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i naccurate, terse timely ^cme xxxy11 rvRS MUST HAVE l'v ? ir??-**tnr< /A TOWN fo?n Commissioners Adopt Ordinance Requiring Cars To Have Cily License FFECTIVE JANUARY I Luroniobiics owned by Warrenton sons will bear city license plates and after January l of next ie tags were recently bought by Board of Town Commissioners on .Monday night the City ;rs adopted an ordinance makmandatory that the plates bt jed on motor vehicles owned H aftpr I hi* Warrcnton j.crsoiis> un aim M*?v. I j-;:Uar.v 1. 1938I Ike plates, ulucii must be atI (aciieci to the uont end of motor I leiuties m a position just above I tiie SIate license, are sold for $1-00 each and are obtainable at the I ivarrenton Water Co. officeI The new law does not apply to 1 school busses, the library truck, or motor vehicles owned by regular I automobile dealers and held by I them for sale or resale in the ordi- j nary course of business. I While the tags were bought pri- J I manly for Warrenton residents, I they may be obtained and worn on I cars owned by ;iiose living in other 1 sections of the county. However, I non-residents of the town will not lie required to purchase them. I failure to comply with the terms lot" the new ordinance, which is pub- J Ilished elsewhere ill tliis paper, subI jecis owners to a fine of not more I than $50-00 or imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. I In addition to passing this ordiI nance tiie beard passed two other I ordinances pertaining to parking I on .Mam street and blocking driveI ways. I The commissioners also agreed to I make the customary contribution of 1.25.00 lor decorauiig tiie town with | Christmas lights- Other matters were mostly ot a routine natureGarden Club To Stage Christmas Tree Contest As the Yule-tide season approaches, the Warrenton Garden Club is asking the citizens o? the town to again join in a contest of Christmas decorations. This contest created a lot of interest last pear and it is hoped there will be more contestants this season and Warrenton will be made even more beautiful for ChristmasThree separate prizes will be given as follows: (1) An indirect floor lamp given by the Carolina Power h Light Company for the most outstanding home decorations as a whole, as viewed from the street'2; Choice of any dress in store given by Leggett's Department Store for the most attractively decorated door way, as viewed from the street. (3i Five dollars in cash given by Rose's 5 and 10 Cent Store for the most beautifully decorated outdoor Christmas tree. Capable judges will come from out of town and decisions will be Me entirely by them. The date and hour of judging will be announced in next weeks' paper. Every home is urged to participate. You do not have to be a oember of the Garden Club in orcer to competeAppeals Made For Old Toys, Clothes At appeal comes as follows this ^,eek from the recreational leaders the Community Center for old l?"s\ Picture books and clothes to e distributed among the needy on VArKtmne TO. ?nve. to view of bringing joy at of r,'fmas time to the poor children the community, we are asking t, of the friendless, to ase t'h'C us all your discarded picture books, and clothes. anv 6fthank you very kind'y for ? of the above articles and will Cr?,erj *? reoeive them at the be ? .Un"y ?en'er> where they will Chri!t'en out at the Community 193, f35 Tree on December 24, 183:; at 2:30 p. m. RECREATIONAL LEADERS." dlrham glee club to | sing negro spirituals; Music lovers are reminded that | "Mnesday night of next week Is time when the Community Male J fee Club of Durham will render a i concert of negro spirituals in the court house for the benefit of the Community Center and the Efland nome for Girls- Seats will be reserved for white persons. L WARRI Mountain Buries Here's a worm's-eye view of an aval! himself into a huge fissure at the tc t.ns Aneeles' Elvsian Park, a daring c Widening crack is being checked hourl of the next in a series of huge earth-s lions of tons of rocks, earth and trees Drive, Dayton Avenue, below, and ei Angeles river. 1.000 feet away. To Explain 1938 ( Crop Program In Series of Meetings By BOB BRIGHT, County Agent F Beginning Monday, December 13, b; a series of educational meetings will s\ be held in the county to explain bi the 1938 Agricultural Conservation tl Act. All persons interested in sc farming are urged to attend one or more of these meetings- a] The 1938 program differs from hi the 1937 program in many respects w and farmers should acquaint them- ts selves with the program. For ex- \\ ample, in 1938 goals will be set up le for each farm and payments will be ti made on the planted acres instead of diverted or rented acres. w The following farms in 1938 will st be set up as follows: Cotton base gi 10 acres, 250 lbs- yield; tobacco b< bose 4 acres, 700 lb- yield; general ai base 12 acres. In 1938 this farmer a will be asked to grow 60 per cent of his cotton base, or 