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T jwtjnj Beaufo MM, Largest Circulation In Carteret County The People's Newspaper The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WA TCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XVI 12 PAGES TWO SECTIONS . THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 1927 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 40 SHOOTING CASE WAS CONTINUED Await Outcome Of Stone's Injuries. Will Test Street Closing Ordinance A variety of cases were up for hearing before Mayor Jones in po fice court Friday afternoon and a pretty large crowd was on hanJ for tne event. The tire stealing and shooting case probably drew most if tne crowd. P. C. Butler whose case was sot for a preliminary hearing on the chnrge of shooting Frank Stone al leged to have stolen Butler's tire, 'ai on hand. Hubert Chappell and Wiiam Tate, two white youths of Raleigh who were - companion", of Stone in the car in which they left Beaufort were alfio present. But ler was represented by Attorney C. , R. Wheatly and Attorney E. Walter Hill appeared for the other two de fendants. It was agreed by all con cerned that it was best to wait and see how Stone, the man who was shot, gets along before trying the cases and so they were postponed. Butlerj's ' bond of $3000 is still in force and Tate and Chappell who had been in jaH ever since the affair, were releas ed under bonds of $100 each. A reative of Chappell was present and arranged for the bonds. The cases are to come up October the 14th. A test case was started for the purpose of seeing whether an ordi nance recently adopted which clos es a block on Mulberry street dur ing school hours, was started by R. E. Chaplain through his attorney C. R. Wheatly pleaded guilty to violating the ordinance and was fined $5 and 'costs. An appeal was taken to Su perior Court. Ike Frazier, colored, charged with having been drunk pleaded -not guilty but the Mayor decided that he had had enough to pay $1 and the costs. Hope Adams charged -with driving a car while tinder the influence of -Kjiquor said he. was not guilty, in. that he did not drive the car. The evi dence in the case was somewhat con tradictory and the Mayor held him under a $200 bond for the higher court. The case against Mrs. Rachel Ann "Willis and Mrs. Mary Dunn charged with an assault upon Mrs. Ida Dunn was heard. All parties admitted that there was a fight. It seemed that the trouble grew out of a dispute about the ownership of some clothes. The Mayor did not give out his de cision but held the matter up for further consideration. N. F Eure, blocking the sidewalk and Fulton Stanly on the same charge ' were required to pay costs and judg ment was suspended. The Mayor said he thought Mr Eure Was entitled to get into his place on Craven street and recommenced, that the matter be taken up with the board of commissioners. "William Thomas Oden a negro youth, was tried on the charge of biting Sam Shinaro, a Syrian who runs a pool room in the colored sec tion. He was held for Superior Court under a $50 bond. A case in which there was a con siderable battle of words both before and during court was that in which Ernest Fenderson was charged with an assault upon Sadie Copes, both colored. Sadie said that Fenderson I called her daughter a "marsh pony" and according to her own evidence what she said to him was a plenty. They were still pretty well warmed up and exchanged some rather hot shots in the course of the trial. The Mayor fined Fenderson $1 and costs. OLD JEWELRY FIRM IS IN NEW QUARTERS i The B. A. Bell jewelry establish ment is now in new quarters, hav ing started moving last week. A store room in the Potter building next to the postoffice is now being occu pied. The store was fitted up espec ially for Mr. Bell and is a very at tractive and convenient one. On the mezzanine floora rest room has been provided for ladies from out of town when in Beaufort may use it if they desire. The grocery business of J. Potter Jr., has moved into the store next door to Bell's and this is also a very attractive place. HUNTERS ARE GETTING READY County Game Warden D. J. God ; win issued 104 hunting licenses to county residents and seven State li censes during the month of Septem ber. Mrs. John M. Dickinson of wtefcUfort secured the first license is sued to a woman. Superior Court Clerk L, W. Hassell during the aionth of September issued 35 county license and State license. Federated Clubs Will Meet At Oriental The annual meeting of the 12th District of Federated Clubs will be held in Oriental next Tuesday Octo ber 11, 1927. Plans for attending will be decided upon Thursday at the regular meeting of the Beaufort Club. This district meeting is not simply for officers of . the club nor for old members, but for every mem ber of the club, even the very new est one. An active club must have an active membership, and nothing can arouse enthusiasm quite so much as attending a district meeting. It is noticeable that a club that is alive and doing good work sends a large delegation. They in turn, are great ly benefitted, and return home inspir ed for better club work for the com ing year. The Beaufort Community Club wants the largest delegation at the district meeting and in order to have it, let every member decide to go. Pub. Chmn. