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NEWS GS Largest Circulation In Carteret County AUFOI The People's Newspaper The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. c READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXEKCISE IS TO THE BODY J WATCI - our label and pay your subscription VOLUME XVI 12 PAGES TWO SECTIONS THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY JUNE 16, 1927 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 24 Inland Waterway Right Of May Are Being Secured RALEIGH, N. C, June 14 (INS) I. M. Bailey, attorney foe the Cor poration Commission, planned today to leave for Washington toward tht end of this month to confer with of ficials of the War Department in re gard to the transfer of title to ap proximately 6,000 acres of land needed as right-of-way for the inland waterway extension from Beaufort to Wilmington. Bailey stated he was merely smoothing over preliminaries and that no actual transfer would be made at this time. He will learn, while in Washington, the form of the deed wanted by the government to the land which the state will donate to it un der authority of an act of the last legislature. Steps looking toward the procur ing f the i-ight-of-way are proceed ing satisfactorily., Bailey said. Half of the land was donated by the State Board of Education and the remain der is being obtained from owners a long the 100-mile route. Emulating the example of the Board of Educa tion, many owners are donating the land. Condemnation proceedings if found necessary, were authorized by th'e legislature. Work cannot begin until next month since the government appro priation for the project does not be come available until then. Meanwhile, however, every effort is being made by the State Transportation Advisory Commission to have everything in readiness when the time arrives for the work to getu dnre the work to get under way. ALECK RAMSEY PASSES AWAY. Alex. H. Ramsey, a well known cit izen of Beaufort, died sudenly last Friday, the 10th. He was 36 years old. He was never married and liv ed, with his mother to whom he was very devoted and attentive. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Mary. E. Ramsey and two brothers, Ray mond Ramsey of Wilmington and Harvey Ramsey of Beaufort. Mr. Ramsey was engaged in the grocery busines on Ann street and had many friends throughout the town. The funeral took place Sat urday afternoon and was conducted by the Reverend Leland L. Smith, pastor of Ann Street Methodist church. The interment was in Ocean View cemetery. Little Boy Killed By Electric Wire New Bern, June 15 When he at tempted to move from Grantsboro Arapohoe highway a live electric wire this morning, Jack Keel, Jr., nine year old boy of Wallr.ce, was instant ly killed in Pamlico county, where he and his mother were visiting his grand father, John E. Keel. . The boy had started down the road to get some milk on the Arsphoe road about a mile from G;antbnro. He noticed a wire of the Nense River Electric company that find been torn down by last night's storm. In the effort to move it out 'of the v.-ay, he was electrocuted. Physicians at Bay boro were una'.;!e to ::o anything for him. The body was sent to.tight to Mid dlesex, where the funeral service will be held tomorrow morning with in terment there. A heavy tree fell acros the front part of C. T. Hellinger's Lincoln se dan last night on the hifrhwry be tween here and Fort Barnwell. The fenders, chassis and springs of the auto were badly damaged but Mr. and Mrs. Hellinger and J. A. McKen zie, the occupants, escaped injury. MARRIAGE LICENSES. ' The following permits to wed have been issued by Register of Deeds R. W. Wallace since last week: James B. Gordan, Jamestown, N. Q. and Alethia Felton, Beaufort. Ira M. Willis, Williston and Viola M. Piner, Williston. 1 S. D. Styron, Morehead City and Eva N. Laugh ton, Morehead City. INTERESTING RELICS. Mr. W. H. Dowdy of route 2, New port is here this week serving on the jury. Mr. Dowdy has an interesting relic in the way of a pass which was riven to his father during the Civil war and permitted him to move be tha linns nf th c Federal armv. He also had an old coin which is of considerable interest. Judge D. L. Ward and D. L. Ward Jr. of New Bern were in town Mon day, stopo'ng fit the Inlet Inn. CRIMINAL DOCKET OCCUPIES COURT MOST OF WEEK Many Liquor Cases Being Tried Other Cases Are Yet To Be Tried HAVE CONVICTED SEVERAL' A two weeks term of Superior Court began here Monday morning at ten o'clock. Judge E. H. Cranmer is presiding over the court and Solic itor D. M. Clark is prosecuting the criminal docket for the State. Judge Cranmer's charge to the grand jury was rather short, not much more