Newspapers / The Tyrrell Tribune (Columbia, … / Feb. 29, 1940, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Tyrrell Tribune (Columbia, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
TOR GREATER VOL. I; NO. 13 FORT LANDING WOMAN SPINS OWN WOOL TO MAKE WARM CLOTHING Considered Cash Crop in Area Where Trucks Come Around in Spring to Buy Wool; Why Sheep Always Sheared During FuUMoon in April Told by Mrs. J. R. Rough ton Who Is Using 100-Year-Old Spinning Wheel to Make a Sweater «Editor’s Note: Sheep can be teen grazing on ma „y farms in Hyde and Tyrrell Counties and on the mainland of Dare County, where they are considered a cash crop. There may be a few other scattered homes in this area where #se women make their own clothes from wool, but this story about a Tyrrell County woman and her ex periences is unique to, this era and interesting.) By CHARLES BOND News which she hears over her radio in the little store at Fort landing in Tyrrell County about the. restrictions placed an distribu tion of food and clothes in the war areas doesn’t bother Mrs. J. R. Houghton much, for as she says, "If they keep on having war and ■■lire war, I will at least know how to knit me some cl-othes.” The fact is Mrs. Roughton is al ready engaged now during her spare time in making a sweater which up until the full moon of last April was just the fleecy cpvering of the sheep out in the yard which came a running when she would go to the back of the store and call “runnan, cunnan, cunnan” just as •r*» might call “biddie, biddie, bid die” to chickens they desire to feed. Mrs. Roughton, who estimated it would require a week’s time of steady work to comb and card wool, spin it and knit into a sweater, is hoping to find enough spare time in which to finish her sweater before the full moon in April for with that. Lime another busy season ap proaches tor those who raise sheep. Two pounds of wool will be requir ed on the sweater. Mrs. Roughton proved an inter esting entertainer —and a help to a news reporter —as the wife and I stopped in for a cold drink the other dav while waiting for the ar rval of the ferry. It was raining, but Mrs. Roughton. attracted by our curiosity wanted us to see her sr.eep and so she went to the door and called “Come Betty, Come Bet ty. cunnan. cunnan, cunnan.” and If* sheep came running and bleat ing, that is all hut a ram named “F>illy” who seemed at first a little adverse to emerging from the shelter. Betty was. the mother of two little lambs as pretty as you ever saw. Mrs. Roughton explain ed that she had raised Betty on a bottle with a quart of milk a day for ten yeeks, when her mother had disowned her as a kid. She warned us to watch Billy as we started to turn and go back in the store. Sometimes he will butt rou from behind “I am not afraid of him though,” she hastily added, “for he always licks his tongue out before he starts after you and that gives me time to be ready with a rope or a whip.” Sells Wool in Spring The Roughtons have never kept any records to prove their profits frem sheep, but they say they know they get more from them than it costs to feed them. They graze a lot on green stuff and then you have to give them different kinds es food, Mrs. Roughton explained. Always in the “full moon” of April the sheep are sheared, and the wool sold either by the pound to trucks that come around for that purpose or sent to E’iztbeth City or some other place where there is a wool market. Sometimes wool sells for as much as 3flc a pound. “But why do you say that you always shear the sheep during the full moon of April,” I asked. And Mrs. Roughton assured me that sheep sheared during the full moon won’t shed as bad as those sheared at other times. Also Mrs. Rough ton told me that if I ever wanted to have a sweater custom-made, to use wool from a live sheep that had been sheared rather than from one sheared after it had beon slaughtered because a garment made from wool of the latter will always draw-up. I just couldn’t down my enthu siasm and interest, for as I told Mrs. Roughton it had been quite a while since I read in school about combing, carding and spinning and, in fact I remembered very little about it at all. So Mrs. Roughton ’lowed she would just show* me how to card wool even if it was Sunday, and so she went across the road to her home and brought back two boards about 7xlo inches which had (Please turn to Page Four) THE TYRF L TRIBUNE PROGRESS ' NEW PRESIDENT OF THE WOMAN'S CLUB • Mid .flj» - Jittfils fWI ■ I n HE -smMm ! Hi Vi Hi I IB V ■ MRS. W. S. CARAWAN was elect ed president of the Columbia Wo man’s Club at its last meeting. Mrs. Carawan has been devoted to her club work and has constantly worked for the benefit of the club. DISTRICT CENSUS MAN URGES HAVE ! FULL FARM DATA i < Says Agricultural Census to ! Start