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Realty transactions for the week are as follows: H. C. Jones and wife to H. S. Dan iels, Tract, Beaufort Township, for $10. Mrs. R. W. Ward to James R. Ward 75 acres, Harlowe Township for $10 Georgia F. Taylor, Widow, to Rob ert L. McCook, 2 acres for $10. J. O. Miller and wife to D. R. Bland et als 22 1-2 acres, Morehead Township for $10 , Lorena Dnwdy and husband to C. H. Bennett, 1 lot Morehead City for $100. Morehead Bluffs Ine, to Walter Marcinkowski, 3 lots Morehead Bluffs for $10. Richard L. Willis, Widower, to E. H. Gotham, 1 lot Mo:bad City for $1000. Ben O. Jones antrw 5fe to D. R. Bland et als 22 1.2 acres Morehead Township for $10. JUDGE CRANMER REVERSED IN BELL LIQUOR CASE In a decision handed down not long since the Supreme Court reversed Judge Cranmer in the case of the State against William Bell of New port Bell and Reuben Guthrie and Bennie Garner were charged with violating the prohibition law. Gar ner ran away and Guthrie admitted his guilt. The judge told the jury that Bell was guilty of aiding and abetting but the Supreme Court seem ed to think otherwise. Judge Cran mer sentenced Bell to the roads for eight months. His attorney Sam H. Newberry took an cppecl. As this was his first Supreme Court case Mr. Newberry is considerably elated at the result of it. SAL1S3URIANS ARE HERE ON A FISHING TRIP A number of fishing parties from up the State have been to Beaufort recently and according to reports that reach the News they.have for the most part had very good sport. The weather has been a little warm but is cooler now and it is really very pleasant to be out on the water. A party of people from Salisbury arriv ed a few days ago and are making the Davis House their headquarters. They are out on the water practical ly every day and have had pretty trood fishine. Tnose who are here are: Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Graf, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Beard, Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Woodson, Messrs. E. R. Over, man, J. E. Hennessee, W. E. Henn essee, Dr. E. M. Sumirjerall, W. C. Maupin Jr. MOREHEAD BLUFFS HOTEL BRINGS VERY SMALL SUM As foretold in the News last week here Monday at the courthouse door under an execution. The sale was made by the Sheriff to satisfy a claim of the Cincinnati Fly Screen Com pany. A letter was read by the Sheriff from another firm that claim ed the hotel companyowed them sev eral thousand dollars for materials furnished for the building; The only bid made was that of $1601 made by Attorney J. F. Dun can who said he represented a client but did not say who his client was. One of the Drincipal stockholders of the Morehead Bluffs Corporation. Morehead Villa was sold here Monday at the courthouse door Mr. W. B. Blades was present at the -ale. On Friday a tract of land be longing to the same company con iainins some 600 acres of land was sold under foreclosure. It was bid in by J. M. Willis who sold the land to the company and who said there vas a balance of $12,500 due on the purchase price. SCALLOP SEASON OUTLOOK IS GOOD Report From Raleigh Is That The Supply Seems Plentiful RALEIGH. Oct. 4 North Carolina escallops are slated for the best year that the industry has ever seen, ac-( cording-to information from the State Department of Conservation and Development Reports from the Department of Fisheries show that in Bogue Sound and in Core Sound there are more escallops than ever have been there before, it was staled. The size of the 'scallops are good, and a great season is anticipat ed. There are only three 'scallop pro ducing sections in the United States. They are Long Island Sound, the Vir ginia waters, Bogue Sound and Core Sound in Carteret county. This 1 year, however, there is reported an abundance of escallops in the waters 1 of the famous Cape Hatteras. Escallops readily absorb water and ' increase in size wheYi they are placed in fresh water, but the laws