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Beacon and News Offers Splendi^ Opportuni ties for Advertiser*. ROANOKE BEACON AND A Family Newspaper Published for Benefit of Sa tire Family. Correspondent* Cover Comity. The Washington County News VOL. 41 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930 NO. 10 Farm And Home Agents Sponsoring Live-At-Home Idea - 0 --— Since the beginning of the new year both the home and farm agents have been doing everything possible to creat interest in Gover-i nor Gardmcr’s Live-at Home pro*; gram. Under the direction of the home demonstration agent the clubs are studying Foods, Gardening, Yard Improvement, and Marketing. Both the Farm and Home Agents are working with the boys and; girls in the Poultry Clubs. The Poultry Club members have already started hatching their eggs anti a great deal of interest is being manifested throughout the county. The Farm Agent has cleaned enough tobacco seed to plant over 2000 acres for the farmers of the County. The Garden project is'well under •may, and numbers of hot beds are -springing up over the county. The agents plan to make arrangements to keep the Curb Market open two days a week to take care of the -surplus vegetables, -and arrange ments arc already being made to ship onions, asparagus, lettuce, and tomatoes. Nearly a hundred dollars worth of eggs have recently been shipped co-operatively from the Curb Market, and every effort is being put forth to keep the price of eggs up in this way. The income from the Curb Market now totals $ 1011.09, which is an excellent re cord for a small town market. The aim of the market is to aid farm people to increase their incomes and to live better. It is the duty, there ( fore, of every person-selling on the market to see that he brings only the best produce to sell. Many a market has failed be cause the persons selling have not ..kept informed regarding the opera tion of the market; other markets have succeeded because the mem bers have been kept loyal to their pledges by remembering the Golden Rule. Year-round farming, with its diversified activities, means hard work and intensivo study. These are essential to profitable adjust ment. It means the study and mastery of the essential conditions ^ of profitable production in the varied activities that a farmer must now direct. He must be a student as well as a worker; he must apply his brain as well as his hands to his many activities, and one is as es sential to success as the other. In weighing the school children ^ of the county, the Home Agent f found that only a fifth as many were normal as last year. This is a direct outcome of living at .the “Store” and not at Home. This Live at-Hame program may mean' getting up early in the morning to; milk the cows or to start to market ^it may mean .looking after young ; / hickern many a cold night; it may’ mean much pruning and and spray ing of fruit trees., and many other •similar activities. But this is the price of success under the new order. HO ETON BROTHERS | MAKING IMPROVEMENTS The Horton Brothers Filling Sta tion, distributors of Colony gaso line, is making soxe decided im provements on their station. All of t the old racks are being torn down L and a hydraulic automobile lift is being installed. Another wing is being added and improvements in general are being made around the gtation, ALL SCHOOLS IN STATE SHOULD OPERATE EIGHT MONTHS SAYS J.A.SIWYER Mr. Edtior: The next step I have suggested in the program for reduction of taxes on land is an eight months’ term of school for every child in North Carolina, to be financed by taxes from sources other than land and administered and managed by the State. The problem of educa tion should not be confined and limited to the counties and to land owners. School plants, equipment, salaries and costs of administration are all expensive, and millions of dollars are needlessly wasted each year in our efforts to educate the future citizens of our State. The States lay doAvn certain require ments as to teachers, Superinten dents, school equipment, etc., that each county must follow, and each school xnuat'follow standard require ments, whether there be one school in the county or community, one teacher, or o»e pupil. All of this is expensive and 75% of the cost or even more comes from the land owner, when more than 50% of the school children are from parents that do not own land, and conse quently pay practically no tax. Furthermore, the small counties have suffered and are suffering on account o f this great cost and thousands of children of school age are not being given equal school advantages as those living in the larger and more wealthy counties. Many of them do not get to attend school mere than three or four months a year, and poor schools at that. This is not fair. If Aycock’s theory was right all children ought to have the same opportunity now. But county administration and financing of schools has failed to come up to the standard of equal opportunity, and the State ought to assume the responsibility. JERRY A. SAWYER CHAIN STORE FAIRNESS A few years ago, a large chain placed one of their stores in Ply mouth and employed a young man, not a native of Washington county, as manager. This young man be came very popular with the people of this section and made a success of the business here. A short time ago, this young man was taken ill and physicians ordered him to take a short rest. He was replaced by another young man as manager of the store. Busi ness has fallen off and it became necessary for the young ladies who were clerking in the store to take a week off without pay each in rota tion so that no one of them would be laid off for good. This they all agreed to do and did. Very soon after the young ladies began taking a week off without pay, a you g lady who had been working with this store for two years aud one month, missing only 14 days, this being caused by an automobile accident, wras informed, without