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MEMBER
Moseley Who
ccept Posi- /
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\PPOINTED
'arrenton mer-f
number of the/,
- cuuuiissioners at the/
K "meeting on Monday evening
W'Tlhe position Of Town ,
Eft resignation was accepted
m of regret and apfcMrrtaibbs
*nd
II,. of the hoard.
Bfl Hodwell. member of the
K Yw H Dameron and Com- ;
I J'elected to succeed Mr.
H r Gillam was named chairM
a die Street committee, to
I Mcseley. All other committees .
ft^Sfwas entering his ,
K year Doing this time he has
Hjmssed one meeting of the i
K5 the board. Under the ,
Charter the town clerk can- ,
Ke a member of the beard. Mr.
Kv was appointed to this posi
at the June meeting.
Knowing the appointment of
K Gillam as chairman of the
Kt committee, the board inKted
him to put an end to enKchment
upon town property by
Jens. w. H. Boyd, re-elected _
K engineer, was instructed to
Ke necessary surveys in event of
Kite over any street boundary
K . r.meiu of committees and
Kion of Mr. Rodwell followed a
^pthy discussion of financial afK$
and the collection of Armory
Ks. past due. The town clerk was
R-ucted to write to Capt. Bowers
Kgard to the latter matter.
Hiring the course of the meeting
K?issioner Gllam, told the beard
H he had found it necessary to
Hw hose from the Peck ManuHnng
Company to fight the fire
Hcrth Warrentcn early Monday
King and that he had wired for
Ks on hose. The board instructHi?
to buy 250 feet of hose.
Kny Cotton Blooms
Kought to Warrenton
K hot sultry days of the past
H or so may have been looked
H item the eyes of mankind in
Hin, but they are receiving a
Hire from Old King Cotton who
Bowing his appreciation by issuHleoms
over the fields of WarHe
first of these Blooms of the
I crop to reach this office was
Bit here cn Saturday morning 1
K ^ Carroll, sen of R. A. Car- i
lot Warren Plains. The cotton 1
Igtown by the father and ac- ;
Kg to the son they have a 1
fine stand on thpir nlapp 1
Is visit preceded one '
ia grower by only a
The Warren Plains
dly gotten down town '
. King presented his
ting is also boosting a 1
lis year.
man to enter this of- '
I a bloom was Claude :
1 Churchill. Mr. Haith-j
a Tuesday morning, butl
it he had a bloom on J
i that cotton was doing
in his neighborhood,
with a bloom enclosed
the Tuesday afternoon
W. P. Powell of Areola,
bloomed on Sunday, acthe
letter. 1
>ther letter with bloom
'6 D. Martin of Norlina,
at thn VI? ? -
- ..iv uiuum was IOUDQI
feld on July 3. The letter |
Norlvna man says that his
talking very good, but rain
^Bdfd mighty bad.
^Bj Paschall of Hawtree townBB
^ displaying a bloom on the
|B * Warrenton Friday morn-1
?ISC0PAL SERVICES 1
^BCommunion will be observed!
^B^iscopai church ot Warren-1
^^B*'mday morning at 8 o'clock,!
prayer will be held at ^
B* Sunday night, according |
jm^noiinh -?*
, ?vcuieiu, Dy the Rev. B.\
HJoeWagner. The minister also!
B*s Holy Communion &M
^ ^Pherd Church.. Ridgeway.i
B^t morning at 11 o'clock. I
bio TRICK HERE \
B? hack advertising Friend- i
ir|Ws attracted the atten-1
B here yesterday after-1
Parked in front of the I
IK Apartment Store, local 1
tendered several se-1
Popular music, as well!
advantages of Its |
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Drewry School To
Be Located North
Business Section
The Drewy school will be located
north of the business section of that
town, according to information obtained
from the office of the superintendent
of schools this week.
The board of education at its
regular session on Monday ordered
that Superintendent Allen advertise
a call for bids for the Drewy school
building to be opened in executive
session on Monday, July 20.
