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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1927
"Cotwy Correspondence
SMYRNA
Xeal spent Sunday with her mother
Mrs. L'ob Dudley.
The Baptist Aid Society mett
Miss Dollio Davis home lust wc.'K.
Mrs. C. G. Wade was at Beaufort
a few hours last week.
The Moore filling station is com
pleted and now open for business.
Mr. Guion Simpson returned to his
work at New Bern last Monday.
Mr. Clarence Whitehurst oT Beau
fort was in our community one day
last week.
The Methodist Aid Society met at
the home of Mrs. A. J. Wiillis last
week.
Mr. W. L. Smith is making ready
t ohave the Delco system installed in
his residence and store.
Rev. Mr. Davis filled his appoint
ment at Tuttle's Grove Sunday. All
enjoyed a god sermon.
Mr. Roy Dickinson spent the wees
end at home with his parents return
in "to school at Beaufort Monday.
He says that he. likes the army very !
well but .that he is going t0 try civ-1
i'.ian life for a while.
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County Newt ConinueJ on pages 5,
6, 7 and 8. , j
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Total production of soap in the j
United States in 1025 exceeded 4,-!
678 million pounds, an average of
more than 40 pounds per person. Its
value was 230 million dollars, an in-
' crease of 5 million dollars over 1923.
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Aesop's Fables were written and
compiled by a Graeco-Italian named
Barrium several centuries after
Aesop's reputed death in 564 B. C.
Socrates and later writers, revising
the Babrian fables, gave them Aesop's
name.
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NEWPORT
(By Miss Agnes Hill )
Mr. Robbie Weeks and family have
moved in their new home on Orange
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilton are
having a new home built on Wake
street.
Mr.and Mrs. Cleveland Wi'liij of
Morehead City were here for a Tew
hours last Sundav.
Mrs. Sophrona Jones of Gloucester
was in our community last Thursday
afternoon for a few hours.
Reverend Benjamine Martin will
hold services in the Primitive Baptist
church on January 12.
From the- number of bird dogs on
the streets, bird hunting must be a
very popular sport around here.
We had some real spring days last
week though we are afraid to say too
much for fear the ground ho.r may
have seen his shadow.
Miss Gertrude Smith left last week
for New Bern where she will spend
a few days visiting her uncle Mr. W.
L. Lewis.
Mrs. Monroe Gillikin and little
daughter Hilda spent a few hours
here last week with Mrs. Gillikin's
father Mr. Daniel Willis.
Reverend Glover Willis wh0 has
been attending the Seminary at Tex
as, preached at the Baptist church
here last Sunday night.
There has been a big improvement
made at the Strand heatre of New
port. A new ceiling has been put up.
We are very much pleased to have
the Salvation Army hold services at
Newport every Friday night.
Messrs. L, C. Carrol and C. C. Hill
paid a business visit to Onslow
county Sunday.
Among other things that this good
weather is doing it is improving the
whooping cough.
Mr. Leon Carraway, who has been
spending awhile in Florida is now
at home.
Dr. Charles E. Maddry, corres
ponding Secretary of the State Bap
tist Mission Board passed through
this community one day last week on
his way to Atlantic.
Mr. L. C. Carroll of Newport and
lawyer Morris of Morehead City made
a business trip t0 New Bern Saturday.
Dr. E. E. Whitehurst and Mrs.
Whitehurst of Beaufort were here
last M6nday""evening. We are all si
glad to know that Dr. Whitehurst is
well enough to be out again.
The citizens of Newport have
learned that their present system of
light is much cheaper than the pri
vate plants. '
The play from Beaufort, Anne
What's Her Name was given at the
High School auditorium here last
Friday night, and was immensely en
joyed by the vast crowd present. The
returns of the play being one hun
dred and fifteen dollars.
; WIRE GRASS
Mr. A. N. Fodrie v. ent to Newport
Saturday on business.
Mr. Leaton Dudley of New Bern
was home a few hours Sunday.
Mr.a nd Mrs. E'.i Prescott of New
port were in Wilmington last week
to visit their small daughter who is
in the Sanatorium.
Iris Prescott, who is very ill with !
the gland fever, has been taken to the :
Sanatorium at Wilmington to be j
treatsd by a very skilled child doc-!.
tor.
Mi-. Claude Henderson, who is em
ployed by the Newport telephone
company, fell from a pole dropping
about 12 feet. Mr. Henderson was
bruised some but not seriously.
Mr. Dave Nelson of' Wilmington
spent the week 'end with his family.
We are having beautiful weather
at this writing, and the farmers are
making use of it.
Mr. C. C. Hill payed a business vis
it to Merrimon township Thursday
He says that the people of that com
munity are very much pleased with
Rdverend H. L. Davis as their pastor.