than twenty minutes. He stopped right in the beginning of his remarks and ordered two babies, that were inclined to be somewhat noisy, taken from the court room. The honors were even from a racial stand point, one baby was white and the other colored. Judge Cranmer ex plained to the jury that the law is supreme in this country. That we have a government of laws and not of men and that all laws rest upon the consent of the people. He said that grand jurors are intended to protect the good people of the coun ty, and not the criminals. That they are supposed to be men of good character and should feel the respon sibility of their position. He explain ed the functions of the jury as to re turning bills, inspecting county insti tutions, buildings and son on. He said all laws should be eforced and called attention especially to the laws a gainst concealed weapons, gambling, driving cars whileu nder the influence of liquor and the prohibition law. Mr. E. F. Carraway of Merrimon was appointed foreman of the grand jury pnd Mr. Herbert Forlaw was appoint ed deputy in charge of the jury. Many criminal cases have accumu lated since the last term of court and as a result the criminal docket is tak ing up a good deal of time. The three c'ays set for criminal trials has proved insufficient and trials are still going on today and seem likely to last through Friday. The attorneys for the defense in nearly all of the cases are unwilling to submit their clients and so a number of jury trials have taken place. At this writing several have been convicted but no sentences have been pronounced. The record so far is given below.. The case against M. T. Owens charged with abandoment, and tried at the last term of court and suppos edly settled, came up again. It seems that the couple are not living together and are unwilling to do so. After hearing the lawyers discuss the matter, Judge Cranmer decided that Mr. Owens should pay to M:s. Owens and their three year old child ?6 a week. The case against J. 0. Harris, col ored of Ik-aufoit charged with having :n possession and selling liquor Ytas t:i-d Wednesday. His attorneys, E. "'alter Hill rind Jesse II. Davis put ep a stronsr fight for him, mak'ng i -tr:i'5c attack on G. A. Lupton the State's princ'pal witness. However, after considerable deliber.ition the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Several other cp.w against Harris remain to b? ('isposed of. The case against Sudie Gibbs, charged with violating the prohibi tion law was noil pressed. The wo man is dead. The case : gainst C. A. Piner charg ed with fraud, passing a worthless check resulted in a change in the (Continued on page five) Wilmington Excited Over Bridge Question RALEIGH. June 15 Whether the new bridge that is to span the Cape Fear river at Wilmington will be built at the Market street crossing as many desire, or at the Parseley street cross ing, more than a mile farther up the river, the site decided upon by the State Higghway Commission, is ex pected to be threshed out at a hear ing to be held in Wilmington on Fri day! June 17, it was announced to day at the offices of the State High way Commission. For more than a year now the ques tion of the location of the bridge has been the principal question at stake, much more so than the cost, though these two together have been the de termining factors. For all along the Highway Commission has maintained that the cost of a bridge of the type that would be required at the Market Tuberculosis Clinic At City Hall Monday A tuberculosis clinic will be held at the County Health Department's office upstairs in the city hall here,1 beginning next Monday and lasting through Thursday. The hours for the clinic wiJI be fiom 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Dr. Lee of the State San atorium will make the examinations which are free of charge. Those de siring to- make appointments for ex amination should wite Dr. T. C. Britt. Any of the following symptoms should make you suspicious of having tuberculosis: Loss of weight. Loss of strength. Lack of energy and endurance. Feeling tired and "rundown" es pecially in the afternoon or evening. Poor appetite. Indigestion or dyspepsia. A temperature normal or below normal in the morning and 99 or a bove in the afternoon or evening. A cough is frequently, but not al ways, present in tuberculosis; it may be a dry, hacking cough or it may be productive; the phlegm is usually more abundant in the early morning; every cough lasting three weeks or more is suspicious. A hemorrhage from the lungs, as much as a teaspoonful of pure blood, is almost always due to tuberculosis; blood-streaked sputum is also suspic ious. Pleurisy a sharp pain in the chest, made