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I ACCURATE, TERSE ^ timely | KfOlUME XXXI ifpkoStv" Iff WAS LEGAL H, tot men t Made By Com gjssioners Causes Higher Town Taxes Here MjlSTY TAXES LOWER is nothing: illegal about owners of Warrenton being H heavier this year than preJulius Banzet, county attold a representative of this rp^nV. /Kpapr. [fce question was asked Mr. Ban. folloaing allegations on the part citizens of the town that the cf county commissioners vioi the statue in increasing the ate of Warrenton without noti. the property owners. "It was Regularity but no illegality," ountv attorney held, perry owners of Warrenton wondered since receiving their otices for 1931 why valuations higher than a year ago if the re ever the county has been sed 10 per cent. The reason s fellows: lassing the State school law ?gislature. as a compromise e, voted to pay for the operate six-months school term d the counties would levy a rate to assist in this work, r to keep any county from its valuation so low that the II freest 'levy would not contribute Ijtsproper share to State school sup j*rt the Legislature passed a law that county valuations could not be Induced mote than 10 per cent on an average. I Assessors appointed by the board of County Commissioners, in revaluling Warren property, reduced proIperty outside of Warrenton from 1 ja perhaps 50 per cent. When the Ilew values were submitted, includ-j lig those at Warrenton, it was found mar the average reduction in the; [aunty was 17 per cent?7 per cent; Iare than the law allowed. In order |c conform to the law, the Comm'sjmers ordered that every piece cf pperty in the county be raised efficiently to bring the average up athe 10 per cent limit. This meant i! increase of slightly more than Iper cent in Warrenton, while other jettons received a reduction. Due to the fact that the State las taken over the operation of he n-mcnths schools and the roads, te tax rate over the county has fn reduced on an average of beften 40 and 50 per cent. In spite II the increased valuation in tne #111 the citizens here will have to K considerable less county tax, fcp, their town tax will be more as tie City Fathers set the town rate lit tl,the same as in former years, rite tom uses the county's valuaTown Board Has Quiet Session On J Monday Night, The regular monthly meeting of the town commissioners was held Monday night. Other than orderp? that a street light be transteed from near the Boyd-Gillam Wage to the street on which the 6e company is located, and the instruction to Chief M. M. Drake to see that school trucks do not park too close to the corners of the streets nod thereby endanger traffic, mattors before the city fathers were of i more or less routine nature. The street light was ordered movy after it was pointed out that here were several lights near the i?yd-Gillam Mctor Co., and that rere was not one on the street from too Citizens Bank to the Warrenton ater Co. The instructions to the! ef ?* P?hce in regard to the | I, ?0l trucks camp pfeof MAVVi XV AltVU ( ?en pointed out that they were Ming tco close to the corner of &in cad Ridgeway streets and Heating a dangerous point for mo-' "Mis Mayor They I Buried Wrong Man SOSTON, Dec. 8.-Leslie Fletcher, chauffeur who recently drove w?r Curley at the head of a fu 2 cortege for "General D. Pres is of the opinion that they 1^ the wrong guy." W^er v,as Personal driver to 1!% during the "funeral," ^h ended with a casket bearing D- Pfession" being dumped J^ton Harbor. I fy. cilauJ{eur returned to the of ^ his employers, an automo f^^etlcy, after the services to t* ,at he was laid off "until bet, tc a es" He wTote the following "You and I buried I Nlo?n? gUy' Xt was General D" I chauffeur who passed . I I Christmas Health Steals To Be Sold i At Warrentor Sale of Christmas health seals will begin in Warren county within the next few days, Mrs. C. P. Allen, county chairman, announces this week in sending the following appeal to the editor of this newspaper: "In the past you have most generously referred to the Christmas Seal sale in The Warren Record. "This year we are constrained to repeat our request for your cooperation, because the current economic situation promises to be reflected in 1932 by greatly increased demands for our wcrk. As you probably know, this work is carried on hv 90Rd of filiated tuberculosis associations and committees throughout the United States, each supported by the sale of Christmas Seals, at a penny each, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. "The 1931 campaign is the twenty-fifth annual Seal sale. Twentyfour times we have asked our people to buy Seals, and each time the response has been a generous one. We hope that now, when fear and want are breaking the vitality of so many men and women, more Seals will be purchased than ever before. God knows the need is greater." Joseph P. Pippen Named Member Of School Committee Joseph P. Pippen, Littleton attorney, was elected a member of the Littleton school committee to succeed John