FOR GREATER PROGRESS
VOL. I; NO. 47
young democrats stage
PRE-ELECTION RALLY NOV. 1
Plans Call For Gala Get-Together Rally All
Party Members in Auditorium of Agricul
ture Building; Music, Speeches, and Re
freshments to Be Featured
As a final bid for Democratic
victory, the Young Democratic Ciuu
of 1 yrrell County announced plans
this week for a gala rally to be
staged m the auditorium of the
Agriculture building in Columbia
on the night us November 1.
Meeting in special session this
ween to draw up plans for the get
together, the group appointed com
mittees to handle the various
phases of work necessary for the
proposed occasion.
With a feed promised to all good ,
party members attending the final
pre-election gathering, the group
appointed a group composed of
Miss Lilliam Brickhouse, Mrs. Lem
A. Cohoon, D. M. Pledger, Jr., Miss
Edna Ray Yerby and Miss Virginia
Brickhouse as a committee respon
sible for the refreshments to be
served. j
The building will be decorated for
the occasion and will be under the 1
direction of a committee composed
of Mrs. W. A. Yerby, E. L. Mosely,
and Clarence Chaplin. j
The program will be arranged by
Paul Liver man, president of the
Tyrrell unit of the State organiza
tion. i
M usic and Speeches |
Tentative plans call for the pro
gram to begin with band music fur
nished by the Columbia high school
band, songs by the entire group,
and solos bv H. T. Davenport.
Several speakers, including Thad
Eure, secretary of state, have been
asked to attend the meeting. Re
p'ies from the various speakers in
vited had not been received at press
time. ' i
As a climax to the year’s activi-"
ties new members will be sought
during the next few days and a
drive to increase the active mem
bership list will be culminated at
:he ra’ly. At present the organ-.
ization is relatively young in this
county but has already received
words of praise from state officials
who credit it for the liveliness and j
soirit which it has maintained from .
the start. j
The spirit of the rally will not be
for the young democrats only. At
this time, with the auditorium dec-;
orated to fit the mood of the occa
sion, the old party members and
young party members will join in
a gala rejuvenation of the final
spirit in the spring to victory.
AVON LOSES A GOOD !
CITIZtIM, O. J. GRAY
Was Retired Boatswain of the
Coast Guard, and Man of
Public Spirit
Oliver J. Gray, 65, one of the best
known citizens of Avon, a retired
Boatswain of the Coast Guard and
former commanding officer of Little
Kinnekeet station, died at eight
o’oclock, Thursday morning of last
week, following a stroke of paraly- j
sis that struck him early in the
morning. I
The funeral was conducted Fri
day by Rev. M. E. Cotton of the
Methodist church. Mr. Gray had
been a lifelong Methodist leader.
Interment was in the old family
cemetery. He was the son of the
late R. W. and Hulda Gray of Avon.
Beside his wife, who was Miss Mary
Midgett of Avon, he is survived by
the following children: Willard
Gray of Norfolk, Oliver J. Gray,
Jr., of the Coast Guard in New Jer- 1
sey, Mrs. Bate Miller of New Jer
sey, Watson Gray, Ellis Gray, Mrs.
Burgess Gray, Mrs. Eugene Gray,
and a grandson, Jack Gray of Avon.
Mr. Gray was a popular citizen, •
a man loyal to his family and his
community. A few days before his ■
death, he had presented each of his !
children at Avon with a ton of coal.
He shared of his substance with
his neighbors, and he liked to do
good deeds.
Avon has lost many of its best
known citizens during the past
year. Among them are Mrs. Landy
Midgett, and her brother, Amalek
T. Price, William Andrew Gray, and
Howard Meekins. The community
greatly feels the loss of these peo
ple whose presence had become a
landmark, and whose worth to the
community inestimable.
