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I ACCURATE, TERSE J
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I VOLUME XXXVI
I SCHOOLS MY
I OPEN MONDAY
I fro-v Storm Delays Open
ing of Warren County
Schools A Week
ROADS ARE STILL BAD
Boys and girls, who have had a |
I B,ek'S additional holiday on ac- ]
I count cf the heavy snow and sleet, I
will return to their c'.ass rooms on I
-f-wiHav morning provided road I
I Mi/"14-.and
weather conditions permit.
^Supt. J Edward Allen said yes
te.-day that plans at present are
for re-cpening the schools on Monday
but that he could not say definitely
when class work would resume
on account of the fact that
he did not know what would be the
condition of the roads by next
veek. -If the roads are in such condition
Monday morning that they
do not permit safe bus travel, of
curse we will not open at that
ime," he stated.
me Christmas holidays for stu I
cents in the schools over the counry
commenced on Friday afternoon,
December 20, and were scheduled
to come to a close cn Monday mornI
ing. December 30. but due to the
I unusually heavy snow and rough
I weather the opening was postponed
until Thursday morning of this
I week. A continuation of the inI
clemem weather caused the opening I
- wo /Waved until next week. = j
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Some members of the John GraI
ham High School were notified on
Sunday afternoon that school
would not open on Monday and
have not returned to Warrenton
but others who failed to get their
messages arrived here on Sunday
night and have been spending the
week here .
Much Whiskey
Sold In County On
Christmas Eve
The three whiskey stores in Warren
county did a laige volume of
business on Christmas eve when a
total of $1,784 was passed across
to counters for gins, wines,
whiskeys and liquers.
Sales at the Warrenton store exceeded
by far those made at NorIna
and Littleton, there behvg
another whiskey store in the latter
town operated by the Halifax
county board.
Sales here for the day amounted
to S1058. as compared with $383 at
Xorlina and $343 at Littleton.
Business houses here also report
that they experienced one of the
best day's hnsinpcc in vpare nn
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Cinstmas eve.
Mrs. Cook Dies At
Aurelian Springs
Littleton, Jan. 1?Mrs. Rebecca
Cook. 80, widow of the late D. T.
Ccok, died at Aureliari Springs on
Friday, December 27th. Mrs. Cook
I *13 born and reared in Halifax
county and has been a member of
Quanky Baptist Church for a number
of years.
Funeral services were conducted
I kom the residence Sunday afterI
nocn at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. Rufus
I Bradley of Rocky Mcuat. The pallI
bearers were Willis Perkins, PerI
bins Taylor, Horace Robinson, June
I Collier, Rufus Bradley , Ollie Mo|tom,
Joe Riddick, S. C. Crawley
H,and W. W. Warren. Interment was
] ?ade in Sunset Hill Cemetery,
I1 V -ittleton.
I Surviving are the following ciiilI
pn: Misses Mattie and Ailene
I Co<*. Littleton; Mrs. J. G. Bose
Scotland Neck; Mrs. F. S.
I Dunn; E. L. Cook, Dunn;
I y5- C. L. Kelly, T. B. and Olea
I Littleton.
I Auto License Law
j j| L Enforced Here
I (^spite the sleet and snow which 1
I to t>revc'nted some from traveling I
J? adjoining towns to procure new I
plates, the law requiring all I
I B|!ttllolliles and trucks to wear!
r tags after December 31 is bell
* strictly enforced here.
|1 * number of Warrenton persons I
il fio tove down town Wednesday
II Bj'"1'11? were stopped by a high-1
11 Patrolman and if they had not 1
bought their 1936 plates
\Vm J* were given a ticket and order-1
W[? ai?pear before a magistrate.!