Picot, resigned, at a regular meeting of the Board of Education at Warrentcn on Monday. Mr. Pippen's election came after a delegation from the Littleton Parent-Teacher Association has appeared before the board endorsing Mr. Pippen. Arthur Powell was elected committeeman for Warrenton township, not special tax, to succeed his fath. er, the late W. T. Powell. riV?o*Hn Alefrm rvf A pt?l/l 1/1UI1 Ui V/XJiaXAXO XliO l/vil vr* lJudkins to have the school bus detour one-half mile from road fork to his home to pick up his daughter was refused when is was pointed out that a ruling of the State Board did not approve this service. Complaint having reached the board that several drivers of school trucks were operating machines at an illegal rate of speed, the board ordered that this practiced be stepped and that officers be instructed to make arrest wherever drivers were found to be guilty of this practice. Oak wood can be bought in Warren county from $1 to $4 a cord, it was revealed when bids were opened at the board meeting on Monday. The board instructed Superintendent Allen to place order at most favorable terms available. The board ordered that the 8tete loan fund to the amount of $9,500 be paid and $2,000 be refunded to general fund of the county. Members of the board of education and the county commissioners were guests of Superintendent Allen at dinner. PERSONAL MENTION Mrs. W. F. Graves of Oxford was ~ "AiTyo TtiftlrAr Polk this fX gUCOl Vi I?xi%J. ~ __ week. Mr. Gaston S. Foote of Portsmouth spent the week end with relatives here. Mrs. John Turman of Richmond spent several days recently with her mother, Mrs. Kate Williams. Mr. David Davis of New Bern was a recent guest of relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Hunter of Portsmouth were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Hunter Sunday. Mrs. Hunter remained for a visit to relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Massenburg and Misses Sarah B. Massenburg and Vivian Lawson and Nancy Gillam attended the charity football game at Durham on Saturday. Misses Gayle and Georgie Tarwater spent the week end at Axtelle with Mrs. Peter Seaman. Mr. and Mrs. Allison Cooper and Mrs. Cdrnelia Cheatham of Henderson attended the funeral of Mr. Alex Baxter of Ridgeway Sunday afternoon. | Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mabry and Mrs. T. J. Jones of Durham attend| eri the funeral of Mr. Alex Baxter here on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Scoggin and son of Louisburg were recent visitors here. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Gary and Mesdames Andrew Newcombe and . Norwood Thomas of Henderson at1fha funeral of Mr. Alex il/wilUVU V??V Baxter here on Sunday. Mr. John Adcock of Churchill was in town this week. Iff Mi WARRENTON, COU] f TUCKY i V By CR. GAS BUGGI AMERICAN Labor savimc fivu amd automatic. threw men o IN E5TA0USHED fern ~THEN creating v x \vvv#m tho usani ^ys. vvslm might oth haveuss vxv T. Alex Baxter, ] Ridgeway Citizen, Buried Sunday Funeral services fcr T. Alex Baxter, prominent citizen of Ridgeway a who ended his life Saturday morn- ? ing, were conducted at his home ^ Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by c the Rev. B. C. Thompson, new pas- ft tor of the Norlina Methodist church. Following the services the body was brought to Warrenton and interred 1; in Fairview cemetery. State High- I way Patrolmen gave assistance in f: handling the automobiles which composed one of the longest fun- f, eral processions ever witnessed in this county. f Mr. Baxter shot himself through |b the head with a pistcl Saturday morning while in the yard of his f home. His wife and daughter were ^ in Warrenton at the time. Although ^ he was regarded as a man of good health, it is understood that for the f past several days he was suffering from a nervous break-down and had been unable to sleep at night. c He was 55 years of age and is survived by his wife; one son, William Baxter of Ridge way; one ^ daughter, Miss Katherine Baxter, a member of the Macon school facul- w ty; his mother and one sister, Mrs. W. C. Mabry of Ridgeway. r Mr. Baxter was engaged in the insurance business at the time of ^ his death, but he was formerly a hotel man, having at one time y managed and assisted in managing the Chamberlain Hotel at Old Point Comfort, the Jefferson Hotel at Richmond, White Sulphur Spring Hotel in West Virginia, and a large hotel in Atlantic City. He returned to his birth place at Ridgeway about c ten years ago and since that time v has been in the insurance business, <j Pallbearers were Theo. Stallings, t Plummer Fitts, Julius Banzet, Jr., g Herbert Petar and T. P. Grant. I o Jurors Are Drawn * For January Term c Of Superior Court J t The following names of Warren county taxpayers have been drawn v for jury duty for the January term t of Superior court: r" First week?John S. Bell, T. B. ? , Gardner, C. F. Moseley, H. D. White, t C. P. Allen, J. D. Limer, C. V. Hicks, r C. H. King, T. T. Hawks, J. D. j Dickerson, Herman Seaman, J. C. Edmonds, T. R. Evans, A. B. Laugh. 