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^imMimiiMiimiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiHiiy = A home newspaper dedicated = 5 to the service of Washington = 1 County and its 12,000 people. = ^miiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiHiiiiHiiimiiiiiiiiimiuiiiiimiiimiiiiiiih?. The Roanoke Beacon ♦ * + * * * * and Washington County News ******* /iiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiimi = Advertisers will find Beacon = § and News columns a latch-key to = § 1,100 Washington County homes. = fuiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiMiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiMMiimiiii'i? VOLUME XLII—NUMBER 35 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina,Friday, August 28, 1931 ESTABLISHED 1889 City School To Open Monday September 7 ENROLLMENT OF 75 OVER LAST YEAR EXPECTED Teaching Staff To Be Prac tically Same As It Was Year Ago <*» The Plymouth City School will open' (or the 1931-52 term Monday morning. September 7th. E. II. Hicks, super intendent. announced here yesterday. All students are requested to he on hand at 8:50 o’clock. Mr. Hicks stat ed that the enrollment would he some larger than that of last year, probably 75 more students. E. S. Christenbury, who has had charge of athletics at the Kings Moun tain city school for the past five years, has been added to the teaching staff this year and will have charge of ath letics. Mr. Hicks stated that plans were underway for putting out a cracs football team for the high school this year. All students desiring to go out for football this season are requested to he at the high school field Tuesday afternoon, September 1. at 4:50 o’clock. Mr. Christenbury will be present and plans for regular practice will be out lined. It is also planned to have a gram mar school team this season as well as high school team. Hence, gram mar grade students desiring to go out for the team are requested to be pres ent Tuesday afternoon. The first teachers’ meeting will he held at the school building Saturday morning, September 5, at 10 o clock. Superintendent Hicks stated that it was highly important that every teach er he present for this meeting. The hook rental system has been installed in the primary department this year. This system provides for each pupil of the primary department to pay the sum of $2 each, whereby books, pencils, tablets, drawing sup plies, and all materials will he fur nished each student byr the school. Primary pupils are requested to bring the $2 on the first day of school or at least some time during the first week of school. Mr. Hicks stated that this system is being used by many schools through out the State and has proved very sat isfactory both to the pupils and to the school. The teachers are all expected to ar rive in Plymouth not later than hri day, September 4, Superintendent Hicks stated yesterday. All of the members of the faculty are the same as that of last year, with the exception of Mr. Christenbury. Under the new new state school budget, the Plymouth city school has been reduced one teacher. H. M. Wright and R. S. Harrison arc the only members of last year’s faculty who will not he mem bers this year. Mr. Harrison is study ing for the ministry and Mr. Wright accepted work elsewhere. Mr. Hicks stated that the present outlook indicated that the Plymouth School was destined to have one of the best years during its entire his tory. And it is expected that the high school football team will be a success in every way this season. 1 he team will be watched with keen interest by the entire citizenry of the town and football fans in general. BUILD SILO AND PRESERVE FEED -<$> Silage is a succulent feed, a good grass substitute, and will keep up the milk flow when pastures arc short in summer and when greed feed is very scarce in winter. •‘A well constructed silo provides the most economical source of dairy feed available for the man with a herd of ten or more coks,” says John a Arey, dairy extension specialist at State College. “One acre of good corn preserved in the form of silage has a milk-producing value equivalent to about one and one-halt* acres when prcsserved in the form of shocked corn. There is a waste of about 51) percent in shocked corn when fed as stover. However, when corn is con verted into silage, waste at feeding time is practically eliminated and the entire corn plant is consumed with relish by the cows.” Silage is also a valuable supple ment to dry feed in winter and helps to keep up the milk flow at a com paratively low cost. It is also econom ical for feeding dry cows and heifers above six months of age, says Arey. He does recommend a silo for a herd of less than ten cows. Succulent feed for smaller herds may he provid ed by pasture and soiling crops tr summer, with the aid of root crops in winter. HERE TO BOOST LEAF MARKET -S; Publicity Committee From | Robersonville Stops Here Tuesday A publicity committee for the Rob ersonville tobacco market passed through Washington County Tuesday, stopping over in Plymouth for a short stay late in the afternoon. The chief attraction was a colored man dressed up in a red suit of clothes, perform ing various stunts and tricks. The colored performer attracted much attention with his glass-eating performance, lie held aloft an ordi nary glass lamp chimney and invited the spectators to join him in a sump* tious -supper, whereupon he com menced biting off hunks of the glass chimney and chewing it up. But whether lie swallowed the succulent morsels of glass, or later spit them out furnished a subject for debate among the youngsters. border" market PRICE IS SAID TO BE SOME HIGHER -- Lumberton Claims to Have Averaged $17 to $18 Monday -e Reports received here this week for the sales on three border markets, Fairmon, Chadbourn and Lumberton. read as follows: $15.69 at Chadbourn Chadbourn, Aug. 24.