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XXXVIII
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I Commissioners Agree to Pay
Hall Hospital Bill After
I Lengthy Debate
t0 11 kn over books
Tj10 Bi ard of County Commisj'oncis
was in session Wednesday]
niornina :o study the insolvent list]
preparatory to turning the books]
,ver to Sheriff Pinnell for the col- ]
ection ot 1938 taxes.
It expected that the books will ]
K turned over to the sheriff the]
;:jt Monday in October. In the]
leantune he is to push collections]
inch are slightly behind those of]
In addition to discussing the tax]
cords, the commissioners attend-]
to several other matters, includ- ]
y tiie issuance of a beer and wine ]
ense to O. C. Brown and instruct.]
. nhairman to Droperly exe-|
ing mc ?
I cute the note of $7,000 which repre
sents money the county borrowed
I temporarily to pay its share of the
cos: of erecting a negro school in
Sandy Creek township and a school
bus garage at Warren Plains.
The board also agreed to pay
Fiulutgh Read $6800 as approximately
half of the hospital bill of
Sidney Jiggetts which Mr. Read
| stood for when he rushed the old
and poor negro, who was in a critiII
cal condition, to Park View hospital.
Rocky Mount, several months
ago. Mr Read paid the other part
I of the bill.
It was with reluctance that the
board settled the hospital bill with
I Mr. Read, one or two of its members
pointing out that to do so would
violate a rule made by the commissioners
previously not to pay any
core hospital bills unless the patient
was ordered to a hospital by
I the welfare officer or a member of
I the board.
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I Jlr. Read expiamea mau nucu
the ca^e was brought to his attenjtnn
and lie was assured by a phyIsician
tiiat the indigent negro could
I not live but a few hours unless he
received the benefit of an operagliicn
he informed the welfare of J
,'::er of the situation and her in
ability to get him in Duke hospital
within ten days led him to call sev
eral hospitals and finally get him
I admitted in Park View at a rate of
9 $3.00 a day- Informed by board
aembers that if the case had been
handled by one of the commission
ers the negro would have been ad.
mitted at the county rate of $2 a
I cay for patients of this type, Mr.
1 Read replied that he was unaware
I of this fact, that he thought he was i
I contacting the right person when
I he went to the head of the county
I welfare department, and reminded .
I 'he commissioners that it was an <
H emergency case. "It was a case of :
I ~e or death and I would save al- 1
I tost any man's life if I could do i
fl 50 lor S150. provided I had the
I money," Mr. Read stated in request- 1
I mg the board to pay half of the i
r-e?ro's hospital bill, which totaled
around $140.
After discussing the matter pro '
I and con the board agreed to pay i
Mr. Read $08 00. Mr. Read had al- ,
been paid around $30.00 by 1
I Stives of Jiggetts, but this amount
as offset by telephone calls, get- ;
tin *i , , .. . , Jx_, j
!-"s we paueni to tne nospuai anu
buying medicine, he told boaTd i
members. ' After all, by me paying
balf the bill the crnlhty is getting 1
?ut with less expense at the $3.00 a
% rate than it would have if the i
Patient had been sent there by the
county at a rate of $2.00 a day," he
<figgets lives on a farm adjoining
fr Read's.
Miss Falkener Is
Y. P. S. L. President
I Sarah Hilah Falkener,
kughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. K.
I afc?ner. was elected president of
; I |e Junior Young Peoples' Service
ea?ue of Emmanuel church at a
h'-ld in the Parish House
0n Sunday night. Other officers
*ere: Vice president, Miss Lula
cC;aw Gay; secretary, Miss Mary
^den Tucker; treasurer, Miss
ii a<unerine Petar; reporter, Miss
I Nary Spottswood Baskervill.
Sponsor; for the junior organizaI
^on art Mrs. J. P. Scoggin, Misses
'-'th Wagner and Sarah MasI
??nhurg. iinj league is to hold
n y another meeting Sunday night at
j I o clock, it was announced.