Soon Will Aid in Solving Problems ! With the business and manufac turers census nearinfg completion work is expected to be started the first of April on the population, agricultural and housing census, Denton W. I.upton, of Washington, N. C., supervisor for the first dis trict, reports. “The farmer is confronted with the problem of adjusting his pro duction to meet vita! changes and the census will tell him what these changes are. The census figures will tell him what crops are being overproduced; what progress is be ing made to use more of his crops in industrial plants,” declared Mr. ; Lupton. ! “Industry has developed a fine [statistical record which guides its [future operations. No one of the 7,000,000 farmers can develop such I a set of records for his own guid ance because he lias only his own figures. Census records of 7,000,- 000 farms combined is the only complete national picture of farm operations to tell the farmer which iway he is going, and to provide students of the serious farm prob lem with the facts tv meet thi3 , problem.” Mr. Lupton urges all of the Please turn to Page 4) DIVERSION OF ROAD FUNDS NOT A POPULAR THEME SOME EDITORIAL COMMENT ON THIS SUBJECT AUTOMOBILES AND HIGHWAYS (Oxford Ledger) The stand that six candidates for Governor of North Carolina have taken in opposition to diversion of highway tax funds for other ex penses of government reflects the emphasis which public officials and citizens of North Carolina are plac ing upon the improvement of and maintenance of the state s road system. Citizens of North Carolina and of the United States have become! good-roads conscious and they will not be content with a system of roads that is not adequate to meet the industrial, educational, eco nomic and social progress being at tained in accelerated manner throughout the United States. Sound business judgment de mands that North Carolina pro tect its investment of millions of dollars in improved highways bv proper maintenance and as rapid replacement of inadequate roads as finances permit. o o o NOT AN ISSUE (Statesville Daily) Highway fund diversion is an is sue that won’t be an issue in the OF THE LAKE PHELPS AND PEI I WOMAN’S CLUB OF COLUMBIA NAMES NEW OFFICERS i ■ i Mrs, W. S. Carawan Made! President; International Relations Program j Mrs. W. S. Carawan was elected j j president of the Columbia Woman’s 1 [Club at its meeting Wednesday! evening of last week. Other offi-j leers elected were Mrs. S. J. f lc.tlo-1 ! way, vice president; Mrs. K. R. Co-j iboon, ce'-ond vice president; Mrs. 1 D. M. Bridgeman, corresponding | i secretary ; Mrs. Russell Ecerton, | | recording secretary; and Mrs. C. jC. Lupton, treasurer, j his life. Mrs. R. L. Thompson made j cultural class of Columbia under i V. H. Durranee would improve the ! Pettigrew plot and that Mis. J. G. lßrickhou.se would supplly verbena [plants for beds in the plot, j Mrs. J. H Bateman reported that | sufficient women had been inter - ested and that .an organization meeting of a demonstration c*ub for women, not previously members I of anv club, was to have been held j 'Monday of this week. The eiubj also decided '•> sponsor a games! partv for toe benefit of the Colum bia library with Mrs. B. B. Baker being named chairman. Mrs. TO. J. Briekhoure reported! • the influence of Hitler's parents on j his l'fe Mrs. R. L. Thompson made a talk on world peare through in ternational relations Others ap pearing on the program, which was in charge of Mrs. Alfred Chaplin, 1 j were the following with musical , [numbers: Mesdames s>. W. Sikes, .1. E. Norris, W. H. McClees. R. L. 'Thompson, G. M. Garrett, Mrs. A. >K. Spencer, and C. C. Lupton. ! Mrs. C. V. Liverman won the prize in a contest about club ac (tivities The George Washington motif! !was carried out in the refresh-! ; ments. j Hostesses were Mesdames H. N. \ McClees, C. V. Liverman. F. L. 1 [Liverman, A. M. Bateman and C. ,C. Lupton. i BEER TAXES TOTAL 3 MILLION IN N. C., 1939 j Raleigh—North Carolina’s beer [consumption of 301.800 barrels in i 1039 provided $3,194,870.57 in taxes Ito the Federal state and local gov jernments. according to an ari«lvsis by the Brewers and North Carolina [Beer Distributors Committee, j The state collected $1,510,370 57 jin licenses and excise taxes; the j various cities, towns, and counties lof North Carolina approximately $170,000; and the federal govern ment $1,508,500. The federal gov jernment’s tax is based on $5 per i barrel. [ The beer industry furnished ; more than two-thirds of the $2,- 1 227,842.13 collected by the state • during 1939 from its beverage Itaxes; wines and liquor provided !about one-third. | The State Department of Reve nue disclosed that the state’s sl,- 510,370.57 in beer taxes last year were distributed as follows: li censes $54,632.32; excise or con sumption tax on bottled and canned beer $1,306,707 54; and excise tax on draft beer $149,030.71. The annual business volume esti mated at $10,400,000 has been de veloped and maintained in North Carolina by the legal beer industry and most of this volume is reflected directly in the state by employ- 1 ment, payrolls and taxes, it was explained. J gubernatorial campaign. - It won’t be an issue for the simple reason | that when everybody is agreed on anything there is no about it. And all six of the candi dates so far announced, with the probability that there won” be any, more, .have frankly stated their op- 1 position to the principle of diver- 1 S'Plt. Obviously there would have beer.