IH fl ? Cars with old tags have been 1
1gunning around town since 1
111 J?'eaiher forecast for Friday4.1
HI t'y claudy, rising temperature. |
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WARRENTON,
Court Seeks To
Clear Docket For
New Year Start
Efforts to clear up old debts and
start the new year off with a clean
docket were made in Recorder's
court on Monday morning when
the session was devoted to ordering
capaises issued for these who
were granted time to pay the costs
in actions and have failed to come
forward with the cash.
Some of these cases have been
on the docket for months despite
several efforts to get the cash from
the defendants, who were granted
a little time to pay rather than committed
to jail or the roads after
they had been convicted and ordered
to pay the costs or fine, but
when they appeared before the
judge they have in most instances
put up sucn a pitiful tale and convincing
promises to remove their
names from the debit side of the
ledger in short order that they were
granted an extension of time.
But 1935 has come to a close
and the solicitor, the judge and the
clerk want to clear their records, so
on Monday morning 37 capaises
were issued in order to get the debtors
into court. In addition, an alias
capias was issued for Early Kearney,
negro charged with disposing
of mortgaged property, who is now
out of the county.
inoi a siiigie case was tried Monuay,
out a jury was drawn to do
ciae tne civil case tne 4tn Monday
oeiween W. ti. Overoy and M. O.
ax-cks, Administrator.
Committeemen
To 15e Elected By
Cotton Growers
i
Notices requesting cotton growers
to meet at various places in the
county next week for the purpose of
electing cotton committeemen for
the year 1936 have been mailed out
this week by County Agent Bob
Bright. The places and time that
the meetings are to be held are
printed below:
Hawtree township, Perkinson's!
store, Monday morning at 10 o'clock;
iNUtbush township, Watkin's store,
Monday morning at 11:30 oc'lock;
Smith Creek township, Mayor's office
at Norlina, Manday afternoon,
at 1:30 o'clock; Shccco township,
Pinnell's store, Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock; Sandy Creek, Hechfc's
Grove, Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock; Fork township, Eugene
Davis' store, Tuesday morning at
11 o'clock; Fishing Creek township,
Capps' store, Tuesday afternoon
at 1:30 o'clock; Judkins township,
Jesse Harris' store, Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock; River township,
Sam King's store, Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock; Sixpound
township, Churchill school, Wednesday
morning at 11:30 o'clock; Roanoke
towns-hip, H. L. Wall's home,
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock; Warren ton, Court House,
Thursday morning at 11 o'clock,
o'clock.
Local Mortican
Hires Assistant
JJorman mayiocK 01 xienaersun
has accepted a position with the T.
V. Allen Funeral Parlors. He will
relieve Mr. Allen of the major portion
of the embalming work and
assist him in conducting funerals
but the work will still be under Mr.
Allen's supervision.
Mr. Blaylock is a graduate of the
Gupton-Jones College of Embalming,
Nashville, Tenn., and for the
past two years has been connected
with the Mason-Yelverton Funeral
Home at Raleigh. He and Mrs.
Blaylock moved to Warrenton on
Tuesday and have taken an apartment
in the home of Mrs. E. T.
Rodwell.
Norman Lovell, who has assisted
Mr. Allen for several years, will remain
with him.
"I needed a good man to take
some of the work and responsibility
off of me, so I got Mr. Blaylock
who is well qualified for the job,"
Mr. Allen said.
ACCEPTS POSITION
Edward Rooker Jr. has accepted
a position as accountant for the
Peck Manufacturing Company. Miss
Edith Burwell is also assisting with
the office work.
The mill is being operated at
present by V. F. Ward, who is president
of the concern.
IMPROVING
Friends are glad to learn that Mr.
A. W. Hall, who for ten days was
critically ill at his home here is
rapidly improving.
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, COUNTY OF WARREN, IS
Grand Champion of Jun
CHICAGO . * . Robert Lcmans of
when his Hampshire barrow, Silver
him the title of Grand Champion ol
at the annual International Livestc
W. H. Bell, 60,
Dies On Saturday;
Paralysis Victim
Funeral services for William H.
