FISHING IS ACOMING
INDUSTRY OF N. CAR.
Mr. C. H. Grady of Manteo
Formerly of Kenly Writes
Interesting Article
THE HERALD is in receipt of a
communication from Mr. Charles H.
Grady, formerly of Kenly, but who
is now practicing law at Manteo, in
the extreme eastern part of North
Carolina, telling of the fishing indus
try of the State. It is quite an in
teresting article and we feel sure
will be enlightning to many of our
readers, hence we are glad to publish
it herewith.
“Most people in the inland sections
of North Carolina have about as
much idea of the Fishing Industry of
our State as the people living in the
Fishing section have about the
growing of Tobacco and Cotton. My
idea of Fishing before coming to
this part of the State was to dig
some earth worms and go down to
the old community Mill Pond and sit
there all day and probably catch
several Robbins and go home that
night hungry and tired and think
that a man that would spend his
time fishing must be lazy as it im
pressed me as a lazy man’s job.
“Probably that impression is what
makes me so interested today in this 1
great industry in our State. We are
growing fast and are becoming
known as the coming State of the
union all over the United States.
We are Geographically located and
situated so as to be the most inde
pendent State in the whole of the
United States. We have as our bor
ders the extreme on the east and
west.' We extend from the Moun
tains to the Sea. This naturally
gives us a varied climate and nature
gives us three great industries or
the fields in which these can be de
veloped. The Western part of on
State can and is fastjaeing develop
ed into a great manufacturing cen
ter. The central is fast forging
ahead in the agricultural develop
met. The Eastern is endowed by
nature with a great net work of
waterways ?md from which are year
ly taken a great amount of food
which is shipped to the other sections
in return for the agricultural and
manuactured- products produced
there. This connection and situa
tion of North Carolina makes it in
dependent if all were developed.”
“The Fishing Industry is being de
veloped and the figures will surprise
I all those who have the Same idea
that I have entertained about the
fishing industry. The Sea Food In
dustry yields to the State of North
Carolina annually two million dol
lars giving employment to 10,900
people with four million dollars in
vested in equipment. This is the
amount produced and invested for
the year 1922. The year 1923 will I
hope show a decided increase. The
General Assembly has appropriated
one half million dollars to be spent
in developing this industry. When
this amount has been expended the
fishing industry will be in a position
to be classed among the best in
any State and North Carolina will
be among the leaders in this indus
try as well as many others.
f,The value of the fish is as follows:
\ Yield of fish 16,915,387 pounds val
ued at $694,329.72; Shrimp, 1160,824
pounds valued at $58,041.20; Oys
ters 500,000 bushels valued at $125,
000; Clam 41,157 bushels valued at
$82,314; Scallops 138,596 gallons
valued at $415,707; Soft Crabs 65,434
dozen valued at $48,975; Crab meat
3186 gallons valued at $5,779. There
are only two factories in the State
at the present producing Crab Meat.
They are both located at Manteo, N.
C., and one of them just started.
Therefore the production of Crab
meat will be over double this year
what it was when the last year clos
ed. The name of the two houses
pro lacing Crab meat in North Caro
lina is The Ford Sea Food Co., and
the Virginia Dare Sea Food Corpo
ration. This is a new industry in
North Carolina is only being estab
lished here at the present. It is
looked for that new houses will be
coened in North Carolina soon. This
industry has almost wholly belong
ed to Virginia and Maryland for the
past but North Carolina is now ex
pecting to prove a strong competitor
for those States in the Crab Meat
business as well as in all Sea Food
Products.
MR. HAWLEY PLUNGES THRU
WINDSHIELD INTO CREEK
Mr. W. A. Hawley, of Wilson,
is in the Smithfield Memorial
Hospital in a somewhat serious
condition following an automo- j
bile accident which landed him
in a creek three miles beyond
Selma Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Hawley was driving alone j
from Fayetteville to Wilson in a
Studebaker *car, and lost control
of the machine as he went on the
bridge spanning the creek. The
car lurched against the railing
throwing Mr. Hawley through
the windshield into the stream. ;
The car did not get off the
bridge. A man living near by
rescued Mr. Hawley and brought
him to the hospital here. The
cold water of the stream chilled
him through and through which
together with the shock of the j
accident necessitated his remainl
ing in the hospital for a few days |
at least. At the last report he
was doing as well as could be ex- j
pected.
