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Board Makes Effort
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To Liquidate Debts
Arrangements Made To Pay Past Due Interest
On Bonds. Legislature Will Be Asked To Pass
Special Ac To Get Matters Straightened Out
Three main item of business en
grossed the atentictf of the Board of
County Coinmissioiers at their meet
ing last Friday. The most important
of these .and the one for which the
meeting was manly failed was to dis
cuss ways and nteans of meeting pay
ment on coupom due the first of Jan
uary, which had not been paid. This
amounted to $22,862.50 and the auditor-
advised the board that $9,887
more would be due February 1st. In
view of tb's condition the board de
cided to accept the offer of Eyer and
Co., of New York, of a loan of
$40,000. This was done and the coun
ty is, no longer in default in its pay
ments. It was imperative that something
be done as the credit of the county
was endangered by this default. Car
teret County is not the only one that
has defaulted in its payments but the
amount defaulted by this county was
the largest of any in the state.
Another important matter
Styron Takes Appeal
From Mayor's Court
The only cases in police court, Fri
day were those chavging Richard1
Weeks and John Styron wi.th fighting,
Weeks submitted to the charge and
was fined $2.50 -and the costs of the
action. .Styron plead not guilty
through his attorney, Luther Hamil
ton of Morehead City. He was found
guilty by Mayor Chadwick, but took
an appeal to a higher court
Styron and JVeeks had some words
out at Noes Filling Station, while
Weeks was .fixing a tire for. Styron,
as to whether or not the tube Weeks
was using was large enough or not.
Styron testified that when he opined
that the tube was not large enough
for the tire, that Weeks said that if
Styron would' go with him he would
was!Snuw h'm 1 was large enough or
taken up in a joint meeting of the'10t and that when he got out of bis
Board ef County Commissioners and!car and followed Weeks, that Weeks
the Board of Education. The county
tax rate is $2.35 .and the school tax
is $1.30 or 55.3 per cent of the
county wide rate. There has been
collected for 1028 taxes .approximate
ly $98,000 and 55.3 per cent of that
amount would be $r'4,200. The Board
of Education has already received
$69,500 which is $15,300 more than
their proportional share of the taxes
collected. The law provides that the
per cent "of taxes beloinging to the
school fund should be turned over to
the Board of Education as they are
collected ;.,,. . .. ,. .. ...
As taxes are not being collected
fast enough to meet the running ex
penses of the schools and as the
Board of Education claimed to have
no authority to borrow money and
the Board of Commissioners are han
dicapped by the statute forbidding
borrowing more than
assaulted him
Styron came down to the Potter
.Emergency hospital and had his
wounds dressed and then summoned
Chief Longest and related his tale of
woe to him. According to tho testi
mony Styron did not strike Weeks a
single blow but he did grapple' -with
him while on the ground.
KEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
J. R. Finer and wife to W. E. K.
Butler, 50 acres White Oak ownship,
coitf- $10.00. J' V
Mora Dickinson to Willie Simmons,
5 acres. Newport township, con. $250.
J. J1. Lockey and wife to J. E. Gar
:ner, tract Newport township, con.
$200.
H. P. Whitehurst and wife et al to
Alice Hoffman. 360 acres Morehead
$50,000 f or township. Con. $100.00.
floating indebtedness which amount J. h. Cofer Realty Corp. to E. II.
having already been borrowed by the 'Gorham, i lot Sunset Shores, con
preceding board, the Board of Com-j$.,000.
missioners informed the Board of Ed-1 Hattie D. Davis and husband to
ucation that they could not in the jjbbott Morris, tract Morehead town
future expect any more than their jghip, con. $10.00.
proportional part or tne taxes as tney E. H. Gorham, trustee, to Ed. H.
are collected. Fahrenhorst, lot Sunset Shores, con.
