giiiiiiitiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiii^ = A home newspaper dedicated 5 §j ,0 the service of Washington =j = County and its 12,000 people. =: rilllllllimilllllllllMllllllllllllllllllllllillillliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii? THE ROANOKE BEACON ★ ★★★★★★★★★ And Washington County News ★ ★★★★★★★★★ iiiiiiiimHiimiiimiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiMmimiiMiiiiiiimiiniimuc = Advertisers will find Beacon S E and News columns a latch-key to '± E 1,100 Washington County homes, jg .iiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiimiimiiiJ VOLUME 41—NUMBER 42 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, October 3, 1930. ESTABLISHED 1889 YOUNG TAR HEEL FARMERS CLUB IN ROPER FORMED Officers Are Elected and Ten New Members Initiated Roper, Oct. 1.—The Roper Chapter ot the Young Tar Heel Farmers Club met Wednesday night, September 4 for the purpose of reorganizing the club. I he Young Tar Heel Farmers Club is a state organization, composed of students in vocational agriculture. The following officers were elected to serve the coming year: Roy Blount, presi dent. Leslie B. Spruill, secretary, Maurice Peacock, treasurer. Louis E. Hassell, reporter, and B. G. O’Brien, adviser. About ten new members were initiat ed in the club, after which the year's program of work was drawn up by the young club boys as follows: Conduct one “Father and Son” banquet: at tend Y. T. H. F. Camp at White Lake; paj’ annual club dues: improve school ground: conduct chapel programs; im prove agriculture class room; have a candidate for Carolina Farmer’s de gree; each member read one or more jcurnas; hold regular meetings during summer vacation; hold at least three socials other than “Father and Son" banquet: publish news items about chapter at least once a month; conduct group visits to projects of members: and support school athletics. NO RECORDER’S COURT TUESDAY Three Are Fined for Illegal Hunting Without Going Into Court Things were indeed quiet in Wash ington County last week, as evidenced by the fact that there was no necessity for a session of recorder's court Tues day. While this is not the first time that this has happened, it has been some time since there was not a single case scheduled for the regular session. Although there was no court Tues day, the recorder disposed of three cases Wednesday of last week, when the game warden picked up a trio of white men for violating the game laws. The men, Captain George Wise. B. C. Wise, and Roland Styron, of Norfolk, were arrested by Warden Harry Stell for hunting along the Roanoke River. They asked for an immediate trial and entered pleas of guilty to hunting out of season and without license, the re corder letting them off with fines of $5 and the court costs. -* Fifth Paving Installments Became Due October 1st -® Tax Collector P. W. Brown is today running an advertisement calling at tention to the fact that the fourth pav ing installments are long past due, and that he he will he forced to adver tise property for sale within a short time unless the installments are paid. The collector said that there were many who had not paid the amount due by them. Attention was also called to the fact that the fifth installment became due October 1st, and Chief Brown is ask ing all those who can to pay their in stallments as soon as they can. Program of Services At Episcopal Church -• The following services were an nounced this week for Grace Episcopal Church here Sunday: 10 a. m., Sunday school, W. F. Win slow, superintendent. 11 a. m., celebration of Holy Com miMiion and sermon by the rector, Rev. A. H. Marshall. LOCAL LEAGUE IS VERY ACTIVE Organized Four Weeks Ago With 14 Members; Now Has 40; Install Officers The recently organized Epworth League here held a public installation or officers ceremony at the local Methodist Church Sunday night. Rev. R G. L. Edwards, pastor of the church, administered the obligations to the newly elected officers at the service, which was largely attended. The officers installed were Councillor. Mrs. T. C. Robbins; president, Lossie Hardison; vice president, Clyde Ed wards; secretary, Martha Mayo; treas urer, .Virginia Norman; Era agent, Ralph Swain; superintendent first de partment, Janice Tetterton; superin tendent' second department, Gladys Martin; superintendent third depart ment. Emily Brinkley; superintendent, fourth department, Louise Duvall. This league was only organized