The present site for the Drewy
school was only selected after two
other proposed locations had met
with rather strenuous opposition.
The building to be erected is to replace
the building destroyed by fire
shortly before the completion of the
1930-31 session.
All colored six months schools
will open for the 1931-32 session on
August 3, according to an order of
the board. The colored schools will
run until cotton picking time when
a recess of several weeks will be
taken. All high schools and eight
months schools in the county system
will open on Tuesday, September
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Man, A Mule And
Technicalities Cause
Long Session Court
A man a mule, and technicalities
were responsible for a lengthy session
of Recorder's court on Monday
morning when only two bills of
indictment were presented before
Judge W. W. Taylor.
The case was the outcome of an
accident which occurred in May
when a Ford driven by Hariel Edwards,
white man of Sandy Creek,
ran into a mule belonging to G. A.
Parham, of the same neighborhood,
injuring the animal's leg and hurting
Mr. Parham's hip as he was
thrown to the ground.
The affair failed to fall into the
channels of law until several days
ago when Mr. Edwards was tried '
before a magistrate of the Sandy 1
Creek neighborhood on a charge of
driving while intoxicated. Probable i
cause brought the case into Record- i
er's court en Monday morning.' 1
Technicalities began when Julius i
Banzet, representing Mr. Edwards, :
pointed out to Judge Taylor that 1
the magistrate had failed to pro- .
perly fill out the paper charging i
Mr. Edwards with operating a car i
while under the influence of whis- i
key, and for that reason there was i
no true bill of indictment upon
which the court could proceed. He 1
was asking that the case be thrown
cut. Solicitor Daniel argued that (
the court should proceed, I
Judge Taylor ruled that although
the magistrate had not followed the I
regular form in filling out the paper
that the intent was clear, and as ,
principals and witnesses were in (
court that it would be better to go 1
on with the case than to send it ;
back to a magistrate and have it ,
sent back to his court. ,
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Anotner till occurred oetweeu m.
Banzet and Solicitor Daniel before ,
the first witness left the chair. Mr. ,
Parham told the court that he was
on his mule at a service station
when Mr.. Edwards drove up, ran
into his mule, injuring the animal
as well as himself. He testified that
Mr. Edwards was driving from one
side of the road to the other. He
told the Solicitor that he did not
smell any whiskey on the driver.
Tn answer to Mr. Banzet's questions
Mr. Parham told the court that
there was a man with Mr. Edwards
at the time of the accident, and
admitted that he had attempted to
collect $50 from the driver for dam.
ages to himself and to his mule.
He confessed that he had not secued
a doctor for himself nor for
his mule, but said that his hijj was
bothering him some at present and
that the animal was still limping.
Reluctantly he gave the examining
attorney the information that the
accident occurred on a Saturday
and he was plowing the same mule
on Tuesday, but said that the animal
was not using his l^eg. Mr.
Banzet, it appeared, could not exactly
picture a man plowing a
three-legged mule, and in questioning
Mr. Parham further about the
matter he was told that all four
legs were used, but in walking the
mule gave away on the one which
had been struck by the automobile.!
Through "a number of questions, as
to where Mr. Parham and his mule
were, the distance of the service
station from the road, and at what
point Mr. Edwards was seen driving,
the attorney gained testimony
from the witness to show that Mr.
Edwards was not seen driving on
the highway. When Solicitor Daniel
attempted to show that Mr. Parham
had seen Mr. Edwards driving
on the highway by cross examining
the witness, objections
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AFTON PETITIONS
FOR HIGH SCHOOL
Committee Asks That Inez
Pupils Be Brought There
Instead of Warrenton
Indications are that the AftonElberon
school will next session
care for nine grades, but will not
be given the full eleven grades petitioned
for by the school commtitee
of that section on Monday. The
Afton-ELberon committee appeared
before the board of education in re.