1
Norfolk Shoppers
’
Mrs. Thomas S. Spruill, Mrs. J. I
F. Schlez, and Richard Knight,
spent Friday in Norfolk shopping, ;
Visiting
Misses Mary Lee Swain and ,
Doris Jones, and Armstead Swam,
or Aurora, spent Sunday in Colum
bia visiting Mrs. Sallie Swain.
THE TYRRELL TRIBUNE
NUMBER DRAWING
TO TAKE PLACE
MONDAY MORNING
Draftees Will Know Who Will
Be Cailed Next Week
; . -
The President of the United
States has set October 29, as the
fateful day when numbers will be
drawn to see which men are to be
called to the corors, now that the
draft registration has been com
pleted.
With 633 men in Tyrrell County
listed and registered in the nation
al offices, the drawing of the num
bers from the same gold-fish bowl
used to draw draft numbers during
the last year, will be monumental
in that some of that number will
,be affected by the result.
In the county, Columbia led with
345 registrations, Gum Neck was
second with 112 and other precincts
ireported as follows: Alligator, 65,
Scuppernong, 67, Kilkenny, 19,
.South Fork, 16, and Frying Pan
with nine on the list.
; Your Number Counts
| Now that the registration is over,
the county draft board is preparing
to list the names, give them num
bers, and await the drawing of the
numbers in Washington. The first
number drawn will be a call to all
those with like numbers to report
for military examination and pos
sible service.
An example of this would be if
number 426 were drawn by the of
ficials in Washington, all who have
the number 426 would be notified
at once and would be called to ap
pear for examination. There will
be approximately 5,000 numbers
drawn, and those drawn first will be
called first
LACK OF, VOTER CIGARS FAIL
; TO HIDE POLITICAL ACTIVITY
j In spite of the prevelent or mark
ed lack of the famous political
cigar, Tyrrell County aspirants for
| posts byway of the ballot swung
into the home stretch tHis week as
election day looms with all its stark
potentialities around the proverbial
corner. j
The wiry Republican elephant be- j
gan its usual stampede,“and thej
j Democratic mule heard the “gid :
up” order and began the pull to the
last weary mile, which offer—to the
victor—another term under the
critical eye of the public. j
Paramount in interest is the red
hot bid by both parties for the'
representative’s seat in the State;
Legislature. With C. Earl Cohoon
holding down the Democratic side j
of the ballot and Floyd E. Cohoon
perched on the Republican side, the
appeal for votes has been strong,
by both men who are covering the'
county like the dew to be sure that |
all know what each stand for, in j
jwhat State officials call the most'
important election of the century. !
Methods
With county rallies being held as
a prelude to the campaign music,
and with such speakers as Gover
nor-elect Broughton, and Herbert
Bonner who is to take the place
of Lindsay Warren, the County.
Democrats have entered the fray
.with heart and soul,
j The Republicans, however, have!
never called for a party rally, but
did manage to horn in on the Dem- j
ocratic proceedings at Gum Neck.
Only after Herbert Bonner had fin
ished his apepal to party members
and the meeting was about to be.
adjourned, did the proceedings be- •
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THE TYRRELL TRIBUNE,
Office Columbia Hotel,
P. O. Box 282 Columbia, N. C.
-OF THE LAKE PHELPS AND PETTIGREW PARK REGION
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
There’s mystery in the air as j
to exactly who and what will
take place at the ..annual.. Hal
lowe’en Carnival which is to be
held next Wednesday night in
the High School Auditorium
Already news has leaked out
that numerous male characters
will rig themselves in female at
tire and put on a style show to
end all style shows.
....Today comes word that an ad
ditional feature will he a strip
tease act by some member of the
stronger sex... No names have
been given, but the doors to the j
carnival open at 7:30... Be there, j
'TWO COUPLES MARRIED
IN COLUMBIA WEEK END
Marriage licenses were issued to
two couples last Saturday by Miss
Sadie 1 aft, register of deeds an
nounced this week. They were
both married during the week end
by authorities in Columbia.