worse on deep breathing or on coughing and lasting an hour or more is nearly always due to tuberculo sis; this is true whether it is dry plu risy of with fluid in the chest. An anal fistula which persists more than a month is usually due to tuber culosis. If you have a hemorrhage, plurisy, or a fistula, be sure to have a thor ough physical examination, and if the tuberculosis canot be discovered otherwise, be sure to have an X-riy of your chest made by someone who has had considerable experience in reading chest pictures. Night sweats, shortnes of breath, and persistent huskiness of voice or hoarseness should also make one sus pect tuberculosis. NEW KIND OF MINERAL FOUND IN NORTH CAROLINA RALEIGH, June 15 (INS) In fromation on file at the Department of Conservation and Development to day indicates that North Carolina's mineral storehouse will probably fur nish another item to its already large list of building stone in the form of serpentine. A large deposit of this material, according to an announcement by the Department, has bsen found in Ashe county several hundred feet from the soapstone finishing mill of a prominent soapstone company. SURVEY BEING MADE EN LIGHTHOUSE BAY The U. S. Engineering boat Neuse is engaged this week in doing some viivveying work at Lighthouse Bay, near Cape Lookout. Mr. F. D. Per ly, who recently returned to the ser vice is in eh-irge of the survey. After the survey is made an effort will be made to get Congress to pass an ap propriation for the purpose of deep ening a channel in the bay so as to provide a better means of access to Cape Lookout. In stormy weather it is quite difficult to get back and forth to the cape via tha ocean route. COLLECTING POLL TAXES BY GARNISHEE METHODS Last Friday before Justice of the Peace H. D. Norcom an action was brought by Sheriff T. C. Wade in ef fort to collect poll taxes out of cer tain members of menhaden fishing crews. The actions were brought against captains Harry and George Parkin for the purpose of requiring them to pay the taxes out of the men's wages. Justice Norcom gave a decision in favor of the sheriff and the other side apealed to Superior Court. street site would be prohibitive, and its estimates for a structure at this site ran from $1,500,000 to $1,800, 000. So it-was that the engineers of the commission, after making numer ous surveys of almost every possible site, selected the Parseley street cross ing as the most feasible. But despite the fact that the bill authorizing the bond issue for the bridge gives the Highway Commission full authority to locate the bridge where it thinks best, many people in Wilmington are much displeased at the selection of the Parseley street site, and are still clamoring for the Market street crossing, and insist ing that the bridge be built there, ii J ii is duui at an. CHOWAN BRIDGE CELEBRATIONTO BE HELD JULY 20 Elaborate Program I Being Arranged For Opening Of New Structure VIRGINIA DARE COMING Elizabeth City, June 12 Pomp and gay, colorful pagentry, martial music, and inspiring address will mark the opening of the $600,000 Chowan bridge at Edenton and Eden House on Wednesday, July 20, ac cording to the program for the event as anounced by Mayor J. L. Wiggins, of Edenton, today. Mayor Wiggins is general chairman of the committee in charge of the celebration. All the northeastern counties will join in the festivities of the day, which will include the dedication of the Virginia Dare trail, scenic and historic highway stretching across the Albemarle district from Windsor, in Bertie, to old Fort Raleigh, in Dare, whence the lost colony vanish ed from human ken. The trail may be extended to include Washington, New Bern and Wilmington as a great historic coastal road, its sponsors de clare. As an appropriate reminder of the Edenton Tea party, which stirred the colonies on the eve of the revolution, tea will be served throughout the day on the lawn which marks the site of the old Tea Party house. . A committee of Edenton ladies will have charge of this phase of the celebra tion. The formal ceremonies will begin at 1 o'clock in the morning, when a party from the west, headed by Gov ernor McLean or his representative, will meet a group from the east, headed by Miss Virginia Dare, in the person of Miss Margaret Hines, of Dare county. Miss Virginia Dare will be accompanied by a group imper sonating Indians, early settlers and colonial dignitaries. The meeting will occur at a point midway of the mile and a half bridge. There, is a ribbon held by two young women from Bertie and Chowan counties the counties at the im mediate terminius of the bridge will be cut by Frank C. Kugler, of Washington, member of the state highway commission from