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THE WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS
Published Every Friday in Plymouth, North Carolina
LEE ROY' HARRIS.Publisher and Editor
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Address all communications to the Roanoke Beacon, Plymouth, N. C.
Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice, Plymouth, North
Carolina, uuder ttie act of March 3rd, 1387.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930
Condems Big Weddings
We thoroughly sympathize with Mrs. William Jeffries Chewing,
who, as Margaret Couzens. eloped in order to escape big weddings,
which she declared “are messy."
Without advising young ladies about to commit matrimony to elope
we call their attention to the argument of this young lady against big
weddings;
‘‘With a regular church w'edding it is necessary that the engage
ment be announced several weeks ahead of time, and all your friends,
out of kindness of their hearts, begin giving parties and dances and
other things in your honor, with the result that by the time the date
of the wedding has arrived, you are utterly worn out."
The Beacon and News has observed just such proceedings in Wash
ington County and the result is just as stated. However, if there are
young ladies in our baliwick who insist upon big society weddings,
with the whirl they entail, send in the news and our society column
will tell your friends about them.
Bailey vs Simmons
The fight is on. Political speeches are being made every day and
night. Politics will be at the front for the next three months and
everybody will be wondering who will be North Carolina's Democratic
Nominee for United States Senator.
Josiah Bailey's supporters say that he will be the successful condi
date while those supporting Senator F. M, Simmons say that he will
be the successful candidate. No one realy knows, but all indications
are that there will be a hot but friendly fight among these two politi
cians.
For many years Senator Simmons has gone to the United States
Senate from North Carolina. He has been faithful to his State while
many contend that he was not faithful to the party who put him in
office in that he failed to support the ticket during the last National
election.
Senator Simmons is in the same position that many of our preachers
were after that election. He should, in order to keep peace in the
Democratic family, offer his resignation and get out. His formerly
solid congregation is broken and divided. Many feel that he is get
ting old. That the time is ripe for him to resign and give someone
else an opportunity to represent this State in our national government
The Beacon and News takes no stand for either of these two
capable men. There is a preference, but the successful candidate will
be supported in the election.
Both the Republican and Democratic State organization is going to
attempt to enforce the law as to Republicans voting in the primary.
It is plainly stated that a Republican cannot vote in a Democratic
primary and everything possible will be done in order to avoid this
all over the State by both Democrats and Republicans.
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PLYMOUTH, NORTH CAROLINA
One Hundred Years of Progress
THE "Great Highway of the Union” they called
the Petersburg Railroad 100 years ago.
A pretentious name for a fifty-nine mile rail
road! But one that future years were to justify.
Reaching only from Petersburg, Virginia, to a
"point one and one-half miles below tne falls of
the Roanoke River”, near the North Carolina
Line, the Petersburg Railroad was the first of
more than 100 railroads, later to make up the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, that
wrought a transformation in every phase of the
life of the entire Southeast.
Here, along the coast, one hundred years ago,
was a land already old, its cities long established,
but dependent upon trade and upon an agricul
ture faced by growing competition.
Everywhere progress was impeded by the lack
of transportation.
Planters along the coast and rivers could float
their crops to market; a slow and risky process,
but the only one available. Those of the interior
must haul their produce to the nearest navigable
water, usually at a cost too high for any but the
most valuable commodities.
Small wonder that the building of the Peters
burg Railroad, the Richmond and Petersburg,
the Wilmington & Raleigh and many others was
welcomed by the farmers and merchants and
travelers of tne time.
New towns sprang up along the rails. New
lands came into bearing. New impetus was given
to settlement and trade and travel.
But hard times lay ahead for the early rail
roads. There were long, lean years when crop
failures and money panics, lack of credit and the
necessity of constantly rebuilding and enlarging
their facilities threatened their existence.
Today, because of fast, reliable railroad trans
portation, the coastal lands, once used only for
staple crops, send unnumbered trainloads of fruits
ana vegetables to the markets of less favored
sections. Florida, once considered more of "an
obstacle in the coasting trade than as an economic
J>rovince”, reaps a harvest of gold from its citrus
ruits and vegetables and is the Mecca of millions
of vacation seekers.
Industries undreamed of a few years ago now
find in this section most favorable conditions for
their plants.
The double track of the Atlantic Coast Line
between Richmond and Jacksonville forms, in
truth, the "Great Highway of the Union", over
which there moves a commerce vastly greater and
more valuable than even the far-sighted founders
of the Petersburg Railroad could have imagined.
A net-work of lines throughout the Southeast
enables many an otherwise isolated section to
market its produce and gives encouragement to
sound development.
The South today is a land of unlimited oppor
tunity. It faces the future with confidence. The
Atlantic Coast Line, whose constituent companies
have aided the growth and progress of this rich
section for the past century, is continuing to make
steady and far-reaching improvements in its fa
cilities and service so as to contribute, in increas
ing measure, to the development the coming
years shall bring.
ATLANTIC COAST LI NE
The Standard Railroad of the South
{This is the third of a series of advertisements by the ^Atlantic Coast Cine Railroad, commemorating the
centennial of its earliest constituent company — the 'Petersburg 'Railroad Company}
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