Bell, 60, were conducted from his
home here on Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock by the Rev. R. E. Brickhouse,
Baptist minister, and the
Rev. B. N. de Foe Wagner, rector
of Emmanuel Episcopal church. Interment
followed in Fairview cemetery.
The services were expected to be
held on Sunday afternoon but due
to the inclment wather they were
postponed until the following day.
Mr. Bell died on Saturday night
at 9:45 o'clock as the result of a
stroke of paralysis which he suffered
nineteen months ago. He had
been confined to his home since
that time and for ten days prior
to his death he was critically ill.
Mr. Bell was the son of W. S.
and Lucy Wright Bell of Churchill.
He remained in Sixpound township
until after he had reached manhood,
moving to Warrenton in
1902. After coming here he went
on the road as a traveling salesman
for the Majestic Manufacturing
Company and held a position
with this concern for around 20
years.
He is survived by two brothers
and two sisters: John Bell of Warrenton
and Stith Bell of Vaughan
Miss Lottie Bell and Mrs. Sam Weldon
cf Warrenton.
Pallbearers were C. R. Rodwen,
W. R. White, T. R. Frazier, W. H.
Burroughs, A. C. Blalock and T. O.
Rodwell.
Two John Graham
Teachers Marry
Two members of the John Graham
High School faculty were married
during the Christmas holidavs.
Paul W. Cooper, principal of the
school, was married to miss kuw
Kreis of Baltimore, Md., in that
city on December 23, one day after
F. H. Eason, English teacher, and
Miss Sarah Eunice Matthews of
Kipling had spoken the wedding
vows before the Rev. J. C. Menius
of Lillingtcn.
Announcement of the CooperKreis
marriage was made several
weeks ago but the wedding of Mr.
Eason and Miss Matthews came as
a surprise to friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have an
apartment in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Alston. Mr. and Mrs.
Eason are making their home with
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scott.
Injured Patrolman
Returns To Duties
Patrolman Paul Welch, who was
seriously injured when his motorcycle
failed to make a curve at
Vaughan several months ago when
he was stationed at Warrenton, has
been returned to this town by Captain
Farmer of the State Highway
Patrol. Patrolman Welch stayed in
the hospital for several weeks as a
result of his accident.
The patrolman, who during the
rough weather is using a car rather
Kian a motorcycle, has been busy
since his return to Warrenton seeing
that cars and trucks wear new
license plates and that the motor
vehicle laws are not violated in
other ways.
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Light, weighing 320 pounds, won fr
Junior Feeding in the early judgii.
ick Exhibition here.
Young Folk
Skate And Sleigh
During Cold Spell
The blanket of snow which ha;
covered this section since Sunday
December 22, began to disappeas
yesterday beneath the steady rainfall
which began early Thursda\
morning with rising temperature.
And with the rising temperature
and melting snow came pleased expressions
from persons of the towi:
who welcome the breaking of the
cold spell which has had the thermometer
playing tag with the 12
and 20 degree marks for nearly twe
weeks.
While the paved streets and highways
have been cleared of the snow
and ice the roads in the country
'although dragged, are still slippery
and unpleasant to travel over.
Main street in Warrenton has
been dagged several times since the
snow first occurred here and on
Tuesday and Wednesday the highway
force, with prisoners under
guns in the hands of guards, loaded
the snow in trucks and hauled
it out of town.
Streets of the town were unusually
treacherous cn Wednesday
night due to snow and ice melting
in the middle of the day and freezing
again after sundown.
Young boys and girls, and some
of the older folks too, have taken
advantage of the unusual weather
for sleigh riding and ice skating,
however the latter sport has not
been indulged in as much as the
former due to the fact that the ice
on the ponds has been covered
most of the time by snow.
Before the second snow, whicb
came last Sunday, there was some
ice skating on the pond at the rifle
range and on the Peck pond. Sleighriding
has been down practically
all grades around town and par
ticularly so on the road leading
towards Macon and Liberia and on
the street next to the Citizens
Bank.
