I 1 B ACCURATE, terse w TIMELY jfl yoLUMN XXXIII IsIIWISnI 1 FARM COURSE N'orUna Citizens Raising U Funds For Vocational Teacher I ELECTION HELD INVALID Unable to raise revenue through I taxation due to the fact that the I special election authorizing a six I cents levy was held invalid at the Bpast session of Warren's Superior court, a committee of seven Norlina - ... , j? IHP citizens src soliciting 1 unuo xxi mc \ SpedaJ school district to pay for V vocational agriculture in the Norlina high school. The committee is striving to raise [I around S600 and according to M. C. ! Johnson, dim., the citizens of Nor- I I lina as a whole are giving splendid i cooperation. On the committee with I I jlr. Johnson are R. M. White, O. A. Rose. Herman Seaman, W. E. Mul Chi Jr., T. T. Hawks, W. A. Overby, |l and W. E. Hundley. jfl The money is to be paid to C. C. : Lawrence, vocational agricultural teacher. Mr. Lawrence, it is underjl stood, has not received any renuS meration during the school year from citizens in the special district for the instructions in farming he I has given the boys who attend the I Norlina high school.. What money I he has received for his work has fl come from the State and Federal I government, which pay five-eights of his salary. A special election was held in the H Norlina school district last Septem- J ber for the purpose of raising rev- ) enue to retain vocational agricul- J B ture in the Norlina school. The elec- | M tion was earned by one vote, but I was later contested on grounds of irregularities and Judge Frank Darnel ruled that it was invalid. H So no money wtis raised for Mr. Lawrence until a. few days ago Wan cr?lW_ IWIJfli UIC cvumuwvv ? ing funds. As a proponent of vocational agriculture and as chairman of the committee which is wqjking for Mr. Lawrence's salary, Mr. Johnson writes The Warren Record as follows this week: The committee appreciates the splendid cooperation tnat has been shown in subserving to the fund to help defray expense of agricultural teacher in our school, the sen-ice that is being rendered by this teacher is worth the cost and everybody that is interested Li fu- 1 ture welfare of this community should give this matter careful j consideration and do all they Can to help put this over. In a recent article written by one of the State Club agents of State College this was said: "There is no group more important in the welfare and future development of the community and in the ultimate establishment of a permanent, profitable program of agricultural than the boys and gills on the farm. Therefore, the community that would build for the fu ure, that would cultivate its grcac St asset, that would render itself he greatest possible service must urn its attention to this group, living that training necessary for he development of good citizenTo Hold Benefit 1 bridge barty A benefit bridge party will be I held at Hotel Warren this afternoon I from 3 to 6 o'clock and tonight I from 8 until 11 o'clock. The proI ceeds are to go towards welfare I work in Warren county. I Those who have not already been D approached and who would like to I take part in the game are asked to I get in touch with Mrs. Prank Allen, I who is chairman of the committee I sponsoring the entertainment. Commenting on the parties this afternoon and tonight, Miss Lucy Leach, welfare agent, said: "The Reconstruction Finance CorporaW tion funds are not adequate to I care for all needy cases, and furthI erm?re, can be used to help only In I certain cases. Besides every county I h supposed to raise funds locally to I ^elP aid and supplement in the re lief projects. If you cannot attend I a contribution v/ill be greatly ap Predated. EXPRESSES thanks I Mrs. Alfred J. Ellington, Miss I Martha Reynolds Price and Mrs. I "?yd Kinsey, winners in the Mer chants Popularity contest last week, this week requested that the editor I n f^uuciy express their thanks to I I triends for the support given them during the cami>aign. Judge T. o. Rodwell and Messrs. | Gerald Allen and Bob Bright were | I ^itors in Raleigh this week. I 31 WAR t One Of The Twenty 'Ethylvnne Holt is just onetwentieth part of the beauty which ] J. J V- ? A?