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The SEAUFioft The best advertising medium published in Carteret. Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BOD? WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XIX 12 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 21 Construction Starts At Atlantic Beach Property Bid In By Bondholders For $200,000; Will Rebuild On' A Larger And Better Scale Than Ever; Expect To Open July Fourth. BEEN IDENTIFIED Former Inmate of Soldier's Home; Will Try To Send Him Back Work has started on the now build-1 m ings at Atlantic Beach and according TlfVCTl?!? V M A M U A C to information furnished the News flTl I UlEJl 1 lTlill IliO by interested parties it is hoped to have them in condition to use by the fourth of July. Mr. A. Witchard of New York, who is the architect in charge of the work, has been in Morehead City for several weeks pre paring plans and making arrange ments to begin construction. The report is that the buildings will be larger and better than they ere be fore. The properties known as Atlantic Beach and consisting of a large tract of land fronting on the ocean and also on Bogue Sound, several houses and other improvements and the bridge connecting the beach with the mainland, were sold Monday under a mortgage foreclosure in New Bern. This das done under an order of Federal court. The properties were bid in for the sum of $200,000 by the Manufacturers' Trust Company of New York holders of the bonds of the original owners. A new company called the Atlan tice Beach and Bridge Company has been incorporated and will own and operate the resort establishment. The incorporators are W. A.' Mace, A. D. McLean and C. R. Wheatly. ENTRIES CLOSED FOR THE PRIMARY l Race Drawing T o Close; - Many Have No Opposition The mystery surrounding the iden tity of the person found at Davis a bout two weeks ago and now resid ing in the County jail was cleared up somewhat this week when Sheriff James H. Davis received a letter from the governor of the National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, lo cated at Hampton, Va., which iten tifled him as Stoke Kempton, a run away inmate of the feeble-minded department of that institution. He left there April 6. A letter from Mrs. Kempton, who lives in Inskip, Tenn., reveals the fact htat Stoke Kempton was insane when confined to the Soldiers' Home. She says she has three children and with hardly any means of support, so she beseeches officers to send him back to the institution. She said she was afraid of him. Kempton sent A few more entries were made Friday and the list of Democratic and Republican candidates to be voted on in the June primary is now com plete. In most instances the county candidates have no opposition and therefore will not have to be voted on at all. The names of those who are unopposed are certified by the Board of Elections and they will be on the ticket at the regular election in November. The entries made Friday were, on the Democratic side, Luther Hamil ton for the House of Representatives, M. Leslie Davis for County Judge, County Commissioners C. T. Chad wick, W. M. Webb, L. C. Carroll, W. W. Styron, W. H. Bell for sheriff. The Republicans added were D. M. Jones for Clerk of the Superior Court and Eric Gaskill for Register of Deeds. The contest on Saturday June 7 in this county will be as to the fol lowing: Democrats U. S. Senator, F. M. Simmons, J. W. Bailey, J. H. Estep; member of Congress C. L. Abernethy, S. H. Hobbs, Superior (Continued on page fivf) "ANCHOR" USED INSTEAD OF OLD HITCHING POST her a letter from Norfolk about two One thousand shares of stock of no i weeks after -his escape Municipal Court Has Three Whiskey Cases Three whiskey cases featured in to Police Court Friday afternoon, and all these defendants were color ed menl They were all charged with having possession of various quanti ties of liquor for the purpose of par value have been authorized. The j Kempton was employed for eight gaje Through their attorney, C. R. president and general manager of years as motorman in a mine at Ben- the corporation is R. W. Gordon of i ham, Kentucky. Ashe speaks of be New York. The principal stockhold- ing in the army and the fact that he er in the new organization is the was confined in a Soldiers' Home, it Manufacturers' Trust Company. An agreement was reached between the stockholders of the old company and the