Warrenton Quietly
Greets New Year
Warrenton greeted the new year
without much ado.
There were a few fire-crackers
tcssed out of cars traveling up and
down the street about the midnight
hour and several bells were heard
to ring out for a few minutes, but
apparently they "were not being
pulled with the gusto that usually
causes them to swing long and loud
at the opening o7 another year.
There were a number of watch
parties and cock-tail parties but the
j majority of the folks preferred tc
remaiff by a fire rathe than venj
tuee into the cold night air on
' slippery streets.
CHANGES JOB
T. R. Frazier, who for years has
1 been connected with the BoydI
Boyce Motor Company as Ford
I calMman has accented a. nnsition
i with the Williams Motor Company
| Dodge and Plymouth dealers. W
j R. Hedgepeth, who for years has
I had charge of the mechanical di!
vision of the Boyd-Boyce Motoi
Co, has gone on the roads as
1 salesman to-replace Mr. Frazier.
I
! Mr. Tom Holt returned to the
University of North Carolina yes|
terday.
&ni
l, 1936 Subscri
MHiHl WK11US1
ABUll NLW YtiAl
Thinks 1936 Good Time T<
Improve Sous and Farm
Buildings
OFFERS TO CLEAN SEEI
By R. H. BRIGHT
County Agent
Nineteen thirty-six is here an
1935 is history. I wonder how man
iarmers will take inventory befot
starting 1936 operations. I gues
we all try to justify what we hav
done in tire past year and try t
show a profit. I see now whero
could have given better service i
1935 and resolve to do this in 193'
This cold weather forces us i
and this seclusion naturally causf
one to think. I was sitting before
blazing fire and thinking aboi
1936 and how I could help to male
it a better year for the farme
This thought occurred to me: Wt
not start a movement to impror
farm lands, farm buildings an
farm life, and the farmers be r<
sponsible for the program? A scoi
card could be drawn up and evei
farm in the county graded. Th
would be an excellent inventoi
and give us a basis to work oi
This plan could be worked out o
a community basis and each con
munity have its officers and con
[ pete with other communities. Th
card would be divided into sever:
. sections. For example: soil conse:
vation, soil improvement, land us
! painting the farm home, paintir
barns and other buildings on tl
r farm, a sufficient number of livs
stock for the farm, herd improve
ment, poultry for the farm, pa!
ture for the farm, financing tl:
farm, and care of woodland. Th
list is not complete but gives son:
idea of the items that should be ir
oi in n nlnn frv mnlrn fnnmin
( v/iuugu iii ai j^/ian uu ma&c xaxuiii.
' a safer and better vocation.
1 I have often thought that tt
farmer was willing to make pro<;
ress if he had a chance. One of tt
best farmers in the county wt
talking to me a few days ago abo?
land use. He said that farme:
cleared land that should be left i
1 timber. And wvTen you look at sorr
1 of the clay hills and gullies in th
1 county you are forced to agre
Land is a natural resource an
there is a limited supply. I sa
some slides a few days ago of lan
L in Denmark that was growing ur.
believeable crops. The man shov
ing these slides said that this pai
' ticular plot of land cost over $2,0C
: per acre. Naturally I thought <
the land that is being washed awa
and ruined so far as farming
: concerned.
[ Tobacco Seed
I will be glad to clean tobacc
, seed for farmers if they will brir
: the seed to this office. All persor
(Continued on Page 6)
i Wild Life Hurt
i By Snow Storn
Wild life has suffered heavil
from the frigid weather in Warre
county, E. Hunter Pinnell, gam
warden, stated this week. He sai
: that partridges would net fl
, more than a hundred yards wha
flushed now and asked that sports
men refrain from shooting thes
birds until they had an opportun
ity to get something to eat and re
gain their strength.
