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Beacon and News OffeTs Splendid Opportunr r 'tk’fe lor Advertisers. The Qkoanvksie DIE-Acon AND The Washington County News A Family Newspaper Published for Benefit of En tire Family. Correspondents Cover County. VOL. 40 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY. APRIL 29, 1929 NO. 20 1 C. M. T. C. OFFER STUDENTS 15 SCHOLARSHIPS Are money difficult** keeping you -from continuing your^sducation ? Fifteen scholarships 'in eleven edu i cational institutions throughout the Southeast and of a tfttal value of ap proximately two thousand dollars will be awarded to deserving students in the six Citizens MSStary Training Camps of the Fourth'Corps Area this summer. . These awards wotrid seem to indi cate an established-feeling favor and appreciation for the "product of Cit izens Military Training Camps in the eight southeastem-'Sfcates. The thiry day camps this year in .this section of the country are to run Wrom June 13 to July 12 at Fort /Bragg. Students' at “each camp will have an opportunity to compete for some of these scholarships. In South Carolina, Wofford College at Spartanburg arid Furman Universi ty at Greenville are each awarding one scholarship. The first, to a stu dent at Fort Bragg ^to a value of $60 covering the full-tuition and good for two years and the second to a student at Fort Moultrie'to a value of $75 covering the full tuition and good for four years. In North Carolina, the University of Chapel Hill is to give serious con sideration to the- award of a scholar ship to a trainee selected by the Camp Commander at Foil Bragg, N. C. From the above,'it is evident that many boys who harve their education al desires curtailed’by reason of lack of funds, will have an opportunity tc solve that problem m the C. M. T Camps this summer, as well as to se cure the many educatonal and physi cal advantages of' the camps them selves. Aside from other require ments the winners will be expected to • prove themselves creditable repre sentatives of the -Citizens’ Military "Training Camps. -FUNERAL HELD WEDNESDAY FOR J. MARVIN DARDEN Funeral services were conducted at 'the home Wednesday afternoon for J ’Marvin Darden, 22-year-old son of Mr , ; and Mrs. P. H. Darden, of this place, •who succumbed in a Rocky Mount '•hospital Tuesday night. Burial took place in the Windley cemetery near ' here. A large crowd attended. A •massive heap of flowers literally cov ered the grave. Revs. R. G. L. Ed wards and W. E. Norris, officiated. The young man was taken ill about ■ two-months ago with mastoiditis. Aft ■er -an operation in the hospital he de •vtloped spinal meningitis which even tually caused his demise. Young Dar ken Stayed at home here with his par ents Several days after returning from college before it was thought neces sary ;to •, take him to the hospital. He is. a graduate of the Plymouth High School, and since boyhood had Teen a -member of the local Christian Church. During his high school ca7 rt-er :he -\t\as a star on the footbal squad and served one term as jwwsi diTix of the f.student council and heat; marshal].. 'He was at State Colkjgt when he was ‘.taken sick. LOCAL EA3B3ALL TEAM ,j enters STATE CONFERENCE,) Final pTepjtyat.io11s have been inadelj bv Coach C, W.- jDinkins for the en trance of the Plymouth High School baseball team into the State High School Baseball conference when he was in Raleigh this week. The local team has won 5 out of 7 games played SiUifc seastin. Teams tfom Columbia Jamesville, #oper, and Pantego have bet« played \\*y the lo cals. Today they VflU play jf-denton _at Edenton. M --J IN MEMOS3AM Jn loving memory of AW" .dear ihiPS fea#d and father, Wirreo F. Tarkii^ tf,», who departed this life April 1$, 1926, pear feosband and father, you are gone; 4 bet riot forgotten; ‘♦Just tfor years ago today from thej home,* jjf your loved ones; To a new teJie far away. May the Lorjf in His mercy Give the strength our cross to bear, And our faith 1* never failing, So we'll meet some day up there. Our life can not tell fcotv we miss you, Our hearts can pot -tejf what to say. Py{ God only knows how we miss you And long for your smile «*ch day. Sadly missed by WIFE and CHILDREN. COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ROAD MATTER A committee was appointed at the chamber of commerce Monday even ing to take some measure to induce the county authorities to take seme definite steps in improving the turn pike road so that people out in the Wenona section can get to Plymouth. This committee is composed P-; H. Darden, L. W. Gurkin and A. li. Alexander. They had appeinted :a 'day to go over to the Wenona section ~toi investigate the matter but had> weather hindered them. There has been revealed to thei business interests of Plymouth that! Belhaven and Washington merchants^ are behind a movement which induced officials to improve the roads in that section. Merchants here are anxious that the road to this place from there be improved in order that people ing in that section will have the same conveniences to come here