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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
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voar dollar Red Cross member
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DRAINAGE
CONFERENCE
Announcement was made to
day by the Eastern Carolina
Chamber of Commerce Inc.,
Headpua'rterfr Kinston, that a
section wide drainage confer
ence has heen called to be >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
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Relief l Work Heroine
Back From Near East
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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 uce<i as a text
book on the Near East m schools and
colleges.
MARRIED IN
WILLI AMSTON
Our community was somewhat
surprised to learn that Miss
Doris Owens had been married
to Mr. Jewell Ayers in Wiiliam
ston on Tuesday night. Despite
heavy, muddy roads they did not
hegitate.%0 make the trip Mr.
Ayers’ Ford roadster. They are
nowhoney-meoniny in Washing
ton City, , 4 ' —
Mrs. -Avers is the .'eldest daugh /
ter of Mr. L. L.-Owens and is s
very popular yonng lady^r Mr.
Ayers is a young business man
of our city, and they will make
their home here.
RED CROSS RAISES $10,000,000
IN 21 DAYS FOR RELIEF
Terrihie catastrophes, such as the
.Japanese earthquake, pfo'ye the wis
dom of the people in maintaining the
American Red Cross as their national
S*«nd international relief agency. The
‘readiness of the Red Cross for duty in
..the greatest of emergencies was also
’proved by test, ■ " ,
a?. The record shows: Sept. '3, Press!
(lent Coolidge assigns tits-duty ofWlfe
ing 15,000,000 to the 'Amerlan Red
Cross; Sept. 4, Red C/oss Chapter's, in
^over 3,500 cqtnmanitf«s given fund al
lotments; Sept. 12, Sund totals $5,563,
000: Sept. 17, fund;nearly_$8,000,000^
.and President tthnoijnces'.ro’rmal pW#-’
ing of campaign Sept. 2f, fund1 pasp£a
’$10,000,000 nwtrlr. -V
, In 21 business days the Red Cross
(doubly performed the duty eatpuat&l
Jo it—all the while keeping a'^$g£w'y
j(low of relief supplies goSas^pm/tf(>fn
-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.
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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
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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