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NEWS PlLJIIC3 Largest Circulation In Carteret County The People' Newspaper best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. ( HEADING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BOd" WATCH Your label and pay your subscription Mssssssssas 4 The f & CE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 32 VOLUME XVI 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY AUGUST 11, 1927 Health Final Budget Adopted Contains Item of $4200 For Health Department. Largest Items Of Expense Are Schools and Debt Service Fund. The Total Budget Calls For $433,669.83. The report of the proceedings of' the Board of County Commissioners which was published in this newspa per last week did not contain the budget because the figures were not available at that time. Since then they have been obtained and are giv en below for the information of all who may be interested in them. The preliminary budget was published in the News several weeks ago. The one now published is the final budget as adopted by the board and is now in force. Section II of the county govern ment acts says that "simultaneously with the submission of the supplemen tal budget, the county accountant shall prepare and cause to be be pub lished in the county, a statement ot the financial condition of the county. containing such figures and informa- j tion as the county accountant may j u ovi.Ki tn nnhliKh. "The ! V U - OlU V 1 J M ' - I ' law then goes on and specifies the items that must be published, some ten in number. Among others it re quires the assessed valuation of the current year, an itemized statement of the debt of the county and its sub divisions, amount of taxes remaining uncollected for the three preceding!'" ui -";- years and various other items. j Plae- , , The budget adopted by the board I Mr-n M"- Ha"'s three sons last week totals 433,669.S3, the. )ar- J- Jr., Sheron and Gardner arriv es item of which is for the public I frm Fu,uay Springs Ayhere they schools, NVxt to the i schools the have lived for several years. They fciteett item of expense is interest " living in the Baptist parsonage on. debts and any payments that may j i n th srincteal of such debts or the Debt Servic Fund asihurch gave the T.ew pastor and fam is is called. It wilJ take take care of this item. The bud get contains the item of $4200 for the County Health Department The preliminary budget did not make any provisions for a health department and many people thought this depart ment was to be abolished. Evident ly it is to be maintained for another year. The budget figures as shown in the minute book are ;as follows: Hnmp Demonstration I Accent 1,120.001 Public Welfare De- I partment 200.00 j Sheriff's office 220.00 j County Farm Agent 1,700.00 j County Auditor's Office 3,100.00 Register of Deeds 2,010.00 , Clerk Superior Court 2,650.00 j Commissioners 1,094.00 1 Tax Department 2,720.00 Courts 8,250.00! Court House and Jail 3,180.00 Election expenses 1,708.00 General expenses 2,312.00 ! 30,864.00 8,060.00 20,000.00 County Home and Poor Road and Bridge main tenance Debt service fund Public schools County Health Depart-, ment 181,545.83 j 189,000.00 4,200.00 $433,669.83 DEMONSTRATE LIFE SAVING AT BOGUE PARK BEACH i Morehead City, July 9 David J. Yates, assistant director of First Aid and Life Saving for the American Red Cross, will be in Morehead City August 18 to 20 for demonstrations and instruction in life saving. It is the aim of the Red Cross to give instruction to students who are nranorull tn tnlfC tVlB tpsts for mem- bership in the Senior Life Saving Corps to to become examiners of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps. A chairman will be appointed to cooperate with Mr. Yates and all who are interested are urged to join the clasg for instruction. Mrs. Geo. Henderson, Chm. A. R. C. FORMER RESIDENT PAYS VISIT Mr. Sam Yoffie of Princess Anne, Md., spent a day or so in Beaufort last week, shaking hands with old friends and looking over the many improvements made in Beaufort in recent years. He expressed himself as greatly pleased with the progress that Beaufort has made. Mr. Yoffie and his family lived in Beaufort for a good many years and are pleasantly remembered by many Ecaufort people. Department To Be Maintained 1 1 New Baptist Pastor Has