<1 mno onlaofa/1 r?T7 rinfo/l , pjinuittl UJ ailu ??ao dv ivv ivu mvwm artists as America's most beautifu? , fashion manikins... . Do you like the | ( typcf j Board Finds Old Gray Mare Ain't What She Was By BIGNALL JONES The old gray mare ain't what she 1 used to be, according to the board of commissioners of the Town of Warrenton assembled in solemn i conclave on Monday. | A discussion of this interesting matter was precipitated when Mayor Prank H. Gibbs asked the commissioners had they noticed the condition of the town horse recently, stating that the matter had been called to his attention by two or three citizens. While Mayor Gibbs did not directly express an opinion, he strongly intimated that all was not quite well with the animal. Town Clerk C. P. Moseley said the horse was wearing out; that the town had traded an Old Bay mare for the grey in 1928, giving $90 in boot, and at that time Fate Weaver had laughingly predicted that the horse would not last more than one year. But the horse has lasted for five years, the clerk added, saying that he thought that was going pretty good. nn?~ 4-vi.n, _ JL VVU U1 tXZX CC UX I/XIC ers opinioned that that was pretty goo*, _ Clerk Moseley then added he knew that the horse was getting plenty to eat as George, the driver, ' had the keys to the feed, stall and 1 personally looking after its care. A slight digression occurred at this point while one of the com- 1 missioners related that he had seen George taking the entire afternoon ' to remove ashes from the basement 1 of a citizens home. Another mem- 1 ber said he did not know this was 1 George's duties, but that he had 1 seen him raking up leaves in another citizens back yard. The board expressed the thought that while 1 [Such tasks were not within Georges ] duties, that the driver was often 1 put in an embarassing position, be- j ing a very polite old darky who i hated to refuse the request of any 1 respectable citizen of the town. ' The commissioners swung back 1 to the point under consideration, ' the condition of the town horse, when Commissioner Abner Moseley pointed out to the board that the animal stood on hard streets the entire day, thus adding to the general wear and tear of the horse. He jokingly told the commissioners that he had a good horse that J he would trade for $30 to boot, i He was reminded in similar tone ' that the trade would not be legal j as it was forbidden for a commis- 1 sioner to trade with himself. f Clerk Fred Moseley said that his brother Abner evidently didn't want to trade as he was offering the town nothing for its horse. The consensus of opinion expressed by the board was that the d gray was still a pretty good horse, and that George was a pretty good driver. Sunday School Is , Seeking A Rally Friendly rivalry has started members of the Men's Bible class of the ] Warrenton Methodist church on a < campaign to enlarge the class roll. 1 The class has been divided into j two teams?the blues and the whites ] ?and at the latter part of April ( the group that has secured the ; largest number of new members ] will be feted by the losing side. ] The blues are headed by Martin Davis, and J. C. Burwell is leading j the whites. Assisting Mr. Davis are is X1M11 T^nrMnt*Avi XT A TWncplpv Dr. I vv xxx x^aiiici vsxx, xx. xx. M*wwv.Vtf f j Rufus Jones, Henry Fleming and1 j John Garrett. Mr. Burwell's team ] is composed of J. T. Lufsey, E. T. Odom, D. B. Flowers, M. G. Flow- c ers and W. R. Hedspeth. The class is taught by J. E. Rooker. s Ijr Hi RENTON, COUNTY OF WAF Miss Ida Allen, Paralysis Victim, Dies Thursday Miss Ida Allen died at her home here yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock following1 a stroke of paralysis which she suffered two hours earlier. She was 65 years of age and had been in poor health for some time. Funeral services will be conducted this afternoon from the Warrenton Baptist Church at 3:30 o'clock with the Rev. R. E. Brickhouse officiating. Interment will take place in Pair view cemetery. She is survived by two sisters, Misses Edna and Sallie Allen of Warrenton, and a brother, Ivey Allen of Oxford. One brother, Eugene S. Allen, died August 20, 1932, ? and three sisters died in infancy or ^ childhood. ^ Miss Alien was born in Halifax c county November it>, isoh, me _ daughter of Nat Allen and Mattie ( P. Harper Allen. In childhood she moved to Kingstree, S. C., where together with a year in college at High Point, N. C., she received her education. When her father, who had been head of a girls' school at King ;jtree, returned to this State r< she made her home with him at ir Ridgoway, moving to Warrenton in c 1918. n Miss Allen was a member of the v: Warrenton Baptist