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Beaufort F WS T.. advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND Ig WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WATCH Your label and pay you subscription VOLUME XIV 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY AUG, 6, 1925 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 32 -r DEFICIT LESS ON "ACCRUAL" BASIS O'BRY AN NEW PRESIDENT RESTRAINING ORDER STOPS , ! ATLANTIC AND N. C. ROAD i WORK ON BUILDING EDUCATION BOARD BOARD REJECTS . CAMPERS AT SKACKLEFORD. A party of young people arrived ' . W 1 1 1. ' . .. HAS BUSY DAY S ALL BRIDGE BIDS spending several days on a camp ing trip. They are staying in Capt- Raleigh, Aug. 4 Governor Mc-j An injunction was granted last T 1 A 11 n I'-.,., nroclr hv -f nrtrrti Ttunn (if firppnville AUTVimAn fl i 17CI L,KU" ' UO "ff"'"" nuKU u. K uijnn ..-w.. e I illl'l1! iL V J V. ri f , ... : 1 i. . . 1 A i 1 . nrV iiVi iomnniQlilv rfieiraino ltfr A. xiUlll lli iJfllkJ i: . n .... ., . w n0ieu frnm r-nmniPtincr the Supervifor For Rural Schools ain Joe Lewis' house on the beach. County Tax Rate Fixed At uc nu huh" vjuiuima joiuuou. ........ , - .... i re C-l 1 D..J m. c - Brewer of Vass. is to be building which he has been erecting, nosen, ocnooi outiget Those in the party are Mrs. M. W. uuK amc .um.i- w T ii i i f ii mmrs n in y a jinic vv ai - - sioners ren, Frank Warren and Hal T. Mac-1 on of Warrenton. Also in the nartv ; The Board of County Commis- Stacy W. This Method of Figuring More gecretary an dtreasurer. Austin Mc- on his Front street lots. Attorney Pleasing To Ex-Qovernor Cormick, of Sanford, will be audi- C. R. Wheatly acting for himself and tor and Hannibal L. Godwin of Dunn, others applied for the restraining or- attorney. T. B. Boldie Ward, of Wil- der. Mr. Daniels has employed At Morrison MCLEAN ISSUES STATEMENT The county Board of Education are Misses Mary Wright of Green- toners rejected an me Dias sunmit- .... ... ..it it i i n ti- n i? xt lkii inr iiuiKiinir m iiriutrp hitiimk a . a ' AMaiu AkortiAthm nriH a hfirnothv npin nrofT cfl v nn nil finv RPHsion viu panti marv reio mo ore 01 ew ' n'iif vvoo icnpjjvi.ii.wij caci it. i i The directors announced today and M. Leslie Davis to represent him Monday and disposed of considerable Bern. firP. and will seek to have the injunction business. All members were pres-j H D Bateman Wilson L."Laur- set aside. The hearing of the case ent. A large delegation of citizens (By M. L SHIPMAN) Raieieh. Aucust 3 With the def kit question again to the front and enca Jones, Charlotte; W. D. Lnr- will take place Saturday in Green-f from Davis was present as was also with Governor McLean rebuking 0que, Kinston ; Mrs. T. Palmer Jer- ville- before Judge Albion Dunn. If a smaller one from Newport. A sharply those who criticized his ad- man, Raleigh; J. Arrington Kitchen, allowed to proceed it is Mr. Daniels:number of new school committeemen ministration, Raleigh citizens had in- Scotland Neck; C. B. Park, Raleigh; Purpose to put a metal roof and were appointed and a rural school teresting reading matter the past David H. Collins, Greensboro, and an iron front and sides to the bm!d- supervisor was elected. m , Tl , n-.ll-.. A . . ., ., . . . . i The nhicf f Vio 'oWaH fmm several thousand Dollars Av weeK. At me same time tne Auto a. IJ. O .Bryan. " J License Bureau, caught with a mass W. N. Webb of Morchead City, Davis in foming before the board was of work mied unon it had to work fnrmpv nrpsid'pnt. and W. J. Bovd. RAINFALL FOR JULY WAS - to secure a high school department Ward's Creek at their meeting mon- day. All members of the board tVTT A UTTi 117 were P1,686111, The bids were as fol- liNLAJNl WAlElliW I loWs: Davis ConBtruction Corpora- livii pxv.ij u. r iuw era emu w VI kVKV IlKltHKhll Smith ?9-95; Coast Construction overtime to issue licenses to all who of Ayden, are to be members of the, ALMOST DOUBLE THE AVERAGE for this school. Last winter on ac- opplied before the extension period finance committee. Leon Tucker, count of bad roads the hiEh scno1 ! ori August 1. The citv also passed r,rPensboro will continu as proxy' The accounts of extremely hot pupils were not able to attend the: - - , - ailable For Surveying Beaufort-Wilmington Route (Winmington Star) In order to ascertain if the gov- has been for the past Co. $9.90; W. H. Guthrie $8.95. All bids were on the lineal foot basis. Matters of especial interest that were transacted by the board Monday were the adoption of the tax levies and the action taken on the school budget. The latter was fixed at $82,249.33 which is the same that it two years. 