Not only have birds and rabbi!
suffered from the cold weather an
lack of food, but the snow has ol
fered an opportunity for many pec
pie to track them down.
Davis Now Head
Of County Hom<
Hugh G. Davis of Pishing Cree
township, elected by the Board c
County Commissioners at the!
regular monthly meeting in Augu;
! to manage the county home, too
i charge on Wednesday.
Mr. Davis succeeds Mrs. Nann
i B. Powell who has been superlr
tendent of the home since tl
death of her husband, the late V
T. Powell. While Mrs. Powell ws
i in charge of the home, she was as
sisted by her son, Arthur Powell.
1 Mrs. Powell and Mr. Arthi
i Pcwell have moved to the Powe
, home near Warrenton, formerl
, t>he residence of Mr. and Mrs. v
i H. Dameron and family,
LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON
i Congressman John H. Kerr d<
parted yesterday for Washingtc
for the opening of Congress toda
i His secretary, Howard F. Jones, ar
Mrs. Jones left Wednesday mon
ing.
rii
ption Price,
St,,u
ly NEW YORK ... The striking
re woolen style above, worn by Jane
lCj Wyatt, /is a pearl gray design
j. knitted against a dark blue back*
ground and is fastened by twd
e enormous frogs of braided cord. The
7 skirt is o? matching blue, the shoe*
is and bag being reptile.
y ?
m Couples Seeking
[I Marriage Licenses
is Swamp Register
al '
f- The Register of Deeds office was
e, swamped by applicants for marig
riage licenses on Christmas eve day
ie when eight couples and friends appeared
there at practically the same
hour to procure licenses.
?" Register of Deeds Powell said
ie that he nor Deputy Scott issued a
13 license in the morning but that
ie when they returned, to the office
l_ after lunch the hall was crowded
? with persons who desired licenses.
While they were busy issuing
12 these certificates another couple
>- appeared with a license and, acte
cording to Mr. Powell, the parties
is were so impatient to be married
xt without delay that he carried them
rs into the vault and "hitched the
n knot" while Mr. Scott continued to
15 fill out the blanks,
is "It's fun.iy how it happened,"
? said Mr. Scott, "but we didn't have
d any licenses to issue in the mornw
ing or none to issue after we had
d taken care of the rush. They all
i- seemed to have congregated at the
r- office while we were out for perhaps
45 minutes getting lunch."
>0 A check-up of the records reveal)f
ed that 29 persons applied for
,y licenses to marry between Decernis
ber 20th and January 1st, and one
applied on January 1. The licenses
were issued to the following
:o couples:
12 "Hpp 9fi r^-Pnroro "RVanlr -Trvnpc nf
w BW A 1U11U V ViiVU
is LaCrosse, Va., and Lucy Lee Morris
of LaCrosse, Va. (white).
Dec. 21?Karl L. Ponzer Jr. of
Elizabethtown, N. C? and Mabel
Thomas Overby (white); John B
tl Williams and Cornelia C. Wilson
(colored); Herbert M. Banks and
iy Alice M. Palmer (colored); John
n Henry Stegall Jr. and Susie Grace
le (Continued on page 6)
d ?
* Credit Association
To Hold Meeting
;e ?
i- An invitation is extended to all
i- farmers of this county to attend
the annual meeting of the Hender:s
son Production Credit Association
d at Henderson on January 16 in the
Vance County Court House, it is
>- announced by W. B. Gooding, secretary
of the association.
The Henderson association serves
Granville, Vance and Warren
(Continued on Page 6)
e
E. T. ODOM WINS JACKk
POT AT WARREN THEATRE
>f
lr E. T. Odom won the jack-pot at
st the Warren Theatre on Wednesday
ik night and was presented $10)30
Each Wednesday night a name
ie is drawn from a box containing the
i- signatures of those who have atie
tended the theatre at least one
7. time prior to the drawing and the
is lucky person wins the money. In the
5- event the person whose name is
called is not present, the money is
ir added to the jack-pot for the fol11
lowing week.
ly
7. METHODIST TO HOLD
CONFERENCE SATURDAY
The first quarterly Conference
will be held at Warrenton next
>- Saturday, January 4, at 10:30 a.m.,
m the Rev. O. I. Hinson announced
y. this week.
