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The Mews AUFO The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. ( READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXEl E IS TO THE BODY j WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XIX 10 PAGES THIS WEEK Br THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOB o 1930 . PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 33 COURT CONVENES MONDAY MORNING One Week Term of Superior Court Has Large Civil And Criminal Dockets Eight Carteret Farmers Trying New Truck Crop Superior Court will convene here Monday morning, October 13, for a one-week term of mixed trials. Judge Clayton Moore, of Williamston, will preside, while Solicitor D. M. Clark, of Greenville, will represent the state. At this time only one man is in the county jail awaiting trial; he is Ruf us Gray, of Atlantic, who is charged with cattle stealing along with Chas. W. Willis of the same community. They made two escapes from jail. The first time they returned on the following day and gave themselves up but the second time they took "French" leave they forged a check for seven dollars at Whiteville and tried to repeat the forgery in Laurin burg but were caught. Willis is now being held in Scotland County jail on the forgery charge, while Grey was brought back here. An endeavor is being made to get Willis here to stand trial with Grey for the cattle stealing. Perhaps what the people throuhout the county will be most interested in will be the civil action brought by the county against Luther Hamilton, former county attorney. During his tenure of office he collected many thousand dollars worth of tax certi ficates, but the county alleges that he never turned over any of the penal ties along with the tax certificate money. Sometime ago Mr. Hamilton was asked by the county to give an account of the penalties, but he refus ed to do this. So the county is bringing suit against him to get him to divulge the desired information This trial is scheduled for Thursday. There are thirty-six cases on the criminal docket that will come up for trial Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day. The various defendants and their charges are as follows: Clement M. Willis, abandonment; Wilber Tay lor, larceny; Fred Lloyd, larceny and damage to personal property; Mrs. Jennie Lewis or Mrs. J. E. Lewis, Sci Fae; R. M. Gaskill, violation of the prohibition law; Geraldine Oaksmith, Sci Fae; Bennie Martin, violation prohibition law; J. W. Browden, a bandonment; J. J. Day, assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill; Thornton Darling, larceny of auto mobile; G. W. Baker, worthless check Owen Cottle, abandonment; William Ward, Larceny; John Lee, breaking and entering a store; Alex Becton and G. Washintgon Jones,, violating prohibition law; Jessie Grennshaw, and Florence Jorden, assault with deadly weapon ; Jessie Grenshaw,- pros titution and vagrancy; Florence Jor dan, search warrant for intoxicating liquors; Florence Jordan, prostitu tion; Frances Jordan and Jessie Gren shaw, violating prohibition law; E. H. Allan, violating prohibition law and prostitution; James L. Winton or J. , G. Isely, forgery; Charles R. Powers, assault on female; Jeff and Mutt Simpson, entering and larceny; J. R. Piland, worthless check; Charles W. .Willis, larceny; Rufus Gray, larceny; Alfred Wilson and George Fuller, as sault on female; J. L. Willis, violat ion barber1 rules-. Mary E. Guthrie, cruelty to animals; W. F. Bell, worth less check ; Willie Willis, breaking and entering and larceny; and Chas. Krouse, false pretense. CIVIL CASES Thunday, October 16th Fifty-five acres ofbroccoll, a vege. table that has never before been rais in Carteret County, has now been planted by eight farmers on contract as an experiment in the line of truck farming. A Virginia firm is backing the farmers in planting this; the seed, nitrate of soda, one-half of the fertilizer nad one-half the harvesting labor will be furnished by the firm. The farmers will plant the crop and get one half of the profits. About forty carloads of broccoli, will be shipped if the crop turns out even moderately well provided the price justifies it; heretofore broccoli has sold well. The firm intends to have some buyers here in February, when the crop comes off, to handle the ship ping. K. W. Wright has been appont- ed to look out for the interests of the farmers. February is a go-between month in farming in Carteret County; at that time there is nothing leaving the county that will bring in revenue. By experimenting with broccoli, which has been successfully raised elsewhere in Eastern Carolina, the farmers will likely add another rather lucrative crop to those they have been raising. Last year there were