so 01 wnisKey was iound in the attic. Hamilton block 38 and 48 in More- not appoint a republican to this of-
as Mayor inomas's court was a- head City consideration $10
these bonds would not increase our
taxes, but would decrease them.
Nov this is just what we want.
Less taxes how delightful the
er development. The company now itober the 4th' 18Go antl thev navs
has twelve big plants in North and lived together as man and wife for
Smith fgnilimi Th; ...v.. i. ifalmost sixty vears. To this uninn
... vmj vinm. uiic njutll Wlli I v hn..l, l 1 I. .
cost $1,250,000 will be located i ; four children were born Ernest, th0"ght! A"a how easy and simple
! Betty, George and William one of 18 ule """ Jusl lssue oon,ls WIt"-
U'Vini Atb "Pof-tr i
Hubert Gainley a voung white man lHis widow although she has been in
out limit, no thought or fear as to
their payment. Plenty of money to
build roads and bridges, and little
or no taxes to pay! Eureka! Relief
and riches all at once! We can
easily figure that if issuing $700,000
of Sampson county was badly burned (f eble health for several years, also
a few days ago by some one who had isurvives.
a grudge against him for telling about Mr. Hendrick's death was not un-
uij 4 it. c i i i i wwwu uccu ij uunua wuuiu uecreiise our raxes ina
The governor in stating he would w,aa hId f h body was'his bed for severa, monthg. Jn hh teria! ( a
Jt appoint a renublican tn t.hi. nf. aImost roasted. Two young men' mM. 1n. v ,., t! A-t .-,nAL . ' ?
fice or other state offi., u-WA from Johnston county by the name of .,j.s .., -..l:!, .
b, . , . . . ' . . . ....6..v ... muuoniuuo man. xie was a in 11 J1UUII! g OUSl UlinK 01 If all thp
OUt to CO 111 SeslOn thp nrisnnprs Alarir V RtranA tn .Tntin V Patnn U j. j.. i. .... Thornton WPl'P I'nilllli to, In ' ...... 6 niiun Ui clll tne
,Q . ,. . 7 r . , , , r: r , " utlu""! vdLK"1' uurl"S nls aammistra- --"(wright by trade and had worked in roads of the county hard surfaced
tal?n here nd g,.Ven ,a" ,m !l0t 5 bl0lk.61 Miehead Clty COns,d- ,on said htat "the democratic party char?ed wlth the ,me. varius parts of North Carolina and and all brid.es buift. IZ
mediate hearing.
lc.mirhin i,-, :i t, c ii iitLi i i
ficeis swore that the reputation of Mary F. Stroud to J. O. Becton, rying on the state's affairs- there- Greensboro may have two new mil- I , ba " ,V"at K:al"Uae T t0
the house was bad and had been so lots 3 and 13 in block 51 Morehead f Lf democrat. Should be appoLted V dol,ar hotels in the- ture if J, Wse e"es f h-e thought of
-..v. .o.o x .-, . . hciij uiiu wne iu i. i... A move to provide for republican """"'"s 18 ul1" Beaufort The funei
One of the men William Spar, Webb Sr., lot 9 block 15 Morehead membership on the state supreme one. of the hotels and some New York attended'by the Mag
as found hiding in the attic, City, consideration $10. ! court was made in the 1925 general people are behind the other Project. linHv.H aL hv ma
iora woro in th vnnv, Mn..r I t n t lM.t j n 117 I , . . " uouy ano also Dy man
as to the circumstances of the ar
rests.
row was
me otners were in tne rooms Deiow. j. c. B. Morton and wife to C. W. assembly on the introduction cf a
All of the defendants denied having Garner, tract Newport Township, bill to effect this, but it failed to re
sold any liquor or having inisbehav- consideration $275. ceive serious consideration.
ed in any other way. The landlady I John S. Martin to Julian C. Brll
Annie Bryan said that she ran a lot 11 in Newport, consideration,
cafe on Cedar street and knew noth- $150.
raove 10 Provide tor repuDlican . ,uUU Beaufort. The funeral services were
sonic lodge in
many other citizens.
The religious exercises' were conduct-
4 K. TA..J r. TT 1- T f
onng, to raise money lor the purpose t. . , . 7 ,
r-f v,-;i;-. u..-.ui tke Methodist church and Reverend
came to burdened people!
for xnw mo TV, ((;fira J;-.-. ticn , , ... nl.nd , ,,. .... .u BU ui men a raemuer ci me u p.a", mis lax renei IOr a tax
" i", i.kiuuu ' ;io ciscnarge tnis responsibility. r ""J .nicu uui. i , , , . ,
n IP rl j a m r . ... A h'Vi Annn.. 1 : i. i.. .:u G ...v.
