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VOLUME XV
14 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY DEC. 9, 1926.
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 49
NEW COUNTY OFFICIALS INDUCTED
INTO OFFICE ON LAST
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Not Many Change. New Register of Deeds And One Mew
Commissioner. John Wiley Chosen Keeper of County
Home. Luther Hamilton Is County Attorney
Ths past Monday was the day for
inducting the new county officials in
to office. All of those recently elect
ed were present and a considerable
crowd of other folks as well.
Those who qualified for office were
county commissioners J. E. Wood
land, G. W. Huntley, T. B. Hall, H.
C. Taylor and Rudolph Peletier. Mr.
Woodland was elected chairman of
the new board. Others sworn in by
county chairman Woodland were L.
W. Hassell, clerk of Superior Court,
T. C. Wade, sheriff, R. W. Wallace,
reister of Deeds, E. D. Hardesty, sur
veyor, t. L. King, coroner, J. R.
Jinnett, deputy register of deeds. The
old board of comissioners held a short
AUDIT OF COUNTY BOOKS
NOW ABOUT FINISHED
The audit of the county's books
which has been in progress for some
weeks is now almost finished. The
News is informed that unless some
thing happens to prevent it the work
will be finished next week. The
Iwcrk is being done by the firm of
Dixon Russ and Carter of Raleigh.
No information as to the findings of
the auditors will be made public un
I til the audit is turned over to the
j board of commissioners.
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meeting before turning over the reins Uh U If ID FlU TDT
to the new board which was almost lUlJl Llillvll LUUlil
the same as the old one. A motion
was passed to give the lumber in the
fences around the dipping vats to the
people who own the land provided
they will fill up the vats with dirt.
Amotion was passed ordering a copy
of the boundary line between Carter
et and Hyde counties as prepared by
D. W. Morton entered into the minutes.
IS ON THIS WEEK
Two Divorces Granted. Sever
al Other Cases Tritd. Judge
Stack Holding Court
One of the tirst acts of the new
By reason of an exchange agree
ment between Judge Sinclair and
Judge A. M. Stack the latter is here
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Doara oi commissioners was to ap-1 this week presiding over a one week's
p.uve uie uuuget pian oi tne county; term of Superior court. Only civil
Health Department as submitted by
Dr. T. C. Britt Health Officer. This
budget provides for the expenditure
cases are being tried. Judge Stack,
who is from Monroe, is regarded as
i one of the most eminent judges in
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ox ouu. one nan oi wnicn is paid the State. Judge Stack had not been
,ur 7 lne c?untv ana e rest by ,to Beaufort before and has expressed
tne mwrnauonai neaun Board and h mself as beini? verv favnrnhlv im
pressed with this part of the State,
EERS ADVISE
BIG IMPROVEMENTS
AT CAPE LOOKOUT
Suggest That Jetty Be Finished
Vessels Safe There From
Storms
BEAUFORT HARBOR HELPED
M.E. CHURCH HAS
CONFERENCE IN
MOREHEAD CITY
OFFICERS CAPTURE
i BOOZE MAKING OUTFITS
Many Prominent Preachers
And Others Attended The
Conference There
LARGE CROWD ATTENDED
The court is moving along smoothly
under his guidance.
A considerable number of
cases
the State Board-of Health,
The items of the budget are as fol
lows: Health Officer's Salary $4200.00
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purses saiary 15UU.U0 , had been tried or otherwise disposed
yuice assistant s salary ... abu.uu : 0f by Thursday afternoon. The mat-
AuxomoDiie Maintenance, a. jter that took the most time was the
. "mc,ef. - - bUU.UU cases of Gillikin against Norcom,
Automooue Maintenance, There were two suits, one for person
rturse r bUO.UU'al property and the other for real
uiiice supplies, incidental, esate
0-lu-uu i In the first case Mrs. Gillikin was
t0.nn 'awarded, by agreement, $100 in mon
a. n r r, J. " . ev anl silverware,
""u'ucj u. . uuiican came De-
fore the board and asked for aid for
Miss Martha Jones a blind woman. A
The other
case involved the ownership of 50
acres of good land near town and was
motion was n9SSpH llmvin son property was
mnnrt f i. ' 7 "!once owned by Mrs. Miry E. Davis
T, . 'and was willed to Geo. D. Norcom,
v.uu.jr igmeci wa5 msiruti-i xne plaintiff was represented by
uv, i-uciUM xur new uius ior Messrs. M. Leslie Davis, A. D. Ward
putting shells on Harkers Island land C. L. AhM-ncth .T,. m. t p
I j V A. t o V X
Duncan and C. R. Wheatly appeared
for the defendants. The suit result-
roads. I
The Clerk was instructed to adver
tise for sale a lot owned by the
County in the Town of Beaufort, the
same being the lot on which the
county garage is now located.
