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EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY SEPT. 2, 1926
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 35
VOLUME XV
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MUNICIPAL HOTEL QUESTION WILL
CWffi BEFORETY BOARD MONDAY
Have Been Prepared For Election
The board of town commissioners
expect t ogive serious consideration
Monday to the municipal hotel ques
tion, so members of the board have
informed the News. The matter of
calling an election, of appointing a
registrar and poll-holders, of appoint
ing a commission to have charge of
buying a site, making contracts and
the like.
The firm of Thomson, Wood ana
Hoffman of New York city, who are
bond attorneys and who have been
consulted about the hotel matter,
prepared ordinances providing for
calling an election on the question
and for an isssuance of bonds. It
will be necessary to have a new reg
istration if the election is called. But
even if the election should result
favorably for the hotel bond issue,
the bonds cannot be issued without
a special act of the General Assem
bly which does not meet until Jan
uary. The News has not heard many peo.
pie express themselves one way or
another about the proposal to build
a municipal hotel. A few have de
clared themselves to be against it
and some have said they favor it but
most of them appear not to have
made up their minds yet or if they
have they do not express their
1 views. Most of them say they want
to know where it is to be built, what
it is to cost and who is to have charge
of building it. After these matters
are settled and the election is called
public opinion will crystallize very
quickly for one side or the other; at
least that is what , most people think.
The advocates of the proposition say
they think it will be attractive to the
people when they understand it and
that they think the. referendum will
b fate-able. -V-. . .-'"''
PLENTY OF SUNSHINE
DURING MONTH OF AUGUST
BOLD ATTEMPT. MADE
TO COMMIT BURGLARY
Considerable excitement was caus
ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Ramsey early Sunday morn
ing when some man tried to enter the
house. The eoccurence took place
about 3:30 in the morning.
Mr. Ramsey who sleeps in a back
room, happened to be awake at the
time and saw the man o nthe side
walk coming towards the house. A
few minutes later Mrs. Ramsey and
her daughter Miss Margaret screamed
and when he answered said a man
was trying to get in their room, Ap
parently the burglar was trying to
take the wire screen out of the win
dow. When the women screamed he
became frightened and ran around
to the rear of the house and from
there across Ann street and escap
ed. He was seen by Mr. Joh nHill a
next door neighbor as well as mem
bers of the Ramsey family, but wasj
not recognized. He was either a
white man or a mulatto of light
complexion. - Mr. . Ramsey got his
gun and would have shot the intrud
er but was prevented from doing so
by his daughter. t
In North Carolina entering a
dwelling house forcibly in" the night
time is , a capital offense and if he
had been caught the would be burg
lar would have been in a very serious
trouble. . .
The highest temperature recorded
by the U.. S. Weather Bureau in
Beaufort for the month of August
was 93 which was on the 5th. There
were several days however when it
rose to 90 or a little more. The low.
est figure was 66 and was recorded
on the 24th Mosl of the time dur
ing the nights the temperature has
been in the seventies. The rainfall
for the month was 2.05 inches. This
is considerably less than the average
for August which is 5.30 inches. Us
ually the heaviest rainfall in Beau
fort during the year occurs during
the months of July and August. ,
There were 24 clear sunshiny days
during August, 6 partly cloudy one.?
and one cloudy day. So there was
plenty of sunshine. The prevailing
winds were southwest and for 24 days
it blew from that quarter which rp
pears to be even more than usual.
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FULL DOCKET TRIED IN
POLICE COURT MONDAY
Police court Monday afternoon was
crowded, long" and hot. It took two
hours to difpose of the cases on the
docket and nothwithstanding the fact
that another trial was in progress
across at the county courthouse, the
room was filled with spectators.
C. A. Oden charged with an as
sault upon Burney Burr pleaded
guilty to the charge. The evidence
was that Oden asked Burr about a
debt that they had some words, that
Oden struck Burr and that he struck
back. Burr was then tried for fight-
TORE-ORGANIZE '
HEALTH BOARD
Plan Will Go Into Effect With
New Administration
RALEIGH, Aug. 29. A sweeping
plan or re-organization of the ad
ministration of the state board of
health, a change formulated at a re
cent conference of the executive com
mittee and the bureau heads, is to
be put into ' effect as soon as Dr.
