accurate, terse
timely
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jperior court
jpens monday
. M "y Barnhill Of
Skv Mouirt To Preside
!o'.? January Term
th dockets light
Mnnarv term of Warrer. county j
ftrior court will open cn Mon-1
J morning with Judge M. v.!
gnhill of Rocky Mount presiding!
ft Solicitor R. Hunt Parker repre-1
ting the State. Both the crira-l
ft and civil dockets are unusual-1
fcere is no case of outstanding!
Brest docketed, though the easel
ft-rate vs. C. L. Massey, charged!
ft manslaughter, is expected to
ft attendance from the Haw-1
ft section where Bob Kir.g was!
ftntly killed when struck by a!
driven by the defendant. Mas-I
ft who, it is said, was a bride-1
ftm in a runaway match at the
ft, did not stop. He was later!
ftsted at South Hi 11 I
ftability to distinguish between!
ftie and mine is responsible for!
ft majority of cases on docket.!
I of eleven defendants, eight will |
ft the judge on a caa.-g-j of lar-l
ft. Peter T. Williams is chargBwith
forceable trespass J. T.
By faces trial on a charge of
Buit with deadly weapon. |
Bhe case against Coley grew out
Bin altercation between Coley
I Seymour Read at Capps Store
^Areola during the Christmas
days at winch time Mr. Read
Bred a cut throat necessitating
trin to the Rocky Mount j
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Bjital. The wound did not prove
Bl and Mr. Read is recovering.
number of defendants must
Brt to show good behavior.
Ire are no liquor cases on the
wet.
lie Seaboard Airline Railway
lis defendant in five civil cases.
mL- cases are few and chiefly
Vwith inability to affect a setHent
of debts.
Birors for the January term:
Jfcst week?Willis P. King, T. W.
g, S. T. King, E. H. Neal, S. H.
Bird, Theo Stallings, H. O.
Bel. W. F. Neal, G. B. Brown, B.
Weaver, J. F. Hunter, H C.
Bth. R. A. Harris, Herman G.
Bman, E. H. Russell, Henry HilBd,
J. L. Mustian, M. P. Stewart,
a. Coleman, W. P. Nicholson.
B. W. Alston, J. C. Collins, John
Bter, C. F. Holtsman, J. P. T.
Bris, M. S. Dryden, J. W. Neal,
Ia. Haithcock, Milo Perkinson, T.
BGardner, J. S. Davis, Lee J.
Bris. R. R. Weston. Alfred J. El
ton, W. L. Harris, R. L. Yancy.
Becond week?Phillip Seaman, H.
Montgomery, Max Perman, W.
Bawthorne. C. F. Moseley, F. B.
well Sr., H. L. Forbes, C J.
Bung, J. H. Gardner, C. S.
Bthcock. 0. F. Clarx, Frederick
Biams, N. J. Harris, A. P. WatB,
Sol Fleming Jr., E. F. Burton,
Viley Ayscue, Cleve Stallings.
B^rebella" Coming
I Here On Jan. 25th
Bere Comes Arabella!"
Bis widely praised lady of the
Be of home-talent will greet a
ren county audience here on
Bay evening, January 25th, and
Br the stage direction of the
anis club she expects to see
By friends out front. Plans for
show were started long ago but
B Arabella was elusively popular.
was only recently that those
lolly home-talent boys, Edward
Gillam and Milton Casey
Buire succeeded in winning her
for O vie?* i/-< trr i.
* ,um uj warrenion. I
^Bss Arabella's chaperone will
^B into town on Monday to see
^B everything is made ready for
^Bisit ot the lady oi winning wiles
Bhe 25th. Many local persons,
j^Bhave "strutted" into popularity
^Be the stage lights before will
^B nonchalantly with Miss
Vo Cases Heard
Bn Recorder's Court
^B? cases were heard in Re^Br's
court here on Monday. A
case, charging Peter T. Wilwith
forceable trespass, was
^Biferred to Superior court for
B ?f jurisdiction.