that they have to go to the other towns. A number of new people have set tled in that section recently. This makes the place more worthy of a better road as the increased popula tion makes the demand for the naid more necessary. Much trade from this section is going into these towns. It is evident that merchants are making a bid for this trade from other towns as the lack of appearances on the streets of these people bear out the fact. Many people believe that these peo ple would rather do their business in this town if the attractions were equal to that of the merchants in other towns. Special efforts are being made by the commercialists to make this possible. Mrs. A. R. Dupree spent the week end in Norfolk. TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS MEET HERE MONDAY Committeemen from seven school districts in Washington county have been invited to attend a joint meeting with the County Board of Education in the office of the superintendent a the courthouse next Monday morning -The .meetings will be held separately with the trustees of each school hav ing-3®-minutes with the board. The meeting will be h«ld primr to discuss the new law in regards tc their respective schools. It will con •cem the number of teachers that will be allowed to teach in any one small school where only a few pupils at tend. There will likely be a reduction .of thirty teachers in the teaching staff of the county for next year. The first board of trustees to ap ;pear before the board will be those of Chapel Hill which are requested to be in the office for conference : -9 o’clock. This board of trustees i composed of W. H. Gurkin, Roberi j Tetterton and Miles Sitterson. The board has an appointment witl T. R. Chesson, B. F. Skiles and G. V Ayers, members of the Swain Schoc board at 9:30. The Pleasant Grove trustees will meet the county boar at 10:30. At 11 o’clock, Hugh Patrick Carney Spruill and C. A. Collin? from the Piney Grove school are re quested to be present. E. Pritchett, M F. Davenport and S. L. Phelps, of the Scuppernong school, will be in the office at 11:30. Trustees from the Mt. Tabor schoo. including L. E. Davenport, J. J. Am brose and M. F. Furlaugh, will mee with the County board at 12 o’clocl sharp. This will be the last one of the school trustees that are to meet the board at this time. It may be so the others will be invited to meet the board at a later meeting. Educated Dog Pays Plymouth Visit; Knows More Words Than Any Dog Avers Trainer An aristocrat of dogdom paid Ply mouth and Columbia a visit this week. This exclusive canine has an aver age dog’s name, but has very much more than the average dog's sense. KUs name is Jasper. He hails from ■mj and everywhere, but really Dar Irngton, S. C., is his home town, for that i*s where his master, R. L. Ed wards, -galls home. Jasper is an aristocrat in the canine kingdom because he knows 1,000 words in which is more than any other lirittg dog understands, accord ing to nationally known dog trainers. Another thing, he knows perfect obftjferice. He has been snapped by as International New* reel service m&x. His master values him at $25,000. This dog jumped ,a fire plug, climb ed into an automoWte, got over on the back seat, clambered out again, got on the running board, eat down, put his head between his paws, jumped off and ^turned to his master—all by spoken orders. He was told to go down flji* street, jump into Williford’s delivery -truck. This he did, When his master ordered him to get on top, he looked the worn top and tpoked askance at his master, who told him it was all right, as the top might not hold him. Then it began raining a little. The Jcg picked .up a little umbrella sn*J carried it around over his head to pro tect him from the elements at his mas ter's command. He went into the pic ture show house, came down the steps stopped half way, started again, and stopped a second time, just as his mas ter told him to do. The final act was to chain Jasper to the fire plug, place a dollar bill in front of him, and informed him not to let any perso® approach. “Don’t you let mt have that bill, Jasper, even if you te.ve to bit me,’’ ordered his master, Edwards walked across the street, returned to apparently secure the dol lar bill, and was greeted by one of the most vicious dogs imaginable. An other order, and the dog picked the money up and placed it in his mas ter’s hand. They were pals again. Spectators left the place satisfied that he was a wonder dog. Jasper and his master will give a performance next Thursday night. H< will also be in Columbia some time next week- The act is a good one, and has created much praise among those that have seen it. Newspapers have given the two much merited pub licity. Jasper was secured by Edwards aft er another faithful canine had sud dcnly departed from him, They me at Furman University in Greenville, S C. Jgsper came from the Shomon KfnnfJs in Monticello, . 