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A Letter I' rom Home * 0 n >ake sure th.* those away who depeim on the Progress for a l the news from home Bena ~s all the news of vour fatnilv. VOL. 11—NO. fi WHAT GOOD IS THE PROGRESS TO TERRELL COUNTY? H. L SWAIN TELLS By H. L. Swain A short time ago 1 promised to wvi o a few articles for the Tyrrell County papei on some of the needs of Tyrrell County. ! think 1 could do no better than to write first about her baby enterprise, and 1 am writing tliis article without the knowledge, approval or consent of anybody with the paper. For many years Tyrrell County had j no paper and no medium of commit- ] mention except by mail, a terribly in j competent telephone system, or b> : person all of which had their handi caps. Naturally, t'no mail did not : carry the general news, the telephone j system, even if it were a good sys- | tern, was not purposed for carrying j the news of the day, and gossip by j person to person had Its short- j comings, as all can see by joining a • crowd of people and hearing them j What is the benefit of a paper .' j talk. First, it is a medium of information from the outside world; second, an informant about wlial is going on at home; and third, it brings people closer together. No one medium in all the world is as great an educate; as the newspaper, with the magazine running a close second. 1 here U more general information carried in the papers of the world than in any other medium. In just a few hours , people across the ocean know what we are doing, and we know wnat the,, are doing. The newspaper spends millions of dollars for maintaining cable lines and telegraph and tele phone lines, so they may get the in formation and transmit it to the pub lic. 1 have seen articles in the “Tyr rell County Progress” which were only a few hours old when I received my paper in Raleigh. The newspaper staff is always on the lookout for information to carry to the public. I receive my papers and read in comfort the news that's brought me. 1 see what the Peoi.no ill \yrren Qouiity alb doing, mu. , i of whom I know and all of whom 1 nave a very fond regard for. After enjoying 'he paper, not only the "Tyrrell County Progress ’ but oth ers, 1 cast it aside and very seldom stop to think .just what many, man. people have put into the paper M make it a 'news-bearing medium, j Have you ever stopped to think just what is back of your paper, how much effort, how much machinery, hove ... • .i, human life, and then have you st op pc 1 to Ciinl: how little all thi-- costs you? If you have never really consul* ’ 1 the nu tter, suppose you j make an investigation of your own | county Taper. Visit the printing plant, watch the men in their sweat shirts, black and dirty, toiling to put the thoughts of other people through j the linotype, and from there hack to j the office, in the mailing room, and j I believe you w ill appreciate your | paper more. T hclicvo T frrell County approci- j ates its paper, but I do not believe it ; appreciates it as much as it should. I know that I. a former son of Tyr reli County, enjoy getting my paper and finding out" what the best people in the world are doing and how they are getting along. 1 wonder if you back home want to in!' 1 " it better? The paper i doing a great *hiag for Tyrrell County; it is advertising Tyr rell County, it is building up the in terest of Tyrrell County. People be yond tlie border of 1 yrrell are learn ing about her, and people in Tyrrell arc learning more about the outside world. Her paper. I am proud to say, shows thought and progress on the part of the people of Tyrrell County. m But. let’s turn this around, now. and ask what are the people of Tyr rell County doing for her paper. Are you doing anything to help your paper? Do you furnish the editor with news, with social items? If you are not, do-this, even if you are the one concerned and about whom the social item would be. Don’t he too timid or think it is presumptive to tell somebody what you are going to do. Remember that thousands and thousands of people would he inter -t ested in knowing what you and you r . friends and ail the people of Tyrrell County are doing. Maybe the most insignificant thing to you would he of great benefit to me Hind I would enjoy knowing of your party. Make your social column worth while. Do not curtail the social items, but make them more. Are you subscribing to the paper? Are all of your friends subscribing? TYR REEL CO UNT YPR OGRESS Read Every Week By The Best People In The Nicest County In Northeastern North . Carolina; The PROGRESS Goes Into A Thousand Homes If not. there is a du<y for you to perform, and 1 ui e you (o take the paper yourself, it denotes pride in your home undertakings, and to ask your friends and neighbors to sub scribe deuot *s community pride and patriotism to your own county. Are yon advertising in your paper ; as you should? Do you let the pub- | lie know what you have or what you ' i want? Thousands and thousands of! I dollars are mad.