Warm Welcome Two large congregations greeted the Reverend J. P. Harris the new pastor of the First Baptist Church, at the morning and evening services Sunday. In the morning the regular services took place and in the even ing an interesting welcome service was held. Mr. U. E. Swann was the chairman of the meeting at the evening ser vice and after the singing of several hymns introduced Mr. M. Leslie Pa'is who welcomed Mr. Harris on - Ims assured the new pastor of the pleasure the congregation felt a, hav.nit him hereand promised the sup- Prt and co-operation of the church membership in doing the work of tho church. Mr. J. A. Hornaday ' was then introduced and extended a warm welcome to Mr. Harris on the part of the membership 'of Ann Street Methodist church. At the conclusion of this part of the program a meet- " Ann rtreet. mursdav evening e forty or fifty members of the ily a surprise party and brought them eood things to eat too numerous to mention. Sunday morning and even ing there will be services at the usual time. BEAUFORT WINS THREE GAMES IN A ROW The Beaufort aggregation of horse' hide artists continued their winning Etreak by taking two games from Clayton and one from Morehead City. The Clayton team came highly toot ed as Champions of Johnson County, but they wer? no mysteTy to the boys from the ''village by the sea." Playing ban?-up ball behind Sprin gle the Bef ufort team took the Clay ton crew into ccmp by the score of 10 to 4 last Friday. Morris poled out two homers and Skarren one that helped materially in the scoring. Clayton scored all their runs in one inning. On Saturday Beaufort played list less ball, featured by' many errors, but nosed out the Clayton aggrega tion 8 to 7. Skarren lifted the ball over the fence for a circuit blow with one on. Willis was in rare form on Wed nesday; struck out 13 men and allow ed only five scattered hits. Coupled with eight hits and four errors, by the Morehead team, Beaufort piled up an 8 to 1 run margin to win the seven inning game.. Chadwick with a homer with one on and Skarren with three safeties led the 1ch1 at the bat. The game was marred by showers throughout the game. This makes the eighth victory for the locals over the Morehead City aggregation against three defeats. Out of 47 games played Beaufort has won 35, lost 11, and tied one; piling up an average of .761. Beaufort will play Rose Hill Fri day and Saturday. The games will be called at three thirty. BENEFIT BRIDGE PARTY AT THE ATLANTIC HOTEL Morehead City, Aug 9 The Civic Department of the Women Club of this city gave a benefit party card at the Atlantic Hotel. . Cards ' were played in the , ball room and many club members attend ed as well as guests of the hotel and summer visitors. Mrs. S. A. Chalk is chairman of that department and much credit is due her for the suc cess of the affair. Harvey Hamilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hamilton celebrated his sixth birthday at a party given at the home of his parents on Arendell St. About 35 friends were guests of the young host. To reduce highway accidents. On tr.iio, C.-ir ada, h?.s a new law compell ing all veh'.clea to carry red tail lights. COTTON OUTLOOK CONSIDERED GOOD Crop Looks Better But Boll Weevil Is Worse Than Last Year (Frank Parker, Agriculture Sta tistician) Raleigh, August 8th The present outlook for the cotton crop in North Carolina is considerably better than fi vear ago. On the other hand, con ditions were rapidly improving last year, while they may be going back ward this year. The boll weevil is a real menace, while last year there wa negligible damage from this agent. But then we made a reconi crop cub ing the past season, with a yield av eraging near 300 pounds which was quite in contrast with the August of 1926 indications. The acreage this year is reduced 10 percent in this State, with more than 12 percent for the South as a whole. The National cotton n port releas ed Monday showed an a erage condi tion of 69.5 percent of a full crop prospect, reckoned to iverage 157 pounds per acre, or 13,4J2,000 ba)s. There were 162,687 bales ginned to August 1st. This was all practical ly cor fined to the Gulf erritory. It will be remembered that 17,977,374 bales were ginned last year and over 16,000,000 the year- be! ore, with 9,- 672,009 bales resulting from the 1922 ;rop. The present pre spect is 4 percent more than was reported last year. . The North Carolina prispects, with a 78 ercent condition, ;re 8 points higher than a year agu. Theaver age condition for the pest ten-years was 72 percent. The acreage is es timated to be 1,814,000 acres. No State production indications will be available for a month yet. The con dition is more or less uniformly good throughout the State, wi' h the low est reported condition in the northern tier of counties with an average of 75 per cent. Cultivation i i generally good, but the recent rains will cause considerable grassiness, as well as to be favorable to the boll weevil devel opment. The present boll weevil in festation is reckoned at 18 percent of complete to coverage. The worse condition is in the southern counties where 34 percent of complete infes tation is reported. Weevils have been found in piactically all coun ties. Some dusting has been done in eastern and southern counties. The crop is generally considered late, but not as much so as last year. On August 1st it was growing nice ly, with a few reports indicating dry conditions. The general rainfall since that time would now result in com plaint of too nru?h rain, with increas ed boll weevil damage. In spite of these rains, the Ted spider seems to be spreading and 'doing considerable damage, especially in eastern and southeastern counties. Squaring has been generally good during . July. Many farmers Teport finep rospects. BIG BOXING CONTEST TO BE IN GREENSBORO Greensboro, Aug. 10 (INS) Harry Wills, negro heavyweight champion, and at one time contender for the championship has been signed to fight "Battling" Clark, U. S. Ar my heavy, here in a 10-round contest on August 22. The bout was arranged by A. J. Hammonds, Indiana promoter, and the fight will be given for the benefit of Richardson Memorial Hospital. Several preliminaries are on the card. Eddie Steppetson, and Jim Solomon, negro light heavyweight, will go eight rounds, while Bibbie Wright and Knockout Brown, light weights, will fight. Still another bout is yet to be arranged. SLAYER OF POLICEMAN WAS CAUGHT TUESDAY . Wilson, N. C. Aug. 9 (INS) Hunted in the wooded sections of Wilson county for nearly seven hours, Eugene Mason, 45 alleged slayer of Joe Ellis, a policeman,, was caputr ed by a posse of 100 civlians and of ficers 9 miles from here today. ' The capture was mad near the Nash county line when a group of possemen flushed the fugitive Ma son was taken to the county jail here and held without bond, charged with killing Ellis and probably fatally wounding Luther Barnes, another of ficer. Shortly before noon today, hospital attaches reported Barnes' condition es unchanged through the morning. Physicians s.u'd he had a slight chance, for recovery. ' Mutt B That Bad Boy of the Class :J have a cold or something in my head, sir. Teacher: A cold, undoubtedly. Answers. DREDGE FINSHES WORK ON THE BAR Twenty Feet Of Water I. Channel. May Have Steam ship Line The U. S. Dredge Comstock after several months work on the bar here finished and left last Thursday for Southport. As a result of the Corn stock's work the channel in Beaufort Inlet is now 20' feet deep at low water. This permits vessels of con siderable draft and tonnage to come into the harbor. The deepening of the channel is regarded by Congressman Abernethy and others who have been working to that end as the beginning of the mak ing of a real seaport at Morehead City and Beaufort. It is hoped that some steamship company will be con vinced of the feasibility of operating a line successfully between this port and other points. Several months ago Mr. Abernethy started negotia tions with a steamship company and these people appeared to be interest ed in the idea of operating vessels into this territory. The first step to be taken was to get deeper water on the bar and tnis nas now Deen done. Of course it would take some time to build up a large shipping bus- - - j. , i iness. ino port nas ever ueen cieuusu , overnight, unless perhaps, in war times. I Eastern Carolina raises vast quan- tities of cotton and tobacco, much of which is shipped to northern cities and to foreign countries. Large j quantities are shipped into North Car-1 olina. It has been claimed that freight rates in this State are hi- tr than in some others and that what