Mr. Hawley is a brother of Mr. j
Frank Hawley, one of the pro
prietors of the ~ Sanitary Barber
Shop of this city.
SARAH BERNHARDT PASSES
AWAY IN ARMS OF HER SON i
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Sarah Bernhardt, the great French
tragedienne, died late Monday eve
ning at her home in Paris at the age
of 78. The great actress passed away ,
in the arms of her son, her last words '
being a message to her friends in
America. These are the words: “I ;
am deeply touched with the sympa
thetic interest of my beloved Ameri- |
can friends.”
% Her body was removed CO the
Church of St. Francois De Salee j
yesterday afternoon where a most 1
impressive funeral of any great pub- j
lie figure since that of Victor Hugo,
was held. Hugo’s funeral was under
the auspices of the government white
Bernhardt's was at the expense of
the city of Par’s.
Sanitary Barber Shop To Move.
Although the new Hood building
being ejected on the corner of Third j
and Market Streets is not quite com- |
pleted, the Sanitary Barber ' Shop j
will move into the basement of the
building next week. Mr. C. R. Pittman ,
is the proprietor of this establishment
whichyis at present located on Third j
Street near the Market building, i
They are to be congratulated upon se- i
curing quarters in the handsome new
Hood building. I
“The total valuation of food fish
and shell fish produced annually in
North Carolina is $1,430,146.42. ,
Number of Menhaden taken 201,438,
000 the value of these being $604,000,
the total valuation of yield being
$2,034,430.42.
“This is the value of the Fishing
Industry to the State of North Caro
lina., This Industry is fast growing
to be a Great Industry and its prod
ucts are becoming popular and soon (
the demand for North Carolina Sea
Food Products will exceed the out
put in our own State. At this time
a great part of the output is being |
shipped out of the ^5tate. The Inland
Counties buying‘their Sea Foods
from other States. This causes both
sections of the State to lose and it
is hoped that the inland dealers will ,
soon wake up and realize that they ;
can buy in the State and save mon- i
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“The Atlantic Fisherman, a maga
zine punblished for the fishermen
has an article in its January issue
as follows: ‘The largest set of Oys
ters reported in many years is in
the Oregon Inlet and Crab Slough
Beds of North Carolina. This is j
'argely due to the State Law which
has been in force forbidding the tak
ing of Oysters or the planting of
beds. The Oysters are unusually
large having fattened on the fresh
water which flooded the beds during
the past summer.’
“This gives us some idea of the j
importance of the great industry
and the necessity of preserving and ;
cultivation of the same. Oyster Beds j
have to be cultivated as well as does
a Cotton Field or a Tobacco Field.
“This State will be the first in the j
union in the three great industries j
that nature has so well endowed her
with. That is not to say that she I
will lead in production as there are j
other states that may lead in size
but North Carolina will lead in pro- 1
portion within a very few years.”
WILL INVESTIGATE
THE SUGAR ADVANCE
Will Probably Require Six
Months for the Federal
Investigation
WASHINGTON, March 2$.—Out
standing developments here today in
the sugar situation were the an
nouncement by the tariff commission
that, in compliance with instructions
from President Harding, its inquiry
into the effect of the new import du
ties on prices would be more far
reaching than originally was intend
ed, and the prediction by Secretary
Hoover that present prices would re
sult in decreased consumption and
increased production.
wnen tne tariit commission met
today it had before it the Presi
dent’s telegram, sent Tuesday night
from St. Augustine, Fla., directing
thaJt it establish whether the new
tariff was keeping the retail price of
sugar at high levels. The commis
sion, which already had initiated ar.
investigation, at the request of Cu
ban producers, to determine whether
a reduction in the sugar duties was
advisable under flexible provisions of
the tariff law, decided at once to
increase the scope of its inquriy.
Members of the commission pre
dicted it probably would be six
months before a comprehensive study
of production costs in Cuba, Porto
Rico and Hawaii as well as the
United States, and of local stocks
and world supplies on various dates
could be completed and recommenda
tions submitted to the President, who
has authority to alter the tariff
rates:
Mr. Hoover’s prediction was made
in a letter to Representative Dalfcq
ger, Republican, Massachusetts, who
had asked for information as to the
present situation. *
“Sugar consumption a!hd produc
tion,” said the commerce secretary,
“respond very quickly to price. It
would be normal to anitcipate that
estimated consumption would de
crease as the result of the present
over-high price.”