1.2 . j . , . v :i wosatVio. rtnrl severs HrniifrMs in the Smvrna school and a hiirh school was winy mmuxes 01 its siting permu ana present tne governors PPomL- r ... .. - - - emment would be justified in ex- The total tax levy for the en- Friday in tribute to the memory of ments to the stockholders in More- piedmont and mountain sections of maintained at Davis. The, citizens ' the Great Commoner William Jen- Wad Citv Thursday at noon the State have been hard to realize from Davis asked that this be contin- Penain? a large sum ot money lor suing year will be ?1.5S and tne ureat commoner, winiam jen i.edd lty inuisuay at noon. H a;a t extending the inland waterway from this made up of four items namely nines Brvan who was beinir lowered1 m Carteret county. For only four v.ed. the matter was discussed at .. .. , , , , nings cryan, v,no was Demg lowerea j 0j,iummx ir,n, a v Eeaufort to Cape Fear diver, the general county fund 15 cents, roads if r;1,;:: broad street n t zsezxsj'jz rhd. - fr rt "nv?r ,i n tv sonally and who mourned sincerely 1 AY Kk PAVhU Chal'leS Hatse11 8 reDort Thl8 took n.th ,grad,e W,U attend thf fmyrna Wilmington link Lhool district tax levies iAre ai fol- his passing from a personal stand-' 1XH 1 i f UmJ j ft 3rd ftnd fifth whfcn 93 schooL Transportation will be fur- Wilmington lint Khool district tax levies are as fol- nis passing irom a personal btanu r n:.v..j u uOI.ri 1 Inormation to this effect was re- lows, Cedar Island 50 cents, Atlan- noint Others mourned his death be- and 91 were recorded and on the nisned by the county board. . , T, point, utners mournea nis aeatn oe .,, . 00.. , . TUo . .m j,.,,,, of ceived yesterday morning at the of- tic 80, Sea Level 55 Stacy, 60; Davis cause of the loss of a great moral City Board Considers Matter 27th and 28th when the mercury I There is some dispute at Newport ' . . ' e ' " ' , . tuuse ui me iuo ui u mi iiiumi j ...... , D . .. , , n. , '.. nunf tv, ci f tu ,j ui nee of Maj. Oscar O. Kuentz, United 60; Smyrna consolidated 30. Beaufort leader a relieious crusader while' of Additional Paving.' Mos- chmed to 91 degrees. However it about the sale of the old school .' , , . X7 . .n leaner, a rtugious i.ru.,auer wnm.; . f. " , , , . , . States distinct engineer, and t was Graded 40, Newport consolidated 60, still others mourned the passing of a quito Question Up is true that there has been hotter house and lot and the Newport dele- ...... ,4 e ' iU . ,. D v en , , Ti j gr at politica? leader. ! weather in Beauofrt and vicinity this gation wanted the board to take stated n th""e00fn 5' 1HfrkT(!nIS,and 6; great PolKical leader. , t Mtim bMt mltei At. neer officer that this step by the chief White Oak consolidated 60. On Saturday, State Auditor Bax- additiona, gtreet ng wi be done; rain there hag been most tQ0 tora M Lesie Davig wag jnstruct. of engineers follows the preliminary Mr. Rogers claim engineer for the ter Durham issued a statement at the .n of Com-Wh. Tl.e average rainfall for Beau- ed to. look into it W report to the eMm Commission, met request of former Governor Morrison . have under consid. f th o j .g 5 board chairman w H ,,or an(, way link made by the local engineer with the Board for the purpose of ad- showing he State deficit m the gen- . Wttbait of paving jnches Thig year the preeipitation Superintendent Workman were au- office ust a ew months that the justing claims on he State highway eral iund to be on the ' , .. . .. . , . v,;,0j k v, v,,.,! survey which is now ordered is to in Carteret County. Commissioner . , . , ' , . , . Broad street and if a majority of the was 8.77 inches, nearly twice the av- tnorized by the board to purchase ' , "accrual basis nnder which the Mor- , ....... !x . ... i ' ' ., ... . , .u... , , . more definitely estimate the cost of