? A Bob Khkland of Littleton was a
WAR
DING! DONG! DELL!
COW IS IN THE WELL
There was a slight commotion
in the peaceful little village of i
Warren Plains yesterday morning
when a crowd gathered at
the home of Walter Duns ton, I
negro, to give advice and render I j
assistance in getting his cow | j
from the bottom of a well ap- I i
proximately 30 feet deep into
which she had fallen earlier in
the day.
After several hours of labor
the cow was brought from thr
well by means of a block and
tackle and late yesterday afternoon
she was grazing around
apparently none the worse for
wear.
The animal is believed to have
backed into the old well, which
was covered with rotten planks
and honeysuckle, in the morning
around 8 o'clock. A mysterious
lowing was heard shortly af
ter that time by Tom Basket,
negro, and an investigation re- i
vealed that the cow was in the I
well.
Gitty! Gitty! Gout!
The neighbors got her out!
Preparations Are
Being Completed
For Warren Fair
Preparation for Warren County's
Agricultural Fair, which is to be
held here under the auspices of the
Warrenton Lions Club during the
week of October 3, is going forward
rapidly amid a certain amount
of enthusiasm as plans are being
whipped into shape by members uf
the civic body and their co-workers
to make the occasion even more
praiseworthy and enjoyable than
the fair of last year which won the j
approval of thousands of citizensl
from this and other counties who
trekked through the gates to view
the outstanding exhibits, enjoy the
midway and mingle with friends.
For the past week members of
the Lions Club have been at the
fair grounds almost every night arranging
booths for the various and
numerous exhibits which are expected
to be on display to compete
for the more than $500 00 worth of
prizes offered in the premium books
which went into the hands of farmers.
their wives, and many others
months ago in order that they could
arrange and plan for the event.
While the menfolk are working at
night, and in the daytime, too.
young boys and girls of school age
are utilizing their spare time to sell
advance tickets to the fair, for
which they will be rewarded according
to their success in the contest.
Mrs. C- K. Plancon is managing
the sale of tickets and her
headquarters are in the trailer on
court square. Those desi .ing booths
in the exhibit hall may also visit
Mrs. Plancon in the trailer and
make the necessary arrangements.
In addition to prizes which are to
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Ut glVCIl iUi CAiiXUiLO, HIU XUU utx
sociation will also offer prizes to
the farmers whose teams win out
in the mule pulling contest on
Thursday night of Fair Week, and
a cash prize each night to the person
holding a lucky advance sale
ticket. j
Endy Bros, which proved success-.
ful last year in providing amusement
for young and old of both
sexes with their many rides and
other attractions, will again play
the midway.
The cannon act, which will be
offered as a free attraction every
night, is predicted to draw tre-|
mendous crowds and hold them
spellbound as a man is shot from
the mouth of a cannon, high into
the air and over twin ferris wheels.
Present indications give promise
of the biggest and most enjoyable
fair that has ever been held in
Warren county.
EPISCOPAL SERVICES
Holy Communion will ;be cele-.
brated at Emmanuel Episcopal j
Church on Sunday morning at 8.
o'clock, followed by morning prayer;
at 11 o'clock, the Rev. B. N. de Foe
Wagner announced this week. On
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock
evening prayer will be conducted in
Good Shepherd Church, Ridgeway,
he said. The public is invited io
attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Knight of
Glen Lynn, who have been visiting
relatives here for several days, are
now spending some time with relatives
in Raleigh.
Mrs. H. Clyde Fleming of Morehead
City is a guest of Mrs- B. P.
'errell.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. . . . This
world's most expensive bathing su
City ,of 1938 (Miss Eileen Maci
platinum, pearls, rubies, and diam
as hostess to the 50 priceless bea
hliss America. This costly suit wt
County Note Sold
To Clayton Bank
At Low Interest
The value and desirability ol
Warren county bonds was again
demonstrated this week when sis
banking institutions and one individual
placed bids which carried interest
rates ranging from less than
2 per cent to 4 per cent for the $7,000
revenue anticipation note which
this county is issuing fcr the purpose
of securing funds to construct
a negro school house and a school
bus garage in conjunction with federal
projects.