?ular session at Warrenton on
Monday and asked that pupils of
the Inez school be transported to
Afton-Elberon instead of to Warrenton
in order that a small high
school might be maintained in that
section. The committee, asked that
In the event that this could not
be done, that nine grades be retained.
The board directed that the superintendent
of schools carry the
petition before the Board of Equali.
zation with the endorsement of the
board of education.
Supt. Allen, who took this matter
up with the board while in Raleigh
en Wednesday, said yesterday that
the board of equalization tentatively
found that nine grades could be
maintained at Afton-Elberon more
cheaply than at Warrenton, but
that the transportation of tenth and
eleventh grade pupils would call for
additional teachers and could not
he approved as an economy measure.
Fire Destroys Office
Here Early Monday
1 Qfl of
Fire completely uuuu^u
fice, the property of the Warren ton
Development Co., and located adjacent
to one of their buildings in
north Warrenton, on Monday
morning about 4 o'clock. The origin
of the blaze is unknown.
The fire was discovered by Jim
Taylor, watchman who is employed
by the W. H. Dameron Supply Co.
to look after their property at the
depot. The night watchman called
Chief M. M. Drake who turned in
the alarm in front of his home,
and at the same time Night Policeman
C. E. Lovell was notified by
Mrs. Drake through the emergency
telephone.
Many people of Warrenton left
their beds in answer to the alarm
and traveled to the flaming building
as the fire company attempted
to stretch its hose from the hydrant
in front of H. A. Moseley's home
to the office. Water from the nozzel
of the hose fell short several feet
of the flames, and the firemen resorted
to chemicals from the truck
while Ed Gillam rushed to the cotton
mill for additional hose. When
this was connected and water turned
on the flames were soon smothered,
but the office had been destroyed
by this time.
At one time it appeared that the
flames would eat their way through
a window into the main building
to which the office was attached
or would leap to a nearby wooden
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HARVEY WELDON
KILLED IN CRASH
Several Injured When Automobile
Runs Into Side Of
Bus On Saturday
Harvey Weldon, popular young
man of Norlina and a member of
Company B. was killed and five
other people were injured here
Saturday about 12:30 o'clock when
a Chevrolet coupe driven by George
R. Prescott crashed into a NorfolkDurham
bus C-resham Bus
Line at the jail corner, one block
east of Main street.
The injured are:
Billie Lanier, employee of the W.
A. Miles Hardware Co., Warrenton,
a broken shoulder.
Walter Parrish, Warrenton, internal
injuries.
Mrs. W. H. Harrison, Jackson,
cut about the head and on leg.
R. D. Rowe, Portsmouth, cut
about the head and shoulder hurt.
M. Fox, Oxford, arm cut and
broken.
The accident occurrred when the
Chevrolet driven north on Bragg
street by Mr. Prescott and carrying
Mr. Lanier and Mr. Parrish on the
inside and Mr. Weldrtti on the right
running board attempted to cross
highway 48 at the jail corner just
as the bus, which was coming into
Warrenton, reached that point. The
force of the impact smashed the
left side of the bus, causing it to
be thrown against an iron beam
on the right side of the road which
wrecked the top and right side of
the bus, and practically ruined the
nhovr/ilpfc.
Mr. Weldon was picked up from
the road in a dying condition and
rushed to the office of Dr. W. D.
Rodgers where death came a few
minutes later. The injured passengers
were removed from the bus and
also carried to Dr. Rodgers's office
where they received medical attention
from Dr. Rodgers and Dr. G.
H. Macon. Mr. Lanier and Mr. Parish
were attended by Dr. F. P.
Hunter. Mr. Prescott was not hurt,
nor was M. J. Bishop, driver of the
bus, and two small children, who
were passengers.
A jury empanelled by Coroner
Edward Petar Saturday afternoon
held that Mr. Prescott was responsible
for the accident and recommended
that he be held under $500
bond, which was given.