Huntley was appointed by the Board . , . property owners aesire it. it is ime- eraee. as usual tne prevailing winas mtee passenger irutss ior tne rurai - ..... .. .... . .... rison administration operated, inis : - - . , ' . . . , - , . . ,, , .. lv thot a onntraoi. will hp Efivfn to upco -ffrvi lna cnnthwoat arA tny 99 schools. On the Tprnmmpnnnrinn n compared with a deficit figure of work The wag Migs HaUie parroU of the pe that the war department may ascer- Rogers. o dredging the proposed link in order to make a trip of inspection with Mr. a jj 1 1- . i i i i a i.i j j j v, l,wA atir, Mn rri. . on ..! .1.,.,. ,rtmot r.t P.Ji a " CAueuuHuie wouiu Uc jus- iiiutiuu. was uuiy inaue aau shown on the "cash" system adopted , . f . . , . . ij ou ; ri tmed by the . amountof commerce ed authorizing the lands of J. R. Ball , T . . ... uoy bhu woo icji uyci iut laiurei ana 11 partly viuuuy or riy uaiF. iov one in , ,, ., f . . by Governor McLean A ,gmficant congideration If thc yillg is don The' heaviest rainfall was on the 23rdargaret Gustin ' and comes from that . wlxLprobably use the water-, Merrimonshjjuiow. lurted a, feature of the auditors statement :. , r . , , . .. .. M;-i a t v. j way- Work on the survey is soon to cultivated lands to be valued as. was that he said there was provision r ; . ' u i . - i n begin." woods lands. d tn novo b rprtain nnrtinn of the i.nrJ The or,ino--.,f m-p fi(iirp lncr summer school nt Commhia TTni- in the law for naming the deficit on ' tu n vproitv - There have been several routes The county auditor was instructed . , . , . r, Mr. John McDowell came before. Max. been neglected when Governor Mc- . . t. . t, . , llic uuaiu anu nancu men. tifc vn i i . . .. o t Lean's first statement was issud. Gov ernor Morrison asked for the state ment, he said, to show the people of the State that the deficit charged a gainst his administration by the Mc Lean administration was greatly ex aggregated and could be largely ac counted for by the change in metn ods of financing. Governor McLean had nothing to say with reference to the statement. Fiiday, Governor McLean issued a statement in which he said detractors of his administration were trying to pool tables be reduced. A motion j was made and passed reducing the : tax from $25 to $20 a table. A mo-j tion was passed to make the salary! of Roosevelt Whitehurst, city truck! driver, $18 a week instead of $15' 3 4 5 6 7 8 resolution was passed requesting the1 9 city plumbing inspector to enforce jo the town ordinance as to sewerage n and plumbing. W. G. Milan epplied 12. for a plumber's license and was 13, granted it A motion was passed 14, : 89 88 89 90 ..89 90 86 87 -85 .93 .88 .91 -90 .88 -,90 .90 .90 .89 .89 .88 that 20 percent be collected on tax 15, begin." There have been several Dllfrrrpcf oA f i Vw Wilmfnnnn T"? ..... . . tn iolrp nn uHtli rrnimn rniiMlw fViA Min. I New school committeemen to take " """"s- - -r 70 the places of persons whose terms fort link and in the new survey nmtter of repalrs on a bridge across 76 have expired or who have resigned wil1 be thoroughly investigated. One Harlowe Creek. 77 were elected as follows: At Davis, route sueeested is to have the canal A motion was duly made and pass 73 Stancy Davis at Bettie Will Pake cut throuh the marshland separating ed authorizing Mr. Raymond Ball to 76 succeeds Arthur Mason.' At Salter the mainIand and sea beaches make the necessary repairs on a 79 Path S W Dixon succeeds Geo A 6 the North Carolina cost from piece of road between Harlowe Creek 78 Willis, Camp Glenn, Will Willis sue- Carolina Beach to Beaufort; another bridge and route 10. 78 eeeds Maud ColeBurn. Joe Williams 18 Vla several inland rive,s l-rd Re John R Gibble Psented to 77 succeeds W C Lockhart White creeks entering Wilmington by the the Board a petition for a reduc 77 Oak school, E. W. Meadows 'succeeds Way of the orih river. Both of tion of the valuation of his property 73 B. J. Taylor; P. M Russell succeeds these routes will no doubt, be inves- on the corner of Turner and Broad ,,1' r,nnl. t q i ,,o,.p,.. tigated, it was learned at the office streets in Beaufort. After an inves- 78 Ollie Parker. of Major Kuentz, 69 The budget for the ensuing year , , , ? , certificates. This is for old taxes jg, progress was being slowed up by the ...... 