bondholdera-Jay which the. farm er owners will have a certain a mount of stock in the new company. The impression gathered by talks with business men here is that this transaction ends a deal which will mean a great improvement in bus iness conditions in Carteret county. Besides employing quite a force of Wheatly the trio pleaded not guilty to the accusations. After listening to each one in turn, Mayor Chad wick bound them over to Recorder's Court under bonds of fifty dollars a piece. George Taylor's home was search ed on the night Of the sixteenth of Although, a. highlander. by birth,. S. O. . Huffman since he moved to Wett Beaufort a. few years ago. has assim ilated much of the spirit of this sea-coast town. Monday morning he drove up to ' the curb on Front Street in his buggy and an chored hU steed with three bricks fastened together with wire. Old Dobbin remained there like a ship at anchor until his owner came to drive him away. When the "an chor" is not in use it is car ried in the rear of the buggy. The scarcity of horses in this section caused by the ad vent of the automobile re sulted in the gradual passing of the old "hitchin' posts" and it was through the sheer in genuity of this man that he was able to emulate the sea men in this machine age by substituting an "anchor" for those relics of bygone years the "hitchin' posts." Beaufort Nine Lost To M. City Friday GAMfrAND FISH SURVEY STARTED Thirty One Counties Being .Surveyed, Cartert Among The Number is obvious that he is a victim of shell shock. This is the opinion of the sheriff. Mrs. Daek Johnson, of Mount Airy, N. C. read the description of May by chief Longest, Officer Hol- n-empton in one 01 me siaie payeis land an(j Deputy Sheriff GaskiK. and informed Sheriff Davis that the ! Chief Longest said that Taylor ac man is her brother who left home mitted them to the house and) when many years ago and that he had not they accjdently jostled against eac:i been heard from since. I tW hoard to hit to- It was stated in the last issue of i the News how Kempton had been liv- men in constructing and operating i ing in the woods near Davis and that the plant it will draw thousands of jhe was captured by Mr. I. S. Alli visitors who will spend much money! good and brought to town and turn- and will greatly advertise this sec tion. Fire Playing Havoc With Open Grounds The fire in the Open Grounds and the timber lands that border that tre mendous open place still continues to burn, mis nas Drougnt aevasta- ... fionfeT1pa tn hp wovked tion to much timber and death to jout on the roadg were handed out by ed over to the county officers. Sheriff Davis is trying to find a way to send Kempton back to the Soldiers' Home, as that institution will not pay for his transportation. ' Three Men Convicted On Liquor Charges gether. IBefore he could be stop ped, Taylor broke between four and a dozen pint bottles of liquor. Beales Sparrow's colored pool room was visited the same night by these officers and about five pints of whiskey were found in various con tainers and many more containers smelled of alcohol. On the twentieth of May these same officers called around at the home of Charles Suggs and relieved (Continued from, page four) many deer, bears, pheasants and otlv er wild game that has been finding refuge there. The Open Grounds was leased some time ago by the local Isaak Walton League for the purpose of conserving the wild animals and fowls and to add thereto any other species that would be necessary to convert it into a first-class game pre Judge Hill in Recorder's Court Tues day. They were both liquor cases. Another defendant was put under a suspended judgment. Charlie Suggs of Beaufort, middle aged Negro, charged with having liquor in his possession was convict ed and given a three months sen tence and required to pay the costs. serve. All ol these enons now seems !Hig place was raided not long ag0 by to have been spent in vain. i police officer3 Longest and Holland Beginning some twr weeks ago, tms'and Deputy Sheriff Gaskill. They fire has been burning ever since. The road through the Optn Grounds, which has been used by a goodly number of people in preference to the hard surfaced road, has been under mined by the fire and has caved in many places. It has burned some and endangers much more of the timber lands. If the wind continues to blow the way it has and no rain comes before long, there is no tell ing how