Mc DMUW Desttdns t-m Y*ar, la AdvtOH. TOR COO, FOB COIWTRY AMO FOR TRUTH." Single Ctpy 9 VOL. 36 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1925 NO. 14 Veterans Receive 1st payments of Adjusted Bonds Thirty Thousand Checks To Be Mailed Out March 1st Washington, Jan. 1.—Approx imately six hundred thousand ad justed service certificates, repre senting seven hundred and fifty million dollars of the adjusted compensation, voted by congress for the veterans of the World War were mailed today. The accumulation of the cer tificates produced by the smooth running bonus machinery now in operation in the War Department and the Veterans’ Bureau, was put into the mails at midnight as the first distribution of the benefits under the adjusted com pensation act law, which provid es that certificates could not be issued before January first, and promptly as the new year began, more than two hundred and fifty sacks of mail were moved to the railroad station from the posta branch set up in the Bureau to expedite the mailing. Thirty thousand checks for a' mounts of $50 or less, represent ing the cash payment for soldiers who served only a short period have been prepared at the bureau, but these under the law are not to be mailed out until March 1 In mailing the insurance cere tificates, the only preferenc made was to those veterans who have died since applying for the ■bonus. These total not more than 700 and beneficaries of these sol tiiers may receive payment im mediately. The certificates, prop erly indorced, together with proof of the death of the soldier must be returned to th« Veter ans, Bureau before the payment is made. Payments on any other certificates are not to be mad*, before March. Director Hines estimated that from now on about 20,000 certifi Cates will be mailed daily. To date the War Department has re ceived 2,000,000 applications for adjusted service compedsation with an average of 12,000 arriv. ing daily. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a power o sale embraced in a certain mortgage executed by Edgar R. Allen and wife to George L. Bowen on the 13th day of February, 1925, and recorded in the office of Kegister of Deeds of Wash ington County in Book 07, page 10, and j default having been made in tde pay-1 ment of the note thereby secured, tlie < undesigned mortgage will expose at public sale to the highest bidder for I cash at the Court house door in Ply mouth, North Carolina Washington County, on the 26th day of January, l»2r> at 12 o’clock noon, the following described Ian '. Adjoining the lands of the heirs of George Allen and George L. Bowen and lying on the public road leading from Plymouth to Bath, N. C., and fully described in a deed from George Allen and wife to Edgar R. Alien, s dated January 10th, 1894. Recorded in Book 34, page 239. This the 22nd day of Dec. 1924. GEORGE L. BOWEN BY Z. V. NORMAN Attorney Dr. D. B. Mizelle DENTAL SURGEON in Plymouth every day ex cept Monday prepared to to do ail kinds of Modern DENTAL WORK SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEACON LEAVES POSTOFFICE Patrons of the local postoffice will miss the many acts of ac comodations that have been ren. dered by Mr. W J- Jackson, Jr., who has resigned his position as clerk to accept the office of county auditor. Mr. Jackson has been in the postoffice since November, 1922, and his services have been all that could be expected from any ! person, and there have been many times when he has gone S out of hi* way to accomodate patrons of the office. During his tenure of office he has been promoted and in his examination at tin time the office was given a second-class rating he gained peicentageof 97.30. j At the time the new county commissioners took over the af fairs of the county he was offer ed the position of auditor. This vacancy existed on account of the resignation of Mr. A. B. Litchfield. RECORD DISASTER YEAR KEPT *RED CROSS BUSY In 192 Places in United States Its Relief Operations Cost $737,603. On* hundred and nineiy-two disas ters resulting in 735 deaths and injury to 1,933 persons, rendering nearly 44,001 homeless and causing property losses estimated at more than $44,760, 000, established a new record in the United States in the y*ar ended last June 30, according to reporta of the American Red Cross. In all of these disasters Immediately relief activity was applied by the Red Cross, which expended $737,*03.37 through the na tional organization and the local Chapters in assisting stricken com munities. As the nation’s chief relief agency, whose service covers over 43 years, the Red Cross is expected