—The Chad bourn tobacco market experienced the largest sales of the season today with a most satisfactory price for good to bacco? The market sold 108,598 j pounds at $15.69. The sales continued until late afternoon. The bank re mained open and waited on all grow ers, who were all well pleased with the prices and the satisfactory meth ods of handling the market. Blocked Sale at Lumberton Lumberton, Aug. 24.—Lumberton’s tobacco market today experienced the biggest day of the season, with an estimated poundage of from one-half to three-quarters of a million pounds at an average of from $17 to $18. Prices were most satisfactory of the season. It was the first blocked sale here this year. Fairmount Breaks Records Fairmount, Aug. 24.—More loads of tobacco were in town today and few er rejections by the farmers than ever before in the history of the mar ket. Notwithstanding the great vol ume of tobacco prices remained firm throughout the whole today. Today's sales were estimated at 900,000 pounds with an average for the whole of between $15.25 and $16.25 The quality was slightly better than that of last week. It is predicted to morrow’s sales will he fully as large as today's sales. The same selling Ulate one year ago the average was j if 14.45. Auditor Here To Help In Making^ Out Budgets Frank P. Wall, a member of the firm of J. M. \\ illiams & Co., of Ra leigh, arrived here Tuesday, and is engaged in assisting the county sup erintendent and the county auditor to finish preparing their budget for the coming year, Mr. Wall will also make a complete audit of the county books after the budgets have been completed. It is also understood that Mr. Wall will audit the books of the town as soon as the county audit is completed. Although Thomas Smith has been employed for 30 years in a railway roundhouse at Syracuse, N. Y., he never has taken a journey on a train COUNTY TO GET $45,785 FOR SCHOOLS - -. : ---——— -<$ A <$> The Value of a High School Education A recent study by Dr. Everett William Lord, of Boston Univer sity, reveals the monetary value of an education at certain definite levels. Each level of training, this study shows, endows a per son with a certain life-time earn ing capacity, the higher the level the greater the ability to earn. For example, a person having only an elementary education would, on an average, earn the sum of $64,000 during his whole lifetime. A high school graduate, on the TELLS HOW HER GARDEN HELPED OUT THIS YEAR By Mrs. R. E. DAVENPORT Creswell, N. C. Cherry Home Demonstration Club My garden this year has been a great success and lots of help to our family. To date we have grown over 30 vari eties of vegetables and fruits in this plot of ground. We planted and have for use now collards, turnips, blue sal ad, mustard, May peas, onions, mam moth silver king onions, yellow globe danver, and cluster onions, shelloats, asparagus, cabbage, bush beans, pole beans, pole butter beans, beets, corn, pop corn, broom corn, cashaw, cucum bers, vegetable peaches, banana melon okra, long pod red peppers, tomatoes, yellow squash, new long, yellow and green stiped squash (fine for making pies) tender green or spinach mus tard, scotch blue curled kale, swiss chard, and celery. My garden was broken up and fer tilized with home-made fertilizer. We then planted afid set it out beginning in February. From time to time we kept planting until now one crop fol lows right after the other. We have had fresh vegetables for our table all spring and summer. I have just begun canning good, hut have canned* quite a hit. I have not sold any of my garden produce, for I feel that we have a ready market right at home with our family, and we also feed an abundance to our pigs and chickens. I had splendid results with the seed given me by our home agent. She gave me six packages and we have had some nice vegetables. They were strange to us and we had to learn to like them, hut we managed it pretty well. I gave some to my club mem bers and they seem to like them very much. All of my club members have splen did gardens and we have put up a good many vegetables for winter use. 1 have pickled about five bushels ot cucumbers and am planning on can ning a quantity of catsup. I bis fall I plan to plant turnips, cabbage, ruta [bagas, collards, kale and mustard for a winter garden, and will have some nice celery too. AS Schedule of Prices At Curb Market Saturday ~-<S> The following prices will be in ef fect at the curb market here Satur day morning: Eggs, dozen, 18c; butter, pound, 34c; corn, dozen ears, 15c; beans, lb. 4 cents; country hams, pound, 25c; butter beans, quart, 12 l-2c; peas, shelled, quart, 10c; huckleberries, qt. 15c; meal, lb, .1 cents; dressed hens, 27c; young chickens, on foot, 24c. Curb market opens every Saturday at eight o’clock. -5 Thirty-nine cars of green tomatoes