about four weeks ago. with a charter membership of 14. In the short period sir.ee that time the enrollment has in creased to around 40. Rev. Edwards says that the young people arc ap parently taking much interest in the ob jectives and work of the organization. Club Women Are Preparing For Federation Meeting 24th Plans are rapiuly maturing for the, big meeting of the federated women’s home demonstration clubs of Washington County, to be held in the school auditorium at Creswell Friday, October 24, at 2:30 p. m. Miss Pratt Coving ton, county home demonstration agent, said yesterday that at least 350 or 400 women were expected at the meeting to be held there. The program to be presented promises to be the best ever given at a federation meeting, the home agent says, with a number of well known speakers to be invited to at tend. Other features will be the re ports from the various clubs in the county, every organization being expected to give a complete re port of its activities and work for the year. Prizes will be awarded the club reporting the most outstanding work of the year, and a $10 pres sure cooker will be given to the woman whose garden is considered best by the judges. Plans will be outlined for the coming year by the home demonstration agent, and a number of other business mat ters will be disposed of by the meeting. The Creswell, Albemarle, Scup pernong, and Cherry ciubs will be hostesses to the gathering, which is expected to br.:ak all records for attendance an! Interest display ed. State Theatre, Plymouth’s New Movie Palace, to Open For First Showing Monday WAGING WAR ON SLOT MACHINES Sheriff and County Solicitor To Begin Prosecution Of Operators — •— ■<»,■ ■ | Sheriff J. K. Reid and County So licitor Cart Bailey announced this week that they were going to begin an 'active campaign against slot machines jin the county. The sheriff said that a i great many filling stations and small stores have been running the machines, I the operation of which is a violation of the law, and that he was going to do Ins best to rid the county of them. ! Several owners have been warned be fore, but it is understood that tfo more I warnings will be given. Wherever a j machine is found, it will be seized and ! the operator will be prosecuted. -® jamesville Revival To Begin Monday Night -- Rev. R. G. L. Edwards, pastor of j the Plymouth Methodist Church, an | nounced yesterday that he would begin I a revival meeting at the Jamesville Methodist Church next Monday night a: 7:30 o'clock. The meeting will con tinue throughout next week, with serv ices each night at the same hour. There will be a special song service every night under the direction of Professor T. L. Hickman, of the Jamesville School faculty. The public is cordially | invited to attend all of the services. Entertain With Surprise Birthday Party Tuesday -s> Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hopkins and 1. inwood Knowles delightfully enter tained their sister. Miss Irma Knowles, on Tuesday evening at her home. The home was beautifully decorated with ferns and cut flowers carrying out a color scheme of pink and white. The birthday cake with pink candles ft.lined the centerpiece on the table with many useful and pretty gifts. Mrs. Roy Swain and Mrs. J. E. • Swain presided over the punch bowl. J HameS and contests were enjoyed by the guests. Mrs. Lulie Allen and Mr. Edwin ’ Getsinger, winners in the contests, i were presented with appropriate ' prizes. j -# Home Agent Announces Schedule for Next Week -® Miss Pratt Covington yesterday an nounced her schedule for the week be ginning October 6th, as follows: Monday (first Monday), office; Tues I day, Hoke; Wednesday, Roper; Thurs day, Chapel Hill; Friday, Cherry (school children will be weighed at Creswell and Cherry); Saturday, curb i market. WELL EQUIPPED AND MODERN IN EVERY RESPECT Work Rushed in Order to Open With Matinee Monday The State Theatre. Plymouth’s new movie palace, will be thrown open to the public next Monday afternoon, with the first show scheduled to begin at 4:00 p. m.. according to an announce ment made yesterday by Gordon Brothers, the managers of the new playhouse. Work is being rushed this week so that all arrangements may be made complete before the time for the hr>t showing. The new theatre is modern in every respect, with every care having been exercised to give partons of the talking pictures the very best that can be se cured in the way of equipment. The building