the first district. Great motorcades from the east and the west then will pass on the bridge. That from the west, headed by the governor, wil proceed to Al bania bridge, town limits of Eden ton. when the executive will be greet ed by three individuals impersonat ing Governor Charles Eden, Joseph (Continued on page five) Potato Harvest Nov Is About Finished Except for possibly a few seatter ino; Ocfiels the Irish potato harvest in Carteret county is now a thing of the past. A car load went out from Beaufort today which about winds up the shipping from here. There have been shipped from Beaufort this :e:r about 32,000 barrels which v-r less than was expected, due to drv weather. About 25 ear loads were hipped from Morehead City also this season. Pots. to p: i es have hver :r, d this year. Primes hiive colJ a kieh as $;) a barrel and they prob r.hly ave'aged around $7 a ham On the Elizabeth City market Tuesday they were bringing $4.50 to $" a bar rel. About 25 cr.r loads weres hipped Iron) Morehead City also this season. Po to to prices have been good this year. Primes have sold as high as $U a barrel and they probably averaged around $7 a barrel. On the Eliza beth City market Tuesday they were bringing $4.50 to $5 a barrel. NEW POSTOFF1CE FIXTURES ARE NOW BEING INSTALLED The fixtures for the new postoffice arrived last week and are being in stalled in the J. H. Potter building on Front street. The fixtures were made in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and are standard in' appearance and qual ity for a postoffice of the size of this one. The. new postoffice is consid erably larger than the old one and and the clerical force will have a much better place to work and the patrons of the office considerable more room in which to stand while waiting for the mail to be distribut ed. The postoffice is located in a pait cf the town where it will be convenient for a majority of the business people. It will be open up July the first. Deeds Recorded For West Beaufort Lots In this week's list of realty trans actions are several deeds recorded for lots in West Beaufort. A deal of considerable importance in the town of Beaufort was a lot at the corner of Ann and Moore streets sold to Geo. J. Brooks and others by trustees of the Baptist church. The list for the week ending Wednesday is- as follows: . Beaufort Realty Corp to V. H. Idol, 3 lots West Beaufort for $10. i Trustees Baptist church to Geo. J. Brooks et als part lots, Beaufort for $2750.00. D. H. Lewis and wife to D. M. Jones, part lot Beaufort for $1500. D. M. Jones and wife to G. L. Cot ton, 1 lot Beaufort for $10. C. R. Wheatly et al to G. L. Cot ton et al, 40 acres Beaufort Town ship for $2500. Edward W. Ellison and wife to Hallese A. Stanley, 1 lot Beaufort, for $10. Beaufort Realty Corp. to Margaret Isley, 1 lot West Beaufort for $180. Beaufort Realty Corp. to Jas R. Hawkins, 2 lots West Beaufort for $290. Cape Lookout Dev. Co. to C. L. Abernethy Jr. tract at Cape Lookout for $90. R. L. Whiting etal to George Rose, tract Harkers Island for $10. Morehead Bluffs Inc. to Annie W. Gill, 2 lots Mwfchead fluffs, for $1475. E. H. Gorham and wife to H. L. Joslyn and wife, 2 lots Sunset Shores for $100. W. B. Lawrence and wife to E. C. Lawrence, 12 acres Straits Township for $125. Martin T. Gillikin to Mrs. Leonda B. Mason, 1 acre Straits Township for $10. GORDON-FELTON. The wedding of Miss Alethia Not lef Felton to Mr. John Bennett Go--don was solemnized at the First Bap tist Church, Beaufort, Tuesday even ing, at 5:30 P. M. The church wa1- leaufifully decorated for the occas ion with mases of shasta daisies and white petunias again. banks of green ivy, yaupon, and smilax. Miss Madge Hendricks at the piano rendered beautiful selections, and accompan ied Mr. Leslie Davis in two vocal so los. "Because" and "Beauty's Eyes.-' The groomsmen, Mr. Gerald Hill and Mr. Girurney of Vh girls en tered f-t, i"nen the bridwv.aids, Miss J.mily Irscoe of Louisbu -ir, ani Matron of Honor, sister of the bride, M:s. Gerald Hill. Two little flower -rirls and i irgb .are--, Misses Eliz betr I homas ' rr lyn Wheatly and Master Cecil Truitt, preceded the bride, who entered on the arm of her brother, Mr. Claud Felton, who gave her in marriage. The bride was met at the altar by the groom and best man, Mr. Hindle. The ceremony was performed by the Reverend O. II. Trueblood, former pastor of the Baptist church here. The bride was lovely in white satin gown trimmed in Italian lace, her veil epught with orange blossom? and rhinestones. Her boquet was of ros.es showered with valley lilies. The matron of honor wore orange taTeta, bouffant, style, . trimmed in ""'c! and silv'r lare and v-cre lp.rse ;i;t':uie h--.t. She