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Beacon and News Offers Splendid Opportuni ties for Advertisers. ice Roma c ke pack-Ja A Family Newspaper Published for Benefit of En tire Family. Correspondents Cover County. AND The Washington County News VOL. 40 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929 NO. 24 WOMEN AFTER BEST PRIZES AT “DISTRICT FAIRS CresweVl May 23.—Home demon stration club members in Washing ton county are making preparations to enter the contest for prizes offer ed in the district fairs in this section. Through their club memberships county home demonstration agents are endeavoring to show the various home demonstration work as carried on in their respective cmjnties. Every article will be made by an enrolled club member. Fot the county having the best ex hibit representing one err more proj ects of home demonstration work, the Coastal Plain Fair Association at Tarboro offers $75. Variety, quality, educational value and effectiveness in display will constitute the elements that will be judged. Fruits and Vegetables fanned fruits and vegetables will be*judged by its appearance, texture, uniformity, package arrangement and container. Fruits should be entered in square quart jars while vegetables may he entered in square pint jars. There are 22 kinds allowed for en trance. The prizes range downward from 7.5 cents. Vegetable and fruit pickles wilt be judged by their size, shape, flavor, texture, color, proportion of pickle to liquid .and container. Prizes are sim ilar to fruits and vegetables. Jelly will be judged according to its color, crys tals, taste, consistency and container. Canned meats including chicken, beef, sausage, pork, chicken soup and beef broth all carry prizes of 75 cents down. Special group display of canned fruits, vegetables, preserves, jams, pickles, jelly, meats and other prod ucts will be c ased in several exhibits carrying prizes for the best exhibit ranging from $5 down. Prizes ranging from $2 down are offered for the best made garments for women. Similar prizes are offered for the best gowns, slips, and other undergarments made for girls. Also prizes are offered for the best collec tion of sewing by girls. Scholarship Prizes Rules for the contest in which a fruit jar concern is offering scholar ships consisting of tree attendance at the State Short Course July 1928 at .State College make it so that any girl can enter providing she is over 14 years of age a club leader in at least one subject, and eligible to attend short course for women. All entries must be the work of one girl, and must be in Ball pint clear glass jars. Each girl’s entry must con sist of a pint jar of canned soup mix ture, canned corn, canned string beans, canned peaches, 1 jar of jelly, .and 1 jar of jam. turkeys will pay Turkey raising is passing irom a genreal farm side-line to a commercial enterprise as more farmers begin to specialize in the business. News For Farm And Home Bf MISS ELEANOR PRATT COVINGTON, Home Agent r. £. DUNNING, County Agent CONTROY TOBACCO WORM I he best known method of control ling the tobacco bud worm is to ap ply poisoned corn meal to tobacco plant buds. Mix 1 pound of arsenate of lead with 75 pounds of corn meal or 6 heaping teaspoonsfuls of arsenate c:f icad to 1 peck of corn meal. Carefully mix the poison through out the corn meal. The meal should not contain much corn husk. About 12 pounds of the mixture (arsenate of lead and corn meal) or 1 peck per acre is necessary for each application. A small pinch of the poison should be dropped into the center of the bud. Applications carelessly made are of no value. When the buds are closed they should be opened with one hand and the mixture dropped in with the other. Do not apply too much of the poison mixture as an overdose will in jure the plants. from three to five applications dur ing a season will usually give con tiol. Applications should he begun when a careful examination of the buds show that the worms arc be coming numerous. The applications should be made a week apart. Week Beginning May 27 Maudaj Plymouth Tuesday, tour of county starts 2:30 Top.e.r post office Wednesday, leaders’ school, Ply mouth Court House 2 Thursday, Beech Grove Woman s( Club I ridav, Hoke Woman's Club Saturday, Piney Grove Woman’s Club Miss Covington revealed that dur ing the first six months of the year she had traveled 5,800 miles, and had written 3,217 circular letters and 726 individual letters, and had dis tributed 1,435 bulletins. During this time 111 new members have been added to the clubs. During the month of March we had a number of visitors from Beau fort and Martin counties to come to our meetings. Along with our foods program foundation planting was studied. Several members were in terested in this project and much Im provement was shown In a number of Jiomes. Roper Boys Arraigned Before Judge Sawyer Charged With Forcing Entrance Into Store! FUNERAL HELD THURSDAY FOR C. D. GAY-LORD Roper, May 23.