Charles O'H. Laughinghouse takes
ing also and the Mayor decided that charge on October 1. The change
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REAL. ESTATE TRANSFERS
FOR COMING WEEK
RESTAURANT MAN FlNED
For failure to comply with certain
health regulations Mr. L. T. Mathis
restaurant keeper, was' tried in the
court of Justice of the Peace W. O.
Williams Friday afternoon and fined
$25 and costs. The charge against
Mr. Mathis was that he declined to
submit to a physical examination him
self and that he had in his employ two
persons suffering from an infectious
disease. The charges were brought
by County Health Officer Dr. T. C.
Witt. Mr. Mathis took an appeal
. to Superior Court. ' - i ,
NEVEREST FINISHES AND
LEAVES FOR WRIGHTSVILLE
' The dredge boat "Neverest" left
this morning at an early hour for
Wrightsville Eeach where she has a
contract to da a large filling job.-The
work on the State highway bridge
fill was done by this dredge and is
Register of Deeds John W. Hamil
ton has recorded deeds for the past
week as follows: "i
S. P. Hancock and wife to G. W
Huntley 1-2 interest in land Beau
fort west Central Highway for$375;
M. R. Springle to Sallie E. Sprin-
gle part lot 60 old town for $1. love
and affection.
S. W. Thompson and wife to H.
L. Joslyn 10 acres Harkers Island for
$100 etc.
Beaufort Banking and Trust Co.,
to H. L. Joslyn et al 10 aNcres Hark
ers Island for $700.
John W. Willis and wife to' H. L.
Potter 10 acres Harkers Island for
$400.
Cape Lookout Co. to Ray Wheatly
lot Cape Lookout for $80.
Molly Tilery and husband to C. F.
Willis 1-2 of lot 14 & 15 block 66
for $100. etc.
Fred F. Sanders to John R. Sand
ers 1 acre Broad Creek, Morehead
township for $75.
Robt E. Lee et al to Sophia Willis
lot 12 block 15 Morehead City for
$3000.
A. L. Hamilton, Com. to A. B.
Morris Tr'ustes lot 13 block 106 More-
head City for $53,
R. C. Morris and wife to Carrow
L. Krouse 1-2 acre North side of Cal
ico Creek Morehead township for
$280.
J. B. Davis and wife to Maria A.
(Bailey lots 6, 8, 9, 10 block 37
Morehead City tor $7,750.
Carrie Bedsworth and husband to
S. A. Duplanty lot 3 and 4 block 36
I Morehead City for $500.
Irene S. Garner to D. H. Stalhngs
1 1-2 acres one half mile from New
port, Newport Township for $400.
both were guilty and assessed them
with the costs, $4.70 each.
Pope Johnson, a one legged negro,
was tried on the charge of drunkness.
He admitted having had a drink or
so but denied that he had made a
very good example of a drunken
man and he was convicted and Mayor
Thomas gave him 30 days in jail.
John Bunyan Congleton, after a
sort of vacation from court, got in
rather considerably Monday. He was
tried on three different charges. One
case was for being drunk and fight
ing Herbert Martin, another case was
just plain drunkness and the third
was for an assault upon Mrs. Brittle
Daw. He was acquitted of the last
named charge. Mrs. Daw claimed
that he threw her out of the door.
Several witnesses testified that he
led her outt but did not throw her
out. John resisted the other charg.
es and best he could dstreet ! pbo
es the best he could but was convict
ed and got a sentence of 30 days in
each or a $50 fine in each. He took
an appeal was put under a bond of
$250 which he failed to give and
was therefore locked up.
Herbert Martin charged with fight
ing John Bunyan Congleton claimed
that he was defending some of his
female relatives from John who they
said attempted some familiarities
with them. Decision was reserved
in his case for further investigation.
Jones Allen Lewis, a young white
man, was charged with, an assault
upon Miss Lola Mason; The assault
in this ; ease consisted in having
thrown a water melon rind from a
moving automobile which struck the
lady in the face. He got the option
of 10 days on the streets or paying
the costs in the ease whcih was $5.60
Burney Burr bad another ease a
gainst him which alleged that he was
drunk Sunday night. Burney didn't
think he was so awry drunk but Chief
of Police Longest gave it as his
opinion that he-was "dead" drunk
and- so the Mayor said $50 and the
costs or 30 days on the streets.