1 Virginia Power Firm Makes City Council Bid $40,000 For Franchise And Local System - -* FARMERS MEET STATE CAPITAL EARLY IN JULY Developing the farm program ad vocated by Governor O. Max Gardner and his advisory agricultural board will be the central theme of the an nual State Farmer’s Convention to be held at State College for the week of July 22 to 26 according to plans made for the convention at a meeting held in Raleigh last week. That the program may receive full attention, the first two days will be consumed in general matters and fea ture addresses during which time the convention will hear Governor Gard ner as principal speaker of the week. The last two days, and all of the sec tional meetings for men, will be con cerned entirely with ways and means of putting the program into actual operation. The college plans to invite the chairman of the county boards of agriculture and the county councils of farm women to attend the convention bringing with them suggestions from their home counties and carrying back the ideas developed at the convention. It was decided also to invite the Honorable Arthur M. Hyde, Secretarj of Agriculture, to address the conven tion. Other noted speakers will be Dr E. C. Brooks, President of State Col lege, and W. A. Graham, Commission er of Agriculture. Both of these are members of Governor Gardner’s ad visory board and will likely speak a long the lines of the State program. A feature of the convention for the women attending will be the annua1 short course at which over 600 farm women were present last year. A wards will be made to three or more outstanding farm women. There are being selected by the home demonstra tion workers at this time. Secretary James M. Gray is now at work building the program for the annual convention. With definite planr ahead, the meeting this summer should be a turning point in the agri cultural development of North Caro lina, says the secretary. LOCAL CHEVROLET DEALER HONORED BY COMPANY Among the twelve men in the Unit ed States chosen to represent the Chevrolet Motor Company at a meet ing of members of the Genera! Mo tors Company to adopt an advertising campaign for the coming year, is T D. Woodley, of this place, senior part ner of the Woodley Chevrolet Com pany. It is a custom of the General Mo tors organization to hold such a meet ing as this each year for the same purpose. Mr. Woodley was choser from among the many dealers tha' attended the meeting held at Eden-; ton last week. His appointment wac announced by J. G. Gates, vice-presi dent and sales manager of the Chevro let Motors Company. At this meeting will be dealers tha handle every product of General Mo tors. The meeting will be held i Detroit, Michigan, early in May. Thic is a signal honor as all dealers ar< anxious to go to the home plant. Hi expenses will be borne by the com pany. Arrangements are being made by Mr. Woodley to attend the meet ing. Card of Thanks We take this method of expressinc our appreciation for the kindness and generosity shown us at the time, and since the fire that burned up our home and nearly everything we own ed on March 28. KENNETH ALLEN. IN MEMORIAM Fred C. Ange—In sad but loving remembrance of our beloved son and brother, Fred C. Ange, who departed this life, April 14, 1928. Just a line of sweet remembrance, Just a memory fond and true, [ Just a token of love’s devotion, That our hearts still long for you. FAMILY. W. H. Clark was in Pantego Sun Jay. .; • "1 < TWO DAYS TO REGISTER FOR CITY ELECTION Citizens of Plymouth who wish to vote in the coming municipal election have only two days in which to get their names on the registration books as the period for registration ends Saturday. _ Names on the old books have been revised and the list copied on new books, and every person that wishes to vote must personally see that his name is in the new books. A number of names on the old books are left off of the new ones for the simple reason that many of them were of persons moved away or are dead. Degistrars and judges for the wards and the place where the polls will be held are as follows: first ward, regis ter of deeds office in the courthouse, Mrs. Addie L. Brinkley, registrar, E. A. Carter and S. D. Davis, judges; second ward, Landing’s store on Wat er street, L. S. Landing, registrar. T. D. Woodley and L. S. Hassell, judges; third ward, Peal's garage, on Washington Street, J. E. Doughtie, registrar, J. H. Smith and R. G. Har dison, judges. It appears now that H. E. Beam, cashier of the local bank, will throw his hat into the ring to succeed him self as member of the board- of watet and light commissioners. A number have approached him in regards tc the matter. Interest in the campaign up to date centers around the four candidates in the third ward which are W. J. Jack son Jr., W. E. Weede, Harry Stell and H. C. Spruill. Edward L. Owens is still undecided as to whether or not he will run while H. A. Williford has definitely announced that he would enter the race in the first ward. B G. Campbell and Gilbert Davis are in the fight from the second ward. There is right much talk that r candidate for mayor will be ushered into the race after the battle getr hot to run against R. P. Walker whr is seeking reelection. It is though'1 that candidates for this cffi:e will be gin work at once. .j. EXAMINE SEVENTH GRADES NEXT WEEK Roper, April 25.