—Funeral services were held near here today for C. Dickens Gaylord who succumbed at his home here Tuesday night follow ing an illness for several weeks. Burial was made in St. Luke’s cemetery near here. For a number of years Mr. Gaylord has operated a filling station in this section, and has been prominent in the affairs of the town. Years ago he was rural letter carrier out of Norfolk. FUNERAL HELD MONDAY FOR JAMES MAYO Funeral services were held Monday for James Earl Mayo, 17 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mayo who died at his home here Sunday morn ing following an illness of several months. Death came as the result of a renewed attack of a disease that had been preying on his body for Some time. He had been home from the hospital only four weeks. Burial was made in a family ceme tery in Pitt county near Bethel. A large number of friends contributed a beautiful floral offering. Rev. R. G. L. Edwards, pastor of the local Meth odist Church, officiated. The boy was in the ninth grade at the local school when he was taken ill. Surviving the boy are his parents, five brothers, Lyman, Norman, Reu ben,. Elmo and Alton and one sister, Martha. CELEBRATE 76TH Li THDAY OF MR. J. E. SINGLETON Roper, May 23.—Gathered on the spacious lawn in front of his house on the Cedar Grovt farm near here May 19, with appropriate ceremonies, about 115 people joined in celebration of the 76 anniversary of J. E. Single ton at a surprise birthday party. Improvised tables erected under- the beautiful shade trees were loaded down with delicious food. The table was handsomely decorated with flow ers in the midst of which were two birthday cakes. Many gifts were re ceived by Mr. 'Singleton. Music was furnished the young folk while the older ones chatted of old times. C URCH ARMY MISSIONEKS HERE AT GRACE CHURCH SOON Church army van missioners will be at Grace Episcopal Church next week beginning Thursday evening. Evangelistic services will be held each evening at 8 o’clock. Moving pictures witf be shown at the Almo Theatre on Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Parents Of Youths On Boys' Bonds Of $1,000 Each For 1 heir Appearance At Next Term Of Superior Court In A Hearing By Judge Sawyer In Special Session Roper, May 23.—Bonds of $1,000 each was required justified for the ap pearance of Bernard Wentz and Or ville Chesson, of this section, in the next term of Superior Court to ans wer to charges of breaking into a store and robbing it. A third youth a Negro, Vernan Parker, is being held in default of a $300 bond on the same charges. Their arrest came about as the re sult of a confession made by the Negro and by Orville Chesson who confess ed to officers several days after the crime happened. They are charged with having broken into Barton Swain's store at this place on May 15. The boys are members of prominent families in that section. Orville Chesson in his testimony made at the hearing in Plymouth Wednesday be fore Judge Jerry A. Sawyer alleged that he was drunk and that he could not recall the incidents of the affair vividly. Evidence tended to show that the boys left a dance drinking. They took home a friend of theirs who was drunk. When they returned to Roper the subject of the store breaking came up. It seemed that the Negro was being compelled to drive the car at that time by threats from the white boys. The boys were alleged to have en tered the store by a side door into an electric plant where they forced an entrance into a window in the store. Mr. Swain missed three boxes of cigars, money not in excess of $2 and a punchbcard watch when he came down to open up next morning. When the actual entrance took place the Negro was placed under the stairway that leads up beside of the store, possibly to watch, according to testimony. When the white boys were alleged to have emerged from the store the Negro joined them at the car and was put out some distance from home. The boys were not arrest ed until this week. LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD ELECTS FACULTY The school board of the Plymouth schools met last week and elected the school faculty for the coming term. The superintendent was not elected at this meeting. Those comprising the local school staff are Miss Doris Walston, Frank Brinkley, Miss Vida Dunning, Mrs. E. G. L. Edwards, Miss Lenore Stone, Miss Mary Spruill, Miss Nellis Tarkenton, Mrs. Katherine Harrison, Miss Evelyn Cahoon, Mrs. Leta P. Liverman, Miss Lillian Harris and Miss Mary E. Worsham. These teach ers were reelected. Those not reelected are C. W. Dinkins, principal; Miss Anna Din kins and Miss Dorothy Reitzel. New teachers are Miss Pauline Lucas, Miss Elope Hardison and Miss Ethel Spruill. TEN YOUNG ORATORS COMPETE TONIGHT Ten young orators will compete for the honors in the recitation and decla mation at the local high school this evening. There will he four boys seek ing the prize offered for the best declamer, and six girls seeking the recitation prize. Those engaging in the contest are Lula Belle Williams, Ada Weede, Elsie Warren, Janice