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VOL. 39
PLYMOUTH. N.C., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1928
NO. 52
Columbia’s Budget
Allots $10,053 For
Year’s Expenditure
Tax Rate Slightly Increased
As A Greater Fund Is
Allowed Expenses
FIB.EMEN ALLOWED
SPEND ONLY SlOO
About$1500 Will Be Expended
For Salaries; Spend $1000
For Upkeep Of Streets; Set
Aside $658 To Pay For
: Street Sweeper; Revenue
From Plant Given At $3,167
Columbia, Dec. 6.—-Operations ot
the various departments in the locai
municipal government will have tc
manage on $10,063 for the curren;
fiscal year, it was learned today from
W. H. McCloss, city clerk. This ii
the total amount allowed for expen
diture during the current fiscal year
against an expenditure for the prev
ious year of $7,693 and an even low
er expenditure, for the fiscal year
ending in 1926, according to esti
mates in the budget recently adopted
for the year of 1928.
For the payment of special bonds,
principal and interest for the cur
rent fiscal year $5,500 was appropri
ated in the budget from the revenues.
The fund for old liabilities and the
general fund will remain about the
same. About $1,500 will be expended
for salaries. Street maintenance will
represent an expenditure or auuut
$1,000. Only $100 is allowed for
payment of debts incurred by the drc
department during the fiscal year. |
_A fund of $658 has been set aside
for payment ot the n- ' tne in-■
terest on the street sweeper; wrnie j
$786 will be necessary to pay the
note and the , interest on the fire
truck; and $509 will be required to
pay the interest and the note on the
siren. The tax rate is fixed at $1.95.
Relative to the amount received an- •
nually from other sources the budget
allows $500 for this revenue depart
ment. Revenue from the light plan,
is estimated at $3,167.
The estimated expenditure for the
electric light plant is given at $2,
875.39. This money will provide to.
the opening expenses, repairs, build
iug and repairing lines and other im
provement work. It is thought that
this fund will take care of the ex
penses incurred from adding equip
ment which has been necessitated i
order for the plant to furnish powei
to C re swell which officials from t1'
two towns have contracted for. May
or W. J. White has been very m
s1 rumental in influencing the City
Fathers to progressive movements.
CHURCH MEMBERS POUND
REV, HETHCOX THURSDAY
Skinersvillc, Dec. 6.-A pounding
was given to Rev. R. L. Hethcox a,
the Rehoboth Church on Thanksgiv
ing night by friends and members of
the church. Those attending from
C re swell were O. D. Hatfield, Ms'
Louise Hatfield and sister, and Miss
Hooker, a student of the Roper High
School,
AtMO THEATRE
TONIGHT
Richard Dix
in
‘Easy Come- Easy do’
AND
M. G. M. NEWS
Saturday Night Only
Tim McCoy
IN
“Riders of The Dark’’
ALSO
Seventh Episode of Serial
“Perils of the Jungles”
INK WELL IMPS
---*
MONDAY NIGHT
Lon Chaney
IN
“Tell It To The
Marines’’
i
PRESENTS $500
TOCHURCH
SOCIETY
Officials of the Woman’s Mission
ary Society of the- local Methodist
Church received a check for $500
fi'om Clinton Toms, of New York
City, president of the Liggett and
Myers Tobacco Company, yesterday
10 aid them in their work for the
church. Directly after Mr. Tom’s
graduation from a college in thi
State he became principal of the lo
cal school which he served for some
time. Frequently his name is mention
in the “32 Years Ago” department
in this paper.
Mrs. M. W. Norman was hostess to
the members of the Society at her
home on Main Street Tuesday after
noon.
After the devotional part of the
program various business matters
were discussed.
Officers were elected as follows:
Mrs. A. L. Brinkley, president; Mrs.
A. R. Dupree, vice-president; Mrs. J.
S. Norman secretary and Mrs. A. L.
Owens, treasurer.
THIRTY-TWO ON MACKRYS
HONOR ROLL LAST MONTH
Mackeys, Dec. 6.—The names on
the honor roll of the local school are
as follows:
Primary grades: first, Joseph Cox
and Louise Riddick; second, William
Riddick, Marie Barnes and Margare
Phelps; third, Elmer Styons; fourtl
Julia Barnes, Dorothy Swain and
Marie Twiford.
