i Year, in Advance,
"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUT.1."
VOL. 36
PLYMOUTH. N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1925
NO A?.
School Consolidation
Defeated Tuesday
Cool Spr ng, Jackson, Kelly, Monti
cello, Allen, Bateman and C apel
Hill Defeat Measure.
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BEECH GROVE AND WHITE OAK
CONTINUE CONSOLIDATION
Consolidated school for Cool
Spring, Jackson, Kelly, Montice
llo, Allen, Bateman and Chapel
Hill with Plymouth is a thing of
the past, at least for some time
to come.
In Beech Grove and White
(jak, consolidated with Roper, will
continue as they have been for
the past few years. In this elec,
tion the vote for consolidation
was a sixty-three majority.
The election Tuesday in the
school districts referred to in the
first paragraph the result clearly
demonstrated that the seven dis
tricts have no desire to share the
benefits offered by the Plymouth
school, as the election stood at
the couni at 179 to 9, with 240
^ registered.
High school students from
Westover and Swains schools
will have the privilege of attend
ing here with a special truck
.operated for their convenience.
The result of this election
,opens six one teacher schools
•which have not been operated
(for the past t hree vears.
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SENATOR MCoES EXPECTS BAT
y c cfio LOWER LETTER
POST E.
v,iv.as.on.—A concerted drive up
on Congress for a one cent first-class
postal rate is expected by Chairman
Moses, of the special congressional
Joint postol commission, which is to
open hearings looking to a permanent
postal revision measure.
Senator Moses said that a proposi
tion for such a rate is already under
way and that members of the commis
sion had received representations on
the subject from many quarters. The
argument advanc'd he said, is that
first ci.str p '. a paying a dispro
po .; ,j ;, :.e total carrying
cost of toe postal service.
Postmaster General New will be
heard first by the postal commission.
He is expected to be prepared to fur
nish information regarding the opera
tion of the new rates which became
effective last April that will form a
work ng basis for the commission in
hearings t ii d in various paits
of the < ■ ;'■r'
.ms, agreed upon
tent- V by Congress in an effort
to meet iha cost of wage increases to
p. _.al employes have been in opera
■. *i ■■ months, data as
a'! ■ i g that period
Still is
in.»; r "
. use all post
!e to send in
-t quarter.
,, a Lo j nt c..mmis
sicn v. n pen hearings here in
.October by which time it is expected
the poscoffice departments will be iu
ii position to furnish comparisons be
tween the operations of the new and
old rates for a six-month period.
Should there be requests then for
further hearings in different sections,
the cosnmis n rn y embark upon a
*econd road trip.
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U. S. Invests Over Mine Billions.
Wa tiington. — American copital,
lowing into foreign fields for invest
ment was estimated by tile commerce
'apartment to have amounted to $551,
.31,000 during the first six months of
'.he calendar year 1925. This brought
he value of private American invest
ments abroad to a total of $9,500,000,
,00.
The acceleration of the foreign in
cstment tendecy in the United States
■vas illustrated to some extent by the
lepartment’s showing that the total
for the first six months of 1924 was
inly $379,700,000, although during the
alter half of 1921 the records placed
the total at $830,087,000. All of the
Igures were based on the public of
ferings of foreign securities made for
United Statos investors.
Foreign government offerings, or
.he borrowings of enterprises enjoy
ng governmental guarantees, aeeount
d for $416,071,000 of the 1925 foreign
nvestment total. Foreign corporations
lependlugly solely on their own credit
iot scarcely a quarter of the American
oans, but this was in increase from
me seventh last year.
European natch took $237,600,000 of
ho six months investment from the
Jnitcd States, Latin American, $151,
;81,000; Canada $131,9y0,000 and Asia
tic nations $31,000,000. German indus
try alone obtained $3G 000,000,
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135,000 Gallons of Oil Explode.
Chicago.—A watchman was killed
and damage and panic was spread over
> mile radius when 135,000 gallons of
gasoline and oil in a Texas Oil com
pany barge exploded and sent a flood
of flaming oil down the north .branch
of the Chicago river. The bargo and
a tug anchored at the company's
docks were dstroyed by the explo
sion and subsequent Arc. Five men
aboard the crafts, escaped. The force
of the blast shattered windows as f-ar
as a mile away. Blazing oil on the
river set fire to adjacent docks and
threatened bridges before its spread
was halted. Nearby gas tanks and oil
storage tanks added to the hazard.