* bv advertising in ' the paper, and millions lost by fail | ing to advertise. Then, too. you j would b helping your paper by run ! ning an ‘ad.’’ Did you know that ! no pa pi r in the United Stall's could I run a month on its- own circulation without the aid of paid advertise ments? That's true. The X and j Observer boast! of being the mggesf dp.! per in the State, but it con id not. i j 'll on its paid subscriptions and has ' i to depend largely on Tfcs advertise ments. If you are loyal to you • pa per, if you want to see a veal up-to date progressive paper, not only sub scribe, but run an “ad” for some [hing or about something that you are interested in. )t will help you i It will help your paper, ind your | paper will help the best county in j the world. Be a booster of your county through tin* “Tyrrell County Progress.” My next article will be “Tyrrell j County Needs a Potato Market.” GENUINE WHISKY 1 To Be Manufactured Again With Government’s Consent WASHINGTON. July 22. -- The { prohibition unit will soon begin granting applications of distillers for permits to manufacture medicinal whiskey and that about 2,000,000 gallons would be distilled in 1930. The mneo faetpvirp’ v.p.R be dorc ! under Government supervision in 5 or 6 distilleries. Commissioner Doran, in making the announcement explained that the law required him to provide for re plenishing the depleted stocks of I whisky for medical purposes. At the I present time there arc 9,549,071 gal- j I lons of whisky on hand, according to J reports compiled July 1. He osti-j mated that with 1,500,000 gallons j withdrawn each year this was enough j to last five years. As the bureau re-! quires that whisky be aged four! years, he said there will be oniy one j j year’s supply on hand when the new! ! whiskey can be sold. The commissioner said that exten-; give examinations of the 300,000 j barrells of whisky now in bonded • j warehouses convinced him that not ! ! more than 1,000 barrels were of; j questionable quality. This statement j | was in reply to recent reports that large amounts nf*thc bonded liquer i had been replaced with inferior spir its- O's the new whisky 70 per cent j will be Bourbon and 30 per cent will l be rye — WENT TO FIGvHT Those who attended the fight at Washington, Ad Warren vs. Weiss, i were as follows; William Sexton, j John P- Alexander, Dolph Snell, W-j jW . Bateman, Lawson Jones, Jesse j Cooper, Irvin Swain, Sam Duval. A- | N. Bateman. Tyrrell High In Rank In School Expenditures Tvrrell is shown to be anions the 100 counties of the State in the per capita current expense of its schools, i. e., the amount expended in educating a pupil, in a compila tion made on the basis of 1927-28 fiff f ures by the State Department of Public Instruction. At tlie same time it was 68th among the counties in rank on a basis of promotions and attendance. in the period covered by 'lie sur vey. it cost 580.86 to instruct each of the pupils enrolled for one year. The number of white pupils en rolled in 1927-28 was 966. The num ber promoted was 622. The average attendance was 78.7 per cent for the average term of 129 days. OSSINING. N. Y—The execution er’s job at Sing Sing is becoming ’ less lucrative. Robert Elliott is paid t <5150 for each person electrocuted, j Doing the last fiscal year his income 1 ) was $1,500 iri contrast to SI,BOO and ’ $2,700 of the previous two years. IN TYRRELL Where “Rarely Genial Clime ♦ And Rich Soil Joins In Blessing Section’’ Physical features and r.tu-ibules cf! lyric 1 in harmoriv - .a.'* felicity of county’s sitr-.;;. i fts soil i fruitful ami •• o, oro, ly variad In the I range of its c .pa Cities, j Here in y. j< the v o'ioii treasures lof a lifetime M- ay others of the | sciences such as ißotany arid M teor ology contrbutcd their share towards the foundation of the science of ag i cuPure. Both to Chemistry and th< study of nature of soil must he giver the chioi credit tor raiding agricul ture from veritable guess work to the position of exact knowledge definite ly effects in our plants, will follow certain clauses in our soil. The year 1928, the harvest was abundant, especially Irish potatoes, but prices were low, farmers lost heavily. This year is practically a failure because of two reasons. First the climatical conditions were ex tremely dry in its plant growing sea son. and too wet in the maturity of the fruit also preventing the- farm ers from harvesting iri due time. Second, the inferior fertilize" which did not contain enough plant food elcmenii, both n growth of plant and fruitage- I know no county better situated for raising Irish potatoes than Tyr rell County. It ias a fertile loamy soil, and an ideal climate which is suitable for growing early crops and yieldng abundantly. The people of Tyrrell as a whole have been very successful for a num ber of years. Many of the thrifty farmers in this section have been prosperous. W. C. ALEXANDER. A MONEY CROP Tomatoes Bring Cash To Washington Co. Farmers PLYMOUTH. July 17.