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VOL. 35
PLYMOUTH,
. C\, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1924
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NO. 48
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JOHN W, DAVIS FORMALLY NOTIFIED
OF HIS NOMINATION AT HIS HOME
IN CLARKSBURG, W. VA. TUESDAY NIGHT
,* Made Speech oi Acceptance Which Lasted For
One rlo'dir .ana 'i’nree iViimues5 bpeecfr
incerrupieu i>y Much Applause
At his home town, Clarksburg, W.
Virginia, John W. Davis, who has
be . i a practicing attorney of New
Yc,k City for the past several years,
wa., formally notified of his nomina
tion jy the Democratic party to be
th r candidate for the Presidency of
th United States, Tuesday night.
lib. speech of acceptance, which
lasted for one hour and three minutes,
was constantly interrupted by the
rousing applause of the thousands of
visitors and home folks assembled to
hear iiis message.
Beginning his speech with a tribute
to hi; people, his anc ;strnl home, town
and state, he then said that he had
fought unceasingly for the principles
and ideals of the Democratic party and
the things that. ho would say now
would be in keeping with his ideals
> of the past.
“The Democratic party has invited
me to take the reins of leadership and
I have read its platform and can
heartily aprpove it” was his first ut
terance in regard to his adoption of
the policies of the party as adopted
at the convention.
He then turned to the chairman and
thanked him for the introduction in
which he had given the past history
of Davis as a lawyer during which
time he had sold his services to his
clients but not his soui.
He continued, “I have no client but
the Democratic party and with its
support and approval I expect to lead
it to victory. Many and varied are the
problems of the hour but the supreme
need is to bring back the confidence 01
the people in the government. All the
forces of discontent are fanning the
coals of discord into angry flames.
The policy of the party in power dur
ing the past four years has not only
put the American people in a state of
disregard for the government but it
has humiliated us abroad.
“And even with all the disruption
and disregard for the law and the
constitution as a result of their policy,
wc see no repentance nor do we hear
any promises of reform from that
party.
“And wc see the Secretary of the
Navy arid the Attorney General, who
were forced from the Cabinet of the
President, charged with fraud.
“Is our memory so short that we
:faii to remember the trying years of
1917 and 1918 and contrast the
management of the party then in
power and the way the government
$ has been handled in the years since.
I charge fraud and favortism as the
•direct cause of the condition of affairs
;and I assert that no party, has the
:right to the reins of government that
(cannot maintain the respect of the
■people.
Under four years of Republican rule,
our government lias reached the point
where it does not dare to speak its
mind beyond the three mils limit.
And upon its record, I shall ask the
people to say whether such principles
be tolerated or not.
“I would hold in contempt any pub
lic official who would not uphold the
Constitution of the United States and
■'r.force the laws of the Country.
f- I promise, if elected to the Presi
lency, in the appointment of the
thousands of officials to carry an the
work of the government, to appoint
only those who ai'c honest, competent
and faithful to the Constitution.”
GAME WEDNESDAY
RAINED OUT.
The frame of base ball sched
uled to have been played here
Wednesday afternoon with Ed
enton was postponed until Mon
day on r.c 'cunt of rain, Despite
the rain a great many fans went
to the park eager to witness the
game. .
' The team played yesterday in
Edenton, but at the time going
to press we could not get the
particulars.
WESTOVER NEWS
Mrs. Carrie Baldwin of Washington,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Ayers.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Skiles of Ber
tie County, were guests of Mrs. B. I.
Skiles Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bateman of
Plymouth, spent Sunday with their
mother, Mrs. Sarah Sitterson.
Miss Mildred Vail, who has been
visiting friends and relatives in Nor-,
folk and Suffolk, returned home Mon
day.
Master B. F. Skiles is spending
some time in Bertie County as the
guest of his uncle, Mr. Edward Skiles.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jackson and
children were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
B. F. Skiles' Sunday.
Master J. Walter Hardison of Nor
folk, is visiting his grand-parents,
Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Vail.
Mr. C. E. Swain and sons, Jasper
Ned and Paul, motored to Farmville
Saturday.
Miss Ella Peal of Plymouth spent
the week-end with Miss Hildred
Swain.
Master Chesson Thomas of Wind
sor, spent a few days with his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam Ches
son, last week.
SKINNERS VILLE
NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Everett and
family left Sunday for Aulander to
visit Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Saunders.
Mrs. Itoland Spruill is spending
some time with Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Spruill in Windsor.
Mrs. Henrietta Swain and Mr. Jack
Swain have returned from a trip to
Black Mountain.