carloads of this vegetable from Eastern Carolina that sold for as much as seven hundred dollars a car; so the addition of this kind of crop if it pans out well will likely mean thousands of dollars more money earned each year by the farm ers. Those farmers who are experiment ing with this crop now and the num bers of acres devoted to it, are: W. S. Savage, 20 acres; G. W. Huntley, 15; K. W. Wright, 10; D. S. Oglesby, 4; W. C. Willett, 3; George Oglesby 2 ; Luther Thomas, 1 ; C. T. Oglesby, 1. Cotton Growers Should "Not Rush Their Crop To Market McLean Advises Holding Cotton For Better Prices; State Fair Next Week; Hundred Miles of Roads May Be Added To State System M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleigh, Oct., 7 Cotton growers of North Carolina are unwise to rush their ctton to the market now, there by causing a "glut" and further tend ing to depress the price, when sev eral ways are open to them to real ize the funds needed to meet their Pritchard Will Speak In New Bern Tuesday Interest in politics in Carteret county seems to have increased great lv in fhp Inst, fpw Hflva. Fnr a while pressing debts and with promise of jthere seemed to be a lack of interest better prices later, former Governor b t nQW political discussions on the A TIT "1 T ! A. - i i i A. W. McLean said in a statement here last week. He also advises growers, who plan to hold their cotton, not to leave it on the stalk in the field to damage from weather, but to pick and store it until they are ready to sell. This makes it impossible for them to pay their debts and prevents them from .Republicans are to hold a meeting at obtaining credit in the future Governor McLean, himself a cotton grower, points out that the producer can put his cotton in a seasonal pool be held next week From a Reput, Beaufort Youth Faces Safe-Cracking Charge No. 72. 73. 112. BO. 53. 04. 81. 84. 83. 85. 94. 96. 107. 87. 68. 121. 122. Smith vs Willis Seafood Co. Ni-lson vs Willis Seafood Co. County vs Hamilton. Ayer vs Br ice Heirs. N'oe vs Dey. U. S. F. and G. vs Atlantic Beach Inc. Carteret Supply Co., vs Dr. Bonner. Killingsworth vs Whitford. Friday, October 17th Gwattney vs Garner Adms. Wales vs Oaksmith. Chadwick vs Fidelity and Guaranty. Snowden vs Whitehurst. Oglesby vs B. P. Gray. Rose vs Yeomans. M. City vs Royal. Bc,7gs vs Willis. Cicero Goodwin vs J. J. Day. Dennis Goodwin vs J. J. Day. Mcivin Styron vs J. J. Day. Eugene Koonce vs J. J. Day. Saturday, October 18th MOTIONS Freeman vs Smith. Willis vSxWillis. Portsmouth Fisheries vs New port Fisheries. Standard Oil vs Newport Fish eries. Morgan vs Blades. Last Thursday night Paul's Gar age was entered and the safe brok en open and robbed of approximately one hundred and seventy-five dollars, a considerable portion of which was gold. Willie Willis, seventeen-year old local youth, after having been traced through the gold coin, is said to have admitted entering the garage, forcing the safe and taking the mon ey therefrom. He said, it is alleged, that the deed was perpetrated during the earlier part of the night. rriday morning the police were summoned by Halsey Paul, who had discovered the thievery upon opening the garage that morning. Garage and machine shop tools had been used on the job. The dial and handle had been knocked from the safe and the tumblers monkeyed with by the use of a paper knife and a piece of wire, After the first door was opened, an eight-pound sledge hammer was used on the second door until it opened wide enough at the side to admit a pry. Although the gold coin and other money were taken, fourteen sil ver dollars that were under some pa pers were left behind. The police informed all the banks in Carteret county to be on the look out for any one presenting gold coin. i"iday afternoon there was a call from the Bank of Morehead Citv and when the local police responded, they learned mat young Willis had tried to get other money for forty-five dol lars in gold. Jimmy Willis, chief of police of that city, arrested Willis and turned him over to Chief Longest who brought him here. About a fourth of the stolen money was re covered. Police Court was recovered am according to the evidence Willie Wil. lis was held for Superior Court on the charge of grand larceny under five-hundre'd-dollar bond. No one gave Donci so he was being held in the n i-.. ! . i r. . .uuiii.y j;iu uniu superior Lourt con venes next week. But Sunday after noon about dusky-dark Sheriff Stan ford Gaskill, the jailer, let Young Willis and another prisoner out of their respective cells in the room for a little exercise. They were playing with a small puppy; Willie made a lunge at the puppy and darted out of the door and over the fence sur rounding the jail and disappeared in the gathering