notice that she would not be needed any longer. No excuse was given her other than she was the sister of a young lady who had been in the employ of the store less than one half the length of time that she had been with then). This is chain store fairness. TO HAVE SPECIAL MEET WASHINGTON COUNTY FARMERS SATURDAY At the regular weekly meeting of the Plymouth Chamber of Com ! merce in its rooms Monday Even ing February 10th, there was a large number of business men, mer chants and farmers present. Mr. Crockett of the Washingtion Pack ing Company was also present at this meeting and outlined his plans for canning tomatoes this summer. He stated that he expected to in crease his capacity for canning three-fold and that he is asking for contracts covering not less than 500 acres of tomatoes, and more if possible, deliveries to begin about June 15th. He stated that he is anxious to get farmer’s contracts signed as early as possible in order that the seed may be planted in beds for early transplanting. He further stated that he would guar antee that there would be an abun dance of baskets so as to avoid any possible delay to the farmer. Mr. Crockett was verj enthusias tic about the outlook forthis summer and stated that it has been proved to his satisfaction that the soil of Washington county will produce good tomatoes and a large yield. In order to ascertain the acreage that may be expected the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce has called a meeting of the farmers of this sec tion to be held in Plymouth, Satur day afternoon the 15th at the courthouse at 2 o’clock, p. m. and every farmer who is interested in planting tomatoes is requested to be present. Other matters of inter est to the farmers will also be dis cussed at this meeting. This appears to be an opportunity for the farmers to obtain revenue at the time of the year it is most needed. It is estimated that 500 acres of tomatoes will turn into the pockets of the farmers of this sec tion between sixty arfti seventy five tho ;sands dollars, and it is general ly believed that tomatoe growing in this section, if properly attended to, is profitable, certainly more pro fitable than peanuts and cotton. It is also believed that if a success is made of this venture the present year that this kind of business will be greatly expanded, and within a few years this section will be made the center of canning activities for eastern North Carolina. BEGIN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN THIS WEEK The Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company is this week cele brating their one hundred years of service to the public. For the next few weeks, a brief history of the activities of this organization will be carried in the Beacon and News. These histories are not only inter esting but are beneficial to the average person as many things will be learned about railroads that have never before been known by the average person. Read them and if you have any cause to write the company, mention the Beacon and News in your letter. GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. A. H. Marshall, Rector Mr, Erith Winslow, Lay Reader. Sunday School at 10 A. M. Even ing Prayer and Sermon, 7:30 P. M. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHTRCH Rev. Conley Greer Minister John W. Darden Superintendent Bible School 9:45 A. M. Communi on 11 A. M. Sermon 11:15 A. M. Subject, "Rocks.” Christian En dca'/or 6:30 P. M. Dot Greer Pres. Sermon 7:30 P. M. Subject, "A Revival.” Rev. Norris Is Found “Not Guilty” By Jury Recorders Court; Only Case Heard ____——-a ■ -- Virginia Electric And Power Co. Meet Columbia Officials 690 KILLED BY AUTOMOBILS DURING 1929 There were 234 more people kille d and injured by automobiles during the year 1929 than there were dur ing 1928. During 1928, 5443 people were injured or killed by automo biles while in 1929 there were 5664 that suffered from automobiles. Of the 5674 there were 690 killed, which is more than the number of people from North Carolina killed during the World War. There were 3596 violations occur ring, 494 of them being accredited to reckless driving and 456 exceeding the speed limit. The cause was not stated in 322 of the accidents and 223 were adjudged not violating any traffic law. There were 164 hit and run accidents. The other acci dents were adjudged caused by var ious reasons, the outstanding one being by people who did not have the right of wav. 326 accidents were acredited to this cause. Sunday came in for the largest number of accidents, 785 happening on this day. Saturday was close Sun day with 589 accidents. The day haveing the smallest number was Monday with only 381. Tuesday only exceeded Monday one accident 382. 1553 of the total number of acc idents occured on a straight road while 332 occured at intersections. Railroad crossings received credit for 112 of the total number of acc idents and bridges 75. There were a total of 4928 auto mobils and motor cycles involved in the 3501 accidents, 4,281, of these being passanger cars and 418 commercial cars. Only 11 taxies were involved in the accidents and 60 motor cycles. Most of the accidents occured in the day time. 1902 happened in tha day time, 377 at dusk, 965 at night and 247 not stated. It was clear weather when 2853 of the accidents occured and raining when 224 oc cured and 338 were not stated. The others occured when it was either cloudy, foggy or snowing. At a meeting of the Board of Al dermen of the Town of Columbia, last Wednesday, with J. T. Chase, manager of the Carolina Division of the Virginia Electric and Power C o., a tentative agreement was reached for the purchase of Columbia’s light plant by the Vepco interests. In consideration of the prestige and other advantages to be realized i by becoming a part of t.he V. E. P. system, the Board of Aldermen of fered to sell the Columbia electric light plant and distribution system to the Viginia Electric and Power Company