I ACCURATE, terse I TIMELY yrflUJME XXXII ItMNrnm] MOW COMPLETED! r H. Aycock Is Appointed Camp Superintendent; C. S. Scott Is Stewart [officials attend 'CUE I The prison camp has been comMpitted, appointments have been Wjuade. and convicts are expected I unowiav to occupy their new! Enters near the Town of WarI The prison will be managed by t .H. Aycock of Sandy Creek. Dr. I; H Macon has been named pri|vn physician, and C. S. Scott will |ierre as Stewart. The following l^ve been appointed as guards: | frank Nea 1, Warrenton; H. G. |jaithccck, Six Pound; Forrest |fteek, Judkins; W. R. Baskervill, | barren ton; Joe Pritchard, Sandy |creek; J. A. Pitchford, Judkins, |; s. Newsome, River. | competition for jobs at the |rion camp was keen. Letter after letter and petitions in behalf of | candidates have found their way | ;o the office of Sam D. Scott, su|jenisor of prisons in North Carolina. The appointments were re| ceived here Wednesday morning | md the compietion of the prison | us celebrated Wednesday after icon with a barbecue at the camp, I which was attended by a number I d State officials and many citiI Kis from the town and county. I I Among the highway officials I | here to examine the prison and to I ^participate in the 'cue were Sam J - ? Farmer of the/ IB D. fcWU, VUK"'? I highway patrol, Messrs. Craven, | Withsrspoon, Broacli, Rogers, Rea, I Berts and Rogers. I The prison, located about a mile I Som southern Warrenton, is a fireI proof construction and will house I Pom 75 to 80 convicts. Work on I ie camp began in November under I ie supervision of Jack Smiley, loI si contractor. In addition to the I nin building at the camp, there I re four other buildings?a mess I Jail, a laundry, guard house, and It garage. The cost of the camp I ns around $20,000 which was paid I y the State. I Following the baibecue Mr. I Scott briefly instructed the perluinel of the Warren county Irscn in regard to their duties. Is? said that Warren was the list county he came to when he li-ian his work in North Carolina Ind it would always occupy a warm I not in his heart. He asked that tie officials endeavor to make this I fie best camp in the State. Play To Be Given At Macon Tonight MACON, Feb. 11.?The play, "Mammy's Little Wild Rose," will be given in the Macon high school auditorium tonight (Friday) at 7:30 oclock. This play is sponsored by file second vear class, nnri rine to Iick of funds this year, is being i in order to raise mcney to ' on the home economic work, e scene is in the yard of a itain home and the characters Rose, Thelma Young; Daniel, 1 Haithccck; Lesber, Spruce ;an; Lettie, Mable Harris; PegThelma Overby; Wade Carver, n Tharrington; Mammy, Louise son; Uncle Joe. Milton Burrows; Sadie Pegram; Orpheus, dine Harris; Aunt Hester, Irene i?; Mrs. Courtvan, Lois Thomp& addition to the play, there will several special features, such as special chorus and dance, the lot Economic class song, and wl&l piano and string music by ks Pope and her brother. Every Be is cordially invited to come. A ^ cterge will be made. Hames Destroy Home At Macon comPtetely destroyed the on .Hovard Riggan at noon hove ?' ^re ts believed to fins from a defective I I before ,> made much headway The f SaS ^'scover d. 5 ??* Was only al)le save The Ir^j j of household furniture, tally 531(1 to have been par. " by insurance. PEyJfJ? 1N' DISGUISE * 0re- F*b. 11?VetSuet h were baffled at a ?fegon ufe,when the annual ^ to diK? gT0Wers' Association ^ hiar>o.+UStSheep Problems and deci 5 ?r V;ool and mutton. *4 untjj . ey had been served 5 curM !aS revealed it was i"0^. Thn a new Kuropean Hti a. . new "lamburger" was as 3 Worthy find. i "S T v m I Huey Long Swor / Governor Long of Louisiana, a dyita activities to the Senate, after his own Dor's chair had been duly elected Lor^ to Vice-President Curtis. Painting Brings \ Honor To Former Warrenton Girl Painting a squash ,Miss Mary H. Tannahill of New York, formerly cc of Warrenton and a cousin of t Mrs. Tasker Pouk, was awarded $2 a medal by the judges at the an. fi nual exhibition of the National As. vs sociation of Women Painters and vi Sculptors for producing the best 9C water color in the show, according ei to a narticle taken from Thursday's New York Wolrd-Telegram: ^ "Of the million women who have fr studied the possibilities of a white ^ summer squarsh it remained for b( Miss Mary H. Tannahill, New York E? artist, to move the familiar vege. ^ table from its obscure place in the ?r kitchen to a sensational position a] in an art exhibition. C( "Miss Tannahill's painting of a t< squarsh and its vine leaves, as they ]< looked the morning last summer u when they were dumped on the s kitchen table of her brother's home If on a Westchester County farm has ir become the most talked. 