The note was sold to the Bank
of Clayton which offered to buy the
paper provided the county would
pay an interest rate of 1.99. Others
submitted bids and the amount of
interest they wanted were: Waccamaw
Bank & Trust Co., 3.48;
Bank of Halifax, 3.5; Citizens
Bank, Warrenton, 4; First National
Bank. Wavnesville, 4.5; Wachovia
Bank & Trust Co-, 2.5; J. Willie
White, Warrenton, 2.75.
The sale of the anticipation note
is believed to have established a
record for low interest rate among
the 100 counties of the state. Several
months ago this county sold
$5,000 worth of bonds, for the purpose
of remodeling the jail, which
carried an interest rate of 2.5 and
a premium of $3.90 to establish what
was then considered the lowest ra^e
any county in the state had secured
for its paper.
Littleton Postoffice
Closes For Half-Day
Littleton, Sept. 22.?The Littleton
post office .will continue to close on
Wednesday afternoons, Postmaster
Bob Patterson stated this week.
In announcing his decision to
continue closing the office on Wednesday
afternoons Mr. Patterson
pointed out that it is the custom of
most offices to close one afternoon
a week, usually on. Saturday, but in
view of the fact more people come
to town on Saturdays than on other
days of the week he was setting
Wednesday afternoons for the closT.if+lofrm
nffipp "Hlir
lii?4 Liixxcr ui tiiv uiiwwuii vaaaww. w?hours
are such as to entitle us co
one afternoon of holiday a week
but we desire to pick a time that
will cause the least inconvenience to
those whom the office serves," he
said.
The post office, like the majority
of stores and other businesshouses
in towns throughout North Carolina,
began closing on Wednesday
afternoons several months ago tc
give employees a half-day holiday
during the summer months- With
the coming of fall, the stores adopted
their customary hours of six full
days a week.
MRS. GRAHAM ILL
Friends regret to learn that Mrs
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John D. (jranam, wno ui uie age uj
94 years is Warrenton's oldest lady
is in a critical condition at he:
home here- Members of the family
were summoned to her bedside
yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Capps were
called to Rocky Mount last Tuesdaj
on account of the death of Mrs
Capps' little nephew, Thomas Sydney
Tharrington.
Mr. and Mrs- Kendred Harri:
and children of New York were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Crinkley
for a few days this week.
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-RREN, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEB
Just Protection
jj^
is no arrest, just protection for the i
it, valued at $260,000. Miss Atlantic j
Sherry) modeled the suit made of
onds on the Steel Pier, while acting
.uties who competed for the title of ?
is designed hy Harold A. Brand. i
,
! Negro Held In 1
j Jail As Result Of
Fight In Sixpound j
I
C A fight between two negroes of
1 Sixpound township on Sunday af',
ternoon resulted with one of the
men being carried to a Roanoke
Rapids hospital to receive treat. [
ment for a serious injury and with ?
the other being held in the Warren r
county jail. (
The fiaht was between Genie ?
Rodwell and Walter Games, and
according to reports reaching here
, Games struck Rodwell against the
head with a rock and fractured his
skull.
Games, who recently completed
a prison sentence for murder, surrendered
to Sheriff W. J. Pinnell
J on Wednesday and was incarcerat'
ed in the county bastile. It is not
; expected he will be given a hearing
until the extent of Rodwell's injuries
are ascertained.
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(Committees To
Review Quotas Is
Named By Floyd
Committees made up of farmers (r
to hear applications for review of c
cotton and flue.cured tobacco mar- *
keting quotas in North Carolina 1
have been announced by E- Y. ?
Floyd, AAA executive officer at i
State College. f
I The committees, appointed by the 1
Secretary of Agriculture, are com- 1
! posed of a chairman, vice-chair- c
'man, one other member and an al- 1
I ternate. Each committee will serve ?
