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VOL. 41
NO. 38
PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1930
Funeral Services Held
Monday For Jack Swain
Class Mates Pall Bearers
Funeral services were held Mon
day, for Jack Swain, the years
old son of Mrs. Henrietta Swain,
who was killed in an automobile ac
cident in Kentucky. Interment was
made in an Edenton Cemetery on
the same day.
Jack was the youngest son of
Mrs. Swain and had just finished
from State College last Spring and
had begun work with the State of
Ohio. He was sent, with twoothers,
to Kentucky to get soil samples
and on the returned trip, an accid
ent occured which resulted in his
death in about an hour and a half.
His right side was crushed and one
of his ribs punctured his lung which
made it impossible for himto exhale
but he could inhale. ^
He was president of the* raduat
ing class of 1926 at Plymouth High
School. During his school life, both
in high school and college, he was
admired and held in high esteem
by his,class mates. His active pall
bearers were members of his high
school class, along with his college
room mate. He played both loot
ball and basket ball during his high
school life. He gained the reputat
ion of being a clean cut young man
long before he left Plym '.uth High
School. Perhaps the most attractive
floral offering adorning the grave
was the one furnished by his high
school class which shows the esteem
in which ho was held by his class
mates.
Many friends join with his moth
er and the brothers and sisters in
mourning the. death of Jack.
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AMBROSE
It is with a sad and lonely heart
that I sit and write the death of
my loving sister, Mrs. Pcnnie Am
brose, who only a few days ago was
taken from her home, with that
awful disease T. B. And placed in
the arms of Jesus we hope. She
leaves to mourn her loss a loving
husband, two children, two brothers
three sisters and a mother.
The church of which she was a
member, will greatly feel her loss.
She was a faithful and very devot
ed church member for many years.
She was loved by all who knew her.
On her death bed she prayed for
Jesus to take her home, where pain
and sorrow is felt no more. She
said many times that she wasn’t
afraid to die, that she knew she was
prepared to meet her Saviour. She
would say, “Dear Lord please take
me away .out of my suffering.” We
all hated to part from her, but we
feel that our loss is her eternal
gain.
She was born January 28, 1905.
And died July 10, 1930, making
her# stay here on earth, 2o years,
five months and 13 days. All was
done for her that Doctors and lov
ing hands could do.
Dearest sister thou hast left us,
your sweet face no more we’ll see,
but in Heaven we hope to greet
you, there to spend eternity.
Sleep on dear sister. Take thy
rest. We miss you most who loved
you best. God took you home, it
was his will; but in our hearts
you’re living still.
Written By Her Sister,
WILMA DAVENPORJ.
MASONIC NOTICE
Perseverance lodge no. 59 A. F.
and A. M. will hold their regular
communication Tuesday September
9th. 1930 at 8 o’clock, P. M. There
will be work in the Master Masons
degree. All Master Masons are cor
dially invited to attend.
C. T. ROBBINS, J. W.
TOBACCO MARKETS OPENED
TOESDAY WITH PRICES
UNUSUALLY LOW
As has been expected by the pub
lic at large, the tobacco market
opened Tuesday with prices far be
low that of last year. The average
this year being eight and one half
cents.
The Williamston and Roberson
villc markets had about 100,000 lbs
on their floors each while Greenville
had some more than this. The same
prices prevailed at each market,
the government graded tobacoo
bringing a little better price than
the ungraded.
When one stops to think about
the conditions that are existing as
to the grower and the manufactur
ers, it is enough to cause the far
mers to discontinue growing this
commodity. North Carolina is pro
bably the hardest hit state in the
in the Union as she produces more
tobacco than any other state. The
big four, as the four leading manu
facturers are often called, have in
the past few vears, begun making
as much profit as the farmers have
gotten for all of the weed that they
have grown.
This is just another exaipple of
how capital is smothering out all
opposition. They are allowing the
farmers a bare living and making
them like it. There is supposed to
be such a thing in the United Stases
as an anti-trust law. Apparently
this law has become obsolute or
else it is convenient for higher ups
to forget that such a law is really
on our statute books.