In' the afternon the board was in
executive session msot of the time.
There were three applicants for the
position of keeper of the county
home. They wre Mrs. R. E. Jor
dan and Messrs. Henry Smith and
John Wiley. Mr. Wiley was chosen
ed in a mistrial. Two divorces have
been granted this week. On the
ground of five years separation E. W,
Fodrie got an absolute divorce from
"is wile Lilly Fodne and W. S. West
for the same reason secured a divorce
from Sarah West. In the case of
Booth against Best the defendant got
a judgment in his favor. The Bank
of Beaufort got a judgment against
nancocK and Davis. The suit of
ihSC"iWas Gaskil,i"st the' Way Company
elected County Auditor and Luther
Hamilton of . Morebead City was
elected County Attorney.
The board passed a resolution to
issue four notes of $25,000 each
bearing Interest at the rate of 5 1-2
per cent and dated December 7th.
The notes are issued in anticipation
of the collection of 1926 taxes and
the money is to be used-for the bud
et of the board of education and for
other purposes. Jurors for the Jan
uary term of court were drawn and
're given elsewhere.
Act of Old Board
Owing to the recent illness of
County Auditor Stancil the News
has been unable until now to give its
readers information as to meetings
of the board held November the 1 th.
It is given herewith:
Mr. C. P. Dey came beforp tho
Board and asked that the proposed
road to Lenoxville be located neare
the factories. Upon motion of
Commissioner Huntley, seconded by
Commissioner Hall, the engineer was
instructed to lay off the highway to
Lenoxville, and a drawing of the pro
posed highway, be submitted for an
provai,
Loyd Smith be put in charge of
clearing the right-of-way.
Various citizens of Atlantic and
Cedar Island appeared before the
Board protesting against the suggest
ed routing of the Cedar Island road
by Sea Level, and the Board went on
record as approving the route to go
by Atlantic.
A delegation of citizens from Len
oxville came before the Board and
asked that a dependable road be built
to Lenoxville.
Upon motion of Commissioner Tay-
ior, seconded by Commissioner IIslI 1
was settled and neither party
gets any thing. Today four suits
against the. Western Union Tel
egraph Company are being tried in
which damages are asked for mental
anguish. The plaintiffs are Waters,
Dudley, Campen and Dudley,
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MANY SPECTATORS PRESENT
AT POLICE COURT HEARING
Two night sessions of police court
have been held recently, one Satur
day and one Monday. The night ses
sions of the court are held to acco
modate the fishermen, some of whom
are in the court occasionally.
At the Saturday night session Rosa
Belle Pigott pleaded guilty to the
charge of drunkeness and was put
under a suspended judgment and
costs or 10 days in jail. At the
Monday evening session John Bunyan
Congleton was the star of the occa
sion and he and the prosecuting wit
nesses put on a comedy show that af
forded a large crowd of spectators
much amusement. There were five
warrants apainaf tha loncrtVur Jnt
It is further ordeied that'dant charging him with drunkeness,
hghtmg and larceny. Another case
charging him with stealing chickens
was continued. It appeared from the
evidence that. John got drunk and
got into a fight with Messrs. Levi Noe
and Abe Darling. He was charged
also with 'stealing money from the
cash drawer of Mr. Noe. John got a
sentence .of 30 days or a $50 fine in
each of the liquor cases and was
bound over to court under a $300
bond on the larceny case. He is now
confined in the county jail. The case
against Fred Johnson, colored, charg
ed with an assault on H. W. Peter-
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v." as continued.
According to the chief engineer's
report tothe Secretary of War the
sum of $479,600 is needed for water
way improvements in North Carolina.
This recommendation will be sent to
the Rivers and Harbors committee
who will do with it what they see fit.
it is understood that Congressmen
trom this State will try to get
large appropriation. Last year the
ooard of engineers recommended an
appropriation of $3,200,000 for the
construction of a waterway from
Eeaufort harbor to the Cape Fear
river. The committee annroved this
recommendation but Congress has
not acted on the matter as yet.