I a county. T
! The establishent of review com- ?
, xiiiti/CCO 15 auuiuiiiJtu uiiuva imav j
marketing quota provisions of the ^
' Agricultural Adjustment Act nf I
11938. It will be their duty to pass
1 on applications for review of cotton'
and flue-cured tobacco marketing'
quotas, when properly presented.l
and to make correction in accord-1
ance with the Act should error be 1
found in the quota originally estab-'
, lished for a farm.
' The review committee in Warren
county is composed of W. F. Wood- <
ruff, Rt. 1, Nashville, chairman; ?E
Hunter Pope, Enfield, vice chair,!man;
C. J. Matthews, Rt. 2, Nash- <
| ville, member; and R. D. House,
Scotland Neck, alternate. t
1 W. E. Turner of this county is \
vice chairman of the committee' 1
: which will serve Vance county- As-' 1
sociated with him in this work will]
' be Edward G. Brewer, Rt. 2, Louis- 1
1 burg, chairman; Roy Duke, Rt. 2, j
r Louisburg, member; and A. S. Bugg,
1 Warrenton, alternate. i
The date for holding the meetings
has not been set, so far as could t
be learned here this week. I f
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To Give Brunswick 1
Stew At Macon i
,|
j The ladies of the Macon Com- 1
, munity Club will serve a Brunswick i
! J stew dinner at the Macon school on t
Wednesday, September 28, begin-1 s
ning at 5:30 p. m., Mrs. Emma' i
i Thornton Nowell, president of the i
' club, announced yesterday. The11
. menu will consist of the stew, cook- <
ed by an expert, bread, hot coffee
and pie. For those who prefer it, i
s the club will offer a salad plate. I,
>! Proceeds will be used to further i
the Macon cemetery improvement <
I project.
Item
4BER 23, 1938 Subscript!
MAN ROBBED OF
TOBACCO MONEY
Pickpocket Lifts $147 From
Negro Tobacco Grower As
He Is Leaving Bank
FEW CLUES ARE GIVEN
George Daniel, Enfield negro, was
robbed of $147.00 on the streets of
Warrenton Wednesday morning
iround 11:30 o'clock by an unidentified
negro who lifted the money
from his watch pocket as he was
leaving the bank where he hadj
cashed his tobacco check.
Daniel told this newspaper he
thought he felt some one brush
igainst him as he was leaving the
aank but he paid no attention to
this until he noticed a negro who
lad watched him cash his check
;curring down the street. "I felt in
nv nocket, and discovered then mv
noney was gone, but so had the
nan," he said.
Daniel said that he had never
;een the thief before but he would
ecognize him upon sight. The description
he gave officers of the
pickpocket gave them scant clues
vith which to work.
Nol Pros Ordered
In Cast Against
Commissioners
Learning that the jail had been
econditioned and other instruc.ions
complied with, the state took
i pol pros in the case booked against
nembers of the Board of County
Commissioners approximately a year
igo charging them with failure to
:arry out recommendations made
>y Grand Juries.
With the exception of auditing
he affairs of the county over a
>eriod of five years and publishing
i list of relief beneficiaries, all the
ecommendations have been carried
)ut. The contention of the comnissioners
has been their delay in
implying with the wishes of the
>rand Jury has been occasioned
>y a lack of funds in the treasury.
Invir A rrain
Lti aim i/ ui y r&gum
Recommends Five
Year County Audit
Public offices and affairs of Waren
county were found to be in good
irder by the members of the Grand
Tury who yesterday afternoon
landed in their report which callid
attention to the fact that while
nost recommendations made by
ormer Grand Juries had been carded
out, instructions relative to
luditing the public offices of the
:ounty for a period of five years
ind publishing a list of relief benificiaries
had not been complied
vith. The Grand Jury recommend;d
that this be doneIn
accepting their report Judge
3arker made no comment on these
wo recommendations, but instructid
the Clerk of Court to have two
guardians whom the Grand Jury
'ound had not complied with the
aw in regard to filing reports to do
;o at once. In releasing the body
le expressed his appreciation for
he service they had rendered and
lis pleasure in working with memiers
of this body.