^B&rlie Erantley, charged with
was fined $25 and taxed
^B the cost.
^Bje Williams must work, the
^B&tti county roads for 'our
^Bhs. in addition he must pay
|Hcost in the case that charged
^Bwith the manufacture and pos^Hton
of whiskey.
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COMMISSIONERS Mj
WORK OF COUNTY
Faced with the resignation of
Mrs. Oscar D. Williams as infancy
and maternity nurse of Warren,
effective February 1, the board of
county commissioners here Monday
indicated that they might discontinue
this work now instead of
the present contract July 1, though
no definite action was taken. Other]
matters before the board were of |
more or less routine nature.
Motion was made by Frank B.
Newell that the work be discontinued,
and H. L. Wall seconded.
John L. Skinner moved for a continuation
of the work, and W. H.
Burroughs, while he did not second
the motion, threw the question into
more or less general discussion.
Chairman Powell never called for a
vote although Commissioner Newell
called for the question several
times. During the discussion Brodie
Jones asiied thq privilege, of being
heard and told the board briefly
why he thought the work should be
continued.
"The cost is exceedingly small
and the v/ork is well woth it," he
said. "If this board wants to save
the taxpayers of this county money,
and I know it does, then let it
tackle the road question and save
dollars rather than dismiss a good
work which is costing cents." Mr.
Jones said that the bigger taxpayers,
those who were receiving
less benefit, wanted the work continued.
Mr. Powell countered with
the fact that the big taxpayers
would riot "come-up" with what
they should pay anyhow and if they
would that the county funds would
be ample. The question was left
more or less in the air, with the
board anxious, members said, to
comply with the wishes of the
citizens.
Matters handled by the board in
cludea:
It was ordered that the minute
relative to the pay of the chairman
of the board as recorded aat the
December 5 meeting be changed as
follows: That the chairman of the
board sliall receive a salary of $150
per year and $4 per day and milage
for attendance at regular meetings
and for any extra attendance and
services he shall submit his bill for
the board for approval. Mr. Skinner
voted against motion requiring
chairman to submit bill for approval
by the board.
Motioned by Commissioners Burroughs
and seconded by Commissiner
Skinner, who no opposing
vote and therefore ordered, that all
payments no notes due the county
be made at one time instead of
several payments at different time
on the same note.
Mr. Alex Katzenstein appeared
before the board and requested a
oroHit. nn 19 acres of land sold and
on one one-half acres now leased
as telephone right of way. The
board finding as a fact that a credit
of $650 has already been granted,
and on motion of Commissioner
Burroughs, seconded by Commissioner
Skinner, with no opposing
vote, it was ordered that no further
credit tie given.
A bill of $25 for the burial of
Mason Jones, a county pauper, who
was sent to Raleigh for treatment
' and died there, was ordered paid.
At the request of Miss Lucy
Leach, on behalf of Mrs. Waddell,
welfare officer of Vance county, it
was ordered that a female pauper
of Vance county be transferred to
the Warren county home on account
of not having room for her
in Vance, and that Vance county
I is to pay her expenses, provided her
stay shall not exceed 60 days.
Prank Boyd, colored of Warrenton
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on the beautiful Sapeloe
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NURSE IN WARREN
township, appeared before the board
relative to his 20 acres of land
valued at $800 and asked that it
be reduced. Motioned by Commissioner
Newell and seconded by
Commissioner Skinner, with no opposing
vote, that it be reduced to
$600 on account of excessive valuation,
and it is so ordered.
C. J. Tucker of Vaughan appeared
before the board requesting that
his residence property in Vaughan,
now listed at $1,500, he reduced on
account of the removal of the highway.
On motion by Commissioner
Wall, seconded by Commissioner
Skinner, it was ordered that it be
reduced to $1,250, Voting no, P. B.
Newell.
Fred C. Everett appeared before
the board relative to two turkeys
valued at $16 killed by dogs and
requested the county to pay lor
same. This matter was referred to
the county attorney as to whether
the county should pay the bill.