FAMILY REUNION
A great family reunion of the di
rect descendents of Nicodemus
Bateman Sr. was held at Scupper
nong Christian Church Sunday Aug
31. Around one hundred and fifty
were present. An organization was
perfected Sept. 1 1929 to work out
a complete line of posterity from
Nicodemus Bateman Sr. It was
agreed upon at this particular time
the Sunday immediately before lab
or day should be set aside for the
family reunion each year. H. L.
Swain of Raleigh a grandson was
elected president of the organization
and H. S. Swain also a grandson,
of Columbia N. C. secretary. Dur
ing the past year the historical, ad
visory and program committees of
this organization have contributed
all the data possible.
At the first meeting it was decid
ed to establish a family tree of the
Bateman family also the wife of
Nicodemus Bateman Sr. Lovia
Elizabeth Hatfield. Dock Hatfield
and Mrs. Jennie Hatfield Hopkins,
of Creswell, were to furnish all the
available imformation concerning
this branch of the family, they br
ought a splendid report. A memorial
service for the dead children of Ni
codemus Bateman Sr. was held at
eleven o’clock. Which are as follows
Indiana Swain and Griselle Rough
ton, with special music for the oc
casion, this service was very impres
sive. Louise Hatfield a great niece
and Mrs. Lovie Howett a great gr
and daughter of Lovie E. Hatfield
Bateman sang “Whispering Hope”.
“My old Cottage Home” was sung
by the choir. A quartett composed
of H. S. Swain, Robert Swain, Har
ry Swain and Clyde Roughton gr
andsons and great grandsons of Ni
codemus Bateman and wife sang
Sleeping geuny oiwpuig wmui
was enjoyed by all. A bountiful din
ner was served on the grounds.
At two o’clock the business sess>
ion began. The constitution and by
laws were read adopted jbefore the
business session, Olfcfi'a Belle Swain
gave a humorQtis reading and Dora
Weatherly Sahg “Mama kissed me
in a dream Jjat. night.” Little Kat
herine and janiel Reaves children
of MauAS^ves one of the grand
daughtdMkttg, “I think when I
read thefov fc story of old.” The
officersvnoN,Selected for the com*
ing yea! one enjoyed the
day tos£a extent.
STATE SUPPORTED SCHOOLS
ALL SUNK MEANS STATE
CONTROLLED SCHOOLS
State supported public schools
has a mighty good sound to many
taxpayers who feel that they are
carrying too heavy a load of local
taxation for the aid of public edu
cation. But state controlled public
schools might not appeal so favor
ably to those who feel that they
would like the seven.1 communities
to retain some voice in the matter
of who controls their school?.
In a measure we now have state
controlled public schools, but this;
control has its limits and there are
not a few people who feel that
these limits should be still more re
stricted. The present system of con-i
trol does in a measure prescribe the
amount of school tax that each
county or community shall levy'
But in the final analysis each com
munity or county has the right to
say what provisions it shall order
for schools, the kind of buildings
and equipment it shall have and to
a large extent the sort of teachers it
will employ. The state has not yet
ordered any community to erect a
better school building or levy a
special district tax. It does say that
each child must have a constitut
ional six months term. The people
themselves voted that into the con
stitution. We dare say the majority
of them would not care to take it
out. And when this compulsion was
written into our fundamental law
| the people took upon themselves
the obligation to maintain it. But a
large measure of freedom of operat
ion is still left to the localities. There
have been encroachments by the
state from time to time. But if the
entire duty of support were turned
over to the state it is difficult to see
how any local selfcontrol of schools
could be retained. In no other in
stance where the state provides for
the full support of a public institut
is the matter of control left to local
agencies.
It is entirely possible that some
arrangements might be made for
even more financial aid from state
sources for the public schools. But
there is room for grave doubt as to
the advisability of surrendering the
last vestige of local authority in
school matters. The present measure
of state control is probably mainly
designed to secure uniformity of op
portunity for all children of the state.
But uniformity and centralization
of control are entirely different pro
positions. Under the present system
we do retain the r:ght to kick, und
er a state supported and controlled
system we would probably have to
surrender even that privilege. We’d
merely be dependencies and not
stockholders. Directly or indirectly,
we would still be paying. No system
is possible that would relieve the
three million North Carolinians from
paying the bills. We could merely
change collectors and paymasters
as well as taskmasters.
IN MEMORIUM
In sad but loving remembrance
of my dear mother, Ida A. Swain,
who passed into the great beyond,
Aug. 8\9d0.