of the State and the laws of the U. S. De- partment of Agriculture prohibits "Floating' of escallops and to fur-' ther avoid this adulteration the 1 North Carolina State Department of I Fisheries at Morehead City employs a chemist to supply water analysis on each-shipment that comes up from the coast, and as a result the tables of the pepole of North Carolina are graced with analyzed 'scallops, and every possible assurance given that the quality of the North Carolina sea foods is good. This year there is a great shortage in Long Island Sound and consequent ly thare will be few shipped from that section, officials of the department were informed. In Virginia the seas on t'oes rot open until February and accordingly the Carolina shellfish will hold sway undisputed throughout the large pal t of the season. Efforts are being made by the ship pers to have the Department of Fish eries to open the season in Decem ber instead of waiting until the first of January, but it is the policy of the department to follow the advice of the Biologists of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries and keep the bottoms closed until the spawning season is over about the first of January, it was stated. GIRL SCOUTS ORGANIZED. Last week there was organized in Beaufort the Girl Scouts, under Miss Catherine Seig. i At the first meeting, there were forty-five young girls, all most enthusiastic. Three patrols were formed under Misses Catherine Seig, Carolyn Felton and Luella Cabel Miss Cabel is a necomer to Beau fort being connected with the work at the Bureau of Fisheries. She is fitting herself right into the commu nity life in Beaufort and will be of gieat help in the Girl Scout work. MANY WRECKS SUNDAY. Last Sunday must have been a great day for motor car wrecks. Su perior Court Clerk L. W. Hassell went to Kinston and said he counted eight wrecks on the road. Five of these he said would never make another trip Sunday or any other day. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Geryme of Ro - Chester, N. Y. are recent arrivals at the Davis House. Wafer and Light C am mission Members Have all Resigned ... Beaufort has no Water and Light Commission now. At a meeting of the Board of Commissioners Monday the two remaining members of the Water and Light Commission Messrs, J. F. Duncan and Seth Gibbs tender ed their resignations which were ac cepted. Commissioner J. J. White hurst read the report of the commis sion and the resignations,4mmediate ly afterwards Mr. Whitehurst offered his own resignation as a member of the Water and Light Committee which was also accepted. . The board did not name any new members for the Water and Light j Commission. The sentiment of the I board seemed to be that it was well enough to take time to consider the matter and in the meantime the plant will be operated under the supervis ion of the Water and Light Com mittee. No successor was named for Mr. Whitehurst either. Miss Eva Brav aldo was elected to collect the water and light rents in the place of Mrs. Annie Gaskill who resigned the first of the month. Mr. Richard Felton came before the board and asked permission to RALEIGH YOUTH IS FATALLY INJURED Clyde Morton Dies In Hospital After Collision With Rum Runner RALEIGH, Oct. 3 Clyde Morton, 19, employee of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, was fatally in jured about 3 o'clock yesterday morning at Havelock, about seven- teen miles below New Bern, when his car was in collision with a "rum-run ner." Mr. Morton was accompanied by his brother Carl, of Salisbury, and Claud Taylor, student at State Col lege. His two companions were not injured. The car -with which the Morton car was in collision contain ed two Negroes, one of whom was in jured and carried to a hospital, the other running away. A quantity of whiskey was found in the Negroes' car. Young Morton was carried to the New Bern General hospital tyid died about five minutes after he reached there. He was injured about the head and one of his arms was broken in two places. He never regained consciousness, Left Here Saturday Night The trio of young men left here Saturday night about 8 o'clock to go to North Harlowe to get the moth er of the Morton boys, Mrs. Lucy Morton, and bring her back to Ral eigh. Young Morton was driving a Buick roadster. This was completely demolished and the other car was badly wrecked. Morton was a popular employee of the Wachovia bank, having only recently been given a promotion to a higher line of work than he had previously been doing. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Lucy Morton, of Raleigh, three brothers, Carl Morton, of Salisbury; D. W. Morton of Ral eigh, and Joseph Morton, of Clinton, and three sisters, Mrs. Clara Lupton, and Mrs. C. G. Freeman, of Raleigh, and Miss Kate Morton of Philadel phia. The funeral will be held this after ncc n at North Harlowe. The young man referred to above was the son of the late Joseph Mor ton of North Harlowe. D. W. Mor ton of Beaufort is an uncle of the deceased. He had been employe:! in Ralegih for several years and by reason of his character and ability was advancing rapidly there. He was employed by probably the larg est banking firm in the State. A large crowd attended his funeral Mondayafternoon at his old home. BISHOP THOS. C. DARST AT ST. PAUL'S SUNDAY Next Sunday, October 9th, the Rt. i Rev. Thomas C. Darst, D. D., Bishop of East Carolina, will visit officially Beaufort and Morehead City. The services will be as follows: In St. Paul's Church, Beaufort, Holy Com munion at 8 A. M. Evening Service with the Administration of the Rite of Confirmation at 7:30 P. M. The Bishop will preach at this latter ser vice. There will be no service in St. Paul's Church at 11. A. M. In St. Andrew's Church, Morehead City, Holy Communion and Sermon by the Bishop at 11 A. M. There will be no afternoon service. All iare invited to these services. After next Sunday the hours of services 1 will be as usual. make certain improvements to his store building on the south side of Front street. The permit was grant ed. Mr. Charles Hatsell asked the board for some information about the title to a lot near the knitting mill. The matter was deferred to City At torney Davis. . Commissioner Chadwick made the report of the Street Committee in regard to doing some paving on Mul berry street The report advised deferring action until the. city's fi nancial condition would justify the expense. The report was adopted. Mr. John Forlaw asked about getting an adjustment for clay taken by the city from a lot of his. Action was deferred to look further into the mat ter. Mr. N. F. Eure asked to be al lowed to back his truck into his place on Craven street The permission was granted. City Attorney Davis was instructed to see about collect ing some claims which have been standing for a year or more. The City Clerk v as instructed to notify the men who audited the town's books to be here at the nest meet ing. The board then adjourned. Month Of September Wat Unusually Dry The month of September in this section was an unusually dry one. The average rainfall for September is 4.13 inches; this month only 1.32 inches fell. There were 27 days of sunshine, one day cloudy and two partly cloudy. Most of the month the maximum temperature was above 80 degrees. The hottest day was 92 which was on the 16th. The temper ature figures for the month art as follows: Max. Min. 1 89 66 2. . ...85 63 3 82 73 4 86 68 5 89 70 6 82 66 7 84 68 8 88 72 9 86 70 10 88 70 11 87 72 12 87 69 13 85 68 14 86 74 15. 89 72 16 92 . 74 17 .87 67 18 - 87 75 19. 90 76 20. 86 69 21 80 67 22 81 65 23 75 60 24 74 60 25. 79 58 26 77 60 27 80 69 28. 81 59 29. 82 65 30 84 68 BRIDGE AND P.OOK PARTY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSE Friday evening at eight o'clock in the rooms of the Community Club and Home Demonstration Agent, old School Building, there will be a char itable bridge and rook tournament. ThlB tournament is under the auspices of Mrs. Ida HalL County Welfare of ficer, the purpose is to raise funds for lumber to build u partition and small room one for an indigent family in the country. The neighbors and friends in the community have offer ed their services for the building of the partition and room, and all that m.s to be furnished is the lumber. HARKER'S ISLAND FIE CONQUERED Forest Fire That Threatened The Community Finally Stop ped By Hard Work A fire accidentally started op Harker's Island last Sunday a week ago by some children alarmed ,the people of the island considerably and forced them to do some very hard work. The fire lasted for more than a week and finally was conquered by the combined efforts of the islanders, Morehead Ctiy firemen and the weath er. Last week it was thought that the ' fire was pretty well under control I but it got going again pretty strong and Sunday afternoon it was feared that serious damage might be done. ! A column of smoke that could be seen ' for miles around was lifted up in the sky and attracted a great deal of at tention. Many people from Beau fort and elsewhere went over to the island to see what was going on. Re quests were sent to Beaufort and Morehead City asking that fire trucks be sent over to help. The fire truck from Morehead City and a number of firemen went there Sunday