to be on duty almost as soon as disaster | strikes any locality. This trust and confidence Is amply justified by the increasing equipment of the Red Cross, which recently organized a mo bile disaster unit of experienced work ers ready in all parts of the country to respond on the instant to a call for active duty. This unit is capable of operating in several disaster areas under one general directfon^ and re cently was at work in seven communi ties in five states at the same time. Ability, alertness and Increasing skill of volunteer workers in more than 3.500 Chapters are reasons for the preparedness of Red Cross for disaster operations, be the call for a disturbance In a restricted local area or for millions In relief fnnds for a staggering catastrophe such as th< earthquake in Japan. TUP K o Cl l ro.ss. noffsver, is lai from being self-satisfied, for the or gar: ! i; giving, the most serious coatior. to measures for pre vciii i • .1 I;'rs its relief adminis tr.;i 0*1 and rehabilitation policies hr*v rri for il nation-wide regard rh» !!■ ir.r octant wotk can always ■n. a 'i’ - up lo ev ry demand need® •he it< i- nncii support of the Amer can p.opie through KtJ Cross mem hervhip The annual enrollment wiii > gin Armistice flay, November 11. ,nd ev y Ar.ier c * Is urged to jolt; >r r'>oe’.v ri mb-rship ia the Red •« ;s .ip yourself by helping others voar dollar Red Cross member Th<- d.viden;] in good works ie - 4 aoieed. o> I i ! ! i ! I ! i ! ►o ►o ►o ►(—a—> A MOST PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR YOU CAN HOPE FOR ROANOKE BEACON u ►ield in Greenville, January 20th at 10:30 o’clock in the office of the Greenville chamber of Llommer ce. This call is in keepiag with the resolutions recently passed by the Directors of this organ ization, looking to starting a real sectional drainage project for Eastern North Caroline. Representatives from each of 46 counties covered by the Eas tern Carolina Chamber of Com merce will be invited to attend this meeting. Experts in engin eering from the State depart ments, the University, ,anu the U. S. Department of engineering will be asked to attend this con ference to give the members .in terested an idea as to what a real drainage program will mean for Easter North Carolina. The North Carolina Drainage Assoc iation officers are also invited to come in on this project. “We want to drain more land in East ern Carolina in order, .to .make our section more productive”, is the way President John W. Holmes cf Farmyille put it. Pres ident Holmes is making up a com mittee composed of representa tives from all the counties, and this list will be announced very shortlo. Suffice it to say the Greenville meetting will start something long needed in East ern Carolina. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as adminstrator or the estate of Adbus Everett, of Wash ington C .unty, this is to notify ail persons having clrims atrainsi the es lata of said Adbus Evert, deceased to exhibit them to the undersign on or before the 2!’th day of November, 1925 or this notice will be pleaped in bar of their recovery All personi indebt ed to said estate w.ll please mak imm ediate payment to me. This 20th day of November, 1924. H G. Everett Mdmr. NOTICE Notice is heredj given that bids for furnishing connty sup* plies will be received by the board of county commissioners on Monday. January 4,1925. ADDIE L. BRINKLEY, Clerk, Board of County Commissioners, Plymouth, North Carolina. westover news ; Mr. Abe Ayers of Ra'eiKh, spent Christmas with his parents‘^Mr. arid Mrs. G. W. Ayers. ■ V ' - Mr. Ben Sittefson of New Port News is spending the holidays with his moth er Mrs. John Sittersen. . £ Mr. J. VV- Hardison and 'family pf Norfolk, spent Christmas with Mrs. Hardison,s mother, Mrs. N. C. Vail. Mrs. Carrie Boldwin of Washington, has returned after.haYj.pg spent Christ mas with her parents Mr. and Mrs. G. W- Ayers. Mr iC. L. Jackson and family of Ply* mouth were dinner guests ot their par eut?, Mr. and Mrs. B- F. Skiles. L M^s. Henry Oliver and family of near Roper are spending the holidays with Mrs, Grove Spruill. Mr..and Mrs. Charlie Robbins and little daughter spent Xmas day with Mr. and Mrs Thomas Robbins. Mrs. Tillie Bateman has retnrned to her home after visiting her daughter, Mrs. Q. W. Hollfindat Buckham, Va Missfe^ttie Coburn ii.spending the holidsljs in Norfolk with her uncle, Mr. T. G.