6 acres, and ne , Will be paid 2.4c per lb. on his 250 v lb yield. This gives him a payment of $6 00 per acre on 6 acres, or a total payment for cotton of $36 00. Tobacco will be 80 per cent of the base, or in this case 3.2 acres, and he will be paid lc per lb. times the m yield which is 700 lbs. per acre, or j n: a poyment of $7.00 per acre, or a ! tf total payment of $22.40. In addi- g] tion to the above payments the farm aj will receive a payment for carrying q out practices. I sj This explanation is very brief and ( h to get a clear understanding the farmer should attend the meeting st and hear the program explained- I al | Following is a schedule of meet- tf ings to be held: |m Dec. 13, 9 a- m.?River township, 1 S. D. King's Store- j m Dec. 13, 2:30 p. m.?Fishing Creek ; fr township, R. L. Capp's Store. i Dec. 14, 9 a. m-?Fork township, lis !J. C. Powell's Store. ec | Dec- .14, 2:30 p. m.?Sixpound Pi township, J. P. T. Harris' Store ] (Churchill). tr Dec. 15, 9 a- m.?Shocco township, tr J. K. Pinnell's Store. i at Dec- 15, 2:30 p m.?Hawtree oi township, C. C. Perkinson's Store. e> Dec. 16, 9 a- m.?Sandy Creek dc township, W. E. Turner's Home. j Dec. 16, 2:30 p. m.?Nutbush town- Q ship, J. C. Watkin's Store. " | Dec. 17, 9 a- m ? Smith Creek j township, Moyor's Office, Norlina. Dec. 17, 2:30 p. m.?Warrenton township, court house- ' G Dec. 20, 9 a. m?Judkins town- c, ship, J. P. T- Harris' Store, Vaughan. aj Dec. 20, 2:30 p. m.?Roanoke g. township, H L. Wall's home. Sj The Fishing Creek Water Shed M j Conservation Area has been ap- jn | proved Doin oy oauoi aim uy mc i state committee. N. M. Thornton, Macon, has been appointed from ( Warren county, and Nick Warren, Littleton, from Halifax county, to ? ! act as directors. There will be three I directors elected and persons living in the area should give the election I of these directors serious thought. !/<?-< PI I) T. "tyes or L,ove 1 o Appear At Wise The play, "Eyes of Love," will be presented in the auditorium of the Wise Elementary school on Tuesday evening, December 14, at 7 o'clock, by a group of players from Bracey, Va., T. H. Sledge, principal, announced this week. A small admission charge will be made. The public is cordially invited to be present. ( Mesdames Lawrence Rose and C. S Haithcock shopped in Rocky Mount on Saturday. Mr. H. C- Montgomery of Raleigh is spending a few days here iir m CNTON, COUNTY OF WAR City's Streets milium anu vauces counues, iea f Sheriff W- J- Pinnell of Warren, vooped down on a stilf which was eing operated in full capacity at le time by three men near Man>n on Tuesday night. The men fled before the strong rm of the law was placed on them; owever, Frank Henderson, negro ho lives nearby the still site, was iken into custody and brought to far rent on to face trial for the alged part he had in the manufacire of moonshine. In addition to the man and still, hich was an 80-gallon capacity earn outlit, the ofiicers seized 80 illons of liquor, 3,600 gallons of ser, 17 cases of jars, five lanterns id other paraphernalia used about still. Christmas Lights Blazon Streets Of Warrenton Warrenton came out in its Christlas decorations this week and each ight from now until the first of le year lights of many colors will ow from bulbs strung over-head long the street and from small hristmas trees placed along the dewalks in front of business ousesThe sparkling lights over the reet are made possible through an rnual appropriation of $25.00 from le town for putting up the equip:ent which was purchased by the iwn several years ago. Individual merchants pay for their trees in UI1U Ui IXltJII XCSfUCl/lVC picXOCC) VA isiness and also supply their own jilting fixtures- Current is furnish1 without cost by the Carolina ower & Light Co. For the past several years a large ee on court square has been atactively decorated in Christmas ;tire by some civic or patriotic ganization of the town and it is ipected that this will again be me this year. ieniors To Sponsor Carnival Tonight The Senior Class of 1938 of John raham high school will sponsor a arnival in the Armory on Friday id Saturday evening beginning at o'clock, December 10th and 11th. lecial features will be a Negro instrel, Side Shows, Cake-Walk,g, Ball Throwing, and a food loth. A small admission charge ill be made. PROCLA In this winter of 1937, \vh cotton, prices lower than the; the Warren County Welfar those persons of good will, to wear, an opportunity to h( is the only birthday gift we day we celebrate week after need of charity, sooner or lat but we shall deserve it only : Therefore let us, humbly an what we can. This the 8th day of Decei W inche in the making. Lowering ip of the "moving mountain" in cameraman shows how the every to determine course and extent lides that have already sent miltumbling 350 feet into Riverside . en into the dry bed of the Los )fficers Capture Still And Large Amount Supplies A. B. C. enforcement officers of arrru