01 picture at the annual exhibition of the Na. Vi tional Association cf Women Paint. g( ers and Sculptors that opened last C( week in the Fine Arts Building. C] ' "Squarsh' was awarded a medal w by the judges for being the best ir water color in the show. Jonas Lie, ^ famous painter and one of the sev. t en men painters and sculptors cn the male jury that judged the show g( pointed to it as the most signifi. je cant of the paintings in the exhi. n: bition. C( Brought It To Studio ^ " 'So far as I know no other art. ist ever selected a squarsh as a subject for a picture, but this o.ae looked so beautiful when the farm. 0] er brought it into the kitchen that ^ I simply had to paint it,' Miss Tan. nahill said today. She was so much C( impresses by a quality of whiteness k( in its skin that she returned with it sj 1o the city that day, she said, set a] it ud in her 57th St. studio and ini. lf. mcrtalized it in water colors. " 'I like to take simple, common place things and shdw how lovely they really are,' she said. 'I some. C( times wonder why other painters s( select still life subjects whose love. l.'rvsss is so obvious to every one rj that their beauty does not need to ^ be interpreted by an artist. My p idea in painting the squash was to express its form and beauty as simply as I could.' "Other vegetables also have ex. t, traordinary beauty in the eyes of r this artist. 'I think onions are perfectly exquisite.' And there is her p 'Cabbage,' a painting that was ex. tc hibited a few years ago at the Brooklyn Academy." A Presiding Elder To p Preach Here Sunday sc Rev. L. B. Jones, presiding elder F of the Rocky Mount district, will s( preach at the Warrenton Metho. w uist church Sunday night and will hold the quarterly conference Mon. I day morning at eleven o'clock. The w ladies of the church will serve lunch after the quarterly meeting. C All officials of the charge should e be present. a ATTEND FUNERAL ir ? " t-_ J ITT *, Sheriff w. J. pinneii, juagc w. 1* W. Taylor, Judge T. O. Rodwell, John H. Kerr Jr., and Frank H. H Gibbs 'attended the funeral of Judge M Thomas M. Pittman at Henderson Wednesday afternoon. Judge Pitt. H man died at his home at the Vance R county capital Sunday night at 7 K o'clock. He was 74 years of age, dean of the Henderson bar, and for V many years chairman of the North ir Carolina Historical Commission. jti if llj WARRENTON, COUNTY n in as Senator mic politician, has transferred his choice as successor in the Goverl la shown handing his credentials Varren Has Paid Nearly Half Of 15c School Levy RALEIGH, Feb. 10. ?Warren mnty had paid into the State reasury $9,684.32 of the estimated 50,083. coming from this county om the 15 cent levy on the $100 iluation, based on an assessed iluation for the county of $3,388,18, up to Saturday, State Treasur. John Stedman said. Up to Saturday $1,975,890.66 of ie estimated $4,461,691 to come cm the 100 counties to suppleient the State school fund had ;en received, Treasurer Stedman lid, leading him to believe that alf the fund will be received withi the next few days. Collections rr- helifived to be slow in the )unties, but many of them have Elected more than half of the 131 taxes. Counties are required nder the law to forward to the late Treasurer the amount of the i 5 cent levy collected twice a i ionth, the 1st and 15th. Avery county, with an assessed' iluation of slightly more than $5,_ | 10,000, is the only one of the 100 lunties that has made no return! a the 15 cent ad valorem tax, < hile numbers of others had sent i only small parts of the taxes elieved to have been