Miss Louise Bateman of near
Columbia is the guest of Miss Don
nie Blount.
Messrs. Percy Everett, Eli Brewer
and son, Thomas, of Belhaven were
in our midst Sunday.
Captain Noah Tarkington of Nor
folk, is here visiting his family.
Mrs. Graham Bond of Norfolk, is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Guilford
Davenport this week.
A revival is being held at Rehoboth
Methodist Church by the pastor, Rev.
R. L. Hethcox.
We are greatly pleased to announce
the camping parties on the Albemarle
Sound from the Baptist and Methodist
Sunday Schools of Creswell. The
Baptists held their camping party at
the old Norman landing and the
Methodists at W. E. Blount’s fishing
beach. Both places are well known
throughout the county.
Dr. T. L. Bray and Miss Stella Ayers
motored to Smithfield Sunday, and re
turned Monday with Mrs. Bray and
little daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth,
and Mr. Richard Bray.
Mr. Louis Horton made a business
trip to Williamston Tuesday.
I W,HAT DOES A COUNTRY
DOCTOR KNOW AT
SEVENTY - NINE?
|By C. S. Sawyer)
It was January sixth, arM i was
baking my feet in front oi 'he an
cestral hearth. The thermometer
stood at ten above—a reminder the
although “Old Christmas” is no long
er observed in Tyrrell County—winter
■ had not failed to bring the Christmas
j weather. The gate rattled. The man
I who has been our family physician
! for twenty years was making for the
I hospitable hearth. The family made
way for him to take a place in front
of the open fire.
The Doctor had a far away look on
his face. He was reminiscent. For
fifty-six years, in all kinds of weather,
William Hardy Hardison has respond
ed to the call of the suffering. At
seventy-nine years of age, on the cold
est day of the winter, he was making
Ills rounds; humming a . natch of
song while his mind grappled with the
problems of his profession.
As 1 sat looking at him, T could
only wonder, “What does a country
doctor know at seventy-nine”? When
one thinks of the things that he has
seen in this age of change, he becomes
a character more interesting than the
heroes of fiction. He has lived through
two great wars and the revolution of
Medical Science. He has had the ex
perience of living in the greatest
century of discovery that the world
has ever known.
Wi’liam Hardy Hardison is but lit
I tie known outside of two counties in
Eastern North Carolina. But if the
people of upper Tyrrell and lower
Washington Counties were called upon
to name the man who has best serv
ed their community in the last hatfj
century, the name of William Hardy
Hardison would stand without a rival.
He is the living incarnation of all
the virtues which have been ascribed
to the country doctor.
Doctor Hardy Hardison of Wash
ington County married Miss Mariah
Boyle—to this union a son, William
Hardy, was born, March 1, 1845.
William attended a private school
near Saint David’s Episcopal Church
until he was sixteen years of age. He
was a student at the University of
North Carolina during the first year
of the “War between the States.” The
second year of the war he left the
University and entered the Confed
erate Army. He served as a Sergeant
Major in Daniel’s Brigade, thirty
second North Carolina Regiment. He
was in the battles of Gettysburg,
Petersburg, the Wilderness, and Ap
pomattox. After Lee’s surrender he
returned home and was for a short
time engaged in the merchantile
business. But the following year he
entered the Medical School of the
University of Maryland, from which
he graduated in 1886. Returning to
his old home he began the practice
of medicine. When he was thirty-live
years of age he married Miss Harriett
Nixon of Perquimmons County. Five
children were born to this union. Of
whom only one, Mrs. Myra Hardison
Peele has lived to comfort him in his
age.
Doctor Hardison is living at Gres-'
well, within two miles of his birth
place and is now entering his fifty
seventh year as a county physician..
He is a living witness to the truth, i
“Whosoever would be first among you,
shall be servant of all”. He has never
refused his services to any person in
pain. Silver and gold he has acquired
but little, yet he is rich. Such a life
should be an inspiration to all who
serve humanity. The Spirit of the
Great Physician working through
Hardison has made him the “beloved
physician” of two counties.
BEST GAME
OF SEASON
The best game of base ball played
on the local diamond this season was
witnessed here Tuesday afternoon
when Plymouth won from Edenton by
the score of one to nothing.
The outstanding features of the
game were the pitching of Smith for
Plymouth, the pitching of Ferrebee
for Edenton, and in the last half of
the ninth inning when neither team
RECORDERS COURT
I Session of Recorder <
Court Here Moncly Clos
ed at One O'clock,
The first case to come before Re
corder Bailey Monday morning was
I that of -John Smith for assault on lw.