wrapped with protective paper were sold by Washington County farmers last week. 11 Per Cent Drop Estimated In 1931 Tobacco Production A decrease of 66,400,000 pounds, or 11 per cent of the total 1930 crop, is predicted in North Caro lina this year, it was learned from an estimate advanced by C. A. Sheffield, assistant extension direc tor at State College, this week. Basing his estimates on August 10 figures of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and upon experience, Mr. Sheffield say there was a reduction of 57,000 acres this year, or 7.3 per cent. The reduction in total tobacco yield in the State will be from 574,000,000 to 517,000,000, or a re duction of 11 per cent, Mr. Shef field estimates. Mr. Sheffield figures that type 11, in the 21 old belt counties, will be reduced this year by 15 per cent, or 32,900,000 pounds. The acreage was reduced 5 per cent, or 15,000 acres. In 1930 the 21 old belt counties planted 300,000 acres yielding 221,000,000 pounds. Type 12 tobacco, produced in 22 new belt counties, will be reduced 6 per cent, or 18,680,000 pounds. The acreage has been decreased 8 per cent, or 32,000 acres. In 1930 tfye 22 counties planted 399,000 acres yielding 297,600,000 pounds. other hand, would cam approxi mately $88,000 during his lifetime. In other words, by attending school four years, $24,000 has been added to his life-time earnings. Or viewed in a different way, it can be said that each year spent in high school is worth $6,000. But there is more to a high school education than its mone tary value. There is the joy of accomplishment, the increased knowledge, the broadened outlook, and the wider contact with the f SCHOOLS OPEN 14th~l vj The public schools of Washing ington County will probably open for the 1931-32 term on Monday, September 14, Supt. James W. Norman announced here yester day, although no definite arrange ment has been made as yet. It was planned to open the county schools on Monday, September 7, but due to various reasons it will be impossible to open them on this date. Just as soon the budget can be prepared for the county in order that the Board of Education and the County Commissioners may arrive at an agreement on the levy of an ad valorem tax, the official date of the opening will be decid ed. However, it is believed that the schools will be able to open for work on September 14. E. H. LIVERMAN SOON TO OCCUPY j HAMPTON STORE: s - ar'. -<$> New Fixtures and Furniture Are Being Installed This Week The store rooms in the Hampton Building, which have Ix'cn occupied by W. H. Hampton and Son since 1890 will he occupied by E. H. Liverman, one of Plymouth’s best-known mer- j chants, during the first week in Sep tember, it was announced here yes-; terday. The first part of the week will be consumed in moving, and Mr.; Liverman will open a removal sale on Friday of next week. The Hampton merchandise has been moved to the Hamilton warehouse, and the store rooms are being re modeled and renovated. New fixtures and furniture are being installed, and when Mr. Liverman moves in, it is expected that this will be one of the most modern department stores of it^ kind in Eastern Carolina. Roy Hampton has opened an office in a space between the Hampton ware house and the White Stores, Inc. This office is one of the most modern and best equipped of any office in town, j It is understood that the small stock of Hampton merchandise is to be sold out at a rummage sale to be staged within the near future. The passing | of this mercantile firm from Ply mouth marks the passing of one of the oldest business firms in Plymouth and Washington County. In preparing for his new quarters and the big opening sale, Mr. Liver man, wife, and two daughters went to northern markets, where new fall and winter merchandise were bought. They returned to Plymouth Wednes day, and Mr. Liverman stated that he planned to make his opening sale one of the biggest events of its kind ever | seen in Plymouth. Watch for detailed advertisement of this sale in next I weeks’ paper. Autos Sell for 75c Each | In Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, Aug. 22.—An auction lot consisting of two comparatively new j automobiles and five fowls were sold I on a farm near here for $1.50. j Other bargains included sheep at id cents each, a player piano for $1, | a prize Friesian hull for 12 cents, a ! stack of 42 hags of new season’ ■ I wheat for $1 and a brand new power chaff cutter for $1. I The auction was a bailiff's sale on •a farm. The farmer’s neighbors for ) miles around attended and permitted no strangers to hid. After the goods had been bought at absurd prices they were handed hack to the farmer. -<S> The largest musical organization in the United States is the Matinee Musi cal Club, of Philadelphia, Pa., which I has nearly 2,000 members. outside world, as well as with the immediate neighborhood, county, and state. The whole world is brought to the high school stu dent through the textbook, the li brary, and the laboratory. There fore, even the satisfaction of learn ing is sufficient as its own end. The public high school of today is equivalent to the college of years ago in its offering to present-day boys and girls. The public high rchool of today, however, is with in the reach of every boy and girl in the State. NEW METHOD OF CANNING AS SEEN BY CLUB MEMBER By Mrs. R. C. JACKSON