—Tomatoes are destined to become an important money crop in Washington county if the current season’s yield is profit able. This is the opinion of a number of prominent farmers who are now harvesting the vegetables from more than 175 acres. Despite heavy rains and general inclement weather the yield is pretty good. And trucks are bringing the tomatoes to market here from far and near points in the county. The market is being maintained here by the iocal unit of the Wash ington Packing Co- Officials of the ; local unit are C. C. Crockett, i’esi- j dent manager and Capt. Jacob Sarg- i able, superintendent. A large num i dor of employes wdl be on the plain’s 1 payroll after it gets to running at full capacity. Plant officials are now asking the planters to bring ripe tomatoes as the mature green tomatoes have all been shipped to the Northern mar kets. Ripe tomatoes will be canned. Before th” tomatoes were planted the packing concern signed contracts with the growers to pay 30 cents for each five-eighths of a bushel basket filled with the vegetables. This is j the only crop in Washington county’s list that th>- grower knows what to I expect for his yield when it is bar ! vested. Not so with cotton, corn, to | bacco, Irish potatoes and others. I Prices on the green wrapped tomatos 1 have been good. Several thousand dollars have been ! spent in equipping the local canning ! plant. It has a cooker with a capa- I city of 3500 baskets a day. Many I thousands of cartons containing can.-, j line the floor. When the plant reaches its capacity in production it can can 3000 baskets a day • If this is not enough they have other cook ers that can take care of all the to matoes that are produced in the county. In a few days the season will be in 1 full swing. Then there will be a < rush lasting for about six weeks or ; more. During this time tomatoes will pour into the plant as every i one planted about the same time and they will ripen on every one’s farm about the same time. Efforts are being made now to be in a position to care for all those that come as soon as they enter the door. i . WASHINGTON. D. C —President 1 Hoover has issued a proclamation raising the embargo on the of arms and munitions to Mexico. COLUMBIA, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929 J They’re Master Homemakers / .V I ■' i ‘ wUsaw. .i ) £& zttggtt'Z J\r ' V N e’T° MrN 3 r \! \ I WITH TH ECO A Jr-' PA - UL > I \ \ I OF THE Hom . PERAT, °N I \ j stration ?t^- EMON - J \ 4 j OF THE staff ' MENT “ V I .'j—'. on Vr. MRS. IDA BRI HOUSE, MACKEYS, WINS NATL JAL HONORS AS WIFE Woman Weil Known hi Tyr rell Is Designated As Mas- j ter Homemaker National honor will cone to Mrs Ida E. Britkhouse, of M.t -M eys, and four other rural women of 2 lortli l <i roliita at special Farm :| *d Home Week exercises to be held on tlie State College campus in Raloigm Thursday evening at 8:?. 1 o’clock when they will bo recognized as Master Farm Homemaker?. The other four women are; Mrs. W. C. Pou, Elmwood ; Mrs. I S. Turner, Reidsville - Mrs. l.ydia Ashworth. Fairview. and Ai»’S. H. M- Middleton, Warsaw. They will receive the gold pin and the title of tlie Master Fat, ni Home maker in a recognition sponsored !>> a national farm women's magazine, with the co-operation of the home demonstration department of tie State College extension service. Approximately 100 outstanding ru ral women of the nation tViU receive the honor this year. This new national movement, in troduced to North Carolina last sum mer, seeks to honor all fr-i'ni women and to recognize their contribution to their homes, their ccniniunities and the nation. Mrs. Brickhouse, who is well known in Washington and Tyrn 1 counties, was the oldest of 12 c-li Idren and was a “second mother" to them. Partly due to hei encouragement, all 12 went to college. Fo lowing her husband's death, she went back to j her old home arid became • head of tlie household. “Whenever any big county-wide project is to be put ovei'. they 7 call on Mrs. Bricfchmtae," says one of her neighbors. Mrs. Pou and her husband bought a sassafras thicket. 