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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 31. 1927
THE BEAUFCRT NEWS
Published every Thursday
at Beaufort. Carteret County
North Carolina.
Beaufort Newi Inc., PublUher
WILLIAM GILES MEBAXE
President and Editor
J. P. BETTS
Secretary and Treasurer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(In Advance)
One Year $2.00
Bis Months 1-00
Three Month ... ... ....60
Entered as second-class matter
February B. 1912 at the postoffice in
Beaufort, North Carolina, under the
act of March 3, 1879.
Nonh Carolina 4
PPESS ASSOCIATION y
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THURSDAY MARCH 31, 1927
Up to the hour of this writ
ing nothing has been made
public as to the county audit.
Having yielded sufficiently to
public opinion to have the aud
it made it seems that the board
might now go a step farther
and let the people know what
the audit shows.
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ONE EXCHANGE ENOUGH
The telephone exchanges of
Beaufort and Morehead City
ought to be consolidated. This
would be an advantage to both
towns. It would give better
service to telephone subscrib
ers and would do away with
the toll charges between the
two towns. There is no reason
why a person living in one town
should have to pay twenty five
cents to talk to some one who
lives in the other place. The
city of Greensboro with seven
teen square miles of territory
and a population of 50,000
people has only one telephone
exchange. Charlotte, Winston
-Salem, Durham, Raleigh, in
fact all of the big towns have
but one telephone exchange a
piece. One exchange is a
plenty for Beaufort and More
head City and the company
ought to consolidate the two it
now has in the interest of econ
omy and good service.
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ADVENTURING IN
SAMPSON.
i Here's hoping that the Samp
son county oil well will be a
success, that is we hope there
will be some oil in it. Most oil
well adventures are failures
and millions have been thrown
awav trying to find oil, but if
somebody didn't take a chance
occasionally not much would
be done in this life in the way
of finding oil ' or doing any
thing else. Columbus took a
big chance when he set out to
cross the Atlantic ocean and no
doubt many people called him
a fool but his adventure prov
ed successful and Columbus
will live forever in history. So
in the business world too one
has to risk something to accom
plish any thing worth while.
The Sampson county folks who
are furnishine the money to
bore a hole in the ground in
f uest of oil certainly have the
nirit of adventure and we
trust they will be rewarded a-bundantly.
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relieving people who are in
distress has several advan
tages. The principal one is
that instead of scattering1 char
itable work around among
church societies, fraternal or
ders, clubs and individuals it
:s put in the hands of one or
jar.ization. The secretary, or
whoever has charge of it, be
comes thoroughly familiar with
local conditions and knows
how and when to apply reme
dies. Then too those who are
in need of help know where to
go to get it and are relieved of
considerable anxiety and em
barrasment. The public is
protected to some extent at
least from unscrupulous per
sons who try to get asistance
which they do not deserve. All
in all the plan is a good one, if
carried out well, and Beaufort
might Avell give it a trial.
NEW USE FOR GUM TREES.
Recent scientific investiga
tions reveal the fact the
swamps of North Carolina and
other states may be a source
of supply for the pulp used in
the manufacture of paper. For
manyyears the mountains of
North Carolina have furnished
a great deal of the wood pulp
used by paper mills in this
country and now the swamps
may be called upon to furnish
some of the raw material need
ed for making paper.
In the mountains spruce is
the tree used mainly lor wood
pulp. A new pulping process
has been invented which makes
it possible to use gum, aspen,
birch and maple. I his addr
tion to the pulp supply will be
a great help to the paper in
dustry which is getting to be
somewhat handicapped by the
growing scarcity of raw mater
ial. In the swamps of eastern
Carolina there are millions of
gum trees and it may be that
the paper manufacturers will
begin to draw upon these sour
ces of supply in the near fu
ture. Second growth gum is
worth very little for lumber
but makes good paper pulp.
Trees that have been consider
ed heretofore as not much ac
count now promise to be in de
mand. The tupelo gum grows
rapidly and sprouts well from
the stump. By proper attent
ion the swamp lands may fur
nish an inexhaustible supply
of wood puln and thereby be
come valuable assets to east
ern Carolina.