Melvin Leslie Davenport, son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Davenport of
Creswell, and Miss Emily Louise
Phelps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Cheslie Phelps, of Creswell, were
granted marriage permits and had
the ceremony performed in the Co
lumbia Methodist church by the
Rev. A. C. Thompson.
Ralph Lee Rhodes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Rhodes of Columbia
and Miss Janie Elizabeth Spencer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie
i Spencer of Scuppernong, were
I granted license and married by an
undisclosed official during the week
end.
Home For Week End
i
; F. E. Cohoon, Jr., now studying
at the University in Chapel Hill,
was home for the week end. He
brought several, fellow students as
his guests and they all went deer
driving Saturday.
Here For Week End
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lupton and
son. Tom, and Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
McCarter of Vandeymere, spent tha
week end visiting Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Lupton.
gin to take on new meanings. The
Democrats had heard from their
leaders and then Floyd E. Cohoon
took the floor and proceeded to ex
pound on the proposals advanced
by the other side. The Democrats
adjourned themselves as best pos
sible.
Door to Door
I Other political -doings consisted
'only of the general personal can
vas by the aspirants who now are
attempting to place their efforts in
smooth running order for the final
j \Meek.
j With contenders for a man in
I every county officer, excepting
i that of Clerk of Superior Court,
the GOP claim to be making a
j strong bid for power and influence
in Tyrrell. Miss Annie Pritchett,
Republican, is opposing Miss Sara
iL. Taft, Democrat, for the register
of deeds post. Franklin L. Fur
, lough,, E. P. Cohoon, Sr., and Frank
j Weatherly, are the Republican line
up against Luther N. Davenport, R.
S. Knight, Jr., and H. T. “Jack”
Davenport, Democrats, for the
county commissioners’ seats. W.
W. Sawyer, Sr., will appose T. B.
Shallington, Republican nominee,
for the post of Judge of Recorder’s
Court. Clarence R. Chaplin. Dem
iocrat, is unopposed by the Republi
cans for the Clerk of Superior
.Court job.
Getting Nearer
With only one more Saturday
I left for the voters to become prop
erly registered, reports from elec
tion officials state that interest
shown during the past week, indi-
IContinued from page one!
COLUMBIA, N. C„ THURSDAY,' OCTOBER 24, 1940
FINEST TRIBUTE FOR
WARREN FROM BONNER
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No matter what eulogies are
poured upon the head of Lindsay
Warren today, when the dis
trict honors him in Washington, N.
C., no finer tribute will be paid than
that given by Herbert C. Bonner,
our next Representative in Con
gress and for 16 years Secretary
and co-worker with Mr. Warren. Tn
a recent address, at Hertford and
also Manns Harbor, Mr. Bonner
said:
“Sixteen years age our sovereign
democracy of the historic First Dis
trict placed its banner in the hands
of as brilliant, gallant, steadfast
and worthy son of North Carolina
as has ever stood as the represen
tative of a free con stituancy in the
National House of Representatives.
With a distinguished background,
noble son of a noble father, equip
ped by education and training, ex
perienced in both branches of the
State Legislature, wise in council,
brilliant in debate and with mental
equipment and teraperment, char
acter and courage, of the kind
needed for leadership in a parlia
mentary body. Lindsay Warren
entered national political life as the
possessor of those attributes of
leadership and statesmanship, that
pointed unerringly to a position of
eminence in the councils of the
party and the noth •. The dream
of his most ardent admirers and
enthusiastic partisans have been
more than fulfilled in sixteen
years of diligent and faithful ser
vice in a crucial period of American
history. His devotion to North
Carolina is such that every fibre
of bis being thrills at the mention
of her name. It was as natural for
him to devote his talents, his ener
gy and wisdom to the service of
his native state and district as it
was for him to breathe.
EDITORS AND AGENTS
COMPRISE FARM TEAM
Weekly newspaper editors and
county farm and home agents make
up a team that has been one of the
most potent forces in the improve
ment of farming and rural living
in the past 25 years. Those are
the sentiments of M. L. Wilson, di-'
rector of extension for the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. Direc
tor I. O. Schaub of the State Col
lege extension service says he hear
tily concurs in the views expressed
by the Federal leader.