Church and cl active in the Philathea class of the P Sunday School as long as her health permitted. She was busy reading f< her Bible when she suffered the ci stroke that proved fatal. She was c: also an active worker in the War- e' ren Chapter of the Daughters of ti the Confederacy. E v: Commissioners Thanks Serls For n Supervising Work ? The Board of Town Commissioners in regular monthly session here on Monday night formally expressed its appreciation to Commissioner Prank Searls Sr. for his good work w in the supervision of the cleaning t] Up UJL bXIC UXU tuwix Commissioner Serls volunteered Q his services at the January meeting , of the board, when it was pointed ^ out that this work could be done with labor supplied by the county ^ relief agency provided supervision g] could be given. Mr. Serls was complimented upon changing an eye-sore into a place of beauty, one of the commissioners ^ stating that during his entire residence here he had never seen the cemetery in such good condition. The meeting on Monday night was an unusually short one, Commissioner Serls moving for adjourn- ' ment at 8:30. Walter Gardner apw peared before the commissioners in behalf of a prospective renter of ^ a store owned by his wife, seeking ^ information regarding the privilege tax imposing by the town under a recent ordinance. Payment of bills and other routine matters occupied ;he remaineder of the session. ir a] Thermometer Drops it 49 Degrees Here d w The weather here acted in a a] rather unusual manner Wednesday ?| night and in the early hours of js rhursday morning, according to E. n - - 3 _ H Skiliman who keeps a recora ui ir itmospheric conditions for the Eastern Airway Line. w Mr. Skiliman said that the ther- w nometer showed a drop of 49 de- a| frees and the barometer a rise of bj )0 from 5 o'clock Wednesday after- fC loon until 7 o'clock Thursday w norning. Wednesday afternoon the ;hermometer registered 60 and the u, mrometer 29.68. Thursday morning r( ,he weather instruments stood at foj [4 and 30.58. w D. T. Fletcher ? Burial At Corinth c, ai Funeral services for D. Travis pi Letcher, who passed away Wednes- oi lay night, February 1st, at the w lome of nis son, Clarence Fletcher, tl n Durham, were held Friday after- rc loon at the grave in the cemetery >f Corinth church near Littleton, p, rhe services were conducted by the Xev. P. E. Bingham, pastor of the li< Methodist Protestant church. ai Mr. Fletcher was 69 years of age af md had been in bad health for w >ome time. He is survived by one son, Clar;nce Fletcher, and one brother, D - " * ?? ' * I n, xoDert neicner, doui oi juiaumu. l. Mr. Fletcher was a former resl- w lent of Littleton. ? ai Mrs. Tom Frazier has accepted in i position with Dr. Rufus Jones. di trrett IREN, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBH ( The Half-Moon Curl > 1 I Joyce Stillman, posed this new fc _ ce _ *. xt A ' it.* \ oinure at me national nairaressers' \ onclave in New York. It is known as he half-moon curl. . . and it is pre- r licted that it will be popular during oming months. 'Tip" Green Sent To Road Camp On Whiskey Count "Tip" Green, well known War;nton negro, began serving a six lonths sentence in the Warren ounty Prison Camp Monday afteroon shortly after he had been con icted in Recorder's court on a tiarge of possessing and transorting whiskey. Unassisted by counsel, Green ought his battle to the end in Reorder's court in an effort to esape the prison walls, but the vidence given by Special Prohibion Officer Edward Davis and leputy John Carey Davis was conincing to the jury and a verdict f guilty was returned. Judge Taylor meted out a three lonths sentence for this particular ffense, but Green was already nder a three months suspended entence and with his conviction londay morning both went into ffect. The Warrenton negro was ara' it d oy the special officers several 'eeks ago. The officers testUied oat they saw Greep throw a p ut .lil. ' ? 