1 ter, J. F. Bobbitt, H. W. Edwards, J W. J. Perkinson, Clifton C. Alston, J A. P. Holtzman, T. B. Fleming, J. E. Rooker Jr., R. F. King, O. W. (Felts, J. A. Rhem, R. L. Powell, J. ^ A. Ross, E. G. Williams, Thomas c {Frazier, W. E. Hundley, George W. 'Hester, Glyn Floyd, Turner Felts, t (D. P. Limer, T. P. Collins, Luther ( M. Paynter John Ball. c Second week?E. G. King, J. A. a Hudgins, R. L. Salmon, J. P. Scog- j o wnnrf m. p. Stewart, L. t j gm, m. xv? ?? wm| ? ,L. Fuller, Plummer Peoples, W. W. c jPegram, Holt Perkinson, R. L. t Yancey, Waverly Harton, C. S. s Scott, Charles J. Ball, T. P. Hicks, i Jack B. King, S. G. Wilson, S. J. ( Harris. i gf ' ' irmt NTY OF WARREN, N. C., F BREAKS I Miller ES SAVED I LABOR g 3 PROCESSES mfj MACHINERY fflffjS UT OF WORK mi/Ifg/ ? INDUSTRIES MffM/f, I THE auto, /ORK FOR Mi fflM/A OS WHO MW///M ERWIS& mijlMj&f/Jgf N JOB^ ggsu 0,q,? ft^c us PW. OFF Eleven Christmas Opportuities Listed By Welfare Officer \ 1 Eleven Christmas opportunities to J id the unfortunate of this county ,re this week submitted by Miss mcy I. Leach, welfare officer for Varren. Those willing to take these ases are asked to get in touch with liss Leach. The opportunities foldw: 1. Family of white children greater in need on account of sickness, n addition to the parents, there are ive children. 2. White unmarried mother needs r J Un Vitt uuu ana uiuliics iui sen anu uauj. 3. White unmarried mother needs ocd and clothes for herself and aby. 4. One old white woman needs ! ood and clothes. She has also in ! ler family a daughter and baby to' ielp support. 5. Afflicted negro woman needs | ood and clothes. She is in a poor teighborhcod. 6. Sick negro man needs food and lothes. He is in poor neighborhood. 7. Two white children need food, i Tieir father is out of work. 8. Help is needed for eld white : roman and son who is not strong. 9. White woman and small childen need food and clothes. 10. Two small children need help. I 11. One large family white chil [ren need food and clothes. _________ < Warren Schools i To Operate Into Christmas Week |] All white schools in Warren! nimtv will run into Christmas /eek before recessing for the holiays, it was learned yesterday at he office of the Superintendent of ichools. The Warrenton school will close . u Wednesday, December 23 as will he schools at Noriina. Afton.El-', eron and Drewry. Areola will ( lose on Monday, December 21.' 5 aughan, Littleton, Inez and Wise j fill close on Thursday, Decerncr 22. ] The Drewry school, conforming nth the schedule of the Middleiuig school to which many of its mpils are transported, will resume peratidn on Wednesday Decemer 30. Other schools in the Waren system will be opened again on /Ionday, January 4th. Hyder To Be At Court House 1 Day TTntii further announcement, Thomas J. Hyder, Field Agent U. >. Department of Agriculture, who s attending to the collection of ( J. S. farm liens, will be at the Courthouse on Monday mornings inly. He will meet the borrowers i t their community postoffices dur- : ng this month and January. No-|| ices to this effect are being mailid each borrower. Payments may >e made) in case Mr. Hyder is not ivailable^ by forwarding to Washngton, or by leaving the money at ;ither of the two banks in War. enton. Kmi 'RIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 193 CITIZENS ASKED TO GIVE CLOTHES Bob Bright Will Call With Wagon To Make Collection On Saturday SAYS NEED IS GREAT Bob Bright, vocational agricultural teacher at the John Graham High School_ will come calling in a wagon at the homes of Warrenton citizens Saturday afternoon in quest of wearing apparel to be distributed by the welfare board to the destitutes of the county. Every citizen of the town who has any garment which he or she is willing to contribute to those who are partly naked and cold is asked to give Mr. Blight co-operation in his efforts to collect these garments. Plans for making the drive for old clothes Saturday were formulated at a meeting of the welfare board Wednesday afternoon at which time it was pointed out by Miss Lucy Leach, county welfare officer, that there were a number of people in the county who are really in want of clothes and many who are being kept from the school houses on account of the fact that they have ndt sufficient garments to clothe themselves. Mr. Bright's offer to drive the wagon Saturday came after the opinion had been expressed at the meeting that there were any number of citizens fo the town who would be glad to contribute some article to charity provided a call was made at their residence. Letters are being mailed to Warrenton citizens today asking that they give their co-operation to the drive. Plans For Relief Opportunities Listed Discussed At Meet Plans for a well organized relief organization were disclosed (at a meeting of the welfare board held in the offices of Miss Lucy I. Leach Wednesday afternoon. W. N. Boyd, county chairman, presided, and after reading an article, written in accord with the