Tetterton, Syble Bowen, Jeanette Ambrose, Colon Overton, Wallace Conklin, Erwin Bowen and William Roebuck. The senior class presented their play last evening to a large audience. _*? " Card of Thanks We wish to take this method of expresing our appreciation to those that offered their blood for trans fusion; for the many beautiful flow ers contributed by friends; for the kind words of sympathy; and for every deed of kindness manifested b\' our many friends during the illness and death of our son, James Earl. MR. and MRS. W. J. MAYO and FAMILY. COUNTY TOUR PLANNED TO BE HELD TUESDAY ) Two State Specialists will more ! than likely be here Tuesday to conduct the tour of the county that is being sponsored by Miss Pratt Covington, home demonstration agent, and R. E. Dunning farm agent. This tour is to observe furniture arrangements and good farming. The tour will start at 2:30inRoper. Everyone interested in this tour should wait near the post office. Sev eral homes in and near Roper have been offered for the benefit of this project. The party will then go to Plymouth where several homes will be open. Some of the homes that have been offered are modern homes with modern furnishings others are old colonial with old colonial furnishings. One room will be visited that has an interesting four-poster in its natural setting of beautiful old colonial hook ed-rugs. Several merchants are putting on special displays for this occasion. The Womans’ Shop will have an attrac tive window in keeping with the monthly program of work in the clubs. Owens Furniture Store will have an attractive bedroom and break fast room display. The Plymouth Hardware Company will display furni ture for a modern or model kitchen of the correct amount of canned vegetables necessary for a family of six that should be put up for winter use. The J. C. Spruill store will carry an interesting display of glass jars of several kinds for canning purposes. The tour party will visit these stores before going to the courthouse for re freshments. To every person going on this in structive tour will be given an at tractive booklet on the "Art of Home Furnishing’’ and ”\ard Improve ment" compiled by Miss Covington. THINKS POET AND PEASANT CONVERSATION OKEY Editor Beacon and News, Sir: I saw your most wonderful conver sation between the Poet and tne Peasant and I wish to reply that you saw none of those things existing among our girls and boys until bighe. education and society came into being. That is the fruits of taking our young boys and girls into town tc school at 7 o’clock in the morning and returning them back to their parents at dark. Parents have no control over their children’s conduct and associates for eight months to the year. Why blame the parents? I think it a serious thing to take the little rural schools from us, and force us to give up control over our children, and place them on trucks under the care of some wTild careless school boy. The children do and say anything they like and no -me cares. I don’t think the little country schools should be taken. I think the taxpay ers should have a right to vote as to where they want to send their chil dren to school. I detest the so-called society of to day. Just think of a young man put ting whiskey into his body much less j a girl. I think it is scandalous to our generation. A MOTHER. SUED FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT Westover, May 23.—Louis Lamb, of this community, was fined $15 and the costs of the court for breaking a con tract with J. T. Robbins, manager of the Westover Farm, during the cur rent farming season. Evidence on the stand seemed to show that young Lamb had taken ex ception to the actions of Mr. Rob bins in buying another boy on the farm a suit of clothes after he had I'Aiftiised to buy him one first and had been postponing the action too long. The case was tried before Judge Jerry A. Sawyer. _ fiS'i a ALBXO THEATEE TONIGHT AND Saturday Night Lon Chanay IN “West Of Zanzibar” Fourth Episode Terrible People C'JMEDY Mt. Pleasant Church Near Creswell Host Bible Schools June 1 W. FRITH WINSLOW vmmmm. _ WINSLOW HEAD OF MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION Strides of progress is being made in the Merchants Association which was organized here recently, accord ing to W. Frith Winslow, president of the organization. Other officers of the organization in clude W. R. Hampton vice president; L. S. Thompson secretary; and A. S. Jordon, treasurer. There are some 27 members of the organization at the present. The object of the organization is to promote closer association of *:he mer chants; secure and designate any and all legal and proper confidential in formation through the establishment and operation of a credit rating sys tem. Plans wil be drawn up to organize advertising in order to eliminte mis cellaneous advertising and donation solicitation. Methods will be adopted to promote trade in the county. A cede of business ethics will likely be worked out for the adherence and en joyment