The body of watchman, Jacob Jaber
seck, was seen hurling through the
air. It fell into the flames and- was
not recovered. A boys’ bonfire near
the docks started the fire, is the belief
of Captain Charles Sigmond, who was
the only occupant of the barge and
discovered the blaze. His warning to
the four men on the tug probably sav
ed their lives.
Five Persons Dead In Crash.
Younstown, O.—Five persons, in
cluding two children, were instanty
kil'ed at a grade crossing near Brook
field, O., ten miles north of here,
when a sedan in which they were rid
ing wag struck by a New York Cen
tral passenger train.
Flood at Seol, Korea, Kills Many.
Tokio.<—A few wireless dispatche*
rvom Korea say that the flood in Seoul,
capital of Korea, is unprecedented,
especially in the suburbs of Ryuzan,
which is situated along the Han river
in the southern par' of the city. Tj^js
district was flooded owing to the fail
re of tb* embankment after the river
ad risen more than 35 feet.
Telegraph communications are ap
ently completely severed, and it is
i poss hie to ascertain accurate de
ls of the casualties and damage.
R. L. /hitehursi
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for practice of Dental Surgery
Office hour : 8:30 to 5:30
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Items gathered from issue of
The Roanoke Beacon published
Friday, Juiy 29, 1892
Ham, S'. C., 10^ per pound.
Eggs 10b per dozen.
Flour, $4.50 per barrel.
Miss Itdie Wbodley of
Creswell, has been visiting
Miss Adtlia Skittletharpe.
Miss Edna Sallinger of
Sans Scuci is visiting friends
here.
Mrs. Emm l Jackson, wife
of J. F. Jackson, departed
this life Wednesday after a1
long and gainful illness.
Miss Dean Jackson is visi
ting friends in Winfall.
An* effort is being made by
the Disciples to have a church
erected in this town.
CROP VALUED AT $10,706,G„> -AST
YEAR; PROSPECT Of BETTER
CROPS THIS YEAR.
Raleigh.
North Carolina ranks first in tb«
production of peanuts in the union
with a value of $10,706,000 for the !
harvests nuts lust year. Th.s sum
,vas realized from the 152,945,000
pounds that wore produced .from the
rSl.OOO acres under cultivation. The
same acreage is under cultivation this
year with the condition of the crop
reported at 80 par cent against the
84 per cent at this time last year.
The principal counties producing
peanuts in the order of their acreage
in this crop are: Bertie, Northamp
ton, Halifax, Hertford. Martin, Edge
combe, Chowan, Gates, Onslow, Wash
ington, Perquimans and Pender.
The estimated value of this crop
docs not include the tons of peanut
vines which are used for feeding, and
the pasturage afforded for hogs in re
covering nuts left in the fields.
The present pc unit growth in the
counties are reported good although
some sections were injured by hail.
Georgia ranked next to North Caro
lina in the production of peanuts last
year with an output of 118.800,000
against North Carolina's 152.945,000.
Tennessee, Virginia, and Texas also
ranked high in this product.
Coal Freiolit Rate Cut Effective.
Reductions in coal rates from the
Pocahontas, Coal Creek and Clinch
field mining districts recently agreed
cn by the carriers and the State Cor
poration Commission, will be effec
tive on August 20, it was announced
by the commission.
The freight traiffs covering the re
duced rates are now in the hands of
the printer, it was stated.
The reduction is twenty cents per
ton from the Pocahontas district and
seventeen cents per ton from the Coa!
Creek and Clinchfieid districts.
“These reduced rates arc being pub
lished by the carriers in the com
pliance with agreement with the North
.’Carolina Corporation Commission,”
the commission stated, “resulting from
formal complaint by the Corporation
Commission to the Interstate Com
merce Commission, based on allega
tion that present rates on coal to
points in North Carolina are exces
sive and discriminatory as compared
with the general coal level of coal
rates within the Southeast.”