teachings of the Bible, and stressing the importance of giving work in preference to handing out charity, the meeting turned into a general discussion which lasted for about an hour. Due to the inclement weather, only a few citizens were present. The welfare board plans to give as much relief as possible this year to these suffering without contributing to the worthless, and to avoid duplication of gifts in so far as possible. This year committees will be appointed in the various communities and sections of the county and these committees with their assistants will make a personal investigation of the case nearby. If the facts in the cases investigated show that charity is needed, help will come through these committees. To avoid duplication of charity, a record will be kept by the welfare officer of all those receiving aid. A list of those on the committees throughout the county will be published as soon as all have accepted. Sheriff Publishes A List of His Deputies "In view of the fact that I am frequently questioned by citizens of the county as to whom my deputies ire, I wish that you would publish the full list," Sheriff W. J. Pinnell requested in submitting the following names: I Warrenton?L. O. Robertson andj R. O. Snipes. Nutbush?J. T. Ellington. Smith Creek, Fred Bobbitt. Hawtree?E. C. Perkinson. Six Pound?Jasper Shearin. River?Y. H. Bobbitt. Judkins?C. J. Reid. Fork?S. G. King. Shocco?R. L. Pinnell. Roanoke?S. R. Jones. Sandy Creek?Walter Mustain. Press Publishing Co. Discontinues Paper, The Press Publishing Company | this week discontinued the opera-1 tion of The Vance News Leader a weekly paper which it had publish-, 2d at Henderson for several months. Present economical conditions were given as the reason for disccntinu_| ance. Bignall Jones, who has been easing the Henderson paper, will give his full time to the management of the Press Publishing Company. Howard Jones Jr., will remain editor of The Warren Record. I 4 rft rvr. , S1 *SJ Ubvnu^ -State ^ Judge Gives Man One Day In Which To Leave County One man was run out of the county and another given a six months road sentence by Judge W. W. Taylor in Recorder's court cn Monday morning for the larceny of road equipment from the State highway force. The articles were stolen from a . chest near Long Bridge about ten days ago and at that time were estimated to be wortn about $45, out later they were claimed to represent ' about $20 in money value and the case was brought before the lower tribunal of the law for disposal. The utensils were found in a home which was occupied by J. O. Fowler and Macon Slick, two white men who came to this county from afar to gain a livelihood. They were arrested by Sheriff W. J. Pinnell and R. O. Snipes, road foreman and officer at times, and brought to Warrenton where they were lodged in the county bastile. Fowler, hobbling from disease, was called for trial first and acknow- i ledged his guilt to the larceny^ charge. He assumed full responsibi-j lity for the robbery, claiming that the articles were taken by him un-j be-knowing to Slick. He claimed that his partner was in the bed at the time he retrieved the hammers, saws, braces and bits and other articles and that he did not tell him from whence they came. Found guilty, Fowler was sentenced to six months on the roads. Slick, unshaven and ill appearing was then brought face to face with trie .bar 01 Justice ior ms part in harboring the stolen property. Although his story corroborated the evidence given by Fowler in that he was ignorant of the charge, he was found guilty of being an accessory to the crime. With Judge Taylor's virdict of guilt was an order to clear the county within six days ?time for the defendant to receive money with which to travel. This time was later cut down to one day when a representative of the highway force offered to arrange for his departure at once. Slick has a Wife, family and old automobile. A number of fruit jars, three of them containing a few drops of whiskey, a large jug and a small keg, which, so far as the court knew, were odorless, a few pounds of sugar and malt, and a piece of copper could not be compounded into a contrivance for the manufacture of whiskey, Judge W. W. Taylor held, and Walter Powell, negro who had been arrested by Special Prohibition Enforcement Officers after these articles had been found in and about his home, was allowed to go about his way a free man. The negro was represented by Julius Banzet who pointed out to the court that any of these articles could be found at a number of good citizens of the county and that the possession of them did not mean that a man had them for the purpose of running a distillery. A case against F. M. Rainey, in which he is charged with giving a bad check, was continued until next Monday due to the fact that the principal State witness is on jury duty in Halifax county. Billie Boyd, negro charged with reckless driving, was not tried Monday morning. His case was continued until January 4, 1932, due to the absence of State witnesses