But, before allowing ourselves to
go intoV extasy over this magic
scheme of"our very resourceful so
lons, let us use our brain a little
consult your common sense. TW
. North Carolina has the larwst. rP. 01 building a hospital and is metting
publican vote of any southern state with considerable success". Up to
and there were in the 1925 general ltst Satur(lay $44,000 had been rais-
The town of Smithfield is end'eav-
ing about what was going on in the j C. A. Bell et al to J. C. Bell 16 assembly about 20 republican mem- ed and !t is exPet'ted to raise consid
I. E. Boney of. the Baptist church.
Interment took place in Ocean View
cemetery.
bers. As a mnt.tp. nf fat !r. !Q9n erable more.
, i
when lennessee gave its electooral !
house. Her seventeen year old acres in Newport Township, consid
and another daughter about twelve eration $150.
years old have been in charge cf the L. H. Pringle and wife to C. R. vote to Mr. Harding there were more
house. After hearing the evidence Mann et al 13 acres White Oak Town- republican votes cast in North Car
and City Attorney G. W. Duncan's ship, consideration $800. j0lina than in Tennessee but more
argument the Mayor decided to hold t democratic votes, too. The republi-
the men and women for Superior MAY DUST COTTON 'can vote of North Carolina is larger
Court. Bonds of $500 were requir- BY USING AIRPLANE than the total vote of several south
ed of Annie Bryan Mildred Bryan jern democratic and republi-
and William Sparrow; $100 bonds of Raleigh, N. C, April 1 The hum can. ' , .
Floyd Hill and Roy Potter and V0f the airplane may be heard over, ' '" ' " -
$200 bond of Beatrice Sutton. The the cotton fields of eastern Carolina FARM VALUES INCREASE
I Professor Hue-h Mnrsnn nf Rdl.
eigh, one of the best known teachers
in the State committed suicide by
cutting his throat Monday. He was
in the State hospital for the insane
where he was taken a fwe weeks ago.
MANY CLEAR DAYS
I DURING MARCH
March is entitled to credit for
some very nice weather this year.
Accnrrlind tn Wpntkof riUc...,.,... u-
sell's report there were .2 clear days" .f aCCrUed inteSest is reat in ProPor
in the month. 5 cloudy ones and
the plan look reasonable? Isit a
fact that when pur horse is strained
under a heavy load that we try to
relieve him by putting on just as
much more load? Do we not know
that when we give our note (bond)'
for money borrowed we must pay
that note some time, and pay the in
terest at stated times; and when the
amount borrowed is great the amount
prisoners were unable to give the this summer. Instead of practicing
bonds and were taken to the county for the arts of war, however, the ma-
$56,000,000 OVER 1923 ne thousand crepe myrtle trees
est temperature of the year was on
the 3rd when the. mercury dropped
to 25 above zero. On the 9th and
tion; and that must come out of out
Mr. M.rm . .bout 75 sar. , T.. T. Z V. 1 Z" , Pocket., unle. w. c.n ,,, ,
w.v. uV iur v -.j ,!, it. j , our inaeDtnessT is it not the samp
with a county or state? How then
10th it rose to 71 above zero. As
havp hfpn nlnntp in tho tnwn nf TTT.
1 " iJ' ,.c.,,l Tlf ,U .... . .
chines will be forwarding the works! Washington, March 31 American kin recently. This effort to beautify " 1 " ' was 1yle"y y anu
j :n i- j: J..4.V. - - . . ... . u ti. . - j .- x there were several rather heavy rains
jail,
nf raann onA will Ho cm.arlinfy daafh fn.M nH.Jn.nJ 1 o A n .1 Ann n.n thp tfiU'n 11'HG thp voclilt nf o li.i.m nnl
Ellis Baxter, colored charged with " - - pxuu ,ifi,,u,,Uu,uUu in " -the total for the month having been
drunkness, was given 30 days on the wef"'' that areh e"emy of the 1924, according to estimates prepar- " by the Wonan s Clua. The trees temne.'J'uJe fl"
...... -. ' . . nn,l Hpctrtlftinn tn thp onttnn nnll ,) K hn r 4. havp a nrnflls nn ,,f nint fln,irn -c mv-lies. IIIC lempt 1 J.Uie n-
city streets. W.ll Mason, charged Z:tC"Zl" Z"' 'T ' k! ' " "k" ZZ ' 1 Z 2Z 7' es for each day of the month are
with drunkness was acquitted ior lack
of sufficient evidnece
MARTIN L. WILLIS PASSES.