JIEN, N. C. FRIDAY, DECEM HOARD HEARS ~ | DELEGATIONS I Littleton Citizens Want InI vestigation of School Affairs In District MACON WANTS RELIEF Discussion of bids and the contract for remodeling the jail, listening to one delegation which sought authority to go forward with a proposed audit of the Littleton Special School District and another whicn is trying to remedy deplorable conitary conditions at the Macon school, and attending to a number of other matters kept the Board of County Commissioners in session here on Monday afternoon until the shades of night had fallen. John Picot, as spokesman for several Littleton taxpayers present, reminded the commissioners that some time ago the board passed an order authorizing a sum not to exceed $400.00 be spent in auditing the school books of the Littleton district provided the Halifax county board appropriated a like amount, but that the work had never started due to the fact that efforts at that | time to secure a reliable auditing firm to do the work at a set figure failed. The Littleton attorney stated that a certified public accountant had been found who would undertake the work at a cost to I this county of not over $400, and I that Littleton representatives were present Monday before the Halifax Board of County Commissioners to point out new developments in the situation and get the consent of that board to go forward with th% work. Each board had previously agreed to spend as much as $400.00 for the job, and the Warren commissioners told Mr- Picot that the board of this county would stand by its former promise. Halifax is expected to do likewise. Dissatisfaction began being voiced publicly several months ago over the status of affairs in the Littleton districts, with taxpayers pointing out that citizens of that district had been paying aerate of 50c for years, one of the highest in the 1 county, and intimating that if the Warren side of the district had been credited with all the money due it from the high rate that lit tie, if anything, would be due on bonds and that the rate would be considerably lower. Taxpayers on the Warren side have been pressing the commissioners for several months for an audit which, it is believed by some, will show that I Halifax county owes Warren counj ty several thousand dollars. The j sentiment of those on the Haifax j side of the line has not been fully revealed here, but it is understood ! that these taxpayers are willing for the audit to be made. I The Macon delegation, which included a half dozen or more per! sons from that town, told the commissioners that sanitary conditions there were deplorable and asked the board to take steps to remedy the 1 situation j Chairman Burroughs, after giving an account of financial conditions in the Macon district, told the delegation that the board was fully j aware of the bad situation at the Macon school, and stated that at the time the budget was being made out the board was informed that $2,000 would take care of this need and that this sum was appropriated for this purpose. | Supt- Allen stated that at the time the budget was being made out he thought $2,000 would take care of the cost of sanitary plumbing at the Macon school and that he was still of the opinion that a system could be installed for this cost which would relieve the situation there, but it would not meet with the approval of the State (Con.inued on Page 8) MATION ien the weather is colder and y have been in several years, e Department is offering to who have enough to eat and j sip those who have not. This j can give to Him whose birth- j next. We shall all stand in j ;er, in this wona or rne next, in so far as we have given it. d freely and thankfully, give nber, 1937. ILLIAM T. POLK, Mayor of Warrenton. 2? / IHpnu IBER 10, 1937 Subscript BOARD ADOPTS HC LAW FOR 1 Both Sides of Main Street Fro Dameron Corner Embraced Maximum Penalty For V MOTORISTS ARE FORBIDDE Two parking ordinances were : passed by the Board of Town Com- ' missioners in regular session on l Monday night, making it unlawful | lUi Uitia ll'iU tlllLIU UU UC VJ-J. | Main street from the Dameron cor- ! i ner to the Hotel corner longer than i one hour during the day-time, and ; prohibiting any person or firm from : blocking any driveways in the Town of Warrenton. J Violation of the parking law on 1 the main thoroughfare which states ' "It shall be unlawful for any per- , son, firm or corporation to park any i motor vehicle on the Main street of the Town of Warrenton, N- C-, between Church and Franklin streets from the hours of 8 a. m. to 6 p. m > Only Two Cases Heard In County Court Monday Judge T. O. Rodwell held a short session of Recorder's court this week with only two defendants being brought before him to be triedHorace Silver, negro, was convicted on a charge of disorderly conduct in a public place and was sentenced to the roads for a period of 30 days. Clarence Green, Warrenton negro, was found not guilty