shadows At the time of this writing nothing has been learn ed of the whereabouts of Young Willis. of the Cotton Cooperative Association and receive nine cents a pound ad-1 vance (later said to have been reduc ed to seven cents) ; store it in a Fed eral warehouse and receive money from the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks at 4 per cent interest; or bor row from the member banks of the Federal Reserve Banking system on stored cottno. He mentioned the 1,300,000 bales of cotton, now owned by the Cotton Stabilising Corporation, which is de finitely withdrawn from the market until it reaches the price paid for it, more than 16 cents a pound. This will have a stabilizing influence on the price, and if growers use any of the methods at their disposal the cot ton can be marketed gradually at higher prices, he said. -j (Continued on page seven) ; streets and elsewhere are frequent occurrences. The Republican speaking campaign started at Marshallberg September 26 and since then there have been meet ings at Otway, Bogue and Williston. The Democrats have not begun their speaking campagin yet. Tonight the Davis, tomorrow night at Newport and Saturday evening at'Harker's Is land. A number of meetings are to lican standpoint the biggest coming event will be Tuesday night when Congressman George M. Pritchard is scheduled to speak in New Bern. The fact that New Bern is the home of Senator Simmons adds to the interest of the occasion. A large delegation will go from Carteret county so the leaders here say. Registration books for the election opened last Saturday and will be open for three more Saturdays. Newcom ers to the county and persons who have become of age since the last reg istration will have to put their names on the books if they wish to vote. The Australian ballot system will be used in the election this time and sample ballots are being distributed in order that the voters may familiarize them selves with the new method of voting. Home Agent Progresses In Demonstration Work t Last Thursday the women's club of Core Creek met at the home of Mrs. E. D. Hardesty for the grape demonstration by Miss Virginia Sloan Home Agent. They made grape juice, spiced grapes and grape pre serves. Mrs. Hardesty and her daugh ter Miss Nina have been canning fruits and vegetables this summer for winter consumption. They have put up around five hundred cans and a hundred and fifty jars of fruits and vegetables. By canning these, the Hardesty's will have to buy little ex cept flour, sugar, coffee, etc., says Miss Sloan. Friday a number of home visits were made by the home agent. Saturday Miss Sloan, at the insti gation of Mrs. Estelle Smith, super visor of this district, went to Golds boro to visit the curb market. This market is a place operated by the farm folks for selling their various commodities. These products are in spected before they can be sold there. Home Agents from other eastern counties were present for the demon stration. Monday Miss Sloan inspected the school cafeterias in Robeson County which she started two years ago. Cafeterias may be started in the var ious schools in the county sometime in the future so that the pupils that would otherwise eat cold lunches would be able to have warm ones. The remodeling of last years dresses, hats and cots will be begun this week in some of the clubs. The object of this is to enable the club members to be inexpensively well- dressed. CARTERET HAS BLIND FARMER Little Business Done In Recorder's Court Probably the shortest session of Recorder's Court that has occurred in a good many weeks was held Tuesday. No case was actually tried although a few were gotten off the docket. Herman Bell of New Bern on a bad check charge got off with the costs, he having agreed to pay the amount due the prosecuting witness. The case against Norman Lucas and J. A. Lucas charging sale of mort gaged property was continued again. One of the defendants has skipped his, bond and not been apprehended yet. Rogers Murray, colored, charged with assault on a female, with a deadly weapon got off by agreeing to pay the costs. Lizzie Stewart the prosecuting witness, who the defend ant said is a sister in the church, consented to withdraw the warrant. Murray was charged with assaulting her with a pot but it did not appear that any serious damage was done. McCauley Butler, a Harnett county man, charged with giving a bad check for some fish failed to show up and his bond was called out. Commissioners Attend To Routine Business Morehead Clergyman Lands Large Trout One of the largest grey trout ever caught in this vicinity on a rod and reel was landed at the Morehead City channel highway bridge Monday by the Reverend B. B. Slaughter, who was accompanied on the fishing