The report in full follows:
'Honorable R. Hunt Parker,
'Judge Presiding September
Term Superior Court.
'Your Honor:
"We, the Grand Jury of the Sepember
Term of Superior Court of j
Varren County, make the following
eport of the duties performed by J
is while acting as a Jury"We
have carefully examined all i
witnesses and passed on all bills
>resented to us by the Solicitor.
"We visited the following places
n a body and find:
''SCHOOL BUSES: We met with
he Superintendent of Schools and
jxamined certificates of all drivers
if school buses, fifty-nine in all. We
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ilso met wnn me suuuui uiu mc:hanic
and find that all buses are
n good repair as of September 1st,
938. We recommend that all buses
rave governors and that same be
nspected and regulated according
;o the law governing speed of same
ind officially sealed. We are informed
that the garage building
ind repair shop for school buses will
je built in the near future, as rec)mmended
by the May Grand Jury.
"JAIL: We find that all work
recommended by the past Grand
Jury has been taken care of and
;hat the Jail is in very satisfactory
:ondition. The new steel bar door
(Continued on Page 8)
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on Price, $1.50 a Year
i Wins Award
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CLEMENT HUNTER WESTON,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Weston,
who has been awarded the North
Carolina State Scholarship to the
Shenandoah Valley Academy, a military
school for boys located at Winchester,
Va. The award was announced
recently following a meetincr
r?f tV?o "RnorH nf TVn.cfppQ nf t.hP
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academy.
Fire Alarm Box
Shorts; Burnt Out
Siren Is Result
A short circuit in the alarm box
near the home of Pete Reavis was
responsible for the siren being burned
out Tuesday morning between 4
l and 5 o'clock when the alarm went
off twice to cause citizens and firemen
to scuttle from the warmth of
their beds and hurry downtown In
search of a blaze.
The short circuit in the alarm
box, which was recently installed
along with a number of others about
the town, is believed to have been
caused by rain in or about the box
where the switch is located.
The alarm first went off about 4
o'cock and blew steadily for about
ten minutes. Approximately 30
I minutes after its grating sound faded
into the early morning atmosphere
and citizens had returned to
their beds its call went out again,
but its stop this time was as sudden
as its start.
The belief was expressed by an
electrician yesterday that there was
a mild short circuit in the box some
time before there was enough
"juice" to cause the siren to blow
and that the mechanism of the apparatus
was already hot and on the
verge of burning out when a Setter
contact occurred and the siren began
to blowThe
alarm box has been repaired
and another motor for the siren
has already arrived here. It will
probably be installed today.
Lions To Be Guests
At Football Game
Displaying appreciation for the
support it has received from time
to time from the Warrenton Lions
Club, the John Graham High
j School will be host to members of
the civic organization this afternoon
at a football game which is Vi
be played between the locals and
j Nashville's feam.
The invitation to attend the
game, which the school has asked
this newspaper to convey to mem[
bers of the club, reads as follows:
"To show the appreciation of the
John Graham High School to the
Lions Club for all the things that
the club has done for the school,
an invitation is hereby tendered to
all members of the Lions Club to
attend the Warrenton-Nashville
football game, played today. There
will be no charge to the Lions, so
please wear some signification besides
your 'growl'."
j With new material on hand and
a new coach who, it was stated, has
already shown the boys some new
tricks which materially strengthens
the team, a surprising and interesting
game is promised.
! The probable lineup for the John
Graham team, which is playing the
first game of the season this afternoon,
was given as follows: Left
end, James darr Moore; left tackle,
' Egerton Ridout; left guard, Everett
I TJnvfio' porxfor Ti1 T* .Tt*
j liailiO, VVliVVl) m. * < AVWVTVI,
' right guard, John Long; right
tackle, Ed Davis; right end, Cross;
j right halfback, Arthur Williams;
I left halfback, Dick Miles, team
[ captain; quarterback, Mac Aycock;
fullback, Harmon.