of the members. The development and furtherance of a genuine spirit of cooperation a mong its members in all matters per taining to the welfare and advance ment of Plymouth and its trade is one of the association’s chief ambitions. Digressing from the regular cus tom of holding quarterly meetings of the members, the local organization will likely hold such a meeting each week or twice each month. Special meetings will be held upon a call from ■ the president. Delegates From Any Sunday School In County Urged To Attend Convention THREE SERVICES FOR 2-DAY MEET Convention To Be Held Under Auspices Washington County And North Carolina Sunday School Associations As An Annual Event; Promises To Be Big Success With Eminent Sabbath School Workers As Headliners Creswell, May 23.—All indications point to a record-breaking attendance at the annual Washington County Sunday School Convention which is to be held on June 1 and 2 with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, three miles north of here. The opening ses sion will be held at 8 o'clock Saturday night, June 1. According to announcements made by the officers of the County Sunday School Association, the program has j been prepared with the idea of having ‘‘a convention for the discussion of practical Sunday School plans and problems", the plan being to have something in the convention that will help workers in all departments of the Sunday School. Among the prominent speakers on the program will be Miss Flora Davis, ! of Raleigh, general superintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School As sociation. During the convention Miss Davis will discuss various phases of Sunday School work. A pennant will be presented to the Sunday School having in the conven tion the largest number of representa tives, sixteen years of age and over, based on the number of miles from that particular church to the church with which the convention is held. The contest is open to all Sunday Schools in the county, except the Sun day School with which the convention is held and others within one mile. The pennant will be presented at the close of the session on Sunday after noon. ALBEMARLE CLUB MEETS Skinnersville, May 23.—The Albe marle Woman’s Club met at the home of Mrs. Joe Pritchard last Wednesday afternoon. Miss Pratt Covington, home demonstration agent met with the club and gave a demon stration on milk diet. POET AND PEASANT For some reason many readers have the idea that the author of Poet and Peasant is trying to get the bad side of everything and cause as much trouble or -xcitement as possible These persons are sadly mistaken. The purpose of this department is to find and tell the truth about existing conditions, regardless what they are, and present them to Beacon readers in such a manner as to cause them to realize what is going on in the county, State and Nation. In this manner only can better conditions be hoped for. The author is one—you are 2,000. Any person wishing to express their opin ion. either pro or con with the writer, is invited to do so. “How do you think that our nation al leaders feel on the subject of prohi bition?’' asked the Peasant. “The only answer that I can give you to that question,” said the Poet, “is what President Hoover said in hi: inaugural address, ‘Many influences weakened our law enforcement organi zation long before the adopting of the 18th amendment. “Of the undoubted abuses which have grown up under the 18th amendment, part are due to the failure of some states—and to the failure of many state and local officials— “But a large responsibility rests directly upon our citizens. We must j awake to the fact that patronage of t llega] liquor by large numbers cf law abiding citizens is supplying the rewards and stimulating crime. “I have been selected to execute and enforce these laws. 1 propose to do so, but the measure of success will depend upon the moral support of citizens. “Citizens should, by their own ex ample, assist in stamping out crime and outlawry by refusing participa tion in and condemning all transac tions with illegal liquor*. “For our citizens to patronize the violation of a particular law on the ground that they are opposed to it is destructive of the very basis of all laws. “If citizens do not like a law, theii duty is to discourage it; their right is. openly to work for its repeal.” “That doesn’t tell very much about how he feels, does it?” asked the Peasant. “No,” replied the Poet, “but it does say that he will do all in his power to enforce the laws that we have, and we have the prohibition law. I don’t see where he has done so much to en force that law in Washington county, one of the leading moonshine counties in the State. There has not been a federal raid in the county since the inauguration of Mr. Hoover, and a very few prior to his inauguration. Had it not been for the activities of Sheriff Reid, there is no telling how manv “white mule” producers there would be in the county.”
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