Andrew Angram of Shocco Township
appeared before the board relative
to his 119 acres of land valued
at $2,500 and from which has
been sold $1,200 worth of timber,
and both the land money received
being listed for taxation and requested
that some credit be given.
Motioned by Commissioner Skinner
and seconded by Commissioner
Burroughs, with no opposing vote,
that the property be reduced from
$2,500 to $2,000 and it was so
ordered.
Motioned by Commissioner Skinner
and seconded by Commissioner
Burroughs that Mrs. Anna B.
Bender of Nutbush township be
given a credit of ten acres on the
Holton place for two years. It having
been listed through error as
176 when in fact there are only 166
acres. There being no opposing vote
it was so ordered.
Thos. S. Plummer of Nutbush
Township appeared before the boara
relative to his two tracts of land
consisting of 30 acres each valued
at $30 per acre, and requested a
reduction in valuation. Commissioner
Burroughs made motion that
he be credited with $200 valuation
on the tract with no house on account
of excessive valuation. This
motioned was seconded by Commissioner
Skinner and it was so ordered.
Commissioner F. B. Newell
voted no.
Motion by Commissioner Newell
and ordered that H. F. Jones pay
$95.23 interest due to January 1,
1929 on his note. Also that insurance
policy be turned over to this
board.
The board ordered the clerk to
see Dr. Taylor relative to the interest
now due on his note.
Motioned by Commissioner Skinner.
seconded by Commissioner
Burroughs, and ordered that the
note in the sum of $10,000, due January
15, 1929, to Bank of Warren
be renewed in same amount this
date.
Motioned by Commissioner Skinner
and seconded by Commissioner
Newell and ordered that the telephine
now in the jail be transferred
to the sheriff's office.
Motioned by Commissioners Skinner
and seconded by ommissioner
Newell and ordered that the expense
of prisoners confined in jail
be paid before the prisoners are released.
Motioned by Commissioner Skinner
that jailer be paid 50c per day
in lieu of 75c for each prisoner confined
in Jail. Seconded by Commissioner
Burroughs and it was so
ordered. Commissioner Newell voting
no.
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"Question Mark" Descends
After Continuous Flight
Of Over 150 Hours
BREAKS ALL RECORDS !
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 8.? 1
Motor trouble put a period at the 1
end of the world's greatest endur- 1
ance flight yesterday when the
army's monoplane Question Mark
was forced to land at Van Nuys :
field after nearly a full week of ;
continuous cruising over San Fern- :
ando Valley and along a route between
here and San Diego. :
The plane's crew of five men
brought her to earth at 2:07:01 :
o'clock on the afternoon of the sixth
day since she took off on a test that '<
broke all records for sustained flight '
and re-fueling in mid-air. 1
Men Won
It was an endurance contest be- ;
tween men and machine. The
unique name of the craft had come 1
to stand for the uncertainty as to j
which would prevail. In the end five '
men won the contest, the mechanism
of the three-motored plane fail- :
ing on the eve of the seventh night j
of flying.
Taking to the air on New Year's
morning at 7:26:40 o'clock, the ;
Question Mark was in the air just
19 minutes and 44 seconds short of
151 hours, an official sustained flight
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The members of the crew, Maj. !
Carl Spatz, Lieuts. Quesada and
Halverson, Captain Aaker and
Sergeant Hooe, showed no serious 1
effects of the long grind.
The official time was figured at
150 hours, 50 minutes and 16 seconds
by checkers at Van Nuys airport.
The left motor had failed com- ,
pletely anad the right engine developed
trouble about 2 p. m. as
the plane soared above the airport.
A crowd of several hundred persons
witnessed the faltering craft start
gliding. At that time it was about
2,000 feet high. .
Graceful Descent
^It came down in a graceful sweep.