terrible the final outcome of this forest fire will be. As yet, no one has been able to combat it successfully; and now District War den C. T. Jarvis, of Straits, is try ing to enlist more state aid. The News is informed by Messrs. Clyde Mason and Blakely Pond that they rode through many miles of the Open Grounds yesterday and that it was worse than they had any idea that it was. Several bridges have been buried, thousands of acres of I According to information furnish' ground b irned over, trees and bush-ed the News by U. S. Census Super- SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES ENDORSE SOLICITOR CLARK The Morehead City baseball team defeated the local nine 6 to 5 on the Morehead City field Friday after noon, it was a game in wmcn ootni participants played very good, and which featured the striking out of sixteen men by Dick Springle and a home run by him; to spectacular catches by Norman Skarren in the field; and a home run by Bill Skar ren. -It will be remembered by fans that n Dick Springle pitched a total of 26 games and won 24 of them during the summer of 1927. Both teams made a total of six errors each. Morehead City scored three runs in the first inning. Then no runs iwere scored until the third, when CV-adwick singled and Bill Skarren knocked one over the fence. Hatsell fanned, "Ticky" Willis followed with a single, went to second on a pass ed ball, and scored on Ralph Hassell's single. The lead was then taken by More head City until the opening of the eighth inning, when Springle hit a home run and cied the score 5 and 5. In the last of the eighth, Mcintosh singled for Morehead City and scor ed, on pinch-hitter Pake's double to right field. Beaufort failed to tally in the ninth inning, so the game end ed with a score of 5-6 in Morehead Citys' favor. This was the fourth game of the season; the home team has won two games and lost two. Springle join ed the nine, Friday for the first time of the season. Skarren and Hassell both made two hits each. Batteries Morehead City; Davis and Ball; Beaufort: Springle and Willis. Raleigh, May 26 Field work was instituted last week on a survey of game, fish and forest in Carteret County through a personal survey by M. W. Haynes, Game Survey Com missioner, and Clyde Mason the lo cal county warden. Mr. Haynes with his assistant Miss Thigpen of Tarboro, representing the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment maintained an office at the Da vis House where data was collected and compiled which they think will reveal the game, fish and forest con ditions of Carteret County. This survey Mr. Haynes is putting on in 31 counties of the state as a begin ner, but the official plans are to make a permanent future at regular intervals as Dart of the game, fish and forestry program. Details of the study were worked out under the supervision of Col. J. W. Harrelson, Director, and State Game Warden C H. England, with M. W. Haynes, of Tarboro, Edge combe County Warden, since the en actment of the State Game Law and student of game conditions, as field representative. As a basis for further study, the (Continued on page eight) MRS. FRANK KING INTERRED SUNDAY Victim of A'ltomobile Tragedy Laid To Ret In Presence of Large Crowd Fowl and Serpent Have Lively Fight Folks who admire the spunk the miniature bantam rooster will certainly regret that they were not present with Mr. Fred Mosher when he came upon a fight between a beau tiful Chinese cock preasant and an enormous rattlesnake out in the Open Grounds recently. Mr. Mosher was going along the road and heard a loud fracas in the bushes near by. He stopped and in vestigated, because it sounded fright ful. The scene that met his eyes would have made an wonderful movie of the wilds. One of the particolor Chinese pheasants which were im Solicitor D. M. Clark spent several days in the county recently in the in terest of his campaign for the Demo cratic nomination for State Solicitor and expressed himself as confident that he would be renominated by a good majority. Mr! Clark was elect ed Solicitor four years ago winning the nomination over several oppon ents. On another page of this news paper will be found a number of let ters from Superior Court judges and others endorsing Solicitor Clark for another term. MOTORCYCLE THROWS DAN CHADW1CK OVER FENCE found some liquor buried in his yard and a quantity of empty containers. Beals Sparrow, colored, who