Three negro boys, Ben Deputy,
Roy Potter and Dave Sparrow were
tried on the charge of breaking and
Simon Gatling. The evidence was
they were found in Catling's place
at about 3 :30 in the morning. That
they came in the back door which was
not locked, that they said they want
ed to get a chicken cooked and that
Gatling missed $11 from his cash
drawer. They got off by paying the
costs in the case. ' Wiliam Vann for
riding a bicycle on the sidewalk was
let off with the cost.
is one of plan rather than of staff,
board officials say.
Under the proposed system the
state will be divided into four dis
tricts with a district deputy health
officer in charge and directly respon
sible for the work of each section.
It will mean, officials say, the elim
ination of at least three bureaus and
the probability of the change of
title of a half dozen or more of the
present health officials. The district
plan, the idea of Dr. W. S. Rankin,
former health officer and now a mem
ber of the boards and the executive
committee, was experimented with in
1923, but because of Dr. Rankin's
absence it was abolished.
All bureaus except those of sani.
tary engineering, education, vital
statictics, and partially the bureau
of maternity and infancy, will be
abolished, and estimating in this
new plan it has been figured by the
board that the budget for the bi-
ennium next July will be approxi.
mately $412,000 a year, about $8,
0C0 a year less than the present
allotment. However several thou
sand dollars, over the allotment were
spent during the past year.
OPENING GUN FIRED
IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
The first political speech of the
campaign on either side in Carteret
county was made in the courthouse
last Thursday afternoon by the Hon
orable Johnston J. Hayes, Republi
can nominee for the United States
Senate. Although it was a rainy day
a' fairly good sized crowd was on
hand. Most of those present were
Republicans but there was a sprink
ling' of Democrats in the audience.
Mr. Hayes was the solicitor in his dis
trict for several terms and is a very
good speaker. He spoke for about
fifty minutes devoting more of his
time to the school question tharj any
thing else. He advocated a uniform
tax rate for the public schools in ev
ery county in the State and made a
strong argument in favor of it. He
made a strong plea for the protective
tariff system which he claimed is
mainly responsible for the country's
prosperity and spoke briefly on the
League of Nations. Mr. Hayes'
speech was very well received by his
audience. W. G. Mebane was call
ed on to act as chairman of the meet
ing and James Wallace Mason intro.
duced the speaker.
CARTERET COUNTY
MAKES PROGRESS
MORE ACTIVITY
IN EVIDENCE AT
STATE CAPITAL
Many New Lawyers Licensed.
Bids Received For Twenty
Three New Read Projects
BOOK PRICES TOO HIGH
Big Things Taking Place Along
Coastal Front Secretary
Barlett Says
SENSATIONAL CASE
DRAWS LARGE CROWD
A case that promised to be some
what sensational and that therefore
attracted a large crowd was tried
Monday afternoon by Justice of the
Peace W. O. W'lliams. It took place
in the county court room and was
that where Ernest Fenderson was
charged with an assault upon Jim
Noe. Both men are colored.
It appeared from the evidence that
Saturday night in the early part of
the evening Noe found his wife and
Penderson together on east Front
street near, Gordon or Fulford. Jim
called fenderson some sort oi a
scoundrel or words t othat effect and
Fenderson proceeded very promptly
to lambast Jim which he did very
thoroughly. Magistrate Williams de
cided that the case had better go to
a higher ciflrt and so he held Fen
derson for trial under a $250 bond
which was given.
Three more farmers of Alexander
county have put running water in
their homes recently. They used
the gravity system bringing the wat
er from a spring on the mountain
side.
Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Snowden of
Miami, Fla arrived yesterday and
I will spend several days here.
Will Hold Education Conference
Here For Three Days Next Week
Carteret County Schools will open
September 13, 1926. A three days
Educational Conference will be held
before the opening of school. The
program begins Thursday and will
be:
First Day: Principals of Larger
Type Schools.
Second Day: Principals and Teach,
ers.
Third lay: Principals, Teachers,
and Committeemen.
At present there is no teaching
vacancies in the county and the
qualifications of the teachers selected
are generally higher than those of
pievious years. With an eight
months school term and better train
ed teachers Carteret County should.
advance rapidly in educational cir
ties.
