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J?? mmoushu I HE 1 SMsiinsMBjiiSw tt it V f II 11 la ffce best advertisins medium published in Cartel et Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BO ) WATCH Your label and pay your subscription i VOLUME XXIII EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934 - 2 UU ESc SINGLE COPY NUMBER 33 MILEAGE GREATER IN STATE SYSTEM Considerable Increase Since 1930; Carteret County Has Increase Also By M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleieh. Aug. 1 . Carteret coun- Goose Killing Bobcat Caught In Steel Trap A large wild cat, bob cat or lynx, as yau may prefer to call it, was on ex hibition yesterday at the front door of the Carteret Hardware Company's place of business and attracted a good deal of attention. The animal which was about four feet Ions? and well provided with teeth and claws, SEVERAL GIVEN iNORTH CAROLINA ROAD SENTENCES Judgment Suspended In Two Cases; Will Moore Takes An Appeal CROPS LOOK GOOD! 'City Budge, Adopted JMANTEO IS HAVING Ana 1 ax ivaie r ixeu Road sentences were g!.en to three defendants in Recorder's Court ty had 82.2 miles of State highways, was dead and therelore couui Deuesclay by Judge. Webb. However and 186.5 miles of county roadi 0U closely inspected. It was of a tawny, jtwo of these were suspended on cer July 1, 1931, according to a survey grayish color with some short stripes, tain conditions and the third gave made by the State Highway and At this season of the year the fur of notice of an appeal to Superior Public Works Commission, at SOS the bob cat is not so pretty as in : Court. pared with 32.1 miles of State high-, winter. Charlie Phillips indicted on the Excellent; Prices Good Also The Board of Commissioners of the town of Beaufort held an adjourned Cotton, Tobacco and Corn Aren Thursday night the 9th and ! F.,rlUnt. Prim Are t that time adopted the bi dget for the new fiscal year and hxed the tax rate. The budget was not quite By M. R. DUNNAGAN iready for publication and will be Raleigh, Aug. 14-North Carolina, Polished next week The tax rate but for an unexpected trick of fate i' fixtd 1-20' he same rt wa3 will (lo-iiin ho "sittinor on ton of the last 'ear ..... - - o - . world" when the fall crops are gath ways and zu-l.Z miles oi county roads of of June 30, 1930. Some of the county roads have been taken in to the State system. In most counties an mileage in both State l aptain John Mason wno is employ- u-hanre of drivins- a car while under ed at the Perquimans Plantation on the jnfluence of liquor plead guilty. South River found that some animal jchief of Police Longest testified that had killNone of a flock of geese and iphillins drove his car alonir Front IU 1 rr n 4-i.nn unl inv- ... .. i increase in lel- llic "l,u- "c oct v"" street in a very erratic manner ana and county .cealed it under some grass near the that he was vw.y drunk Judge Webb Those present at the meeting were ered and sold and the farmers total " L TT"""' hp summer's plover, Lt is anu ivum.c,. jNoyer, Hugh Hill, and V highways is shown, but in some in stance there is a shrinkage. This does not mean that some roads have not been added during the four-year period, but in many cases it was found that the 1930 survey of coun ty roads, made in preparation for the State to take over county roads for maintenance, was inaccurate. In some cases roads were recorded that did not exist at all. The changes made since then have made the fig ures more accurate, but some mileage has been added in most counties, dead goose and! next morning wnen gave him a sentence of four months he came back he found a very muchjto be served w;tn jhe State highway alive and tngry cat in thetrap. The , forces, tne same to ke SUSDended on animal was shot and an end put to nAvmpnt nf rosfs na nromise tn be or any He car his depredations on geese thing else. There ahe said to be a good many bob cats in the swamps and woods of this county. They are extremely Sly creatures itnu ic taicijr citi ... ... , , n seen by a human being. Clyde Mason while L ? T ' Atlnfi,. u,Vi tnnwa a lot about iiu"'"" v. - v I .1 U n nAD4a omH nov TI9 uaiiL a pacing vvoko ojiu "o of good behavior for two years, was also forbidden to drive a for the next 90 days. A plea of guilty was entered for Ed Denton of Raleigh to the charge of wild animals, says he once found a laree deer which had only a short t c . o it- tibe been killed by a bob cat and In the State system as a whole it ' . . j w is shown that the present mileage is 10,551.25, an addition of 1,603.45 miles to the 8,920.80 making up the system in 1930. The 10,551.25 in the present system includes 296.06 miles which are within incorporated towns and cities, forming a part of the. State system but not maintained by the