night and worked all night and the next day helping to fight the flames. Beau fort has only one fire truck and the authorities thought it best not to send this out of town. Some hose was sent though to help in the fight. Monday afternoon several hard show ers fell and these. with the work that was done finally conquered the fire. No houses were burned on the island and very few trees of any value were burtied according to reports reaching here. The fire was mostly bushes, weeds, grass and ref use on the ground In some places the fire burned into the ground which made it hard to ex tinguish. In some places the fire burned almost entirely across the is land and at one time it was about two miles long. The fire got pretty close to several houses but the fire fighters kept It from reaching them. Just as the News was starting to press this afternoon word was re ceived here that the fire had broken out again on the island. Hose was sent from here and it was reported that the Morehead City fire truck would return to the island to fight the fUmes again. AUTOS HILL MANY SO REPORTS SHOW September Ahead of August In Deaths. Most Accident Happen On Sundays RALEIGH Oct. 4 With 47 fatali ties from automobile accidents in North Carolina during September al ready reported with figures for the State still incomplete, the death toll last month has passed that of August, when 42 deaths were reported, accord ing to information from the State De partment of Revenue.. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles of the Department of Revenue is fur nishing a new type of service in the monthly reports listing the number of accidents and fatalities, the cause of the accident if known, the age of the driver and those hurt and the conditions surrounding the accident Out of the 352 accidents reported during August, 433 persons were in jured and 42 killed, according to the report. There, were 566 cars, how ever, involved in the crashes, which indicated that the majority of the wrecks were by collision with other vehicles. The majority of the collisions, in which the conditions were known, occurred in daylight on clear days, with the hour between eight and nine in the morning leading all other hours of the day in the number of accidents. Sunday, of course, led all other days of the week with 71 accidents, Saturday following next with 63, and other days as follows: Monday 47, Friday 56, Thursday 43, Wednesday 42, and Tuesday 40. More than three times as many men as women were driving cars in volved in accident, the report show ing 441 cars driven by men and 125 by women. The majority of the cars: involved were passenger cars with 506 out of the total of 566, being pas senger cars. Street and highway intersection: were the scenes of most of the acci dents, the report showing 50 acci dents at highway Intersections, six. at rurtl intersections, 100 at street intersections, and ten at railroad crossings. There were 118 occuT ing on the straight highway-. ..( V Carteret County Fair V Will Last Three Days Newport expects to have the great est community fair in its history this year, so the News is informed. At any rate it will last longer this year than ever before. When the fair first started it was a one day affair, then it grew to two days and this year it will last three and every day is expected to be a big one. The fair premium list will be in circulation in a few days. The book let is being printed at the News of fice and will be finished very soon. It is larger this year than ever be fore. The list of premiums is a very long one and should bring out a large number of exhibits. The officials in charge of the fair say they expect to have more and better exhibits than they have had at any previous exhi- ' bition. It will open on Thursday, October the 20th. The fair is given by the Carteret County Fair Asso ciation the officials of which are: S. D. Edwards, president. D. Ira Garner vice-president, L. A. Mann, secretary, Ihe Bank of Newport, treasurer. These officials are busy now eettiiie ready for the big event. 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 hear he inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. High Tiae ' Low Tide Friday, October 7 4:35 4:59 5:26 5:51 6:16 6:41 7:06 7:30 7:53 8:18 8:42 9:06 9:33 9:58 A. M. 10:30 A. M. P. M. 11:05 P. M. Saturday, October 8 A. M. .11:09 A. M. P. M. 11:28 P. M. Sunday, October 9 A. M. 12:58 A. M. P. M. 12:22 P. M. Monday, October 10 A.- M. 12:44 A. M. P. M. 1:14 P. M. Tuesday, October 11 A. M. 1:29 A. M. P. M. 2:05 P. M. Wednesday, October 12 A. M. 2:15 A. M. P. M. , 2:58 P. M. Thursday, October -13 A. M. 3:03 A. M. P. M. 3:50 P. M.