;wife, Lillian Smi'.n, and carrying con-,
j cealed weapon This crime was pcrpc
jtrated August 23, i923, immediately
'after which sheriff Be d chased Job,:
Smith up Washington street as far as
Peel’s garage, and when Smith ran
his hand in one of his h:p pockets,
and began to run, the sheriff shot him j
through the left shoulder. Ar that
time Sheriff Reid was* not certain
that his bullet had taken effect, and if
was some time later that he reeeivec.
advice that L. S. Mitchell a local ctd
ored physician had dressed the wound
Smith made his getaway despite hi
wound, but was apprehended in Nor
folk last week, at which time sheriff
Reid was notified.
. The sheriff returned from Norfcbt
| with his prisoner Sunday and plac-.d
jlym in jail to await trial the next
morning. Smith plead guilty of as
sault ar.u was adjudged guilty by the
court of carrying a concealed weapon,
and was given two years on the coun
ty ) awls.
1
t an Paxton, colored you.h o
! near Mackeys, was arraigned for a. •
sault on his mother, Adeline Pa:::c> j
and for being' drunk in public, T’v .
case of assault was dismissed, but l^c :
was found guilty of being drunk and •.
fined $15.00 and costs. i
Ed Sawyer, young white man of the ’
Skinnersville, was hailed into court on j
four charges. One for assault on Shel
don Chambers; one for stealing water
melons from I>. F. Chambers; one for i
affray with Will Fatri- i, and for as-1
sault on his wife.
This case consumed more time than j
all the others combined, was submit-!
fed to a jury which returned a verdict
of guilty in all four counts in a few
minutes of private deliberation. For;
assault on Sheldon Chambers he was j
assigned to the county roads for thir
ty days; for stealing water melons be ;
was given thirty days; for aeray with
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Will Patrick he was given thirty days i
or a fine of five dollars and his por :'
tion of the costs. Patrick was also j'
given a fine of $5.00 and his portion j
of the costs. For assault on his wife;
he was assigned to the road for eight-J
con months. Mrs. Sawyer testified in !
his behalf on this charge and stoutly
denied that she received a beating at j1
bis hands on the occasion named ini'
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the warrant. Two boys, Harold Pat- |
rick and Sheldon Chambers, claimed,'
that ttmm witnessed his assault on hi •
.. n
wife.
Mr. T. C. Burgess, Sr., of Rock;
Mount is visiting his son, Mr. T. C..
Purgess, Jr. here this week.
had scored with Plymouth at the bid,
two men out and the bases full when 1
Jacobs smashed out an easy two-ba;«
hit to center field scoring the winniiv
run.
From beginning to end the fans
supporting both teams were kept in
fever of excitement. Twice during tin
game Ferebee pulled himself out of;
a seemingly impossible hole.
The game was thoroughly enjoyed j
by tiie spectators.
FAIR COMMITTEE
TO MEET MONDAY.
Mr. W, R. Famptou president
of the V/ashing ton County Fair
Association; has requested us to
announce that.a meeting- of the
fair com mi tee will be held Mon
d sy night at eight o’clock in the
commissioners’ room at the court
house It is desired that :he com
mittee from all part.- o' the
county who were appointed last
year attend this meeting as these
will be many imp rt-mt t picn
discussed.
The fair nssoen. , i n is ve y de
sirous of putting cn an occasion
his yaer that will be it: keeping
with the pi\ gt-c-s • of our enter
prising farm f Iks, and it i
thought th ;l our exhibits will at
lean! equal those of -turn ighb- r
ing county Yds.
We are infemed that pirn j
of ani-i ements will be provided
irr the fair vi.-dorr, and it is
planned to (bit in that kind of i
amusement th; t will leave a plea-j
sant thou ,h i i t-i“ mind of e h
person wh ■ attends,
.u c; s. crop Ki.ioi:r
The ; 'em val crop conditions J.ii
. v■ i _ii v uroLna . ,iow tuUL
a iub/.tantial decline took place unr
ig the 'moni.n of -July. This is co:i
. .ary to the improvement shown by
. ;ost of. the since, The. veaUuri' slur-,
ng the last several week:; has beer
xtic-mely hot and dry. There have
;een scattered storms which damaged
crops in spots, but at present many
farmers report the need of rain. The
month of June and the first of July
were unusually rainy and crops start
ed off at a disadvantage. Heavy rains
flooded the soils and much replanting
was necessary. Soon after July 15th
the weather changed, and the night,
became warm and die days excessive
|y hot so that at present many repor.