Mr. Hoover also forecast that “the
present price levels will no doubt
stimulate production, especially in
Cuba as at this moment planting
profits are very large.”
Simmons Attacks Tariff.
Comments on the sugar situation
came during the day from Senator
Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina,
who led the fight in the senate
against the administration tariff bill,
Basil M. Manly, director of the peo
ple’s legislative service, who a week
ago urged the President to order a
department of justice investigation j
of alleged price manipulation, anil j
the farmers’ national council.
Senator Simmons said in a state- j
ment that present high prices were
due to the preferential duty on Cuban j
sugar. Declaring that President
Harding’s instruction to the tariff
commission suggests that “he must
have considered the tariff as at least
a possible cause of the present high
prices.”—Associated Press.
BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION
MEETS IN DURHAM
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The Baptist Women’s Missionary
union convention which was held in
Durham this week, was largely at
tended by Baptists from different
sections of the state. Wednesday at
noon the number of delegates in at
tendance reached 663 and many oth
ers registered before the close of the
convention yesterday. Two of the J
outstanding addresses before the con
vention were delivered by Dr. W. C.
James, of Birmingham, Ala., secre- |
tary of the board of education of the j
Southern Baptist convention, and
Dr. R. T. Vann, of Raleigh, who ,
spoke on “Christian Education and I
Essential Part of the Denomination- \
al Program.”
The Mount Zion association with
which the convention met, was award
ed the banner for the best all round
work done in the ldst year.
SHIP LINE COMMITTEE TO
BEGIN ITS WORK APRIL 11
• The committee appointed by the
recent legislature to make investi
gations concerning Governor Morri
son’s ship building program will
make a beginning April 11 by taking
a voyage down the Cape Fear River
from Fayetteville to Wilmington.
CLAYTON LETTER IS
FULL OF INTEREST
Mrs. D. J. Thurston Hostess
To Woman’s Club; Haw
aiian Program Good
CLAYTON, March 29.—Miss Mab
el Ellis, who is teaching school at
Smithfield, spent the week end at
her home here.
Mr. Herman Duncan, of Green
ville, spent Sunday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Duncan.
Mrs. C. B. Johnson, of Smithfield,
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs
J. S. Duncan, this week.
Miss Anna Smith returned Mon
day from Bailey, after a two weeks
visit to her sister, Mrs. Fred Poole.
Miss Kate Newsome, of Middle
sex, spent the week end with Miss
Mary Lineberry, of the graded
school faculty.
Misses Mamie Morgan, Allie Ann
Pierce and Penelope Nichols, of the
graded school faculty, spent the pas
week end at Miss Nichols’ home near
Durham.
Mrs N. R. Poole spent the week
end with her son, Mr. Fred R. Poole
at Bailey, returning home Monday.
Mrs. W. C. Jordan and son, Billie,
have returned to Wilson, after
spending some time with Mrs. S. G.
Phillips.
Mrs. P. C. Duncan after visiting
Mrs. John S. Barnes for a few day ,
re;urned to her home in Raleigh
Wednesday.
Mr. A. B. HolIowell, of Raleigh,
was a business visitor to Clayton
Tuffday.
Dr. J. T. Gibbs, pastor of Horne
Memorial Church, was called to
Asheville this morning on account
of the illness of his son, and owing
to act that he will be out cf
town th&SP'H^bejio preaching ser
vices at the MethodisF"ci'fS£Sil,
day.
Mr. J. A. Conley and family of
Winston-Salem, have recently moved
to Clayton and are occupying the old
Tomlinson home.
Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Jones and son,
Lawrence, of the Amelia section,
spent Sunday here with Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Smith.
In the first baseball game of the
season, ;a team of town boys de
feated the high school boys last
Thursday afternoon by the score of
8 to 3.
The regular meeting of the Wom
an’s Club was held Friday afternoon,
March 16, with Mrs. D. J. Thurston
as hostess. Spring flowers and ferns
attractively arranged in the library
and living room enhanced the pleas
ant atmosphere of this hospitable
home. The program was in the
hands of Mrs. W. J. Payne. The sub
ject “Hawaiian Islands” was dealt
with geographically and picturesque
ly in a well prepared paper.