was erected especially for use as a theatre, the sound equipment was made by the Western Electric Company. Powell proecting machines will be used, and a Walker sound screen is being installed, all of which means that theatre-goers here can en joy at home what they have formerly been forced to go many miles to see. The proprietors of the new venture, Messrs. C. and H. Gordon, of Bel haven, have had considerable exper ience in the business, and are leaving nothing undone to give the town a theatre of which it will be proud. In stallation of the screen and sound equipment was being made yesterday, and it was thought at that time that tests would be made of the equipment today. i i I The capacity of the house at present is 350, and it was said yesterday that I a balcony would be added later for the benefit of colored people, which will materially enlarge tin- seating capacity.' Two projection machines are being in-1 stalled, which will make possible a con tinuous show, no break being requir ed between reels to change the film. The Walker sound screen is considered one of the best made. The large “loud- [ speaker” horn, weighing several hun dred pounds, is suspended just back of the screen, which is perforated so that the sound will come right from the picture itself. On Monday, there will be three per formances. the first at 4 p. m., second show at 7:15 and the last at 9 o’clock. The opening pictures is “Let’s Go Native," starring Jack Oakie, and there will also be several short sub jects. The same program will be given a* the same hours on Tuesday. For Wednesday and Thursday, “Anybody’s Woman,” starring Ruth Chatterton and Clive Brook, has been booked, and on Friday and Saturday, | the Ace of motion picture fun. “Queen High,” will lx* shown. MOONSHINERS STEAL PIG FOR BAREBECUE FEAST AT STILL B. D. Chesson, Cross Roads Farmer, Loses Nice Porker; Trails Thief To Still, Where Pig Had Been Barbecued; Outfit Destroyed 1 B. 1). Chesson, farmer of the Cross | Roads section of the county, had a nice Duroc-Jersey pig stolen from him ’ early last Friday morning, and after an extensive search found where the pork I er had been barbecued at a liquor still ! some distance from his home. The I moonshiners had evidently become 1 hungry while making a run, and so one of them visited Mr. C hesson’s pen, killed the pig and carried him back to ' the still, where a regular feast must 1 have taken place, judging front the signs. Sheriff Reid was notified and ] he destroyed the still, but there was n i trace of the operators. Mr. Chesson hail six otlier pigs in the pen, and all of them had been down with the cholera when the theft | took place. The one stolen was a pure bred Duroc-Jersey boar, which the owner had planned to keep for breed ing purposes. When the theft was dis covered the owner managed to track the thief to the site of the still, where he found the remains of his pig. The still was an old galvanized barrel af fair, and as the stolen pig was just re covering from cholera, Mr. Chesson says it will indeed he remarkable if the thief's stomach can stand the com bination of whisky and barbecue par taken. VALUATIONS OF CORPORATIONS ARE DECREASED -® Certified Values Lower By $108,471 Than They Were in 1929 Certification of the property valua ti< ns of corporations operating in Washington County, as of April 1, this year, were this week received from the State Corporation Commission by J. C. Gatlin, county accountant. The total valuation, including corporate ex cts> of the two banks in the county, is SI.813785 for 1930, against $1,922,256 ;or 1929, or a decrease in the 12-months period of $108,471. Public service companies listed prac t callv ail of the property charged against corporations, their total he mp $1,799,926. Corporate excess listed against the two banks totaled $13,859. Certification of the corporation valua tion.*, in the county brought the total valuation of all property to $7,996,664 for the year. The county's largest taxpayer, ac cording to the listings, will be the Norfolk Southern Railway Company, which has property to the value of $1. 556.609 on the tax books. The Atlan tic Coast Line Railroad Company lists $205,583 worth of holdings and takes second place in amount. The other corporation listings are consider ably smaller than this, the Pullman Company coming third in the list of corporations with a valuation of $19, 694. While several oi the corporations re ported increased listings, the valuation as a whole is considerably off from last year. The Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company had the largest increase during the year, reporting $9, 636 in 1930, against $8,402 last year. Other corporations for which increases were certified were: Norfolk Southern Railroad. $1,556,609 in 1930 against $1. 