When nwther breathed her last
The at \e means more than ton
The world s-eqsms quite an empty
place \
Without the smile on mother’s
face,
Sometimes, somewhere, nosad fare
wells,
There hand in hand and heart to
heart,
Through countless ages, never to
part.
gue^Jin tell;
Her Daughter.
GLADYS BASINGER
Plymouth Schools Open
Monday; Approximately
650 Students To Enroll
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Governor Gardner’s Live-At-Home
Program To Be Featured State Fair
TIME NOW TO PLANT
WINTER HAY CROPS
An acre of land planted to small
grain this month will produce at
least one ton of hay next spring
and will keep the grower from hav
ing to buy high priced hay to feed
work stock.
“There is a greater need for
planting winter hay crops this jear
than ever before,” says E. C. Blair,
extension agronomist at State Col
lege.” The crop3 over a large part
of the State have been severely
damaged by the dry weather and
this means a shortage of feedstuffs
in that section. There are other
sections where the crops are good
but where many farmers depend
on buying western hay. Those far
mers are now facing the prospect
of paying high prices for their hay
as dry weather has also cut the hay
crop in these western states.”
Mr. Blair recommends that an
acre of lard be sown to small grain
for every mule and cow on the
farm This will produce sufficient
hay to last from May until the soy
btfifn hay is ready in the fall.
Three seeding mixtures arc re
commended as follows:
No. 1 Oats 2 bu; barley 1 bu;
wheat 1 peck; vetch 20 pounds.
No. 2 Barley 1 bu; oats 1 bu;
vetch 20 pounds.
No. 3 Wheat 1 bu; barley 1 bu;
vetch 20 pounds.
IN MEMORIUM
In memory of husband B. F.
Overton who died August 15, 1930.
You are gone but not forgotten
Never shall your memory fade.
Sweetest thoughts shall ever linger.
Around the grave where you are
laid.
A bitter cup a shock severe
To part with one we love so dear,
My loss is great; I’ll not complain
But trust to God to meet again.
Sleep on, dear one, and take thy
rest
We miss you most who loved you
best.
God took you home it was his will
But in our hearts you’re living
still.
But again sometime dear husband
When my days of life are fled.
In Heaven I hope to meet you
Where no farewell tears are shed.
Days of darkness still come o’er us,
Tears of sorrow silently flow,
But fond memory keeps you near
me,
Tho’ Heaven claimed you just
three weeks ago.
WIFE, MRS. B. F. OVERTON
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
List of Contagious Diseases oc
curring in Washington county dur
ing the month of August 1930:
Whooping Cough
Plymouth R. 2: (colored)
James E. Jordon, Castell Small,
Emmanuel Small, Vilma Small,
Warren Small, Fred Small, Robert
Gee, Martha L. Gee, Gladys Gee,
Rosetta Gee, Victorix Gee, Alatha
Boston, Sarah Boston, Albert Mo
ore, Hattie Moore, Ethel Moore.
Total 16 cases.
W. H. WARD, MD.
Quarantine Officer.
The law requires all contagious
diseases except Mumps and Itch to
be reported within 24 hours under
severe penelty.
W. Hv WARD, MD.
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Raleigh:, The biggest Special to
the best State Fair in the history of
North Carolina, planned as an ob
ject lesson of what can be accomp
lished through Governor Gardner’s
Live-At-Home program, was promis
ed the State of North Carolina to
day, by Secretary T. B. Smith.
The Premium List has again been
thoroughly Revised this year and
28 additional pages offering more
high premiums, have been added,
Secretary T. B. Smith said today. |
More than $25,000 in premiums,
exclusive of the purses for the Horse
racing was given away by the Fair
last year. It is expected that this
total will be exceeded this year.
Since the Farmers of the State have
had better crops; They have more
livestock to display. Ten thousand
i Premium Lists have already been
distributed to the Farmers of North
Carolina and there are more still to
go out from the Secretary’s Office
in Raleigh. Competition in some
classes is limited to North Carolina,
But in many Classes it is open to
the World
WHITEHURST-STERN
The following announcement has
been received by friends in Ply
mouth.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Franklin
Stearn announce the marriage of
their daughter, Esther Bernice, to
Dr. Roland Luther Whitehurst on
Thursday, the third of September,
nineteen hundred and thirty, Wash
ington, North Carolina.