Grammar grades: fifth, Iva Twiford
Eloise Patrick, and Grayson Everett;
T” '-Ch—r, Lillian P., Ma
Woodley and barah hat ■- r'
Louise Twiford, Jabie Conway, Jessie
Mae Harrell and Margaret Collins.
High school; ninth, Evelyn Chesson
Lancelot Davenport, Fannie Clyde
Chesson, Margaret and Virgil Daven
port, Audrey Patrick and Blanche
Ainsley; tenth, Emily Phelps ant
Marie Patrick; eleventh, Blanche
Hassell, Deannie Spruill and Oh
Chesson.
HOKE CLUB MEETS WITH
MRS. R. C. JACKSO?
Long Ridge, Dec. 6.—The Hoke
Demonstration Club met with Mrs. R
C. Jackson this week with Mesdame:
L. C. Jackson, Ella Morris, W. A
Mizelle, D. W. Wright, H. T. Gur
ganus and Misses Mary and Marttr
Pierce present. The meeting wr.
opened by a devotional service. Mi.
Pratt Covington gave a demonstra
tion on making felt hats.
MFS. BOWEN ENTERTAINED
ALBA CLUB AT HOME FRIDAY
Long Acre, Dec. 6.—The Alba Home
Demonstration Club met with Mrs.
J. E. Bowen Friday with twenty
three members present. The meeting
was called to order by Miss Prat'
Covington, Washington county hom<
demonstration agent. Mrs. R. R
Davenport was appointed on a com
mittee to collect articles for a rum
mage sale. The proceeds will be used
to beautify the courthouse grounds
Gelatine with whipped cream ant
cake was served by the hostess. The
next meeting will be held with Mi:
J. H. Allen.
MISS COVINGTON CONDUCTS
SCHOOL IN CURRITUCK
In the absence of Miss Willie Hunt
e>-, State College clothing specialist
of Raleigh, Miss Pratt Covington
Washington county home demonstra
tion agent, gave a demonstration i'
i hat making in a leader’s school ir
Currituck county Wednesday.
SIMMONS-CHESSON
Roper, Dec. 6.—Miss Lete Chessor
of this place and Alton Simmons oi
Bethel were quietly married Wednes
day rnoming at 11 o’clock in the
local Methodist parsonage by Rev. J
Bascom Hurley, pastor of the loca
: Methodist Church. The couple lo
mmediately after the ceremony fo’
Norfolk. They will make their horn
t in Bethel,
CONVICT 3 OF
VIOLATING
DRY LAWS
Found guilty of violating the prohi
bition law on three counts by a jury
n Recorder’s Court here Tuesday, Joe
Pritchard was fined $1,250 and costs;
J. A. Bateman, $500 and costs; and
Richard McGee, $5 and costs by Judge
Zeb Vance Norman. The defendants
were charged with possessing a large
quantity of liquor; having it in their
possession for the purpose of sale; and
transporting the illicit fluid in a gaso
line boat.
The trial came as the result of a raid
made on a gasoline boat that was
moored some distance from the Sound
Side wharf early Thanksgiving morn
ing when Sheriff J. K. Reid, Chief of
Police P. W. Brown, and L. L. Bas
night seized 670 gallons of whiskey
and a gasoline boat and some personal
property of Joe Pritchard.
The officers were on the scene where
the cargo of whiskey was to be un
loaded previous to the arrival of the
whiskey laden vessel when about eight
or ten automobile presumably owned
by confederates of Pritchard were
driven up to the shore where the oc
cupants alighted and began to firing
shots into the air as signals to the
persons on the boat.
About this time the officers threw
off all cautiousness and began firing
into the air in an effort to frighten the
persons on land and in the boat. Those
on land darted for their automobiles
cuiu iiiauc in^Ji tov,a^v..
arc!, who had just rowed a small boat
to the shore and had unloaded a large
amount of the whiskey was seen by
the officers as they closed in on the
small skiff. Pritchard had just stepped
out when he saw the officers and fled.