The only way in which money could ,,$3,000.
be borrowed for the schools it ap-l w. H. Henderson and wife et al
pears, would be for the Board of t0 Bertie Thelma Cherry, 2 half lots
Commissioners and the Board of Ed- .Sunset Shores, con. $1.00.
ucation to have the act limiting the i Edwin Joseph (single) to Edwin R.
amount borrowable to $50,000 re-, Oettinger, 3 lots Morehead City, con.
scinded, as otherwise the Board of $10.00.
Commissioners can only turn over to Beaufort Realty Corp. to J. T. and
the schools the school taxes as col-,B. M. Corey, 2 lots West Beaufort,
leeieu. ine Jjoaru oi Education re- con. $500.00.
fused to take any a -m on the mat-j G. W. Huntley and wife to J. W.
ter at that time an here will be a ! Humphrey and wife, tract Beaufort
joint meeting of the two boards Feb- township, con. $500.00.
ruary 4th to further discuss the mat-j D. R. Lewis et al to J. W. Lewis,
ter. (A resolution covering this will' 2 1-3 acres Marshallberg, con. $1.00.'
be found elsewhere in this issue.) i J. K. Gilliken and wife to T. C. Gil
The Board of Commissioners kept liken, 2 tracts Marshalberg, con.
faith with the people of the county 1 $2,300.00.
by inviting a number of business men Rebecca
to sit with them and discuss the finan- Gilliken, 1
cial condition of the county. Those $10.00.
who met with the board were: W. J. i Carolina
CLUBS COUNCIL
MEETS SATURDAY
Addresses To Be Made On Sev
eral Interesting Subjects.
Luncheon Will Be Served
OGLESBY TRIAL
(LONG DRAWN OUT
' On Saturday, February Becond, tne
County Council of Home Demonstra
tion Clubs will hold its regular meet
ing in the office of the Home Agent.
A luncheon will be served for the
Council by the Wiregrass Club. Just
after the luncheon, several items of
business will be disposed of, tind then
Mrs. Estelle T. Smith, District Agent,
will address the women, outlining to
them the goals' for the year. The
women of the Home Demonstration
Clubs have elected clotting as their
major work for the year, and so the
Council will arrange for a Fashion
Show later in tne jiear.
Miss Georgia Piland, Landscape
Architect from the State Department
of Education, is expected to address
the Council on "Beautification of
Home Grounds". Miss Piland was a
home demonstration agent before tak
ing her course as landscape architect
at Cornell, and so she knows the prob
lems of the rural women and can offer
very practical suggestions to them.
Both Sides Put Up Vigorous
' Fight. Defendant Convicted
On Two Counts
. Most of the time of Superior Court
so far this week has been taken up
with the trial of the case against
Hugh Oglesby of the Mill Creek sec
tion. The charge against Mr. Ogles
by was that on October 27 he ran
over and badly injured Lillian Gish,
the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Styron of Morehead City. He
tyas also charged with driving a car
while under the influence of liquor.
He was convicted on these two counts.
Court convened Monday morning
at 10 o'clock. Judge Frank Daniels
of Goldsboro, well known and highly
regarded by the people of this section,
h presiding over the court. Solicitor
l)avid Clark is prosecuting the crim
inal docket. Judge Daniels made a
short charge to the grand jury ex
plaining in a concise but explicit man
ner the duties of that body. H. L.