Southern cotton farmer. ture, indicating an increase of $56,- will be very beautiful when they be-
i W. Bruce Mabee. extension enU- 000.000 over 1923. Thp Hpnartmpnt gin to bloom.
niologist for the agricultural exten- atrributed the increase to higher
sion service of State College has ar- maiket values for certain ciops, as James Utley a whit
ranged with a commercial concern contrasted with reduced values
to give some demonstrations in the livestock products
as follows:
youth of !
nj kJimwiiiuiu v tin ai i con. u LULICT xur-
day on the charge of breaking into
Cereals accounted for S5.220.000.- safe in a hardware store. He stolp
Max.
G3
Martin L. Willis one of the lpail
imr citizens of Carteret countv died contro1 of the bo!1 weevil dustinS
at his homp in Morehead Titv with the airplane and it is likely that .000, or 45.8, percent, of the total, over a thousand dollars in money and
Friday mornin" at 2:10 o'clock. He certain groups of growers either in compared with 39.8 percent in 1923. checks. He is now in jail awaiting
had been sick for six weeks with in- Halifax and Edgecombe counties or Corn was valued at $2,890,000,000, trial.
fluenza' followed by pleurisy. He in the vicinity of Dunn may Cooper- cotton at $1,701,000,000 and hay and
was born October the 2nd 1866 His ate to have their cotton dusted by this forage at $1,733,000,000. ' Joseph A. Naedleman a travelling
widod Mrs. Stella Willis and a brother nlethod- i A decrease of $66,000,000 in the salesman, was taken from jail in V0-
J. W. Willis Jr.. survive him. Tne eomPar,y will need about six farm value of dairy products in 1924 liamstoh Sunday night by sever.;!
thousand acres of cotton in a radius was noted by the survey, the gross men, caried into the woods and a sitr
At the time of his death Mr. Willis 0f ten miles to be able to do the dust-'value for the year being $2,586,148,- gical operation performed upon him.
was chief clerk in the office of the ing effectively. The cost per acre 000. Needleman had been charged by a! 13
Fisheries Commission office which po- js about the same as for using horse ! young woman of that town with hav- 14
sition he had held for several years, machines and the work is done more FISH COMMISSION APPOINTED, ing committed a rape upon her. He ! 15
He was in the employ of the Atlan- effectively. The calcium arsenate is was badly injured but it is thought 16
tic and North Carolina Railroad for blown back down over the cotton Goveiner McLe:n has lecently an- now that he will recover. Three 18
a number of years. During the war plants by the force of the wind from nounctd appointments to hevtrai young men charged with the attack 20
he was a member of the County Ex- the propellers with such violence ;bn:.rds and commissions. The mem- on Needleman have been committed 21
emption Board and for a time was that the dust is broken into finely di- bers of the fish commission appointed to jail.
clerk of the Superior Court. Mr. vided particles that cover the piantjare J. K. Dixon, Trenton; F. S. Wur-i
Willis was well known throughout completely. Jthy, Washington ; and Geo. L. Hamp- i Brown Finch a prominent mr.nu-
Carteiet county and was highly re j Mr. Mabee states that this plant is ton, Canton to succeed themselves; facturer of Thomasville was killed ft
garded by all who came in contact not even thought of for the small 'j. Q. Gilky of Marion to succeed Dr. a railroad crossing there kvt S.i;ur-
with him . farmer but that it would be ideal.'J. C. Baum. day morning. He was waiting fur a. 27
probably, for the large landowner' freight train to clear the track and -23
S. C. DAVIS IS DEAD.
with a tremendous acreag planted SEVERAL SLIGHT SNOWS
did not see a passenger train whicli 9
1 to cotton, to have his dusting done, j
bamuel C. Davis, an old and Since the plan was first broached in
highly respected citizen of the east- North Carolina, it has received ser
ern part of the county passed away j0us attention. Many farmers at
REPORTED IN MOUNTAINS came upon his car just as he got
the track.
Mt. Airy. M.'.rch 31 Several
slight f.nows have beer, reported on ' The trial of D. P. McKinnon,
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last Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock at first were inclined to laugh at the ! the mountains north cf Mt. Airy and member of the legislature from Robe
his home in Davis. The immediate jdea but when the matter has been 'a cold wind reminds of the poverb- son county, on a charge of immoral
cause of death was heart failure. Mr. 'thoroughly explained, they have con-jjal March lion, but fruit growers say conduct is set for today in Raleigh.