State. The cities and towns main tain this as city streets. In the 100 county systems are 46, 751.1 miles, of which 1,659.2 miles have been added to the 45,091.9 miles added form a net gain, for, as stated, numbers of miles have been dropped in the four years, because of inaccurate information. This survey, made at the request of Governor Gardnei-, was made by the State Highway Commission, the State Tax Commission and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, and the information was furnished by county oliicials of the various counties. Among the larger counties, Wake had 169.8 miles of State and 1066.2 miles of county roads four years ago and now has 226.6 miles of State and 1073.2 miles of county roads; Guil ford had 169.1 miles of State and 991.7 miles of county roads in 1930 and now has 195.5 miles of State and 1038 miles of county roads; Mecklenburg had 160.3 mile-s of State and 573 miles of county roads in 1930 and now has 174.36 miles of State and 646.82 miles of county roads; Buncombe had 103.4 miles of State and 812.5 miles of county roads in 1930 and now has 180.4 miles of Slate and 906.2 miles of county roads. that some days afterwards he killed a cat five feet in length which he thinks was probably the one that had killed the deer. SNAKE SWALLOWS DOOR KNOB THINKING IT WAS AN EGG John T. Small, popularly known as "Smoker," Beaufort R. F. D. had a chicken snake experience last week similar to one he had a year or so ago. On going out to his hen house he discovered a large snake coiled up in one of the nests. With the assist ance of Mrs. Small the snake was killed and when measured proved to be a six foot chicken snake. Inside of the snake a door knob was found which had been put in the nest for a nest egg. Another door knob which was in the nest had disappeared and this was probably taken off by an other snake who no doubt has found it rather indigestible. When the News published the first story about a year or so ago about the snake's swallowing the door knob Mr. Small said some persons expressed some doubt about the truth nf thp statement. This time Mr. Small ' -.1. I . 1 1- H.SiL A r. r. L-nk SI1UWCU LllC Bllttlte Wlbll klic u w w i niiuu inside of it to one of his neighbors who will vouch for the truthfulness of the story. costs and for damages done a telephone pole in Morehead City, estimated to be a bout $75. He also lost his job at At lantic Beach where he had been working. Will Moore Willis nlead not guilty to the charge of an assault on a fe-l up their receipts for work. This State had reduced during the past few years its cotton crop to a large extent, particularly asa result of the "live-at-home" campaign of Governor Gardner, and had turned to food and feed crops. Some slight reduction was also made in the to bacco and peanut crops, before the AAA reductions were made. At this time the cotton and. tobac co crops are excellent, and but forj an act of providence, the fields set to those crops will produce abundant ly. Reports that cotton is expected to be much larger in production gen erally than was permitted under the AAA, is expected to benefit this State materially, as it has an excel lent crop, probably even more than the AAA rules allow, and may be able to sell the entire crop at the pre vailing prices, rather than have to pay one-third of the excess as a pen alty for over-production. BIG CELEBRATION Birthday Day of Virginia Dare Honored ; uovernors of Vir ginia And N. C. to be There And tobacco, that golden weed, male, his wife, but was convicetd on now selling at an average oiarounu the testimony of Mrs. Willis, his to zi cents a pouna, w.u uru.g m daughter Mrs. Vannie Willis and son Alvin. From the evidence it appeared that relations between the defendant and his family have been rather un satisfactory for some time and he accused them of "framing" him up. They said! that Willis takes dope of one sort and another and when under its influence gives them trouble. He a golden stream to the tobacco-grow ing sections, even exceeding that of last year, after the price agreement had been reached. Present prices are almost twice those of the opening last year. Moreover, truck and fruits produc ed in numbers of counties of the State have been and are bringing denied taking the dope and said his good prices, as compared with those P. Smith came before the board with reference to proposed harbor improvements for Beaufort. There was considerable discussion of the matter and Mayor Tavlor was asked to see Senator Bailey and arrange for a conference between him and a committee repre senting tha town. As stated in the News last week there is a plan on foot to have the sea wall in front of town raised high enough to prevent tides overflowing it and bringing sand into the harbor. It is also