Potter of Beaufort was made fore
man of the jury. Jas. R. Glover was
appointed deputy in charge of the
jury,
Beautincation oi the home grounds is j i The Uglesby ease was taken up
one of the minor projects being un-jMonday and finished Wednesday af
dertaken by the women of the home jternoon. It was hotly contested from
demonstration clubs. There are so
many beautiful native shrubs in Car
teret County that it seems a perfect
waste of beauty not to Use these
start to finish. Attorneys A. D. Ward
of New Bern and C. R. Wheatly of
Beaufort appeared for the defendant
and Mr. Luther Hamilton of More-
plants to help relieve the barrenness ihead City assisted the Solicitor with
of the yards. .the prosecution. The contention of
The president and secretary of each ! the defense was that it was a case
club are expected to attend the Coun-jof mistaken identity; that the defend
ed meetings. Those in attendance at 'ant was not even in Morehead City
this meeting will be: Mrs, G. C. Bell .when the accident occurred. The
and Mrs. C. F. D. Bell from Harlowe; 'prosecution contended that Oglesby
Mrs. J. H. Dickinson and Mrs. M. E. pvas drinking, that he ran over the
Whitley from Core Creek; Mrs. Nel- child and drove ofi' without offering
lie Merrill and Mrs. Grif Dudley from ; to help her in any way. She was
Wiregrass; Mrs, Charlie Pake and badly injured and was taken to the
Mrs. Cleveland Gillikin from Bettiej hospital but has now recovered. After
Mrs. Lydia Wade and Mrs. Ruby Wiethe jury had rendered its verdict of
lis from Williston; Mrs. Nellie Masdn Iguilty Judge Daniels sentenced the
and Mrs. Florence Smith from Stacy" defendant to pay the costs in the case
Mrs. S. P. Robinson and Mrs. Howard (and $100 to Mr. Styron in one count
Nelson rom Atlantic Mrs. 'Ckryton ft J in the other he fixed the sentence
Guthrie and Mrs. Fred Guthrie from
Harker's Island'; Mrs. Emma Chad
wick and Miss Ethel Whitehurst from
Straits Mrs. Odell Smith and Mrs.
Ida Dennis from White Oak.
EDITH POWEL,
Home Dem. Agent.
at six months on the roads of some
county in the district. ' Mr. Oglesby
is about forty years old and has a
wife and two children and several
other relatives. The Judge stated
that he thought that when the jury
had convicted a person of a crime of
this sort that he ought to have some
CAR CAPSIZES ON BRIDGE ; real punishment for his act. The at-
NO ONE SERIOUSLY HURT torneys for the defense did not file
I notice of an appeal yesterday. A
A slight accident in which fortun-bond of $1,000 for the defendant was
The State Is Second
As Federal Taxpayer
Washington, Jan. 29. A decrease
of $43,792,717 in the total taxes col
lected by the government in the cal
endar year 1928 was shown today in
figures issued by the internal revenue
bureau which placed the year's col
lections at $2,775,276,955.23.
North Carolina, with a total tax of
$230,042,027, went into second place
behind New York among the states
which return the greatest amount of
taxes to the federal government, re
placing Pennsylvania, which showed
a decrease. Pennsylvania's taxes
amounted to $232,417,910, a drop of
$24,805,000 as compared with last
year, while North Carolina showed an
increase of $19,414,000. New Yprk's
gross collections moved up from
$751,805,048 in 1927 to $759,122,485
last year.
North Carolina's income tax in
creased approximately $1,155,000
while its miscellaneous taxes increas
ed $18,260,000. The income tax ag
gregated $20,685,000 and the miscel
laneous tax amounted to $215,955,788
which was approximately $110,000,
000 less than that levy collected in
New York.
The total income taxes collected
throughout the country decreased
$26,089,767.32 in the year, totaling
only $2,169,417,231.64. Miscellaneous
taxes dropped $17,692,919.95 to
$005,859,724.59. Of the income taxes
corporations paid $1,234,366,865.98
and individuals $935,050,365..66. It
was a decrease of $102,000,000 in
corporation payments and an increase
of $75,812,000 in the individual tax.
SECRET BALLOT
LAW WILL PASS
Governor Gardner Fighting For
New Election Law. Prospects .
Seem Favorable
Cherokees Get Vote,
Politicians Worried
Gilliken et al to T. C.
tract Marshallberg, con.
ately no one was seriously injured oc-'arranged until the matter was finally
curred Sunday afternoon on the disposed of.