Ld The new Presiding Elder, Dr. J.
i- M. Culbreth, will preach at tills
hour, the Rev. Mr. Hinson stated.
* |^H
MOST OF THE NEWS jl
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 1
FIRE DESTROYS
BAPTIST CHURCH |
Two Members Express View
That Fire Was Started
By A Rat
CITIZEN WATCH HAVOC
The opinion that a rat was responsible
for the fire which destroyed
the Warrenton Baptist
church on Tuesday afternoon was
expressed on Wednesday by two
leading members of the church who
made a thorough investigation after
the devastating flames had been
smothered.
Supt. of Schools J. Edward Allen
and "Capt." J. Willie White bcth
said that they were inclined to believe
that the fire was started by a
rat that had gotten hold of a
match and climbed into the wall3
rather than by the furnace which
was at first blamed for the fire by
a number of persons who expressed
opinions as to the origin of the
flames.
Mr. Allen stated that he found
no defect in the flues, that the
current was off in the building, and
that from his investigation he
rather thought that a rodent had
gotten hold of a match and carried
it to its warm nest in the wall near
the flue. Mr. White stated that
indications were that the blaze
did not start from the furnace,
which was being operated with a
small fire at the time to prevent
pipes from freezing and that he,
too, was of the opinion that a rat
started the fire.
smoke was pouring irom tne
building when the fire was discovered
about 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon
by Edward Tarwater who
threw in the alarm from a switch
located near the church in front of
the home of Dr. and Mrs. G. E'.
Macon. Practically the entire town
responded to the alarm and stood
on the ice for an hour or more as
firemen played two hose on the
building.
The flames had such headway
by the time the fire was discovered
and the water turned on it was
practically impossible to salvage
anything from the building other
than the Bible, which was saved by
the janitor, a few pictures and a
small organ. The pipe organ was
ruined.
Although the brick walls did not
crumple and the church still
stands, the building is regarded as
a complete wreck.
There was $6,000 insurance on
the church itself and $1500 on the
organ. The value of the chinch
and organ was placed at between
$10,000 and $12,000.
While officers of the church have
not come to any definite decision
as to what steps they will take for
a future house of worship, there
exists some auuDt as to wneuiei
the church will be rebuilt. Inasmuch
as the building is regarded
as a complete loss and that several
offers have been made for the lot
in the past, it is probable that
steps will be taken In an effort to
secure another lot further from the
street where a larger church may
be erected.
It is a known fact that Mrs.
Katherine P. Arrington made a
tempting offer to officers of the
church several years ago in an rffort
to acquire the lot, remove the
church and further enhance the
beauty of her home and garden, out
whether she still desires the property
is not known. She is out of
town at present. It has also been
stated that the Standard Oil Company
desires the lot as a location
for a service station and that the
(Continued on Page 6)
Baptist To Hold j
Services Sunday
The destruction of their church
by fire on Tuesday will not prevent
members of the Baptist
church from holding services and
conducting Sunday School on Sunday.
The Rev. R. E. Brickhouse, pas'
--C aU>.waU trAofo-fHd J
tor OX tilt? UIIUTUU, OiaiCU jrtauv/iwwj
that Sunday school will be held at
the regular time in the basement
of the John Graham High School
and that the 11 o'clock services
will be conducted in the Methodist
church. There will be no evening
service, he stated.
All churches of the town have
been offered Rev. Mr. Brickhouse
and members of his chuiph for
holding services and it is probable
that the others will be used. The
Warren Theatre has also been offered
by George Robinson, its manager.