i condition approaching a r rd droig.,! t
.According to the summary of the
2500 farmers reporting to the State’s
Crop Reporting Service and to Jh
official estimates of the United Slates
Department of Agriculture, the con
dition of corn in the state declined 1
irons 84 per cent July 1st to 75 per
:e;:t Ar.':u't I. ; tobacco from 77 Is <
sweet potatoes from '82 to 75;
rcanuts from 84 to 70; tame hay from 1
0 to 87; wild hay from 89 to 57:
•ifulfil from 97 to 90; pastures from i
14 fo 93. <
Corn
'i hr ci add i a of cm • , which was :r. i
touted July 1st as 84 per cent of!1
icrmal, dropped to 75 per cent. Thi: j
nidicates a reduction of 45,9.! 8,000 ■
urshels for this state. This is 5,510,
)00 bushels less than the crop ex
erted July 1st,.; .ed l^CTO.OOO bushels 1
css than the : n i v-' . el i. t!‘
I
rear. This reduction hr corn ' In 1
11to the severe rains during ‘
lie first of July and the cron has.
hewn little improvement since that I'
. !r.io. Fields are reported as very /
a: y and the plants are small and
'■ruing poorly.
Tobacco
The condition of tobacco declined ,
dorln v July from 77 to 68. This in
dicates an average yield of 587 p: v.r. is
per acre and a prospective production
this year of about 270,000,000 pounds. |
Tins is 58,('00,000 pounds less than
vast expected July 1st and 116,000,000
pounds le. ; than the crop harvested
last year. These estimates are com
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. LOCAL MEWS.
' Mr. John A. Gorkin of Norfolk, is
I to the city on business this week.
Recorder’s Court was well attended
by the people of Skinner.-viHe town
■ ship Monday.
Mr. Jack Weci'e and family motored
to Belbaven Sunday.
Mr. L. A. F d and famih made x.
motor trip to . ,alhaven Sunday.
Mr. Walter oore and fartuir and!
Mr, J. L. Satterthvvaice motored to
IJelhvaen Sunday.
Mr. L. W. Gurkin made a business
trip to Roper Monday.
Mr. J. W. Buchanan of Roper, was
a business visitor here Monday.
Messrs. L. L. Owens, W. L. Hassell,
W. B. Cox, .J. S. Brown, J. M., and L.
0. Horton and J. R. White motored
tc Norfolk Saturday returning Sun
day. Mr. Owens purchased a new Hud
son sedan while there.
Messrs. Herbert Bonner and Mark
Dixon of Washington, were in town
on business Tuesday.
Mr. B. F. Read made a business
trip to Richmond the past week-end.
■hi-. A. 13. Litchfield and family made
a motor trip to Belhaven Sunday.
Mr. A. L. Owens ad family left Sun
day for a trip to Morehead City.
Mr. L. P. Homthal made a business
■rip to Beasley Tuesday.
Mr. Williford Norman and family
t f Norfolk, are visiting friends and
relatives here.
Miss Dorothy Willy of Johnson City,
Trn:i., is visiting relatives and friends
here.
Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Clayton, who
! • beer, toui-itig the western states
on their honeymoon are expected to
return today.
Mr. W. O. Norman of Roper, was in
town on business Tuesday.
Glad to see or old friend, Mr. T. W.
knoll, in town this week.
Mr. Jatha Marsh, manager of Marsh
Motor Co., spent the week-end in Bath
with his family.
The colored base ball team won here
Monday from Windsor by the score of
line to six.
mted. on a basis of 10 per cent re
action in acreage over last year.
Tobacco war damaged considerably
v the continued rain and during the
last two weeks the excessively hot
me! dry days have continued to de
!'no. The plants are small and the
luality of the leaves is reported a.s
i 1 "d thin. Much f the crop has
opened before the pi a ts fully ma
ured which is resulting ir. light
lields.
Peanuts
Peanuts di sk: d !4 per cent from
.lie k'. prr com condition of July 1st
.'ii this condiron of TO per cent in
heat es a yield of 87' pounds per
i for the
•(ale 1110,830,000 pounds. This is
'..1.170,000 pounds less than was pro
luccd last year.
. General Conditions
The following are comments from
report e • which ware most general
liiroughout the state. These give a
<d idea of conditions at present:
“Dry weather damaging hay and pas
tures.” “Crops are improving some
now.” “Gardens are about out.” “Ex
• v r . s helped hays and t*as
t.■” “Cron.-- are grassy.” “Farm
a tor scarce and wages high.”
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