According to the evidence brought
out in the hearing, the bus was
running between 20 ind 25 miles
an hour. Witnesses faded to testify
as to the speed of the car but said
that it was traveling at a right good
rate. Testimony was furnished by
Mr. Bishop, bus driver: Mrs. Harrison,
passenger; Mr. Rowe, passenger;
"Red" Harris and Pompey Williams,
two negroes who saw the
accident. Not any of the witnesses
were able to testify that a man was
riding on the running board.
Members of the Coroner's jury
were Frank Serls, Roy Daniel, Fate
Weaver, A. A. Wood, Waverly
Thompson and Claude Coleman.
Mr. weiaon was in varrenton to
leave with the local military company
in the afternoon for Morehead.
He was in the baggage car
of the train, it was said, when Mr.
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RIDAY, JULY 10, 1931
BOARD MAKES .,,
NO PROMISE
Tells Delepatinn That Artinn
Cannot Be Taken Until
Budget Is Prepared
CONTINUES FIRE WORK
Citizens who appeared before the
board of county commissioners in
its regular session at Warrenton on
Monday petitioning that appropriations
for the library be maintained,
were promised that efforts would
be made to do so, but told that
nothing definite could be promised
until a tentative budget is prepared.
Work on this has been delayed
because of the prolonged session
of the recent legislature and
delay in transmission of its act to
the county auditor.
The board called attention to an
estimated shrinkage in real estate
values under the new valuation of
approximately two million dollars.
S. E. Burroughs, spokesman for the
library delegation, and who also at
the request of Capt. Claude Bowers,
asked that the military company
appropriations be maintained,
said that he realized fully that the
board was faced with a difficult
task, but in view of the importance
of these activities, that every effort
be made to appropriate for their
benefit. He was assured that this
would be dene. Commissioner John
L. Skinner in the discussion of these
measures pointed out that since he
first served on the board that values
had shrunk from nineteen and
one-half to ten million dollars.
While no definite assurance could
'oe given pending the preparation
of a tentative budget and instruction
from the State Beard of Health
OC11U1UC11U CApi COOCU Kt J VAX 1VUJ
members of the board was to the
effect that the county nurse would
be retained in Warren. The hospital
bed maintained in the Rocky
Mount hospital for the benefit of
charity patients from Warren county,
suggested being done away with
as an economy measure, gained in
favor with the board after Dr. Willis
of the hospital appeared and
told members of the use to which
the bed had been put. Dr. Willis
was accompanied before the board
by Dr. G. H. Macon. The Rocky
Mount physician told of several instances
in which lives of Warren
citizens had been actually saved,
and of other cases where citizens
had been cured and removed from
being charges on the county.
Dr. Willis told the members that
Warren ccunty at that time had
five patients in the Rocky Mount
hospital and at the rate they were
using its bed, that its appropriation
would be used up before the year
was ended. After Dr. Willis had left
the rocm, Miss Lucy Leach, welfare
officer was summoned. Questioned
about the number of patients
sent to the hospital she said
that although she had instructed
physicians not to send charity patients
to the hospital without the
approval of herself or Dr. Forter
the county physician, that her instructions
had been disobeyed several
times. The board instructed
her to write to the hospital authorities
telling them that Warren county
would not be responsible for any
more patients admitted without
such approval.
H. L. Miller, State Fire Warden,
accompanied by County Warden
Diwnoli onrvnoroH nrp t.Via
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board asking that the county appropriation
for forest fire prevention
be increased from $500 to $700,
Mr. Miller pointed out that in all
probability such a sum would not
be needed, but that it would have
to be available if the work was to
continue in Warren. After Mr. Millei
had gone into details about the
work, and John Pitchford, district
warden from Mountain View section
had told about saving a school
house and several dwelings during
the past few months, the board
signed the contract renewing the
work in the county. Within less
than an hour after the agreement
had been signed, as if arranged by
fate, a forest fire was discovered
en the Tarwater place about two
miles west of Warrenton and in
view of the board, Warden Pinneli
with volunteers extinguished the
flames after they had burned over
only a few acres. Commenting on
the fire that night, he said that
without organized fire fighting it
would have no doubt burned over
the entire timber of the farm.