Hotel Bri kley
Plymouth, N C.
Solicits the palronage of the city
and country. Cunt, give us a
trial; we Guarantee satisfaction.
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Kinston—This town voted a $150.
000 bond issue for schools. The money
will be applied to a high school con
struction fund. Though only 630 vot
ed only 18 negative ballots were cast.
Pittsboro—The Casco motion pic
ture show located just east of th
courthouse here was destroyed by fire,
also seventy-five caskets belonging to
•he Chatham Hardware Company
which were upstairs in same building.
Greensboro.—Willie Edward Cauth
jrn. 22, was almost instantly killed
when he came in contact with an iron
>ipc, charged with electricity, in the
boiler room of the.Pomona mill near
.his city. His left hand was severely
•urned in two places, it was reported.
High Point.*—Mrs. Z. M. Hampton,
formerly of this city, was drowned at
Fairmont, W. Va„ according to a
message received by h,E'.' father, J. D.
Satterfield of High Point.
Clinton.—A distressing accident oc
curred in northern Sampson when the
three-year-old child of Herman Me
Ltiinb of Johnston county was thrown
from -a car and killed as it passed
aver her body. Mrs. McLamb, the
mother of the child, was driving.
Iieidsville.-—Lester Stiney, white,
was so severely injured by a prema
ture explosion that he died an hour
later in a hospital. He was frightfully
mangled at the stone quarry five miles
north of Iieidsville. bis body being
hurled high into the air by the blast.
Raleigh. — Because the cows of
Georgo.Marconi died from eating corn
whiskey mash. Clifford Royster, 17
year-old*()xforiI boy. was found guilty
of illicit distilling in the Wake County
Superior C. v ■. Judge W. A. Devin,
presiding, did not pronounce sentence.
Elizabeth City.—Despondent over
domestic d'fficulties, Alfred Sawyer,
‘iti years oid, employed by the Eliza
beth City Hosiery Company, ended his
life by firing a bullet from a 88 re
volver through the middle of his fore
head.
Kaieign. — musiorms. pbuiiib au
acreage of between 230 and 300 acres
between Eagle Springs and Samar
cand, damaged peaches between $50,
000 and $100,000. The division of mar
kets of the North Carolina department
of agriculture reported that it had
been advised of the storm and that
It covered one of the finest peach
areas of tire sandhill section.
Winston-Salem.—Sixteen thousand
dollars worth of school text books
were ordered by Supt. R. H. Latham.
These books will be used in the city
school system during th» next session,
being sold to the students practically
at cost. This follows the plan of city
distribution of books.
Asheville.—The anunal tournament
of the North Carolina Firemen’s Asso
ciation came near being marred by a
serious accident, when D. G. Allred, of
Concord, was hurt while participating
in a contest with the team from his
home towm. The injured man was tak
en to the French Ilroad hospital suf
fering from bruises and other slight
injuries.
Elizabeth City.—Forsaking his lair
in the Great Dismal Swamp to make a
foray in quest of sweets, a hlack bear
landed in a trap on the old Simeon
Pritchard farm, four miles from this
city in Providence Township, and paid
for -his rashness with his life. The
bear measured six feet from tip o tip
and weighed about 175 pounds.
Newton.—Wofford Milton, aged sev
etiteen, who was found guilty of man
rfaghter by the jury, was sentenced
by Judge T. J. Shaw to serve no less
than one year and no more than five
years in the State Penitentiary. Hil
ton ran over Daniel Lafayette Hilton.
6-year-old boy, in front of the Black
burn school house causing his death
about one hour later.
Norlina.—In the broad day light at
about noon three men entered the
Bank of Alberta at Alberta, Va.. and
relieved J. B. Elmore, cashier of
about $5,000 in cash, making their
getaway in a Packard car after unsuc
cessfully trying to lock Elmore in the
bank vault. In attempting to stop the
bandit car at Warfield, four miles north
of Alberta, John Wynn was shot in
both legs.
Charlotte.— Ihe Mecklenburg coun
ty commissioners expect to receive at
least $700,000 for the present court
house property, according to Chairman
II. N. Hood, who said he had receiv
ed an informal offer of $040 000 for
the property from a real estate dealer
here whose name was not disclosed.