1 I >. un.ic ui wxiisK.ey uircw w opuitta f a buggy to the ground in an at;mpt to destroy the evidence before was seized, and that when they ent to his home to make an ar;st they found Green hid in a nail trunk upstairs. They said lat they were told by his wife he 'as not at home. Green said that if he had thrown le bottle against the road it ould have been broken or scarred, fe said he could not see any mirks n the bottle and handed it to lembers of the jury for them to samine. His wife, he testified, did ot know that he was at home hen the officers arrived, and he larked as false the testimony of le officers about finding him hid I a trunk. "You know old 'Tip' nuldn' t get in a trunk the size i ir. Davis said he found me in," he rgued. On cross examination Green adlitted that he had been in trouble II his life about whiskey but said was for drinking it and getting runk and not for selling it. Following the evidence Green ent before the jury for his speech, ad after a few remarks said: Glentlemen, all I want you to do to find me not guilty if you beeve me, and if you don'tbelieve le I want you to find me guilty." Along to the county prison camp ith Green went Jack Bennett, hite man who was picked up over I . Nnriinn. bv Chief Carter and s "ought to Warrenton to face trial c ir possessing and transporting s hiskey. t According to evidence the Nor- 1 na policeman was ordered to arist Bennett for skipping a board c 11. Chief Carter was told that he t as on a certain train and that he s ould have two packages with him. * ennett got off the train and went s > the depot unmolested. Chief c arter approached him at the depot ? id Bennett picked up one of the ickages and left the other. The j le left contained a half gallon of hiskey. Judge Taylor ruled that le defendant should work the >ads for a period of two months. A bad check case against A. P. \ aschall was sent to Superior court. I A nol pros was taken by the so- r :itor in the case against Cola ( id Elsie Palkener, and the case I jainst J. B. Coleman, bad check, e as continued until next week. fc t Friends regret that Register of eeds Joseph C. Powell and Mrs. iwell are confined to their home I 1th flu. x Friends of Mr. Herbert Gardner J e glad to know that he is improver after an operation for appen citis in Roanoke Rapids hospital, ii Smi iUARY 10, 1933===^H SHERIFF SAYS HE MAY QUIT )eclares If Income Is Reduced Too Much Will Have To Find Another Job ^SK DOWTIN FOR BILL ''If the salary of this office gets o the point where it will not reurn me a living, I will have to find omething else to do," Sheriff W. J. 'innell told members of the Board if County Commissioners at their egular meeting here Monday. Mr. Pinnell appeared before the loard after Representative J. A. Dowtin had been requested by that >oay 10 pass a diu repealing me law equiring the county to pay premilms on bonds of county officials. This premium amounts to $287.50 in he case of the sheriff and if he s required to pay it, it is in effect i salary cut to that amount. Sheriff Pinnell pointed out to ;he commissioners that he had appeared before them last year and /oluntarily taken a cut of ten per :ent. He said that his income at present was lower than before he :ame into office and while he was perfectly willing to leave such mat;ers to the discretion of the board, f his salary was cut to the point where he could not make expenses le would have to seek other work. The commissioners also told Mr. Dowtin that they desired a law naking it discretionary with the aoard the amount of reward to bo paid for capture of stills. The board ordered that two bonds pf Pishing Creek township be bought in at a price of 72 1-2 cents on the Jollar when J. A. Dennis, receiver for the Bank of Warren appeared md stated that he had these bonds for sale. Other matters of the board were areelv of a routine nature and ad journment came early In the afteraoon. 10,650 Persons Are Benefitted By Relief Agency Approximately 10,650 persons ivithin the borders of Warren have senefitted through the efforts of ;he unemployment relief organiza;ion of the county, Jesse Gardner, iirector of relief, said yesterday. He reached his conclusion as to ;he number who had been helped ay assuming that the average family is five and pointing out that 2130 individuals had received work md direct relief since December 1, 1932. Mr. Gardner said that in addi;ion to helping these people by jiving them work so they could purchase some of the necessities of ife, that the county had benefitted jy the placement of $8,117.69 in the ivenues of trade an at the same lime getting public work done at i minimum price. Twenty hundred and twenty-eight nen worked for 76,358 hours on Dublic projects in the county durng the month of January, he said. VIoney paid for this work amount;d to $6,763.58. One thousand ,hree hundred fifty-four dollars ind forty-four cents were paid out or direct relief. These men