W. T. Powell appeared before the
board offering them a site near
Warrenton for the proposed prison
camp. He said that power lines
passed over the location and that
good water was available ,two requisites
for camp location. The
board promised to make an investigation.
The board made application for a
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?ar Warren
High Schools
Principals for the four high
schools of Warren County and for
three schools doing high school
work were announced this week at
the office of the Superintendent of
Schools following the election of J.
W. King of Ebony, Va., as principal
of the Macon school. Mr. King and
two children are expected to move
to Macon about the first of August.
S. G. Chappel will again be principal
of the Norlina school. W. J.
Miller, principal of the Macon
school last year, will be in charge
of the Warrenton school this year.
Miss Emily Milam will be principal
of the Wise school this year. P.
W. Cooper will again head the Afton-Elberon
school. F. M. Bailey
will be in charge of the Drewy
school.
R. R. Jackson, in charge of the
Wise school last year, has accepted
a position as principal of the Woodland
school in Northampton county,
Superintendent Allen said.
Supt. Allen also announced that
contracts had been received for
signatures of teachers of agriculture
in the Littleton, Norlina and
Macon schools.
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'Kingfish' Brings
Laughs To Crowds;
Money To Scouts
Amusing, spicy, laugh-producing,
"The Kingfish," local talent play
staged at the auditorium of the
John Graham high school on last
Thursday and Friday nights, went
over with the vim and verve which
good training creates when it is
applied to natural talent, and netted
the Girl Scouts something over
$50.00.
Favorable comments for the entire
show have fallen up and down
the street of Warrenton since the
two performances, with the crescendo
of praise centeringg around
the name of Henry Anderson, who
as a man and later as a woman
strutted across the stage with the
aplomb of an actor who had spent
his nights before the footlights.
And Dr. W. W. Taylor, who played
the part of "The Kingfish," forgot
the hum of a dentist drill, overlooked
the fact that he was Judge
of Recorder's court, and centered all
his attention on convincing his sonin-law,
William Taylor, that he was
a mason, for he had been deceiving
his wife for 20 years while he enjoyed
night life and the idea of
"fessing-up" didn't seem so well to
him at this late date. To complicate
the matter, his son-in-law was also
deceiving his wife, and he was de(Continued
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Disregard Stop Light;
Will Face Mayor
Several Warrenton citizens will
pay costs and perhaps fines in
Mayer's court this morning as an
aid to their eye sight and memory.
Arrested by Chief M. M. Drake yesterday
for running through the red
light stop signal on Main Street,
several gave as their excuse that
, they did not see, or that they forgot
about it. Chief Drake told them
to be in Mayor's court Friday morning
at 9 o'clock.
Commenting on the arrest yester1
day afternoo.i, Chief Drake asked
1 that the public be informed that
persons caught running through the
light would be promptly arrested.
"Drivers must step when the light
flashes red, and go forward when
it flashes green. The signal was
1 placed there for the protection of
' the public and the law must be enforced,"
he said.
Capt. Dan McDowell
Lectures Prisoners
Capt. Dan McDowell, prison
evangelist, visited the Warren coun- [
ty jail yesterday and gave a lecture
' to the two prisoners which are con.
fined there at present.
According to the evangelist his
1 lecture at the Warren county
bastile ma<Je the tenth "jail and
prison camp that he has visited during
nine days of this month.-His
object, according to his card, is "To
seek crime prevention, the cooperation
of the prison with the officials,
thereby leading to constructive
prison reform, the moral and physi. i
cal uplift of the prisoner, the restoration
of the offender to good
citizenship."