Mrs. C. M. Thomas gave a most en
joyable musical program. The open
ing number, a piano solo, Polonaise
No. Six. by Chopin, was rendered by
Mrs. C. M Thomas. A group of
Hawaiian numbers were given by
Misses Winona Poole, violinist, Alta
Debnam, guitar, Mesdames C. D.
Bass and C. M. Thomas, vocalists
with Mrs. Rudolph Barnes at the
piano. The colorful costumes worn
by thesf^ musicians were so effective
it seemed as if one were transport
ed to these delightful isles of the
Pacific for a native concert.
Delightful refreshments consisting
of chicken salad, pickle, sandwiches,
saltines, coffee and Hawaiian fruit
cake with whipped cream were serv
ed by members of Mrs. Thurston’’
art class, Misses Violet Cornell, Cor
nelia Gulley, Blanche Ellington,
Charlotte Thurston and Mrs. Lois
Massey Bass.
CLARENCE POE NOT
IN THE STATE RACE
RALEIGH, March 28.—Hr. Clar
ence Poe, editor of an agricultural
publication, will not be a candidate
for commissioner of agriculture * of
North Carolina and is not consider
ing running “for any other office,”
he stated today.
Dr. Poe gave out his statement in
reply to questions following reports
at the capitol that he would be a can
didate to succeed W. A. Graham, pres
ent commissioner of agriculture, in
the Democratic primary of 1924.
Several years ago the editor was
prominently mentioned as a probable
candidate for governor.
! FOUR YEARS AT COLLEGE
IS CONTEST AWARD
—
| WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24 -
| For the fourth successive ear, high
| school students of the nation are to
• be Riven opportunity to win the larg
est single educational award offered
in the United States, according to a
statement by the Highway Education
Board today.
The award is the H. S. Firestone
Four Years University Scholarship,
providing not only tuition, but room,
board, books and special fees for the
student writing the best essay in the
annual good roads essay contest. The
assigned subject of the essays to be
written is “The Influence of Highway
Transport Upon the Religious Life
of My Community.”
Announcement of the contest is be
ing made to superintendents of
; schools, high school principals, and
! students as rapidly as possible, and
| id! available literature is being listed
and tabulated for the information o!
the prospective contestants. The
Board announces its willingness to
answer any inquiry students and
teachers may desire to make, but it
points out that all that is necessary is
compliance with the simple rules of
the contest, and the preparation of a
700 word essay on the subject. Es
says should be submitted to the high
school principal by May 1.
The contest, known to thousands of
students throughout the United
States and territorial possessions as
the “annual good roads essay contest”
is the most sustained competition o*
its kind. Inaugurated in 1920, it has
provddi d a college education for three
students, ore boy and two girls, and
its maintenance from year to year is
assured by the donor of the scholar
ship, Harvey S. Firestone, Akron, 0.
This yeai 4he subject is regarded
as unique and unusual, bringing up
for discussion the relation of improv
ed transportation to the moral tone
or the religious life of the commun
ity. Leading chuychmen have ex
‘presserT them'affbro val of~tTn"'c/facus
sion, the essays are to bring about,
while distinguished educators have
given their approval to the contest
itself. In vast years the subjects
have been broader, and more general,
the subject for 1922 dealing with
the improved transportation a«d the
growth of the community as a whole.
Previous winners have been Miss
Katherine F. Butterfield, Weiser,
Idaho. 1920; Miss Garland Johnson,
Bridgeport, West Virginia, 1921; and
in 1922, Karl G. Pearson, Washing
ton, I). C. Miss Butterfield is in col
lege, but Miss Johnson and Mr. Pear
son, not 1 eing seniors when the schol
arship was awarded them have re
mained in high school until ti eir
courses are completed. They bo4h
will enter college this year, Miss
Johnson at the University of West
Virginia, arid Pearson at a university
in Kansa • his home state.
The best three essays from oaen
nigh school are to he submitted to
state headquarters, where the best
essay from the commonwealth will
be chosen. One essay from each
<tate and territory will then come to
the Board at. Washington, D, O.,
there to be handed a national com
mittee to be named by Hr. John ,T.