on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of whiskey The docket contains the names of a number of other defendants but they had previously expressed their preference for a jury trial and their cases will be heard next week. JURORS ALL Three Members of One Firm Are Drawn For Jury Duty For First Week of Court This is one of these things which doesn't happen once in a hundred years and Williams, Williams and Williams of the Williams Motor Co. would have been well pleased if it had not happened this week. From a box which contained the names of hundreds of taxpayers of this county 44 names, written on small slips of paper, were picked by a child for jury duty the first week of the January term of Warren Superior court. The list included A. A. Williams, A. A. Williams Jr. and Barker Williams, all of the Williams Motor Co. A. G. Perkinson Dies At Hospital Funeral services for Arthur G. Perkinson, 57, were conducted from the home at Wise on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Rev- F. GWalker, pastor of the Wise Baptist Church. Interment followed in the Wise cemetery. Mr. Perkinson died in JohnsonWillis Hospital at Richmond on Sunday at 9:30 o'clock after a short illnessSurviving Mr. Perkinson are his wife, Mrs- Helen Perkinson; five daughters, Mrs. Thomos A. Stokes of Durham, Mrs. Leon Perkinson, Mrs. Otis Powell, Misses Sallie Page and Virginia Perkinson of Wise; four sons, Marlow, Jack, Russell and Nathan Green Perkinson of Wise; (Continued on page 4) Garden Club To Present Exhibits The spirit of Christmas will pre- 1 vail when the Warrenton Garden Club presents its Christmas exhibits on Wednesday afternoon, December 15, from 4 to 6 o'clock. Exhibits will include the following: 1. Mantel Arrangement2. Christmas tables (a) dinner tables, (b) occasional tables, (c) fireside tables- i 3. Assortment of (a) Christmas packages, (b) Christmas candies, 1 (c) Christmas cookies, (d) cakes, (e) candles and candlesticks. < 4- Arrangements of (a) fruits, (b) flowers, (c) wreaths, (d) greens, (e) dry materials, (f) unusual arrangements, (g) window arrangements. 5- Juniors: Party tables and Christmas scenesThe Garden Club of Warrenton is giving Christmas suggestions in j ovaw lino of the club's Christmas I: activties to every one in the county j who wishes to come. riUion Price, $1.50 a Year )UR PARKING JUSINESS SECTION m Methodist Church To The I In Hour Parking Zone; iolation $10 Or 30 Days N TO BLOCK ENTRANCES tor longer than one hour,'' carries with it a maximum punishment oi 510-00 lor each offense. The ordinance prohibiting entrance to driveways from being obstructed carries with it a fine not to exceed $10-00 or imprisonment not to exceed 30 days for each offense. The parking of automobiles on Main street in Warrenton has been i problem with which the commissioners have struggled for years, ana the one-hour parking law was adopted in an effort to relieve the situation by preventing business men of the town from leaving their cars on Main street from the time they go to work in the morning until closing time at night. Jurors Drawn For January Term Superior Court A total of 62 names was drawn from the jury box on Monday to constitute the juries which will serve during the first and second week of Superior court which convenes here on January 17 with Judge Ciawson Williams presiding. Forty-four of those selected will serve the first week of the mixed term and eighteen the second week ?the time when civil matters are taken up. Warrenton and River townships will furnish more jurors for the approaching term of court than will any of the other townships, with around ten men selected from each of these townships. Following are the names of those who were picked from the jury box Monday when the Board of County Commissioners was in session by Edward Allen Jr.; First week?L. J. Harris, P. J. Shearin, M. P. Stewart, John D. Holtzman, C. L. Harmon, Earl Hawks, Otis E. Capps, J. C- Flem-1 inc. Howard M. Mustian. V. G. Shearin, J. C. Jenkins, W. A. Bobbitt, A- A. Williams Sr., J. R. Robertson, T. B. Overby, E. T. Hicks, J. K- Williams, J. Harry Stegall Sr., B. B. Williams, P. E. Brauer, J- RPalmer, William L. Fleming, D. AHight, M. J. Harris, W. L. Harris, Luther A. Carroll, C. K. Plancon, C. E. Foster, A. A. Jones, W- S. Robertson, C- H. Taylor, W. J. Walker, G. W. Little, Whit Shearin, T. R. Walker Jr., A. J. Ellington, J- H. Harris, Gilbert T. Reid, J. R. Bobbitt, W. E- Thompson, R. L. Darnell, A. A. Williams Jr., E. H. Russell, R. L. Godsey. Second week?Lawrence Overby, A. F. White, J. H. King, J. C. Moore, James W. lamer, I. O. Huey, C. HRobinson, C. P. Holtzman, J. LPrice, Seth Shearin, W- S- Walker, Geo. L. Bender, A- T. Ayscue, T. WSykes, S- T. King, F. R. Ryder, J. Boyd Williams, Davis R. Moore. Mrs. J. R. Paschall Dies Wednesday The remains of Mrs. J- R- Paschall, who died suddenly at her home at Wise on Wednesday around 2 o'clock, were shipped to Savannah, Ga., yesterday where burial services will