North River bridge when the car in j There are several other cases on
which Misses Roma Morris and Mamie tne criminal docket and court is work
Mason of Atlantic, Miss Susie Wells inS on them today.. A submission was
of Teachey, N. C., and Messrs. IL D. made in the case of Donald Mason of
Spence and Winston Adams of La-'Morehead City charged with larceny
Grange were riding, skidded and turn-ii" two counts. He got six months on
ed over on the side. The occupants one charge and seven months on the
climbed out of a side window little ; other. George Lynch of Smyrna
worse for their experience except for charged with setting fire to some
a few bruises. , woods submitted claiming that the 'President Coolidce to niiikn it n lnw
The girls who teach school at La- fire was an accident. He was put 'was designed to bring North Carolina
Grange had been to Atlantic for the un(3er a suspended judgment on pay-j Cherokees under the provisions of the
week end and were on their way back n,ent of costs. Bogue ISarnhill, iact of 1924.
to LaGrange. ( charged with non support was order-
ed to pay his wife $3 a week begin-.PRESBYTERIANS DECIDE
, ning the first ot February.
Asheville, Jan. 27. The passage
last week of a bill in the House and
Senate which confers citizenship upon
the Eastern Band of Cherokee In
dians, and which has gone to Presi
dent Coolidge for his signature is of
far reaching political, and social sig-
nifificance in Jackson, Swain and Gra
ham counties.
It is believed that this act of Con
gress will settle for all time the citi
zenship of the Cherokees, which has
been the basis of many political bat
tles in Jackson and Swain counties,
and it is quite obvious that unless
political organizations in these coun
ties see fit to make the provisons of
the State Constitution as to the lit
eracy test, applicable to a large ma
jority of the Cherokee Indians, this
large body of heretofore non-taxpay-ing
citizens will hold the balance of
political power in the county elec
tions, and in close races in the judicial
and congressional districts.
An act of Congress in 1924 author
ized the Secretary of the Interior to
issue certificates of citizenship to all
competent Indians, but the law was
interpreted as not including the East
ern Band of Cherokees, and the act
which now awaits the signature of
THREE MEN VICTIMS
OF MONOXIDE GAS
Greenville, Jan. 28 Travis Stephe,
formerly of Greenville; Elias Cox, of
Bath, and Clarence Shepard, of Wash
ington, were found dead this morn
ing on the highway near Washington.
Mortgage Co. to J.
15. Shull and L. A. Mann jf Newport; Davis, tract Atlantic, con. $100.
V. A. Mace, U. h. hwann, J. A. D. J. Willis and wife to Richard j Death was due to monoxide gas fumes
Hornaday and E. W. Hill of Beaufort; Duffy, 1-4 acre H. Q. township, con. generated by the automobile of which
C. G. Gaskill of Straits and E. H. $50.00. ithey were occupants when found, ac-
Chadwick of Beaufort up up upup, J. W. Salter and wife to J. R. Hat-1 cording to statement of officials who
Gorham, of Morehead City. W. S. 'tie, 2 acres Portsmouth, con. 200. Iwere notified immediately following
Chadwick of Beaufort was unable to
attend because of illness and C. S.
Wallace and E. A. Council of More
head City were not able to get here
because of a meeting of their Board
of Education.
At the present time the county
owes short term notes and other ob
ligations amounting to $515,000 and
J. W. Salter and wife to J. R.
Battle, 15 acres Portsmouth, con.
$10.00.
J. D. WEBB FOLLOWS
HIS FATHER 1 O GRAVE
Funeral services for T. . Webb,
Jr., who died Sunday mornim? at 6
has been carrying this indebtedness o'clock were held from the home of
in the lorm oi short term loans at a his sister Miss Sudie Webb, Monday
high interest rate. Many thousands 'afternoon at 3 :00 o'clock. Interment
of dollars a year can be saved by, was made in Bay View cemetery,
converting these short term notes into Mr. Webb only survived his father
long term serial bonds at a low rate i by a few days as his father T. D.
of interest. Webb, Sr., died on January 17th.
