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. . . . And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping wach over their flocks by night . . . .T And, lo, the angel of the Lord cams upcn them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore a-f Excerpts from Si. Luke, Chapter 2 ' j-traid .... And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tiding of great joy, which shall be to all w people . . . .For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord . . . ." t Verse 8, 9, 10, 11 ONLY 4 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS BUY EARLY FROM HOMETOWN MERCHANTS READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY t WATCH Your "& and Pay Your Subscription The First Christmas past""" Hj VOLUME XXIV oard Appoints Garment Mrs. Roberts And Mrs. Henderson Are Appoint ed Special Agents For Carteret County to Distribute Clothing to Needy Clients as ame Is Donated by the WPA; Job Pays $60 Per Month Plus $40 For Travel Expenses. PLENTY OF GARMENTS Two Hundred And Seventeen Are Employed in Carteret By WPA to Make the Gar ments Which Will be Given to Needy Clients; Other Mat ters Are Taken up by Coun ty Board in Their Recessed Meeting. Mrs. Ruth Roberts of Beaufort and Mis. George Henderson of Morehead City were appointed temporary spec t. for Carteret county at a recessed meeting on the Board of County Commissioners Wednesday. Their job will be to distribute articles of clothing which will be donated by the WPA. The special agents will be paid $60 per month plus $40 per month for travel expenses. A small amount pf routine bus iness was transacted by the commis sioners in addition to the appoint ment of the special ajrents. The bill of Abrahams and Whitakers who audited Carteret county (and inci dently exposed how the county has been operated) was approved for the sum of $4,200 condition upon im mediate payment in cash for bal ance due being $3,000. Chairman Bonner wa authorized and directed on behalf of county to transfer and assign for face value to Lionell Murdock the tax certificate in the name of A. Murdock heirs held by and in name of Carteret coun ty. The Audtior was instructed to is sue a voucher in the amount of $6.48 covering taxes paid by L. H. Hardy but credited to L. J. Hardy. L. H. Hardy, Merrimon blind man was plac ed on the poor list of the county at $4 monthly until such taxes are paid. The register of deeds was authorized to couplete index book. Miss Martha Jo.ies who was voted ',i4 per month from the poor fund at a former meet ing of the board will not get that sum, due tothe fact that books show ed she was already receiving $17.50 per month from the emergency re lief fund of county. In connection with the special a ( Continued on pagn ten) Cover? nq The WATER FROM Br AYCOCK BROWN A RESIDENT OF Durham who happened to be in Hyde county re cently asked one of the Old Timers present if it was low or high tide. Old Timer called a cat which ap proached him and after close exami nation he said: "It's high tide." Nat urally the Durhamite wanted to know how he could tell whether it was high or low tide by looking at a cat and this is what Old Timer said, Buddy, no matter how far inland you may go, if you look at a cat and find that the pupils in the cat's eyes are round, it's a sure sign that it's low tide; and if the pupils are slit ted, it's bound to be low tide. A cat's eyes will go from one extreme to the other as the tidrs rise and fall." The foregoing is a F'atement made by P. N. Constable of Durham to the cur rent edition of The State Magazine. SPEAKING OF TIDES, Mr. Carl Goreeh, you have probably heard or know that babies are born on flood tides and that persons suffering from lingering Illnesses die on the ebb of tides. About the change in a cat's eye, I know nothing, but I do know that on Ocracoke Island very reliable and Christian people will tell you that a token of death light is quite often seen before the death of persons. It is an eerie sight sorta (Continued on page ten) TEN PAGES THIS WEEK Agents WHAT IS CHRISTMAS WITHOUT AN EGGNOG? Christmas without an eggnog is still Christmas. But to you people who like your egg nogs, Christmas with one is something that adds spirit, if you get the egg nog or Christmas without spirits if you do not. Incidental ly Christmas with egg nog takes away your spirits. With enough egg nog beneath anyone's belt a man feels like Santa Claus and a woman feels like Mrs. Santa Claus. We are not advis ing you abbstainers to drink, but to you who do, here is a recipe