The defendants were arrested on the
following day or soon thereafter. The
immense quantity of liquor was used
as evidence against the defendants in
the trial. Attorneys H. S. Ward and
W ■ L. Whitley represented the de
fendants.
TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
HOME FOR HOLIDAYS
*.# Vtv
spending the holidays '**?■<* - ^ents
Misses Thelma Gaylord, of the Nor-"[
folk Business College, at Norfolk;
Edna and Vera Mizolle, the
Eastern Carolina Teachers College
"t Greenville; Cecil Blount, Camp
bell’s College, Buies Creek;- Charles
Mizelle, State College, Raleigh; Ray
mond Ainsley, University of North
Carolina, at Chapel Hill and Robet'
Knowles, Smithdell Business College,
a: Richmond.
Among the teachers that spent the
holidays here were Miss Willie
Blount, from the Charlotte schools
Miss Beatrice Robinson, from Stokes
school; Miss Annie Mizelle, Cential
High School and Miss Genevieve
Williams from the Krispe school.
EXTEND PAVING ASSESSMENT
TIME FOR THIRTY DAYS
The time for the payment of the
street paving assessments in Plymouth
has been extended from the first of
December to the first of the year. I{
tiie annual assessment has not been
paid then the delinquent list will be
tdvertised.
the week with Miss Blanche Collins.
AWAIT ARRIVAL
OF BRIDGE
SURVEYORS
No word has been received from
the State highway officials in regards
to the letter that has been forwarded
to them this week by Zeb Vance Nor
man, president of the local Chamber
of Commerce, in regards to the reso
lutions that was mailed to them in
which the City Council and the Wash
ington County Board of Commission
ers agreed to guarantee equal shares
of $250 as the cost of the survey in
anticipation of the erection of three
bridges spanning the Roanoke, Mid
dle and Cashie rivers and the con
struction of a causeway linking the
bridges together, thus connecting
Washington and Bertie counties.
A special meeting was called by the
City Council in which the resolution
was adopted to guarantee an amount
fol their part not in excess of $125.
Tfjis money will be paid when the pre
liminary survey is made and a state
ment of the findings filed with City
Clerk M. W. Spruill. The entire body
seemed to be in favor of the under
taking.
Among the first things that the new
Be ard of County Commissioners did
was to adopt a resolution pledging to
pay their share of the total amount for
the survey for the bridges and cause
way across the swamp. During this
same meeting the new Board of Coun
ty Commissioners, which is composed
cf J. C. Spruill, chairman; W. T
Phelps and E. R. Lewis, took their
oath of office, which was administered
by C. V, W. Ausbon, clerk of the su
perior court.
This action was taken by the coun
ty and town officials following up a
suggestion by Chairman Page, of the
State Highway Commission, which
was made to the Chamber of Com
merce officials in a meeting with the
highway chief in Raleigh recently,
when the commercialists filed petitions
with Chairman Page in regards to the
bridge which was signed by officials
ot counties in this section.
DEMONSTRATIONS ON
CAKE FEATURES AT MEET
/e5bi *»• ---jipnon cake icing ar.i
eader’s school that - of the
lere in the courthouse Monday «...
i large number of women from th
various home demonstration clubs ii
he county present by Miss Pratl
Hovington.
LUBS OPEN R.4ZARR IN
PLYMOUTH TOMORROW
Mackeys, Dec. 6.—Tomorrow, De
;ember 8, the home demonstration
mbs of Washington county will oper
1 bazaar at Bobbie's Place in Ply
mouth. Linens, handkerchiefs, chil
Irens clothes, towels, pillows, vanity
jets and novelties will be sold.
PLACE NEW BOOK ON
LIBRARY TABLE FOR MONTH
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” is the
title of the new book that will be
pieced on the library table in the li
brary this week by the Thursday Af
ternoon Literary Club. The book is
b;> Anita Loos.
Lue Read and W. H. Clark were
in Washington Monday.
• - •
County Teachers Association
Meets In Roper School Today
Roper, Dec. 6.—Teachers in the
Washington county public schools are
■xpectcd to attend the meeting of the
Washington County Teachers Associa
.icr. that will meet in the local school
building Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock,
i was learned here today from J. W
Norman, county superintendent of
uiblic instruction, who was here this
,vcek on business. Principal H. L.