556.392 in 1929, increase of $217; At lantic Coast Line, $205,583 against $205,539, increase of $44; Railway and Express Company, $1,443 against $1. 213, increase of $230. Corporations having decreased valu ations were: Western Union Tele graph Company, $1,076 in 1930 against $3,309 in 1929, decrease of $2,233; Pull man Company, $19,694 against $19, 864, decrease of $170; and Edenton Mackeys Ferry Company, $1,250 against $4,800, decrease of $3,550. The New Holland Corporation, which owns a railroad line in the county, had ex actly the same valuation each year, $4,635. Corporate excess, listed by the two banks, follows, Bank of Creswell, $3. 922 in 1930 against $3,083 in 1929, in crease of $839; Branch Banking and Trust Company, $9,937 this year against $15,019 in 1929, decrease of $5, 087. The total valuation in the county this year, by classifications, is divided as follows: Personal property, $819,062; real estate. $5,363,817; corporations, including corporate excess, $1,813,785; total, $7,996,664. -4, MADE DELEGATE TO WATERWAYS MEET, OCT. 7-10 -- A. L. Owens Appointed To Represent State By Governor A. L. Owens, of this city, was noti fied this week by Governor Gardner that he had hen selected as one of the delegates to represent North Carolina at the convention of the Atlantic Deep er Waterways Association, which will he held in Wilmington October 7th to 10th. Mr. Owens has not yet definitely decided whether or not he will he able to attend the convention. The Atlantic Deeper Waterways As sociation is an organization formed for [he purpose of securing better inland waterway facilities along the whole of the eastern seaboard, and the conven tion at Wilmington will he attended by representatives from all of the States bordering on the Altantic Ocean. I Local people are particularly interest ed in the work of the association, as it' is felt that through its help deeper 1 channels may be secured for the Roa-j noke River and Albemarle Sound, which will provide better facilities for shipping by water from this section. —-® Demonstration Meeting At Courthouse Friday -$ Miss Pratt Covington, home deinon straiton agent, announced this week that a leader's school, for the benefit of members of county home demonstra tion clubs, would be held in the court house here Friday afternoon at 2:30 p. ill. Miss Mary K. Thomas, nutri tion specialist, of Raleigh, will be in charge of the meeting, and in addition t< other features of the program, will give a demonstration on cooking for the sick. Every woman in the county who is interested is cordially invited to attend the gathering. MANY CHILDREN UNDER WEIGHT, SURVEY SHOWS -<£ Miss Covington Announces Results of Weighing at Roper School Miss Pratt Covington, county home demonstration agent, this week com pleted weighing the pupils of the Roper schools and announces that result of her work there. Out of 388 children /whose weight was recorded. 268 were found to be underweight, 71 over weight, and only 46 weighed exactly what the chart used called for. The second grade of the institution had the smallest number underweight of any grade in the school, there being only five; however, there were 13 over weight in the ,-arue grade. There were only three pupils in the sixth grade wdio weighted exactly what they should. There were 3 overweight in this room, which has 34 enrolled, and aside from the three perfect pupils and the three 'overweight the entire grade was under weight. The number of pounds under normal ranged all the way from 1 to 27. The eleventh grade had a star pupil with a six-footer—one boy meas uring six feet four inches tall. Miss Pratt Covington pointed out that during the first month of school all children make the poorest average in weight, and she expressed the opin ion that the number underweight would be considerably decreased by the next weighing date. October 19. The home agent is weighing the pu ' pils of the other schools of the county as rapidly as possible, and results from these institutions will be made known as "rapidly as possible. Farmers Interested in New Peanut Harvester J A large number of peanut growers attended a demonstration