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1 News Largest Circulation In Carteret County The People' Newspaper The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. ( READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XVI 12 PAGES TWO SECTIONS THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY DEC: 8, 1927 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 4 KAIJ JrO K 1 4 County Board May issue more Bonds A Resolution Has Been Adopted Which Provides For The Issuance of $300,000 Worth Of Bonds At the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held on No vember the 28th an order was intro duced by Commissioner Huntley which provided for the issuance of $300,000 worth of bonds. The News hasn't space to print the resolution in full but the substance of it is to the effect that the county has debts out standing which it wishes to put into the form of bonds. The resolution says "The proceeds of said bonds shall be applied solely to the payment of valid indebtedness of the county of Carteret incurred prior to March 7, 1927." A section of the resolution states that a tax sufficient to pay the prin cipal and interest of said bonds when due 'shall be levied and collected. It also says that a statement of the county's debts is on file with the Clerk of theBoard of Commissioners (The Register of Deeds) and may be i seer, by any citizen. On motion by j Commissioner Hall a resolution was : adopted that a public hearing on the j matter be hefld on December the ' 8th. This meeting was held today. A few citizens were present seeking information about the matter but as far as the News is aware no one made a formal protest against the bond is sue. Last March an act was passed through the General Assembly which was supposed to stop the board from issuing any more b.mds or short time notes except in anticipation of tax es. The News was informed by County Attorney Hamilton that un der the general -84 applying to coun ty government that the county can issue bonds for the purpose referred to above. So presumably the board will go ahead and sell the bonds. "Bland And Parham Sued For $100,000 j NEW BERN, Dec; 7 Suit has been instituted in Carteret County Super ior Court by E. J. "Willis, administra tor of the estate of S. A. Miller, for $100,000 damages against Alton L. Bland, of Raleigh, and Scott B. Parham, of Morehead City, charging j them with the responsibility for the death of Miller near Camp Glenn several weeks ago when he is alleged to have been run down by an auto mobile driven by Bland who was ac-, companied by Parhom. i The suit, being handled by Aber-' nethy and Abernethy, of this city, and ! Morehead City counsel, asks for $50-; 000 compensatory and $50,000 puni tive damage. , ! DR. DUNCAN IS IMPROVING Dr. C. L. Duncan who was injured i in a car accident about ten days ago j is confined to his bed still but is get ting along very well. No bones were broken but he was rather painfully hurt. The accident occurred when a car driven by Harlowe Chapin .in which Dr. and Mrs. Duncan were rid ing was side swiped by another car about four miles east of New Bern on the highway. The car was driv en by a lady whose name the News did not learn. SCHOOL TEACHER FALLS INTO RIVER Burnsville, Dec. 3 Miss Cora Fer guson, twenty-year-old teacher, on her way today to the Pensacola high duties for the day, fell into Cane River and was drowned. Miss Fer guson lost her balance on a wet foot log and fell into the waters of the stream, swollen by recent rains. Cries of another teacher accompanying Miss Ferguson zrought aid of pupils from the school house nearby, and the body wag recovered in a few minutes. Miss Ferguson was the daughter of J- J. Ferguson, of Bald Creek. Reading the motor accidents we are led to believe that this industry has the greatest turnover of any. At lanta Constitution. An official close to Colonel Lind bergh ?ays he can have a million dol ' rs n'mbly by getting married before the comera. Yea, that's all very well, hut the fly in the ointment is that he"d be - married. Philadelphia In quirer. SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION NOW Ciivil Cases Only This Term. Newberry Against Cleveland Willis On Trial Superior Court has been grinding away this week on civil cases. Sever al cases have been non suited and ore or two continued. The only jury trial so for took place ye3terday, that of Gillikin versus Dufy. Mr. C. T. Gillikin of Morehead City sued Mrs. Duffy for commission on the sale of a lot. The juiy gave him a verdict of $450. A rather interesting case set for trial this afternoon is that of S. H. Newberry against Cleveland Willis o Morehead City. Mr. Newberry is suing for $20,000 damages for alleg ed defamation of. character. Mr. Mr. Willis was formerly postmaster of Morehead City and it seems that the trotble grew out of a contest ov er the appointment of postmaster for that city. In the case of Ogles by against Merrick a judgment for $245.53 was given for the plaintiff. Hardesty versus Munger and Bennett was settled with a judgment of $500 for the plaintiff and the plaintiff to pay the costs. An absolute divorce was granted Tuesday to Hilda Brown Hodkinson from John Hodkinson. The grounds of the divorce