Drvis was 82 years of age. The fu- sidered it both feasible and practical, that so far the peach and apple crop Several days ago McKinnon was Jno. W. Hamilton since last Thurs
neral exercises took place Tuesday, are unhurt in this section. found drunk at the home of a Mrs. day: Rare Lewis of Harker's Island ($700 000 or any nart thereof) with
can such a plan work relief, or a re
duction of taxes to a tax burdened
people?
Again we are quite aware that this
wonderful plan for reducing our tax
es is not a new and untired theory
and plan; but is several years old,
and has been already thoroughly tried
out this county; and, instead of
making taxes less, has invariable
worked an increase of taxes. Then
25 this great tax reducing plan has not
20 (pointed as our friends(?) claim
4 7 such a policy should. So out- short
lived hope for relief (if we had any)
is gone like a prematured bubble.
No, gentlemen, I guess we are not
45 as simple as you evidently take us
51 to be. The simple test of brains on
47 your newly discovered theory, even
58 though said brains be partly of saw
56 dust, shows your theory and proposi-
50 tion to be mere nonsense. It seems
59 to us that your theory and conten
49 tion is just about as wise as was the
41 man who under took to teach his
55 horse to live without food; and just
51 as the horse had learned to think he
46 died. So it would be with the coun-
49 ty, if your plan to issue bonds, and
50 then more bonds to pay interest on
2 binds, were adopted You must
48 l:now that when cur bonded indebt-
56 r.css should reach the amount of
57 property valuation, no more bonds
42 could be sold. Then the county
40 wou'd be benkrupt. Our property
41 (su:h as might beleft) would be sold
41 at auction, and all of those fine hard
Eurfaced ror.ds, beautiful streets, and
expensive .bridges would be for
naught, so far i;s moit of our citi-
Maniage Licenses as follows have zens are concerned,
been issued by Register of Deeds: We are asking the county com
missioners not to issue those bonds
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
afternoon at 2 o'clock and the burial
was in the family cemetery. Mr.
Davis is survived by his widow Mrs.
EASTER CANTATA.
A sacred cantata will be rendered
Emily Davis, a daughter Mrs. A. F. by the choir of Ann street Methodist
SPECIAL TRAIN TOMORROW.
;GumoiI in Raleigh.The woman for- and Madeline .. Golden, Sealevel. out first submitting the question to
feited her bond and left town. j Price Johnson Beaufort and Lovie the people. And since it was admit-
I Mason Beaufort. ted before the Senate Committee, by
A special train will be operated to-. A meeting of the Raute 40 Asso-' Robert Slave and Beatrice Minor, the onj who was a most active and
Davis, two sons Hamlin H. and Del-Church Sunday evening April the morrow between Newport and Beau- ciation was held in Goldsboro Mon- of Morehead City. persistant in putting through the
ton all of whom live at Davis. Messrs. . 12th. The title of the cantata to be fort for the county commencement day at which tbout 100 persons were . 'Leglsletuie that very undemocratic
Koland U and fcjmore Davis ol given is The Thorn Crowned King. which is to be held in MU ehead present. The object of the associa-1 WILL PRODUCE PINAFORE. bill, that if the people were to be al-
Beaufort and Walter M. Davis of It will take place at the usual time City. The train will leave Newport tion is to get route 40 adopted as the!
Exmore are also sons of the deceased, lof services 7:30 o'clock and the pub-jat 9 o'clock and Beaufort at 10 official route of the South Atlantic'
A daughter Mrs. Matilda Ballard of lie is invited to attend.
Willis Wharf, Va., also survives. j
lowed to vote on the measure, it had
"Pinsfore," an old and well knowr' well be lulled riEbt then! What
jo'clock. In the afternoon the tram coastal highway. The next conven- operetta, will be given by the Epis-'an admission by a party's official
iwill leave Morehead City at 3 o'clock tion is to be held in Wilmington. copal church April 16th and 17th in head!) Why not decide not to issue
Tobacco seed, from which cigaret for Beaufort and wiil return at four (the High School auditorium. Miss those bonds at all, knowing them to
' The Island of Formosa in the 'tobacco is grown, is so tiny that a p. m. to Morehead City and Newport. Mr. and Mis. M. S. Snowden have Nancy Lay is taking the leading part be unpopular, thus saving the people
South Pacific posesses the highest single tablefpconful will produce reports are that a large crowd will 'leturneud from an extended trip to as "Josephine." the trouble and expense of an elec-
se cliffs in the world. plants enough to cover ten acres. Jattend the commencement exercises. ,yaricus places in Florida. ) (Continued on Editorial page)
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