Os the beginning of this period
of team work, Director Wilson says,
“The United States was nearing j
the end of the row' as far as new !
land was concerned. In the more
carefully cultivated sections, fa,rm- |
ing methods lagged behind experi- 1
mental advances in agricultural
science. Into this picture stepped j
the county agent and traveled.from
farm to farm on foot, on horseback,
and in buggies.
“On the country editor the agent
leaned heavily from the earliest
days. Usually the work of the
county agent made good newspaper
copy. Frequently he would write
a column of his own in the weekly
paper and his writings were com
pact with good sense.
“Judged solely as a job in practi
cal, popular education, the achieve
ment of the county agent ranks
high in American social history.
The county agent is now equipped
with an automobile and a clerical
force in his office, but is most fre
quently to be found at some farm
talking about crops and rural im
provements. The weekly editor is
still one of his most highly valued
allies.”
To this Director Schaub of the
North Carolina extension service
adds: “Agricultural extension
work simply is giving information
about better w T ays of farm living
and one of the best methods of
reaching a farm audience is
through the columns of local papers
whose editors the farm people know
and trust.
“Since the summer of 1914 ex
clusive copy for weekly papers has
been mailed each week from the
office of Frank H. Jeter, State Col
lege editor. i
AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES
TRIBUNE EDITOR i
TO SPEAK SUNDAY
ON LIFE IN CHINA
George M. Kelley, Jr., editor of.
The Tyrrell Tribune, will be the!
guest speaker at the regular even- j
ing services to be held at the Saint
Andrews Episcopal church in Co-j
lumbia Sunday night at 7:30
o’clock. His topic will be “Sixteen
Years in China.”
Sponsored by the Women’s Club I
which has approved the action of j
the American Committee of One'
Thousand seeking aid fo r refugees '
of the present Chinese-Japanosc |
struggle, the talk will serve to ! i- ■
calize interest in the Far Eastern
turmoil and the problems it will .
evitably mean to this civilization.
Kelley was horn in China, and
has been in the United States only
five years. He was in Canton dur
ing the first communist uprising
which turned to be one of the great
causes or starters for the gradual
uniting of the great country. Later,;
in 1932, he saw the first air raids -
on Shanghai when the Japanese |
first attempted to invade the coun
try. j
His home having been in the in-.
tenor where the first tinges of I
civilization, as the modem Ameri- j
can knows it, was still unknown, i
the speaker will be able to give first
hand information on the customs,!
the religion, and the general char
acteristics of the people. He will!
tell you of bandits and war-lords,
mysterious temples and the prob
lems of a strange people who still
huddle behind the great walls which
surround the larger villages. •
The service will be no longer
than the usual Sunday evening
worship, and everyone is cordially
invited to attend. ;
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
SUNDAY FOR J. D. FURLOUGH
Funeral services for Joe D. Fur
lough, 75, well known citizen of
1 yrrell County, who died Saturday
afternoon in the Columbia hospital,
were conducted Sunday at the Al
bemarle Christian church.
A special church choir sang “I
Love to Tell the Story,” “Have
Thine Own Way” and “Where We’ll
Never Grow Old.” The Rev. L. B.
Bennett, assisted by Dr. G. A.
Martin, had charge of the service, j
Burial was made in the church;
cemetery. Pallbearers included M.)
K. Armstrong, J. L. Walker, E. L
Godwin, W. T. Norman, Felton.
White, and Willie Ward.
Mr. Furlough, who was of the!
Travis section and was known as
a prominent farmer of the county,!
had been ill for some time. He was
active in church work and was a j
deacon of the Albemarle Christian |
church.
I He is survived by his wife, Mrs. !
Emlieam Walker Furlough; two
sons, J. F. Furlough and E. M. j
Furlough; two grandsons, J. F. {
Furlough, Jr., and Melvin Fur-,
lough, and two granddaughters, j
Misses Augusta and MatiUa Fur- 1
logh.