In view of these conditions the Mr. Webb had been an invalid for
joint meeting of commissioners and the past three years as the result of
citizens adopted a resolution request- ja fall from a truck. Before that time
ing the passage of a bill by the gen-'he had been in the hardware and fur
eral assembly, giving the County Com-1 niture business in Morehead City,
missioners authority to issue long I About six years ago he married Miss
term serial bonds for the purpose of Bessie Willis of Marshallberg and to
paying these short term obligations this union one child was born, Vir
and putting the county on a sound ginia May Webb, age 5.
financial basis. A copy of this reso-l Besides the widow and daughter
lution will be found elsewhere in this Mr. Webb is survived by two sisters
issue, land four brothers all of whom live
: lin Morehead City. They are: Miss
In 1926 German passenger planes Sudie Webb, Mrs. R. T. Willis, D. M.
carried 55,000 passengers and had but I Webb, Norman R. Webb, M. S.Webb
one fatal accident. and W. S. Webb ' '
the discovery of the dead men
The body of Stephe wis taken from
over the steering wheel while the
other men were in the rear of the
car, one on the seat and the other
crumpled on the floor.
The bodies were discovered
Eugene Cox, a farmer. George Har
ris, deputy sheriff and F. T. Paul,
coroner, after an investigation, said
the men apparently had gone to
sleep in the automobile with the motor
running. An inquest will be held
later.
TIDE TABLE
Raleigh, Jan. 30. Considerable in
terest is being felt here now as to
the outcome of the effort to pass a
secret ballot law at this session of
the Assembly. There seems to be
no doubt but that some sort of bill
will pas3 but whether it will be a
makeshift or a real honest effort to
enact a law that will safeguard the
rights of the voters remains to be
seen.
Governor Gardner is standing by
his guns in his fight for the election
law bill but Lieutenant Governor
Fountain is said to be opposed to it
although he denies it. Speaker of the
House Graham is also counted against
the bill as is Senator Higgins, chair
man of the Senate Committee on Elec
tions and Senator Clark of Edge
combe a member of the committee.
The Johnson-Broughton bill, as it is
called, has been referred to a subcom
mittee where it may be considerably
altered. The governor went before
a joint session of the lawmakers Mon
day night and urged the passage of
the secret ballot law.
The Senate had a right hot debate
Monday on the Boren divorce bill but
finally pas.-ed it by a vote of 31 to
16. It had already passed the House.
This act makes five yeai's imprison
ment a lawful ground for divorce.
The Senate killed the Person bill
which aimed to allow drug stores to
sell alcoholic fluids on prescription.
A bill to sterilize mental defectives
has been introduced and referred to
a committee. -,
A workmen's compensation act has
been introduced and seems to have a
fair chance at passage this time after
failing for many years. A bill intro
duced in the House by Representative
Spence of Moore County to require
public schools to teach the effect of
alcohol and opiates on the human
body was referred to a committee. A
bill to increase the gasoline' tx to
five cents has been introduced by Rep
resentative Flanagan of Pitt County.
This provides that the extra cent shall
go to the counties and also a million
dollars additional if the State High
way Commission sees fit to allow it.
There is considerable difference of
opinion as to whether the varoius
counties shall have the spending of
the road money or whether it shall be
handled by the State Highway Com
mission. Governor Gardner favors
the latter method and a good many
members agree with him. However,
some think the road funds for the
counties should be turned over to
them to use as they see fit. It seems
to be an assured fact that the road
tax on gasoline will certainly be raised
i to tive cents instead of four as it now
is. It is estimated that the increase
will produce 2,500,000 annually.
A bill to create a board to examine
and license barbers has been intro
duced in the House. A similar bill
was defeated at the 1927 session. Ren-
; resentatives Boyd of Haywood Coiln
jty and Etheridge of Dare have intro-
Information as to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this co.
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also witr
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the iieads of the estuaries.
TO ORGANIZE CHURCH i- , , " l lu,,ul e ali "sllcrn,en
j m inland waters to take out a license
ii . , , . I to fish. They propose to make it
A very w-,11 a tended meetmg was $1.10 for C0J ond
held in Morehead Cty Sunday after- a state licon,.0, A, . .
.number of local bills of all sorts have
Deen introduced and some passed.
noon to consider the matter of
ganizing a Presbyterian church there.