Chairman Hood added that the board
would expect to receive an additional
$125,000 from sale oj the Jail property.
PUS ANNOUNCED
FOR CELEBRATION
EXPECT MANY THOUSAND FOF5
FARM EVENT AT CLEVELAND
SPRINGS PARK.
Shelby.—Plans were announced here
f ir the biggest farm celebration ever
U-h! in the two Carolinas. The event
to be known as the Carolinas Farm
Celebration, will be held on 1‘iiday,
August 21, at Cleveland Springs Park,
two miles out of Sheik'.'. I he tenta
tive program calls for addresses by
many of the South's farm leaders, by
the governors of Norlh and South Car
olina and pvirhap ; by Secretary of Agri
culture Jy rhino.
Preparation., a-e belt- made for an
attendance of iri(‘ farm.-rs
and tlieir fan 1 i 1 i• ■ the majority oi
whom will conic from the Piedmont
and Western North Carolina counties
and the border counlkm of South Car
olina, The celebration is bmug staged
by the organized farmers of this sec
tion with the major idea of promoting
and bettering farm life in the two
Carolinas and farm leaders in the two
states as well as over the entire Son'll
are interested in the movement. It is
hoped that the day will be a red let
ter occasion in the transformation of
the Carolina farm lire and that here
after the celebration will become an
annua! event.
VJUUIILICO U11CMI.T
celebration in thin State are Ruther
ford, Cleveland, Gaston. Lincoln, Ca
tawba, Polk, Burke, Mecklenburg and
Henderson. In South Carolina the ma
jor interest is in Cherokee and York
counties.
The scene of the big celebration will
be in one of Western North Carolina’s
most beautiful natural amphitheatres,
the earthen bowl between the Cleve
land Springs hotel at d highway 20
where numerous springs bubble forth
their far-famed mineral waters.
The formal program opens in the
afternoon with an address on “The
New Community Era of the South”
by Governor Thomas McLeod, of
South Carolina. Following the ad
dress there will he a number of en
tertainment events followed by the
biggest open-air picnic suppers ever
staged in the State. Thousands are
expected to attend the supper which
will be under the direction of the
Cleveland Springs cuisine with the
big barbecue to be prepared by F. T.
Meacham, head of the State test
farm at Statesville.
In the evening the tentative pro
gram calls for short talks by Gov
ernor Angus W. McLean, Mr. Clar
ence Poe. editor of the Progressive
Farmer, and others. Efforts are also
being made to have Tom Dixon, fa
mous author and native of Shelby,
who is now in this section on a visit,
to also appear.
Aviator Injured By Smash.
Laurinburg.—Nicesse L. Sole, of
Maine, driver of a Huff-Deland dusting
aeroplane while dusting cotton in mak
ing a nose dive coming down to the
cotton patch failed to rise and ran
along the ground for about one hun
dred yards. His machine turned over
making a complete wreck of the ma
chine and burying him under the ma
chine in calcium arsenate dust. There
were about fifteen spectators who
were about a half mile from the place
of the accident who rushed to him
immediately in automobiles across the
cotton field. It is thought that ha
would have been suffocated in the
dust, if immediate assistance had not
been rendered.
Auto Mechanic Burned to Death._
Rutherfordton.—Lawrence F. Etters
of Forest City, met a horrible death
recently. He was an automobile me
chanc and took a bucket of gasoline
to wash the gears of a car when-some
splashed on him. A spark from his
pipe ignited the gasoline and he was
soon in a mass of flames. He was
rushed to the Rutherford hospital hut
soon died. Pierce Williamson, with
whom Etters was working, suffered
severe burns on his hands, trying to
get Etter's clothes off. The deceased
was 33 years of age and leaves a wife
and three children.
Preparing For Legion Meeting.
Fayetteville.—The work of planning
anrl organizing for the American Le
gion State convention, which meets
here in the early part of September,
has gotten well under way with the
naming of many of the committees for
the various convention activities. As
signments to several committees are
still left open, but most of them have
been named by Noel E. Puton com
mander of Cumberland Post, No. 3.
which will be the host to the coaveh
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Recorder's Court
Trie following cases were dis
posed oi by Recorder Norman
Iasi Tuesday:
J. R Spenc;r, disposing <f
m; (gaged property; not guilty.