Attend Meet
Mrs. Effie Brickhouse attended |
the postmasters meeting held in
Elizabeth City last week.
CAROLINA COAST AIRLINE
ORGANIZED TO OPERATE
REGULAR SERVICE SOON
New Plane to Co On Schedule Soon as Air
Route Gets Charter Between Norfolk, Man
teo, Ocracoke and Beaufort; Kellogg, Wa
hab, Driskill and Howard Interested.
The Carolina Coast Airline,
or airways, long advocated by
Dave Driskill is about to be
come a reality. This week, at
a meeting held between the
interested parties, the business
was organized, with Stanley
Wahab, president; Dave Dris
kill, vice president; Wahab
Howard of Ocracoke, secre
tary-treasurer; Martin Kel
logg, Jr., director and genera!
counsel.
The line will be operated
under the Manteo-Ocracoke
Transportation Company, a
North Caroilna corporation,
which will buy out the entire
interest of the Roanoke Island
Flying Service, including the
cabin plane now owned and
operated out of Manteo by
charter.
The company plans to buy
another plane and put on a
regular schedule between
'PLANS COMPLETE FOR CO.
PARTICIPATION ON BIG DAY
IN HONOR OF L C. WARREN
Committees Report All in Readiness; Banners,
Band, and Many From County to Join Mo
torcade in Front of Court House Friday
Morning; County Commissioners Approve
Advertisement to Go in Washington Paner
BROUGHTON TO BE
2ND SUNDAY SC ILL
TEACHING GOV’NR
James Melville Broughton, who ;
will be North Carolina’s next gov- J
lernor unless there is a major, un-1
i predicted political .upset 'in this
; solidly j Democratic state, will be j
the second consecutive Sunday
■ school-teaching thief executive.
Broughton, heavy-jowled, self
| described “lawyer and Baptist,” re
ceived a majority of more than
45,000 votes in the Democratic pri
mary last May. His election this
|November is considered certain, as
few people can remember when
North Carolina had a Republican
governor.
i He admits that, although his du
ties as governor will mean one
speech after another, the first pub
lic speech he ever tried to make
,was a fiasco and attempts to win
a speaking medal when a freshman
.at Wake Forest college were futile.
But that does not mean that
Broughton is not an accomplished
public speaker. Soon after he took
a special course in law in Boston
in 1913-14, young Broughton cam
paigned for Woodrow Wilson-—and
Massachusetts went Democratic for
the first time since the civil war.
He admits it may have been a co
incidence.
Broughton also has served as a
high school principal and has work
ed as a newspaper reporter. In the
.latter capacity he reported the
11912 Democratic national conven
tion for the Winston-Salem Journal.
I Since then, however, Broughton
has devoted most of his efforts to
Jaw. He served as state senator in
1927 and 1929, where he helped
• work out the Australian ballot law
and the workmen’s compensation
.act. He also has been chairman of
■his Democratic executive commit -
jtee.
| These duties have kept him busy,
‘but he has found time to manage a
j 250-acre farm, and one of the prin
cipal planks in his platform calls
jfor continued improvement in farm
i methods, diversification of crops
.and new marketing facilities,
j Broughton was born in Raleigh
jin 1888. Between then and the
time he completed college, he stud
ied at a country school and the Ra
leigh city schools, was guard on the
Wake Forest football team, worked
jin a grocery, edited a school paper
land labored in western wheat fields
during the summer.—United Press.
Norfolk, Va., and Beaufort,
N. C., with stops all along the
coast, including Currituck
Beach, Manteo, Hatteras, Oc
racoke. A charter for the
route will be sought of the.