It is reported that the engineering
department has also suggested the ex
penditure .of $2,524,000 on the har
bor at Cape Lookout. More than a
million dollars, $1,364,00 in fact, has
already been spent at Cape Lookout
and a large sum is needed to finish
the work started there. The harbor
although unfinished, is used extensive
ly as a place of refuge by vessels of
all sorts. If the recommendations
of the engineers is adopted by Con
gress. Beaufort will get $17,500 for
harbor improvements and $4000 will
be available for improving Taylor'i
weeK.
The apportionment of the $479,600
to North Carolina waterways pro
jects leads off with $420,000 for im
provement of the inland waterway
from Norfolk to Beaufort, the link
necting the eastern port cities,, with
the Beaufort to Wilmington water
way for which Senator Simmon and
Representatives' Lyon will this year
attempt to get final Congressional
authority for improvement to cost,
eventually, in excess of $5,000,000.
The other projects included for
North Carolina are:
Pamlico and Tar rivers $10,200
Neuse River in 200
awnt ureek , onn
Contentnea Creek . 1.200
lrent River son
Beaufort Harbor 17,500
waterway conectmg Core
Sound and Beaufort Har
bor 4.000
ape f ear and below Wil
mington 17.000
a Dove Wilmington and North
east River fi.ooo
Black River 1,600
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Morehead City, Dec. 7th The Blue
Ridge-Atlantic annual conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church has
been in session here this week with
Bishop W. P. Thirkield of Chattanoo
ga, Tenn. presiding.. Besides Bishop
Thirkield several prominent speakers
have been on the program. Among
them were Bishop Edgar Blake, resi
dent Bishop of Paris, France, Dr. E.
M. Conover of Philadelphia, represent
ing the Board of Home Missions and
church extension. Dr. E. C. Parker
of India representing the Board of
Foreign Mission. Dr. Parker is a
native "Tar Heel' and an alumni of
Trinity, now Duke University. Dr.
B. M. Powell of Chicago, Illinois, rep
resenting the Board of Pensions and
Relief. Dr. J. M. Melear, Athens,
Tenn. Editor of the Southeastern
Christian Advocate; Dr. Luther E.
Lovejoy of Chicago, Stewardship Sec
retary and Dr. Clarence Wilson,
Washington, D. C. Secretary of the
Board of Temperance addressed the
conference in the final session Sun
day night.
The following young
Somebody's supply of Christmas
liquor was probably cut short last
week by activities of officers of the
law. On Monday a week ago Sheriff
Wade and Deputy Sheriff Chaplain
captured a 30 gallon copper still on
! Newport river about three miles from
the town of Newport and destroyed
with it six barrels of mash or beer
On Friday of last week Messrs.
Wade, Chaplain and Chief of Police
W. R. Longest made another raid and
got a large and complete booze mak
ing outfit. This was a 100 gallon
copper still with good equipment and
some four or five thousand gallons of
beer ready for distilling. The outfit
apparently had not been run more
than once. The stills were brought
to town and are in the jail yard. The
county pays $20 each for all stills
captured.
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MANY SECTS IN
STATE COLLEGE
Twenty Five Represented. Bap
tists Have Largest Number
There, Methodists Next
Raleigh, Dec. 4 Twenty-five re
ligious sects are represented in the
student body at State College, accord
ing to records obtained by E. B. Ow
en, registrar. A study of the list
j shows about what one' would expect
men have ' from a group of North Carolina bovs.
been received on trial in the Confer- Tne Baptists, Methodists, Christians,
ence: John C. Bennett, Chas. W. and Presbyterians are the favorites,
Bryant, Carl A. Johnson, Ben F. Hill, j with the Hindu, Holiness, Unitarians,
Cranford O. Plyler, Caleb J. Wins-1 and United Brethren coming in at the
STATE PAYS LOW
INTEREST RATE
ON BONDS SOLD
Interest Rate On Ten Millions
Is Four And A Quarter
Percent
AUTO COLLECTIONS GROW
low and Hoyt E. Young. Three were
admitted into full connection, Omer
Clyde Melton, Kelton N. Snipes, R.
Gwynn Trull. David R. Earnhardt
was graduated from the conference
course of Study and ordained Elder
end of the ljst. Some of the relig
ions are explained by the presence of
foreign students on the campus.