runs a pool room was also raided by the officers and liquor was found there which Beals said he had for his own use. He was required to pay the ! Dan Chadwick, youngest son of costs and given four monts jail sen- Mayor and Mrs. C. T. Chadwick, is tence. George Taylor, a young Negro man who did not seem to know his own age, was accused of illegal pos session of liquor and convicted. George came from the North River section and has been living in Beau fort only a few months. The liquor fractured ankle, a cut cheek was found in his home and he con-1 minor lacerations and bruises. in the Potter Emergency Hosptial as a result of a motorcycle, which he was driving at a fast rate of peed, skid ding and throwing him over a fence into an adjoining field just this side of the Beacham farm on North Riv er Road. He sustained a compound and He The funeral exercises for Mrs. Frank King, who lost her life Sat urday morning in an automobile ac cident, were held Sunday afternoon in Ann street Methodist church. The Reverend R. F. Munns conducted the services in the church and Presiding Elder W. J. Patten assisted at the grave. Interment was in the family plot in Live Oak cemetery. The church auditorium and Sunday School room were filled with a crowd of rel atives and friends of the deceased. The hymns sung by the choir were Jesus Savior Pilot Me, One Sweetly Solemn Thought and O Love That Will Not Let Me Go. A solo One Sweetly Solemn Thought was render ed by Mr. M. Leslie Davis. At the grave, Jesus Lover of My Soul was sung by the choir. A profusion of beautiful floral designs covered the grave, lhe pall bearers active ana honorary were the following: Joseph House, W. V. B. Potter, Hal Potter, Jack Neal, W. H. Taylor, J. A. Hor naday, U. E. Swann, R. B. Wheatly, I. E.. Ramsey, W. P. Smith, T. M. Thomas Jr., C. T. Chadwick, C. H. JBushall, Aleck Norris, J. R. Jin nette, L. W. Hassell, W. A. Pierce, John Jones, J. P. Betts, C. R. Wheat ly, L. J. Noe Jr., J. H. Davis, Chas. Hatsell, W. L. Hatsell Sr., Howard Jones, Ben Jones, Roland Davis, C. V. Hill, C. W. Thomas, I. N. Moore, J. H. Potter Jr., Seth Gibbs, W. O. Noe. C. A. Clawson. Thos. Gibbs. of ! Sam Gibbs. Ben Gihhs. Mrs. King is survived by her hus band Mr. Frank King, a son Frank King Jr., who is 19 years old and is a student at the University of N. C, a brother Mr. W. F. Howland of Henderson and several cousins. Mrs. King was in her 49th year and was a native of Beaufort, the daughter of the late W. F. Howland and his wife Mrs. Orphie Lindsay Howland. She lived in Beaufort most of her life and was known and 4iked-by great many people in the town and in this sec tion. The accident in which Mr. King met her dath occurred Saturday ported into this section about two years ago, was attacking the ratler morning on State Highway number with surprising vigor and courage. 1 10 near La Grange. The car in The cock would dive in, take a peck at the snake, and then dart to one side. This he repeated time and a gain. The serpent when killed by Mr. Mosher had feathers in its mouth, showing that the pheasant was bitten. At the near approach of the man, the cock made a hasty retreat. Mr. Mosher has the hide of the rattler as a relic of the remarkable fight be tween the snake and cock pheasant. HARDWARE CONCERN SOLD The business known as the Marine Hardware Company, of Morehead City, was sold here Monday at noon under a foreclosure proceeding. It was bid in for $8050 by W. A. Mace of Beaufort. This includes the lease of the building. Cotinued on page two) ' is nowr getting along very well. CARTERET COUNTY'S POPULATION SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE TIDE TABLE Information ai. to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct and based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. 