Hoke Club On April 29th 1 attended the can ning school which was held in Green ville, N. G. There I saw Mr. Stall ed operating a sealer and canner. It was very interesting to me, as I have always wanted a canning outfit of this kind, for I think it is more economical to can in tin cans from more than one point of view. There is no danger of breaking during processing (and I al ways break several jars each year, also have to buy new rubbers and new lids at least every two years. You can get more canning done in a certain length of time because you don't have to wait until the pressure cooker cools before removing the cans. You can use the tin cans three years by purchasing new lids each year for just a penny or so each. There is no danger of spoiling if you get a perfect seal, and the cans can be immediately stored, one on top of the other, in neat, attractive order. I came home from the canning school and told our club members a bout the outfit, and what a wonderful help one would be to our club. They were all very interested, and we hope to buy one just as soon as possible. I have a 25-quart canner and offered to let the members use it. I have been using a steam pressure cooker for over two years. I got mine when Miss Covington first began telling us about how useful they were for cooking and canning. 1 find it o. k. in every re spect. I can all kinds of fruits and vege tables and meats and have perfect success. The very first canning 1 did was canning meats. I fried sausage in small cakes, but did not try to get them done and packed them in the jars, processed them 60 minutes at 15 pounds pressure, and I did not lose a jar. It was delicious when opened late in the spring. I am sure it would have kept indefinitely. I have shown at least six members how to operate the cooker. Since attending the canning school in Greenville two of our members have used the cooker purchased by the clubs of the county, and our mem bers have canned 600 quarts of fruits and vegetables. .4Es Five Firemen From Here Attending State Meeting A delegation of five members of the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department left here Monday night at 12 o’clock for Statesville, where they went to attend the 44th annual meeting of the North Carolina State Firemen's Con vention. They were: Lawrence Jones, Jim Attshon, Miller Warren, Raymond Peele, and Caryle Doughtie. They arc expected to return to Plymouth today. According to press dispatches from Statesville, that city has been doing everything within its power to enter tain the firemen in a big way. SEVERAL HURT IN AUTO WRECK Cars of Jack Peel and C. M. Davenport Collide Near Roper Wednesday Several people were hurt and three cars were badly damaged in a triple automobile wreck which occurred on Highway No. 90, a short distance this side of Roper about 830 o'clock Wed nesday night. A Chevrolet roadster, headed toward Plymouth and being driven by Jack Peel, and a Chevrolet coupe, headed toward Roper and being driven by C. M. Davenport, collided. The Daven port car was thrown across the high way and A. R. Patrick who was also headed toward Plymouth crashed in to the Davenport car before he could stop. Mrs. Patrick was painfully bruised and sustained a number of small cuts and lacerations. A negro by the name of John Johnson, and an occupant of Jack Peel’s car suffered one of his fingers being knocked out of place. All three cars were badly damaged, especially the Patrick car. which was a Ford. BEGINS REVIVAL AT HOLLY NECK CHURCH MONDAY Durham Minister Will Be In Charge; Will Last About Week The annual revival meeting of the Holly Neck Christian church wi'l he gin Monday evening, August 31, at 1 o’clock with Rev. Louis C. Mayo, pas tor of the Holloway church of Dur ham, doing the preaching, it was an nounced ere yesterday. An outstanding feature of the serv ices will he the singing which will be furnished by the church choir and congregation. Services will he held each evening at 8 o’clock during the meeting. However, it has not been determined just how long the services will last, but probably for a week or more. The church members are especially I urged to make a special effort to he I present at each service and the public is cordially invited. Rev. Mr. Mayo is a well-known minister of the Chris | tian church and is an excellent speak er as well as Bible student. There fore. it is expected that each sermon very interesting as well as impressive. SOME CAUSES OF CROSSED EYES -<s> Unexpected Relationship Is Found Between Eyes and the Master Hand (By Secretary of North Carolina State Board of Examiners in Optometry) The study of the influence of hered ity upon tho physical condition of any individual is interesting. Much more important, however, is a collection of such facts from a large group of in dividuals from winch helpful conclus ions may be drawn. We find, for instance, unexpected re lationship between the eyes and the so-called master hand. Many children develop cross-eyes in their early years, that is, one of the eyes turns inward or outward and does not join with the better eye in seeing. It is interesting to note that when the eye which turns is on the side opposite to the master hand, in the majority of cases the cor rection of the defect is simplified some what. In some individuals it has beer I found that persons who were naturally