of a peanut j digger and shaker, conducted by Mr. J. L. Knowles on the farm of W. B. Chesson, in the Pleasant Grove section of the county Friday afternoon of last week. The machine is owned by Mr. . Chesson and was declared by many j farmers to be a real labor-saving de vice, as it digs the peanuts and shakes them out at the same operation. Very few peas are left in the ground when the machines is used. Columbia Legion Post To Entertain Ex-Service Men -<$> The incoming and the retiring of ficers of the American Legion Post, i 1H2 of Columbia, are planning an en- , tertainment for all Legion members and ex-soldiers of Washington and iTyrrell counties there next Monday night, October 6, it was announced I yesterday. A barbecue feast is being planned and all legion members and I ex-soldiers are cordially invited to at tend. Several Local People Attend Showing of Electrical Robot Several local people attended the showing of the electrical robot in Wil liamston last week. The exhibition was staged by the Virginia Electric and Power Company in the interest of their electric ranges. At the close of the demonstration, a number of prizes were given to holders of lucky num ber^ Mrs. Floyd Gaboon, of this place, winning one of them. -a Two Local Stores Closed Thursday Account Holiday The Nelson Mercantile Company and the Hub stores here were closed yester day in observance of the Jewish holi day “Yoni Kipper.” the day of atone ment. Department Called Out by Small Blaze Wednesday The fire department was called out about noon Wednesday when a small blaze in a pile of leaves on the vacant lot adjoining J. S. Brown’s home, on Jefferson Street, alarmed near-by resi dents. The firemen responded promptly and the fire was put out without using any of the equipment. No damage was done. Fays Farmers Must Form Organization Sheriff Starts Final Tax Collecting Drive -® Sheriff J. K. Reid is still col lecting 1929 taxes, although he stated this week that he was be ginning his final effort to close out the old tax books. The amount collected lately has been very small, the officer said, and just as soon as the new books are ready he will be called on to make his final settlement, which means that tax payments will have to be made within the next few weeks. He is asking that those who have not paid their 1929 taxes make every effort to do so within the next few days in order to save both him and the delinquents embarrassment. I COMMISSIONERS MEET MONDAY County Boards To Hold Regular Sessions; Town Council Meets Friday The town council will hold its regu lai meeting Friday night of this week, it was stated yesterday, with a number of important matters to be considered by the board. It is expected that the sale of the ice plant and the purchase o: an electric pumping apparatus will be considered at the meeting, these matters having been postponed at the last meeting on account of other prob lems claiming the attention of mem be rs. The board of county commissioners will hold its meeting next Monday at the courthouse, and the board of edu cation is also scheduled to meet on the same day. Routine matters will prob ably be the main business at both of these gatherings. - Program of Services At Methodist Church Rev. R. G. L. Edwards, Pastor Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. every Sunday. Worship services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. every Sunday with the exception of the second Sunday, when the pas tor preaches at the Jamesville Metho dist Church. Epworth League, every Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Kehukee Association To Be Held in Williamston -® There are a number of Washington County members of the Primitive Bap tist faith who are planning to attend the 165th annual session of the Ke hukee Primitive Baptist Association, which will be held with the church at Skcwarkev, near Williamston, Satur day, Sunday and Monday. Extensive preparations have been made by the members of the Skewarkey Church to care for the visitors. Around 8.000 to to 10.000 people are expected. -- To Organize Sunday School at Chapel Hill Announcement was made this week that the people of the Chapel Hill community would hold a meeting at the Charitable Brotherhood lodge hall Sunday afternoon to organize an inter lcnominational Sunday school. All tin people of the community are invit .