was five years separation. There was no ses sion of court this morning as the judge went to New Bern to make an address before the Women's Club there. Court resumed business at two o'clock. J0hn R. Hill Died Sunday Afternoon The daily newspapers of last Sun day carried an account of ths death of Mr. Join R. Hill who formerly liv ed near Beaufort. He committed suicide Saturday afternoon by shoot ing himself through the heart. He had been in bad health for several months, in fact physicians have said that he would not have lived much longer if he had not shot himself. Bad health had undoubtedly affected his mind which is the explanation of his desperate deed. Mr. Hill's body was brought back home Monday and buried Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Tuttle's Grove church. The services were conducted by Reverend Mr. Cheek, Reverend Mr. L. L. Smith of Eeau fort and Reverend Mr. G. W. Pratt paster of Tuttle's Grove church. A laige crowd attended the funeral. The deceased is survived by his widow Mrs. Laura Hill, a son Dan Hill and .laughters Mr. Otis Warren and Mrs. Nelson Arthur. The account of the death in the Sunday's paper is as follows: Fremont, Dec. 3 A second at tempt to end his life this afternoon at 4 o'clock proved effective for John R. Hill, 60, of Beaufort R. F. D. He shot himself through the heart with a 12-guage shoteun in the barn of his nephew, J. F. Hill, with whom he had been staying for the past month, four miles northeast of Fremont on the plantation of Dr. C. L. Lassiter. According to Dr. Lassiter with whom Kill had talked about his af fairs the man told him several days aco that he would not! live until Christmas. He admitted taking arse nate of lead last summer but denied that it was taken with the intention of ending his life. He left his nephew's home about four o'clock this afternoon taking with him a long stick which he told members of the family he was going to convert' into a yard stick. His lengthy absence from the room caus ed members of the family to investi eate. The man was discovered ly ine in' a pool of blood on the barn floor. He had used the stick in fir ing the load that plowed through his veart ending his life almost instant lv. Heavy wind and rain prevented the report of the gun from reaching the ears of members of the family. A fool and his car should be soon p3 ted Atlanta Constitution. Real Estate Transfers Are More Numerous A right considerable number of real estate deeds have been record ed in the past week by Register of Deeds R. W. Wallace. They were as follows: T. C. Wade, Sheriff to Isaac Vann, 1 lot Beaufort for Taxes paid. Sallie T. Phelps et al to Wiliam D. Skarren, part lots, Beaufort, for $10. Beaufort Realty Corp. to Geo. Wr. Eunn, 2 lots West Beaufort, for $200 Geo. F. Davis to Frank C. Henry, 1 bt Eeaufort, for $50. Beaufort Realty Corp. to R. L. Watt, 3 lots West Beaufort, for $10. Clarence Lupton et al to J. J. Day, 10 acres Cedar Island Township, for $10. Cicero Goodwin et als to J. J. Day, 57 acres Cedar Island Township for" $10. F. M. Goodwin and wife to J. J. Day, tract Cedar Island Township, for $10. Clarence Lupton et als to J. J. Day, 57 acres Cedar Island Town ship, for $10. J. T. Graham and wife to R. G. Springle and wife, 1 lot oMrehead Z.t;r, fcr $10. S. A. Chalk and wife to Walter Long and wife, 1 acre Morehead Township, for $10. E. F.- Carraway et al to J. E. Gil likin, 120 acres, Merrimon Township for $1500. John C. Whitty et al to Allen Campbell and wife, 1 lot Newport, for $45. Allen Campbell and wife to Mary Jackson, 1 lot Newport, con $100. Belcher F. Gillikin to James I. Ar thur, 25 acres Straits Township, for $10. Robert Pigctt and wife to L. W Nelson, Tract Straits, for $5. Power Plant Capacity City May Increase "The city, fathers held perhaps the shortest meeting Monday that they have had since they went into of fice. Minutes of the previous meet ing were read, some bills were aud ited and ordered paid and the board adjourned. A meeting of a committee to re ceive bids and specifications on a fire engine will be held Friday night at the city hall. The committee is composed of Mayor D. M. Jones. Commissioner C. T. Chadwick and Citizen A. T. Gardner. The board :s also thinking of buying another en Tine for the power plant and is ask ing for bids on the same. It seems that the demands for power have out grown the "present capacity of the plant. It is estimated that there are 5,000, 000 illiterates in the United States, arid strange to say, not more than 2,000,000 of them are writing popular songs. Louisville Times." Ten Opportunities Offered For Christmas Benevolence Can you imagine a home saddder than one with a house full of children that old Santa has forgotten to vis it? Every Christmas morning while millions of homes are sending forth shouts of delight and happiness oc casioned by the yule tide season there are numberless ones which are sad and whose occupants know notching of thejoy that should belong to ev ery single individual in the world on Christ's birthday. Would you not like to make some home happy this year by seeing that some, who are less fortunate than you, spend a joy ous Christmas? There are listed below a number of opportunities for people, who have a real desire in their heart to make some one, other than their own loved ones, happy on Christmas day. All of these cases have been inves tigated and are very worthy of any aid they may receive. Choose the case that appeals most to you and call at the Beaufort News office and get a sealed envelope with the name and address of the indi viduals you care to help. Member of Public Welfare Cam. Community Club. Opportunities. 