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. SCHOOL EXERCISES IN PROGRESS HERE es killed and probably nearly all liv ing creatures destroyed except such few as CDuld make their escape to other woods or swamps. MARRIAGE LICENSE Only one permit to wed has been issued fro mthe office of the Register of Deeds this week. Marcus Mason and Esther rence, Beaufort. visor D. P. Henry of New Bern the population of Carteret county is 16, 867. The census of 1920 gave .the population as 15,384 and the gain therefore in the county's inhabitants is 1,483 which is a gain of nearly ten percent. The figures by township and the total are given below: No. 1 Township 896 No. 2 Township 5,018 (including M. City 3,482.) Law-. No. 3 Township 1,22 I ( including Newport 481) No. 4 Township 4,005 (including Beaufort 2,943) No. 5 Township 929 No. 6 Township 447 No. 7 Township s 1,811 (including Atlantic) 680) No. 8 Township 97 No. 9 Township 361 Carteret Township 2 Cedar Island Township 332 Harkers Island Township 847 Harlowe Township 362 Marshallberg Township 533 Total $16,867 High Tide Low Tile Friday, May 30 9:23 A. M. 3:23 A. M. 9:48 P. M. 3:13 P. M. Saturday, May 31 10:18 A. M. 4:15 A. M. 10:43 P. M. 4:10 ? M- Sunday, Juna 1 11:01 A. M. 5:10 A. M. 11:18 P. M. 5:10 P. M. Monday, Juna 2 11:44 A. M. 6:07 A. M. 12:25 P. M. 6:18 P. M. Tuetdav. June 3 12:50 A. M. 7:07 A. M. 1:35 P. M. 7:31 P. M. Wednesday, June 4 1:57 A. M. 8:05 A. M. 2:45 P. lu. 8:45 P. M. Thursday, June 5 3:01 A. M. 9:03 A. M. 3:42 P. M. 9:53 P. M. Began Sunday With Baccalau reate Sermon; Will End Fri day Evening Some seven or eight hundred peo ple forgathered in the Beaufort High School auditorium at eleven o'clock Sunday morning for the occasion of the Baccalaureate Sermon, which was preached this year by the Rev. A. P. Stevens, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Morehead City. Two an thems were sung by the high school glee club and three hymns by the congregation. Mrs. John Brooks rendered a solo. The Rev. R. F. Munns gave the invocation, read th? scripture lesson, and introduced the Reverend Mr. Stevens. For some forty short minutes the visiting minister spoke to the gradu ating class and to the congregation on "The Power of a Vision." He took his text from the eighteenth verse of the twenty-ninth chapter of Proverbs: "Where there is no vision, Continued on page five which she was riding was driven by Mrs. John Abernethy. The other occupants of it were Mr. W. A. Mace of Beaufort and his sister Mrs. Eric Abernethy of Chapel Hill. Mr,s. King intended to leave the party at Goldsboro and go to Henderson to visit her brother Mr. Howland. In some way or other Mrs. Abernethy lost control of the car and it turned over and caught on fire. All of the occupants managed to get out ex cept Mrs. King w-ho collapsed from shock and fell back in the car while the others were trying to get her out. She was burned somewhat but it is believed that she died from heart failure. C oroner F. A. Garner of Kinston came to the scene of the wreck and stated that it was his opinion that she died from shock. The others in the car suffered minor injuries. CONSERVATION PICTURES WILL BE SHOWN TUESDAY The forest, game, and fish pictures orf the State Department of Conser vation and Development will be shown in Carteret County next week in the following places: Morehead City Monday, Beaufort Tuesday,'". Davis, Wednesday, Smyrna Thurs day, Newport Friday. All of these will be held in the school houses in these places at eight o'clock, except Morehead City where it will be held in the City Hall and Beaufort which will be held in the Court House. Th'-' admission will be free. BIRTH OF INFANT Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Caf frey Tuesday, a son. DARE COUNTY MAKES HIGH RECORD IN PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTENDANCE (State Superintendent Public Instruction) Raleigh, May 26 School atten dance by white and colored children in the county systems varies widely from 93.2 per cent in Dare County to 62.4 per cent in Scotland County for white pupils, and from 92.5 per I cent in Wilkes County to 50.6 per cent in Halifax County for colored pupils according to the current is sue of State School Facts, publica tion of the State Department of Pub lic Instruction. It is interesting to note from 1 Dare County has made the highest record for three of the past six years in ivxi-Zi witn i.t per cent in 1926-27 with 92.9 per cent, and last year, 1928-29, with 93.2 per cent. Carteret, Northampton and Camden school children made ' the best school attendance record for the other three years, 1924-25, 1925-26, and 1927-28, respectively. During the year 1928-29, the year for which attendance figures are pre-N sented in detail by School Parts, two counties, Dare and Camden, made an average of more than 90 per cent Srhcol Facts that in the matter of 1 in white school attendance, 16 coun School attendance of white children I (Continued on pngo five) "I il I I 99G
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