Swain, of the Creswell School, the
lewly elected president, will preside
ver the business session during an
nouncements and other general busi
ness sessions, after which the general
cssion will be divided into depart
ments.
In the high school section Principal
b'„ N. Riddle will compare the medians
.1 the eighth grades in the high schools
n thi$ county in a short talk. Dis
ussions of the variations in the scores
the test recently g.cen to the eighth
grades; what has been learned fron
these scored that will enable teacher;
to remedy any existing detects; ar<
i
these defects found in me uum
school grades; and does length of
term affect these variations will he by
H. L. Swain, A. W. Davenport, E. N.
Riddle, and L. H. Hubble.
In the grammar grade section, Mis;,
Viva Parker will discuss indoor drills.
Miss Mary Belle Miller will speak on
project in Georgaphy or History as
worked out in the classroom. ' The use
of maps as an aid to teaching Geogra
phy will be explained by H. W. Prit
chett. Mrs. N. G. Duncan will give a
study in nature relating to birds.
In the primary section an outline of
language work in the first grade will
be given by Miss Beatrice Limstrong
Mrs. H. A. Liverman will give an out
line of language work in the second
grade. Miss Hildred Swain will give
an outline of language work in the
third grade, and Miss Margaret An
thony will speak on errors in primarj
grades and ways to correct them.
£very teacher is requested to brim
a pencil,
Mission Workers To
Convene Monday In
1-Day Session Here
KUMMACit SALE
PROFITABLE
TO CLUB
Pleasant Grove, Dec. 6.—The Pleas
ant Grove Woman’s Club met Tues
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. C.
\\ . Snell. The meeting was called to
order by the president, Mrs. W. B.
Chesson. Devotional services were
conducted by Miss Jamie Reddick
which consisted of a hymn and prayer.
The roll was called and minutes were
read by the secretary, Mrs. W. A.
Swain. Mrs. S. Z. Waters reported
that $10.90 was made by the club at
rummage sale which was held in Ply
mouth recently.
Mrs. Snell and Mrs. Tarkenton gave
t demonstration on making cake ic
ing. A picture was taken of the club
by Miss Pratt Covington, with four
teen members present and an addition
al two members. All the club women
who have fancy work to sell are urged
to have it in the hands of the home
demonstration agent by December 7.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. M. J. Alexander. After
the meeting delicious refreshments,
consisting of fruit salad and cake was
served by the hostess and Mrs. Wa
ters.
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OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR
All the previous officers of the
Chamber of Commerce were reelected
at the meeting held for that purpose
in the courthouse Monday evening.
The officers elected last year were
/eh Vance Norman, president; R. P.
Walker,- first vice president; L. W.
Gurkin, second vice president; J. W.
Norman, third vice president; C. L.
Groves, secretary; Leland Thompson,
Dwight Weathers, C. M. Tetterton,
h. E. Beam, C. E. Ayers, L. C. Wil
loughby, M. T. Bradshaw, P. H. Dar
den, and O, H, Lyon, directors.
iACuo_' _
Mackeys, Dec. o.—ihe Mackeyt
boys’ basketball team outplayed the ^
Roper cagers in a tilt on the Ropei
court Wednesday afternoon to tre
tune of 23 to 14 which makes the
locals have a clean slate for the en
tire season. The Roper team will bat
tle the locals on the home couit
Thursday afternoon.
FIREMEN
replace
TWO OFFICER!*
Because two officers that were elect
ed in a regular meeting for that pur
pose had apparently lost interest in
the welfare of the organization a.
was evidenced by their failure to at
tend, the members of th local hire
Department elected L. C. Willoughby,
as assistant chief; and J. F. Ausbon
at foreman.
The regular roster of officers is a -
follows: L. W. Gurkin, chief, L. C .
Willoughby, assistant chief; J. F
Ausbon, foreman; Raymond Peal, as
sistant foreman; J. B. Willoughby
chief engineer; C. L. Windham and
Jerry Spruill, assistant engineers
The executive officers are Chief Gur
km, president; It. E. Tarkenton, secre
tary; Walter H. Paramore, assistant
ecretarv; W. F. Ausbon, P. W.