carried yellow tea roses and delphinium.' Miss Inseoe, the bridesmaid were blue ta.Tcla, bouffant style, and large picture hat, caiying pink roses and delphinium. After a motor trip Mr. and Mrs. Gordon will be at home in Greens boro. Miss Felton is the youngest daugh ter of Mr. Richard Felton and has a large circle of friends. She. gradu ated from Meredith Collegge in 1022, receiving an A. B. degree. Sh? taught two years in Hertford and three years in Newport and made many friends in both towns. Mr. Gordon is the your.gest son of Dr. J. R. Gordon of Jamestown, and graduate of State College. He is field engineer with headquarters in Greensboro. Out of town guests were Miss El eanor Gordon, Miss Florence Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hunt, Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. Dwey Hunt, Goldsboro, Miss Irene Garner, Newport, Miss Elizabeth Garner, Newport, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stroud, Greenville, Misses Margaret and " Edna Clair Stroud, Greenville, ' Mr.1 and Mrs. Maxine Felton Smith, Florida; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Felton, Georgia. PENSION VOUCHERS ARRIVE. Pension vouchers for Confederate veterans and widows of Confederate soliders have arrived and are ready for distribution. They may be had by applying to Superior Court Clerk L. W. Hassell. COUNTY AUDITORS GET INSTRUCTION School To Be Held At State College To Inform Account ants As To Duties Raleigh, June 13 Something new in the way of a short course will be held in July at State College, Ral eigh, when the county auditors and accountants in the various counties of the State will be offered special courses. This county government institute, as it is called, was suggested to the County Government Advisory Com mission at their meeting in Raleigh, last Friday, by Dr. E. C. Brooks, who is chairman of the commission, as well as president of State College. The Commission adopted the plan and left the particulars and date to be worked out by Dr. Brooks, who promised to make public full details at an early date. The Commission at that time also ordered prepared sample book-keeping form to be furnished the coun ties and recommended to their use in order to secure efficiency and uni formity in the matter of handling all the money of the county. The new laws are being well receiv ed, but slowly introduced, according to the report made by the Executive Secretary, Chas. M. Johnson. Mr. 'Johnson s report was based on per sonal visits by him or his assistants to twenty-two counties. The delays are due to difficulty in getting the items of past expenditures from the old records and the time required for the necessary understanding of the new laws before making the changes. The officials were reported as all try ing to cooperate. 1 ' MAKING IMPROVEMENTS NOW HOUSE DRUG STORE Improvements to the Joseph House drug store are now under way. The front of the building, which belongs to the, Bank of Beaufort are now un ner way. The front will be entirely lemodeled and when finished will be brand new and one of the best look ing fronts in the shopping district. BARGE LOAD OF ASPHALT FOR ROAD WORK ARRIVES The barge Orange, from Baltimore loaded with asphalt and oil, arrived in the harbor yesterday and the work of unloading her began at once. There were some 1300 barrels aboard about 1100 of whirh were asphalt and the rest was oil. The cargo was con signed to the Simmons Construction Corporation and will be used in build ing the road in the eastern part of the county. CARTERET COUNTY MAN GETS COLLEGE DECREE BOSTON, Mass., June 13 With Chancellor John G. Bowman of the University of Pittsburg as the speak er, the fifty-fourth annual com mencement of Boston University was held here today, at which 1,000 de grees were granted. Among the re cipients was Guien G. Whitehurst of Straits, N. C, who leeeived the de giee of Sacred Theology from the university's School of Theology. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct. Some allow ances must be made for varia tions in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. Hifrh Tide Low Tide Ttc'.dav, June 17 9:13 A. M. 3:13 A. M. 9:30 P. M, 3:01 P. M. Saturday, June 18 10.01 A. M. 3.57 A. M. 10.10 P. M. 3.49 P. M. Sunday, June 19 10.51 A. M. 4.44 A. M. 11.28 P. M. 4.44 P. M. Monday June 20 11.57 A.M. 5.34 A. M. 11.49 P. M. 5.43 P. M. Tuesday, June 21 12.06 A. M. 6.26 A. M. 12.50 P. M. 6.49 P. M. Wednesday, June 22 1.08 A. M. 7.23 A. M. 1.55 P. M. 7.59 P. M. Thursday, June 23 2.53 A. M. 8.19 A. M. 2.59 P. M. 9.08 P. M. Miss Hilda Jacobs of New Bern, court stenographer, is here this week a guest of the Inlet Inn.
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