‘ [no nailing down of these p’anks in i the candidates’ platform, if it j hadn’t been considered essential. 1 I which is another way of saying j that the majority of voters are op posed to diversion and that aspir- : ing candidates .ambitions to make the grade had sensed this fact very definitely. That leaves Governor Hoey and i diversion defenders out on a limb. The Governor was very definite about this matter. While he has used none of these funds, lucidly for all concerned, he insisted that the legislature stake them down so they could be used, and members of the general assembly, anxious to please, conformed to his wishes in the matter, and the motley collected , from the motorists with the under standing that it would be used for one purpose, was ear-marked for another. COL. x CTOR 1 TIME ■'y ——— In ail her 12 years, Mrs. Court ney Gaskill had, never had a doctor V ( O'- —Photo by Victor Meekins. 1 to treat her until this year, when she had an attack of la grippe, and her son feared she might take pneumonia. Mrs, Gaskill. who lives at Hatteras, lid all the cook ing and bousekeep rr for the fam ily until tlie attiicr. of grippe in January, and from which she is re covering. She was bom October 3, 1847, married William Wise Gas kill in November 1866, and lived with him 62 years. Since the age of ten, she has been a member of the Methodist church, and she never retires without praying, not only for herself, but for all the people she knows. The mother of a large family of children and the head of five generations, she dear ly recalls the stirring scenes of the Civil War at Hatteras, and when Capt. Amasa Simpson' and his Home Guards were put to rout by the invading Yankees, and fb.d across the sound to the Hyde Coun • tv mainland, taking their wives and children with them. Her own fa ther, William Austin, was with the company. One Confederate soldier got away without his wife, and the Yankees carried her to Elizabeth City to meet him. “When the Yankees took possession of Hat teras, nearly all the men were gone,” Mrs. Gaskill told us the other day. “The people were fac ing starvation, and they had to feed the people. They allowed so many rations a week for the peo ple, and they had to go get it in those days, and were glad to get it. .They didn’t gnimble, like they do 1 these days, if the commodities aren’t delivered to them. We did grumble at the split peas they gave us, which never would boil tender. There were three forts at Hat teras then. One near Trent was called Fort Duncan; Fort Clark stood about where the Gooseville Gun Club now is, while Fort Hat teras guarded the Inlet.” ! Mrs. Gaskill was the mother of the late Litchfield Gaskill of Hat ■| teras. She is the mother of Henry Gaskill of Hatteras, and of Capt. John Curtis Gaskill of Engelhard. She has a number of daughters, [and Has lived to see her grand -1 children’s grandchildren, j She is a woman ,of spartan cour age, facing unusudl griefs with faith in God and a future life. She condemns sinful practices, and other things she thinks do not help one. * i h-r list, as weL *en. She once use it bv force of v md died ten ye? 'ght it detrime j Mrs. home stead v ad his sons. ’t the neighl (dren, when dur ing th> is re mained t was exceed >ntly, but now . o.uewhat hard of he... M j ßs Fay Ba»e* u*n, student of Eastern Carolina Teachers College at Greenville, was home over the week end. K REGION AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES iUARY 29, 1940 COLUMBIA MAN !NAMED TO GROUP BANK COMMITTEE C. C. Luuton Appointed to ! Executive Committee of Group 1 Bankers F. C. Lupton, cashier of the Co-1 lumbia branch of the Engelhard j Banking and Trust Co., was named! to the executive committee of dis trict 1 at a meeting of some .150 Hankers of northeastern North' Carolina at Elizabeth City Thurs- j day. ' ! H. S. Gurganus of Washington J was elected chairman of the dis- j trict: G. R. Tucker of Hertford, I vice chairman; and H. B. Copeland! of Ahoskie, secretary and treas urer. Others named to the executive committee included G. R. Walston of Farmville, H. T. Greenleak of Elizabeth City and Roy Griffin of Jlurfieesboro. Ihe bankers heard speeches by j Gurney P. Hood, state commission-! er of banking, R. C. Kirchofer of j Ra’eigh, chairman of the North J Carolina securities advisory com-j niittee, W. E. Easterling of Ra!