19 years ago. and have made it info a productive pro fitable farm They have bin’.: an at ! tractive home and beautified tlie farmstead, largely with income from a dairy business which Mrs. Po.i helps manage. She is active in i church, Sunday school arid commun ity affairs, and luas been vice presi- dent of the State Federation of Wo- j j men's Clubs. I Mrs. Turner believes that “farm ! homemaking is one of the greatest jobs in the world--I'm a farm woman and proud of the title.” She has been president of the State Federa tion of Home Demonstration Clubs and .in officer in tlie local county council. Mrs Ashworth has reared six chil dren Tlie two boys are farmers, three of the girls are teachers and one is a homemaker! All ot her chil dren have been beyond high school. Mrs. Ashwi rtii is active in church and Sunday school work, the Parent-Teacher Association, the Home Demonstration Club, Farmers Federation and Garden (Tub. Her chief ambition is to be “a real good mother and homemaker.” Mrs. Middleton has a garden from ,one acre of which she iias made a net pro l fit of $1,081.68 in one year. Her premiums in garden contests navi totaled S3OO a year for three years. She serves a vegetable salad every day and believes this largely accounts for her family’s excellent health. The Midd'eton farm is beau tifully landscaped. The five women are considered the representatives of thousands of other successful farm homemakers of tlie State whose achievements have gone unsung. DEATH OF H. S- DUVAL, • Funeral Services for Mr. H. S ' j Duval were held Saturday afternoon lat the Freewill Baptist Church by 7 | Rev. E. Po-ton. Mr. Duval was 77 ' i years ot age, and he died at the home j of his son. Mr. Joe Duval, at Suffolk, ; Va . where he has had an extended I illness. The floral tributes were J beautiful and numerous- He is survivde by his wife. and ■several children; Mrs. E. V. Tweedy, j Earn Duval, both of Columbia, Joe Duval. Misses Tiney ar.d Sissy Duval and Mrs. Ella Alexander, of Suffolk. - LOUISVILLE.— Ihe price of med ical liquor is going up next year. A distillery announces an increase ©f j $2.50 per dozen pints. New prices ! will range from $22.50 for gin to ‘.f26-50 i'w tiie best v-luskey;. WHY WOMEN SHOULD LEARN WORE ABOUT TYRRELL’S GOVERNMENT By Mis. W, S. Carawan Several of the T.ynell Coumy vo- | men met with the county ccTumis- j sioners tlie first Monday in July and j asked them to provide $609 Un the i ...pease oi it home demonstration j agent for one year. The women pointed out tlia’ the State practit wily , paid all of her salary and as it wil. j iie impossible to get turds to/ an . agent before December, • so the dis- | diet president aiiys, the commission- j ers would only have to provide I’b'j in this year's budget. j For this amount we would have a | woman who would go from home to j home showing voting mothers how to ; provide wholesome food foi tlici' | babies and children, which is one of . the most necessary things seeded in i our comity Slie would also tench ; classes foi women on liow to pr 1 pare well lialanced meats. This i alone would mean health and moi> , energy to pay back some of the , $380,000 indebtedness which the wo- j men were told the county now owes, j She would have been worth S3OO to j the county during the last two mouths for she would have laugh, the girls and women how to pre serve and -'nve some of the beans, peas and other vegetables which I were shipped and not sold for enough to pay express bills Another help ful thing she would do would bt to organize 4-H clubs all over the county, anil instill in the young and old competitive ideas in raising poultry, cooking, sewing and house- j keeping. Her work would be in Frying l’an, Gum Neck, Kilkenny, Alligator and other sections which iias not been blessed with good roads and who really need someone to visit them as well a<< the othei communities which are more access ible to get to. Ail of these thing- , were told the commissioners hut j c,aid they were not able to pay | "Vi' 9 -’oprf 1 would accomplish. Now since our county is so heav ily in debt and funds cannot be made available to pay a lady to come to tlie 790 families in this county an 1 teach iminv things which 1 have not already mentioned, ‘.lie best tiling for the women to do is to study ju ” how anil why we are so heavily in debt. We already, know that about $166,000 of tliis imount we now owe is for the Tyrrell-Hvde road which is not passable and still lacks about half a mile being completed. That, according to an article in tlie Ra leigh News and Observer, most of the 10 per cent mileage of 1929 has been given to other counties and. th Tyrrell-Hyde road not mentioned. K tlie women will not only’ study bin take more interest in the finances and the political life of the county, when they want things which will really be helpful and worthwhile to them, ways and means will be pro vided to get what they need without any extra taxes. When women spend money for clothes and groceries they are very careful about just liow it should la spent but when they pay their taxes they think it is not their obligation to find out what it goes for. Just as long as we stay in ignorance a Limit the county finances we certainly can not hope and do not especially de serve to get any thing Some wo men may say they do not know where to get tiie desired information. Well, the records of the county commis sioners, road commissioners, board of education and the town hoard lie long to