left-handed but have been diverted b\ some unwise parent or teacher into the 1 use of the right hand as the mastei -hand have also developed crossed eyes Mouse Gets in Milk Bottle And Is Unable To Get Out Sam F. Garrett, local townsman, was exhibiting a baby's nursing bottle at the Smoke Shop here Tuesday evening which contain ed features seldom ever seen with a baby’s sanitary lunch bottle. In short, the bottle contained a mouse. This small rodent could not get out of the bottle to save his life, though he got in without any trouble. Mr. Garrett explained the matter in this wise The bottle was set on a table Monday night, about two thirds full of milk. The wee mousie, seeing the bottle and evi dently desiring food, crawled into the bottle and drank the milk. Af ter he had thus consumed the milk and satisfied his hunger and thirst, he found that his body was too large to permit of his return ing from the bottle th« way in which he had entered. Thus he had made of himself a prisoner. None of the spectators who in spected the bottle Tuesday evening had ever seen anything like this before. Some even went so far as to express doubts of such a thing ever having happened in Kinston. SUM CONSIDERED INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT TERM Amount Allotted Is $25,000 Less Than Budget Called For I lie State Board of Equalization lias sent its approval ol the budget made by County Superintendent James \V. Norman lor the operation of the State supported six months’ school term in Washington County for the year 1931 32. However, the budget was slashed something over $25,000 from the a niount asked for. The county will get a total of $45,785.72. Accordingly, when the County Board of Education holds its next meeting it will find itself in something of a quandary. The amount of the allotment is not sufficient to operate the county schools for six months. Therefore, it will be necessary for the county commissioners to levy an id valorem tax sufficient to supply the needed funds if the public schools of the county are to be operated for eight months. However, an ad valorem tax suffic ient to piece out the allotment from the State for operating the schools for eight months will still permit the gen eral county-wide tax rate to he lower than that of last year. Still, the im pression that has been made upon the people of the State when it was first announced that the .State would take over the operation of the public schools was that the State would sup ply the necessary funds for operating the schools for six months. But this can not be done in Washington Coun ty. according to Supt. J. W. Norman, on the $45,785.72 allotment. 'Phe total si.in is divided in the fol lowing manner: Instructional service, county superintendent, $2,000: travel w penses, $300; clerical assistance. $500; office supplies. $300; county board of education. $220; elementary teachers, white, $11,675; elementary teachers, colored, $14,200; high school teachers, white, $3,850; high school teachers, colored, $1,600; high school principals, white, $2,350: instructional supplies, $335: total instructional serv lice, $34,010; operation of plants: jani tors, $660; fuel, $1,155; water, light, and power, $67.50; janitors’ supplies, $67.50; total operation oi plants, $1. 050; transportation of pupils. $'>,424; libraries, $81.72; total allotment, $45, 785.72. The Plymouth city school will re ceive a total of $12,491.20. The total instructional service, $11,535; opera | tion of plant, $955. In discussing the budget with Sup erintendent Norman yesterday, he stat I ed that he was going to do everything within his power to operate the coun | ty schools within the budget alloted. 1 The most rigid economy will be used in every department, and every dollar will be stretched to the nth degree. CALIFORNIA FISH CAME FROM N. C. Rock Taken from Roanoke Is Main Source of Sea Foods There T he Pacific coast states not only owe North Carolina a debt of gratitude for furnishing some of its most >turdy >1ock of inhabitants, but the Tar Heel State has contributed to the establish ment of one of the more important sources of seafoods and anglers’ de lights to tne Pacific coast, according u the Department of Conservation and Development. Under direction of the C. S. Bureau of Fisheries, striped bass (rock) from the Roanoke River were planted in San Francisco Bay during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, i Just how well this introduction suc j ceeded, according to the North Caro 1 hna conservation department, may be seen from a recenlv issued bulletin 'from the California division ot fish and game entitled “The Striped Bass of I California.” Striped bass yearlings totaling 435 were planted near the Golden Gate in 1879 and 1882, being shipped across the country in one of the early trans j continental trains. The C alitornia ! publication tells graphically of the ! success attending the effort: “These I fish were evidently readily adapted to 1 San Francisco Bay, for since their I planting they have flourished there be yond expectation. As early as 1889, only 10 years after the first plant, they were being caught in the gill nets and offered for sale in the markets. By 1895 they had formed a recognized fishery, and fishermen constructed special small-mesh nets for their cap ture.
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