-‘ eigh, secretary of the local govern- ■ ment commission, W. H. Woodard I •of Greenville, state president of the j Bankers Association, and Walter! W. Cohoon of Elizabeth City. Charles M. Griggs, chairman of the city council welcomed the con- j vention to Elizabeth City and J. H. Waldrop, Greenville banker, re-j sponded. i CYCLE-AUTO WRECK INJURES TWINS By J. 1,. SNELL Marion and Maurice Bridgemnn. local twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. D. j M. Bridgeman, were injured in an: auto-motorevde accident near Co lumbia Saturday morning about II o’clock. The accident occurred on the Engelhard-Columbia highway when a new Mercury driven by Billy Wells Bateman of Creswetl, struck the rear fender of the mo torcycle operated bv Marion. The boys were riding away from Columbia when the wind became so cold they decided to turn back. Marion drove off the highway and waited for one car to pass. Thinking the highway was clear, they backed onto the asphalt sur-, face. The driver of the auto com-< ing from Columbia tried to avoid the motorcyclle by swerving' away from it and Marion also attempted' to pull away from danger but the fender of the car struck the rear of the motorcycle cutting Mauri, e'.* left foot seriously and causing a compound fracture of the left leg. He sustained several other cut-; and bruises when he was thrown to the opposite side of the highway. Marion received cuts and bruises about the leg and a sprained ankle but returned to his home after re ceiving treatment at the Columbia hospital. r ■ • J-'-l Old VVI y IU 1 A V J. tl Zl , I ~ ~ “ " r " ' " . MAXWELL PLEDGES BETTER ROADS AND BRIDGES FOR HYDE, TYRRELL AND DARE * - - - r Speaking: at Swan Quarter, Gubernatorial |! Candidate Proposes to Recover Neglected I I Counties by Balanced Road Program; Hor ton Previously Endorsed Necessary High- J ways i - H i Positive and vigorous assurance i by A. J. Maxwell, gubernatorial candidate, that “his administra- tion” would bridge Croatan Sound L and Alligator River and connect the county seats of Dare, Hyde and Tyrrell, was given Monday night in an address at the Swan Quarter high school. ’ Mr. Maxwell was the guest of the Hyde County Chamber of Com merce. He gave high praise to School Superintendent P. G. Ga!- , lop for his activities in organizing [ the Chamber of Commerce. ) His specific road pledge em braced the major projects the j Southern Albemarle Association , originally fostered, and which are I declared to be the greatest needs ; in this region. j Candidate Wilkins P. Horton, . who also recently spoke in Hyde . has publicly declared he favored , these projects. On Monday night March 11, a gathering in Engel . hard will await the commitments . of J. M. Broughton, another leod . ing candidate. Maxwell Recognizes the Picture ’ “This county is famed far and wide for its fertile soil—one of the most productive counties in this or r any other state. It has less than 50 ; miles of all-weather road, with only > one outlet. In its relatively un equal participation in benefits of TYRRELL INVITES HELP OF NORTHERN NEIGHBORS TO COMPLETE ROUTE 64 Elizabeth City and Edenton Stand to Lose Much Patronage Unless Route 64 to Manteo Can Be Completed; Would Relieve Dare of Dependency Upon a Single Outlet, and Pro vide Direct East and West Route NAMED BY BANKERS ! OF FIRST DISTRICTj I IpH *** 'JI IT -M I fUl'n is*.-. H pfe /A I; m m HHMT Jh C. C. LUPTON, cashier of the Co-1 lumbia branch of the Engelhard i j Banking & Trust Co., who was last I I week appointed to the executive !committee by the First district .bankers of Northeastern North! 'Carolina. , ‘ r "‘ H ’ '’ ' ,J ' MU ■ .... ‘ ‘ " —' I i SENIOR CLASS MEETING l j The senior class held its regular meeting at the home of Miss Aud-, rey Pearl Swain Friday night, after j the business session the hostesses .server! delicious refreshments, o o o Junior-Senior Banquet The junior class of Columbia [ high school plans to give its annual ‘banquet for the seniors, March 21 ’ at the high school auditorium. A I ( dance will be held after the ban-j quet. , • i O 0 o Chape* Program Mrs. Spencer’s students present - ed a very interesting play Friday morning at school chapel exercises. The play w is based an rhe boyhood •days of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Snell and daughter, Sylvia, have returned from Greensboro where Mrs. Snell and daughter have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Tommy Farr. jguod roads, it lost 7V2 per cent of its population between 1900 and 1930, while the State as a whole was gaining 67 per cent. “This experience