u.e oiaie . sum, Beauiort and Moreneao uy ioiks, and some others too, think that this is North Carolina's best chance for for a first class seaport an dthey are noiJing mat ine pcuy.e ... n.r OI ine state will Become lnieresieu rw the matter and neip to estaousn- a port ai ceauion ana ivioreneau uy. a ti i j a m i j it is said tnat n tnis is aone tne wno.e ataie win enjoy obiter rates tnan it now nas. BEAUFORT NEWS PLAN NING BRIDGE CELEBRA TION ISSUE. The Beaufort News i plan ning to put out a special edition about the time that the bridge opening celebration is held. It is hoped to make it the biggest and best newspaper edition ever published in Carteret county. With the exception of the pic tures the work will be done in the News office. The proposed bridge issue of the News will be different from most special editions in that it will be entirely a home talent affair. The writeups and the display advertising in it will be secured by Messrs. Kenry Lay and Ralph Noe of Beaufort. It is the custom of most newspa pers to hav. vork of this sort done by professionals who go around from one town to an other. Men of this sort know little if anything of local con ditions and havn't the interest in the work that the young men representing the Newt will have. It it planned to make this a real Carteret county edi tion. The natural advantages of the county will beshown and the great progress that has been made in recent years in education, in road building agriculture an in other partic ulars. It is the purpose of the News to publish an edition that will contain a lot of valuable information about the county and that will give it soma very useful publicity. Any assist ance given Messrs Lay and Noe will help to carry out this pur pose and will be duly appreciat ed by all concerned. POLICE COURT ITEMS. There was very little done in Police Court last Friday afternoon. Two or -three cases were continued. W. M. Thurman charged with having been drunk was let oft with a fine of Jl and the costs. For the same of fense A. C. Darling received a like penalty. MARRIAGE PERMITS. Two marriage licenses have been issued at the office of the Register of Deeds recently. They were to. Walter Lev,i3 and Netlia Biooks, Harkers Island. Benjamine F. Gibbs and Verna F. Morton, Beaufort. Hospital Defeated By A Fair Majority ' m Total Vote Less Than Is Usually. Polled. Farmers Against The Measure. Beaufort Alio Voted Heavily Against It. The county hospital bond electfor held in this county last Saturday re sulted in the defeat of the measure by a majority of more than 500 votes. No official canvass of the votes has been made as for some reason the county election board has not met. Neither has a single copy of the elec tion returns from any precinct been filed with the Superior Court Clerk L. W. Hassell as should have been done. The election was held under a special act but the act provided that the votes shoul dbe counted and re turned in the usual manner that all elections are handled. In some precincts there was a great deal of interest in the outcome of the election but in others there was very little interest. There was no county organization working against the bond issue and apparently no very effective organization in favor of it although some effort was made in 'ts oenau. meiuiai vuic - bout 10Q0 jess than was poled in tne November election last year. It held by some attorneys that every body who registered and did not vote at all should be counted against the proposition. The special act however said that only votes actually cast should be counted one way or the other. It is admitted by both sides that t"h nleasure was defeatedThose favoring hospital carried seven precincts and the antis carried eigh. , teen Qne precinct.Stella-had not been heard from at tnis writing. As , . f.nriimr nrecincts were ; strongly oppoSed to the hospital. The ! seven favorable precincts were More , . r;f c0 T.ovp Harlt . , rsiflna. Portsmouth. El Dorado ' w" ' gater path Th t . precincts as the News l kag obtained it was as follows: P'or Agairst 1 Davis 1 178 2 Atlantic 189 2 3 Straits 5 62 4 Cedar Island 15 53 5 Sealevel 34 12 I 6 Smyrna 1 54 i 7 Williston 0 82 I 8 Eldarodo 18 4 9 H. Island 130 1 1 0 Wildwood .11 42 11 Beaufort 6 686 ' Z Morehead 823 39 i3 Newport 6 263 J4 Bettie . 