(Coburn. Mr. C- Vail, Jr., and his brother in-law* My. H. L’.Engle- Barnes spent the day in Plymouth- -* Missfcallie Sitterson is vi.Ajng her parentlT Mr. and Mrs.Luther Sitterson --Ft--. • Relief l Work Heroine Back From Near East i i< DR. MABEL ELLIOTT Five times decorated by foreign gov ernments for heroic service during four years <£ relief work In the Near East, this "modern Florence Nightin gale” has refused further honors abroad and has returned to America to aid in the campaign for fund% which centers in the observance of Golden Rale Day for the refugee or phans of the Near East on December T. Her recent book, "Beginning Again at Ararat,” Is being ucefn -many Pacific portst iitc sfri fcken areas in Japan. This was the'.ironfi .lence of the An'^n^’a peopfe-Jit'iheir ‘iltkd Cross justified and the wisdom of Red Cross preparedness to copa/wiUi an unprecedented relief emergency confirmed. IJ 1 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a power of ‘ sale embraced in a deed o tr ust exe- 1 cuted on the 8th day of November, 1 1910, by J. Gurganus to M. D. Watts,’ i Trustee, and recorded in Hook 73 page i 260, and default having been made in t the payment of the note thereby se- 1 cured and application having been £ made to the said trustee fora sale cf I the land des ribed in said deed c;f b trust, the undersigned trustee will ex-' i pose at public sale to the highest bid- ! der for cath at the coin thouse door in 1 Plymouth, North Carolina, on the 26th C day of January. 1925. at 12 o'clock, £ noon, the following described tract of r land: |i Said J. Ouaganus one sixth interest I in the trrct of land on Hollis Road r owned by .1. T. Gurganus adjoining ; f W. C. Harrison and G. L. Bowen. This the 22nd day of Pec. 1924. ? M. O. WATTS, Trustee, BY 7. V. NORMAN, Attorney 11 _ , 3 mnc's NEW LIFE PILLS! The Pill* That Do Cure. j CONVERT BONDS BEFORE JUNE 30 OUR PER CENT BOND5 MAY BE 1 EXCHANGED FOR THOSE VALUED AT A 14 Holders of first and second - iberty Joan bonds may exchange he 4 per cent, series for 4 1-4 it any time prior to June 301925 The Secretary of the Treasury mnounces that the privilege of inverting First Liberty Loan Converted 4 per cent Bonds of L923-27, and second Liberty Loan 1 per cent Bond of 1927-42 into S 11-4 Liberty Loan Bonds will tei minate at the close of business lune 30, 1925, and thereafter may not be exereised. The con version privilege with respect to such bonds arose May 9,1918, and expired November 9, 1919, J. but was extended by the Secre tary of the Treasury under the authority conferrd by Section 5 of the Victory Liberty Loan Act, to such date as might be fix ed by the Secretary of tte Treas ury on six months public notice. Although the brivilege has re mained open for over six years and public notice has been called thereto from time to time holder of about $33,000,000 of bonds have not yet availed themselves i of the privilege of conversion. BREAKS JAW Williamston, Dec, 31— James Edwards of Popular Point turn* ed a car over on the Williamston Everetts highway* breath——r; Wircr faw in three places. He was taken to the Washington hospital at once for treatment where it was found that his con dTfmV^ia^yerv serious. The^>ro ken pieces of jaw ma(!H*ii%2£2£i* ation difficult. It is reported that he is now getting a'ong very well. The cause of the accident was said to be by running off the pavement with one wheel where the ground was soft from rain causing the car to car to turn over. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust ex ecuted by J. S. Brown and wife to Z. V. Norman, Trustee dated August 1st 1922 and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Washington County in Book 74, page 238, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured, upon demanU of the holder of the said inde&tjrdness the undersig- | tied Trustee will, on the 19th day ^f 'Jaruwr^ 1925, at 12 o’clock Noon, at the Court House door I in.. Washington County, offer for sale, to the highest bidder for cash, all of that certain real property described in the said in strument as follows: All the right, title, interest md estate of the said J. S. Brown ind wife, same being five-tenths undivided, in and to a lot of land n the town of Plymouth, Wash ngton County, and situated on :he East side of Jefferson Street ind bounded on the North by the and of Geo. Bowen; on the East y tne Peacock land, S. W Beas ey and others; on the South by the C. G McComico land and >n the West by Jefferson Street said lot herein conveyed being 200 feet square. Thf> bidder at such sale will b$ ■equired to deposit as much as ;en per-cent of the amount bid is a guaranty of good faith pend* ng confirmation of the sale by he Court and the right is re lerved to reject any and all bids This Dec. 16th, 1924. Z. V. Norman, Trustee