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They tell us whether we are meet
ing our high obligations to our
children and giving them the high
privilege that is inherently theirs, or
not. Every citizen is asked to read
them most thoughtfully. Compare
your school with the other schools
in the county, see if it is doing what
you want it to do. Above every
thing else see that your child is in
school every day from now on.
At the beginning of this school
year we adopted as our slogan,
“Efficiency and Economy” But un
less our attendance is the very best
neither of these objectives can be
reached. For, it is quite certain that
we can not be efficient if the child
ren are not taught, and they can
not be taught unless they are in
school. Failures are then inevitable.
Again, failures make high cost c/
instruction, because the fewer pu
pils a teacher has the more it cost
to teach them per pupil. These
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1 he Washington County News
VOL. 40
PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929
NO. 42
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
j. W. NORMAN GIVES FIGURES SHOWING
ENROLLMENT AND AVERAGE ATTENDANCE
COUNTY FEDERATION OF
WOMENS CLUBS HAD
INTERESTING MEET
ROPER FRIDAY
The largest Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs since Exten
sion work has been carried on in
the county met at Roper, N. C.
Friday October 25th at 2:00 o’clock.
The crowd was estimated at around
five hundred and practically every
section of the county was represent
ed. Tyrrell County was well repre
sented which speaks well for Exten
sion work in Washington county.
Rev, Bascomb Hurley conducted
the devotional services, after which
Supt, of Schools, J. W. Norman in
troduced Mr. C. A. Rose, prominent
extension worker, and speaker of
the afternoon. Mr. Rose made an
excellent talk on planting the Farm
Homestead.
Following Mr. Rose’s talk the
sixteen women’s clubs in the county
gave reports of their work during
the past year. Every club secre
tary gave an excellent report of the
work done in her club. Warshing
ton county could not have had a
better achievement day than the
reading of these reports and the dis
play of an attractive Room Im
provement Project which has been
worked out by the various clubs in
the county.
The Plymouth Chamber of Com
merce presented the club having
the largest attendance, of club
members present at this meeting
with a silver Trophy cup. The
Cre.weli Woman’s club won with
an attendance of thirty-two mem
bers. This club has twenty mem
bers on roll. It had twenty present
and twelve new members to be
added to their enrollment. The
Albemarle Woman’s club also had
perfect attendance and two new
members added to their roll.
The next Federation will be held
in the spring at Mackeys, N. C.
(Wildcats And Panthers ,
! Play In Plymouth Today
Good Game Is Expected
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MONDAY NOVEMBER 11
IS ARMISTICE DAY
For the first time in the history
of our nation, next Monday will
have characteristics about it that
it will never have again. It is
Armistice day and is the 11 day of
the 11 month in the 11 year and
exactly at 11 o’clock when that
greatest of all wars, the World War,
came to a close.
Throughout the world on this
day at exactly 11 o’clock the wheels
of industry will come to a stand
still for a few minutes of j.rayer.
All business will cease. That busiest
of all places in the world, Wall
Street, will take time out to medi
tate over what has gone on before,
and it would behove the business
of Plymouth and Washington
county to close for five minutes at
least and go back to what those
boys were doing over there exactly
eleven years ago.
Those fellows were suffering hell,
while we back home were amassing
wealth and living in plenty. WTe
were as it were, profiting by their
work. America became the richest
of all nations as a result of this
great episode in history and we here
in Washington county profited pro
portionally as much as did the rest
of the country.
' Let all business in Washington
county cease for five minutes at 11
o’clock Monday to observe the
close of the World War.
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. A. H. Marshall, Rector
Mr. Frith Winslow, Lay Reader.
Sunday School at 10 A. M. Morn
ing Prayer and Sermon 11 A. M.
ROLLS AFRICAN DOMINOES TO DECIDE FATE
OF THREE NEGROE CRAP SHOOTERS; JODGE
OFFERS NEGROES OPPORTUNITY TO ROLL DICE
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge years
ago wrote one of the outsanding
tragedies of his time and named it
The Ancient Marriner. In this
book he describes how that the
Ancient Marriner killed the Bird of
Good Omen and how that he suffe
red as a result of this deed.
The Marriner joined a fleet that
sailed down the Pacific Ocean.
While on this trip the supplies gave
out and the ship crew were dicing
on the deck. The Marriner, with his
lips parched and exhausted from
hunger, saw a ship in the distance,
but owing to the strength of the
Sun he could not make it out so
well. As the ship drew nearer, and
passed between the Marriner and
the Sun, he discovered that it was
only a skeleton ship and the crew
consisted of two skeletons. I hese
two skeletons represented death and
life in death and were shooting crap
to determine the destiny of the crew
on the Marriner’s ship. Life in
death won the Marriner while death
won the rest of the crew.