The crowd unloosed its admiration,
pressing forward eagerly. The plane
was surrounded. Cameras clicked. ''
The crew, deafened and their
faces covered with whiskers, climbed
out, touching ground for the first
time in more than six days. The 1
landing had been perfect. Rules
governing endurance flights provid- 1
ed that it land where it started.
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To Honor Memory
Late Tasker Polk
Memorial exercises to the late
Tasker Polk, dean of the Warrenton.
bar for many years and former
Senator from Warren, will be
held at 2 o'clock next Monday afternoon
in the Court room. The
exercises were announced last
week for 12 o'clock but the hour
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has been set at 2, just aiier tue
noon recess.
Addresses will be delivered by
Congressman John H. Kerr, Judge
T. M. Pittman of Henderson, Senator
B. B. Williams and J. P. Pippen
of Littleton. Other brief
tributes may come from other
friends who knew and loved Mr.
Polk.
The public is cordially invited to
the exercises which are under the
auspices of the Warren County
Bar association. The program is
scheduled to last an hour.
METHODIST SERVICES
Services are announced for the
Methodist church Sunday morning
and evening by Rev. B. P. Robinson.
The Sunday morning sermon will be
"The Three Great Verbs of the
Bible". Mr. Robinson said that he
would fill his appointment at Warren
Plains in the afternoon at 3
o'clock.
J'. R. RIGGAN DIES
Funeral services for J. R. Riggan,
74, were conducted at the
Macon cemetery by the Rev. J. J.
Marshall on Sunday afternoon. He
had been in poor health for some
time and death came on Saturday.
Dad Pays
While a college man is getting a
liberal education his dad is getting
an education in liberality.?Notre
Dame Juggler.
Miss Martha Reynolds Price returned
to Warrenton on Wednesday
s/ter spending two weeks at
Knoxviile and Bridgeport, Tenn.
Mr. R. L. Bell of Macon was a
visitor here this week.
Mr. R. L. Capps of Areola was
in town on Tuesday.
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VNUARY 11, 1929
Discuss Hotel And
Water Situation At
Meeting Of Board
Brief allusion to the water situation,
and an informal discussion of
hotel affairs were high spots in the
routine meeting of the town commissioners
at the mayor's office on
Tuesday evening. Current bills were
paid and the treasurer instructed to
place $3,500 tax monies collected In
each bank.
W. R. Strickland reported that
the holidays had interfered with
reports of the engineer on the water
situation, and that the matter was
not being particularly urged inasmuch
as during the coming year
several large town expenditures had
to be made for bond retirement and
interest. The board, it seemed,
wanted a change in the present
system, but it was evident that they
thought citizens would have to wait
longer.
Discussion of absence of hotel reports
and dividends was more or
iess informal. The board felt that
the matter should properly be considered
in the presence of H. A.
Moseley, representing the town on
its directorate. Mr. Moseley was
absent on account of sickness. A
general discussion of the situation
svill be held at the next meeting.
Commissioner E. E. Gillam expressed
his appreciation, in which
the board joined, for the manner in
which the police officers of the town
had handled the crowds here at
each of the Christmas trees and
for the general co-operation given
the committees in charge.
Cupid Calls Halt As
New Year Comes In
Although the work of Cupid kept
the register of deeds for Warren
county busy issuing marriage licenses
during the closing days of the
past year, the New Year has slowed
down the proceedings. A score of
licenses were issued around Christmas.
Only two have been issued this
year.
Licenses have been issued to
Frederick W. Blggerstaff of Petersburg,
Va., and Miss Thelma L.
Blankney of Havre de Grace, Md.,
on January 1, and to W. R. Griffin
of Potecasi and Miss Kate Johnson
of Littleton on January 7.
Miss Blakney and Mr. Biggerstaff
were married in. the court
house Monday in the presence of
court officials and a few visitors by
the Rev. J. T. Gibbs.
SIMMONS-WILLIAMS
OXFORD, Jan. 8.?A marriage
beautiful in its simplicity, was
solemnized on Friday morning at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Grenshaw in Richmond, when their
adopted daughter, Miss Annie Lou
Williams, became the bride of
Walter L. Simmons Jr., of Delaware,
Ohio. The ceremony was performed
by Doctor Gibson, rector of St.
