T1? T7TT News Largest Circulation The People's Newspaper In Carteret County Yh best advertising m?dium published in Carteret Co. l' READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY 1 ' 9 N .i WATCH Your label and pay your subscription 13 . VOLUME XVI 14 PAGES THIS T EEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY APRIL 7, 1927 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 13 JDJilAUif UK 11 m i iifcri- cm k mm r" us b a n PORT COMMISSION CREATED MONDAY COUNTY BOARD Board Decides to Build Sand Asphalt Road Atlantic to Davis FERRY FRANCHISE GRANTED The board of county commission ers held a lengthy and somewhat strenuous meeting Monday. It was dark before they concluded their la bors. The matters of most moment trans acted by the board perhaps were the appointment of a port commission and their decision on the Atlantic road matter. The port commission, which was treated by an act of the recent Gen eral Assembly, is composed of seven members. The various f atures of the port bill were published in the News some weeks ago. The following were appointed Monday to serve on the commission: Charles S. Wallace, Frank B. Klein, H. S. Gibbs, A. B. Morris, of Morehead City and W. A Mace, G. W Huntley and J A. Hor naday Jr. of Beaufort. After considerable discussion the board decided to change the type of road to be built from Atlantic to Dav. is from a concrete base with as phalt top to a sand asphalt road. This is the type of road running out of Beaufort to a little ways beyond North River. From the end of that to Davis the road is concrete. Mr. B. J. Mann of Newport came before the board and asked that cer tain ditches be re-opened. The mat ter was referred to Road Supervise or M. A. Norris to investigate. A motion was passed appointing , Commissioner Huntlej and Supervis or Norris to investigate the Merrimon road and report on the same.' Mr. S. E. Styron of Sea Level and others were before the board for the purpose of advocating certain chang es in the proposed route of the Atlantic-Davis road. Board agreed to investigate the matter. A franchise was grinied to Mr. O. W. Chadwick to operate a ferry line between Gloucester and Barker's Is land, the franchise to be good for seven years. Ed. F. Gillikm was re lieved of poll taxes. County Attor nev Hamilton was instructed to make a settlement with E. E. Fulcher of Williston for land taken over by the county. Dr. JL P. B. Bonner came before the board with refernece to the county hospital matter. A .com mittee composed of chairman Wood' landand Drs. Bonner and C. S. Max well were appointed to investigate the matter. The clerk was instruct ed to take the name of James Salter of Atlantic off the poor list and to put on that of A. H. Trott of Stella at $10 a month. A motion was pass ed to make the valuation of the At lantic Hotel for 1925 and '26 the same as it was in 1924. A motion was passed to investigate the Burn ing of some buldings on the land of K. A. Merrill and to make compensa tion for some in tax rebates. :o : NORFOLK MAN LEASES FRONT STREET HOUSE Mr. R. B. Taylor of, Norfolk has leased the Brya.. iesidence on front street for a term of years and wilt occupy it in a few weeks. The house has a very pretty location near the western end of Front street and is delightfully cool in summer. Mr. Taylor is having the house repaired and some changes made in it. Mr. D. L. Godwin is in charge of this work and wil have it finished in a short time. ' MOREHEAD CITY CITIZENS GET READY FOR ELECTION Morehead City, April 6 Citizens OA Morehead City are getting ready for the lecion which takes place here on the first Tuesday in May. A mass meeting of interested citizens was held in the City Hall Saturday evening which selected candidates for mayor and members of the board of commissioners. The following were nominated for mayor: Luther Hamliton, who is now mayor, board of commissioners, W. M. Webb, Gil bert Willis, D. B. . Willis, Charles H. Freeman, Dr. K. P. B. Bonner. It is reported here that another ticket may be put in the field but at this time nothing has been done so far as the public knows. :0: MARRIAGE LICENSES. Marriage licenses issued for week ending Wednesday, Alexander Bec ton and Lillian . Murrell, Morehead City. :o: Dr. J. J. Davis of Marshallberg was in town Uor.day lor a few hours. Town Printing C deredj From Moreh Id Cityi The board of city commissioners met Monday for their regular month ly meeting with the Mayor and all members present. After having been in session a few minutes they ening at 8 o'clock. At the meeting held Tuesday May or Thomas and Commissioners Max well,, Parkin, Smith and Whitehurst were present. No matter of any very great interest was attended to unless the consideration of a pro posed curfew law could be so con strued. A motion was passed to have City Attorney Duncan draw up a cur few ordinance. A motion was also passed to have 500 circulars