that you might like to file. It ought to be good as it is one of Irvin S. Cobb's favorites: One egg, 1-2 teaspoonful pow dered sugar, one jigger of any good whiskey, half tumbler sweet milk or cream. Beat up white and yolk separately. To beaten yolks, add sugar, whis key and milk, stirring each sep arately. Then stir in beaten white, and serve with nutmeg on top. Use a sherbet glass if available if not use a glass. FLASH!! Jimmie Gossard, 16 year old son of L. J. Gossard, head case worker for the NCERA here died in the Morehead City hospital tonight at 9:35 o'clock, a few minutes after t he was rushed there suffering from a wound inflicted when he fell on a knife. PANHANDLING POLK GETS FOUR MONTHS Polk Johnson is definitely out of circulation for the next four months. For quite a while he was Beaufort's Public Nuisance No. 1, habitual drunkard and most prolific panhand ler. Several weeks ago on a number of charges he was taken before Mayor Taylor who bound him over to the March term of Criminal Court under a bond of $100 which he did not raise. Polk is not so dumb when he gets sober and after several days in jail he came to the conclusion that he had a chance for liberty. He era nloved an attorney and as all the charges against him were misdemean ors he was tned and given du more days in Jail. That wouia nave given him liberty in January and no charges to face in March if he had behaved. Polk was very repentent at the time. He was very repentent last Sunday when Jailor E. M. Chaplain allowed him to come out on the front porch of the jail to bask in sunshine and give water to other tenants be hind the bars. While the jailor was not looking Polk could not resist the temptation to slip around back of the jail and climb the fence to liberty. That wa3 a feat in itself for a man with one foot. Shortly afterwards Polk was up to his old tricks and of ficers caught him with a pint of whiskey, a colored man and un known white. The whiskey was not 'legal' said experts in court who re moved the legal looking cap lo smen of the brownish colored corn inside. Polk is a pure and simple enebriate, but that gives him no license to leave iails without permission, nor to trans port illegal liquor. So Judge Paul Webb did Beaufort a favor by sen tencing Polk to four months on the roads N. C. H. & P. H. Com.) He will probably be leaving for the en fineerinr iob about Friday after noon to a raveii Prison camp. THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU Not Many Of Their L . These Canadian L- 5 - . f fh "',"1 "if . - v Li- W 1 ; ,:',. ' .ft -. fc 5 " .,''' ,j fc.---. ...... , ,- v' x r. - ; i-' 3 The curtain was lowered today on! sportsmen and the local residents who more than 100 feet from shore, r.n' one of the poorest migratory wild-J went gunning failed to register any as a result decoys, picturesque cous fowl seasons ever known along the important kills. Gherman Holland, : ins of wild Canadian geeso have been North Carolina coast. Stringent lavsi Hugh Piner, Dick Whitehurst and j unemployed. The above picture enacted for the protection of geese. 'jack Neal hunting with Capt. Charlie ' shows geese decoys owned by Jamie ducks and brandt maie it a too sport-1 Carrow down in the Core-Pamlico ' Styron of Ocracoke. That fellow in ing a proposition iror the average hunter. In the old days, hundreds, probably thousands of sportsmen came from northern cities for the 'duck' shooting off the North Carolina coast. This year that number decreas ed to practically no out of state MY WAOIED LATE WEDNESDAY 'rominent Fish Dealer Succum bed to Pneumonia; Funeral Services at Home Friday at 2 o'clock. Brady Cicero Way, 59, died here last night at 6:45 o'clock following an attack of double pneumonia. He had been seriously ill for only a few days but had been in declining health for several months. Funeral services will be conducted at the Way home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. C. T. Rogers officiating, assist ed by Rev. J. W. Morgan. Burial services will be conducted in Ocean View cemetery. Mr. Way was born in East Car teret county. He moved to Beaufort many years ago and conducted a very successful fish business here. He is survived by his widow Mrs. Minnie Way, two daughters Miss Elnora Way and Miss Varina Way of Beaufort, and three sons, Dr. Samuel T. Way of Baltimore, John Way a student at the Univesity of North Carolina and William Way, who was connected with his father's fish business here. One brother, Benny P. Way of Morehead City survives and two sisters: Mrs. John M. Lewis and1 Mrs. E. B. Lewis, both residents of Marshallbcrg. NO MARRIAGE LICENSES No marriage licenses will be issued on Christmas Day in Carteret Coun ty according to announcement by of ficials in the Register of Deeds office. Rev. Emanuel Body of Missionary Baptist Min ister of Morehead City Was Found in Shallow Water of Newport River; He Was A Respected Member of His Race and A Descendent of Slave Family Once Owned By Parents of Emiline Pisott, The Famous Confederate Spy. Rev. Emanuel Pigott, one of More- head City's most respected colored citizens suffered a heart attack while oystering in the Newport river lafe Tuesday. He failed to return home that night and early Wednesday his body was found in shallow water near a boat from which he had been oystering the previous day. The tongs too were found, the handles sticking out of the water, a few oysters im prisoned below. Rev. Pieott was the son a a slave RSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1935 Cousins Killed ilu Sportsmen This Season Geese Decoys Were Unemployed This Year Sound region this week killed eight! front is named 'Old Jim.' Once a few geese and 16 ducks. That was the years ago during a mating season he best hunting done by anyone else in 1 flew into the late Uncle Joe Bell, res this section. This year it has been , ident of the island and almost flogged unlawful to hunt over live decoys a3;him to death. pictured above. It ha3 also been a vio lation of the law to hunt from blinds - - A --CHRISTMAS SERVICES IN LOCAL CHURCHES Holy Communion will be ob served in St. Paul's church at midnight on Christmas Eve. One of the most impressive services of the church year, the public is cordially invited to be in at tendance, according to Rev. Lawrence Fenwick the rector. On Christmas Day the Metho dist church here will have ser vices at 10 o'clock in the morn ing, according to Rev. C. T. Rogers the pastor. Services will be conducted at 11 o'clock in the Baptist church and on Christmas night a Christmas pageant will be presented at 7 :30 o'clock accord ing to announcement made by Rev, J. W. Morgan, pastor of the church. Troy Johnson Takes Charge of Fountain Starting Monday, December 22, Troy Johnson will have complete charge of the soda fountain, sand wich, cigar and cigarette department of the Joe House Drug store, it was announced this week. He ha3 been in cramped for space and had to leave it the employ of Mr. House for quite , out- But in the last paragraph of this sometime but his new position gives , ary yu vill see your name star him added responsibilities. It is his ng at you if you were in court that intention to build ud one of the most,niK"'" efficient soda fountain services in Eastern Carolina, which will include quicker curb service, faster delivery service and better mixed drinks. In the future there will be no extra (continued cn page five) Pigott Died While Oystering once owned by the parents of Emiline Pigott, the famous Confederate wo man spy who at one time lived near the headwaters of Calico Creek, it is said. No colored man in Morehead City was more respected than he. He lived in a home which bore no mort gages and despite the fact that he was a minister and had married hun dreds of people and preached at fun- (eral services, he was a hard worker. He was an expert oysterman and added to his income by following this profession during the months which bear an K.' Sheriff (JnadwicK was notified of his disappearance but George Dudley had found the body before county officials entered the search. Coroner George Dill who re viewed the body, declared that an in quest was unnecessary, when Dr Chadwick, county health officer pro nounced death due from angina pac toris, not from drowning or violence. PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY 1 HIGHWAY PATROLMAN GIVES EXAMINATIONS ' Applicants for drivers license may be examined in Beaufort each Fri day between 9 and 12 o'clock for drivers' license it was announced to day by City Clerk Murray Thomas. A large number of people have fail ed to apply for their drivers license and it is a violation of the law to operate a car without one. Patrol man I. T. Mioore will be in charge of the examinations in Beaufort, it was announced and everyone is urged to take advantage of this opportunity for an examination. Mayor Taylor Issues Warning To Habitual Drunks of Beaufort Only six defendants faced Mayor Bayard Taylor in City Court Monday night. That was as compared to per haps the years record on the previous