*d to attend and bring their children to be enrolled. The meeting will begin 3 p. m. -$ Mt. Pleasant B. Y. P. U. Announces Meet Sunday -& The B. V. P. t\ qf the Mt. Pleas ant Baptist Church holds its regular meetings each Sunday evening at 7:00 /clock. The public is cordially invit ed to attend each meeting. 45 PARCELS OF LAND SOLD AT TOWN TAX SALE HERE MONDAY Land Sold by Town Tax Collector This Week Represents $1,677.23 in Taxes; Town Buys in Practically All of Property Put on Block A total of 45 tracts of land, repre senting $1,677.23 in delinquent taxes, was sold at the courthouse door here Monday at noon for taxes due and un paid to the Town of Plymouth for the year 1929. The sale was conducted hy Chief of Police P. W. Brown, who is also tax collector for the town. Prac tically all of the property was bought in hy the town, only a few individuals entering bids. Of the 45 tracts, 13 were owned by white people, the property representing $1,184.10 worth of taxes. The other 32 parcels were owned by negroes and represented only $493.13 worth of taxes. A total of 63 names were first advertised in the list, but quite a num ber of the delinquents paid up before the time of the sale, t hief Brown col lecting from many of them this week. The sale is considered one of the largest ever held in the town, the tax collector stating that the amount of delinquent taxes was seldom over $400 or $500. The property of a number of those sold Monday is expected to be re deemed within the next few weeks. IS ONLY WAY TO GET HELP FROM FEDERAL BOARD Farm Board Representative Talks To Leaf Growers At Meeting Friday “You must organize if \ >\i expect help from the government.” Washing ton County farmers were told last Friday morning by Col. Charles B. Ro gan, representative of the Federal Farm Board, at a meeting held in the courthouse here to discti.-s the tobac co situation. County Agent R. E. Dunning was in charge of arrange ments for the meeting, which was at tended by about 25 farmers. Colonel Rogan was the main speaker of the oc casion and was introduced by B. Troy Ferguson, district agent. At the conclusion of the meeting, the farmers present practically unani mously favored holding of community educational meetings, the schedule for i which will probably be announced next week. These gatherings will be con ducted by the county agent and the vo cational agriculture teachers of the county and will be for the purpose of explaining just what copoerative means to the farmer in securing help from the Federal Government. The jVcte was made in connection with or ganization plans formulated at a meeting held in Raleigh la.st Monday. | The 56 delegates representing the .various tobacco growing counties and operating as the Tobacco Relief Associ ation, Monday agreed on a contract, jation, yesterday agreed on a contract, j and while plans for their distribution I have not been formulated at this time, jii is understood the pledges will be put I before the growers at community meet ing to be held w ithin the next few days. The contract, calling for a 100 per I cent sign-up by the members, will be I placed before the growers at once, it was stated. One hundred thousand of the papers are being prepared at this time and will be eagerly read by the farmers. Even an outline of the con tract is impossible here, hut it was de cided at the Raleigh meeting to make it of a dual nature, one affecting a re duction in acreage, the other for the sign-up of the crop. The success of the sign-up between now and the 15th of October will determine whether or not the remainder of the present crop will he affected by the cooperative move mt nt. Leland Kitchin, of Scotland Neck, declined to accept the leadership of the 1 proposed organization, and in the ab sence of the Governor no appointment has been made up until now. I 1 he by-laws of the proposed system should meet with hearty approval as they limit salaries and expenses to a minimum and call for operation along certain lines that will assure success once the movement is supported by the farmers. In opening the meeting here last I riday Morning, Mr. Ferguson talk ed on farm methods and opportunities, emphasizing the iaet that our farmers have far better opportunities than far mers have in almost any other part of the world. ‘*\\ e can grow a greater variety of crops than most sections, and time and experience have proven that no people can prosper when they r‘ ise money crops and buy food crops,” (Continued on page six) CARRIER RUNS OVER SQUIRREL Gets Affidavits From Eye Witnesses That Game Was Killed Legally