Brown and J. F. Ausbon compose the
permanent finance committee.
r'INEY GROVE CHURCH TO
ENTERTAIN CONVFNTIO'
Skinnersville, Dec. 6.—The distric
Sunday School Convention will h
‘ eld at Piney Grove Church on Sour'
Side Sunday afternoon at 2:30. A!
Lurches in the district are requested
:o have delegates present.
B \ ZA AR AT SWAIN’S SCHOOL
HOUSE THIS EVPN'I'"
Westover, Dec. 6.—There will be s
bazaar at Swain’s schoolhouse thi
evening for the benefit of St. Dc
rght’s Sunday School. Ice cream, oys
ters and chicken salad will be served
at a moderate cost. _
Mrs. V R, Dupree left Monday for
Norfolk.
Mrs. J. G. Jackson, of Hinson, and
Master Sammie Bateman spent
Thanksgiving with friends in Aulan
der.
Forty Christian Churches
In Eight Counties Will
Send 200 Delegates
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
TO BE HOST AT MEET
First Of Three Sessions Will
Begin At 10 O’clock In The
Morning; Eminent Mission
Speakers Are Slated For
Addresses; Conferences And
Banquet Are Features
Forty Christian Churches in the
eight surrounding counties are expect
ed to send a total delegation of about
200 people to the annual One-Day Con
vention that will be held here next
M-onday, when members of the United
Christian Missionary Society gather in
the local Christian Church. The lo
cal convention will be only one among
tne 201 that will be held in the Unit
ed States and Canada this year. There
will be three sessions including the
banquet in the evening devoted to the
theme “Sharing With Christ.”
'Hie first session will open at 10
o’clock in the morning, which will be
devoted to devotional services for the
fire! lialf ati Iiriiir- an arlr1r#»cc Kn a m i c _
sionary and. an agenda will be used
and an opportunity given for discus
sion. In the afternoon session, which
begins sharply at 1 o’clock, there will
be simultaneous missionary organiza
ti< ns and religious education confer
ences and an explanation of literature
and quotas by a speaker.
In the afternoon session there will
be a presentation of the work in the
homeland; the pension system; the
work around the world which wilLpui1
tain the facts of. rSfiowed by
ln address delivered by a mission, ry.
during the evening session, which Pi -
jins at 6:30 with a general banquet at
vhich time a missionary will speak,
slight changes may be made in the
jrogram to conform with last-minute
jssentials.
Among the speakers will be Dr. Roy
d J. Dye, a former missionary to Af
-ica who aided in establishing the
Congo Christian Mission of the Dis
;iples of Christ at Bolenge, and was
;hc only doctor for hundreds of miles
in the Congo region; H. P. Gamboe,
who finally decided to go to India
while attending Transylvania College,
, 1 cm which he graduate with the baen
elor of arts and bachelor of divinity
degrees in 1921; and E. B. Quoch. of
Atlanta, Ga., southeastern superintend
ent of the United Christian Mission
ary Society.
ALBEMARLE WOMAN’S CLUB
TO MEET WiTH MRS. HOLTON
Skinnersville, Dec. 6.—The Albe
marle Woman’s C'ub wil' meet at the
home of Mrs. S. A. Holton next Wed
nesday afternoon at 2:30. Demonstra
tions will be given on making a
Christmas cake and properly decorat
ing it.
BURGESS FAMILY HOLD
REUNION THANKSGIVING
Cherry, Dec. 6.—A family reunion
was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs
S D. Burgess here last Thanksgiving
with most of the children present..
Mrs. Burgess is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. W. Woodley.
Miss Mary Worsham spent last week
end at her home in Norfolk.
J S Shugar and J. T. McAllister will
i leave Saturday for Teunessee for a
few days business trip.
Mrs. Fannie Cordrn of Washington,
D C., is here visiting her sister Mrs.
Maude Hilliard.
Harry Gurkin. Harry Landing, Dale
and Joe Tucker Tetterton were home
from college during the Thanksgiving
holidays.
Dr. J. E. Smithwick and J. A. Get
singcr returned last week end from an
extensive trip to Southern part? 9?
Texas and Mexico.