L'r. L. J. Johnson, false pre
!p: se, etc.; prayer lor judgment:
e ntinued upon payment of cost.
Improved.
Mr. P. M. Arps, the enlerprh»
ing proprietor of theRexall Drug
Store, lias recently t ec< rated th*
interior of his estabhEtimnt
with ; number of palm trerf? •• nd
other evergreen effects, which is
a dovitUd improvfcn.ini, in t ie
nppe. ranee of tl is pej uRr store.
North Carolina,
Washing-ton County.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Jehu L Rcpc-r Lumber Company
v s.
Norfolk 33uti:c! n litiIn ud
Comp. i y and Osi ers
lit listcrcd 1.stales Nos.
310 and 308
To whom it. rimv concern:
Notice is hereby given tiat
John L Kt pe) Lurnt er Ce mpany
clairr Hi”- to Lx the o\. i.ei c,i Re j.
istered Estates Ne.s. 21G'and 238
by virtue of a tur tU r to it 11-. m
Frank 11. Kiddie and wilt , ln.ve
this day tiled its petitie n with
the ur. t i igi tci c-Urk s.cttii g
forth that e certificates < l lisle
issued to link II. Itic'd'e l. r
Regiseere o Estates Nos. 216 a d
238, Rep ster’s e dict, Washing
ton county 1 a\e bet » lo^t or de
stroyed, ai d 11 at ihe seine can
not now t»- lout d, ai d praying
that new cci tificaie s of tit.e l.e
is ued tu it y.ursua; t to the p;. -
vision ot Sixth n : Si-2, Const,li
Jated Statutes of Ninth Caiu
!ina. Notice is he it by given n,
all interested panics tic t l «
hearing v. ill be 1:ad on > aid qiu s
tior. t<i> It or.day, Ai.pt si 21,1925,
at iL.t office o' the ui dt jsignter
clerical Plyrncmh, N. C., aid
that any perm s claiming any
interest therein should pinr to
said date file Their srsvtr err
claim to said land; oth< revise 1e>
titioner will be entitle d to ieiipf
upon pn of of tlie e ss , f the <• id
certificate
This the 20t 1 day if Ti ' , 3(3..
C. V. W. AUaiitiN .
Clerk Superior i i, •...
North Carolina,
Washington County.
In the Superior Court.
John L. Roper Lumber re r pn: y
v s.
Norfolk Southern K: iiros.u
Company and Otl.eis
Registered Estate Non. 213,
214, 235, 236
To w hom it may concern:
Notice is’ hereby given that.
John L. Roper Lumber Com pa.- y
claiming to be the owner of R
istered Estates Nos 213,214 . C
and 236 by \i< tue of a iu; ;.
fi mi Burnie C Chambers ,
Wife, has this- day file d its n
ion with the undersigned cle k
setting forth that the certitie; s
of title issued to Burtde C e '-at .
bers for Registei ed Est;-r - N
213, 214, 235 and 236. Reg
e ffi.'e, Washington county,
been 1 -st. e>r eieaircy ed, in u
he •jni- c- !;•■ I- i.e-w he f t «s,
>• d p- ay i»<v Th.-t : < •* cert fie1
f i is. U‘ I te- ;t *><• . i,
to , V nr vi • f - <-. ie n 21 * l
Consolidated Ft i ; e •• <-f N ■ h
Carolina. N a t i I n i \ »,?' < *
to a 1 intme s e d J- rti « I1’ : ; f
o, j iy W'i I In* had : n : ?: ' . U
• U M• I d -; . hi! US 2d, It : .
,il th■ • e fiie -.if the' u • e - • 'c 1 • -
cle: k at P ynnull . N. C, at n
that any perse ns c-a mit g : ny
irdere; ! h* r« in >■’ < u’d i 1 r to
said dale- file- tleir am-- 'or >
cl rim tu said land; eui < rv b e i * -
(ilxu er will -ho ci-tii ed te- el • f
upon proof of the’ loss i f s-- id
certificate.'
This the 20th eiav < f -b At 25
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