"Support the school team by attending
this opening game and giv'
ing your backing whenever possi'
ble," is the request which comes
from the local boys.
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NUMBER 38
CRIMINAL TERM
COURT CLOSES |
Mistrial Order In Manslaughter
Case After Jury Is
Unable To Agree
OTHERS ARE ACQUITTED
.
The criminal docket of Warren
county Superior court was brought
to a close yesterday afternoon
-hortly after 4 o'clock "when a mistrial
was ordered in the manslaughter
case against Ernest Alston,
negro, and court adjourned until
n /r i i * a _i.i ?_ ?
iviunaay morning at ru ociock wnen
the civil calendar will be taken up.
The mistrial was ordered by
Judge Parker after he had learned
from members of the jury that they
had been divided 6-6 over their verdict
and they were not likely to
reach an agreement in the case
which had been given them several
hours before.
The original bill of indictment
charged Jesse Alston, Ernest Alston
and Murphy Alston with murder as
the result of the death of Trim
Williams, who received a blow back
of his head during a disturbance
among the negroes at Inez on the
evening of July 9, but at the outset
of the case Solicitor Tyler announced
that he would not ask for
a verdict of first degree murder but
would modify the charge to second
degree murder or manslaughter, as.
the evidence might justify.
At the conclusion of the state's
evidence the court ordered a verdict
of not guilty as to Murphy Alston
and at the conclusion of all the
evidence a verdict of not guilty was
directed as to Jesse Alston, leaving
Ernest Alston the only defendant in
the hands of the jury.
Ernest Alston's contention
throughout the trial was that he
accidentally struck Williams while
attemntiner to nreserve his own life
during the fracas at Inez.
The only other murder charge on
the docket at this term of court
was booked against Ed Dowtin,
negro, who fatally shot Ed Lewis in
the abdomen with a pistol on Tuesday
night, August 9. He pled guilty
to a charge of manslaughter and
was sentenced to Central Prison to
serve a term not less than five
years nor more than eight years.
While a sizeable crowd packed
into the temple of justice during
this term of court, there were no
cases of county-wide interest tried
and most of the spectators, as well
as the defendants, were negroes.
The only two white men tried at
this term were Roy Long, for violating
the provisions of a former
judgment, and R L. Ellis of South
Hill for hit and run driving.
A judgment which was suspended
over Roy Long in 1937 when he entered
a plea of guilty to a charge
of assault upon a female was ordered
in effect this week when the
court learned that he had violated
the conditions of the suspended
sentence.
Last year Long was given a twoyear
road sentence which was suspended
by Judge Grady on the condition
that he pay court- costs and
i remain sober and of good behavior.
I Learning this week from Recorder's
court record that Long was convicted
last month on another charge
of assault and sentenced to the
roads for four months, Judge Parker
ordered that the former judgment
go into effect.
The state took a nol pros with
leave in the case against Crayton
Kelly, charged with larceny. Willie
Green Harris failed to appear
in court to face a charge of seduction
and a capias was ordered
issued for him. A capias was also
ordered issued for Whit Perry,
charged with breaking, entering and
larceny.
A case of possessing whiskey for
the purpose of sale, booked against
Lucy Bullock, was continued due to
illness of the defendant.
A true bill was not found in the
case against Theodore Roosevelt
Taylor who was accused of larceny.
Convicted on a charge of hit and
run driving which was booked
against him as a result of injuries
the automobile he was operating inflicted
upon Charlie Newton of
north Warrenton early in May, R.
L. Ellis, young man of South Hill,
| Va., was given a twelve months road
sentence by Judge Parker in Superior
court this week. The road
sentence was suspended on the condition
that he pay a fine of $100.00,
pay the court costs and refrain from
driving an automobile for a period
of three years. He was further ordered
to post bond in the sum of
$100 and appear here at the SepCContlnued
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