The Baptists have control of the
campus with 411 giving this church
as their choice. The followers of
GAS EXPLOSION
ONTHEPIGGIE
Three Men Have Narrow Es
cape And Boat Right Badly
Damaged
An explosion that occured aboard
the fishing boat Piggie this morning
about 7 o'clock created considerable
excitement for a short time: ' It also
brought out the fire department and
considerable crowd of spectators
notwithstanding the earlv hour and
the threatening skies.
The explosion was in the forward
part of the boat and was probably
from gasoline that had escaped dur
ing the night. Captain Pete Nelson
and his two men were getting ready
for breakfast when the explosion oc
curd. They were shocked and
sljjt jjy burned by the gasoline but
n eriously hurt. The deck of the
boat in the forward end was blown
up and damages to the amount of
probably several hundred dollars was
done to it. There was no insurance.
The fire was extinguished by the fire
men in a few minutes after they got
here, lhe vessel is used in the sea
bass fishing and had the accident oc
cured at sea it is probable that the
vessel would have been lost. The
men would have taken to the dories
in that case and might have gotten
back to shore. The Piggie belones
J. H. Potter and Son who have
several vessels engaged in sea bass
fishing. ,
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THE POTTERY EXHIBIT.
Mrs. Hugh Overstreet will be in the
office of Miss Edith Powell Friday
afternoon from 31 to 5 o'clock. Miss
Powell, county home demonstration
agent, is in Raleigh attending a meet-
ng there. Mrs. Overstreet will show
ha samples of pottery which are in
he office to any who may wish to sec
.nem. '
and F. A. L. Clark and W. L. Moore ' John Wesley run them a close second
retired- with 399 to their credit. Third in
Walter M. Morrison coming from ' "umbers are the Christians, with 359.
the Missionary church and Joseph ' The Presbyterians have 203 adher
A. Wallace fo-the Pencostal Holiness ants 8nd the Episcopalians 93. The
church were recognized as local deac- j Christian Disciples have 68, Luther
ans 24, and Methodist Protestants 21.
The Roman Catholic church is repre
sented by 17, the German Reform,
14, Associated Reform Presbyterians
and Friends, 11 each. The Morav
ians and Jews have 7 each, the Con
gregational 5, and the Christian
Scientists, 4. The Brethren, Dutch
Reformed, and Universalists each
have two followers, while the Unitar-
ons.
The conference love feast was con
ducted Sunday morning at 9:45 by
Revs. F. A. L. Clark and J. H. Gilles
pie and Bishop Thirkield preached at
10:30 from the subject 'Faith." us
ing as a text Hebrew 11:27. The
commodious church was packed to
the utmost.. At 2 P. M. Sunday the
annual memonal'service. At 3 P. M.
the Bishop assisted by the District i 'ans' j?d. Brethren. Holiness, Hin
Superintendents ordained David R.
Earnhardt Elder and Omer C. Mel
ton, Kelton N. Snipes and R. Gwyn
Trull as deacons.
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WILL OPEN BIDS SOON FOR
NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Bids on the two school buildings
which are to be erected in the Beau
fort school district very soon will be
opened on Thursday the 16th. The
buildings are for the white and col
ored children of this community and
will be modern and adequate for the
needs of the distrcit. The plans were
given to ten contractors some time
ago and several others have applied
for them since that time.
du, and Christ Church have one each.
It should be remembered that these
figures do not mean actual church
membership in all cases, although
such is usually the case. The stu
dents were asked to state the church
ot their choice. Between thirty and
forty failed to do this, for one reas
on or another. This number must be
included in the final check-up of all
students enrolled.
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NOVEMBER WEATHER RECORD
SHOWS MUCH SUNSHINE
November in these parts had so?e
very pretty weather but it also wc.s
the wettest month in a long time.'
There were 7.35 inches of rain ac-
As stated in the News some weeks i cording to weather observer Charles
ago the school bonds voted several ! Hatsell's report, 3.40 inches of which
months ago could not be sold owing jte" on the 16th. There were eigh
to p.n error on the Dart of the at
to-.ney in the drafting of a newspa
per notice. This error will be recti
fied by having the bonds validated by
the General Assembly as soon as pos
sible. Mr. M. Leslie Davis has been
appointed to the job of getting the
validation done. An effort was made
to borrow money for the school build
ings on short time notes but the board
of trustees has not been able to get
any funds in this way. It is thought
likely that the successful bidder will
not wait for the validation of the
bonds but will go ahead and assemble
his equipment and materials and
start on the work in a few weeks.