0 43 : 15 Otway 0 5:) : 1 6 Wiregrass 0 96 17 Harlowe 2 103 i 18 Long Pine 0 23 19 Marshallberg 16 iVo ,20 Stacy 2 16 ! 21 Portsmouth 8 0 22 Salter Path 88 0 23 Merrimon 0 66 j 24 Bogue 1 40 i 25 Pelletier 0 62 ; 26 Stella not heard from. 1356 1911 1911 1356 Total vote 3267 Maj. 555 REAL ESTATE BUSINESS SHOWS SOME ACTIVITY Some activity in real estate is shown in the number of deeds record ed recently at the office of the Regis ter of Deeds. Beaufort Realty Corp. to Emma C. Sinclair, 2 lots West Beaufort for $325. James E. Wade and wife to Geo. A. Leggett, 2 acres Harkers Island, for $500. Louis L. Willis and wife to F. R. Eell, tract Harkers Island for $10. Samuel W. Salter and wife to F. R. Bell 1-4 acre Harkers Island for $10. W. L. Carrawan and wife to Lewis Goodwin, and wife Tract Hunting .Quarters, for $175. Carolina Mortgage Co. to S. C. Holloway, 1 lot M. City, for $8000. Morehead Bluffs Inc. to R. L. Stall- ings, 2 lots Morehead Bluffs, for $3500. Morehead Bluffs Inc. to Mrs. Bes sie D. Bell, 2 lots Morehead Bluffs,, for $10. . Mrs. Bessie D. Bell to Louis Bell, 2 lot's Morehead Bluffs, for $10. Chs. S. Wallace and wife to Town of Morehead City, 2 lots Morehead City for $100. Carteret IT. & S. Co. to Town of Morehead City, 2 lots Morehead i City for $2500. Walter M. Davis and wife to Mary F. Willis, 2-3 acre, Smyrna for $25. City Police Court Has New Quarters Old time offenders who may be so unfortunate as to get into the clutch es of the law will hardly know where they are when they get into Beau fort's new police court room. The ostairs of the city hall, which during its long career has been used for a good many purposes, has been ren ovated and turned into a very nice court room. Partitions have been re moved and the place cleaned up and painted. A rostrum has been put in, surrounded by a railing like real courts have, and plenty of seats for defendants, spectators and all put in place. Mayor Jones will dispense justice there Pnday atternoon at 2:30 and meetings of the board oi Commissioners will be held there in the future. This will prevent inter ference with routine business in the clerk's office which has been used heretofore as the meeting place. Besides improving the interior of the city hall a new roof is also being put on it. Owing to the smoke of engines and from other causes the outside of the building looks rather rusty. There has been some talk of having it painted but the board has not taken any action on it so far. LONG AUTOMOBILE JOURNEY MADE WITHOUT DIFFICULTY A trip of 1500 miles by automobile was taken recently by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hornaday and Misses Annie Neal and Nellie Jones who arrived here Inst week from Arkadelphiar Arkansas. Mr. Hornaday is the pres ident of Arkadelphia College. The trip last week was the fourth that he and Mrs. Hornaday have made be tween Beaufort and Arkadelphia by automobile. They were five days on the way and had no difficulty of any serious nature on their journey. The roads in Arkansas were good despite the recent floods and route number 1 through Tennessee is a paved road for most of the way. The roads in North Carolina were all found in good condition. BRIDGE CELEBRATION IN TYRRELL COUNTY Columbia, N. C, Aug. 10 (INS) Plans are under way in Tyrell County for the celebration Septem ber 7 of the completion of the new bridge across the Scuppernong Riv er at Columbia. The bridge, representing an expen diture of approximately $100,000 will be formally opened on Septem ber 7. The bridge opens up a new artery of travel to the remainder of the State. Exercises will be held at the bric'o, and prominent state speakers will be obtained for the occasion, according to present plans. Hundreds of per sons are expected to attend the cel ebration. 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. High Tide Low Tide Friday, August 12 7:04 7:27 7:50 8:13 A. M. 12:58 A. P. M. 12:53 P. Saturday, August 13 A. M. 1:42 A. P. M. - 1:43 P. M. M. M. M. M. M. Sunday, August 14 8:36 A. M. 2:26 A. 8:59 P. M. 2:34 P. ' Monday, August IS A. M. 3:10 9:24 9:46 10:15 10:30 11 :05 11:09 A. M. M. P. M. 3:27 Tuesday, August 16 A. M. 3:57 P. M. 4:21 P. A. M. P. M. Wednesday, August 17 A. M. 4:45 A. P. M. 5 :18 P. M. M. v Thursday, August 18 11:31 A. M. 5:36 A. 12:10 P. M. 6:21 P. M. M.
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