be held today. Mrs. Paschall had not been well for a week but her condition had not been regarded as being serious enough to keep her in bed. She was sitting in a chair when she was seized with a heart attack which resulted in her deathMrs. Paschall, who was reared in Savannah, would have been married to Mr. Paschall five years had she lived until Christmas Eve. Mail Packages Early, Says P. M. Stressing the importance of early Christmas mailing, Postmaster Fred Moseley of the Warrenton office stated this week that no packages or letters would be delivered on Christmas day unless they were marked "fragile" or "perishable" or carried a Special Delivery stamp. TVX*? TVXneolmr olen r?aiifinr*oH rvor_ sons sending gifts to pack and wrap them adequately and to address them plainly. "Our volume of business increases tremendously during the Christmas season and it is a physical impossibility to handle the great mass of mail matter efficiently and promptly within a few days without all cooperating," the post office man said. , i I MQSa OF THE NEWS ! :p onrt . 1 THE TIME 1 NUMBER 50 JAIL CONTRACT GIVEN TO REID Local Contractor Given Job Repairing Warren Jail At Cost of $4,775.00 PLUMBING NOT IN BID The contract for remodeling the Warren county jail was awarded oy the Board of County Commissioners in session here on Monday to H- P. Reid of Warrenton whose bid of $4,775 was low among the three contractors competing for the job. The other two bids were: Fred For. rest & Co. of Roanoke Rapids, $4,959.00; V. A. Coleman of Wise, $6,129. The contract awarded Mr. Reid provided that he give a guaranteed turn-key job of all the work to be -L i?41 4-Uo Avn/infiAr? UUIlfJ at Lilt: jall wxiii 111c iahj/wvu of the installation of plumbing fixtures, which, it has been estimated, will cost in the neighborhood of $500, bringing the toal expenditures for the work to be done on the jail to around $53,000. The contract for installing the plumbing fixtures was also expected to be let by the Board on Monday but at 12 o'clock no sealed bids for this work had been submitted. WR. Strickland of Warrenton placed a sealed bid with the board later in the afternoon, but the commissioners deferred opening this bid for ten days- Other bids are expected to be on hand by this time. Improvements to be made at the jail, which as been termed by several erand Juries "inadeauate, un safe, unsanitary," are to conform In detail with plans drawn for the board by Stuart Davis, architect of Louisburg, who has been working with the commissioners for some time in an effort to draw plans which would meet with state requirements and at the same time call for no unnecessary outlay of capital. Among the improvements to be made will be the removal of the wooden sairway inside of .the jail and the construction of a stairway on the outside of the jail, the place- ? ment of a steel door upstairs at the head of the stairway, the installation of sanitary plumbing fixtures, reinforcement of cells, new windows which will afford more ventilation and which may not be cut by hacksaw blades, painting, repairing walls, etc. Mr. item is expected iu gu lu wuja at once on his job and guarantees to complete the work within 90 days. While repairs are going on at the jail it is expected that prisoners will be shifted from one side of the building to the other as work progressesMrs. Arrington Is Lee Home Director Mrs- Katherine Pendleton Arrington has been named as Director for North Carolina of "Straford Hall,'' Virginia, ancestral home of the Lee family now owned by the ! Robert E. Lee Memorial Association. Mrs. Arrington has just re| turned from the annual meeting of the North Carolina Art Society, held this year in the Mint Museum of Charlotte?which museum was sponsored by the State Art Society. Just previous to her going to the Art Society meeting she had re turned from Memphis, Tenn., having been appointed by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America to serve on the National Committee for the celebration of the discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto. Car Hits Wagon; Negro Is Injured John Hunter, negro, was painfully injured late Wednesday afternoon when the wagon on which he was riding was struck by a car being operated by Dick Ramsey negro, near the Warrenton Box & Lumber Company. The negro was rendered unconscious by the blow which he received when he was knocked from the wagon, but he is expected to recover from his injuries. Ramsey is reported to have stated that lights from an approaching car blinded him and that he did not see the wagon until it was too late to avoid the accident. A preliminary hearing will be held as soon as Hunter is able to appear before a magistrate and testify. SON BORN Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin L. Reid of Areola, N. C-, on December 2, a son, Anton Lawson. Mr. Joe Ellis of Murfreesboro spent the week end here.
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