Skinnersville News Mr and Mrs. Edison Swain, t of Plymouth, sper* Sunday in j the community. Mrs. Henrietta Swain sp-nt the week end in Piym >uth as the guest of relatives. Miss Margaret Everett spent the week end with Miss Edna Stillman, near Oesvveil. The Albemarle Woman’s Club | met at the hmne of Mrs Matilda Aumack Wednesday afternoon. Vir. and Mrs. Herbert Owens, of Columbia, spent Sunday at th - home of Mr. and Mrs. C. V White. A number of people from thi commu iity attended the fu era of virs. Edga Chesson at iht Pleasant Grove Ciiurco Tuesday afternoon Messrs. Herbert Rawlins and Wilbur N. Cooper have returned to their homo m Greensboro after an extended visit with Mr and Mrs Guilford Davenport. The ladies’ of Oak Gr v Church held their regular mi sionary society n>e- iug last Wednesday aftern at the home of Mesdames Matilda Au mack and C. L. Everett. Roper News Mr. ana Mrs. William Batrco motored to Jamesviiie Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L Jottes were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Riddle Sunday. Messrs. Lee Hovisand Hulhert Swindell were guests <>.f' Miss Elizabeth Johnston la t week en i Dr. J. M. Robeson. Mrs Arthur Vail, Misses Fannie Hilliard, Aiieen and Myrtle Peacock were in Bath last week. Mr. and Mrs. Leon McAllister, Mrs. Eizabeth Spruill, Miss Hyacinth Chesson and Mr J T. McAllister motored to Raleigh Sunday. The Woman's Club met last , Wednesday at the Roper school building with a large number ol members present. T ie main feature of the meeting was the 1 election of officers. Mrs E N. Rildie was elected president: Mrs. J. 1. Hassell secretary, and Mrs. Nita Mizell, treasurer. All members are urged to attend the next meeting. Mackeys News Miss (Jorinne Btll is spending this week in Norfolk. Mrs. J. E. Divenport is visit ing her mother at Ivor, \'a. We are sorr.v to learn that Mr. T. L. Wynne lias been ill for some time, VIrs. Annie E. Chesson, oi Elizabeth City is spending some time here at her country home. The Woman’s Club of Macke j s held their regular meeting at the school building Tuesday after noon. Mrs. S. L. Blount returned from Columbia Sunday where she has been visiting Mrs. Henry Davenport. Mr. Edison Alexander of New York, who was called home ow ing to the ill ness of his sister, will spend some time here with his mother Mrs. wary Alexander. The Pleasant Grove School re opened Monday morning, after having been closed several weeks to prevent the spreading of a contagious disease. D1’. and Mrs. H. E. Nixon ar.d daughter, Annie Louise, Mrs Annie E. Chesson and Thomas M. Chesson of Ebzrbeth Mit> were dinner guests of Mrs. W B. Chesson, Sunday. m WORK NOT AT END FOB BED GROSS Demands for Service to Disabled Veterans Last Year Cost Nearly $3,000,000. Expenditure of $2,930,223.86 for services to disabled veterans, and of $507,832.30 for service to men of the Regular Army- and Navy, were out standing details of the Red Cross ap propriations for the past year's activ ities, and are cited by Chairman John Barton Payne as the continuing im portance of this phase of the organi zation's responsibilities nine years after the end of the war. Of the total expended for disabled veterans, the National Organization contributed $1,161,223.86, and the local Red Cross Chapters $1,769,000. The service to men ef the regular forces was shared by the National Organi zation with an appropriation of $307, S32.30, and by the local Chapters with $200,000. During the year the Red Cross as a whole contributed materially to the success of the Government efforts to have every veteran re-iustate or con vert his war-time insurance before the final time limit expired. Chap ters worked in cooperation with local veterans’ bodies to assist former serv ice men with their insurance papers, and the application routine, many Chapters keeping open headquarters up to the expiration of the final moment at midnight. Under local Chapters of the Red Cross, assistance to ex-service men in filing claims for disability and ad justed compensation, securing hospital care for disabled veterans, prepara tion of social histories for use in treatment of men in government hos pitals, assistance in securing proper guardians for veterans adjudged in competent to administer their affairs, rendering reports on ncme conditions of service men applying for discharge because of dependency, and many other forms of aid are a part of the Red Cross duty to these men. An interesting detail reveals the fact that prosecution of ex-service men’s claims is becoming increasingly difficult as they grow more involved with each year that passes since the war. The number of death claims is growing constantly, in addition to the fact that thc-re is a steady increase in the number of claims referred to various Lranches of ihe Red Cross concerned with assistance to veterans, for aid in bringing them to a close. During the past year, National Headquarters estimated that the Red Cross assisted veterans and service men with cases involving total awards of $558,6S1, for disability and death compensation, revival of insurance, adjusted compensation, pensions, medical and burial reimbursements, etc. Red Cross representatives are on duty with the Army and Navy both in home and foreign garrisons, and contact is maintained in the hospitals and other centers where assistance to these men and women may be needed. Such Red Cross service, it is empha sized, covers only the fields where regular governmental provisions do not apply, and is designed to sup plement these benefits of the Govern ment. It was emphasized that this par ticular activity of the Red Cross Is one of the strongest appeals for the increased membership, which will be asked of the country during the annual enrollment from November 11 to 24. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Owens, Messrs. Llovd and Edward Owens and Miss Lillian Harris were in Elizabeth City during the wee .-and. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Griffin, and Mrs. W. T. Griffin, of Rocke Mount, spent the A/eek-end hery with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Nurney, In the real drama of life the lead ing ladies are cooks. A widow says that good husbands are like dough because women need them NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that unde* and by virtue of an order of the Su perior Court of Martin County, sign ed by Barnhill, Judge, in case of F. W. Hoyt Vs. The Peeples Bank, the undersigned Receiver will on the 28th day of November 1927 at 12 o’clock M. at the Courthouse Door of Wash ington County at Plymouth, N. C. of fer at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate to-wit: FIRST TRACT: Beginning at a Mack gum known as Currell’s comer in the Swamp being the corner sur \eyed from by Arthur Collins, County Surveyor, and the corner of said land T L. Satterthwaite & Davis land and up the run of said Swamp to the main road to a marked gum, thence along said Morrattock road westerly to a large dead pine W. F. Lucas come: of Bateman Entry, thence along the said Bateman Entry line norther;; with said right-of-way to T. L. Sat ^ierthwaite’s line, thence along hi j line eastwardly to the beginning cor ner the gum in the swamp. Contain ing about 65 acres. SECOND TRACT: A tract of land containing sixteen (16) acres lying and being in the County of Washing ton, in Plymouth Township, begin ning at a dead pine on the road W. i F. Lucas corner; thence North 85 East 24 poles to the run of Boston Branch; ] thence down the run of said branch to ■ the McNair or Bateman line; thence along' the said line South 80 West - ;> poles to a red oak stump W. F. , • r. as corner; thence South 35 West long Lucas line 60 poles to the be .liming. i his 20th day of October 1927. J. G. STATON, Receiver. North Carolina, '•V ashington County. AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $40,000.00 OF BONDS FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, 1 FOR SCHOOL FUNDING PUR- 1 POSES. Be it ordered by the Board of Com- ‘ missioners of Washington County. North Carolina, as follows: Section 1. Pursuant to the county finance act of North Carolina, bonds ■ f the county of Washington, North ‘Carolina, are hereby authorized to he is> tied in an aggregate principal a n;. ant not exceeding $40.00.00 for the i imposes hereinafter described. Section 2. The proceeds of said h nds sIia 11 be applied solely to the funding of outstanding school indebt edness made necessary in provie. tin ihe six months constitutional schoo requirements within the County. Section 3. A tax sufficient to pay the irincipal and interest of said bond, vhen due shall be annually levied and ollected. Secti >n 4. A statement of the county lebt of Washington County has been iled with the clerk of the board of oninu. sioners of said county and is pen to public inspection. Section 5. All expenses to be de raved by means of the bonds hereby luthorlzed is for valid indebtedness >f the county of Washington, with it the meaning of the county finance ict as enacted by the North Carolina egislature in March, 1927. Section 6. This order shall take ef ect thirty days after the first publi :ation thereof, after final passage, un ess in the meantime a petition for ts submission to the voters is filed mder the county finance act, and in ,uch event it shall take effect when ipproved by the voters of the county ll an election as provided in said act. Be it resolved. That a public hear ing upon the order entitled "An order r.ithorizing the issuance of $40,000.00 einds for Washington County, North . aroina. for school funding purposes," "troduced at a meeting of the board f commissioners held on the 3rd of October. 1927. shall he held on the O.h day of November, 1927, at 10 : clock a. m.. in the regular meeting room of said board in the county ft ft I I I WOOD WOOD FOR National Handle Company WOOD — SEE — T. C. BURGESS — OR — ED. JACKSON I $2.50 Truck Load Delivered u i CANfifl OXSA WOOD WOOD i courthouse at Plymouth. $(195,000.00 A tax will be of the proposec if the same shal zen or taxpayer the isuance of s mg of the boar sioners to be he The foregoing order has been intro- | < dueed and a sworn statement has been filed under the county finance act, how mg the assessed valuation of the county to be $8,677,4.17.00. and the net debt for school purposes to be $208, 344.30, this including the bonds pro posed above, ardAttie total County bonded debt imiBBho this istueis [for the payment Hs and interest, |sued. Any citi protest against 'nds at a meet county commis fO o'clock a. m.. n November 7th, 1927, at the regular teeting room of said board in the aunt)' courthouse at Plymouth, North arolina, or an adjournment thereof. 1 his 3rd day of October, 1927. AUDIF. L. RRiKKLEY, Clerk of Board of Commissioners, Washington County. N. C. The foregoing order war, finally assed on the 7th dav November, I<427, ad was first ptih'ished on the 21st ay oF October, 1927. Any action or roceedn rs questioning the validity f said order must be c unmenced ithin thirty days after its first pub ration. ADDIE L. BRINKLEY, Clerk. $ % BiMHardware I i E ALE Now Going On —AT— PLYMOUTH HARDWARE CO. *■0 •=5*'' We Are Offering Astounding Reductions on Your Hardware Needs 20% Reduction on Enamel Ware 20% Reduction on ail Aluminum Ware 10% Reduction on all Cook and Heating Stoves Kelly Axes $1.85 Simond Saws $6.75 AND A GENERAL REDUCTION THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE STOCK _ This Sale Will Last Thru Saturday Nov. 26th. mmmrn ■IMP smokers dorft change with the fashions mm :■■■■■■

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