for the sum of $35,000, granting to them a 30-year fran chise and the suspension of any pro perty tax to be assessed by the Town of Columbia against their pro perty during the period of the franchise. In consideration of the suspension of taxes, the V. E. P. is to furnish the Town of Columbia street lights not to exceed a maxi mum of fifty of the present candle power being used now on the streets during the period of the franchise. This ofier has been submitted by Mr. Chase to the V. E. P. for their approval. If same is approved, the Board of Aldermen will provide for a special election to be held in the Town of Columbia for the purpose of ascertaining the desire of the qualified voters with reference to the offer which has been made. Should the offer be accepted by the V.E.P., and the action of the Board of Aldermen appoved by the quali fied voters in a special election held for this purpose, the Town of Col umbia will become a part of the V. E. P. system. HAS VERY GOOD SCHOOL RECORD Cherry:- The average daily at tendance of Cherry school is 142.75 while the average enrollment is 177.25. This is an elementary and primary school. No childrdn above the seventh grade attends. The per cent of attendance is 80.5, which is very good. There has not been a tardy during the entire year. POET AND PEASANT “I reckon that the county com missioners believe what we said now,” said the Peasant. “Believe what we said about what,” said the Poet. “About the Wcnona road,” said the Peasant. “I guess that they do,” said the Poet, “ or rather if they don’t I don’t know what it would take to make them believe us.” “That’s the truth,” said the Pea sant. “The 32 children who came to school from that section have been out of school for about two weeks, two trucks have been torn up and one tractor has had the wheel torn off. This cost them a goodly sum which wTas all unneces sary and would have been avoided if they had gone ahead and let the contract to one of the citizens over there for §1,000.” “I think that would have been the proper thing to do too,” said the Poet. “Last Saturday the VVenona people demonstrated who much they wanted to come to Ply mouth when a number of them caught the train in Wenona and come down to Roper, then hired a car to bring them on to Plymouth. These people don’t pay as much taxes as the rest of the county, but they pay their proportional part and they should reeieve the full benefits from it.” “You never made a more truth ful statement in your life,” said the Peasant' “Although it is now too late for the commissioners to do anything about this road for the bad season this year, it is not too late for them ' o begin making pre parations for next year. The real thing to be done is to widen out the Pike road down to the canal that crosses the road at about a 25 degree angle and then build a new road down the banks of the canal. This would mean a saving of some mile and a half of the turnpike road to be worked and would also be easier kept in good condition.” A jury composed ot R.E. Dougn tie, W. E. Weede, Clarance Spruill, S. D. Davis, R. L. Tetterton add J. T. McNair returned a verdict of “not guilty,” in the case of State against Rev. W. E. Norris, recent pastor of the First Christian Church here. Rev. Norris was charged with having sold insurance for a com pany that was unlicensed in the State of North Carolina, he not having license himself. On February the first, 1930, W. J. Jackson, Jr., agent for the Gate City Life Insurance Company, wrote the State Insurance Commis sioner at Raleigh asking whether or not the Church Membership Relief Association was licensed to do business in North Carolina and stated that they were represented here by Rev W. E. Norris. This was a second request for this in formation and as a result of it the Insurance Commissioner sent E. L. Warren State Insurance Investiga tor here to investigate. He ap proached Rev. Norris who told him that his company had informed him that it was not necessary for him to have a license. He surrend ered to the investigator a policy that had been refused also the in vestigator got three others. At the beginning of the trial, C. L. Baily, prosecuting attorney at tempted to withhold Mr. Jackson’s name from the case and W. L. Whitley, attorney for the defen dant, in a very elegant manner made a speach which closed with the statement, “Show me my ac cuser.” In his speach to the jury, Attorney Whitley made one of the best speeches that has been heard in the Washington county court house in many years. Picturing Jackson as a Judas, claiming that if Norris were convicted, Jackson would recieve one half the fine. DOESN’T CRAVE POPULARITY Last Saturday a very mad man came into the Beacon and News office and said, “Isn’t there some way that I can stop getting so much mail. I did not put that ad in the paper and I want it stopped.” “This man was Willie Jethrow who seri" ously objects to the advertisement recently run in the Beacon and News advertising for a wife. It seem that some of Mr. Jeth row's friends wanted to get him married, and knowing that the edi. for did not know him came in and put and advertisement in the paper. At once Mr Jethrow began rec eiving mail from young Indies who desired a husband, and up until last Saturday he had received 30 letters in answer to a 35 cent ad vertisement. His latest admirer is a young lady by the name of Miss Clara Weatherly of Hopewell, Virginia. Miss Weatherly is five feet, four inches tall; has blue eyes and dark wavy hair. The young lady included a snap shot of herself and requested taat Mr. Jethrow send one of him self at once. She was a very at. tractiue looking young lady. Mr. Jethrow refused to lend the editor the picture. Schedule for week beginning Feb ruary 17. Monday, Jackson; Tuesday, Leaders School Miss Mary Thomas Nutrition Specialist; Wednesday Swain; Thursday, Creswcll; Friday, Alba; Saturday, Curb Market.
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