Mr. Harry Williams of the United !
States army is at home visiting his 1
parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams
Legislative Committees
Prepare For Action on
Important Bills
(Continued from page one)
expected to show definite results.
Old man "defer" and his twin
brother "refer" were much in evi
dence during the week and half a
dozen public bills were made special
orders for this week, while twice that
number went back t0 committees for
re-adjustment and to iron out differ-
I ences. The Hines bill, providing for
j refunding $12,000 fo former State
Treasurer Worth, is to be passed upon
: by the Senate tomorrow; Senator
I Royall's bill changing the license
', year for automobiles and providing
I a front rear plate is also made a spec
ial order for Tuesday ; the judges
salary proposal will be debated or.
I Wednesday. The exodus of mem
bers from the House for the Week
end moved that body to defer action
on all public bills until theabsentees
are back in their seats Tuesday morn
ing. The joint committee on game
of the two branches of the Assembly
are scheduled to meet in the hall of
the House at 3 P. M. on Wednesday,
Feb. 9th for a public hearing on the
Sutton State wide game bill and a
flow of bragory may reasonably be
expected. Delegations from a num
ber of counties are planning to be on
hand to let the representatives of the
"dear people" know what the folks
back home want done about it.
The sub-joint committee on roads
has approved a substitute for the
Smith Hargett bill maV.ing the State
Highway Commission the supreme
authority in locating roads becoming
a part of the highway system which,
is is said, will prevent court interfer-fj
ence as in the now famous Newton
case. The compromise measure will
give the Highway Commission final
authority in abandoning old roads and
locating new ones, thereby giving the
Commission the authority asked for, j
but not exactly the language employ
ed in the draft of the original bills.
However, local road authorities are
t0 be consulted and may appeal to
the full commission in the event of
disagreement with representatives of
the State body selected to designate
the route the new link of a highway
should take. All parties to the con
troversy appear t0 have buried their
differences and the substitute bill is
to have easy sailing unless present in
dications undergo a change. While
court action may be brought under
the provisions of the substitute meas
ure it must be done by properly
constituted authorities of a city ox
county. Another bill to which the
State Highway Commission may ob
ject is that proposed by Senator Hanr
cock to place that body undar the pro-
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visions of the executive budget act
on the same basis as other State de
partments and institutions. Hither
to, it has been "a court unt0 itself."
Unless present plans mis-carry the
Fisheries Commission Board is to
"capitulate" to the Department of
Conservation and Development, a bill
yproviding for the consolidation hav
ing been offered in the House by Rep
resentatives Whitaker, of Jones, and
Younce, of Guilford, in harmony with
an agreement reached in a confer
enme of both agencies. Other meas
ures of like character may "bobup"
without a moments notice most any
time. Consolidation" is the slogan
which may gather force as the ses
sion "wags along," although the idea
of economy would receive a -considerable
part i:i the event of the passage
of the bill calling for the re-distrnct-ing
of the State and the establish
ment of seven additional judicial dis
tricts recently reported out of the
joint committee on judicial districts
by a decisive majority. A number
of "judicial reform" bills are to apme
up during the week as the result of
the work of the Judicial Conference
created by the General Assembly of
1E25.
With the view to "equalization of
taxes for schools and equal opportu
nuties for children" Representative
Folger, of Surry, has presented a bill
which provider for the levy of a prop
erty tax of forty-seven cents and a
poll tax of $1.40 in each county for
the purpose of maintaining the legal
six months term, the assessment to
be made by a State commission com
posed of seven citizens appointed by
the Governor with the Commissioner
of Revenue as ex-offici0 member and
the county boards of education act
ing as agents of the State department
in gathering funds to be disbursed
through Statec hannels.
Bills proposing reforms in county
government are to be presented
within the next few days. The meas
ure intended to relieve World War
Veterans from the payment of poll
tax went to the unfavorable calendar
in the House. The "bad check" pro
posal is " still on the way." along
with the bill to repeal or amend the
absentee voters act. Mark Squires
wants his county exempted from the
provisions of the primary law and
the House, generally lets a represen
tative have his way in matters of lo
cal significance.
State tax collections for general
fund purposes last month amounted
to $219,181. North Carolina ranks
a8 the fifteenth populous state in the
Union, the estimated population be
ing 2,897,00 on the first of next July.
Florida and Texas in the South show
a greater increase.
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Mr.and Mrs. Henry Dudley spent ' ,
the week end at Otway with Mrs.
Dudley's mother.
Mr. William Willis of Beaufort
spent some time in this neighborhood.
Mrs. Earl Campen and little son
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