Tigert, U. £, Commissioner of Edu
cation. The national committee wP!
award the scholarship.
Inquiries should be addressed to
the Highway Education Board, Wil
lard Building, Washington, D. C.
Death of a Little Boy.
It is with a sad heart that I. at
tempt to write the death of my little
boy, William Clifton Smith. He was
taken sick the twelfth of February
with what the doctors pronounced
meningitis. He was very patient in
all his sickness, although he wanted
very much to get well. He would of
ten say “Mamma I want to get well
again so I can play with my little
twin brother.”
He had been sick one month when
the Lord called him away from this
world. Out of his pain and suffer
ing. It was so hard to give him up
but we feel that God knew best. All
was done for him that father, moth
er, relatives, kind friends and physi
cians could do, but none could stay
the icy hand of death. He was four
years, three months and twenty-two
days old.
A precious one from us is gone
A voice we loved is still,
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
A LOVING MOTHER.
Micro, March 28.
SEVERAL HURT IN AN
AUTO ACCIDENT
Mrs. W. B. Jones, Mrs. Cam
Easton and Mrs. W. M.
Sanders Injured
An automobile accident in
which Smitheld people were in
jured took place Tuesday after
noon about 4:30 o’clock between
Clayton and Raleigh, those injur
ed being Mrs. W. B. Jones nee
Miss Sarah Sanders, of Raleigh.
Mrs. Cam Easton, of Oxford and
Mrs. W. M. Sanders. Mr. W. B.
Jones was driving the car which
skidded through a sand pit and
dashed into a tree. The automo
bile struck a culvert, unse§ji by
the occupants of the car, which
swerved it into the sand pit.
The windshield was shattered
from which Mrs. Jones received
severe cuts about the face. Mrs.
Sanders was thrown from the car
but received only minor injuries.
Mrs. Easton, who is a sister of
Mr. H. L. Skinner, and who is
here on a visit, suffered a brok
en wrist and a sprained ankle.
She was brought back to this
city while the others of the party
were taken on to Raleigh. The
wounds of Mrs. Jones were treat
ed at Rex Hospital after which
she was removed to the home of
her father-in-law, Mr. W. N.
Jones. Several stitches were
found necessary, but she suffer
ed no internal or serious injuries.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones, who were
married about three weeks ago,
had just returned on Tuesday
from their wedding trip to Cuba
and were en route to Raleigh,
where they will make their
home.
CILannual n^c
DRAINAGE CONVENTION
CHAPEL HILL, March 28.—The
13th Annual North Carolina Drain
age Convention will be held at New
Bern, N. C., April 18th and 19th, un
der the auspices of the North Caro
lina Geological and Economic Sur
vey and the North Carolina Drainage
Association.
It is expected that as a result of
drainage legislation passed by the
General Assembly of 1923 this year
will mark another epoch in reclama
tion work in North Carolina.
GERMANY FAVORS BUSI
NESS MEN AS MEDIATORS
Late dispatches from Berlin state
that the German government is will
ing to do everything possible to in
sure the payment of its reparations
as determined by an international
business men’s commission. The Ger
mans believe that business men
would be the best mediators, and
they are asking that such a commis
sion be formed. The German For
eign Minister von Rosenberg says,
however, that the occupied region
must be unconditionally evacuated
before there can be any negotiations
for a settlement of the controversy.
EQUIPMENT FOR DUNN
HOSPITAL PURCHASED
DUNN, March 28.—Equipment
for a hospital in Dunn has already
been purchased and the new hospital
will be opened at an early date. The
hospital will be opened in the Tart
building, South Magnolia avenue, and
ten wards will be provided at first.
It is planned to enlarge the hospital
as the demands present themselves.
Drs. W. E. Coltrane, J. F. Hicks, H.
C. Turlington and R. L. Warren are
behind the movement. The opening
of the hospital will fill a longfelt
need in Dunn.
ROBBERS AT PRINCETON GET
AWAY WITH $1200 IN GOODS
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News reached here Wednes
day of a robbery at Princeton,
which occurred Tuesday night.
The thief or thieves prized off a
Yale lock and another lock from
the door of Mr. Ed. A. Holt’s
store and entered. They took
about $1200 worth of men’s
clothing and shoes, but the safe
being locked, no money was
taken. They left the store in
automobiles, and no trace has
been found of them.