have been given jobs >n public works and their employnent made possible with funds >btained by the State from the Re:onstruction Finance Corporation. No money is paid for the work, Jr. Gardner said. Instead workers ire given an order for food or ilothine at the rate of seven cents in hour for unskilled laborers and en cents an hour for skilled aborers. Most of the work which has been :arried on through the efforts of he relief organization has been iround the county schools. Wells lave been dug, buildings painted, hrubbery planted, basements exavated and athletic fields graded md put in shape. Legion Auxiliary To Sponsor Dance The American Legion Auxiliary vill sponsor a round dance here on ^iday night, February 17, anlouncement was made last night. >rady Jones' orchestra of Rocky Jount will furnish music for the mtertainment and admission wt.1 ie by card only. Proceeds will go to he legion auxiliary. Miss Virginia Jorell of Wake ^orest and Dr. Grant of Scotland vere guests of Mrs. John H. Kerf r. on Thursday afternoon. Mr. George Vick of Littleton was a town Thursday. rii ??? D. G. Jones, Littleton merchant, recently annoyed by rats in his store, one evening last week decided to try trapping them. He placed a large trap on the stairway about eight steps up and a small one on the floor Delow. Upon entering the store the following morning, he found a | huge rat lying on the floor with , a trap at each end. Evidently, ] the rat had first been caught : by his head in the trap on the stairway, had dragged the trap down the eight steps and proceeded to back into the second trap on the main floor, thereby being securely caught with one trap on his head and the other | on his tail. Drewry School Close For Week Account Of 'Flu The Drewry school closed Monday for one week by order of the Warren County Board of Health. It is expected to resume operation on Monday. Action of the board was taken at a called session after the principal of the Drewry school had reported to the Board of Education at its regular meeting here Monday that 40 pupils were absent that day on account of the epidemic. The epidemic was reported to be in a very mild form, but the Board of Education deemed it to be the best interest of the school and community to halt school work until the disease abated, and asked for a called session of the Board of Health to pass upon this matter. The Board of Education ordered that a new truck line be established to the Macon school from the residence of Howard Duke, and instructed the superintendent to use disciplinary measures upon two or three drivers of buses at the Wise and Warrenton negro schools, after report that these drivers were negligent in their duties. W. C. Bobbitt appeared before the board offering the old Winston building back of his garage as a school repair shop. The members of the board were reported as looking with favor upon Mr. Bobbitt's offer, but declined to take action due to the fact that the newly elected board will take office in April. They held that they preferred to take no action binding the new board. Three Persons Hurt; Horse Is Killed In Crash Three people were slightly injured and a horse killed outright when a Chrysler automobile driven by D. L. Tate, white man of Burlington, smashed into a wagon carrying William and Fannie Kearney, negroes, Monday afternoon between Roy Davis' service station and the town limit. Tate received a slight cut in right breast, William Kearney received a gash in his head and the hand of Fannie Kearney was hurt to some extent. None of the injuries were regarded as serious. The accident occurred when the Chrysler darted across the road and crashed into the mule and wagon. 1 Tate told officers that he was traveling towards Warrenton on ' I the right side of the road and was forced off the concrete by a truck traveling towards Norlina. He said that when he cut back on the hardsurface his car shot clear across the road and struck the horse and wagon, which was headed towards Norlina. The truck which Tate credits with driving him off the concrete belongs to the Carolina Service Station and was driven by Cam Smith, a negro of Henderson. The Carolina Service Station, it was said, is operated by Chic Young of Henderson. A hearing has not been held due to the fact that Tate has not been located. At the time of the wreck he was on his way to Roanoke Rapids to accept a job in the mills there. Officers said yesterday that