printed and that these circulars should he printed in Morehead City. Some bills were read and ordered paid and then the board recessed subject to the call of the Mayor. FARM CROPS ARE TWO WEEKS EARLY Cotton Belt Will Raise More Food Stuffs This Year. May Raise More Potatoes WASHINGTON, D. C The 1927 agricultural production program as indicated by reports from farmers appears to be in fairly good balance as among crops and live stock, al though weather conditions will be a decisive factor, says the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United Sta tes Department 'of Agriculture, in its April 1 report on' the agricultural situation. ' The production season is reported as fully two weeks early, with frost out of the ground and spring work 'coming into full swing over :most of the country. Storms in the .North have kept land from drying out in some localities hut a good hcre of early grain , is sown and fields are being fitted for '.laer crops. Early crops and general work in the South are reported as "marked ly" advanctd, the Southwest, especial ly, presenting a wery promising pict ure as to grains and forage xrops. Fruit is unosaally advanced almost everywhere, although there is still a considerable frost hazard this anonth for fruits and tender truck crops." Report from farmers show an in tention to shift acreages of crops rather than to make any substantial justment in the Cotton Belt, for ex ample, is indicated by a planned in crease of about 6,000,000 acres in feed and food crops. The North and West are planning, aboaat .a. 3,000,000 acre increase in their principal crops, which would little more than replace acreage lost by drough am the Great Plains last year. "If conservatism is to be recom mended on any part of this intended program," says the bureau, "it should probably apply at least to the cash crops, especially potatoes. The intended potato acreage, with aver age yields, would produce some 410, 000,000 bushels, or near a record crop, wheih would be a shorp increase over thee rops of the last two years. "The county js going into the new season without carrying burdensome stocks. March reports showed only about 14,000,000 bushels more pota toes stored than a year ago. 1 here j are around 380,000,000 bushels lessi of feed grains on hand than last year, j Even the carryover of cotton will be ! much less than was thought probable a few months ago." The tendency to expand potato acreage is reported to be particularly marked in the Cotton Belt, in Micni gan and Minnesota, and in the West ern States. Increases in Virginia and in the Cotton States except Flor ida and Texas seem to be mostly out side the commercial a4e&s. There is a marked tendency to increase acreage in both the commercial and non commercial areas of the West ern States, and it is in these States, says the report, that the marketing problem is most likely to be serious next fall, if present intentions are carried out and average yields are obtained. , :os MAKING GOOD PROGRESS ON BIG HIGHWAY BRIDGE The steel beams and so forth for the Beaufort drawbridge have arriv ed and work will start soon putting them in place. The steel for the Morehead draw arrived several weeks and already a great deal of the work of putting it together has been done. This work is being done by the Roa noke Bridge and Iron Company.' Sanford and Brooks, who have the contract for the concrete work, are making good progress and parties who are well informed about the mat-. ter think this part of the bridge' work will be finished by the middle1 of June. EDUCATION BOARD! ELECTS OFFICIALS! Number of New Committeemen Aopointed. Taylor Chosen Chairman of Board Again The county bosfrd of education at its meeting Monday re-organized for next year's work. Messrs. Taylor, Webb and Mason, the members of the board were all present. Mr. Wiley H. Taylor, the present chairman of the board was re-elected as was also county superinten dent J. H, Workman and county su pervisor Miss Margaret Gustin.' The terms of a number of committeemen expired and these places were filled by appointing new members or re-i appointing old ones. Messrs. Ray Robinson and Theodore Salter of Portsmouth came before the board and asked to have a new one room school building erected there. "The "board took the matter under con sideration. The following is a list of the new committeemen appointed for terms of three years each: Portsmouth, Milon Willis;. Cedar Island Duffey Day. Atlantic, Orvin Robinson. Sealevel J. L. Salter. Stacy Damon Fulcher. Davis Stancey Davis. Harkers Island Chas. Hancock. Wire Grass M. M. Eubariks. Lower North River Albert Willis. Upper North River Solomon Wil kins. Merrimon-1 Mrs. D. M. Salter. South River L. H. Hardy. Lukens J. C. Mason. Salter Path S. W. Dbton. Gales Creek Alvin Taylor. Core Creek D. L. Hardesty. Harlowe Ramon Ball. Stella W. F. Barnhill. Buck Store J. A. Norris. Russells Creek