you just as much as they do to the offeials. so do not mind ask ing to examine these records any time you want to know about the expenditures ofthe county. For : there is certainly one sure tiling we I are going to have to do our part to pay back the $380,099 indebtedness. Another way to he better informed will be to attend the board meetings which are as public to you as they are to some other pepole who want things done. Most women probably felt like a l woman who told this; “An old man | was very much in trouble and some i one was trying to find out some of I his bad traits. One person said the j only thing lie knew bad about him j was that he stayed in the court house every first Monday part of the day and tried to find out just what was happening.” Evidently that per j sen thought the old gentleman v,as | doing wrong by visiting these hoard 1 meetings. Now that is every tax payer’s privilege and here is hoping Your Paper Use the Progress to ex press your views about Tyrrell County and its people. people. Letters are wel comed. Use one side of paper. $2 A YEA j the women will soon feel more re ; sponsibility about these affairs which ■is of vital interest to every man and woman in tlie county. j The budget of the year will be i passed on finally the first Monday in August and 1 feel sure that the com missioners will appreciate* haviug I your interest. | !*- * * * * '.**««*••**• j* IN BRIEF !* * * I Make plan now for the fail and ! winter garden. Remember that crops I planted during the hot summer ! months net d a lot of attention if ! they are to get off to a good sturt j Prepare the laud well, and plant level or in furrows rather than on | ridges. Plant, sweet corn early in the j month. Good varieties are Country Gentleman. Stowell’s Evergreen, j Trucker’s Favorite and Norfolk Mar i ket. Leep up the supply of snap beans i by making successive plantings every two or three weeks, and be prepar ed to fight the bean beetle. Two vegetables not commonly grown, but worthy of trial by every home gardener are kohlrabi ami Italian sprouting broccoli. Sow the seed in a partially shaded bed by the middle of July or the first of August, and transplant a you would cab bage, setting the kohl-rabi 8 inches , apart and the broccoli 18 to 20 | inches apart in the row. It is not too late to plant cucum bers for pickling. Try sinking an oid keg (with the bottom knocked out) into the ground anil fill it with manure, then plant three or four hills of cucumbers around the kog, By pouring a bucket of water into i the keg twice a week the plants re i c.'i've both food and water, and a | crop is ° "ed. I .e-uie iier-grow mg vege t os liberally with readily avaiiablfe ] fertilizer, and keep down weeds and | grass. i j Pull up old bean vines and other ' crops that are through bearing, and | dump them on the tire-heap or com post pile. Garden refuse makes ! good compost, but it is often better 1 to burn all trash iri order to help get lid of insect and disease pests. I If any of your vegetable or flow ler plants have a rusty appearance, examine them closely for red spicier i inju’ y. These ’ iny, red iish mites are . j found on the under surface of the |- leaves under a delicate web where, they feed, causing the foliage to be come yellow and the plants to have a sickly appearance. Control them jby drenching plants with a strong stream of water, or by dusting the under surface of the leaves with i finely ground dusting sulphur. , Plant a fall crop of Irish potatoes. The Lookout Mountain variety is ! satisfactory for most parts of tbs State. , ■■ i Mrs. Kisiah Smith Dies After Operation >! ' ; Mrs. KUiah Wright Smith, 33, i died Saturday night at 9:30 in St. 'Vincent’s Hospital, Norfolk, after an 1 operation. She had been there four ! days. Funeral services were conducted j Monday afternoon at 3:30 at the ' grave in Beaver Hill cemetery, Eden ' ’ton. the Rev. W. B. North officiating II ; Sh. 3 leaves a husband and two i daughters, Thomas Smith of Mill " Avenue, and Mrs. J. W. Lassiter of Edenton and Miss Rado Smith. Also ’’ six brothers, R. S. Wright, of Eden lon; T. F. Wright, Columbia; J- L. 1 Wright, Edenton; J If. Wright, of (Columbia; Major Wright of Edenton, ’ and H. W. W right, of Edenton. Also • two sisters; Mis. E C- Twiddy. of ! 'Columbia; Mrs. Ellen Basnight, of * | Edenton. ’’ j She was born in Tyrrell county. - She bed lived in Edenton about four years. Her parents were Mr. and a Mrs. J. R Wright. REVIVAL MEETING ENDS f The revival services which were i being held at ibe Fhristian church, i I for the past Iwo weeks, by Rev. U. t I C. Res pass, pastor came t.o a close : 1 Sunday night. t The meeting was much enjoyed by the entire community, and nine new R members were added to their roll. 1 ! ■ j Don’t forget to renaw your sub* l 1 scription to the Progress _ — . * ® fcdl* 4 MtjT. l!
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