who are in Cuba. A $50 fine and costs was placed on the State witnesses for their absence. If they show sufficient cause for net being present, the fine will be lifted, it is thought. A case against George Saunders and M. S. Boyd, charging them with assault and reckless driving, was continued to January 11. T. N. Harrison was found guilty of giving a bad check. Judge Taylor suspended judgment upon the condition that he pay Mrs. T. C. Williams $20, and pay the court costs. An appeal was noted. Fleming Resigns As Assistant To Special Officer C. J. Fleming, who has been as j sisting Special Prohibition Enforcement Officer Edward Davis, resigned as deputy this week. The cause 'for his resignation is unknown. According to the records at the court house, no one has been appointed to fill his place. RANSOM LOT SOLD The Jimmie Ranson lot opposite Hotel Warren has been sold to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, it was learned at the office of the Register of Deeds yesterday. According to the deed the property brought $6,500.00. ' 1 2j k MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ^ j NUMBER 50 WARREN MAYBUY TOWNSHIP BONDS Board Willing to Take Advantage of $600 Discount $10,000 Worth of Bonds LARGELY ROUTINE MEET Warren county may buy $10,000 worth of Warrenton township road bonds in order to take advantage of a $600 discount. The board of county commissioners in regular session at Warrenton on Monday ordered that the Auditor be allowed to purchase fvnrn D C! nlrovcnA Jfr Pa fVtnca 1JIV/U1 XV. U. X'lVOXlOVU VV. V1AVOT7 bonds to the amount of $10,0uu provided bonds could be purchased at $94 per $100 bond. The county attorney was instructed to endorse said purchase. The session of the board was largely taken up with matters of routine. R/~sa Thompson of Hawtree township was given a reduction of $150 in the valuation of her property( when it was revealed that she suffered this loss in the tornado last spring and had failed to take advantage of a former order of the board permitting such reructions. The board ordered that A. T. Patterson Do j 'aced on the outside pauper list at $5 a month ufttll March 1, 193*. Mrs. Annie Dint, erson was also placed on the outside pauper list at $3 a month. It was ordered that the name of Fanny Knight be removed from the list. Georgie Cooper was given a credit for ten acres of real estate in Nutbush township, valued at $321, due to an error in listing. C. A. Tucker appeared before the bcatd relative to property twice iisted in the name of John Winbush and R. A Jackson. It appearing that the taxes had bee a paid by both parties, the D<ar<J ordered that the taxes for the years 1S29 and 1930 be refunded to Mr. Jackson's estate. The Board ordered that Mr. Andrews of the Bureau of Economics be extended a-n invitation \ to study local conditions of Warren county, and that county offlcial?. crive* "MV AnHroxirs sar.v irifnr 11O* > V IfAA 4. A-** >> W mation that he may request. It was ordered that Duke hospital be paid $30 for medical service rendered Joe Davis, a patient sent from Warren County. The Town of Littleton, through its Mayor John H. Taylor, put in a claim for $206.15, which included taxes and town assessment, with penalties and interest on T. J. Miles property bought in by the county. It was ordered that the county tender the flat rate of $78 in full settlement. It was brought to the attention of the board that a privilege tax of $5 had been collected from some garages and filling stations in the county, and a $2.50 tax was collected in other cases. Sheriff; Pinnell was summoned before the board to explain the difference in charge. Sheriff Pinnell said that when he first started to make these collections that he was instructed by Revenue Collector Mayes that he should collect a $6 privilege tax. The Attorney General later ruled that Warren was entitled to only $2.50 tax, but that the ruling came after he had collected much of this tax and that he did not wish to make anv refundo until he had I brought the matter to the attention 'of the board. Sheriff Pinnell was instructed to make refunds to such dealers as had paid excess amounts. To Take Offering For Orphans Sunday ' A Thanksgiving offering for the Methodist orphanage at Raleigh will be taken at the Warrenton Methodist church on Sunday, W. N. Boyd, active church worker, announced this week. Mr. Boyd said that there is an urgent need for funds and requested that liberal contributions be made. Sunday school members have already had an opportunity to contribute to the fatherless and motherless children, it is understood. Norlina Dentist To Take Special Course Dr. Wallace F. Mustian, Norlina dentist, has matriculated in ihe graduate school of Oral Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, beginning January 1, according W information reaching this office. Dr. Mustian will be in Chicago for eight months; returning to his office about September 1. Mrs. Mustian and children will remain at Ncrlina.
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