B. H. Russell. Newport Con. A. S. Bell. Camp Glenn, Con. M. H. Willis. Will Willis. Smyrna Joe Pigott, D. R. Jones. White Oak Con. E. W. Meadows, Albert Taylor. Memorial Exercises For Confederate Dead The Fort Macon chapter of the U. D. C. is aranging to have a celebra tion here, as usual, on the 10th of May which is the day that is veryj generally observed m liorth Caroli na in honor of Confederate soldiers who were killed during the war or have died since. Mr. Josephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and form er Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration will deliver thep rincipal address on memorial day. The exercises will take place in the county court room. The la dies wil serve dinner to. the veterans and a few other guests on the grounds m front of the court house. A mus ical program will be arranged and the graves of the dead will be deco rated. Just a year ago the handso'me bronz statue on the court house grounds wa3 unveiled in the pres ence of a large crowd. ' : :o: MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FAVORS COUNTY HOSPITAL At a meeting of the Carteret Coun- j ty Medical Association held last Fri- j day evening a committee composed of Dr. C. S. Maxwell and Dr. K. P. B. Bonner was apointea to confer with the board of county commissioners in regard to the establishment of a county hospital. Those present at the meeting were Drs. K. P. B. Bonner, B. F. Royall, S. W. Thompson, C. G. Ferebee, C. S. Maxwell, E. B. Whitehurst, W. E. Braswell and T. C. Britt. :o: Mr. and Mrs. R. Hugh Hill went to New Bern Tuesday where Mrs. Hill's tonsils were removed. Group Center Commencements Are Being Held This Week Carteret County Group Center Commencements begin this week The county is divided into four parts and each part has a central school. Teach ers, pupils, and patrons from the surrounding schools will meet at the central schools for the Group Com mencement. The morning program will consist of contests in English, Reading Spell ing and Arithmetic. English has been given special attention during the school year. Much time has been devoted to Oral Composition. Teach ers and pupils Will be especially in terested in these contests. Reading Standards in the county have been advancing during the last three years. It will be interesting to note what standards will be reached in CARTERET WOMAN WINS NICE PRIZE Mrs. D. S. Sharpe Has One of The Oldest Sewing Machines And Gets Prize Carteret county, N. C. has the dis tinction of having one of the winners in the nation wide contest put on by the Singer Sewing Machine Company recently to discover the 100 oldest sewing machines in use in the United States. It transpires that Mrs. D. S, Sharpe, Route 1, Newport, has one of these ancient sewing machines. This search was made on the oc casion of the 75th aniversary of the Singer Machine Company and adver tisements carried in various publica tions of large circulation aroused great public interest in the contest. It is said that 153,040 women sent in replies to these advertisements. Each of the 100 successful contest ants received a Deluxe Library Table Singer Electric in exchange for her old machine. A machine of this de scription was sent to Mrs. Sharpe and she was greatly pleased and most agreeably surprised when she learned through the Beaufort News that she had won it.' The News engaged Mr. J. M. Liles the photographer in Morehead City to secure a photograph, of Mrs. Sharpe and her old machine which he did. The picture is a very goodj likeness of both.- Mrs. Sharpe is six-: ty six years old anil the old Singer i machine is sexty eight years old. It is in good condition considering its age and can do very good work even now. Mrs.Sharpe 'is a widow with seven children, several of whom are grown. She owns a farm on which is raised cotton, tobacco, corn and potatoes and same live stock The farm is located on Gales Creek and is only three or four miles from the ocean. Clams, oysters and fish are fairly plentiful and there is also a good deal of game in that part mi the county. Mrs. Sharpe bought her old machine from a neighbor and has had it twenty three years. She is very proud of her new machine and thinks it will last even longer than ihe-bld one ha done. Mrs. Sharpe's picture and that of the other winners in the contest will be used all over the country for advertising purpos es. ;0: VIRGINIA MAN BOOSTS CAPE LOOKOUT HARBOR Mr. R. C. Wight of Richmond, Va., who was in town for the week end, says that the people of this section ought to start a boom for the devel opment of Cape Lookout as a harbor and port. He thinks it is naturally one of the best, harbors along the coast and all it needs is to get the breakwater finished and get a rail road there. Mr. Wight thinks that if a coaling station should be established at Cape Lookout that, it would be a great convenience to many oeean steamers and