Civil Aeronautics Authority,!
and as soon as this is obtain
ed, service will be inaugu
rated. i
The Manteo-Ocracoke Coni- j
pany now operates passenger
and ferry service between Oc
racoke and Hatteras. Wa- 1
hab Howard of Ocracoke is
the manager. In the new com
nayr Dave Driskill will be the
figure, and will serve as
Hi3 long and unbroken
record cf safe flying means
much to the new line, and his
pioneering in aviation on the
North Carolina coast has
been the are a test factor in
drivinar home to the nublie.
t>e of air service in this
section.
Single Copy 5c
Tyrrell County will be well rep
resented at the Lindsay Warren
Da\ which will be held tomorrow
in Washington, and will serve as
a tril/ite to the popular congress
man who has represented this dis
trict for the past sixteen years.
Joining in the program will the
other counties of the First District,
Tyrrell will be there with band mu
sic, banners, and praise for War
ren.
Under the chairmanship of Bob
Knight, former representative from
Tyrrell, committees in each section
of the county have worked out ail
the plans for the participation of
this county in the tribute to be
made to the resigned congressman.
All Ready
Mrs. E. J. Brickhouse, W. S. Car
awan, and Paul Liverman, who are
members of the committee which
has organized the plans in the
Town of Columbia; Lem Cohoon,
Mrs. Lillie Liverman, ami B. B.
Combs, committee for Gum Neck;
Joseph G. Brickhouse, Jr., Miss
Eloise Gibbs, and C. J. Cohoon,
committee for the Seuppemong sec
tion; W. A. Howett, Mrs. A. B.
Hopkins, Jr., and D. M. Pledger,
Committee for Alligator; Gordon
Blanchette, and Will Barnes, or
ganizers in South Pork; and R.
Bruce Cohoon and S. H. Cartwright,
committeemen for Kilkenney, re
ported early this week that every
thing is in readiness.
The group appeared earlier in
the week before the Board of Coun
ty Commissioners and asked for,
and received funds to pay for ad
vertising in the Washington paper
which will he a written token of
the appreciation virus county has for
Mr. Warren’s service. The adver
tisement is to cover a half of a
page.
Collected
' An appropriation of SBS assigned
to Tyrrell County as it’s share to
be contributed towards ’ all the
counties in the district buying Mr.
Warren a new car, has been re
ceived in the form of donations by
friends of the congressman in this
county. The money will be turned
over to officials of the day in Wash
ington.
A motorcade, made up of all
those going to Washington to par
ticipate in the gala festival, will
meet in front of the County court
house at 10 o’clock in the morning,
and in one body will descend upon
the Congressman’s home town.
W. S. Cara wan and Paul Liver
man, who have been in charge of
arrangements to see that a great
banner representing Tyrrell is
made, have everything in readfiness,
and as the parade moves off the
banner will mark the group for all
to see and know.
j The Columbia high school band
will be there in full force, and will
join the bands of other schools in
the district, in the great parade to
be staged during the dav.
Picnic Lunch
j Those who attend the festival will
lurch baskets, and when
meal time close, the crowd
will spread their luncheons and the
well known “fe,w*s.” so pooular at
reunions and other like functions,
will take place.
Important sneakers from all sec
tions of the state will he in Wash
ington for the dav. These include
;Governor CK-de Hoev, Oovemor
.elect J. M. Broughton, if possible
ithe senators of North Carolina, and
Democratic nartv officials from ali
sections of the state. Feature ad
dress is to he made bv a member
of the president’s cabinet, and
Lindsay Warren will be there to
!• hear and see it all.
j All who wish to attend the meet,
should bring their lunches, and join
the motorcade in front of the court
,house at the allotted time.
I
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TYRRELL HARDWARE CO.
I CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY
I
’ The Tyrrell County Hardware
Co., located in Columbia, this week
i celebrated its first anniversary.
>j Delbert M. Sawyer, who hails
. 'from Belhaven, and is the man who
i (took the initiative and opened a
; j hardware store in Tyrrell County,
, j states that the first year has.been
j successful in every wav.
’' Tyrrell Countv and the Town of
1 Columbia had been in need of a
• hardware store for many and
» the community is justly proud that
the new enterprise is a success.