Recorder’s Judge Jerry A Sawyer
must have been thinking of this
book last Tuesday morning while
he was sitting on the bench dealing
out justice to those who came before
him, considering his action in a
case that came before him for trial.
Chief of Police P. W. Brown and
Sheriff J. K. Reid caught Lark
Young, Nathanie! Barnes and David
Pettiford shooting crap under a
street light Saturday night and had
them appear in Recorder’s court
Tuesday morning. All three of the
Negroes plead guilty to the charge
and the judge appeared at a loss
what to do with them. “Since you
fellows were shooting crap I think
that I will roll high dice to see what
the length of a road sentence should
be that I am going to give you,”
said Judge Sawyer.
Prosecuting Attorney Carl L.
Bailey handed the African Domi
noes over to the judge who asked
the Negroes if they had rather roll
the dice or that he should roil them.
Each one asked the judge to do
their rolling, and they chose be
tween them which was to take the
first sentence. As Judge Sawyer
rattled the dice in his hands the
Negroes moved out on the edge of
their chairs and opened their eyes
as wide as possible. When the dice
hit the bench, you could hear a
moan of Oh Lord from each of the
Negroes. The first got seven months
the next seven months and the
third nine months. Their sentence
was later changed to $10 and costs,
but the judge feels that he will not
bo bothered with these Negro boys
again for shooting dice.
Turn to page 3 for the first two chapters of
“The Crippled Lady of Peribonka”
ROPER DEFEATED COLUMBIA
IN SPECTACULAR GRID
BATTLE FRIDAY
Roper:- The Roper Panthers
defeated Columbia High here Fri
day in a most decisive battle by a
score 13 to 0.
The first quarter of the game it
seemed that Columbia was going
to put it over on the Roper boys.
But during the second quarter the
Roper Panthers came to life and
staged a brilliant brand of football,
with Mizelle turning his attack to
the air. Mizelle passed the ball
thru to Ray Blount, which was
about 30 yards; then Ray dashed
around his opposition for 25 yards
which gave Roper the first touch
down. The half ended with Colum
bia trailing 6 to 0.
The second half of the game the
Panthers out played the Fighting
Alligators from every angle of the
game Roper was never in danger
but once during this half. This last
half was featured by gains thru the
lines by Tarkington and B. Peacock.
Columbia’s line seemed to give way ]
when these two boys plunged thru,
preceded by a most baffling inter
ference. Mizelle took to his
old tricks again, and could be seen
skirting both ends for gains that
could not be stopped.
The last five minutes of the game,
Tom Tarkington carried the ball
down the field for . about 30 yards
in 5 plays which put the ball on
Columbia’s 5 yard line. B. Peacock
was given the ball and charged
straight through the line for Roper’s
second touchdown.
The last three minutes of the
game was spent with Columbia try
ing to gain through a line that
never wavered.
Harrell for Columbia made beau
tiful gains; Morris got through
Roper’s line for a gain of 40 yards, j
PLYMOUTH - AULANDER GAME
ENDED IN BRAWL; NO
SCORES MADE
It ended in a fight!
The Wildcats of Plymouth High
School went over to Aulander Friday
to play the football eleven of that
place and came back without
playing over half of the game.
About two minutes before the
close of the first half, one of the
players on the Aulander team slip*
peel up back of Burl Gurganus hit
him back of the head and ran. Hugh
Brown seeing the unfair attack pro
ceeded to punish the Aulander boy
after the referee would not turn
Burl loose. This was the beginning
of the fight in which nearly every
Plymouth and Aulander player
took a part. Previous to this, Au
lander had been penalised for slug
ging by Frank Brinkley, who wras
the umpire. The referree informed
Mr. Brinkley that he would look
out for the slugging in the future.
He failed to do so. Plymouth has
a freak pass, Aulander has the same
play but failed to get the opportuni- jj
ty to use it, it is legal. Plymouth |
completed this play and the referree f
would not allow them to have the |
ground gained also he gave them a I
25 yards penalty. At no time did
Aulander threaten Plymouth’s goal, j;
but Plymouth got within 10 yards
of their goal.
In a current issue of the Daily
Advance, it stated that Aulander
had apologised to Plymouth and
that another game for today had
been arranged. This is untrue. No
one has apologised to the Plymouth
team and no game has been arrang
ed. The Plymouth boys are anxious
to meet Aulander on a neutral
ground with neutral officials but
many of them have stated that
they never expect to play Aulander
again until they are absolutely as
sured that they will receive fair
play.