Kinston, Aug. 30. "Eastern North
Carolina has had her biggest sum
mer" said Newell G. Bartlett, Secre
tary of the Eastern Carolina Cham
ber of Commerce with headquarters
at Kinston. In the opinion of those
who have kept up with the happen
ings in Eastern Carolina this year,
this section has had more real publi
city than she has ever had before.
The ' outside world is beginning to
learn about this great section of the
Southeast. Hundreds of inquiries are
coming in every month from all over
the country, indicating that Eastern
North Carolina is soon to come into
her own in no uncertain way.
Among the counties that have
made the best showing from new bus
iness, may be found Carteret on the
coast, with many miles' of water
frontage. A conservative estimate
will place the increase in buildings
and other investments in Carteret
county this year, at around $2,000,.
000,00. Hundreds of people from all
over the Southwest have invested in
Carteret county real estate; One of
the most modern and finest resort
hotels in the whole South, Morehead
Villa, was built and operated in Car-
teiet county this summer. In addi
tion to this scores of new homes have
been erected that will make for per
manent development in that section.
'This is but the beginning of a real
development for Carteret county and
all the coast counties" is the opinion
of Eastern Carolina Chamber of
Commerce members who are familiar
with conditions in Eastern iNorth
Carolina. Cartel et county, as a
county, has set the pace for every
other coast county in Eastern Noth
Carolina. Among the more important
development of Carteret are More-
head Bluffs, Bogue Sound, and
others. (
CLASS OF '22 HAS REUNION.
SCHOOL BOOK PRICES
ARE SOME LOWER
. ..The News is aEked to state that
priceg'Jiave been lowered- on certain
state adopted elementary school
now all completed and ready for the I books. The information comes from
concrete. A pile driver belonging State Superintendent A. T. Allen and
On Monday, August 30 the class
f 1922 of Beaufort High School
held a reunion, this being their first
meeting in four years. The mem
bers met at theschool building at
two o'clock to talk over old times in
familiar surroundings. Memory books
kept by members of the class dur
ing high school days, provided much
amusement. From there the party
wentt to the beach. After a swim,
all enjoyed a picnic supper. The
return triD was devoted to a class
meeting, presided over by the pres
ident Clifford Lewis. Out of aclass
of sixteen, eleven were present at
this meeting. These were Misses
Inez Willis, Annie Guthrie, Margaret
Gibbs, Alethea Fulford, Estelle Caf-
frey, Alice Potter, Martha Pierce,
Messrs Clifford Lewis, Ben Jones,
Julian "Gaskill and James Noe.
BEAUFORT GIRL WINS
A BEAUTY CONTEST
to the Sandford and Brooks Com
pany has been moved from the More
head City drawbridge site and is now
at work driving piles in the Beaufort First Reader
channel. Other bridge work is said Second Reader
is as follows:
Child World Serie of Reader
Primer - .40 cents
.45 cents
. . . .00 cer.ts
to be making satisfactory process. Third Reader
.55 ;:ents
Miss Georgia Neal won the beauty
contest at the Atlantic Hotel Satur
day night. There were contestants
representing the various towns in
the central and eastern part of the
state. The prize was a large box of
candy.
Miss Neal wore a black evening
dress, the beauty of which was en
hanced by a green Spanish shawl
thrown over one shoulder and caught
at the hip by a huge flower rosette
The contestants were asked to
dance while the judges judged them
after deciding on the winner Miss
Neal, they asked her to occupy the
floor alone and pronounced her
queen. This is the second prite
"Miss Georgia" has won in the last
two weeks.
It may surprise some to learn that
there eie enough milk drinkers in
New York to raise quite a row over
the poor quality of the supply.
Wichita Eagle.
Higher prices for beef cattle are
in . prospect within the next
months according to recent market
reports. ) '
(By M. L. Shipman)
Raleigh, N. C. August 30 With
the coming of fall, matters at the
State Capital this past week began
to show signs of renewed- activity.
This was reflected in the return from
vacation of a number of high officials.
The Superme Court opened its fall
term, with the examination of law
candidates and will begin handling
cases this week. The State' Board of
Education was in session, the High
way Commission let a large road con
tract, and a number of other matters
of more or less interest held atten
tion during the week.