SERVICES GRACE
CHURCH SUNDAY
Services will be held at Grace
Episcopal Church Sunday morning,
September 7th. Sunday school will
be held at 10 a. m., and Holy Com
munion and sermon will be at 11 a.
m. Rev. Marsholl, who is now in
Ohio, is very anxious that as many
of the members and visitors as pos
sibly can attend these services.
r
Approximately 650 children will
will assemble in the Plymouth City
Schools Monday morning for the
first day of the 1930-31 session.
Superintendent Hicks is looking
forward to the largest and best year
that has been known in the local
schools in some time.
Considerable thought and care
was exercised in selecting the facul
ty for the coming year and Mr.
Hicks feels that he has as good a
faculty as there is in the state.
Many new faces will be among
the faculty this year. They are as
follows: Miss Sidney McLean Cur
ry and Miss Ursula Bateman, first
grade; Mrs. H. A. Liverman, pri
mary principal, Mrs. R. L. White
hurst, second grade; Mrs. George
Harrison, third grade; Miss Lula
Bell Felts, fourth grade; Mrs. C.W.
Dinkins and Miss Nellie Tarkenton,
fifth grade; Mrs. R. G. L. Edwards
and L. J. Davis, sixth grade (Mr.
Davis will also teach typing and
shorthand.) The high school facul
ty is composed of Mrs. L.S. Thomp
son home economics and French;
Miss Pauline Lucas, English; Rus
sell Harrison, science; Walter L.
Robertson will be the principal and
will have charge of the athletic
activities, also he will teach history
and science; Miss Ethel Spruill,
Math; and Miss Lucile Parker will
teach latin and history.
MRS. • RESPASS ENTERTAINS
At the home of Mrs. E. L. Res
pass, on Friday evening from 7 to
12 o’clock. She entertained a num
ber of friends, which numbered
about forty.
Mrs. Respass served many courses
of ice cream. After this music and
games were enjoyed.
The guest departed voting Mrs.
Respass a charming hostess.
POET AND PEASANT |
“I just had a talk with Chief of
of Police P. W. Brown and he cer
tainly does have a hard time keep
ing the streets of Plymouth looking
good,” said the Peasant.
“I don’t see that he has such a
hard time,” said the Poet, “it seems
to me that the streets of Plymouth
look just as good as the streets of
any other town.”
“They would look much better if
the people * would cooperate with
him,” said the Peasant.
“What do you mean,” said the
Poet.
“I mean that the people do not
help him as much as they could if
they would try,” said the Peasant.
“He sends his men around every
Wednesday and Saturday morning
to sweep the streets and just after
they finish the people will begin
cleaning their yards and sweep
more trash on the streets than was
on them before the men began
sweeping them. People should have
more pride in their town than to
do this.”
“Come to think of it I do believe
that you are right,” said the Poet,
“but we shouldn’t judge the
people so I believe
that as soon as thc^ realize that
they are handicapping ^ him that
they will do their yard '^leaning
early enough for the street sw\.0pers
to get the trash when they swc. p»
“I don’t know,” said the Pe^.
sant. “The
have a desire
people in Plymouth
to keep putting thing!
j
off until the last minute. That has
grown to be a characteristic of this
town, and of the East. There is a
certain professor in one of our State
owned colleges that teaches his stu
dents to dislike the eastern part of
North Carolina. He says that we
are a lazy people; that our moral
standards are somewhat below that
of the western part of our State.
To a certain extent I am inclined
to believe that he is somewhat
right, especially about the lazy bu
siness. We are inclined to keep put
ting things off that should be done
at once. Various reasons have been
advanced as to the cause for this,
all of which are feasible. Now in
Washington county we can produce
anything that can be produced
most anywhere else and up until
some time ago we only produced
cotton, peanuts, tobacco and corn;
most of the corn now produced is
in the liquid form. This year the
farmers have realized that it is time
that they began producing some
truck crops and they have realized
quite a bit from it.”
“I can’t understand a fellow like
you quoting a college professor,”
said the Poet.
“You see it is like this,” said the
Peasant. “I might be ignorant and
all of that, but I do get to talk to
folks sometimes.”
“If what you say is true,” said
the Poet, “and Mr. Brown wants
the people to helphlm, I hope that
I they do.”