1. Old man 74 years, lives alone and is not able to work this winter. Is allowed to live in his old home rent free. Only relative is a brother who is dependent on some one else. Needs staple groceries. ' 2. Old man 74 years, without a near relative, lives alone in house hat he owns but may not be able to pay la;t tx ($4.63). Has chopped BRIDGE NOW OPEN FOR PUBLIC USE Much Traffic Now Between Ths Twin Cities. Delivery Wagons Doi-- Business The State highway bridge between Beaufort and Morehead City is oper now never to be closed again except in ease of some emergency. Five bridge tenders have been employed and except for an occasional lifting of the big draws the bridge will be open for transportation purposes twenty four hours out of each day. The asphalt topping had all been laid yesterday except a few yards and it was expected to finish that today. The bridge was opened up to the public last Saturday and although a blinding lain storm was in progress mary cars crossed in both directions On Sunday, with the weather still un favorable, there was a steady stream of traffic across the great structure. This week people from the western part of the county and New Bern who are attending court here practically 1 all came via the bridge. They say it is a great convenience to them and saves them a good deal of time. De livery wagons from New Bern and Morehead City ,are now seen on the streets of Beaufort and Beaufort de livery" wagons also go across the riv er. It is nrobable that the litrbts ' will not be placed along the bridge until after the holiday season. A report from Raleigh yesterday is to the effect that the Corporation Com mission has granted permission to the Sea Shore Transportation Com pany and the Carteret Transit Com pany to extend their lines across the bridge but not to put on any addi tional service. CHRISTMAS ADVERTISING This issue of the News is well filled with holiday and other k.'nds of advertising. The mer chants of Beaufort, Morehead City and New Bern are telling the story of their Christmas goods in an inviting manner. We hope that readers of the News will peruse the advertis ments and begin their shopping as early as possible. The early buyers have the choice of the stocks before they are broken up. Also early shopping light ens the burdens of merchants and sales people. ERROR CORRECTED. In the advertisement of Mr. H Buckner Smith in last week's issue of the News, through an oversight, it was stated that he was a violin teach er. This was incorrect and should have been a yoice teacher. Mr. Smith is also a mucis, director. wood the last few winters but has rheumatism too bad to support him self this winter. A fine old man. Needs groceries. 3. Old man 73 years, lives lone and pays taxes on his one roor-. and half acre. No fiear relatives. Has always been diseased ard since an accident crppled.Nee Js every thing. 4. Old lady 70 years, very feeble lives around with relatives. Has one son a poor hard-working man on p. steady job but he has nine children and can not do much for his moth er. She' needs warm clothes. 5. Old lady-;73 years, lives with brother and his wife wTho are almost as old and feeble as herself. Very poor and needs warm clothing and groceries. 6. Mother and five children ages 3, 5, 8, 12 18. Father in State Hos pital. Very hard-working woman. Home very isolated. Have nothinsr. ' 7. Mother and five children, fath er in Sanatorium at Co. " expense. Oldest child 10 years. Mother not well takes in washing. Relatives all in poor -circumstances but manage to take cai e of them. Very nice people and wou'd be grateful for anything. 8. Widow with five children. 9. Widow with three children, Income very small mother does laun dry work. Very nice people and nobody knows how much the 12 year old daughter wants a pair of knick ers like the other givls have. 10. Youn? gir. hopeless T. E. case, Sister 12 years old, Necessities. Weather In Novembei . Was Rather War There were two or three right H j days here in November but upon . j j whole it was a warm month, mor g j that usual. Theowest tempera j was 38, on the 21st and the hig - ; was 78 degrees which took plac ' i the 2nd. The rainfall for the ir , 1 j sence of further dispatches concern was 3.46 inches. The average ram- j ing the sinking of an "unknown" fal for the month is 2.35 inches. ', third vessel off the North Carolina The winds during the month blew coast today led officials of the Sev from the southwest 9 days, the south-. enth Coast Guard district headquar- east 6 days, the northwest 5 days, northeast 5 days, went three days and north 2 days. The temperature as recorded at the local weather sta tion was as follows: Max. 1. 72 2 -'-78 3 74 4 71 5 , 68 6 51 7 .45 8 48 Min. 9 69 64 71 76 70 70 76 74 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 .70 .73 .59 .51 .62 .66 .72 .70 .66 .62 -71 .70 .75 .75 65! 