desired to have sand now in the harbor removed and thrown back of the seawall. Those who dis cussed the matter said that if needed improvements should be made Beau fort would have a tine landlocked harbor. A motion offered by Commission er Rumley, and passed, appointed a committee composed of Messrs. Gibbs, King and Lewis to work out a tariff for charges at the city docks. An or dinance was adopted to prevent cars from parking at the foot of Turner and Craven streets. A motion offered by Commission er Rumley to allow $50 for expenses of delegates to the State Firemen's Tournament was passed. On motion of Commissioner Gibbs, the matter of buying a new car for the police de pyartment was deferred. The budget wa3 adopted and the board! recessed to meet at the call of the Mayor. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS BILLY SUNDAY GROUP AT METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY J. W. Pelletier Sons to Myrtle and Bertha Pelletier, 15 acres White Oak Township, for $100. J. W. Pelletier Sons to Myrjfc and Bertha T. Pelletier, 10 acres White Oak Township, for $25. J. W. Pelletier Sor.j to Myrtle T. Pelletier, 30 acres Whit; Oak Town ship, for $250. J. W. Pelletier Sons to M.-:-tle and Bertha T. Pelletit. 40 acres, White Oak Township, for $300. Interstate Cooperage Co., to E. F. Middleton Inc., tract Carolina City, for $3000. T. D. Webb and wifet o John Mon roe, 1 lot Morehead City, for $80. Plymouth Willis and wife to D. F. Willis and wife, 1 lot City, for $1. Richard F. Salter to C. The Billy Sunday Evangelistic Party of Winston-Salem will hold the service at the Methodist church next Sunday morning at 11:00. These men come to us highly recommended. They nr? pcying their own expenses a::J iv'.n.T their time and talent out ?f a di .!:e to serve. The people of iho ov.:i and community are cordially inv'tcd to ettend these services. The V.isai:on Bible School of the :.!;thcdb: Suaujy School will begin next Mo.i.'ay r.iorning at the Metho dist Church. The school will be u.i t! or th: leadership of Mr. J. B. Ben nett win will be ably assisted by a choir of splendid teachers from the primary and Junior departments of the school. LEFFIE DAVIS APPEALS FROM COURT SENTENCE (New Bern Sun Journal) Found guilty of reckless and care- Morehead less drivine and also drivine on the left side of the road, Leffle Davis, of A. Middle-.Beaufort, was sentenced in Recorder's brook, 29.7 acres, Straits Township, Court Tuesday by Judge Henry P. for $10. Whitehurst to 60 days on the roads, Clara Babbitt et al to Otway B. suspended upon payment of $75 and Davis, tract, Smyrna Township, for costs. He took an appeal to superior wife attacked him and that he mere ly tried to defend himself. He was given a sentence of four months on the roads from which he gave notice of an appeal. Bond of $200 was re quired. Henry Elrod, middle aged colored man from Morehead City was tried for having liquor in his possession for the purpose of sale. He said he had it for his own use but police of ficers Peletier, Salter and Wiilis said he had the reputation of being a "pint' bootlegger and the court found of former years. Apparently the low prices of potatoes brought, hurting growers in the "northeastern section of the State, is the only complaint North Carolina growers will have this year, if a kind Providence continues to be considerate, and in contrast to the direful conditions that exist in other parts of the country. On top of all this, North Carolina growers have been getting reduction and rental funds in abundance, $5, 014,608 having been distributed to tobacco growesr and $1,818,421 to cotton growers, in addition to CWA VESSEL LOSES HER MAST IN COLLISION AT DOCK) A collision Wednesday morning be tween the lumber freighter S. W. Somers of Washington, D. C, and Dorothy Leigh of the Norfolk, him guiLty- ?e W?S se.ntencd t0 and ERA funds, a nne oi zu ana costs, m arrange-, CBTteret count has received $12 ment was made to parole h,m .to.gg in tobaceo fun(J jn the t John T. Oglesby Jr of Crab Point to come to work out the sentence at $6.00 a week. Henry Hester of Morehead City, a colored man who has been in court several times, was tried on the charge of stealing clams from the bed of Amos Dudley also colored. Henry de nied the charge. The testimony was the that he was found coming from the direction of the clam bed at 3 o'clock in the morning with some clam3 in his skiff and the court decided he was guilty. He will have to work four months on the State road force. The case against H. E. Spencer charging him with reckless driving was continued. Gray Lewis charged with aiding and abetting Thos. Gillikin and Bon nie Piner with breaking and enter ing the store of O. W. Lewis of Ot way was continued to next Tuesday. -:OFF THE BAT: By