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spectable person would want j stopped and started picking on him
such a community to bear his j quarreling and fighting him. He sat
name. ! down end started to cry, when Mary
There is another COUntj ' started running toward the house,
down there in Georgia called j calling her motherland telling her
Treutlen, which seems to be that Ben had nearly killed her, with
just as rotten as Toombs. Both, a large stick, her mother punished
of them are a disgrace not on-; him badly. The poor little child had
ly to themselves but to all Georj to bear all of Mary's meanness, his
gia and for that matter to the j mother was very cruel to him, he had
whole United States. For more ! to take all punishments, and Mary
than a year hoodlums in that I got none, not.
part of Georgia have been in-! Many years after that poor little
dulging in weekly whipping; Ben died, on his death bed he told his
parties. They spare no one I mother of the punishments he had tak
that according to their stan-j en from her. She wept bitterly but
dards needs punishment. A I too late. He was gone, to suffer no
good many women have been j more in this world. We should learn
beaten, they took a preacher' from this story to treat all alike we
Out of a church and flogged j would prosper more.
him, whipped a lawyer sound-1 NELLIE SKINNER,
ly and beat an editor nearly to i Seventh Grade,
death. They killed a young' Russell Creek School.
farmer who tried to defend :o:
himself. They have terrorized' HE'S QUIT!
the public and the courts have; The blow has fallen at last! The
almost ceased to function. Gazette's subscriber has quit! And
Many people have been run'Tillie the Toiler asked the editor:
out of their communities and! "What we goin' ter do 'thout a sub-
ouuie nave icii, ux men uvwi . scriDer: uur sUDsenber came in
free will because they did not I last week and up and told the Gazette
bers, two others were hurt and one shave. As
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nam ii live neat such xumans.
Some of these outrages have
been committed by what is
caled the "whiskey crowd" and
others by the socalled "moral
forces." One set though is
as bad as the other and all
ought to be in the penitentiary.
Verily Georgia has sowed the
wind and is reaping the whirl
wind. It is well enough to condemn
mob law in Georgia but let us
not forget the fact that we have
occasional outbursts of it in;
North Carolina. Recent occur
ences in Durham, Wake and
Craven counties come to mind. ;
The latter however was very
effectually attended to by ,
Judge Cranmer. !
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oiiice, an ana several, mat it was
giving the town a bad name and to
take HIS name off'n the mail list. In
cidentally he told the staff not to men
tion that a lot of boys had been pull
ed up for shooting up his end of the
town, but he didn't want anything
said about it, for fear they would get
peeved and make things disagreeable
for him. Incidentally, the Gazette's
subscriber, that it "has loved and lost
awhile," entirely overlooked the little
matter of an overdue subscription.
Eut the Lord tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb and nearly 200 new
subscribers have taken away the
sting of the sad loss (Lexington,
(Va.) Gazette.)
seriously. I had just walked across
the derrick floor and entered the
tool house at one corner when the
crash came. I came out unschathed.
We have rebuilt the derrick and
resumed operations already,
Yours very truly,
S. C. CAMPEN
Walden, Texas, 3-24-27.
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SATURDAY HAIR BOBBING.
Editor of the Beaufort News:
Men are not much to look at any
how, so everything should certainly
be done to help in their appearance
The Saturday evening shave is very
important as a means for raising the
already low average of male pulchri
tude. In this I am sure the ladies
are interested. I met a man the
other day with several days' growth
on his otherwise rather handsome
countenance. He explained that so
many ladies were getting their hair
bobbed the previous Saturday night
that he missed his at least weekly
shave. I am sure that no real lady
would willingly be responsible for
this sad result..
A delay of a day or two can make
little difference in having the hair
trimmed or bobbed; but it makes a
big differenc in the matter of a
matter of practical
Christianity I would suggest that
shaves have the right of way on Sat
urday, especially in the evening, and
that the ladies take their children or
their own heads to the barber earlier
in the week. I am not prompted by
any selfish motive in writing this, as
I shave myself; nor am I inconsistent,
since I always try to get my (Now
rather useless) haircut earlier in the
week. So please urge the ladies to
come early and avoid the stubbly
cheek.