that they would fill their bunk- ers there. Also much other freight could be and would be handled through the port at the cape. There are many people in this section who agree with tohat Mr. Wight says and would like to see Cape Lookout c in verted into a big shipping port. Fur thermore they would be willing to holp the cause along in any way that they could. In the meantime they arc wailiiig to see what will be do'ic a.K.ut improving Beaufort Inht an: getting t staamship line in hem. EXPLANATION IN ORDER Owing to the fact that a ship ment of newspaper hat not yet arrived and to the further fact that a large amount of adver tising;' and news matter is at hand this week the News is be ing printed on two kinds of pa per. It was necessary to use some book paper in order to print this edition. Next week no doubt the News will appear in its usual form. these contests. Standard Spelling Tests have been given each month during the school year. The Arith metic contest for speed nd accuracy is always interesting to the audience and is of much value to contestants. The first part of the afternoon pro gram will consist of Folk Games wheih will be a part of the pageant at the County Commencement. The Athletic Contest will complete the program. Winners in the Group Center Con test will receive Honor Badges and will represent their Bchool in con test at the County Commencement Dates for Group Center Commence ments are: White Oak, April 8; At lantic, April 11; Smyrna, April 13; Newport, April 15. LEGISLATORS CLAIM IGNORANCE OF AUTOLICENSE CARD LAW Only One Concern In Entire Country Can Make The Holders Which Will Cost The State $332,500. Motorists Pay Fif ty Cents Each For Them. Road Building Seems To Be Getting Cheaper (By M. L. SHIPMAN) Raleigh, April 4, With the Gover nor and State Treasurer in New York signing bonds and other officials en-j joying a period of relaxation Raleigh ( experienced a rather quiet week. A ! dozen or so members of the General : Assembly favored the capital city with a visit and talked about things j the Legislature did and did not do, but not a single one of them was willing to father the 'container provision" of the new State Automobile Law which exacts a fee of fifty cents from the owner of every car for a license card. Two or three of the solons have ad mitted hearing the provision discuss ed in committee but fail to recall the day or the hour when it was finally passed upon. However, the card holder Is not to be distributed with the 1327 license on July 1st, accord ing to Commissioner Doughton, who solemnly affirms that he will be un able to provide the contrivance by that time. It is said these holders will cost the State around 35 cents and that approximately 950,000 of them will be needed during the two year period. The cost to the Depart ment would aggregate $332,500. If sold to motorists at 50 cents a piece a profit of $47,000 would be realiz ed. A disquieting feature of the af fair is the fact that only one concern in the entire country is authorized to manufacture the holder described in the act and North Carolina will be hand-tied to it, unless a special ses sion of the General Assembl inter venes. ' -v ' Tf ., A-r.nirrr 'nr How Vnrlr tn affix his name to $10,000,000 of State bonds Governor McLean named 11 V. Koontz of Greensboro; W. S. Mur chison of Raleigh; and Ross Sigmon, Salisbury as members of the Real Es tate Commission created by the late General Assembly. This Commis sion has power to grant licenses to Real Estate Dealers in. the counties of Buncombe, Durham, Forsythe, Guilford, Henderson, Lee, Rowan and Wake. The bill provides initial fees of $10, and $5 for brokers and salesmen, respectively, and annual renewal fees of $5 and $2 respect ively in addition to fees for licenses and privilege taxes collected by the Department of Revenue which were materially increased by the 1927 General Assembly. Enroute to the metropolis the Governor journeyed via Wilmington and delivered a ring ing address before the annual meet ing of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution. He also investigat ed the claims of Thomas E. Cooper, former Wilmington banker, now serv ing an ieght year sentence on hte roads of New Hanover county, for ex?3cvttive clemency. The prisoner has already served two years in the Federal prison at Atlantar Highway Bids Were Low During the week the State High way Commission opened bids on twenty road projects totaling on the lowest estimates submitted $2,542, 372.50 for the construction of 79.58 miles of hard surface and 63.08 of tposoil roads. Two bridges, one ov er the Yadkin River in Davie county to cost $145,516.50 and the other ov er Green River in Henderson county at an expenditure of $103,700 were included in the projects. Funds for this work comes from short-time notes executed in anticipation of the $30,000,000 bond issue authorized by the recent session of the General