James' Episcopal church. The bride
entered with her father, by whom
she was given in marriage. Edward
Simmons of Tarboro, brother of the
bridegroom, acted as best man.
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me nnae was Decommgiy atwicu
in a biege going-away gown and
carried a corsage of brides roses.
Immediately after the ceremony,
which was witnessed by only a few
intimate friends of the families, Mr.
and Mrs. Simmons left by motor
for their home in Delaware, Ohio.
The bride is a native of Oxford
where she resided until a few
months ago, when she went to Richmond
with Mr. and Mrs. Grenshaw.
She is: a lovely blonde of intellectual
attainments.
The bridegroom is the oldest son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Simmons
of Tarboro, and is an instructor in
the department of English of Ohio
Wesleyan university.
Miss Wililams last year and until
Christmas of this year was a
popular member of the faculty of
the Vaughan school.
ELECT OFFICERS FOR 1929
At a regular weekly meeting held
in the Episcopal church on Sunday
night, the Young People's Service
League of Emmanuel church, elected
its officers for 1929. W. Duke
Jones was re-elected as president.
Vice president, William Baskerville;
secretary, Panthea Massenburg;
treasurer, Nan Cornell Davis;
thankfi offering treasurer, Mary
Wagner; reporter Katherine Scoggin.
Officers for 1928 were: president,
W. Duke Jones; vice president,
Mary Wagner; secretary, Grace
Wagner; treasurer, Sue White
Massenburg; thanks offering treasurer,
Estelle Wagner.
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The first non-stop trans-ccntinental
flight between New York and
San Francisco and return h being
planned by H. F. Mitchell of Wichita,
KaC Mitchell ia a nephew of
Colonel William Mitchell, former
head of the Army Air Corps. )
Dr. Peete Discusses
The Flu Epidemic In
His Monthly Report
Dr. C. H. Peete, retiring health
officer, discussed the epidemic of
colds and flu in his report to the
board of county commissioners here
on Monday. With the exception of
respiratory disease the general
health of the county is good, the
health officer said.
The epidemic is of varying degrees,
according to Dr. Peete. Most
of it is rather mild, and characterized
chiefly by fever as the predominating
feature, many have no
colds or coughs or running noses.
Others have severe aching and pros
tration as well as bronchial involment.
The percentage of pneumonia
lias ben small. The report in full:
"With the exception hereafter
stated I beg to say that the health
conditions of this county for the
month of December have been
very good. However, beginning
about 20 days ago an epidemic of
highly contagious respiratory disease
has visited the county. This
illness Is very commonly called the
"flu," and is very alarming: to the
general public, probably because
many accounts of the disef.se have
come to them in a much exaggerated
form.
"Not all these cases of sickness
should be called flu; many of them
are purely bad colds; and some of
them are chest colds. But many
are evidently flu. Still the public1
should not become hysterical and
unduly excited.
"There is a desire on the part of
mapy to close the schools but to
me this does not seem best, and I
wish to say that a bulletin just received
from the State Health Department
as the same view, and
the advice given is that all children
who have any colds, coughs, or i
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schools. In other words, the well
children have a rght to go to
school, and they should ae protected
from the sick children by
having them stay at home
"This epidemic is of varying degrees
of illness, most of it rather
mild, and characterized cliiefly by
fever as the predominating feature,
?many have no colds or coughs or
running noses. Others have severe
aching and prostration as well as
bronchial involvement. The incidence
of pneumonia in tills county
has been small so far. Incidentally,
the white race seems to
have it in greater proportion than
the colored population.
"There are 20 in the County
Home; these are well attended to:
and are all pretty well. One died
in December, and one in early January,
both colored. There is no flu
at the Home. In the jail are now
five inmates, who are well, and
well taken care of.