Yours truly for helping nature,
GEORGE W. LAY
MERRIMON
Miss Lottie Moore, the teacher
here spent the week end with her par
ents at Morehead City.
Capt. Alex Truitt went to Beau
fort Sunday.
Mr. Jas. Adams was in our berg
this week and we all were glad to
see him.
Messrs. Lionel Murdock, Alex
Truitt and Misses Neta and Florence
Carraway motored to New Bern Tues
day. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Carraway spent
Saturday and Sunday at Morehead
City with relatives and friends.
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CHILDREN'S
CONTEST
THE HISTORY OF BOGUE.
Fifty or sixty years ago the little
settlement of Bogue was founded and j uke it but eyen so r som3.
SfAUIV!lVwWe8!ernP8? f,N0rth! times long to see the folks back in
Lexers From Our
- Readers - $
CARTERET COUNTY MAN
WORKING NOW IN TEXAS
Editor of The News:
I am enclosing $1.00 for six months
subscription. I did not get a copy
of the paper of last week.
This is a great country down here
Springtime
Is The Time To
KODAK
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railroad station the banks of Bogue j i. i i j
t j n i 1 am having plenty of adventures
, , - . : anu nau
was mere house or two, with roads1
a narrow escape on the
morning of the 10th inst. I am with
nf .n4 1 .... I
To go to Morehead City or New-!tmjm Tu0 of fvQ T ,w,i
port was a trip of several days, by(tl.o), 'oA ; a;0a
horse and buggy or ox and cart.. AI-, injuries received rom faUi tim U
When the flow-el's begin to bloom and the
birds begin to sing and you feel the call
of the great outdoors-
THAT'S KODAK TIME
Kodak Supplies Kodak Finishing
The Beaufort Drug Co.
TIME TO STOP.
1 begins to look as if the
brakes on bond issuing in Beau
fort were not put on much too
t-oon. When a town gets to
the place where it has only one
bidder for a bond issue of
$125,000 it seems to be an in
dication that its bonds are not
much in demand. It shows that
a town can strain its credit just
as well as an individual can.
Bond buyers usually inquire in
to the financial standing of any
town, county or state when
they contemplate buying an is
sue of bonds. If their investi
gations show too much indebt
edness in proportion to taxable
wealth right then they consider.
a new bond issue an undesir
able investment. People who
think that there is no limit to
a town or county's ability to
borrow money have very crude
ideas about public business. No
doubt the time will come when
Beaufort will be able to issue
more bonds and if there is a
real need it should be done.
The present is not the timj
though.
ORGANIZED ' CHARITY.
In recent years a good many
cities in North Carolina have
adopted the plan of handling
the'" charitable donations thru
some central agency, usually
called The Board of Associat
ed Charities. This method of
GOCD ROADS AND CARS
SIGNS OF DEVELOPMENT
The United States is far a-j
head of all countries on this
terrestrial ball in building good
roads and in the number of au
tomobiles that use them. In
fact there are more motor cars
i nthe United States than in all
the rest of the earth. Some may
regard this as a doubtful ad
vantage but we do not think so.
The self propelled vehicle is
as necessary in modern life a
the ox cart was in ancient times
or the railroad train was twen
ty five years ago.
It is gratifying to note that
North Carolina, while it does
not lead the Union in number
of automobiles and miles of
good roads is well up in the pro
cession of states and is still go
ing forward. The agitation for
better roads started m our State
about twenty five years ago.