4 i y 6 ,,,.'.. which the town is now trying to col- 17. economy program. He declared that these reports could be traced to those , .. . . , ' v . ., x ,. .. The mosqitiito nuisance received 19 who were hostile to him in other . . . . - , .. . , some atention at the session of the 20. matters and. cited figures on road j t jttj d . . . , . board Monday. Reverend L. B. Bon- 21. , , v ... ey came befdre the board and argued, 22; ... 85 tention that progress was not being , t . 1. T 1 Jf OLI VJlifjJJ WWH OVl. DVVU wfe..v p QU to be taken to abolish or reduce the 24. . 87 Reverend E. Frank 25. 86 Lee also spoke briefly along the 26. 88 same line. Members of the board 27. ---91 agreed that something ought to be 28. ; 91 done but no action was taken. It 29. 87 appeared that some thought it best 30. j 87 . , to wait until the county appointed 31. g8 tne weeK ... . , ... 1 l. a wnoie time neuitn oiucer anu 75 proposed by the board was reduced 75 Monday by the Board of Commis 79 sioners. The amount asked for was 70 $86,804.65 and the amount granted 68 was $84,273.16 which was the same 68 as last year's budget. The extra a- 71 mount asked for was for additional 72 teachers. 711 TWO DROWN AT ASBURY BEACH A double drowning occurr ed t Abury Beach, a retort tor colored people about two Beaufort Tuesday inn ototnmpnt hv tho frnvprnM xvaa v tA JL- mosquito pest. period to see $40,000,00 to $45,000, 000 applied to good roads. A por tion of this to come from county loans t othe State Highway Commis sion. A stir was created during when the fiist preliminary report of the Salary and Wage Commission was issued it being that dealing with the him take charge of the situation. A SHERIFF MAKES BIG motion was passed to have a cut made in the curbing on Live Oak 71 STEPHEN D. POOL APPOINTED , 73 , REGISTER OF LAND OFFICE 78 76 A cliping from the Arizona Gaz- 0 79 ette, republished below, refers . to a 74 recent promotion in office of Mr. 69 Stephen D. Pool. Mr. Pool is well 0 78 known by a good many people in Beaufort and is a brother of Mrs. C. A. Clawson and Mrs. W. S. Rob- RAID ON BOOTLEGGERS jng0n. 900 odd employees of the Highway " --" " " ig aitac 4"r ouuc atepnen u rooi, cmei ciera 01 v..e , Commission. It showed the net re- st near Mulberrv street and al" which has been going on under cov- United States land office at Phoenix, t suit of the salary investigators had ... v. r ". er lur Bveii uuy came iu a ..cu na oeen apponueu acinic it sister in been to decrease two salaries and in- board thcn took 8 reces8 t0 meet Wednesday when Sheriff . T. C. Wade that office by the secretary of the in crease 21 the result being an actual Ty- and other officers put under arrest terior. His .appointment was made increase in expenses of the Depart-' 0n Tuesdav the Pr''P1 business twelve men. Five of these Needham 0n the recommendation of John R. went. The statement was issued by transac,ed wa8 the adoPtion ff the Earner, Mack McCain, T. F. Mann Towles, former register who retired Frark Pape rbairman nf thp f. city budRet for the emuin ?eat BnA Ivey Taylor and C. W. Whaley arr on July 1 and by L. L. Ferrall, who missicf'i, but Governor McLean who feels very much any criticism of the POLICE COURT NEWS? vear s rate at once in which he declared the ' schedule was a preliminary one and i that ot would not be final until the' Wage Commission and he had given' it apreval. The Highway Commission assuming that the schedule will be adopted, has issued orders to all de partment and district , heads to place it in effect. One hundred and. eight men and one woman have so far indicated their intention to take - the summer exami nation before the supreme court Aug-! , . , . ... .... ...,. . , ... "! Mr. Daniel Pentc.n, Miss L:d;t ust 24th. A new order of the Court r, . . . , . .... . ,. Penton and Miss Viola Sanders ol requires application for new licenses rl . . . .. , , . .Wilmington spent the week end here (Continued on editorial page) stopping at the Davis House. the fixing of the tax rate. The tax white and the othess are colored, succeeded Mr. Towles. rate for the next year will be $2 onjjhe negroes are