BANZETS MOVE
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Banzet have
moved into the former Winston
residence on South Main Sttreet.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Taylor and
daughter have moved into the Henderson
home formerly occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. Banzet. /
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ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 28
RECOVERS FIVE
YEARS' TAXES
Byron Brown Estate Must
Pay Nearly $5,000 In Back
Taxes and Penalties
ONLY $4,000 WAS LISTED
Warren county yesterday recovered
nearly $5,000 in back taxes and
penalties from the Byron Brown
estate.
Back taxes for the five years allowed
by the law totalled $3745.
Ten per cent penalties for each of
the five years in arrears came to
$1145.50. Total settlement agreed to
by representatives of the estate and
the county board was $4890.50. After
deduction for attorney fees and
other necessary expenses the genieral
fund will receive approximately
$4500.
Byron Brown, believed to have
been the wealthies negro in Warren
county, died on January 1. Under
the terms of his will, his son Grover
C. Brown, inherited the bulk of
his estate. The division of the property
caused other heirs to bring
a suit to break the will. This was
heard at the May term of court and
resulted in a mistrial. In inventories
[of the estate for purpose of division,
huge discrepancies were found between
property owned and amounts
listed.
Polk and Gibbs, local attorneys,
were employed by the board of
county commissioners to obtain
back taxes and penalties for the
differences in values. Meeting with
the board in adjourned session on
Thursday, Mr. Gibbs and representatives
of the estate, agreed to an
average valuation of $54,000 over
the five year period. According to
county officials Byron Brown had
never listed more than $4,000
worth of property in the county.
"The meeting for the purpose of
settlement was held in the afternoon.
The morning session of the
adjourned meeting from Monday
was given over to adjustments of
real estate values and to other
business not settled on Monday.
C. E. Jackson, Warren ton business
man, was'given a reduction of .
$1,000 on his residence, and a reduction
of $10 per acre on 111
acres which he owned in Fork
township.
The board ordered that two tenant
houses in Warrenton be listed
against J. P. Scoggin, due to the
fact that they were not taken into
consideration by the local assessors
in listing Mr. Scoggin's property.
The J. J. Tarwater residence in
' Warrenton was reduced in value
I from $5,000 to $4,500.
I The board ordered that J. D.
j Thompson, operator of a service
station near town on the Macon
road, be admitted to the county
home.
Warrenton Golfers
Add Another To
String of Victories
Warrenton golfers added another
to its string of victories on Wednesday
afternoon when they defeated
the Louisburg team here by the
score of 32 1-2 to 15 1-2.
B. Williams of Warrenton with
a score of 79 for the 18 holes, lead
the field. Individual scores are given
below with the name of the
Louisburg player leading:
Cox 82, McGuire 84; Taylor 86,
Ward 82; Johnson 84, Nunn 80;
Burgess 82, B. Williams 79; Purnell
88, Burton 85; Hicks 93, W. N. Boyd
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95, Jones 91; P. Malone 95, E.
E. Gillam 106; E. H. Malone 100,
Robertson 91; Egerton 88, H. Williams
93; Rose 88, Gregory 90; Griffin
92, Hunt 87; Wheeless 96, P.
Boyd 87; Ashley 95, Mayfield 91;
Henderson 95, Tom Frazier 86.
Girl Scouts Leave
For Summer Camp
Twelve girl scouts in the charge
of two councilors left Warrenton on
the bus at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday
morning for a one week outing at
Camp Gibsonville, near Greensboro.
They are expected to return on
Tuesday of next week.
Members of the party, which is
headed by the Misses Olivia Burwell
and Lucy Boyd, are Edna and
i Irene Fleming, Gene Williams
'Louise Milby, Katherine Williams,
IMary Macon, Laura Ellis, Mariam
I Boyd, Helen Holt, Nancy Gillam,
I Elizabeth Boyce, and Flora Davis
Wood.
CLERK NEWELL HERE
Friends of Clerk of Court John
D. Newell were glad to see him
around the courthouse on Saturday
afternoon and on Saturday
morning.
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