ex cursion by the Reverend W. B. Ever ett, both of Morehead City. The monstrous fish weighed nine pounds and four ounces. They also caught three other large grey trout that were not weighed but each would have probably have tipped the scales at six or seven pounds each. A good many fish have been caught hereabouts this summer in a sport ing way. Rarely if ever is the More head City segment of the highway bridge free of anglers; often there are as many a score fishing there. The sport has been at least par at all the fishing grounds around here since late last Spring. All varieties of fish have been caught by the sports men, from the lowly toad-fish to the more desirable trout and other large fish. Other catchers of large fish this summer and the weights of the Superior Court convenes here next tches T as follows: Fred Mosher, week and there will be no session of Recorder's court until October 21. Displayed Affections Bring Belle Sentence five-pound-two-ounce black bass; R. R. Henderson, six-pound-one-ounce black bass; Capt. John M. Dickinson, forty-five-pound channel bass; R. R. Henderson, eight-pound-two-ounce black bass; Mrs. R. B. Bunch, seven-pound-four-ounce grey trout. CITY COMMISSIONERS DID NOT HOLD MEETING MONDAY Adaline Benson, buxom colored belle, was haled into Police Court Friday afternoon to tell her tale of woe. She was arraigned before Mayor C. T. Chadwick on the dual charges of being both drunk and dis orderly; however she denied being in ebriated but agreed to the disorder ly part. She said that on the evening in question she went to visit hur erst while friend, Irene Debix. It was a jolly crowd at Irene's, it seemed, until the latter chose to sit in the lap of a young fellow that at one time had been the sport of Ada line. Then Adaline went around and tried to sit on the young man's knee, but Irene seriously objected. A free-for-all battle ensued, with Irene's mother and father aiding and abet ting, said Adaline. After she wound up her incoherent narrative, Mayor Chadwick warned her against trying to entice Irenes beaux away from her. Adaline seemed to think that all is fair in love and war. She received a Norfolk Officers Hold. Notorious Local Negro As The regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners Monday was a rather quiet affair. Only a few people dropped in with requests for something or other to be done and the business transacted was of a routine nature. The three members of the board, C. H. Bushall, S. D. Ed wards and Norman Gaskill were all present. The County Board of Education, Wiley H. Taylor, C. V. Webb, Den nis Mason and Superintendent J. H. Workman paid a visit to the board, as they do from time to time, and asked for money to pay the teachers. However the money was not forth coming. Mr. Umstead, representing C. F. Delamar public accountant, present ed a report on the recent audit. It was accepted and ordered filed. A resolution in regard to tax sales certificates was adopted in which chairman Bushall was authorized to assign tax certificates when necessary to do so. The report of County Welfare Agent Mrs. F. C. Salisbury was re ceived and ordered filed. Mrs. Maggie Salter came before the board and asked that an allowance be made her mother Mrs. Sabra J. Salt er for taxes. The taxes amount to about $17. The board took the matter under consideration and fin ally decided to allow the amount from the Poor Fund. Mrs. S. L. Nelson of Chicago, for merly of Carteret county, asked for a lower valuation on some property she owns in Morehead township. The matter was referred to County Audi tor Plint for investigation. Some bills were audited and ordered paid as soon as possible and the board re cessed subject to the call of the chairman. Man Lost Eyesight in Dynamite Explosion Abut Three Years Ago Ordinarily when a man loses his eyesight, he loses his usefulness and capacity to look out for himself and his family. This is not true of C. T. Oglesby, of Crab Point, whose eyes were lost about two years ago when some dynamite caps accidently explod ed. He was then in his early thirties and had a wife and two boys, one a bout nine years old and the other a bout ten. At the time of the acci dent occurred he and his brother were jointly farming around two hundred acres of excellent farming land. Half of that number of acres were a little more than he could handle, so he rented out all but about ten acres. On this parcel of soil, with the untiring aid of his wife and two young sons he has ben able to make a good livelihood. Mr. Oglesby is able, although he is stone blind, to do a portion of almost all of the many kinds of work on his farm. Only this week he was out in the field digging his sweet potatoes. Mr. Oglesby is a very energetic man who is