W. H. Johnson, Mr. Pool came to the land office the hundred instead of $1.75 last James Henredson, James Davis, Lin- in Phoenix eight years ago from the wood Pigott, Harry laylor, William Seattle land office. Mr. Pool has seen iBelanger, N. P. George. With the twenty years of srevice in the various exception of Garner, McCain and ifederal land offices throughout the Mann all of the'men had a prehmi- iwest. He. is generally regarder as tigation by the Board it was found that the said property was valued in line with the adjoining property and no reduction was allowed. ' A motion was duly made and passed assesing the stock of merchan- dise of C. S. Davis of Harkers Is- land at $5500. for 1925 taxes. Mr. W. M. Webb of Morehead City asked the Board to reconsider their " motion of July 15th. increasing the ' value of the property of the Atlan c tic hotel, and to allow the 1924 val- ues to remaon. After an investiga- y tion by the Board, a motion was du- y made and passed placing the value of the real estate at $85,000 and personal property at $1,000. Mrs. Hall of Warrenton, N. C. presented the Board with a propo- sition for re-indexing county records. A motion was duly made and passed to take the matter under advisement into the next regular meeting. A motion was duly made and pass- ed instructing the County Engineer to ask for bids for the construction of a county engineer to ask for the construction of a causeway between Beuafort and Morehead City, the specifications for same to be prepar- ed in accordance with the plans and specifications of the state highway commission. Capt. John Nelson came before WILL MASON SHOOTS HIMSELF, the Board and asked that the chair- , man and other members of the Board 'miles from afternoon. Two young men about grown were the victim It hai been difficult to get accu rate detail a to the affair. From letter found in the pocket of one of the men hi name wa Henry Collins; but no one knew where he came from. The other man wa from New Bern, but hi name could not be learned here. Reports are that Collin got in trouble in the surf and that the other young fellow went to help him and both were drowned. Collins" body was found that afternoon but the other body was not found until the following day two miles or more from the scene of the accident. Collins wa buried by undertaker C. A. Oden at the county's expense. Will Mquiiii a vniincr wViitp J 1. - . ... ... . Only two offenders faced ,Mayor nary trial and were bound over to 'an expert in matters pertaining to well known about town accidentally B b t 1 e3. ... ef f:niiractol. DIlH VtrultQ mflfls Anil OUfJCllUJ WUlb lUf LI 1(11 111 V V I m.i . 1 rill 1 1 1 1 : 1 11 lilt. L LI. 1 ii lungnr 1 " - ' - j Detectives worked up the case and ial personality and epirit of co-op- while fooling with a allege to have bought liquor from the eration has gained for him the res- Eccident happened in the jail yard men. Some of tne parties I've i pect and friendship of both those de- at ubout midday. Mason and ano--Morehead City, others in Newport siring to take advantage of the op- ther young mn had been working on and vicinity. portunities offered by federal lands the streets and had stopped for dm- -1 and of the legal profession interest- ner. He was taken to the office of MARIAGE LICENSES. ed in land amtters. Drs. Duncan and Mason and then Thomas in police court Monday af ternoon. They were George John son and Dave 'Davis who were charged with disorderly conduct. The judg ement of the court wa3 .suspended and the defendants allowed to pay the costs. istol The that the Board request the engineer . . 1 . . 1 .. .L. 1 , , . r-f Straits sections in his official map. Capt. Nelson was assurred the matter would have attention. A motion was duly made and pass ed authorizing the payment from the ,. 'tA v f utA countv Pr fund of the taxes of ... , T. . . . Mrs. Linwood E. Willis of Morehead Miss Margaret Jones, niece 01 Mrs. viiy. it, was repurveu tiuti n up- James Collins and Pearlia Moore, i Beaufort. I Willie Campbell and Annie Bryant C. P. Dey, left yesterday for Roa- eration wuold be performed of Newport. noke, Va. likely this afternoon. very City and Mrs. Stella Smith of New- j ( Continued on local page)