A. R. RICE 'Baltimore and Carolina line resulted in a broken mast for the Somers. The accident happened at the foot of Craven street wherethe Somers about 400 people and this number i(J The past week's baseball play wit nessed the locals winning from New port Sunday, 13 to 0 and losing to Straits yesterday, Wednesday, 9 to 7. The first encounter saw the four hit llinging of Morris and th four base knocks each of Charles Hassell and Frank Rice. Morris fanned 14 and his rivals, Wilson and Mattox struck out just four while yielding 20 sameties. Willi3 caught for the winers and Da vis for the losers. Errors played the downfall of Beaufort in the Straits game, no less than seven being made. Pake and Cardwell chunked and Willis received for the home team and yielded 12 hits as against the 11 granted by Willis and Chadwick. Whitehurst caught. Sunday, Harkers Island plays here again to what is expected to be an other big turn-out of fans. Last Sun day the Newport game brought out Manteo, Roanoke Island, Aug 14 With the governors of North Caro lina and Virginia heading a list of distinguished honor guests, and a program of events every day, Roa noke Island is this week, August 12 19 celebrating the 350 anniversary of the birth of English civilization in America. The arrival, in 1584, of the Amadas and Barlowe Expedition. Governor George C. Perry, of Vir ginia, and Governor J. U if. tnring haus, of North Carolina, will join to gether on Saturday, August 18, in paying tribute, on the 347 birthday of Virginia Dare, the first child born to English parents in America, to the men and women of those first three expeditions, beginning with that of Amadas and Barlowe, in 1584, and ending, so tragically, with the "Lost Colony" in 1587. On Friday, the 17th, the Ameri- ;can Legion will sponsor Boat Races on Manteo Bay, and on Friday, Sat urday and Sunday nights, in a tre mendous amphitheatre being especi ally constructed on the shore at Fort Raleigh will be given a Historical Pageant of Roanoke Island, produced by the Harrintgon-Russell Studios, portraying the colonization period, from 1584 to 1587. For almost 50 years the birthday of Virginia Dare has been an occasion for celebration on the Island, but this year it will be of greater signi ficance, for it will be held at the new Fort Raleigh, restored, through the aid Emergency Relief Funds, as a re plica, as nearly as possible, and on the same site, of the Fort where Vir ginia Dare was born, and whence so mysteriously disappeared, the Lost ! Colony. On Sunday morning, dedication ex iercises wil be held in the small Epis copal Chapel which has been built to commemorate the religious life of the colony. At Fort Raleigh took place two important baptizings, that of the baby, Virginia Dare, on the 20th of August, 347 years ago, and that of the Indian, Manteo, on August 13, 1587, believed to be the first religious sacrament in the Protestant faith sol emnized in the new world. The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, of Wilmington, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina will have charge of the dedication service. VISITING MINISTERS At St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Sunday the eleven o'clock service will be conducted by the Reverend Arthur H. Marshall of Belhaven. Sunday, August 26, services will be conducted by the Very Reverend Is rael Harding Noe of Memphis, Tenn. The Holy Communion wil be celebrat ed both Sundays at 7:30 in the morning. was taking on a load of lumber be ing shipped by the Scarboro-Safrit Lumber Company. The Dorothy Leigh was backing out of the dock and in some way struck the boom of the Somers which caused the mast to break in three places. The accident did not prevent either boat from taking on cargo and leaving the har bor for their destinations. expected to be doubled for 'the Is land's battle. Beaufort plays at Straits tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Everton Ma son of Atlantic, Thursday, August 16. a daughter. ! More legumes are being grown this year than ever before. Exten sion Service leaders recommend leg umes for acres retired from cotton, tobacco, wheat or corn production. 