fairly teeming with am bition no other kind of a man could work a farm under the handicap of blindness. Mrs. Oglesby is far above the average farmwife in that she helps her husband and sons in all of their endeavors in addition to run ning her home and canning a goodly portion of vegetables and fruits for winter consumption. Since the lack of eyesight keeps Mr. Oglesby from doing some of the more strenuous farm work, he has branched out into some other agri cultural lines. His is largely a truck farm, but he has now started in the poultry business. A large modern poultry house has just been complet ed. He has around two hundred handsome white leghorn and Rhode Island Red pullets that are now be gining to lay. Mr. Oglesby does all of the looking after thein, including feeding them both their regular feed and cutting rape and other green stuff, and waters them. The Oglesbys also have some hogs and other livestock; these are fed with home-raised feed. This year they have raised about two acres of cotton, some tomatoes, peppers, wat ermelons, cantaloupes, snap beans, Ford Hook lima beans, potatoes, soy beans, cor nand other trucking and feed crops. In his new life in the darkness, Mr. Oglesby finds little time to think and talk about "hard times." By his own energy, ambition and persever ance, coupled with the untiring "stick ability" of his wife and two sons, he is able to wring a very good living from Nature, while more fortunate men are idling around the cross-road store or in town magnifying a per iodical business depression into "hard times." a result of various am; sundry crimes committed nereaoouis, i.ioy l Fendcnon was sent over a year an') to the State criminal insane hospital. But he was too fickle for them to hold him very long. Only a short while elapsed before he showed up in this community. The county of- irficials took him up and placed him in jail, but that also was not enough to nld Fenderson. The vouner col- nrorl fpllow is notoriously known fori" in operation. his slick escapes. His whereabouts was not known to the sheriff for months. Twice since his escape he has returned to Carter- Tobacco Growers Will Hold Another Meeting REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Percy L. Hoag to Bogue Sound Corp. 4 acres Morehead Township, for $10. P. L. Hoag to Bogue Sound Corp., 1-2 acre Morehead Township, for $10. et County for short, hasty visits, but the officers were never able to catch up with him. About amont h ago he paid the county a flying visit and when he left, a Chevrolet coupe own- sentence of two-fifty and costs or five led by the Beauofrt Grocery company days in the lock-up as a result of j was missed by the owners, trying to sit on ths young fellow's A few days ago Sheriff Davis had a knee. message from the Norfolk, Virginia, Willis Fulford. colored man. ad-'officers stating that Fenderson had On account of being unable to get enough members for a quorum, the city Board of Commissioners were unable to hold their regular monthly mitte(j tj,e charge of drunkenness, dis-'been caught there housebreaking and meeting last irionuay. ine meeting was deferred until two o'clock Mon day, October 13. orderly conduct and fighting on the! that the Beaufort Grocery Company's Continued on page five I (Continued on page five) Carteret County tobacco growers will meet again at 3:00 o'clock Fri day afternoon at the theatre in New port for the purpose of discussing and signing the new contract. When a farmer signs this contract he agrees to turn his first tobacco crop over to the state association the first year it A certain number of pounds will have to be pledged be fore the organization will begin to function. If it does not begin to work before May 1, 1932, the farm ers will be relieved automatically of the significance of their signatures. Carteret farmers are anxious to find some way of profitably market ing their tobacco crop, but they are somewhat cautious as to the means of disposing of it. They have now about reached the conclusion that it will be best to sell the crop this year at the best prices available. . Three members in each communi- Jty will be appointed to get the sig natures on the contracts and a coun ty secretary will be appointed. 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. High Tide Low Tide Friday. Oct. 10 9:11 A. M. 9:27 P. M. Saturday, Oct. 9:47 A. M. 10:05 P. M. Sunday, Oct. 10:31 A. M. 10:52 P. M. Monday, Oct. 11:01 A. M. 11:26 P. M. Tuesday, Oct. 11:48 A. M. 12:30 P. M. 2 :53 A. M. 3:31 P. M. 11 3:26 A. 4:15 P. 12 4:07 5:04 13 4:56 6:00 14 5:58 7:05 M. M. A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M. Wedneday, Oct 14 1:00 A. M. 1:15 P. M. Thurtday, Oct. 2:23 A. M. 3:00 P. M. 7:02 8:12 16 8:18 M. M. M. M. A. M. 9:19 P. M,