Monday night when 21 defendants were there to tell it to the judge. Now if you happened to be among those present on Monday night, De cember 16, please do not feel like an outcast because you failed to get news jpaper publicity last week we were The highspot of the session Mon day night was a new ruling which will take effect on the first of the year. Every person convicted of public drunkenness will serve 30 days on 'the streets (or in the cemetery per haps, cleaning it up) ur.lesa they pay a good wage to someino else to take (continued on page five) Decorated Lawns To Be Judged Tuesday Mrs. E. A. Nichols and Mrs. Paul Cleland, both recently arrived new comers to Morehead City will act as judges in the prize contest being stag ed by Carteret Hardware Company for the best decorated lawn or front porch in Beaufort during the Christ mas holidays, it was annonuced day. Judging will take place shortly after daik on Christmas Eve and an nouncement of winners will be made an hour or two later at Carteret Hardware Company when the prizes will be awarded 'by Jack Neal pro prietor of the establishment. First prize in this contest will be $10 in cash, second prize will be $10 in trade at Carteret Hardware and third prize will be five dollars in trade at this establishment Everyone is urged to enter the contest, which is one of the most generous of its kind ever staged in Beaufort. NUMBER 51 Couple Escape First Degree Arson Ch arge Godfrey Campbell and John Campbell Were First Charg ed With First Degree Arson For Setting Fiire to Home of Otto Hatch, Which Was Not Destroyed ; Attorney Plead ing in Their Behalf Secures Bonds of $250 Each and They Are At Liberty Until March Term of Court. Godfrey Campbell, and John Camp bell, colored brothers were released i from jail under bonds of $250 each Tuesday after probable cause had been found in charges against them for arson. It was not arson in the first degree, declared the Court after an appeal in behalf of the defendants had been entered by an attorney so two colored men should consider themselves lucky. If they had been convicted of first degree arson, that is for setting fire to a house in which people were sleeping or living in, they would have been sentenced to the 'hot-seat'. That is they would have suffered capital punishment which in North Carolina at the present time means death by lethal gas. Even the prosecutors in the case are probably glad now that since no lives were lost although a building was, that the two men will not have to answer to charges of ar son in the first degree. With the exception of the Polk Johnson case which is written up elsewhere in this edition and a charge against Luke Mason, all other cases on the docket were continued to fu ture sessions of Recorder's Court. Several will be tried on Friday, De cember 20, as there will be no court next week due to Christmas hilidays. Luke Mason who has given local of ficers trouble on more than one occa sion was tried for assaultnig a fe male, to-wit: his mother. He was giv en a six months sentence, suspended upon condition that he be good be havior for a period of two years. For lack of space The Beaufort News failed to publish a concensus of recorder's court activities for De cember 9. On that date quite a heavy session was held. John Level, Atlan tic guide who lived with the Manly Fulchers for quite some time was charged with obtaining lodging with out paying for same. When he ex plained that he was a victim of cir cumstances or something like that and that he expected to pay for the odging when he could the court found him not guilty. Ernest House, charged with seduc tion will be tried on December 20. Sterling Howland plead nolo-conten-dere on a charge of taking an auto (Continued on page five) TIDE TABLE Intimation a to tne tids. t Beaufort is given in this col mn. Thj figures are appro imately correct and based ot tables furnished by the U. S Geodetic Survey. Some allow ances murt be made for varia tions in the wind and also witl respect to the locality, that it whether sear the inlet or a' -he head of the estuariea. High Tide Low Tide 20 Friday, Dec. 3:40 a. m. 10:09 10:12 21 11:03 11:01 a. m. p. m. 3:43 p. m. Saturday, Dec, 4:34 a. m. 4:42 p. .m a. m. p. m. Sunday, Dec. 22 5:23 a. m. 5:30 p. m. 11:54 p. m. Monday, Lee. 23 6:09 a. m. 11:49 a. m. 12:42 p. m. B:2U p. m. Tuesday, Dec. 6:54 a. m. T:05 p. m. 24 12:36 a. m. 1:28 p. m. Wednesday, Dec. 25 1:69 a. m. 1:20 a. f:52 p. m. 2:12 p. Thursday, Dec. 26 8:22 a. m. 2:04 a. m. 8:39 p. m. 2:55 p. rru m. m.