—Final examina tions will be given to all the seventh grade students in Washington county at some time next week. If the stu dents pass this examination they will receive a certificate showing their completion of the prescribed courses which will entitle them to admission in the high schools in the county. The first examination will be given to the students in all the schools in the vicinity of Creswell next Monday as they will gather in the Creswell school building for the test. Another group from schools in the immediate vicinity of Roper will take the test in the local school building Tuesday. Wednesday a test will be given sev enth graders around Plymouth who will gather in the Plymouth school. Trucks will be furnished by the county ot transport the children to and from these schools in order for them to take the examinations. The exam nation will be on a yes-and-no system,! whereby answers to all questions can be made by either the one word “yes” or the one word “no.” It will not be of the essay type. James W. Norman will be in charge of the tests. NEW BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR ASSOCIATION MEMBERS Announcement is made by officials of the Library Association of the new books that are available for its readers. “Footprints” the book of the month for April is a thrilling mystery story Other good books recently put or the shelves are: “The City of Lillies,” “The Rogues Moon,” “Red Rust”, “At Indian Day,” “Another Girl’s Shoes.’ “Trade Winds,” ‘The Passionrte Quest,” “The Box with the Broket. Seals,” and “The Dice of God.” Representatives Here After Data Concerning Street Lighting System CITY FATHERS DELAY ACTION Virginia Electric And Power Company’s Bid Excludes Power House, Power House Site. Generating Equipment Of Old Plant; Rates Will Be Reduced 5 Cents If Deal Is Closed - — ■ — Representatives of the Virginia Power and Electric Company have been here this week collecting certain data in order to estimate the cost of furnishing energy to light the streets of the city and to pump the water for the town tank. This was one matter that they had taken into consideration but had fail ed to gather any information as to the charge that they would make the town for this service should the city officials accept their offer of $40,000 for a franchise and the distribution system of the present system. They want a thiry year franchise. This amount was to include the entire distribution system including all cus tomers’ records, and entire electric light and power business as a going concern. This excludes the present power house, generating equipment and power house site. The payment is to be made when delivery of electrical energy to cit izens of Plymouth from its transmis sion lines begins not later than one year after a ratification of the sale is made by voters in Plymouth in a referendum. The bill of sale will convey proper ty to them free from all liens and encumbrances. The distribution sys tem is composed of poles, wires, trans formers, meters, fixtures, transmis sion line hardware, distribution ap pliances, supplies and all distribu tion material in stock. Prices that they sign a contract to charge the people cf Plymouth for this energy are as follows: retail lighting, 8 1-2 cents a killowatt hour; retail power, 9 cents a killowatt hour; heating, refrigerating and ranges, 5 cents; wholesale demand, 1 1-4 cents, minimum prise is $37.50 a month for this service; combined appliances for lighting, cooking, heating and refrig eration for residences is much cheap er than now. If the contract is signed by the City Council and the Virginia Power and Electric Company the latter will' get all rights, easements and agree ments which it may hold for right of way purposes along highways, roads, and private property used in connec tion with the supply, distribution and sale of electric energy in and around Plymouth. Members of the City Council post poned action on the matter until aft er a report of the findings of the repre sentatives here estimating the cost cf lighting the street system has brent made. It is also specified in the contract offered that the town must purchase power to operate their water pumping equipment, ice plant, all police and fire alarms now used or hereafter in stalled except street lighting from the purchasers. FORD CONQUERS ALPINE HEIGHTS An official test of the Model A Ford motor in Switzerland, with the Alps as the proving ground, has dem onstrated that the new Ford could be operated for a long, continuous period over abrupt, steep hills, without lift ting the hood. The Ford motor was kept running for a period of six days and during virtually all of that time the car was en route over the Alpine passes. Day and night the test continued. The sole object was to determine the reliability and power cf the automobile. Lue Read and Jack Peele were in Elm City Wednesday.
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