collected,' reasurer Stedman said. Every effrot is being made to :t the counties to forward the colctions promptly so the State can leet its six months school term )sts. largely in teachers' salaries, [r. Stedman said. FIND STILL IN COFFIN NAHUNTA, Ga., Feb. 11.?A still perated in a coffin was found and estroyed here by Sheriff Ed New-! )n. The entire plant was con;aled in a large home-made caset constructed of pine, lined with ieet zinc, and was uncovered only Jiliwnnf eoornh ThA t.WO fll- i LUC1 UxngCJiu O^MXWA. ^_ ged operators were arrested. SERVICE STATIONS SOLD Two of the three service stations mstructed for the Boyce Motor ervice have been sold. The sta. on near Warrenton on the Libea road has been bought by Ray 'estcn and Norman Pittard has urchased the station at Norlina. PERSONAL MENTION Miss Ruth Pettyjohn of Lynchurg is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. .T. Watson. Messrs. C. R. Williams and Lee aschall of Richmond were in >wn this week. Friends of Mrs. Jim Shepherd of fton are glad to learn she is revering from an operation for apendicits which she underwent at .aria Parham hospital in Hender>n. Misses Grace Wagner and Mary ranees Rodwell of the Hender>n Business School spent the eek end here. Miss Elizabeth Staekhouse, John lenderson and Dr. Rufus Jones ere visiters in Raleigh Sunday. Misg Lucy Baskervill cf Duke iniversity, Durham, spent the week nd here with her parents, Mr. nd Mrs W. R. Baskervill. Mrs. Bob Bell of Henderson, for. j lerly of Churchill, was a guest cf riss Estelle Davis this week. ? itr ? whppler of I ur. ana ivj..e>. ?*. *v. .'enderson were dinner guests of irs W. A. Connell Sunday. Miss Helen Estabrock of the ,'ome Economics department of aleigh was ia week end guest of frs. W. A. Connell. Mrs. Howard P. Jones arrived Wednesday afternoon from Wash, lgton, D. C. She expects to reirn tomorrow morning. i' : I j V . . W'. T } " " 1 M > \ \ 1 OF WARREN, N. C., FRIDA n ' Harvey Weldon Claim Is Argued Before Commission Claims for compensation in connection with the death of Harvey Weldon, young white man of Nor. lina who was accidently killed here on July 4 when he was in War. renton to leave with the local military unit for camp, were set forth at a meeting of the Industrial CommiSfeion held in the court house on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Due to the fact that briefs have to be filed and arguments made in the case it will rrobablv be several weeks before a decision will be made by the commission. The hearing was 'conducted before T. A. Wilson, one of the members of the Industrial Commission, and the National Guard was represented by Walter D. Silver, and Major Smith. Three fatal accident cases are included in the 55 workmen's compensation cases set for hearing in the Piedmont and Mountain section cf the State before Commissioner Wilson during this and next week. Commissioner Wilson came here Monday afternoon from Henderson where he heard a base in the morn, ing. He started Wednesday on his western swing with two at Roxboro, two at Spray, five at Mt. Airy, one each at Wilkesboro and Jefferson, three 'at Newland, one each at Baskerville and Barnardsville, fifteen at different times in Asheville, two at Bryson City, one at Murphy, two each at Robbinsville and Franklin, one at Syhia, three at Hendersonville, four at Marion, four at Morganton and three at Newton. Warrenton Tobacco Market To Close On Next Friday, 19th The Warrenton tobacco market will close Friday, February 19. This date was set at a meeting of the tobacco board of trade held on Wednesday and is in line with the closing of other markets in the middle belt. Figures on the amount sold and the average price paid by the three warehouses here were not available late yesterday afternoon, but it is thought that around four million pounds of the weed were sold here during the season. T. wTking Dies" At Inez Wednesday Funeral services lor T. W. King of Inez were conducted yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by the Rev. E. N. Harrison, assisted by the Rev. S. E. Wright,, a former pastor. Mr. King died suddenly at his home Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. He was