Governor McLean returned from
his vacation Sunday after being de
layed a few days at Baltimore by the
unexpected illness of one of his chil
dren. He was in excellant shape and
expressed himself as prepared for an
arduous and heavy program this fall
and winter. Director Wade H. Phil
lips of the department of Conserva
tion and Development returned from
a vacation as did Secretary of State
Everett. Pardon Commissioner Sink
returned from a business trip and
the entire Supreme Court reported
back for duty after vacations.
The Supreme Court held interest
of many with the bar examinations
and the text book controversy also
got a lot of attention. The court an
nounced that 109 young men from
all sections of the State had passed
its examination while 26 failed to do
so. C. P. Barringer, president of
VANCEBORO PHYSICIAN
CATCHES A SEA GULL
In addition to making two fine
catches of blue fish this week Dr. F.
L. Potts of Vanceboro hooked a sea
gull, a feat which is rarely perform
ed. Catching the gull however was
not intentional. The gull saw the
doctor's squid and thinking jt looked-
good enough to eat swooped down
and gtabbed it. The bird did not
swallow the hook but it caught in his
mouth and held him. He was pulled
into the boat and after a little exam
ination was turned loose and went on
his wav in search of a dinner.
Dr. Potts and Dr. W. L. Hilliard
of Asheville made two fine catches of
fish this week. Monday afternoon
they went out with Captain Charlie
Carrow and in about two hours
caught 110 fish, of which about 75
were blue fish some of. which were
of very nice size. On Tuesday after.
noon they were out again and almost
duplicated their ' first performance
catching 105 fish most of which were
blues. Sportsmen have also been
having good success recently catch
ing fresh water fish in South River
Dr. T. C. Britt and City Superinten.
dent R. L. Fritz have been out there
several times and have caught any
where from 15 to 25 big mouthed
black bass, or "chub," some of which
weighed as much as four pounds.
the State Federation of Labor, pass
ed the examination but hi? certificate
was withheld until he proves his good
character to the court. Protest had
been filed against Barringer when
he became involved in a suit charg
ing he had defrauded a party in Sal
isbury. Barringer settled the suit
out of court, the amount being less
than $500, and the charges were
withdrawn but the court refused to
allow the withdrawal and will pass
on the case. Barringer shortly will
be given a hearing.
he, controversy over the higher
price North Carolina children are
paying for textbooks came to a head
during the week. The final result is
that the State expected this week to
file injunction proceedings against
the publishers prohibiting the sale
of their books in the State except on
the same basis as Tennessee children
get books. North Carolina has a
contract with the publishers guaran
teeing as low prices as the books are
sold elsewhere but it is discovered
that the excess paid in this state last
year over what was paid in Tennessee
amounted to $15,000 and will amount
to as much this year unless the re
ductions are forthcoming. The Board
of Education conferred with publish
er during the week but no agree
ment was reached arid therefore legal
proceedings will be instituted. At
torney General Brummitt is now
handling the matter.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railway
and the Seaboard Air Line will have
to transport fertilizer products from
Wilmington to interior North Caroli
na at intra. state rates. A decree
filed in Federal Court last Saturday
by three Federal Judges who heard
argument in the matter rilled in this
manner. The corporation commis
sion had sought to institute the ir.tra
fctate rather than the interstate rate
and had been held up by proceedings
instituted by the two railroad.:.. If
the case goes to the U. S. Supreme
Court and is ruled upon as done by
the Federal judges, there will be a
great saving for the fertilizer buyers
of the State.
The State Highway Commission
during the week received bids total
ing $2,706,535 on 23 projects, t.ie
letting being one of the largest in the
history of the commission, ihe
Commission will meet the end cf th:s
week at Raleigh to formally asuvi
the contiacts. This will mean an
extensive road program throi: ,.icut
the State during the next year and
will mean much in employment cycles.
Attorney General Brummitt has
ruled that Dr. Charles O'H. Lauhing
house may assume the position of
secretary, of the State Board of
Health without violating the law.
There had been some discussion of
the matter as Dr. Laughinghouse had
served on the Board of Health and
there is a rule that prohibits those
on institutional boards from being
elected to positions on the institution
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