110. CITY POLICE COURT Only four defendants wert tried m court, and bond was set at $150. His warrant came as the result of an accident on the .Morehead City highway below Croatan during a re cent week-end, when Misses Ada the City Police Court Monday night James and Sonora Moore and Charlie James, all of Greenville, were injur ed. Miss James sustained a broken ibone in the face and is still confined. Miss Moore and Mr. James were here Tuesday for the magistrate's hearing, in which Davis waived examination, and also for Recorder's Court. Two were sent to the Recorder's Court and th other two were given time on the c'ty streets. Charlie Piillips, charged with driving a car while drunk waa sent to Recorder's Court for trial. James Collins, young colored mac, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, a knife, was bound over to the higher court. Ellis Baxter, colored, drunkenness, was given ten days on the streets. Eugene Brooks was convicted of drunkenness and given the option ot, paying $5.00 or working 10 days on the streets. RECENTLY PLANTED OYSTER BEDS MAY BE CLOSED FOR TWO YEARS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING MINISTER SOON REVIVED Reverend R. W. Barfield, pastor of the M. E. church at Atlantic who was struck by lightning recently was in Beaufort Saturday and apparently none the worse for his experience. i While a thunder squall was in prog ress Mr. Barfield was in his home and was peeling a peach with a large knife. The lightning apparently struck him on the head and passed out of his arms. He was unconscious for a bout thirty minutes but was revived by hii wife and daughter who applied artificial respiration. At the time Mr. Barfield was struck a lamp sitting on a sewing ma- chine in the room was hit and burst. A church steeple about forty yards away was also hit by the lightning. HOLD CONFERENCE TONIGHT An engagement to ee Senator Bailey has been made for the harbor improvement committee for tonight at eight o'clock by Mayor Bayard Taylor. Member of the committee have been not ified by City Clerk T. M. Thorn a Jr., and Chief of Police W. R. Longest. The purpose of the conference is to get Senator Bailey to use his influence with the U. S. War Department to make certain improvements in Beaufort, particularly to have the height of the sea wall rais ed considerably higher than it is now. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides at Beaufort is giren in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct and based on tabltfs furnished by the. U. a Geodetic Surrey. Some allow aneei must be made foe ftl tlona tn the wind and alio with respect to the locality, that Is whether near the Inlet or at the bead of the estuaries. MARRIAGE LICENSES READ THE WANT ADS James Nelson and Mamie Simpson, Atlantic. John Firson and Irene Dudley, Eeaufort. Burgess Davis and Nevelee Davis, Davis. Walter Nelson and Madeline Willis, Harkers Island. BY M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleiirh. Auz. 12 Oyster beds which have been et with thousands of bushels of oysters and shells under CWA and ERA work programs will be closed to oystering for a period of probably two years, in order that full advantage may be secured from the plantings, Director R. Bruce Eth- eridge, of Conservation and Develop ment, announces. Under the old CWA program 711, 425 bushels of oysters and shells were planted in Carteret, Onslow, New Hanover, Dare, Pender, Hyde, Brunswick and Pamlico county wa ters,, and the ERA is continuing the program in Brunswick, Hyde, Dare, New Hanover and Carteret counties. oysters Under the new set-up 62,613 bushels I had been planted at the time of the THE KINGFISHER IS BACK latest report. FROM fernandina, i-lukiua Dr. H. F. Prytherch, director of The menhaden fishing boat King the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries' biolog-1 Fisher in command of Captain Bon- ical laboratory at Beaufort, estimates t ner Willis, returend a few days ago that oysters planted in the program! from Fernandina, Florida where she will increase about three-fold at the end of the two year period. Mr. Eth- has been for several months fishing fora factory down there. The News eridge states that the oysters will be; understands that the boat has had a permitted in the closed areas to reach : fairly successful summer season. Sev a marketable size before dredging, eral other boats from Carteret coun thus assuring a full harvest So far ty are down there still, about 12,000 acres of bottoms have The Taylor's Creek Fish Scrap and been producing the entire crop in Oil Company of Beaufort has been eastern North Carolina waters, al- in operation here all summer and has though it is estimated that around handled quitea good many fish and 1,000,000 acres of sound bottoms in furnished employment for a consid the State are capable of producing erabla number of men. The main seas on for menhaden comes later in the fall. High 12:06 a, 12:45 p. Tide Friday, Aug. m. m. Low TicW 17 6:09 7::25 m. m. Satarday, Aug 18 12:58 a. 1:42 p. 1:58 2:48 3:07 3:58 4:21 5:06 5:29 6:07 6:32 7:03 m. m. Sunday, Aug. m. m. Monday, Aug. m. m. Tuesday, Aug m. m. Wednesday, Aug m. m. Thursday, Aug, m. m. a. P. 7:08 8:29 19 8:16 a. 9:33 p. 20 9:28 a. 10:36 p. 21 10:37 a. 10:59 p. 22 11:37 11:44 23 12:32 12:45 m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m.
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