of a neglected county is representative of many | rural communities in more prosptr [ ous counties throughout North Car olina, which have lost their relative : importance in the economic and so- Jcial life of the State. We cannot [have a balanced progress in the | ! State that does not do justice to 1 these rural areas. ! “These lost provinces—these lost communities throughout the State must be recovered by a progres sive road program that extends; hard surface coverage to them, and ' again gives them an equal chance ! with their neighbors. “Specifically I pledge the three counties of Dare, Tyrrell and Hyde a place in mv road improvement program for hard surfacing from Swan Quarter to Columbia, be- 1 tween Engelhard and Fairfield and between Engelhard and Manns Harbor, with bridges across Croa- 1 tan (sound) and Alligator river. ! “These projects.” Mr. Maxwell continued, “would open up the three counties of Dare, Tyrrell and Hvde t.o through travel and a direct route to Roanoke Island. It’s the road to progress for this whole section and state.” , I An example of the great com imercia! value of Route 64, to the I business houses of Edenton and Elisabeth City, when completed, may be observed this week as a re sult of the second break down of the Currituck Sound P ridge, with in a month. The threadbare patience of Dare ; County peop.'e could be greatly ' helped if the people of Elizabeth City, Edenton and all points south of the sound would unite in the bat • i tie for the completion of this route, I with bridges over Alligator River 'and Croatan Sound, j There are many people in Dare I County who greatly deplore being left dependent upon only one out | let, and they have surfered heavy | financial loss because of this dLs ! advantage. There are many not oniy in Dare, but in Tyrrell, who i would prefer more wholehearted ! cooperation from Elizabeth City land Edenton interests in helping to get Route 61 completed. Since Dare County is often called I Elizabeth City’s best customer, and | Elizabeth City’s greatest rival is (Norfolk, which continues to eat in more avidly upon the growing com mercial activity that develops with I Dare County’s progress, it is be lieved that with Elizabeth City ! joining wholeheartedly with Tyr j rell in this battle, much additional ! good-will and patronage might be •developed for the Pasquotank capi tal. j At .any rate, citizens of Columbia 'consider it a suggestion well worth . taking hold of. Eli'aho*b rqty | they believe, could well afford bo | center all efforts on this single I project, until it is completed. LEARY THROWS ! BOOMERANG ON j HEART BALM SUIT i ' Brings Action For Mrs. Rus | sell Alleging Attorney’s Di j vorce illegally Obtained ! Charging in eil'ei t that her hus jband is guilty of bigamy, Herbert [ R. bleary, attorney for Mrs. F’lossie II Russell of Manteo has hied a suit I jin Dare Court, seeking to have an * nulled, the marriage of Mrs. Rus sell to D. L. Russell, whiek took place in June 1936. , Mr. Russell recently brought a* damage suit against Capt. Thus. P. Midgett, 83, of Manteo, asking *20,000 heart balm. He accused, in his complaint, his wife of carnal intimacv with Capt. Midgett. Mrs. 'Russell is 47 and Mr. Russell 63. 1 Mrs. Russell was much upset by J. the charges, and in her desire to jbe free of Mr. Russell, has ente-ed the suit in which she alleges Mr. I'Russell used fraud to obtain his . 'divorce from his first wife, and I that he kept her in ignorance of „ the facts until Mav 1939. His first wife is an inmate of the State Hos * pital for Insane at Morganton The affair has created a great sensation in Dare County. Mr. Russell’s answer has not been filed, r but will be shortly It is believed * I should Mrs. Russell w r in the annul ' ment proceedings it would have the effect of “blowing up” the attor -1 ney’s suit against Capt. Midgett CHEROKEE SHERIFF CAN’T FIND GOD" i An o'firial search for God in j Cherokee Count.v, in the mountains 1 |of North Carolina, resulted in a (report bv the sheriff that he could 'not, be found. An eccentric wo man’s wiM 'eft part of her estate to God. In an effort to settle the estate, a suit was filed in court and ;God was named a partv. On sum mons in court at Murphy, the sher iff made the response: “After due and diligent search, God cannot be found in Cherokee County.” While egg prices were slightly [lower than a year earlier, feed j prices in January were about 21 I per cent higher, according to the jU. S. Agricultural Marketing Ser l vice. I * 7 Rud Howardton of Monroe was in town Monday visiting friends. Miss Grace Swain and Slade Spruill spent Sunday in Wake For rest and Louisburg. Single Copy 5c
The Tyrrell Tribune (Columbia, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 29, 1940, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75