It took a long time before the
masses of the people got e
nough interested in the matter
to be willing to pay any taxe?
of much consequence for road
purposes, rsow the demand
for good roads is universal and
there is not much objection to
any reasonable taxation for
roads, especially when the mon
ev is spent wisely. The State
Highway Commission has done
a great service to the State. The
commission is not perfect of
course and no doubt has made
some mistakes but it has func
tioned much better than most
governmental bodies, due prob
ably to the fact that it is not
a political machine. The good
roads built by the State and
the counties have contributed
tremendously to the develop
ment of the commonwealth and
win continue to do so. so we
may take a just pride in the
thought North Carolina has
several thousand miles of fine
roads and some 400,000 motor
cars and trucks.
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DISGRACING ITS NAME.
In a by gone era Robert
Toombs was a noted Georgia
statesman. There is a county
named for him in Georgia now
but it he knew how its inhabi'
tants had been conducting
themselves recently statesmtn
Toombs no doubt would ask
the county to change its name
It would be more fitting to
name it after some Ku Klux
potentate. A county where
white people disguise themsel
ves and go around committing
assaults on other white people
and black ones too, under pie
tense of correcting their mor
als, is not civilized and no re-
tho the railroad station is some dis
tance away the trip is now accom
plished in an hour or two with a
hard surface road three miles awav. ;
Bogue has one of the finest con- j
solidated schools for a country place,
in the county. It's excellent teach
ers and good students will be much
toward making Bogue a town some
day. Black Beard or Teach the pi
rate is said to have paid several vis
its to Bogue in its younger days. ,
Bogue will some time in the future
have a name of its own. As it is
considered a royal place to hunt and 1
people from all over the state comes
here to hunt such game as quail, rab- i
bits, squirrels, turkey, deer and bear, i
In imagination I can see Bogue i
say fifteen years from now with up ;
to date lodges and clubs to enter
tain the huntmens.
Eogue consists of four stores, a
lodge building, post office, a large
scnool bunding and sixty or more
homes all containing large families. I
I prophesy that in fifteen or more '
ears Bogue will rank among the best
cities oi western wortn Carolina, ir
Lome on good people and make j
this prophecy come true. We all!
know it takes unity to pull a job like
this through, so on with the hard!
surface.
GERLDINE RUSSELL, i
Eogue, N. C.
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CARTERET COUNTY. j
The industries of Carteret county
are hshing and farming. Carteret!
County furnished, fish, clams, oys-!
ters and escallops. It is eighty miles I
long and almost surrounded with '
bur consolidated schools. Roads from '
Morehead and Newport have been !
paved to within three miles of I
Bogue in the western part of the :
Carteret county furnishes a lot
of game, especially bear. There have
ueeii so many Dear Kuieu mat it nas j
become expensive. Carteret Coun
ty soil raises just about all kinds of
crops; especially watermelons. Bogue
bound watermelons are known as the
best. The Atlantic Ocean is two
miles from the mainland. The beach
is about seventy five miles long.
People come from up the country
every year to visit Carteret county.
There is a deep channel that goes a
long the coast of Carteret county.
This channel has becons along it to
show the boats the deep water.
ROBERT MEADOWS,
White Oak School.
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Modern Bedroom Fimiture
'
The designing and the construction of our bedroom sets place
them in a class by themselves. No finer furniture is made, everything considered,
than you may buy here, at PRICES WELL WITHIN REASON.
Cushioned
Comfort
and
Practical f
Beauty
Whether you are considering
the purchase of a single piece
or a complete set, you should
take the time to inspect our
present showing. The woods
and materials used insure last
ing beauty at a very moderate
cost.
PS
CHOICE BREAKFAST
SETS
In these attractive Sets we of
fer you a choice of several de
signs and finishes. It is a dis
play that will interest you sincei
the prices are much less thanE
you expect, quality considered.
Be Sure to See our Bridge Lamps and Card Tables
.... NAUGHTY MARY.
Once there was a little girl, her
name was Mary. She had a little
brother named Ben. He was a good
little boy, he always played alone, he
nad no bad habits.
Mary was naughty and bad, she
HKea very well to quarrel.
One day Ben was in the yard play
mi n.ce v with hk tnv
M.ry ,. ris t.w.rd him, SSmOBSt
Gaskill Mace Company
BEAUFORT, N. C.
Furniture Hardware
FRONT ST.