61! 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Morehead City Boys Return Frnm OrifTit'MR- AND MRS- K- w- WRIGHT Keturn r rom uriem , SUSTAIN painful injuries Morehead City, Dec. 7 George Robert Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S. Wallace and George Dill Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dill have re turned home from a three months so journ in various countries of the Ori ent. This unusual and interesting trip was accorded the young men by Mr. J. F. Shumaker, President of the Inter-Oceanic Stemsh'p Co. It came at a period of their lives which could be appreciated more than any othtr time a real vacation after graduation. They sailed from New York on Aug ust 25 on the steamship Sin Sinana and touched along the seacoast towns of Asia Minor, Greece and Egypt, and cities of the holy land. Among some of the places visited in the Itinery were Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, Joffa in Jerusalem Palestine, Beirut and Alexandria in Syria Smyrna Turkey, Piraeus Patros, Athens and .Hermanpolis in Greece, Bori and Rome in Italy and Valeucia in Spain. Every courtesy was ex tended the young men by the officers of the steamship corporation. Mr. Wallace was graduated from Duke University in May 1927. Mr. Dill is a graduate Pharmacist having graduated from Carolina in 1926. NO HOPE FCR YOUNG MAN , WHO TCCK POISON BY MISTAKE ! NEW BERN, Dee. 6 No hop? is held out for the recovery of John Heath, yo:ig married man of this r'y, who took by mistake four bi chloride tablets ealy last Wednesday morning, thinking they were indiges tion tablets. He was taken to a lo .al hospital, where it was first thought his condition was satisfactory. At noon yesterday a change came for the worse. He sank into uncon sciousness, from which he has not yet recovered. Although physicians state the he cannot live, it may be a matter of days before demise, it is stated. shop EARLY COAST GUARD MEN ! SAVE MANY LIVES Crews At Hatteras and Kill Devil Stations Perform Heroic Deeds - ELIZABETH CITY, Dec. 6 Ab- ters here to the belief that probably only two ships, the Greek tanker Par aguay and the Norwegian freighter Cibao, went down under the fury of the 70-mile gale that swept the sea board Sautrday night and took a toll 61 j of at least four lives. 61 1 When a message from Hatteras In 63 ! let Coast Guard crew, dated 5:19 ! Sunday p. m. and relayed by More- j head City that the personnal of the ! crew was awaiting opportunity to take the officers from the hold of an unidentified steamer in distress, was i received here after the rescue of 24 50 sailors from the Cibao had been re 59 ported the possibility of the third 56! tragedy at sea loomed. The Coast 53 i Guard officials were inclined today, 58 however, to the opinion that the mes 53 ! sage concerning the Cibao which went 64 ashore in that region. The heroic work of the Hatteras Inlet crew in rescuing the 24 men . 42 j from the Cibao and of the Coast 39 Guard at Kill Devil station near which 38 ; the Paraguay foundered and foUi' 42 1 lives were lost in saving the 24 re 51,maining sailors from the unfovtu- 54 nate vessel drew commendatioi; 58 from high' Coast Guard officials. Tei 48;egrams praising the heorism of the 48 ; men at the two stations were receiv- 55 I ed from Admiral F. C. Billard, com 60 madant of the Coast Guard, and O. 58 M. Maxam, chief of the Division of I Operations. Monday night, when returning from Virginia with a load of furniture Mr, and Mrs. K. W. Wright were painful ly but not seriously injured when a negro ran into their car, tearing off the two front wheels and otherwise injuring the car. Furniture piled behind Mr. Wright, it is understood' fell over him, pinning him between the furniture and the steering wheel, Mrs. Wright managed to extricate herself by crawling through the broken windshield and was making brave efforts to release her husband when help arrived. They were brought to Beaufort for medical aid and then returned to their home. Ac cident occurred in the Hariowe sec tion and the negro did not stop. However he has since been appre hended. NEW BERN LAUNDRY STARTS SERVICE HERE With the opening of the bridge, Braddy, a leading laundry establish ment in New Bern, advertises else where in this issue that he will have a wagon in Beaufort every Tuesday and Friday to collect and deliver laun dry and dry cleaning work. He will call for ano deliver to the horns. An optimist is anyone who believes any of the European nations really wants reduce armaments. Philadel phia Inquirer. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides at Beaufort is given in this ccu 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, Dec. 9 8:06 A. M. - 1:31 A. M. 8:32 P. M. 2:29 P. M. Saturday, Dec. 10 8:39 A. M. 2:22 A. M. 9:24 P. M. 8:19 P. M. Sunday, Dec. 11 9:48 A. M. 3:14 A. M. 10:16 P. M. 4:03 P. M. I Monday, Dec. 12 10:40 A. M. 4:07 A. M. 11:05 P. -M. 4:58 P. M. Tuesday, Dec. 13 11:12 A. M. 5:03 A. M. 11:34 P. M. 5:49 P. M. Wednesday Dec. 14 12:12 A. M. 6:03 A. M. 12:30 P. M. 6:43 P. M. . Thursday, Dec. IS 1:13 A. M. 7:07 A. M. 1:28 P. M. 7:37 P. M.
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