The Home Mission Board of the I
Church already owns a house and lot WRir.HTSVii i v r-r-rc
A .t- . 1 . 1 . . t
mere wnicn may ne used lor the pu
pose.
A number of
Pre.-byterians from
STATE BAR MEETING
High Tide
Friday, Feb. 1
Low Tide
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Albert Gibble and Mary F. Smith,
Morehead City.
Dalto W)od and Valerie Hurley,
Morehead City.
Solomon Marshal and Betsey Ren
ner, Bogue.
1:39 A. M. 7:45 A. M.
1:47 P. M. 7.45 P. M.
Saturday, Feb, 2
2:34 A. M. 8:45 A. M.
2:46 P. M. 8:38 P. M.
Sunday, Feb. 3
3:29 A. M. 9:43 A. M.
3:45 P. M. 9:32 P. M.
Monday, Feb. 4 '
4:21 A. M. 10:37 A. M.
4:39 P. M. 10:24 P. M.
Tuesday, Feb. 5
5:09 A. M. 11:05 A. M.
5:30 P. M. 11:27 P. M.
Wednesday, Feb. 6
5:54 A. M. 12:12 A. M.
6:15 P. M. 12:11 P. M.
Thursday, Feb. 7
6:35 A. M. 12:57 A. M.
6:57 P. M. 12:50 P. M.
Rnliii-h. .Tun oo Tl, ;..
Hf 1 l rv.. j ii . . ' " v-Aicumc
"'"'t"rau t " "cauiort were committee of the North Carolina Bar
present and the proposition was (lis-'association, meeting here today sc
cussed from various angles. Dr. E. lted Wrightsvillo Beach as the next
H. Gillespie of Greensboro was pres- place of meeting, the sessions to be
ent and also the Rev. R. C. Clontz held June 27 "8 '")
of Wilmington, Superintendent of The principal address will be de
Home Missions Rev. J. R. Phipps of .Jivercd by Gurney E. Newland, of Los
Pollocksville also participated in the Angeles, president of the American
meeting. After duly considering the Bar Association. Approval was given
matter a petition was drawn up re-' of a proposed bill to be introduce
BIRTH OF SON
Chicago has a prohibition agent
who is a "wise owl". He snoops
around late at night, and when he i Edgemoor, Del., aJn. 25. Born to
hears the song "Sweet Adeline" issu-iMr. and Mrs. C. A. Brooks, a habv
ing from a home, a search warrant is boy. The child has been named
quickly secured. Florida Times-1 Charles, Jr,
Union. k fine.
Mother and child doing
questing the Wilmington Presbytery
to locate the church, in Morehead City.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY
TO HOLD SPECIAL SERVICE
On Sunday, February 3, at the
morning hour the Woman's Mission
ary Society of Ann St. M. EChurch,
South, will have charge of tl.e ser-'
Vices. ThpV will ronrlpr a cnailal tm.- !
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gram as planned for an earlier date,
but postponed until now, consisting
of special music, readings, and naners
of interest on mission work. Every
one is invited to this service.
There will be no service at the
evening hour, since at that time the
Sunday School convention has its
opening service at Morehead City.
A wife is a woman who wishes she
hadn't said yes; an old maid is one
who wishes she hadn't said no. Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
in the Legislature, simplifying the
procedure as to disbarment of at
torneys. Members of the executive commit
tee here today were:
I. M. Bailey, of Raleigh, chairman;
Dickson McLean, of Lumberton; S.
G. Bernard, of Asheville; W. D. Pru
den, of Edenton and A. B. Andrews,
president of the state bar association,
and H. M. London, secretary, both of
Raleigh.
MR. W. W. LEWIS IMPROVES
Mr. W. W. Lewis who was pain
fully injured last week when the
horse he was driving became fright
ened on the Lennoxville road, reared,
throwing Mr. Lewis out of the wagon
is much improved. Mr. Lewis fell
from the pile of shingles in the wagon
striking his head on the pavement.
He suffered skin abrasions about the
face, and hurt his right leg.