Tate was a new man in Roanoke Rapids and it would probably take the officers there a few days to locate him. Although the Chrysler did not overturn, it was badly damaged oy , | the force of the impact. The car } was left here in one of the local ] garages. ] * i i J Miss Sarah Oliver of Pine Level y and Miss Salinda Perry of Raleigh i were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ervin Adams. e ViV. "'^1 MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME NUMBER 7 FIVE ARRESTED ROBBERY COUNT White Men Held In Connection With Robbery Depot And Service Station ARE HELD UNDER BOND Five white men were placed in the Warren county Jail Wednesday night in connection with the robbery of Buck Bell's service station near Warrenton and the depot at Manson Sunday night and early Monday morning. The men in the custody of Jailer E. C. Lovell are Jake Lester, Jim Pearcy, Kemp Billings, Paul Bil lings and Claude Billings. Lester, Pearcy and Kemp Billings are alleged to have committed the robberries, Paul Billings is accused of receiving stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen, and Claude Billings is being held as a State witness. The quintet was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Sheriff W. J. Pinnell, Deputy Lawrence Robertson and Constable Fate Weaver in connection with the robbery of the service station, and yesterday afternoon Kemp Billings and ^im Pearcy confessed to Railroad Detective K. W. Yates that they with Jake Lester robbed the Manson depot after breaking into Mr. Bell's service station. The three that are alleged to have done the robbing were placed under $400 bond each by Magistrate Macy Pridgen. Paul Billings is under $250 bond, and Claude Billings is held under $25 bond. The thieves made two trips to Mr. Bell's station on Sunday night and Monday morning and after gutting the place left a note cussing him out for not having a more complete stock of goods. When Mr. Bell went to work Monday morning he found his place of business practically empty and a note which read: "To hell with a man who doesn't keep a better stock than you. What we got from you wasn't worth a damn. The Shadow Gangsters." ^ The service station wm broken into the first time Sunday night around 11:30 o'clock. Getting wind that things were not just as they should be at the station, Mr. Bell went to his place of business a little before 12 o'clock and found ? - < 4 that a good portion or nis scock naa been lifted. Before leaving he made fast the back door and shoved the pool table against it as an added precaution. Monday morning Mr. Bell found that the back door had been smashed and the station completely raided. Investigation revealed that the thieves had located the gasoline pump cranks, which had been hidden carefully under the, counter and had stolen around 60 gallons of gasoline. Mr. Bell estimated his loss In gasdllne, chewing-gum, candy, cigarettes and other tobaccos to be more than $100. The robbers stole lamp wicks, files, tacks, buckets and a few other things from the depot at Manson, it was stated here. G. T. Ayscue Heads Loan Association HENDERSON, Feb. 8.?G. T. Ayscue was elected president, J. W. Floyd vice-president and J. C. Gardner was reelected secretary-treas ?j nffinor nf th? urer aiiu cacvuvitw ?. Vance National Farm Loan Association at a meeting of the board of directors recently elected when they met Saturday afternoon. At the meeting it was decided to broaden the reach of the Vance county association to take in the counties of Granville, Warren and Franklin, for the accomodation of agriculturalists In those localities, rhe local group has been very tive for a number of years, and the inclusion of the neighboring counties is looked upon as assurance of service to those sections cf the same character as that extended in this county. The new board of directors, elected on Saturday, January 28, is composed of George T. Ayscue, W. D. \yscue, J. W. Floyd, J. S. Norwood ind W. H. Greenway. The associa;ion is affiliated with the Federal - - - -9 Land Bang 01 tjoiumma, o. v. HEAR EDDIE CANTOR Among those from Warren ton who motored to Raleigh Tuesday night to hear Eddie Cantor were Mr. ana Mrs. J. B. Miller, the Misses Prances Person, Mary Elizabeth Slack, Gayle and Georgia Tarwater, Martha Reynolds Price, Anile Laura Herrin, Messrs. Edward Parwater, Son Grant, Ben Batts md P. D. Jones.

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