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EEARS EATING CORN
ON NEWPORT FARM
teen clear days and on many of these
the temperature was just cool enough
to be pleasant. The hottest day was
on the first when the murcury rose
to 83 and the lowest on tre 12th
which was 35 degrees above zero.
The temperature figures are given
below for each day of the month:
Acsording to all reports bears are
right plentiful around Newport this
year. Several have been caught hi
that section recently but evidently
some are there yet. Mr. Rufus Gar
ner Sr., who lives about two miles
from Newport, says bears have des
troyed considerable of his corn in
the last week or so. All of his corn
has not yet been put in the crib so
the bears take advantage of that fact
f:nd pay unwelcome visits to the fields
where they devour the corn as greed
i'.y as hogs. Bear dogs are scarce
round Newport and so when the peo
ple want to catch a bear they set
traps and occasionally capture one
.n this way.
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(By M. L. SHIPMAN)
Raleigh, N. C. Dec. 6 The visit of
Governor McLeod of South Carolina.
the sale of ten millions of bonds, the
dinner tendered Julian Price at
Greensboro and a number of- other
matters attracted interest at the Cap
ital City .this past week. Amone
these were the commutation to life
of the death sentence of James Jef-
feries, the meeting of the State Lit
erary Society and the Folk Lore So
ciety the report of the auto license
bureau, the failure of the Person
suit against the cotton co-ops, the de
cision to purchase new State Fair
grounds by next year and a number
of other matters.
Governor McLean had a fairly busy
week. It started off with voNl
onferences and then came the matter
of the sale of bonds. The bidders on
twenty million bid around what the
Governor considered a hiirh m-ir-P fnr
the State to have to pay in interest
o the Executive declined all bids.
This had the proper effect for the fol
lowing day one of the bidders was '
back and bid 4.25 per cent for ten
million and took the remaining ten
million on short term paper with the
option of closing for them at 4.25
per cent also. It was a distinct vic
tory for the Governor and saved the
State a quarter of a million in inter
est on the first ten millon and if the
option on the second is exercised.
the saving will be well past the half
million mark. The Governor went
over to Greensboro to attend a meet
ing in honor of Julian Price, presi
dent of the Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company. It was an un
usual affair for Governor McLeod
came up from South Carolina for the
same meeting to pay tribute to Mr..
Price's ability and what he had done
in building up the great organization
he heads. The meeting was attended!
by half a thousand leading business
men of the State and Piedmont sec
tion. The Governor entertained Gov
ernor McLeod at a luncheon before
they went over to Greensboro and the
South Carolina executive met all the
State officials. "During the week Mr.
McLean commuted the sentence of
James Jefferies from death to life
imprisonment. The negro is under
sentence for attacking a white wom
an of Wake county.
The meeting of the State Histori
cal Society resulted in the election
of Josephus Daniels as president. The v
meeting of that and the other kin-'
dred organization which met at the
same time, was a successful gather
ing from every viewpoint. Another
meetiner took place during the week
when the secretaries of the banking
association of the South met and
elected Ppu Brown of Raleigh, pres
ident of the group.
The Auto Lire:?.? 2 Bureau report
ed collections for the first five of
the present fiscal year of 9,059,314
a gain of more than one and a quar- .
ter million dollars. The collection '
for the month of November were
$830,251, a large gain over last year.
' The State Fair Grounds sold for
more than $330,000 and the direc
tors of the Fair met here this weei:
and decided to go ahead at once and
use the funds to put up a modern
fair ground near Raleigh and to equ.p
it in modern style in every respect.
Committees were appointed to hand; a
the details of the proposed plait
which will mean a State Fair will bo
held in the fall of 1927.
Colonel Willie Person, buster c:
co-op associations and sworn enemy
of the tobacco and cotton co-ops in
this state withdrew his suit against
the cotton association during the
week after the association intimated
it would move for the suit to be in
stituted in some county .where Per
son's reputation was better known
than in Nash County. Person said
he would bring another suit in a
short while. His first action against
the co-ops failed when the plaintiffs
withdrew on the ground Person had
not advised them the type of suit
..hey were bringing before he start
ed proceedings. . The Newton ic..J
hearing for the second time was in
jourt during the week when Judge
Harding took the matter under ad
visement. The town of Newton a
3ain ig protesting the route of tha
road through Catawba county. Mem
bers of the American Legion are fast
signing for the convention next year
(Continued on page thirteen)
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