"This report ends my term oi
servce as County Health officer foi
I this neriod, as this service is taker
by the county doctors in rotation
and I close with best wishes to th<
board of commissioners and all."
P.-T. A. MEETING
The Parent-Teachers associatioi.
will meet at the Warrer ton high
school on Friday afternoon,
January 18, at 3:30 o'clock, it wa ;
announced yesterday.
MRS. WALKER DIES
Mrs. W. C. Walker, 53, died at
her home near Wise on Wednes-i
day at noon. Funeral semces will,
be held this afternoon.
MOST OF THE NEWS
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NUMBER 2
WARREN SCHOOLS
TO REMAIN OPEN
3upt. Allen Says Teachers To
Carry On Unless Disease
Shows Big Increase
WARNED TO BE CAREFUL
Unless there is a great increase *
in the number of cases of illness
the schools of Warren county will
remain open. This was expressed
this week in a letter from the office
of the county superintendent of
schools to the various principals and
jommitteemen throughout the
sounty.
However, Superintendent Allen
warned all teachers to be unusually
uareful with their own health and
to send children home who show
symptoms of incipient disease. The
portion of the letter is as follows: t
"The State health officer on January
1, indicated in the State papers
that schools _ should operate regularly,
being" safer under observation
and control in school than
without either and out of school.
Therefore every school is in operation,
and every teacher in every
school is expected to keep every
pupil under observation carefully.
If individuals show symptoms of
incipient disease, they should be
sent home; and if they be at a
distance, they should be carried
home, even if some small expense
be necessary to protect others. This
office will not close any school. If
the local school officials should be
in doubt as to what to do, let them
communicate with this office, which
will obtain the aid of the county
health officer. We do not believe in
closing until this officer thinks it
should be done. Much of the agitation
about this matter is due to
excitement and is not founded in
good, calm reasoning.
"But teachers themselves should
be careful. It is a serious matter for
a number of teachers to be sick, or
working at low efficiency. We expect
all teachers to take the utmost
care of themselves, for their own
sake and for the sake of the children
in the schools. To this end,
it is deemed wise not to ask for
them the exertion necessary for the
teachers' meeting next Saturday,
which is therefore postponed, until
further notice."
Telephone CompanyReduces
Toll Rates
J. R. Porter, executive vice president
of the Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph company, states that the
reducation in toll rates effective
February 1st, 1929, recently announced
by Walter F. Gifford, president
of the American Telephone and
Telegraph company, would apply to
the long distance rates of the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph company.
The new schedule of rates that
goes into effect February 1st, cuts
from 5 cents to 25 cents from
charges for station-to-station calls
between points from 130 to approximately
1,500 miles apart. Middle
distance rates will be reduced as
much as 13 per cent. An equivalent
rate reduction will be made for
person-to-person service. Evening
and night rates will remain at their
present level.
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The extra charges above personto-person
rates previously made for
appointment and messenger calls
are eliminated for all long distance
calls, so that from February 1st
these calls will be charged at person-to-person
rates.
This reduction was voluntary on
part of the telephone companies,
and will mean an annual saving
to the public of more than five
million dollars, Mr. Porter said.
Mrs. Macy Pridgen Is
Victim of Pneumonia
Funeral services for Mrs. Jiacy
Pridgen of Creek were held at the
home and interment made in the
Davis cemetery on Tuesday aiiernoon.
The Rev. E. R. Nelson conducted
the services.
Following an attack of pneumonia,
Mrs. Pridgen died in the
early hours of Tuesday morning.
Before her marriage Mrs. Pridgen
was Miss Susie Davis, daughter
of former Sheriff R. E. Davis.
She is survived by her husband,
five small children, her father, five
sisters, Mrs. Donald Scott of Ridgeway,
Misses Ruth, Margaret, Mattie
and Elizabeth Ann Davis of
Creek, and by four brothers, Sam
Davis of Warrenton, Charles IDavis
of New York, Harry and R. E.
Davis Jr. of Creek.
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