As sembly. The Commission is to make the award during the present week from the low bids which arc said to be in the aggregate nearly $200,000 below the estimate of commission ex perts. Job Hunters Busy The usual rush is on for tempor ary posiitons in the automobile bu reau of the State Department of Rev enue through the busy season, for ty applications for each position a- vailable, and Commissioner Dougn ton "lets it be known" that other applications cannot be considered. Those having previously served the Department in a a satisfactory man ner are to be given preference in making up the summer personal. The change from the fiscal to the calen dar year will entail additional ex pense and the Legislature author ized a charge of 25 cents more than the regular license fee to take of this, extra work to accommodate far mers whom representatives contend would be in a better position to pur chase licenses in January than in June. The Department figures that 425,000 motor vehicles will be licensed this year and the extra quar- . :o : Dr. C. N. Mason of Harlowe was in town Monday on a business trip. Police Court Monday Tried Mostly Drunks Police court Monday afternoon lasted just about one hour. All of those who faced Mayor Thomas wera in trouble on account of liquor. AH were convicted. Manly Bailey, colored, was charg ed with drunkeness and having as saulted Annie Collins. He admitted having been drunk but said he knew nothing about the other charge as hi was too drunk to remember any thing he did. The evidence was that ha picked the woman up and fell and that she ran away but was not hurt. He got 30 days in the streets. Alverson (Pete) Fulford, colored was charged with drunkeness, also injuring a stove that belonged to Janie Wilson. The evidence in his case was that he came into the house drunk and fell over the stove and a chair but did no damage of any con sequence. When asked by the May or where he got his liquor he said it was not whiskey; that he got it from a white man who said it was "20 min utes to hell." He got 60 days on the streets. Rosa Bslle Pigott, whose case was continued from last Monday, was tried on the drunk and disorderly charge. Two witnesses testified that she had been drinking and used pro fanity on the street. She denied that she was drunk and was very in dignant at the witnesses for testify- I against her. She was bound over to Superior court under a $25 bond. Floyd Robinson charged with be ing drunk, admitted it but said he was on the streets only a few min utes and was not disorderly. His statement was corroborated by officer Ford and he got off with the costs. Burnie Burr who way' attending court went to sleep during the pro- ceedings and was locked up by the chief on the suspicion that he had too much booze aboard. ! License Now Required Of Some Fishermen People who fish with hook and line, or rod and reel, in freshwater streams in North Carolina will have to pos sess a license according to a statute made and provided by the late Gen eral Assembly. The licenses are is sued by the clerks of the Superior Court in the various counties and it csts $1.10 to get one. A state wide license costs $2.10 and may be had from the Superior Court clerk also. The Game Wardens, State Fisheries Commissioners and assistants also have the autVarity to issue fishing licenses. Not only does the angler get his license but he also gets a fine button which he must wear upon his person when he is engaged in the agreeable pastime of angling. Persons who are not residents of the State have to pay more than those who are residents for the privilege of fishing in the freshwater streams, ponds and lakes. It costs a non resident the sum of $3.10 for this privilege. All moneys collected are turned into the State treasurer for the use of the State Fisheries commission. :o: Suit Started Against Town of Beaufort Proceedings in a damage suit a- gainst the town of Jseaufort were started here today by attorney S. H. Newberry of Morehead City. The amount involved is $3200 and the plaintiff is Alton Mason of New Bern. Judge D. L. Warde is associated with Mr. Newberry in the case. Papers were served today on Town Clerk M. A. Hill. It is alleged that on the night of March the 30th Mr. Mason drove into an old septic tank on Pine street and sustained injuries to his person and automobile. :o: TOWNS TO ADVERTISE - IN MAGAZINE "SPUR" Mr. John Vavasour Noel represent ing the semi-monthly magazine called "Spur" was in Beaufort and More head City Wednesday arranging for the publication of articles concerning theese towns. Mr. Noel stated to N the News man that several citizens in Beaufort had agreed to become re sponsible for the cost of the article concerning this town. Mr. Noel al so stated that he had practically con cluded arrangements to publish an article about Morehead Ctiy in the magazine The articles will be il lustrated by appropriate- pictures.