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By
James
Oliver
Garwood
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Co^xjriglvt .1929
iP
T. C. BURGESS ENTERTAINS
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
T. C. Burgess gave his Sunday
School class consisting of nine boys
and 14 girls a halloween party at
his home last Friday night,. This
class invited the young girls class
of the Methodist Church to join
them in their fun.
Little Miss Hazel Martin won the
prize given to the girl who pinned
the cats tail the nearest in position
and Warner Gurkin won the prize
given the boy who pinned the tail
nearest in position and Charles
Stubbs won the prize for pinning it
the fartherest away. Games of all
kinds were enjoyed by the young
sters who later enjoyed an oyster
and weiner roast.
failures are to be taught again
another year if they are in school
and it costs as much to teach them
the secend year as it did the first
Thus it is clearly the responsible 5
of every citizen to use his influence
in keeping children in school.
Roll
1st.
Cherry 175
Creswell 329
Piney Grove 46
Roper 381
Mackeys 54
Wenona 32
Plymouth 557
Total 1874
2nd.
175
327
46
371
54
31
556
1559
Attendance
2nd
t^ct. Attenaance
1st.
163
305
42
336
40
31
492
1409
118
274
41
294
39
29
494
1289
1st.
93.1
92.7
91.3
88.2
88.2
96.7
88.3
83.17
2nd.
67.4
83.8
89.3
79.2
72.2
96.6
89.
82.68
The following number in these schools have not been absent or tardy
this year.
Creswell 89, Cherry 40, Piney Grove 15, ' Roper 64,
Wenona 26, Total 289
POET AND PEASANT
“I notice that they had another
play up 10 Plymouth High School
Tuesday night,” said the Peasant.
“Yes,” replied the Poet. “It was
put on by the members of the facul
ty, with the assistance of a few
local people.”
“Why is it that I haven't seen
anything about it in the Beacon
and News?” asked the Peasant.
“I don’t know unless it is because
that some of the members of the
faculty is mad with Lee Roy Harris,
the editor,” said the Poet, “and
because he was not willing to think
like they did they would not allow
him to be told about the play until
after it was too late to announce it
in the paper.”
“They had some handbills print
ed for the play I know because I
saw one of them Friday and he
should have found it out when he
printed them it seems to me,” said
the Peasant.
“I guess that he would have
found it out had he printed the
handbills,” said the Poet, “but
just because of a little hard feelings
those people in charge felt that
they would make him feel hurt by
carrying the work out of town to
someone who doesn't pay a dime in
taxes or any other way towards
supporting the school.”
“I heard that he offered the high
school a loving cup for something,”
said the Peasant. “It seems to me
that that would make them at least
respect his feelings.”
“To some people probably it
would,” replied the Poet, “but to
some it would not. Lee Roy did
offer a loving cup to the school un
der provisions accepted by the
school, but to date nothing has ever
been done towards complying with
the agreement as far as the school is
concerned. He ordered the cup and
not having any means of disposing
of it he returned it. The boys went
around getting baseball uniforms,
he gave one and offered in any way
possible to help the school. He has
not failed to carry a load of foot
ball players every time with the
exception of one on every trip they
have taken this year and all at his
expense too.”
“If what you say is true,” said
the Peasant, “someone up there
certainly must have it in for Lee
Roy.”
“No,” said the Poet, “I don’t
think that that is it. There is some
one officially or unofficially connect
ed with the school whose vision is
the tip of their nose. They are so
narrow minded that they could slip
their head through a key hole and
never touch the sides of it. In other
words they feel that everyone has
a right to their own opinion as long
as they think like they do.”
“You are rather hard on some
one,” said the Peasant. “Aren’t
you afraid that you will make some
one mad.”
“We can’t have everyone as our
friends,” said the Poet, “and the
person who gets mad at what I
have just said is the person to
whom I was directing my remarks
and were it not true they would
not get mad.”
“To me,” said the Peasant, “it
doesn’t seem to be a question of
whether or not Lee Roy should
have the friendship of the school,
out rather that the school should
attempt to please him as well as all
other business men in town so as to
ret their cooperation. You can’t
jxpect someone to help something
hat they have a little bit of a
grudge against.”
“I don’t think there is any danger
of him having a grudge against the
school,” said the Poet. “I feel sure
hat he would do all that he posci
oly can in the future for the school.
He is a graduate from there and re
gardless of what they might do to
aim or anyone else he would still
siave a love for it that would never
die.”